11 Nov 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, emergences, international, m2m, maroc, multidisciplinary, news, poetry, residencies, sound arts
Music is nothing other than sounds that we have structured and to which we have defined a scale. There were forbidden harmonies, privileged instruments, codes and censorships and over time, our ear, too, adapted to other sound colors. New instruments and recording...
24 May 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, belgium, distribution, international, media arts, multidisciplinary, news, poetry, sound arts, vidéo arts, visual arts
With the title “In between Worlds”, this 14th edition invites you to discover works from all disciplines that question the notions of concrete or imaginary territories, intermediate spaces, elusive borders, singular dimensions… So many parallel...
20 May 2023 | -all-news, 2022, agenda, international, lithuania, multidisciplinary, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, sound arts
Tree stories is a interdisciplinary and multifaceted in progress project inspired by the timeless poetry and mystical power of raw nature embodied by the tree in a time where Man is continuing to destroy the natural environment as well as himself in a blind infernal...
10 May 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, belgium, international, m2m, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, residencies, sound arts
In the dynamics of the 20th anniversary of the City Sonic, the international sound arts festival (initiated by Transcultures Belgium in 2003 – with several collaborations with Pépinières, notably during joint European projects) which is also a platform of...
22 Apr 2023 | -all-news, 2023, album, belgium, CD, france, international, multidisciplinary, news, poetry, production, publishing, sound arts, usa, writing
Akashic Diaries by Paradise Now + Biba Sheikh Based on texts taken from the book “Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings” (published by Europia Productions at the end of April 2023, in e-book and paper format) commissioned to Biba Sheikh at...
20 Apr 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, belgium, books, france, hybrid objects, international, multidisciplinary, news, poetry, production, publishing, sound arts, usa, writing
These burning/moving texts are poetic fragments, and sketches, nourished by the visions and experiences of Biba Sheikh, nomadic American writer and artist of Lebanese origin, living now in Detroit. THe book was commissioned by Transcultures – Belgium and the ...
1 Apr 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, international, multidisciplinary, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, sound arts, usa
This poetic performance is taking place in celebration of the ‘Arab American Heritage Month’, at the International Institute of Metro Detroit. Habibah (Biba) Sheikh will perform texts, from her newly released book, “Akashic Diaries: Detroit Degree Zero, and other...
25 Mar 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, AR-VR, arts sciences, belgium, international, media arts, multidisciplinary, news, pedagody, poetry, production, residencies, second life, sound arts, urban arts
The members of the iMaterial Society bringing together creators/researchers Marc Veyrat/design, initiator of the Society i Material project, Jonathan Juste/programming, images, Gaetan Le Coarer/images, Philippe Franck/sound and poetic design are invited, by...
24 Mar 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, belgium, concerts, conferences, festivals, international, media arts, médiation, meetings, multidisciplinary, news, pedagody, poetry, production, science, sound arts
On the occasion of the centenary of Pol Bury’s birth, Transcultures, in partnership with the Paragraphe laboratory (CiTu axis) of the Paris 8 University and CY Cergy-Paris University and in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation (“Emergences – Ars...
22 Mar 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, belgium, international, m2m, multidisciplinary, news, poetry, production, residencies, sound arts, usa, writing
Associated with the publication of a book and e-book “Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and Other crisis writings” coming out this Spring from Europia (Paris) by American-Lebanese poet/performer/director Biba Sheikh, the Belgian sound artists Paradise...
24 Feb 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, concerts, international, lithuania, multidisciplinary, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, sound arts
An “Ambisonic Session” (immersive technique for broadcasting a 360-degree surround sound environment) is specially offered , at Ideas Block-Kompresoriné (new cultural venue partner of Transcultures and European Pepinieres of Creation) in the exhibition...
24 Feb 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, international, lithuania, m2m, multidisciplinary, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, residencies, sound arts
As part of the City Sonic Vilnius events planned for 2023 by Uziateka, Oasis of the Arts, European Pépinières and Transcultures, Kotryna Zilinskaité and Paradise Now are hosted for a week in residence at Kompresoriné – Ideas Block to create together a sonopoetic...
2 Jan 2023 | -all-news, 2023, agenda, belgium, international, m2m, news, poetry, production, residencies, sound arts, writing
Performer and vocalist Maja Jantar produced with her sound designer accomplice Paradise Now, after a first residency in Namur (BE) in 2021, a sonopoetic EP ‘Transonic Delta” on the Transonic label, which had also been the subject of a joint video titled ‘Clouds of...
20 Dec 2022 | -all-news, 2022, agenda, international, lithuania, multidisciplinary, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, sound arts
The “Senis ir Jūra” sonopoetic performance is the third and last event of this year’s “City Sonic – Vilnius” – a sound experiential composition based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man and the Sea” written in...
5 Oct 2022 | -all-news, 2022, agenda, international, multidisciplinary, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, sound arts, usa
After an artistic residency, mixing poetry, performance and music, at the Mediterranean Fire Studio in Detroit, the writer, performer, activist Biba Sheikh, takes us from Detroit, to Paris, Berlin, and more. The music is by Xiao Dong Wei, a master Chinese musician who...
30 Sep 2022 | -all-news, 2022, agenda, international, m2m, multidisciplinary, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, residencies, sound arts, usa
Writer, performer, activist Biba Sheikh, takes us from Detroit, to Paris, Berlin, and more. The music is by Xiao Dong Wei, a master Chinese musician who fuses her traditional instruments and sounds with an American flavor. For their first live collaboration, Biba...
25 Aug 2022 | -all-news, 2022, agenda, international, lithuania, multidisciplinary, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, sound arts
Tree stories is a interdisciplinary and multifaceted in progress project inspired by the timeless poetry and mystical power of raw nature embodied by the tree in a time where Man is continuing to destroy the natural environment as well as himself in a blind infernal...
