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BOK Corpus
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The BOK corpus is made up of knowledge present in Brussels, told by people with different life experiences. Since the beginning of its existence, BOK has hosted dozens of “bodies of knowledge”, a body of work that continues to live and grow.
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BOK Curegem (September-November 2020)
Hasni - The occupation of the Somali embassy (by an undocumented rights activist, himself undocumented) in the 1980s
Ola & Benson - Moshood Abiola: A life story and the strive for democracy in Nigeria
Hocine - Learning, between school knowledge and street knowledge
Chaïmaa, Alisa, Oumayma - A conversation on violence and aggression, and what to do when you’re a witness
Ola - The importance of creating one’s own style
Martin - Stereotypes in sports and how to play with them
Ali - The Heyvaert Oasis: how to create green spaces in Cureghem
Smaïn - Healing yourself with plants when you live in the city
Shadia - The right of working in a non toxic environment, also when you are young
Jean-Bernard - Learning to look through drawing
Said - How learning a technical skill helped me leave Irak and discover Europe
Jacques - The Black Panthers Football Club: the history of the African-Caraiban-Pacific team in Brussels
Ndack - Surviving and living with little money
Ophélie - How can school teach us to discover who we are
Lamarana - Learning through helping others: stories from a teenager
Mouhamadou - Dealing with structural discrimination
Rqia & Maria - For a more economical and ecological daily use of water
Ouzna - From mother to daughter, healing yourself with plants in Algeria
Jean-Baptiste - Love with a big L and how to practice it
Kader - Squatting to survive in the city
Aissa - Between information and engagement: how to go fight against prejudice as a journalist
BOK Résistance (Février 2021)
Mustafa - The Homeless Cup: football as an anchor point of life
Mel - Meditating in your daily life
Sérigne - Boldness as a tool for resilience
Taoufik - Multiplying your sources for better information
Clara - Passing on family values from father to daughter, without speaking
Hanane - Defending our atypical child against educational institutions, as a mother
Yasmine - How to get out of a toxic relationship with social media ?
Thibaut - How to inhabit empty spaces: the example of the old Atlas Brewery
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BOK Josaphat (March-June 2021)
Marie-Rose - Kikongo, the mother tongue as a way to reconnect with the past
Samia - For the good mental health of our institutions
Otman - How to"systemize" yourself as a newcomer (owning your mistakes)
Claudia - Fighting poverty through the collective
Soumaya - Being part of an extended family (and how to keep nurturing it)
Déborah - The pandemic as an opportunity to construct one's agency
Fanny - Defending your visually impaired child against educational institutions
Katrien - Leaving the world's noise behind and finding yourself through walking
Alice - Listening and learning from your friends to fight everyday discrimination (practicing allyship)
Georgia - For an inclusive discovery of the world (for people with and without disabilities)
Rqia - It is endurance and courage that lead us to our independence
Saidou - Mauritania, the country of 6 communities and 1000 poets
Evariste - Africa, a customs officer's perspective
Céline - Accessing the inaccessible: the voices of prisoners in closed centres
Maud - The female body caught in patriarchy: the example of endometriosis
Féé-niks - Dancing to free your body and society
Taoufik - The "Green March": the last decolonial struggle of Morocco in Western Sahara
Aicha - Caring for your body and your autonomy through breathing: a daily practice
Akissi - Akissi, a name to remember the Baule-Ashanti people
Philippe - Ornitology and wildlife at Parc Josaphat
JoleinThe wild pollinators of the Friche Josaphat
Anouchka - Love as a tool for activism
Sanaë - Born in the junk of the Marolles
Castélie - Forming a collectif, pooling rescources, rekindling desire
Valéria - Polyamarous living
Gabriel - Learning from your grandmothers: the oral transmission of memory
Lien - A different rhythm than the others: living with chronic fatigue
Pierre - Working with- and not against nature: making space for biodiversity
Souhaila - Hijabi and future teacher: teaching different history, differently
Katherine - Things are not how they seem, reality is different (living in El Salvador)
Jean-Baptiste - The Radical Fairies: a sanctuary for queer people
Drissia - Slamming your young misfit voice "out of the box"
Avril - Regaining sensation after rape
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BOK Telephone Mai 2021
Sarah - My family history (why I can't go to a Catholic school)
Mina - How to cope with a bad day?
