20 October
Welcome tour of the MC93 by the administrator, Tristan Marseille, followed by a lunch.
22-25 October
5 shows of previous CommonLAB artists were presented as part of Focus: Kabylifornie by Agathe Yamina Meziani (world premiere), Mother Tongue by Lucía García Pullés, Carré Arrondi by Hang Hang, PaperPlanes by Pankaj Tiwari, as well as a the work in progress Mon Odyssée by Jin Xuan Mao.
20-22 October
The artists worked in the studio with Youness Anzane to finalise their presentations with technical support.
23 October
Presentation day of CommonLAB 2025 artists
On the programme: performances, readings, screenings and discussions. A collective lunch was organised for artists and professionals.
Around 60 people attended: Common Stories partners, guest professionals and general public.
24 October
Good Practices Factory (GPF) day
The artists participated to Representation in Programming – Case Studies and Challenges, a workshop by Aminata Labor and attended the presentation of the activities developed by GPF groups in Brussels, Bobigny, Cologne, Lisbon, Stockholm and Warsaw.
25 October
A feedback session and a lunch brought together the members of the Executive Board and the CommonLAB artists.
28-29 October
To foster connections between CommonLAB groups, Paris-based artists from 2024, Jin Xuan Mao and Lucía García Pullés, were invited to take part to propose warm-up sessions.
28-30 October
Workshop with Adeline Rosenstein and Prince Sadjo Barry
Adeline and Prince proposed a workshop around the possible representations through short pieces of various historical events that took place in Palestine over the last centuries, particularly before and after the world wars.
Designed as deliberately simple infochoreographic exercises that are easy to convey to non-actors, these short pieces, also known as theatre tracts, can be performed in non-cultural venues and activist contexts.
Settled in Brussels, director, actress and author Adeline Rosenstein (born in 1971) is a native of Geneva and a German citizen. Her approach, which can be described as documentary theatre writing, brings her face to face with questions of society and history in an approach that is both committed and reflexive. After training as a clown with Pierre Dubey in Geneva, she graduated from the Nissan Nativ acting school in Jerusalem in 1995, before completing her training with a Bat-HfS-Ernst Busch directing diploma in Berlin in 2002. The Décris-ravage series, a six-episode documentary project on the question of Palestine won the 2014 Prix de la Critique and the 2016 Prix SACD Découvertes. Between 2019 and 2022 she created the four episodes of Laboratoire Poison a documentary show about the representation and repression of four resistance movements.
While studying history, specialising in Africa, at the Institut des Mondes Africains at the Sorbonne, Prince Sadjo Barry trained in dramatic arts at Parisian conservatories. In 2023, he founded the Syli Bandits company, a space for exploring colonial legacies and Black identities on stage. Prince Sadjo Barry also collaborated as an assistant to Dieudonné Niangouna on Sony Labou Tansi's La Peau Cassée (2020) and Portrait Désirs (2022) and to Adeline Rosenstein in Poison 4. His artistic practice is constantly nourished by academic research, notably within the Master's programme in Theatre, Performance, and Society at Paris 8 University. He is currently continuing his training at the École du Nord in Directing, Writing, and Dramaturgy.