One scene, two voices: Miss Baker & Fernando Zamora

Slam, Miss Baker: Miss Baker, from Brussels, trained as a journalist and violinist, began slam poetry in 2022 with Slameke in Brussels. Her slams are political or intimate, and incorporate wordplay and rhythm. She is the winner of the 2025 Francophone Slam Championship of Belgium in Charleroi, and then wins the title at the Belgium CBK championship in Liège in 2025! Qui a tué Issam ? Généalogie de la violence, Fernando Zamora: Through an intimate narrative, this gestural conference delves into the structural violence that shapes the lives of young people in working-class neighborhoods. Marked by poverty, social determinism, and lack of prospects, many see their choices reduced to nothing, trapped in logics of survival, marginalization, and sometimes delinquency. What roles do institutions—school, justice, police—play as cogs in a system that reproduces inequality and breaks trajectories from childhood onwards? How do economic, symbolic, police, and judicial violence contribute to a deeply rooted system of social control, traversed by systemic racism? This gestural conference is a voice raised to understand, denounce, and resist. A Few Words About Fair Ground Brussels: Fair Ground Brussels is a social real estate cooperative with an essential mission: to create housing and spaces of collective interest for those who lack access to them. Forever. Because Brussels needs affordable housing and spaces to host community life, Fair Ground acquires spaces to enable households and low-income individuals to occupy dignified and affordable housing. More information about the cooperative: https://fairground.brussels