Fri 13 Dec: Rebel Up @ Giraffes & Penguins, KulturA, Liege

Oh yes, time again for a Giraffes & Penguins weekender in Liege + Brussels.

Starting on friday the 13th (woohoo!) in Liege at the amazing KulturA club.
Arab Bass night with special guest Ghoula from Tunisia and Liege guest Cedric Blavier. hosted by Rebel Up, Le Grand Mechant Loop & Tropical DJipsies.

We’ll dive together into the infinite richness of arab music and its evolution from traditional forms to the most contemporary and wild electronic sounds.

Ghoula (TN/FR)
Ghoula is a tunisian self-made musician and producer. In Tunisia, music has been a generational vehicle for popular symbols, images and myths. Despite its small size, Ghoula sees his native country as a north African crossroad where legacies came to settle. As a producer and multi-instrumentalist, Ghoula creates genre-defying sets through both acoustics and samples. Obsessed with North African multimedia heritage, Ghoula has been digging up vinyls from flea markets and old Tunisian medinas, bringing back vestiges of forgotten music cooked on top of contemporary upbeat dance rhythms. His album Hlib el Ghoula was released on the Shouka label and he is now preparing his second album.
listen here >


Cédric Blavier (Liege)
A music lover, digger and dj, Cédric Blavier makes his weapons in his native Belgium, between Liège and Brussels. Amateur of ultra-dancing ethnic music as well as planing electro downtempo, he succeeds in surprising sets to combine the effective and the experimental, the organic and the synthetic, the modern and the traditional. His musical synthesis meets a growing success in the world of electronic music, with notably appearances noticed in the festivals Nuits Sonores, Chateau Perché (France) or Taka Tuka (Hungary)!
https://soundcloud.com/l-l-phant/
https://www.mixcloud.com/Mathéo/

and Arabic dance and bass sounds by Rebel Up SebCat, Le Grand Mechant Loop and the Tropical DJipsies.

Full info > FB event / website.
doors: 22h
5€ in

@ KulturA
Rue de Roture 13
Liege

Weekend 27-28-29 Sept > Rebel Up SebCat at Indian Masala weekend @ Pianofabriek Bxl + Giraffes & Penguins party @ KulturA, Liege + L’Uzinne fundraiser + Medex Anatolian night

Indian Masala Weekend is a festival that runs for 3 days in Pianofabriek (St Gilles), with dance workshops, expo, film, concerts, dj sets and more!

Rebel Up SebCat will kick of the 1st day on friday 27th with an Indian folkpop set from various styles & states of India, traditional music pop hybrids and more.

From 17h to 21h30 @ Pianofabriek bar, free in
FB event / website.

Listen to this spicy Indian Masala Mixtape from 10 years ago >

and after that, straight to Liege, for our very 1st Giraffes & Penguins party at KulturA club.

Time to enjoy Liege with electronic global sounds & beats from all corners of the world.

Our tropical lineup:
Les Freres Jackfruit duo (FR)
Tropical DJipsies (Bxl)
Pso Man (Liege)
Le Grand Mechant Loop (Bxl)
Rebel Up SebCat
(Bxl)

FB event / website

5€ (CASH ONLY) /// doors: 22h
Vegan snacks by ASBL Les Oiseaux s’entêtent

@ Rue de Roture 13
Liege

on saturday, the Paye Ta Chiotte fundraiser party at l’Uzine,
with a Giraffes & penguins moment from 1am to 3am >
1am > Rebel Up & Le Grand Mechant Loop
2am > Les Freres Jackfruit

Prix libre, show your support!
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and on sunday evening, a Medex evening in La Tricoterie,
with Turkish buffet, expo, live concert by Kenan Erer & The Bosphoros Beat and dj set by Rebel Up SebCat + Selim Dion.

Prix libre, support Medex!
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Thu + Fri + Sat > Arte Chicha de Ruta Mare, Peru @ Recyclart, Bxl + Pakebo, Liege

hola todas!
DOSSIER BELGICAthis week, 3 special Peruvian events in Brussels & Liege
For the first time in Belgium > street art collective Ruta Mare will showcase their art between 17 and 20 november!

Yefferson and Kelly form Ruta Mare, a duo that embodies an exemplary renewal of the Peruvian Chicha culture. Created in 2012, around their common passion for the popular culture of the streets of Lima, Ruta Mare develops artistic works that implement the reminiscences of a collective Peruvian imagination. By creating gigantic mural frescos or serigraphs, they readily mix popular imagery and traditional motifs in favour of a resolutely urban and committed aesthetic.

Yefferson and Kelly are particularly aware of the graphic identity they convey and claim without any complexity their belonging to the Chicha culture, notably through a fabulous typographic work. Ruta Mare brings graphic design in urban space in their own original way and always taking the art of Chicha back to its roots: art of the people for the people.

On Thrusday 17 nov in Brussels @ Recyclart with an expo + projection & talk at the Licky My Typo night. Make sure you reserve or come on time, as it will sell out!
FB event.

On 18 + 19 Nov, Ruta Mare will move to Liege for 3 days for their exposition combined with parties as well
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★★★★ Viva El Arte Chicha ★★★★
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All happening at the Pakebo gallery.

Friday 18 Nov > 19h00 – 01h00  (prix libre)
Exposition Ruta Mare
DJ sets by Gaetano Dub & Rebel Up! SebCat
Peruvian dish >
Ceviche (fish) with vegetables + Pisco Sour cocktail
(12€, reservation necessary, all info in event)

FB event.

Saturday 19 nov, the big party night, Mega Fiesta!
from 21h00 – 04h00 (5€)
DJ sets by Gaetano Dub, Rebel Up! SebCat, Baylena Selektah, Diyei Pituto & special guest Shushupe (PE).
Expect a big mix of Peruvian styles from the past & present, from Andes folk to cumbia, chicha, guaracha, electro cumbia, bass & more!
FB event.

and on Sunday 20 nov, they will also give a letter workshop. FB event.

hasta pronto, nos vemos!
DOSSIER BELGICA