25 Jul 2022 | -all-news, 2022, agenda, international, lithuania, m2m, multidisciplinary, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, residencies, sound arts
This summer residence in rural Lithuania (hosted by Verpejų – Rural Residence for Artistic Research) allows Kotryna Žilinskaitė (performer/dancer and also director of the cultural organisation Užiateka – LT), Hasan Alp Celikel (sound and visual designer...
23 Jul 2022 | -all-news, 2022, agenda, concerts, international, lithuania, multidisciplinary, news, pedagody, performing-arts, poetry, production, sculpture, sound arts, vidéo arts, visual arts, workshops
On the occasion of Užupis’ Summer Culture Day, Transcultures offers with its Lithuanian partners Užiateka, a City Sonic Event offering from morning to evening, a workshop, an installation, a performance and a mix of sound art in the interior space (Galera) and...
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15 Jun 2022 | -all-news, 2022, agenda, exhibitions, international, multidisciplinary, news, performing-arts, poetry, production, sound arts, vidéo arts, writing
Biba Sheikh (author, theatre director, performer – USA/LEB) currently hosted in residence by Born Global Foundation, has created a symbolism developed from workshops with students of biomimicry where themes such as sacred geometry were the bases for developing a...
10 Jun 2022 | -all-news, 2022, agenda, exhibitions, international, multidisciplinary, news, poetry, quebec, vidéo arts
Do you have to be a poet to write poetry? And if a simple deconstruction of the order of things gave us the courage to write without complex. In his exhibition Postcards from Alma, nomadic artist Thiago Antonio Mendonça de Sousa* invites the public on a poetic journey...
27 Jan 2022 | -all-news, album, belgium, CD, france, international, news, poetry, production, publishing, sound arts
Servitudes/Certitudes (Correspondance confinée) by Christophe Bailleau vs Paradise Now In 2020 and 2021, Christophe Bailleau wrote, during the various lockdown waves, short impressionist texts and poetic fragments which he grouped under the title “Metal...
20 Dec 2021 | -all-news, 2021, agenda, calls, creaconnections, international, media arts, multidisciplinary, news, nola, poetry, production, sound arts, vidéo arts, web, writing
As part of NoLA – No Lockdown Art initiative, the “Common Ground Project”, initiated and coordinated by the artist Kika Nicolela during confinement, proposes the creation of a growing database, with the collaboration of artists from around the world,...
26 Oct 2021 | -all-news, 2021, agenda, belgium, concerts, creaconnections, international, meetings, multidisciplinary, news, nola, performing-arts, poetry, production, sound arts
Dans le cadre du projet No Lockdown Art lancé lors du premier confinement global en mars 2020, Transcultures et les Pépinières européennes de Création ont demandé à plusieurs auteur.e.s de différents pays d’écrire pendant le confinement leurs impressions poétiques,...
27 Apr 2021 | -all-news, 2021, agenda, associeted residencies, belgium, international, news, poetry, production, residencies, sound arts, writing
Didié Nietzsche (Radio Prague, A Limb, Lamaphi, Neptunian Maximalism- BE) returns to the Transonic Lab to find Paradise Now (the sound project also with variable geometry by Philippe Franck – BE / FR) to finish with the American-Lebanese author / performer Biba...
23 Apr 2021 | -all-news, 2021, CD, international, multidisciplinary, news, poetry, production, publishing, sound arts
Maja Jantar + Paradise Now - Transonic Delta EP by Maja Jantar + Paradise Now Hosted in Sonopoetics residency at the Delta (Namur- BE) from March 10 to 14, 2021 (in partnership with Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation), Maja Jantar (Dutch...
23 Dec 2020 | -all-news, 2020, agenda, CD, creaconnections, international, news, nola, poetry, production, publishing, sound arts
From a selection of texts (in the framework of the “Confined correspondences” commissioned during the recent lockdown period by Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation and their No Lockdown Art programme) written by different authors/artists from...
12 Nov 2020 | -all-news, 2020, agenda, books, creaconnections, hybrid objects, international, meetings, news, nola, poetry, production, publishing, sound arts, usa
In pre-announcement of the publication of the book “Akachic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and other crisis writings” to be published in early 2021 by Aquarius Press editions, Biba Sheikh is invited to unveil some extracts from these burning/moving...
15 Jun 2020 | -all-news, 2020, agenda, CD, creaconnections, international, news, nola, poetry, production, publishing, sound arts, writing
No Lockdown Sonopoetics [in progress sessions] by Paradise Now + guests From a selection of texts (in the framework of the “Confined correspondences” commissioned during the recent lockdown period by Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation and their No...
15 May 2020 | -all-news, 2020, agenda, creaconnections, international, news, nola, poetry, production, sound arts, writing
In the framework of the participative project No Lockdown Art (NoLA), Transcultures and The European Pepinieres of Creation have commissioned several authors/artists from different countries (Catrine Godin – Quebec, Habibah Sheikh-USA, Philippe Boisnard-France,...
5 Apr 2020 | -all-news, 2020, belgium, creaconnections, international, news, nola, poetry, production, publishing, vidéo arts, videos
“What flavors here?” What scents now … “Nostalgia for the days before … Carelessness, freedom of movement, human warmth, nature … which the Coronavirus does not block deprives us cruelly. This new video-poem by Tamara Laï whose...
3 Apr 2020 | -all-news, 2020, belgium, international, news, poetry, production, publishing, vidéo arts, videos
The project is a unique video collaboration between artists from around the world, inspired by the surrealist method of “exquisite corpse”. Using this playful semi-blind and sequential method, ECVP participants created video art in response to the last ten...
