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Dear teachers and principals,

De Studio puts a young audience of 0 to 30 years in touch with art, culture and media. We pay special attention to the urban and social context and to the vulnerable position of young people and artists. We are an open house, giving space to young people to tell their stories. Here, super-diverse theatre companies, makers, actors, curators and artists turn their daring dreams into extraordinary actions.

Please find below the school programme for season 2022-2023.

Once again, we have a wide range of cultural activities to offer: cutting-edge theatre productions, old time classics, dance, concerts, young controversial work, performance, parties and film. We are delighted that the Flemish subsidy provider rewarded the efforts of De Studio with an extremely good report, so that we can assure you and your pupils of high-quality activities.

A new generation of artists is nestling among the well-known talent and is eager to send its work into the world: house companies Laika and FroeFroe send out their new makers with Aminata Demba (Bazar) and Dries De Win (Kleine Epos), house artist Maxime Dreesen celebrates queerness in society (Countersex Education) and Tim Oelbrandt breaks through internationally with his magical Spirals.

Vulnerability, fragility and resilience, who carries who in society, how do we escape daily reality or bend it into a new reality, how do we make the 'right' choices within the multitude of stimuli: all these are themes or threads that you will find in our offer after a period in which children and young people were often confronted with uncertainty.

We warmly welcome all of you!
See you soon in De Studio!

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Take your class to De Cinema

In order to make the school year 2022-2023 a memorable one, we selected excellent films for each school year. Interested in other films that are not on this list? No problem, we are happy to think along about a film (package) tailored to your students. Do not hesitate to contact us. Send an email to Els (els@decinema.be).

One film costs 5 euros per student. A package of three films costs 12,50 euros per student. Accompanying teachers watch free of charge. Per screening, we assume a minimum of 50 students (or a fixed forfait of 250 euros).

Each film has an accompanying teaching folder or documentation folder. School screenings usually take place from Monday to Friday, at 10 am or 2 pm. Good to know: with your teachers' card, you can always watch films at reduced prices at De Cinema.

More information and more titles can be found at:

  • JEF: wide range of films for young audiences. All films of JEF are accompanied by adapted educational material.
  • FRENCH FILMS: can also be found on the JEF website (formerly known as "French Week").
  • WORLD CINEMA: see the offer of MOOOV
  • BEVRIJDINGSFILM: a wide-ranging assortment, with a focus on documentaries and social themes

Reservations

  • At the bottom of this page you can find all school screenings. You can filter by grade.
  • The SCHOOL button takes you to the reservation page.
  • Please enter your e-mail address and select an option.
  • Click the register button and enter the number of students per class.
  • You can immediately register another class.

Tickets for school screenings cost € 7 per student, unless stated otherwise. Accompanying teachers are admitted free of charge.

Tickets for evening performances cost € 8 (for -26 years of age), unless stated otherwise. Accompanying teachers pay a ticket as well.

Tickets for a cluster programme cost € 10 per student. Accompanying teachers are admitted free of charge.

Accessibility

De Studio / De Cinema
Maarschalk Gérardstraat 4, 2000 Antwerp

We are easily accessible by public transport. Tram 4 and 7 stop in front of our door and the Nationale Bank stop is within walking distance. Thanks to dynamoOPWEG, you can get to our shows for free with De Lijn, because De Studio and De Cinema have a partnership.

Contact

scholen@destudio.com
els@decinema.be
03 260 96 10

Nov 2023

10u00     Mon 6 Nov
ZEBARBAR & De Studio
family

Yamina is eight years old and dislikes birthday parties. When her grandmother Zohra turns 70, her mother Fadila throws her a surprise party. But grandma Zohra is not a party animal at all and the party turns into a big fiasco. Yamina wonders why grandma Zohra, like herself, doesn't like parties. Together, they go on a journey through grandma Zohra's memories, looking for the answer. Memories of Algeria where grandma Zohra was born, of trees full of olives, of Bakri the donkey and of grandma Zohra's journey to Belgium.

