Culture after Noon | Jean Bosco Safari & Steven Mintjens - One-way ticket to Belgium

For no less than 45 years, Jean Bosco Safari has been on stage. To mark this anniversary, he created a musical, poignant, and surprisingly funny show, 'Enkele Reis België', together with his pianist Steven Mintjens. A mother from Rwanda is forced to offer her six-year-old son for adoption. She is promised that the boy will be able to study abroad and return to Rwanda after his studies, but nothing is what it seems. This is the life story of Jean Bosco Safari, son of a Tutsi mother and a white mining engineer, whose life took a completely different turn in the snap of a finger. The story, where music forms the backdrop, is brought with respectful lightness by master storyteller Jean Bosco Safari himself. His storytelling is sometimes poignant, then humorous again. Did you know that Jean was once a comic book artist at Studio Vandersteen? That the music of The Beatles runs like a thread through his life? That he only discovered the true identity of his father a short time ago? Cinematic underscores are alternated with his own 'Bosco songs' and—how could it be otherwise—the greatest hits of The Beatles.