Dress to Bury the Old World: A Queer Funeral for Dictators at AB

On Friday 5 June, Ancienne Belgique turns into a political dancefloor with “DICTATOR’S FUNERAL”, a clubnight curated by Liaison Music and Kunty Kompany. Together, a queer migrant music collective and a QTBIPOC nightlife crew invite Brussels to imagine the end of oppressive systems – not in a seminar, but on the dancefloor. It is a night where softness becomes a weapon, presence becomes resistance and pleasure becomes a rehearsal for the world we actually deserve.

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Saying goodbye to dictators (on the dancefloor)

The premise is simple and devastatingly effective: dress as if you were attending the funeral of “a bunch of old maniacs who set the world on fire for decades”, then dance as if their systems had finally fallen apart. Liaison and Kunty Kompany frame the night as a collective act of imagination in the middle of a brutal political climate – a moment to picture old structures crumbling, control fading and the air getting lighter.

This is not naïve escapism. The event text insists that imagining different realities is necessary: it creates breathing room, space to create, time to rehearse new forms of being together. On the dancefloor, bodies move without asking for permission, testing a future where joy, care and self‑expression are non‑negotiable.

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Kunty Kompany & Liaison: when nightlife is survival work

Behind DICTATOR’S FUNERAL are two collectives that understand nightlife as much more than entertainment.

Kunty Kompany is a collective of queer people of colour claiming their place in club culture, building nights where sound, style and energy are organised around care, community and expression. Their goal is explicit: create spaces where people can exist freely, celebrate themselves and meet each other on their own terms.

Liaison Music is a network of queer musicians with migration backgrounds, born from a grassroots initiative led by queer asylum seekers navigating the Belgian reception system. The collective now offers rehearsal spaces, collaborations and performance opportunities for newly arrived artists, and is working towards its own safe queer space and studio for new arrivals in Brussels and beyond. For Liaison, the dancefloor is about protest, healing and training for freedom as much as it is about BPMs.

When these two meet at AB, the result is a clubnight rooted in exile, rage, tenderness and the refusal to disappear quietly.

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Soundtrack for the fall of a regime

The line‑up for the night brings together DJs and performers connected to Liaison and Kunty Kompany, with a focus on queer, migrant and diasporic perspectives. Names like AMI, Henry Keller, Lucrezia, Anano, ANTWAN and HOLINESS promise a journey through hard‑hitting techno, hybrid club sounds and emotional, resistant basslines.

Liaison’s previous events have drawn heavily on underground scenes from Tbilisi, Berlin and Latin America, with sets that move from reggaeton edits to techno and experimental club, always grounded in stories of displacement, freedom and survival. DICTATOR’S FUNERAL continues that thread: a night where the tempo erases language barriers and migratory histories shape the sound more than any mainstream trend.

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Why this night matters for queer Brussels

For LGBTQIA+ communities in Brussels – especially QTBIPOC and queer migrants – nights like this are rare and crucial. They offer something that regular clubbing often fails to provide:

• A dancefloor explicitly centred around those pushed to the margins, rather than just “open to everyone”.
• A safer space framed by clear values of care, community and anti‑oppression, not just a dress code and a bar menu.
• A chance to transform rage and exhaustion into collective movement, without denying the violence of the world outside.

In a broader Brussels nightlife landscape still marked by racism, transphobia and class barriers, DICTATOR’S FUNERAL feels like both a refuge and a statement. It reminds everyone that queer joy and queer grief are political – and that dancing together can be a way to practice the future.

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Practical info

• Event: Clubnight by Liaison x Kunty Kompany – DICTATOR’S FUNERAL
• Date: Friday 5 June 2026
• Venue: Ancienne Belgique (AB), Boulevard Anspach 110, 1000 Brussels
• Line‑up: AMI, Henry Keller, prnc, Lucrezia, Anano, ANTWAN, HOLINESS (and more)
• Dress code: Come dressed as if you were going to the funeral of dictators who burned the world down.
• Info & tickets

A night to mourn, to rage, to shimmer and to dance like the old world is finally over – or at least like it will be, one beat at a time.

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