Trying Things Out part 3: Béatrice Meguem, Ismail Matar & Dounia Mahammed, Halil Baysoy & Saden Albosharb
Trying Things Out is an evening that offers a glimpse into two performance works that are still very much in development. There is no “premiere pressure”; instead, attention, curiosity, and care take center stage. The audience is invited to discover what is still being researched, shaped, questioned, and experimented with, and to engage in an informal conversation with the makers afterwards.
In recent years, Globe Aroma has welcomed several performing artists who are looking for artistic companionship, rehearsal space, coaching, technical support, and a network within the sector. With Trying Things Out, we are building a gentle in-between step between studio and audience, a testing ground where makers are given time, space, and a community to try out their work, fail, grow, and learn together. It is not a show. It is a moment in the process. A place where watching is a form of care, and feedback is a gift.
Come watch, listen, share.
Trying Things Out — Part 3
Béatrice Meguem
TAXIWOMAN
With TAXIWOMAN, Béatrice explores the place society assigns to women and the way it looks at those who do not fit the mould. The project speaks of resilience and starting over somewhere else: in a place that thinks differently and offers better possibilities.
The performance lasts approximately 30 minutes.
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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Ismail Matar & Dounia Mahammed
During his residency at the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Ismail Matar and writer Dounia Mahammed engaged in a series of conversations around displacement, memory and the meaning of home. These conversations became the starting point for a series of poetic texts by Mahammed, collected in the publication Letters of Us.
On stage, words take shape in unexpected ways. As Dounia Mahammed gives voice to her poetry, Ismail Matar brings Arabic letters into being, bending, shaping and assembling them in response to her words. A meeting of voice and gesture, where language moves between poetry and sculpture.
The performance lasts approximately 30 minutes.
Want to know more about the artist Ismail Matar?
Ismail Matar (born in 1998) is a Palestinian multidisciplinary visual artist based in Brussels. His practice spans calligraphy, painting, murals, installation and sculpture. He develops a visual language rooted in lived experience and collective memory, shaped by symbols of resilience, continuity and hope.
Born and raised in Gaza, Matar discovered art in public space, where the walls of refugee camps became his first surfaces for expression. Through calligraphy, he explores letters as moving forms, transforming writing into a visual experience. Dialogue and exchange also play a central role in his practice, particularly through workshops with adults and children in Palestine and elsewhere.
Want to know more about the artist Dounia Mahammed?
Dounia Mahammed graduated from the drama programme at KASK in 2015. Dounia describes themself as a queer artist who is constantly searching, writing, creating and performing, with a particular love for plants, clay, colour, chewing, wood, water, cornflour (a binding agent!), questions, movement and being moved.
Dounia’s work often plays with language and sound, exploring different ways of (mis)communicating. It seeks to say something about the human condition and the search for connection, moving between wonder and uncertainty. Alongside the artistic practice, loving activism and recent work as an independent confidential counsellor play an important role.
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Halil Baysoy & Saden Albosharb
Birth
Birth is an experimental performance exploring how individuals lose their identity, freedom and humanity under the pressure of society and the systems that shape it. Through the symbolic journey of a woman from birth onwards, the work examines social expectations, violence, betrayal, loneliness, power and inner conflict. It reveals the gradual process of becoming estranged from oneself.
The performance lasts approximately 40 minutes.
Want to know more about the artist Halil Baysoy?
Halil Baysoy’s journey in theatre began in high school and continued as a performer with Mersin City Theatre and other theatre companies. During his university years, his political convictions led him towards activism, which eventually developed into a career in journalism and television presenting.
After graduating, he took part in summer workshops where he taught children scriptwriting and acting, creating theatre performances with them. After seeking asylum in Belgium because of his political and journalistic activities, he rediscovered that art had always remained at the centre of his life. Today, while developing screenplays in Brussels, he also takes part in short film and performance projects.
Want to know more about the artist Saden Albosharb?
Saden is a documentary photographer with a passion for visual arts and storytelling. Alongside his photographic practice, he works professionally as a lighting designer for theatre and live events. His experience also includes acting, directing, developing creative theatre concepts and facilitating workshops.
In his performance, Saden wants to focus on light as an art form in its own right: not merely a technical tool, but a universal artistic language that creates atmosphere, evokes emotions and conveys meaning.
Photo 1: Béatrice Meguem
Photo 2: Ismail Matar
Photo 3: Dounia Mahammed
Photo 4: Halil Baysoy
Photo 5: Saden Albosharb
The artists received coaching from Silke Huysmans and Dounia Mahammed throughout the preparation process of Trying Things Out.