Sculpture with barbed wire used in manifestation for regularisation of undocumented migrants found ‘resting’ last weekend in the Brussels Beguinage Church . ① memo 20190312 ~ Artistic Activism Asylum
① memo 20190228 ~ Brussels Today Ten Years Ago ~ Window brasserie Le Pain Quotidien on a street corner in Ixelles – Elsene , Brussels. Today made an interview film in Brussels. Today ten years ago made video in Brussels of a portraits wall what became the ‘TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels’ short film , the start of this work – see https://michelvanderburg.com/2009/04/19/transport-xx-installation-brussels/ …
FR – Le chanteur Didier Jans et Béatrice Dethy, auteur de ses chansons, ont présenté ensemble leur dernier album “Remettre à zéro les compteurs” à Simon Gronowski, après avoir été témoin du témoignage de Simon devant les élèves du Centre d’enseignement libre S2J, mardi 19 février 2019 à l’Institut Saint-Sépulcre , Liège, Belgique.
LIBÉRÉS – en hommage à l’amitié entre Simon Gronowski et Koenraad Tinel
L’album comprend la chanson LIBÉRÉS – réalisée en hommage à l’extraordinaire amitié entre Simon Gronowski et Koenraad Tinel – et inspirée du télé documentaire belge ‘Enfants de guerre’ (de la réalisatrice flamande Marianne Soetewey – VRT, 2012) et du livre ENFIN LIBÉRÉS (2013, Renaissance du Livre) que Simon et Koenraad ensemble fait sur leur amitié.
Didier et Béatrice ont présenté leur album à Koenraad Tinel il y a deux semaines (lien ci-dessous).
LIBÉRÉS – Didier Jans – album Remettre à zéro les compteurs
EN – Singer Didier Jans and Béatrice Dethy, author of his songs, together presented their latest album ‘Remettre à zéro les compteurs’ (Push The Reset Button) to Simon Gronowski , after witnessing Simon’s testimony for students of the S2J school center (Centre d’enseignement libre S2J) last tuesday Feb. 19 , 2019 in the Saint-Sépulcre Institute in Liège , Belgium.
LIBERATED – tribute to the friendship between Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel
The album includes the chanson ‘Liberated’ (LIBÉRÉS)- made in tribute to the extraordinary friendship between Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel – was inspired by the belgian tv documentary War Children (flemish director Marianne Soetewey- VRT, 2012) , and the book Liberated at Last (ENFIN LIBÉRÉS – 2013, Renaissance du Livre) that Simon and Koenraad together made on their friendship .
Didier and Béatrice presented Koenraad Tinel their album two weeks ago (link below).
Inauguration of the ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI on 19 Feb 2019 at the hanging gardens of the S2J School Center in Liège , Belgium, by S2J director Marc Belleflamme, with Simon Gronowski.
Notes
This first edition of the film reportage published the next day , 20 Feb 2019. File : 1MEMO 20190220 ~ ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI.m4v
Updates
20250831 – Added captions with transcription (French) and translation (English)
20250904 – Updated both the post text , captions files (both FR & EN) and reference info . Files 20250904_20190220_SRT_French (Belgium).srt 20250904_20190220_SRT_English (United States).srt
Citation info : ESPACE Simon GRONOWSKI (Ed. 20190220) • Miracles Docs #7 | Michel van der Burg & Philippe Renette, S2J | Miracles•Media | 20190220 | ISAN 0000-0007-329C-0007-E-0000-0001-U | TakeNode 77f73042-9395-4647-8722-369614f03f8a | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2019/02/20/espace-simon-gronowski/
Singer Didier Jans and the author of his songs Béatrice Dethy together presented their latest album ‘Push The Reset Button’ (Remettre à zéro les compteurs) to Koenraad Tinel last Saturday , Feb. 9th 2019, in the Handelsbeurs theater in Gand , Belgium.
Koenraad Tinel
The extraordinary live performance of Koenraad Tinel last Saturday in the play As Long As He Does Not Know Himself was a great opportunity to watch Koenraad’s live work , and after the show to meet Koenraad and get the chance to personally present him their new album.
Liberated – tribute to the friendship between Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel
The album includes the chanson ‘Liberated’ (LIBERES) they made in tribute to the extraordinary friendship between Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel – inspired by the belgian documentary War Children (director Marianne Soetewey- VRT, 2012) and the book Liberated at Last (2013 ) that Simon and Koenraad together made on their friendship .
① memo 20190212 ~ Push The Reset Button – Album Didier Jans
Poster Kazerne Dossin museum exhibition (until 22 april 2019 – kazernedossin.eu) Shoah et Bande Dessinée (FR) Holocaust en Strips (NL) at the Gent Sint Pieter train station yesterday , Gent , Belgium. ① memo 20190211 ~ Shoah Comics
Ceiling reflection in a cup at Koenraad Tinel’s drawing table last night , Saturday 9 February 2019, right after his live performance – drawing with ink, bistre and ‘dirty water’ with Josse De Pauw telling a on Narcissus based story, acccompanied by composer Frederik Neyrinck’s music performed by the Spectra Ensemble , and by Lieselot De Wilde singing the role of Echo in their play : AS LONG AS HE DOES NOT KNOW HIMSELF – Zolang Hij Niet Zichzelve Kent (a production of LOD muziektheater , SPECTRA , Concertgebouw Brugge) in the Handelsbeurs theater in Gent , Belgium ① memo 20190210 ~ Dirty Water