Greetings,

It’s a pity but we have to say that it’s the last post of the Kitchain blog… for this year… don’t worry, we’ll be back…

Tonight no one came to cook at the Kitchenettes… maybe the people prefered to taste the swiss dishes, like “rösti”, “soupe de chalet”, “raclette” and “brochet” cooked outside by Jean, Maïté, Jean and their dream team.

So we were all ready for the Funk Fusion concert of Inspector Cluzo and the FB’s horns… groovy and powerful.

To finish, we want to thank all the people who made the festival so great and unique. We have a special thought for those who made miracles to allow the audiance to enjoy all the concerts, plays, happenings, readings and the off festival, in the best conditions. We mean the technicians. Big up to you!

We really look forward to seeing you next year for the 30th edition of the Belluard Bollwerk International Festival.

Annick, the boss of the technicians, in her office

Cathy and Mathias the most trendy bar(wo)men in the world

Isn’t Claudia so cute?

And Cathy and Joseph?

Grooving at the Kitchain, Pascal Leads the dance

Chilling at the Belluard till the end of the night

Next year the doors will open again.. for new experiences

See you soon

Greetings,

After the rain, the rain comes…Forunately there’s a roof above the Kitchenettes!

A family came to warm up the atmosphere (atmosphère, est-ce que j’ai une gueule d’atmosphère?) with their cooking skills. Jean, Maïté, Arnaud and their team increase the temperature with their lebanon dishes.

Everything was perfect to begin a spicy week-end.

With the Kitchenette team, everything is under control

Family affair

The alternative to Kitchenettes - but Toxic

Pisco Swing & Sour

Historical art piece for Contemporary art pieces

Last night a dj saved my life

BelluBar will drive you far

Last day of the festival tomorrow, come and join us to celebrate!

Salü Tsamè!

Day #2 for the Kitchain do-it-yourself, 2 wonderful teams - and the first two men!

The rain came, so we Enjoyed Poverty In The Back Of The Van because we hadn’t any tuned car…. And Europe Will Be Stunned!

JaKitchain

Babe won’t be shepherd anymore

Concertation, Imagination, Action

What will I choose to fulfill my wishes?

Men at work in the Kitchain - Revolution is coming

Road to perdition

Special thanks to Nassim the Berliner for his inspiration

See ya!

…

Oh, there’s some place left for friday and Saturday, just contact us at reservations(at)belluard.ch

Greetings,

The first two groups came to discover the new surprise basket. twelve women from Switzerland, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, and I forget one or two nationalities, composed the teams. The result? two completely different and beautiful dishes. Cooking, laughing, sharing, everyone enjoyed this meal.

Earlier in the day, we went to an organics field and market to get the vegetables, to a local butcher for the meat and a bio shop for the vegetarian food; to put delicious ingredients in the basket and welcome you the best as possible.

Come, cook and taste them, there are still places on friday and saturday.

reservations(at)belluard.ch

If you don’t want to cook you can also enjoy the great Menu of Maïté, Jean, Arnaud and their Kitchain team.

Doesn’t it make to want to become vegetarian?

Collaboration between the two teams

Sometimes the preparation seems strange, but the result was incredibly good (It was the first time that someone cook a dessert at the kitchain do-it-yourself)

Smiling faces and good dinner… the expercience was not so hard

Tonight the cocktail was made by Mike Patton… oups Monsieur J

See you tomorrow

Greetings,

Today raindrops and vodka flew down on the Belluard. It was the second day of the Moonshine workshop, in which people learned to make vodka; a good warm up before the European football championship. After that, two preachers lead us to make promises for the future… a vodka shot for a promise could be a good motivation….

Fortunately, Maïté, Jean, Arnaud and their cooking team brought us strength and energy with their delicious dishes.

On tuesday the kitchenettes are opening their doors, there are only places for saturday and sunday left. We will be there and ready to welcome you!

reservations(at)belluard.ch

Yes Bothers and sisters! I promise that you are on the Kitchain blog.. have a drink!

with a delicious apéro

The moonshine teachers with their concentrated students

Belluark Bollwerk International: another vision of football

See you tomorrow

Greetings

For the second day, the Kitchain festival changed into school. People came to learn how to make…. artisanal vodka, a masterclass given by two letton teacher. Every student werre happy to succeed the test.

And if the cure wasen’t efficient enough, it was possible to make a step to Croatia with the cocktail of Nicola Tesla, electricity is in the air.

All of this would’nt have been possible without all the working hands.

The Moonshine team

You need to use your hands and some bread to stick the bowl with the pan

We said to stick the bowl with the pan…

You need to use your hands… too

Meanwhile Keith was playing

The moon shines

See you tomorrow

The 2012 edition of the Belluard with the theme RETOX is starting to move and you can already have a first look of the program here.

Kitchain will be part of the program again and it will have it’s fourth assembling in the space of Arsenal and in the street in front of it. This year the space will have a special element that we will talk later. Stay connected. 

After the post dedicated to the unCloud project, we would like to share two more projects: Time/Bank by Julieta Aranda & Anton Vidokle and Macht Geschenke: The Making of Capital by Christin Lahr. The two art projects deal with money and time.

As you can read in the program: ”Time/Bank is a platform for cultural and arts communities where groups and individuals can pool and trade time and skills, bypassing money as a measure of value. Time/Bank is based on the premises that everyone in the field of culture has something to contribute, and that it is possible to develop and sustain an alternative economy by connecting existing needs with unacknowledged resources.
Time/Bank is a platform for cultural and arts communities where groups and individuals can pool and trade time and skills, bypassing money as a measure of value. Time/Bank is based on the premises that everyone in the field of culture has something to contribute, and that it is possible to develop and sustain an alternative economy by connecting existing needs with unacknowledged resources.”

For Macht Geschenke: The Making of Capital, the artist Christin Lahr took over the chair of the mayor of Leuven and spent the first week of the Festival at her workstation in one of the exhibition spaces, continuing her meticulous work. Quoting, once more, the festival program about the work she presented: “since May 31, 2009, Christin Lahr has been making daily money transfers of 1 cent to the German Federal Ministry of Finance, thus helping to counter the growing mountain of debt in small doses. In the field “reason for payment”, she always writes 108 characters from “CAPITAL: A Critique of Political Economy” by Karl Marx. That way, bit by bit, the entire text of the book will be transferred into the state’s central account via online banking. The transmission of the roughly 15,709 cents and 1,696,500 characters will take about 43 years.”