Zebarbar touches on a beautiful and sensitive theme: the secrets of grandparents and the special bond that exists between grandchildren and their grandparents. In February 2021, an online version of the play was performed in the libraries of Brussels and it turned out that the theme had touched all the children. The conversations afterwards were lively and intense. Many children from migrant backgrounds have to deal with a rupture in their family history: grandparents who left everything behind and had to build a new life in unfamiliar surroundings. Every family has its own fracture or trauma, and every family deals with this differently.

De Studio works together with ZEBARBAR to tell new stories in a super-diverse society. The connecting power of stories and theatre colours the palette of imagination in the city.

13u30     Mon 6 Nov
ZEBARBAR & De Studio
family

Yamina is eight years old and dislikes birthday parties. When her grandmother Zohra turns 70, her mother Fadila throws her a surprise party. But grandma Zohra is not a party animal at all and the party turns into a big fiasco. Yamina wonders why grandma Zohra, like herself, doesn't like parties. Together, they go on a journey through grandma Zohra's memories, looking for the answer. Memories of Algeria where grandma Zohra was born, of trees full of olives, of Bakri the donkey and of grandma Zohra's journey to Belgium.

Zebarbar touches on a beautiful and sensitive theme: the secrets of grandparents and the special bond that exists between grandchildren and their grandparents. In February 2021, an online version of the play was performed in the libraries of Brussels and it turned out that the theme had touched all the children. The conversations afterwards were lively and intense. Many children from migrant backgrounds have to deal with a rupture in their family history: grandparents who left everything behind and had to build a new life in unfamiliar surroundings. Every family has its own fracture or trauma, and every family deals with this differently.

De Studio works together with ZEBARBAR to tell new stories in a super-diverse society. The connecting power of stories and theatre colours the palette of imagination in the city.

10u00     Tue 7 Nov
ZEBARBAR & De Studio
family

Yamina is eight years old and dislikes birthday parties. When her grandmother Zohra turns 70, her mother Fadila throws her a surprise party. But grandma Zohra is not a party animal at all and the party turns into a big fiasco. Yamina wonders why grandma Zohra, like herself, doesn't like parties. Together, they go on a journey through grandma Zohra's memories, looking for the answer. Memories of Algeria where grandma Zohra was born, of trees full of olives, of Bakri the donkey and of grandma Zohra's journey to Belgium.

Zebarbar touches on a beautiful and sensitive theme: the secrets of grandparents and the special bond that exists between grandchildren and their grandparents. In February 2021, an online version of the play was performed in the libraries of Brussels and it turned out that the theme had touched all the children. The conversations afterwards were lively and intense. Many children from migrant backgrounds have to deal with a rupture in their family history: grandparents who left everything behind and had to build a new life in unfamiliar surroundings. Every family has its own fracture or trauma, and every family deals with this differently.

De Studio works together with ZEBARBAR to tell new stories in a super-diverse society. The connecting power of stories and theatre colours the palette of imagination in the city.

13u30     Tue 7 Nov
ZEBARBAR & De Studio
family

Yamina is eight years old and dislikes birthday parties. When her grandmother Zohra turns 70, her mother Fadila throws her a surprise party. But grandma Zohra is not a party animal at all and the party turns into a big fiasco. Yamina wonders why grandma Zohra, like herself, doesn't like parties. Together, they go on a journey through grandma Zohra's memories, looking for the answer. Memories of Algeria where grandma Zohra was born, of trees full of olives, of Bakri the donkey and of grandma Zohra's journey to Belgium.

Zebarbar touches on a beautiful and sensitive theme: the secrets of grandparents and the special bond that exists between grandchildren and their grandparents. In February 2021, an online version of the play was performed in the libraries of Brussels and it turned out that the theme had touched all the children. The conversations afterwards were lively and intense. Many children from migrant backgrounds have to deal with a rupture in their family history: grandparents who left everything behind and had to build a new life in unfamiliar surroundings. Every family has its own fracture or trauma, and every family deals with this differently.

De Studio works together with ZEBARBAR to tell new stories in a super-diverse society. The connecting power of stories and theatre colours the palette of imagination in the city.