Christelle - Why to love yourself
Marine - The technique of the white rabbit (dare to socialise)
Cassandra - How to stop police violence
Zion - What life chooses for you
Lucasz - Acceptance, the biggest time saver
Swi - Happiness is...
Patrick - Introduction in to the Manga industry
Noemy - What do you do with all your imagination?
Janne - Burlesque: a dance where the men don’t have the power
Rafael - How I was happy in life in Belgium and Ecuador
Rania - Stopping to "overthink"
Ismaël - How to defend yourself, physically?
Mathias - How skateboarding changed my life
Klara Lièn - New Year in the Chinese tradition, and other family rituals
EliasHow to raise your children to become loving human beings
India - Positive Thinking
Sara - Why did I become vegetarian?
Gisele - How to resist the abuse of power?
Victoriane - How to have more empathy
Laura - Evolving in your identity and your style
Raphé - How to educate people through music, without telling them waht to do
Kasia - Being a witch in modern times
Arta - Something beautiful is hidden behind ordeal, a lesson in patience
Célia - Learning to have dreams and to guide them
Zayn - Speaking from the wisdom of my 22 years
Léa - How to get through the "during" and the "after" bullying at school?
Nathan - Filling the void with more imagination
Margaux - Questions about childbirth
Oscar - Opening up to other understandings of the world through Gore
Beyza - How to argue well: the exemple of free sanitary pads
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BOK tent - Jacques Brel (Septembre-December 2021)
Akissi - Wisdom as a tool for justice in the Baoulé tradition
Daoud - The struggle of a shepard's son, from Djibouti to Belgium
Nicolas - Dealing with chronicle pain (the rare example of cluster headaches)
Pia - Against food waste and for benevolence: l'Epicerie Libre
Tiziana - The union of needs and wants, or how to turn money into trust
Mel - Meditatie om naar jezelf en de wereld te luisteren
Sonia - Obtaining the recognition of paternity: a Congolese-Belgian story
Marine - Returning to the source with Chinese medicine (the path to balance)
Chantal - Saga of a happy borderline person
Taslim - Ten years of struggle of an undocumented person
Beyza - Why sanitary pads should be free ( A feminist rethoric)
Féé-Niks - Circle to share dreams, and to stretch your imagination
Collectif Y'EN A MARRE - How to accompany an undocumented person through administrative processes
Amel - How to rethink 'work' when you have no financial security
Isabel - Taking control of your own health with essential oils
Flaka & Talu - Unlearning patriarchy in activism: the example of squats
Mathias - Practising listening when you are used to being in the centre
Ednan - Transforming the structural injustices we are born into: a story from Kurdistan
Fadila - Breaking down prejudices to get closer to your neighbours (the experiment of Café Solidaire in the Cité Volta)
Kasia - Daring to express yourself: the explorations of a young witch
Juliana - Reinforcing our connection to ourselves and to the earth (energetic healing)
Åžeref & Gamze - "Is the rose rose?": Singing multilingual music as political/cultural activism
Aicha & Nisrine - The 'Mam's de l’espoir’ (moms of hope), the 5 blocks and their homework school
Valéria - Polyrelation, or how to live love without hierarchies
Boris - Deconstructing a heterosexual norm with male thermal contraception
Awatif - Fighting (without subsidies) for solidarity with homeless women: the example of ‘Job Dignity’
bodies of knowledge - Claiming public space for the exchange of non-dominant knowledge (in a tent)
Zapatistas - Learning in indigenous, autonomous municipalities in rural Mexico: listening to Zapatista’s voices on education
Mam's de l'espoir - Fighting structural injustices in mainstream education – as mothers
Kim - How to pursue your life as an adoptee by reconnecting with your roots (in Korea)
Maria - Knowing or re-knowing your unconscious heritage as an adoptee: the story of a weaver and her Bolivian origins
