JR: New York Show – Afghan Refugees Inside Out Belgium.
One minute impression of visiting JR: Chronicles in the Brooklyn Museum in New York, focusing on the video wall of Inside Out projects, screening our short film Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild. The film is a documentary of the March 2014 Inside Out project ‘Justice For Afghan Refugees In Belgium’.
Further documentation showing the film online here : Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition (20200205). https://michelvanderburg.com/2020/02/05/beguinage-refugees-into-the-wild-jr_-chronicles-edition/
JR: Chronicles | Brooklyn Museum | October 4, 2019 – May 3, 2020
CREDITS
Film Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild – Afghan refugees living in the Brussels Béguinage church with posters by Chiara Ravano for the Inside Out project “Justice for Afghan refugees in Belgium” – Olivier Bonny, Salon Mommen, Brussels, Belgium, March 2014. Félix Snyers on the Béguinage church pipe organ. A Beguinage Project report by Kristen Cattell & Michel van der Burg. Film : Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition (20200205) Michel van der Burg | miracles.media
JR: Chronicles | INSIDE OUT | Brooklyn Museum | October 4, 2019 – May 3, 2020
Brooklyn Museum reportage made October 2019 by Kristen Cattell as part of our Beguinage Project Series.
Film : JR: New York Show – Afghan Refugees Inside Out Belgium (20200206) by Kristen Cattell & Michel van der Burg | miracles.media
Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition (20200205) .
Our short documentary film ‘Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild’ is currently screening in the Brooklyn Museum in New York at the special exhibition JR: Chronicles – a major show that surveys the complete body of work of the artist JR for the first time in North America.
Best of INSIDE OUT – Justice For Afghan Refugees In Belgium
One of JR’s major projects is the global participatory art project INSIDE OUT, and the film ‘Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild’ documents one of the Inside Out projects ‘Justice For Afghan Refugees In Belgium’ – that was chosen as one of the favorite Inside Out Group Actions.
Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition
When visiting the Brooklyn Museum in New York last year, it was exciting to see the JR: Chronicles and our film at the museum’s impressive video wall.
However we noted the original Vimeo film version (20160620) was screening at the museum’s video wall, not the special edition we had prepared (with title and endscreen credit updates). A minor mistake but also an opportunity now to offer this new film edition that is posted today (20200205) – with a final update in the endscreen (credits) – called : Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition.
This new edition was archived today in JR’s project INSIDE OUT, and is forwarded to the Brooklyn Museum to hopefully soon allow replacing the current version – running for another three months…untill May 3, 2020 .
JR: Chronicles | Brooklyn Museum | October 4, 2019 – May 3, 2020
Film Credits
BÉGUINAGE REFUGEES INTO THE WILD
Afghan refugees living in the Brussels Béguinage church with posters by Chiara Ravano for the Inside Out project “Justice for Afghan refugees in Belgium” – Olivier Bonny, Salon Mommen, Brussels, Belgium, March 2014. Félix Snyers on the Béguinage church pipe organ. A Beguinage Project report by Kristen Cattell & Michel van der Burg.
Film : Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition (20200205) Michel van der Burg | miracles.media
Host Country Belgium – PaulusRundbrief Nº495
When you drive from the Flemish countryside to the city of Brussels, you are greeted at the city limits by posters that welcome you in four languages – that inspired the title for this Paulus Newsletter’s theme: La Belgique – Pays d’Accueil ! … Belgium has always been a destination for the politically persecuted …
Refuge Atelier Marcel Hastir
In this newsletter ‘Zufluchtsort Atelier’ (Refuge Atelier) by Susanne Fexer on the atelier of Marcel Hastir in Brussels, Belgium, where he helped save the lives of countless people during the Nazi terror.
Credits | Links
Text based on quotes (translated) from the Editorial by Annick Dohet-Gremminger in the bimonthly Paulus newsletter (PaulusRundbrief N°495) of the Katholische Gemeinde Deutscher Sprache Brüssel Sankt Paulus – the Catholic Community German Language Brussels St. Paulus.
PaulusRundbrief N°495 is available digital from the archive at the Sankt Paulus site – http://www.sankt-paulus.eu
Film : Refuge Atelier Marcel Hastir – Paulus Newsletter (20191004) Michel van der Burg | miracles.media
Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild – JR: Chronicles in Brooklyn Museum
Excited to announce the screening of our short documentary film ‘Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild’ starting the night of October 3rd, 2019 in the Brooklyn Museum in New York at the special exhibition JR: Chronicles – a major show that surveys the complete body of work of the artist JR for the first time in North America.
Best of INSIDE OUT – Justice For Afghan Refugees In Belgium
One of JR’s major projects is the global participatory art project INSIDE OUT, and the film ‘Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild’ documents one of the Inside Out projects ‘Justice For Afghan Refugees In Belgium’ – that was chosen as one of the favorite Inside Out Group Actions.
Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition
Visiting the Brooklyn Museum in New York, it was exciting to see the JR: Chronicles and our film at the museum’s impressive video wall. However, we noticed the original Vimeo film version (20160620) was screening at the museum’s video wall, not the museum edition* we had prepared (with title and endscreen updates). A minor mistake but also an opportunity we got for another update in a new edition, called the : Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition (20200205).
