Antwerp’s brand new Baroque Influencers Festival to run until November 2023
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- 25 Apr 2023
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Antwerp’s brand new Baroque Influencers festival will run until November of this year. It comprises a series of exhibitions, baroque music concerts, a lecture series featuring speakers from Belgium and abroad, and a remarkable immersive experience for young and old. The festival’s founders, University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA) and the University of Antwerp, have joined forces with more than fifteen cultural houses and organizations, including the KMSKA, the Snijders&Rockox House, Tutti Fratelli and the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, to ask why we are still children of the Baroque today.
UCSIA and the University of Antwerp founded the Jesuit Heritage Foundation in 2020. This public utility foundation works on the scientific and social promotion of the movable material heritage of the Jesuits in Antwerp and beyond. UCSIA coordinates the city festival. The University of Antwerp acts as co-organizer, while curator of the festival is Harold Polis.
The Baroque Influencers festival, which started in March, boasts an impressive list of partners all helping to shape the program, which is unique int its eclecticism: the festival turns a baroque focus on a range of artistic and intellectual disciplines. Art lovers will be able to enjoy three large exhibitions and classical music concerts at various locations in Antwerp’s city centre, while speakers both local and international will spend an entire year examining the issues we are wrestling with as a society today – issues such as freedom and responsibility, purpose, human malleability and the tension between colonization and decolonization. Albanian writer and professor Lea Ypi was first to take to the stage on March 29th. Read More..