10u00     Wed 8 Nov
ZEBARBAR & De Studio
family

Yamina is eight years old and dislikes birthday parties. When her grandmother Zohra turns 70, her mother Fadila throws her a surprise party. But grandma Zohra is not a party animal at all and the party turns into a big fiasco. Yamina wonders why grandma Zohra, like herself, doesn't like parties. Together, they go on a journey through grandma Zohra's memories, looking for the answer. Memories of Algeria where grandma Zohra was born, of trees full of olives, of Bakri the donkey and of grandma Zohra's journey to Belgium.

Zebarbar touches on a beautiful and sensitive theme: the secrets of grandparents and the special bond that exists between grandchildren and their grandparents. In February 2021, an online version of the play was performed in the libraries of Brussels and it turned out that the theme had touched all the children. The conversations afterwards were lively and intense. Many children from migrant backgrounds have to deal with a rupture in their family history: grandparents who left everything behind and had to build a new life in unfamiliar surroundings. Every family has its own fracture or trauma, and every family deals with this differently.

De Studio works together with ZEBARBAR to tell new stories in a super-diverse society. The connecting power of stories and theatre colours the palette of imagination in the city.

10u00     Thu 9 Nov
ZEBARBAR & De Studio
family

Yamina is eight years old and dislikes birthday parties. When her grandmother Zohra turns 70, her mother Fadila throws her a surprise party. But grandma Zohra is not a party animal at all and the party turns into a big fiasco. Yamina wonders why grandma Zohra, like herself, doesn't like parties. Together, they go on a journey through grandma Zohra's memories, looking for the answer. Memories of Algeria where grandma Zohra was born, of trees full of olives, of Bakri the donkey and of grandma Zohra's journey to Belgium.

Zebarbar touches on a beautiful and sensitive theme: the secrets of grandparents and the special bond that exists between grandchildren and their grandparents. In February 2021, an online version of the play was performed in the libraries of Brussels and it turned out that the theme had touched all the children. The conversations afterwards were lively and intense. Many children from migrant backgrounds have to deal with a rupture in their family history: grandparents who left everything behind and had to build a new life in unfamiliar surroundings. Every family has its own fracture or trauma, and every family deals with this differently.

De Studio works together with ZEBARBAR to tell new stories in a super-diverse society. The connecting power of stories and theatre colours the palette of imagination in the city.

13u30     Thu 9 Nov
ZEBARBAR & De Studio
family

Yamina is eight years old and dislikes birthday parties. When her grandmother Zohra turns 70, her mother Fadila throws her a surprise party. But grandma Zohra is not a party animal at all and the party turns into a big fiasco. Yamina wonders why grandma Zohra, like herself, doesn't like parties. Together, they go on a journey through grandma Zohra's memories, looking for the answer. Memories of Algeria where grandma Zohra was born, of trees full of olives, of Bakri the donkey and of grandma Zohra's journey to Belgium.

Zebarbar touches on a beautiful and sensitive theme: the secrets of grandparents and the special bond that exists between grandchildren and their grandparents. In February 2021, an online version of the play was performed in the libraries of Brussels and it turned out that the theme had touched all the children. The conversations afterwards were lively and intense. Many children from migrant backgrounds have to deal with a rupture in their family history: grandparents who left everything behind and had to build a new life in unfamiliar surroundings. Every family has its own fracture or trauma, and every family deals with this differently.

De Studio works together with ZEBARBAR to tell new stories in a super-diverse society. The connecting power of stories and theatre colours the palette of imagination in the city.

Dec 2023

20u00     Thu 21 Dec
Vervloet & De Studio
theatre, family

A quest that alternates between reality and fantasy. Peter Pan on speed for 12+ and up.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A fire fighter? A football player? An accountant? Mum or dad? A magician? An influencer? Or a pilot still? Anything is possible on the playground. Children let their imagination run wild and determine the rules of the game themselves. 'You are the pink Power Ranger and I am the blue-grey-white one. They don't exist, do they? Well, now they do.'

SOLO deals with the search for your own identity. Using the superpowers of the playground, the main character discovers who he wants to be. A conductor? Or perhaps a DJ? A breakdancer? Or maybe a businessman? A doctor or a patient - or both?

