Care
Open Call
Participate in our Symposium day around safety, care and inclusion on Saturday, April 18th. Your input will be adopted into a care policy for the festival.
No prior experience is required, just willingness to engage, share, and contribute. Your voice matters, and this is an opportunity to be part of real, tangible change.
This year, we will elaborate on vital themes such as safety, care and inclusion through a participatory project led by Laure Robenek. Together, we aim to create space for dialogue, shared learning, and meaningful action.
We warmly invite anyone who feels connected to these topics to join our symposium day. The program will include workshops, lectures, brainstorming sessions, collaborative policy development, and the creation of care spaces grounded in lived experiences and collective knowledge.
Our symposium day happens Saturday, April 18th, in 09h30_05h30 (Grote Pieter Potstraat 12, Antwerp), from 09:30 – 18:30 (+ diner afterwards), and we’ve invited Dancefloor Intimacy (Ali Wagner, London), Manou van den Eynde (Phd cyber feminism, Brussels), Ben Salaets (LEDA, Leuven cares) and Somto Offor (Nacht, Leuven cares) to cover everything. Lunch, dinner and drinks are provided.
No prior experience is required, just willingness to engage, share, and contribute. Your voice matters, and this is an opportunity to be part of real, tangible change. Your input will be adopted into a care policy for the festival.
Participation is free of charge and we are committed to take good care of you on the symposium day and after.
Laure is a dynamic force bridging the world of policy with the heartbeat of nightlife culture. As a project officer at the Flemish Community Commission (VGC), she champions youth collectives and helps shape nightlife policy, ensuring grassroots initiatives receive the support they need.
Laure Robenek has been an active player in Leuven’s nightlife scene since 2019. She worked in a Berlin club, Hoppetosse, and several clubs in Brussels, where she dove in the field of nightlife. As a former member of the Fabrik, Affair and nacht collectives, she has made her mark on safer nightlife in Leuven, often with Stelplaats as her home base.
In 2024, Laure coordinated “Stelplaats Cares”, a participatory workshop in which a safer space policy was drawn up, tailored to all visitors and users of Stelplaats. She will share a unique perspective on how to foster a more inclusive and sustainable cultural landscape, from policy-making to community-building.
09h30_05h30 is a space, social enterprise, for experiment, performance, visual arts (side-business), curation and club. The space is run by a small, dedicated team of artists who built it independently, without external funding, sponsor deals or government subsidy.
We try to keep things genuine and accessible, without commercial priorities or fabricated concepts that overshadow content. We focus on intuition, feelings and personal connection. No branding, no google address.
We keep prices as low as possible, and rely on shared effort, trust, and mutual support to make it all work.