Trying Things Out part 2: Fides Niyonzima, Béatrice Meguem, Ariana Beradze, Remi Sarmini
Trying Things Out is an evening that invites you to discover performing arts works that are still in development. There is no pressure of a premiere: attention, curiosity and care take centre stage. The audience is invited to explore what is still being researched, taking shape, questioned and experimented with, and to engage in informal conversations with the artists afterwards.
Over the past few years, Globe Aroma has welcomed several performing artists looking for artistic companionship, rehearsal space, coaching, technical support and a network within the sector. With Trying Things Out, we are creating a gentle in-between step between the studio and the audience: a testing ground where artists are given the time, space and community to try out their work, let it grow and learn together. It is not a finished performance, but a moment in the creative process. A space where watching becomes a form of care, and feedback is a gift.
Come watch, listen and share.
Trying Things Out part 2
Ariana Beradze
Drag Slayer
Ariana Beradze is developing Drag Slayer, a queer game show featuring several drag artists. The project brings together entertainment, theatrical performance, music and drag culture.
For this work-in-progress presentation, Ariana is exploring different ways of bringing Drag Slayer to life, from a cinematic teaser featuring original music and live performance to a video introduction to the project.
Her aim is to bring Drag Slayer to life by combining audiovisual production and performance art. The project also seeks to create opportunities for queer artists who are refugees or asylum seekers and who have had limited opportunities to present their work in Belgium, while bringing them together with local film students and experienced queer artists.
The presentation lasts approximately 15 minutes.
Want to know more about the artist Ariana Beradze?
Ariana Beradze is originally from Georgia, where she practised Georgian traditional dance for eleven years alongside her studies.
Through her artistic practice, she seeks to express her feelings and address political, social and gender-related struggles.
She has previously collaborated with Globe Aroma during 2024–2025, taking part in various creative and artistic projects. During this period, she performed in a group theatre production at KAI Studios and developed and presented a solo performance accompanied by dancers at Théâtre de la Vie in Brussels.
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Fides Niyonzima & Béatrice Meguem
Le Zénith de la folie
Fides Niyonzima and Béatrice Meguem are working together on a performance based on the text Le Zénith de la folie by Rivardo Niyonizigiye. They offer a first glimpse into the creative process and show us how the performance is taking shape.
The presentation lasts approximately 45 minutes.
Want to know more about the artist Fides Niyonzima?
Fides Niyonzima is a Burundian performing artist. She began her artistic career in 2014 and has played various roles in contemporary, community and radio theatre productions in Burundi and abroad, including Le Zénith de la folie, Les Tracés de la cicatrisation and Ingabo: A Night to Fall.
After arriving in Belgium in 2023, she sought to continue her artistic career. In 2024, she connected with Globe Aroma, an organisation that offers her space and time and supports her integration into the cultural sector through networking.
Want to know more about the artist Béatrice Meguem?
Béatrice Meguem is an actress, storyteller and project manager. With more than fifteen years of experience, she places the power of live art at the heart of her practice. She is particularly interested in the voice as a means of expression, transformation and liberation.
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Rémi Sarmini
Honing, شمس &Goud
Honing, شمس &Goud is a multilingual theatrical production freely inspired by Hector Malot’s novel Sans Famille (Nobody’s Boy) and the extraordinary personal journey of Syrian actor and playwright Rémi Sarmini.
Through this production, Rémi recounts his experience of exile, beginning in Damascus, the city he was forced to leave just as he was embarking on his artistic career, passing through Egypt, and eventually reaching Tunisia, the first country to welcome him and offer him refuge.
It is a journey against the tide of the Arab Spring, where political upheavals intersect with a more intimate and personal quest for identity, memory and belonging.
Originally written in Syrian Arabic by playwright Yasser Abu Shaqra, the play premiered in Tunis in 2021 with the support of the association Art Veda.
In 2025, the production was performed in French in Paris and Brussels, in collaboration with Anne Bérélowitch from Instant MIX – Paris. That same year, it was also presented in Berlin, in collaboration with Henning Bochert from Drama Panorama – Berlin.
The production now returns in a new multilingual version performed by Rémi Sarmini and Tim Berghmans, in which Arabic and Dutch engage in a direct dialogue on stage, without surtitles.
Through this hybrid and poetic theatrical form, shaped by artistic and cultural experiences across Tunis, Paris, Brussels and Berlin, the performance explores narratives of migration and exile, languages as spaces of freedom and expression, and the shifting boundaries of identity, with all their transformations and contradictions.
A poetic and deeply human theatrical experience, where languages, memories and personal stories intertwine, inviting audiences to reflect on identity, belonging and freedom in a world of constantly shifting borders.
The presentation lasts approximately 40 minutes.
Want to know more about the artist Rémi Sarmini?
Rémi Sarmini is a Syrian actor, director and theatre educator. He founded the theatre company Tajroubeh in 2011 and the Art Veda Brussels association in 2024.
A graduate of the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus (2014), he is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Performing Arts at UCLouvain in Belgium. He has been involved with Globe Aroma as a theatre artist since 2023.
He has directed several theatrical productions, including The Breath (Beirut, 2018), First Class (Tunis, 2019) and Honing, شمس &Goud (2021–2025), which has been performed in Tunisia, France and Germany.
His artistic work explores profound human and social themes, such as forbidden love, forced migration and the consequences of war, combining social engagement with poetic sensitivity in his theatrical practice.
image 1: Ariana Beradze
image 2: Fides Niyonzima
image 3: Rémi Sarmini
The artists received coaching from Silke Huysmans and Dounia Mahammed throughout the preparation process of Trying Things Out.