Hyperfantasy*
Robbert Vervloet stays true to the patchwork style of Terminator Too (think cardboard racing cars, a Batman suit made out of cereal boxes and Decathlon dinosaurs) and pulls you into his hyperfantastic world, in which a character tries to get a grip on who he is - or at least thinks he should be. In all his childlike fantasy, things sometimes fail grandly, but even the impossible is within reach.

*It's a thing. Just Google it.

20u00     Fri 22 Dec
Vervloet & De Studio
theatre, family

A quest that alternates between reality and fantasy. Peter Pan on speed for 12+ and up.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A fire fighter? A football player? An accountant? Mum or dad? A magician? An influencer? Or a pilot still? Anything is possible on the playground. Children let their imagination run wild and determine the rules of the game themselves. 'You are the pink Power Ranger and I am the blue-grey-white one. They don't exist, do they? Well, now they do.'

SOLO deals with the search for your own identity. Using the superpowers of the playground, the main character discovers who he wants to be. A conductor? Or perhaps a DJ? A breakdancer? Or maybe a businessman? A doctor or a patient - or both?

Hyperfantasy*
Robbert Vervloet stays true to the patchwork style of Terminator Too (think cardboard racing cars, a Batman suit made out of cereal boxes and Decathlon dinosaurs) and pulls you into his hyperfantastic world, in which a character tries to get a grip on who he is - or at least thinks he should be. In all his childlike fantasy, things sometimes fail grandly, but even the impossible is within reach.

*It's a thing. Just Google it.

Feb 2024

10u00     Thu 8 Feb
Katrien Pierlet, Wanda Eyckerman & De Studio
family

A performance without scenery and without text. With pantomime as a starting point. (Yes, pantomime. That art form that urgently needs an update.)

Children play in a pantomimic way every day. They devour imaginary plates of pasta. They lead invisible armies of up to a thousand soldiers across the coffee table. They defeat monsters hiding under the bed. Because in pantomime anything is possible! The largest long-haired mammoth could be standing in the room.

But can pantomime work in a contemporary way? And how can it be used meaningfully, as a statement today? And can we give children that little push to keep playing invisibly?

Wanda Eyckerman and Katrien Pierlet went looking for answers to these questions. Because the fact that you can depict anything with nothing is an incredible strength in today's over-stimulated world. Expect a performance without decor, sparse in words, rich in images. Images that are not there, but that you do see. A call to play, and to do so freely. The encouragement to keep looking at something that is not there.

13u30     Thu 8 Feb
Katrien Pierlet, Wanda Eyckerman & De Studio
family

A performance without scenery and without text. With pantomime as a starting point. (Yes, pantomime. That art form that urgently needs an update.)

Children play in a pantomimic way every day. They devour imaginary plates of pasta. They lead invisible armies of up to a thousand soldiers across the coffee table. They defeat monsters hiding under the bed. Because in pantomime anything is possible! The largest long-haired mammoth could be standing in the room.

But can pantomime work in a contemporary way? And how can it be used meaningfully, as a statement today? And can we give children that little push to keep playing invisibly?

Wanda Eyckerman and Katrien Pierlet went looking for answers to these questions. Because the fact that you can depict anything with nothing is an incredible strength in today's over-stimulated world. Expect a performance without decor, sparse in words, rich in images. Images that are not there, but that you do see. A call to play, and to do so freely. The encouragement to keep looking at something that is not there.

13u30     Fri 9 Feb
Katrien Pierlet, Wanda Eyckerman & De Studio
family

A performance without scenery and without text. With pantomime as a starting point. (Yes, pantomime. That art form that urgently needs an update.)

Children play in a pantomimic way every day. They devour imaginary plates of pasta. They lead invisible armies of up to a thousand soldiers across the coffee table. They defeat monsters hiding under the bed. Because in pantomime anything is possible! The largest long-haired mammoth could be standing in the room.

But can pantomime work in a contemporary way? And how can it be used meaningfully, as a statement today? And can we give children that little push to keep playing invisibly?

Wanda Eyckerman and Katrien Pierlet went looking for answers to these questions. Because the fact that you can depict anything with nothing is an incredible strength in today's over-stimulated world. Expect a performance without decor, sparse in words, rich in images. Images that are not there, but that you do see. A call to play, and to do so freely. The encouragement to keep looking at something that is not there.