This new edition is archived in JR’s project INSIDE OUT, and is being forwarded to the Brooklyn Museum to hopefully soon allow replacing the current version – running for another three months…untill May 3, 2020 .
Beguinage Project
In March 2014 Kristen Cattell (USA) and Michel van der Burg (Holland) traveled to Brussels to meet a group of Afghans living inside an old Catholic church – the church of Saint John the Baptist at the Béguinage (Beguinage Church). At the time, nearly one hundred Afghan refugees had set up camp within the walls of the seventeenth century compound. We made a reportage over several days and interviewed several people including Samir Hamdard – the spokesperson for these afghan refugees – who died recently following a house fire.
In between these interviews, Michel visited the artist Olivier Bonny in the nearby artist village Ateliers Mommen in Saint-Josse (Brussels) and filmed the InsideOut installation outside on the facade of the Mommen building – portraits of Afghans living in the Beguinage church.
Sans frontières ! Borderless ! Zonder Grenzen !
That InsideOut project was inaugurated a few days earlier at the Borderless ! festival in the Ateliers Mommen – a festival of 4 days of solidarity with Afghan asylum seekers , March 2014 in Salon Mommen, Saint-Josse, Brussels, Belgium.
CREDITS
JR’s project INSIDE OUT
JR: Chronicles | Brooklyn Museum | October 4, 2019 – May 3, 2020
Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild
Afghan refugees living in the Brussels Béguinage church with posters by Chiara Ravano for the Inside Out project
“Justice for Afghan refugees in Belgium” – Olivier Bonny, Salon Mommen, Brussels, Belgium, March 2014.
Félix Snyers on the Béguinage church pipe organ. A Beguinage Project report by Kristen Cattell & Michel van der Burg.
Film : Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR: Chronicles Edition (20200205) Michel van der Burg | miracles.media
Links
*) Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild – 2019 Brooklyn Museum edition (20190911). Posted online October 3, 2019. From Feb. 5, 2020 status has been changed to ‘private; at Vimeo and Youtube.
Replaced Feb. 5, 2020 by film : Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR_ Chronicles Edition (20200205) . Online at YouTube
Oct 4, 2019 – Added News section with JR’s opening tweet
Oct 6, 2019 – Added Beguinage Project section and updated credits section
Feb 5, 2020 – Post edited , with news on our museum visit, and the new film edition shared : Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ JR_ Chronicles Edition (20200205)
Béguinage Refugees Into The Wild ~ Posters in the Brussels streets of Afghan refugees living in the Brussels Béguinage church in 2014. Portraits by Chiara Ravano (Antwerp) for the Inside Out project “Justice for afghan refugees in Belgium” (Olivier Bonny, Salon Mommen) in the front of the Salon Mommen, Saint-Josse/ Sint-Joost , Brussels , Belgium.
① memo 20160620 ~ Film : Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com
#WithRefugees – World Refugee Day
Voice of Children Without Papers | 20140903 | 1-memo•com | Children without papers no voice ? … Storyboard documentary Afghans & Belgians « We want justice » . NL – De Jafari’s hebben recent het statuut van vluchteling in België verkregen. FR – Les Jafari’s ont obtenu récemment le statut de réfugié en Belgique . EN – The Jafari’s recently obtained refugee status in Belgium.
The in Belgium living and studying Afghan youngster Amir Mohammad Jafari did speak up for his rights in the Belgian streets and the Kids Parlement. The Jafari family finally received the refugee status recently after a long ‘battle’. Film reportage and more info see the today updated post https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/11/24/genoeg-gezwegen-sans-papiers/
I updated that post today with the text of the French translation done by Philippe Renette of Amir Jafari’s speech of 20 nov 2013 in Brussels.
FR – mise à jour aujourd’hui – avec la traduction en français par Philippe Renette du discours de Amir Mohammad Jafari 20 novembre 2013 à Bruxelles.
Afghans & Belgians « We want justice » Belgen en Afghanen eisen rechtvaardigheid. Zij eisen van België een rechtvaardiger asielbeleid. Image Rémi Dalvio / Michel van der Burg
Video with English captions | sous-titres Français | Nederlandse ondertitels:
Start video >> click ‘CC’ >> ON >> option English / FR & NL (Français + Nederlands)
NL – Belgen en Afghanen eisen rechtvaardigheid. Zij eisen van België een rechtvaardiger asielbeleid. Toespraken Amir Mohammad Jafari (12 jaar, scholier en Afghaanse vluchteling in België) & Simon Gronowski (advocaat, 82, Belg) 20 nov 2013 bij aankomst van de stille solidariteitsmars voor Afghaanse vluchtelingen in Brussel (België). Foto (Gronowski) : Rémi Dalvio. Bedankt Philippe Renette (België) voor de vertaling in het Frans van de speech van Amir. Reportage – video : Michel van der Burg (michelvanderburg.com)
EN – Belgians and Afghans demand justice. They demand Belgium changes its asylum policy.
