Melat Gebeyaw Nigussie new director Beursschouwburg

Writer Melat Gebeyaw Nigussie will be the new general and artistic director of the Beursschouwburg in Brussels from mid-September. She succeeds Tom Bonte, who switched to AB at the beginning of this year.

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The Beursschouwburg reports this. In recent years, Nigussie has worked as a project coordinator for Bozar, where she strongly focused on participation.

In recent years, Nigussie has also emerged emphatically as an opinion maker. Thus she grew into an important voice in it racismedebat. The Brussels woman, born in 1991, wrote a series of columns in June The standard, among other things about it Black Lives Matter-protest in her hometown.

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