Arife - The central place of women in the Kurdish liberation movement
Sarah & Marie - Drawing courage from the revolution in Rojava: the experience of internationalist women
Sarah - Opening your ears with ‘anarchic listening’: concert by and for everyone (with crash course)
Sarah - Learning to speak the languages of the immigration: the commitment of a self-taught Instagrammer
Sylvie - Creating a utopia of solidarity in the city: the example of the La Poudrière community
Cintia - Sport as an anchor in the storm: some practices to take care of yourself as a resilient woman
Zeynep - Uniting international forces to counter sexist violence: the example of the Istanbul Convention
Aziouz - Testimony of a journalist on the situation of democracy in Algeria in the 1990s
Valéria + invité·e·s - Discover medicinal plants to learn about self-care and how to heal yourself
BOK - Reading of extaordinary tales for young and old
Ruth - Singing together as a source of joy: small choir for every-one
Kaouthar - Telling the History by deconstructing racist prejudices: Tunisia from antiquity to the present day
Nathalie - Writing to exist in the storm: a mother's story by her adopted daughter
Max - Self-management of menstrual flow is possible
Luisa - How to gard one's own limits in the "service" or "care" professions
Agnes - Solidarity as a way to emancipate from dependencies
Ingrid - Psychiatry vs. isolation: some intimate thoughts on the need for alternatives
Le collectif des Madres (session longue) - How to fight police violence in our neighbourhoods
Amine - Europe as an illusion of a new El Dorado: the immigration of a "lost" generation
Jamil - Coexistance and reconciliation in Jammu and Kashmir: informing yourself and spreading the word
Rim - The occupation of Gécamines: resisting the violence of the colonial system through collective emancipation
Big BOK Multiplication (13.03.2022)
Porn process - Self-management and self-education for a pornography that liberates
Chantal - Comment l'astrologie a décapé ma vie english
Margarita - “La mort est pour les vivants” : rituels mexicains du réconfort et d’exploration du deuil
Chérine & Samira - Gentrification dans les quartiers populaires : passer du trauma à la thérapie à l’avenue Stalingrad
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BOK Bergen
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BOK Tenace (14.09.2022)
Hussein & Yassine - How to find the strength to survive as you are looking to obtain your papers
Sarah - Learning from the everyday life at Allée du Kaai as a female person of colour and socio-cultural worker
Céline - Practical information for people in exile and those who want to support them: exchange with an activist from Brussels
BOK Ghent
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BOK Learning Days Ixelles (September-October 2023)
Aminata - When you are a stateless Black woman
Mohammed - Solidarity is in our DNA
Rabah - 8 years as a streetworker around the South Station
Edoardo - Working towards balance and harmony : a way out of addiction
Deborah - My experience as a volunteer accompanying people in prostitution
Bruno - My poetic cosmology through colours, crazy is something to dance to
Juhyun - How to be "yellow", an artist and a mother in Brussels ?
Alberto - My drive for the struggle of the Sans Papiers comes from camaraderie
Carlos - Listening to the spirits of the mountain to enhance my political engagement
Mounira - I wear a headscarf, so what ?
Mouna - "Life design" : resources to find out who I am
Lova - How I realised that I am Black
Manon - From victim to survivor, it takes only one step : knowing oneself
Andy - The struggle of Delhaizians : 7 months of strike, and still not tired !
Sultan Ana - Moms of Kurdistan : transforming persecution into revolt
Thomas - How I experience inclusivity, then and now.
Céline - My two early pregnancy losses
Eva - Ripple, for your pleasure
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