HETTY HELSMOORTEL - "MISSION 2026" - Try Out

In 2026, Hetty turned 40. According to average life expectancy, she is now statistically somewhere at the halfway point. It’s high time to take stock ... Because ever since the day she could read, her existence has been filled with science and curiosity. Collecting stones, drawing robots, or trying to build the most stable sandcastles on the beach in Ostend. But will science remain that loyal ally in the second half of her life? What if, at 75, she receives a diagnosis for which there is no treatment yet? Will she be angry then, because perhaps too much time was wasted in 2026? Or will she be grateful for the things that did progress in that year? Will that latest laundry-folding robot, the foundation for which may have been laid in 2026, be a blessing by then... or just an extra appliance we have to descale? Because since the invention of the dishwasher and the tumble dryer, have we actually gained more time? And will her childlike enthusiasm for the new and ever-further exploration of space - with the moon at the forefront in 2026 - remain intact? Even if the moon by then has perhaps become a place where we have gone to seek as many resources as we have dreams? In Missie 2026, Hetty’s hope, humor, and wonder come together once again. She looks at the most remarkable scientific events of 2026 in her own way. For the sixth year in a row, she wants to send everyone back out into the world with enthusiasm and a head full of new insights after the show. ABOUT HETTY Wetenschapswatcher Hetty Helsmoortel is a woman with a mission. She wants to inspire everyone with her passion for science and technology in the most diverse ways. There is gradually little that you cannot know Hetty Helsmoortel from. She is part of the intergalactically popular Nerdland Podcast, with the Nerdland Scheurkalender she can also be found hanging in many a Flemish toilet with Lieven Scheire, and she has written several bestsellers in the Nerdland book series. As a science watcher, she is a welcome guest on radio and television. Since 2021, she has been listing the most striking science news of the year in her witty theater tour, Missie. Finally, she is the artistic director of Nerdland Festival: the largest science festival in the Benelux, where science is served in an entertaining way and which has easily attracted thirty thousand visitors in recent years. After a doctorate in health sciences and eight years of cancer research, her true calling emerged. Hetty’s mission is clear: to give science the place it deserves in our society, among the people. Because we live in a world that is becoming increasingly complex and chaotic. And in such a context, science can offer many people a foothold. QUOTES “Hetty Helsmoortel proves that science can not only inform and amaze, but also entertain.” — De Standaard “A full-grown show that sends you into the future with much more knowledge and a solid straw of hope. Hetty Helsmoortel is firmly on course to become the favorite science comedian.” — Knack Focus “Hetty Helsmoortel is the dream date for those who trust and distrust science.” — Knack Focus “You don't have to be a nerd to find it all fascinating.” — First reaction afterwards at the cloakroom VIDEO Penis fracture (fragment from Missie 2025): https://youtu.be/a0QO9lSDLiY Corruption (fragment from Missie 2025): https://youtu.be/1-OuK4AM1QM Heart rhythm logos (fragment from Missie 2025): https://youtu.be/aAHZ4POk79o WEBSITE / SOCIAL MEDIA Website: https://www.hettyhelsmoortel.be/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hettyhelsmoortel/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hettyhelsmoortel YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hetty.helsmoortel Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZYnzMFnCcXg7B4i6PCrVA PRACTICAL INFO: this performance is for everyone aged 16 and up. Doors: 19:45 (sharp!) - Start: 20:00 There are no reserved seats!