Eerste Sneeuw... 17 dec 2009

dank aan:
Bron, youtube: "Jan De Wilde - Eerste Sneeuw"

Sneeuw- fotografie: Stefe Jiroflée "Hekkefront" 17 december 20©9

An Anthology of Optimism, @ theater Malpertuis, 13 dec. 2009

The Letter (EN)
Ghent/Brussels, January 2008

Dear Friend,

An Anthology of Optimism is a pre-emptive celebration of a critical optimism we tentatively hope will increase in the twenty-first century. If it exists already, such critical optimism has so far remained relatively marginal. With our anthology we hope to spur its further development and acceptance.

If we look around today, we might notice that pessimism is frequently the unspoken assumption: if you are a pessimist you seem consequent, if you are an optimist you seem naive. Of course the main reason for this generalized pessimism is because reality seems almost to demand it, because it speaks to the facts so directly. However, we believe a secondary reason is because there are so many misunderstandings about what optimism might mean: that it represents only naiveté or being in a good mood.

Critical optimism attempts to correct such misunderstandings because it seems evident to us that, no matter how bad things get, we still require some sort of optimism in order to keep going. The critical optimist doesn’t ask why we should keep going. For the time being, life remains an ongoing concern. The most immediate possibility is to develop the attitude with which we want to live and use this attitude to fuel our resistance.

Critical optimism is willing to look at the current situation with open eyes and rigorous analysis but is never willing to let this analysis fall into cynicism or be used as a pre-text to give up trying. It is an optimism that understands the degree to which we are all part of the problem, but nonetheless believes there is always something that can be done. No system is omnipotent or absolute and therefore there is always some room for improvement.

Critical optimism is never just hoping that you get what you want because, though the extent of the involvement of love in optimism cannot be measured, it is certain that one is never an optimist purely out of egoism. With our anthology we intend to explore the full spectrum of possibilities for optimism: from our intimate personal relationships all the way to global political realities.

The purpose of this letter is to request a proposal from you. We would very much appreciate it if your proposal reflected a consequent, considered and personal contribution to the question of what optimism might mean in the twenty-first century. This proposal can be absolutely anything: a photograph, a piece of music, an object, a short text, a drawing or painting, a film or video, or perhaps something we haven’t even thought of yet.

We are sending this request to people we think can give a valuable contribution to this question from a variety of fields and points of view. We will use these proposals in a performance entitled An Anthology of Optimism.

We kindly thank you for taking the time to read this letter and very much hope you will lend a small amount of your time and wisdom to our undertaking.


All the best,
Pieter de Buysser & Jacob Wren

bron site :"An Anthology of Optimism"

thanks to:

home: "Pieter De Buysser"
"Jacob Wren"
blog: "Jacob Wren"

Theater, "Malpertuis"

theater fotografie: Stefe Jiroflée, Tielt 20©9

Bart Defoort - Emanuele Cisi Quintet B/IT @ JAZz de Werf 12 dec. 2009

Thanks to:

myspace: "Bart Defoort", tenorsax
home: "Emanuele Cisi", tenorsax
myspace"Emanuele Cisi"
Ron van Rossum piano
myspace: "Nic Thys", contrabas
myspace: "Sebastiaan de Krom", drums

"JAZz de Werf"

Jazz fotografie; Stefe Jiroflée

Vriend!? "EN ZO WERD HET TOCH NOG GEZELLIG" In theater Malpertuis met Lazarus! 11 dec. 2009

Vriend!?
"EN ZO WERD HET TOCH NOG GEZELLIG"

NU


Op een ontiegelijk uur
In een ontiegelijke stad
Vindt een ontiegelijke ontmoeting plaats
Van twee ontiegelijke personen
Een ontiegelijk gesprek
Met ontiegelijke gevolgen

In een wereld vol onzekerheid schetst Lazarus
met een flinke dosis zwarte humor,
de verhouding tussen twee oude vrienden
die nog een rekening moeten vereffen.

Günther Lesage en Joris Van den Brande slaan elkaar een geweten
in deze bikkelharde tragikomedie. En zo werd het toch nog gezellig.

Bron site, over: "Lazarus"

met hartelijke dank aan:"Günther Lesage" , "Joris Van den Brande" en theater "Malpertuis"

theater fotografie; Stefe Jiroflée 20©9 Tielt

Simon Nabatov Quintet D/NL/US @ JAZz de Werf ma. 07. dec. 2009

thanks to:

home "Simon Nabatov", piano
home: "Ernst Reijsiger", cello
home: Nils Wogram", trombone
myspace: "Nils Wogram"
jazzpages: "Matthias Schubert", tenorsaxofoon
allaboutjazz: "Tom Rainey", drums

JAZz @ the Werf Bruges


JAZz photography, Stefe Jiroflée - 20©9 Brugge

"the C.O.P.S." and Monotonix @ "Charlatan" Gent 2 dec. 2009

"the C.O.P.S."
myspace: police tribute band

myspace: "Tessa Soulmusic"

home: Monotonix
myspace: Monotonix

"Charlatan" Gent

Pop-Rock-concert photography: Stefe Jiroflée, 20©9 Gent