On Friday, June 13th and Saturday, June 14th, 2025, we'll ignite Fresh Fire once again at De studio in Antwerp! Starting today, you can buy tickets for the festival in the broadest sense of the word.
Already on the program for Friday, June 13th: Porcelain id, Johannes Is Zijn Naam, Baloji, Charlotte Van den Broeck.
Already on the program for Saturday, June 14th: B.O.X and Bent Van Looy, Elmer, Esohe Weyden.
More names coming soon!
Friday? Saturday? Or both? Buy your tickets for Fresh Fire here!
Baloji is a masterful Belgian rapper of Congolese origin who has already worked with Damon Albarns' Africa Express
Baloji is a masterful Belgian rapper of Congolese origin who has already worked with Damon Albarns' Africa Express and many others. His previous album 137 Avenue Kaniama - named after the address in Lubumbashi where Baloji saw his long-lost mother again - dates back to 2018. In 2024, Baloji is back in full force - and how! AUGURE is the nickname of his challenging project that takes three wonderful forms. AUGURE is first and foremost Baloji's debut as a director. He immediately ended up in the official selection of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, for the prize in the 'Un Certain Regard' category. AUGURE is also a monumental album, composed of 4 EPs with a total of 36 songs, written from the point of view of the four main characters in the film.
...Porcelain ID is the alter ego of Hubert Tuyishime, born in Rwanda in 1998. Operating from Poetic and quirky songwri
Porcelain ID is the alter ego of Hubert Tuyishime, born in Rwanda in 1998. Operating from Poetic and quirky songwriting, they are praised for their powerful voice. Inspired by Mavericks like Destroyer, Daniel Johnston, and the later work of David Bowie.
...Esohe Weyden is a writer, poet, presenter, and legal scholar. she works as a mandate assistant and doctoral researc
Esohe Weyden is a writer, poet, presenter, and legal scholar. she works as a mandate assistant and doctoral researcher in family wealth law at the University of Antwerp, where she was the campus poet from 2021 to 2023. From 2025 to 2027, she will be the city poet of Antwerp. Since 2017, she has become an integral part of the Dutch-language poetry scene. Her poems have brought her to the most diverse stages, from festivals such as Crossing Border, Pukkelpop, and Tomorrowland. to the civil procession of Belgium's National Day. In 2022, she won the public prize of the PrixFintro for Dutch-language literature, and in 2019, he received the cultural award for distinguished residents of Deurne. Her debut on paper was with her poetry collection Tussentaal (2022), which was nominated for the C. Buddingh Prize 2022 for the best Dutch-language poetry debut. This was followed by en morgen nog een keer (2024), a unique children's book about trying new things. Her second poetry collection, Richtingloos Navigeren, will be released in 2025. Since 2022, she has been a member of the core editorial team of the literature-cultural magazine DW B and has published in literary magazines such as Poëziekrant and Het Liegend Konijn. In the past, she worked as a cultural reporter at ATV (2020-2022) was the poet for the VRT Language evening (2021), and served as an ambassador for the Youth Book Month (2021) and the Week of the Dutch Language (2023).
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