At the start of the new cultural season, artistic director and researcher (KASK/School of Arts/HoGent) Chokri Ben Chikha will be launching the Nederlands Theater Festival in Amsterdam. With his State of the Theatre, the annual opening speech of the festival, he will set out his vision of the contemporary theatre landscape. Lot Vekemans, the speaker

Action Zoo Humain also has a summer holiday. Soon we will travel with the whole team to the Belgian coast for a few days. On the 30th and 31st of July our performance Amnesty/Amnesia can be seen at Theater aan Zee (TAZ) and on the 2nd August the company organizes theatrical tours through the exhibition A conversation between collections from

The countdown can begin: in a few days, Ghent will once again be filled with music, parties and a lot of cultural activities for another week. Action Zoo Humain is also there: on 13, 14, 15 and 16 July, young theatre-maker Maxime Waladi will perform Le Chicon in NTGent Arca. Why you have to be there? The makers Zouzou Ben Chikha and Maxime Waladi

While Catalan rappers and politicians are entrenching themselves in Belgium, Action Zoo Humain is moving to Barcelona. Chokri Ben Chikha was invited by IT Teatre to direct a performance. The dance theatre play will deal with the unprocessed past and the complex past and seek out the parallels between IS fighters and Frenchmen. The auditions have

Action Zoo Humain is already looking forward to summer: our performance Amnesty/Amnesia has been selected from 382 performances for the TheaterFestival 2018. The festival offers an annual stage to a series of special theatre and dance performances from the past theatre season. From the jury report: "With ingenious constructions Ben Chikha finds a

On Monday the 5th of March NTGent and Action Zoo Humain were granted the Cutting Edgde Award for Best Theatre for the piece Platform/Submission. Many thanks to all who voted for us!

Every now and then a published article needs a reply. The same goes for the reflections in the opinion piece 'Noble anger on stage' (Mia Vaerman, in rekto:verso).

A fine boost for this new calendar year: Platform/Submission by NTGent and Action Zoo Humain has been nominated for the Cutting Edge Awards 2017 in the category 'Stage'! You can vote in no time at all!

On the occasion of our most recent performance Amnesty/Amnesia, Chokri Ben Chikha crawled into his pen to wake up our Belgian government, starting from the hottest issues of production. Just before Amnesty/Amnesia premiered in NTGent Arca, the column was published in De Morgen.

Action Zoo Humain invites you to the book launch of Zoo Humain. The Happy Return of the Barbarian. On Thursday 7 September 2017 at 8 pm Chokri Ben Chikha will present the publication with the indispensable garlands and the enthusiasm of Dirk De Wachter, Anna Luyten, Marijke Pinoy, Dahlia Pessemiers-Benamar, Maxime Waladi, Kenji Minogue, Walid Ben