Pour Rosa – Première in Brussels
On Friday 22 May, Pour Rosa, the French-language adaptation of the play written by Nic Balthazar and Benjamin Van Bunderen Robberechts, will have its première at Espace Lumen in Ixelles. The play has been adapted to French by Nathalie Stas and is played by Tom Boumeridja.
The play is based on a true story. It tells the story of a friendship, and of growing up in a world where the climate crisis is no longer something distant or theoretical, but something that enters your life without warning.
In July 2021, catastrophic floods hit Belgium and Germany, taking more than 220 lives. Among them was Rosa, a 15-year-old from Ixelles. Pour Rosa brings that story to the stage, not as a statistic, but as a lived reality.
The Dutch-language version, For Rosa, has already been performed more than 150 times across Belgium and the Netherlands, reaching tens of thousands of people. With Pour Rosa, that story now continues in French, starting in Brussels.
The première takes place just weeks before the five-year anniversary of the floods. That timing matters. Not as a moment of commemoration alone, but as a reminder that the conditions that led to those events have not disappeared.
This première will not be a traditional theatre opening. It is conceived as a space where people who do not usually meet can come together. From policymakers and institutional actors to grassroots organisations and activists, the aim is to create a moment that does not end when the performance does.
The evening is organised by Climate Justice for Rosa, a youth-led organisation that has been active since the 2021 floods. What started as a response to the loss of a friend has grown into an organisation working across art, advocacy, and policy, from the streets of Brussels to institutions such as the EU, the United Nations, and the Council of Europe.
By organising this première, the organisation continues its work: to humanise the climate crisis, to honour those who have been lost, and to ensure that their stories are not separated from the decisions that shape our future.
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