The concept of this artistic and culinary experience is as simple as it is ingenious: each participant brings along 400 grams of ingredients (no meat, no fish). That is their entry ticket. As if by magic, Peter De Bie, Sara Sampelayo and Arnout Vandamme conjure the tastes, aromas and colours of those ingredients into a festive three-course menu.

400 grams is a gastronomic feast, a joyful celebration of hospitality, a long table where strangers sit side by side. Strangers who – may – become friends. Come, taste and share!

On July 17 and 18 at Lavrar o Mar, Portugal.

The school day is over. A boy dawdles, reluctant to go home to his endlessly quarrelling father and mother. They argue about who can best take care of him when they separate. They fight about who doesn’t want custody.

LEFT tells the story of a boy who, weighed down by his parents’ messy divorce, decides to disappear. The audience follows his flight and the subsequent search for him. As you walk, you observe the boy’s actions. A voice filters his thoughts and feelings into your ear through a headset. His memories and dreams draw you into his world.

From August 1 to 4 at Theater Aan Zee, Ostend.

Some people feel at home wherever they are. Others spend their whole life looking, wandering hither and thither, longing for a place to put down roots and eventually come home to. But what exactly is home?

On the road is visual, dancing and energetic theatre. A show as as score consisting of individual notes, which gradually harmonize with each other and in the end become music.

From August 11 to 13 at Sziget Festival, Hungary. 

Aminata Demba follows in the footsteps of the West-African storytellers – the griots.

She puts herself in the shoes of a child, whose head is bursting with big and little questions. Her search for answers turns into an adventure, during which she also discovers herself.

Join her on a journey to the depths of time. A journey packed with miraculous encounters with a stressed-out hippopotamus and an elephant with an itch, hospitable aunts, a love-struck billy goat and an untrustworthy crow. A musical trip, with nothing in your pocket other than a fistful of courage and a real zest for life.?

On August 30 and 31 at the Cultura Nova Festival in Heerlen.

After their successful collaboration on the alchemistic laboratory BALSAM and long runs of shows at home and abroad, Zefiro Torna and Laika are joining forces once again in a performance that fine-tunes the senses.

Can tastes be audible, colours tangible, smells visible? Images, tastes, smells and textures converge with live electro-acoustic music, while sonic layers meld with mesmerizing 15th-century melodies, and the whole piece becomes a single, layered sensory experience. HYPERSENSES subtly throws the brain off balance and plunges the audience into an intense state of euphoria.

From September 4 to 6 at the Cultura Nova Festival in Heerlen.

With this message, Laika supports the call of the Flemish cultural institutions to the Belgian government for a more decisive policy against Israel’s flagrant human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank. We urge the Belgian government to work towards a ceasefire, respect for international law, and the protection of human rights organizations.