Speeches by Amir Mohammad Jafari (12 y, student and Afghan refugee in Belgium) & Simon Gronowski (Belgian lawyer) 20 nov 2013 on the arrival of the silent solidarity march for Afghan refugees in Brussels (Belgium). Photo (Gronowski) : Rémi Dalvio. Thank you Philippe Renette (Belgium) for the translation of the speech of Amir in French. Report – video : Michel van der Burg (michelvanderburg.com)
FR – Des Belges et Afghans demandent justice. Ils demandent la Belgique modifie sa politique d’asile. Discours par Amir Mohammad Jafari (12 ans, élève et réfugié Afghan à la Belgique) et Simon Gronowski (avocat, 82, Belge) 20 novembre 2013 sur l’arrivée de la Marche silencieuse de solidarité pour les réfugiés Afghans à Bruxelles (Belgique). Photo (Gronowski) : Rémi Dalvio. Merci Philippe Renette (Belgique) pour la traduction du discours de Amir en français. Reportage – vidéo : Michel van der Burg (michelvanderburg.com)
NL – Speech (toespraak) Amir Mohammad Jafari**
Geachte mevrouw De Block en alle inwoners van dit land.
Ik ben Amir Mohammad Jafari, 12 jaar.
Ik ben de stem van alle kinderen en jongeren zonder papieren.
Inwoners van dit land, mevrouw De Block, eigenlijk wil ik maar één ding: meeleven!
Graag nodig ik jullie uit om :
– één dag in mijn schoenen te staan
– één dag in een vreemde taal naar school te gaan
– één dag in de wenende ogen van mijn mama te kijken
– één dag niet zeker te zijn of je die dag iets te eten zal hebben
– één dag schrik te hebben dat de politie je uit het huis zal zetten
– één dag de afschuwelijke beelden uit ons thuisland op tv te zien
– één dag het gevoel te hebben dat niemand naar je luistert
– één dag mijn nachtmerries te hebben
– één dag je post niet te willen lezen
– om één dag de enige te zijn die het slechte nieuws aan je ouders kan vertellen
– om één dag illegaal genoemd te worden.
Maar ook één dag…
één dag hier gelukkig te mogen zijn.
Alvast bedankt!
FR – Traduction du discours de Amir Mohammad Jafari en français
Chère madame De Block – habitants de ce pays.
Je m’appelle Amir Mohammad Jafari. J’ai 12 ans.
Je suis la voix de tous les enfants et de tous les jeunes sans papiers.
Habitants de ce pays, Madame De Block, en fait, je ne souhaite qu’une seule chose : de la compassion!
Je vous invite volontiers à :
– partager mon sort pendant rien qu’une journée
– suivre pendant une seule journée les cours dans une langue étrangère
– regarder pendant une seule journée dans les yeux en larmes de votre maman
– vous demander un jour si vous aurez à manger le lendemain
– ressentir pendant une seule journée la peur de vous faire expulser par la police
– voir un jour des images affreuses de votre pays d’origine à la télévision
– avoir rien qu’un jour le sentiment que personne ne vous écoute
– faire pendant une seule journée les cauchemars que je fais
– ne pas vouloir lire sa correspondance
– etre un jour le seul qui peut annoncer la mauvaise nouvelle à ses parents
– etre appelé un jour illégal.
Mais aussi un jour …
un seul jour être heureux ici.
Merci d’avance! “
Speech – declaration – delivered (in French) by Simon Gronowski in Brussels, Nov 20, 2013** FR – Discours – déclaration – par Simon Gronowski à Bruxelles, le 20 Novembre 2013
“Je m’appelle Simon Gronowski.
Depuis des années, je témoigne partout contre la barbarie nazie.
Partout je dis que mon père, en 1920, a quitté sa Pologne natale, fuyant l’antisémitisme et la misère et est entré en Belgique en fraude, en clandestin.
C’était un “sans papier” avant la lettre, un réfugié politique et économique.
A l’époque, il a été bien accueilli en Belgique et rapidement régularisé.
Voilà pourquoi je dis partout que je suis solidaire des “sans papiers”.
Ils ne viennent pas ici pour leur plaisir mais car dans leur pays ils ont faim ou ils ont des problèmes politiques.
Mais ils n’ont rien fait de mal et il ne faut pas les mettre en prison, dans des centres appelés “127Bis”.
Et surtout pas les enfants, car moi on m’a mis en 1943 à onze ans dans une prison: la Caserne Dossin à Malines.
Je suis solidaire de la situation actuelle des Afghans en Belgique.
La sécurité dans leur pays est loin d’être vérifiée et leur vie y serait en danger, surtout quand en 2014 les troupes internationales partiront.
En attendant il faut suspendre l’expulsion de tous les Afghans et leur accorder un permis de séjour, pour eux, leur famille et leurs enfants.
Beaucoup de jeunes Afghans sont déjà scolarisés depuis des années, ne connaissent plus leur pays d’origine, mais seulement leur seul pays, la Belgique.
Je demande que mon pays, la Belgique, conformément à sa tradition, les traite avec humanité et leur assure une vie paisible dans la dignité.”
