Opening party cc 't Schaliken

Come with family and friends to cc 't Schaliken on Sunday, September 27 for a festive start to the new cultural season. Between 1:30 PM and 5:30 PM you can enjoy theater, circus, music, dance, workshops and surprising animation. Let yourself be carried away by impressive performances, roll up your sleeves yourself during creative workshops or enjoy the cozy atmosphere on and around Grote Markt. The entire program is free. Sitting Duck La Dyane Circus Three men take you on a long journey in their rickety car. The traveling companions experience fantastic adventures that unleash many emotions. They are shipwrecked in the middle of the city. Suddenly the landscape is shrouded in mist, the car fills with water and the wind blows at 300 kilometers per hour. As if that wasn't enough, a six-meter-long ladder lands on their car. Performance: at 1:50 PM and 4:40 PM Duration: 50 minutes Location: Grote Markt Ilke Teerlinck / Compagnie Irene K. Out of Three Dans Out of Three is an energetic and wordless dance performance full of playful interactions and spicy choreographies. Choreografe Ilke Teerlinck brings a physical dialogue about identity, connectedness and the desire to belong. Three dancers meet in the open air. They play, challenge each other and look for their place in space and with each other. What happens when not two, but three personalities try to find a balance together? Performance: at 2:55 PM and 4:15 PM Duration: 25 minutes Location: green zone hall 't Hof Orkest Bazar Muziek / Circus Drie circus artists travel around with their colorful circus wagon. Acrobatics, humor and live music constantly alternate, while they involve the audience over and over again in their playful acts. Wherever the circus wagon stops, a party spontaneously arises. Performance: at 2:40 PM and 3:50 PM Duration: 40 minutes Location: walking from Grote Markt Locorotondo Lumos Circus Three virtuoso jugglers bring a breath-taking performance in complete darkness. To the rhythm of the music, glowing clubs fly through the air in a perfectly synchronous spectacle. These artists from the Herentals circus school Locorotondo make light, rhythm and movement flow together. Performance: at 2:00, 2:40, 3:20 and 4:00 PM Duration: 20 minutes Location: Schouwburg Theater Lapstok Madame Fleur Animatie Madame Fleur walks through the audience with her cart and hands out flowers. Each flower has its own meaning. With a lot of humor, Madame Fleur tells the special language of flowers and invites visitors to gift each other a smile. Animation: at 1:30, 3:00 and 4:10 PM Duration: 40 minutes Location: Grote Markt Breinbrouwerij Astro Atelier Workshop Stap inside Proxima Centauri and help build the future of this special space station. Astro Atelier will become the base for space adventurers, scientific researchers and pilots. They will embark on a mission full of experiments. Continuously from 1:30 PM Duration: until 5:30 PM Location: outdoor square De Maan Heimweefsel Workshop Heimweefsel is a colorful traveling loom in the shape of a tent. Using strips of recycled textile, children and adults together build a special meeting place. You can weave, play, build, hide or just relax for a moment. Thus, Heimweefsel grows during the Opening Festival into a work of art made by many hands together. Continuously from 1:30 PM Duration: until 5:30 PM Location: Grote Markt Metamorfosium Grime De two make-up artists from Metamorfosium create artistic eye designs that make young and old shine. In just a few minutes, they transform passers-by with surprising creations full of color, glitter and shine. Animation: continuously from 1:30 PM Duration: until 5:30 PM Location: Grote Markt Gekke Jorre and Meneer Stoffel Ballonkunst Gekke Jorre and Meneer Stoffel don't just fold their balloons into unique works of art. They make a visual and interactive act out of it. To the great hilarity of children and parents. Animation: continuously from 1:30 PM Duration: until 5:30 PM Location: Grote Markt Tentoonstellingen In de Lakenhal and the foyer, you can let yourself be awed by painting. In castle Le Paige you will find sculptures made of organic materials and dried natural elements. The three exhibitions start from the theme 'nature'. In In de Lakenhal you will discover the new Fraikin Hall on the attic floor. Sign up and a guide will take you - every half hour - past imposing sculptures. Duration: continuously from 2:00 PM Location: Cloth Hall, castle Le Paige and foyer cc 't Schaliken