FAME Festival 2025: Exploring Food, Culture, and Empowerment in Brussels

The fourth edition of FAME – Festival where Arts Meet Empowerment will take place from September 11 to 21, 2025, across multiple venues in Brussels. This multidisciplinary and inclusive festival is dedicated to amplifying the voices and productions of women and gender minority artists, with particular care for diversity in sexual orientation, body type, ethnocultural identity, social class, and ability.

A Festival Nourished by Food and Dialogue

After previous editions focusing on themes like Opening(s), Heritage(s) and Transmission(s), and Futur(e)s, this year FAME turns its attention to a universal and vital daily need: food. The 2025 edition will explore our complex relationship with food through shows, talks, workshops, film screenings, tastings, and facilitated discussions.

Why food? Alongside language, food is at the heart of every culture—an everyday act, yet deeply political. Through its programming, FAME 2025 invites audiences to reflect on everything from the colonial history of cuisine to gendered perspectives on labor in the kitchen, and from food justice to the social rituals of eating and drinking.

Highlights from the 2025 Program

Eva Dumbia’s “Autophagies”
This multidisciplinary performance intertwines dance, theater, and live cooking to question colonial history and invite us to reflect on the shared stories in our kitchens and on our plates.
Learn more about Autophagies (info in French)

Kimchi-Making Workshop with Les Kimchieuses Tueuses
More than a culinary experience, this hands-on workshop reexamines notions of labor and collective empowerment through the making of kimchi.

Conference by Nora Bouazzouni
Journalist and author Nora Bouazzouni will discuss her book Mangez les riches, drawing connections between food and class struggle.
About Nora Bouazzouni (Fr)

“Soûlographie”: A Drinkable Performance
Sara Selma Dolorès, Laurent de Sutter, Jérôme Colleyn, and Harouna Saou examine alcohol as a means of building resilience against hostility, blending performance and collective tasting.

Wild Herb Walk with the Authors of “Sur la piste des herbes sauvages”
Discover the edible plants and wild herbs of Brussels with the writing and illustration team behind this unique foraging guide, published by CFC Editions.

Food and Exile: Tasting and Discussion
Activist Thierno Dia and La Voix des Sans-Papiers de Bruxelles will facilitate a conversation and tasting session around food in contexts of exile and migration.

Queering the Kitchen: Talk by Saul Pandelakis
Author and designer Saul Pandelakis leads a conference titled “Cyborg et boniches”, inviting audiences to rethink and queer the kitchen space.

And much more to be announced!

Embracing Intersectionality and Inclusion

FAME’s mission is to create a space where the work of marginalized voices can be seen, heard, and celebrated—always with careful attention to all forms of diversity, be they in the body, identity, or lived experience. The festival strives to be accessible and welcoming to all.

Practical Information

• Dates: September 11–21, 2025
• Location: Multiple venues across Brussels
• Full program & tickets: famefestival.be (latest updates, ticketing info, accessibility, and contact)

Stay tuned as the full lineup and detailed schedules are published in the coming months. For news, artist spotlights, and practical info, check the festival’s official website and follow their social media channels.

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Related & Useful Links:

• FAME Festival Official Website
• Brussels Public Transport Info
• Accessibility at FAME
• Get Involved/Volunteer

Whether you’re passionate about art, food, activism, or all three, FAME 2025 offers a taste of Brussels’ most vibrant and inclusive cultural scene.