<aside> 🗓️ When? 18 March 2025 Doors open: 19.00 Start performance: 19.30 sharp

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<aside> 📍 Where? Campus Tweekerken, Audiorium Devreker

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The fall of the Berlin Wall motivated photographer and journalist Lieve Blancquaert to set off on an epic tour of Europe in her campervan. She visited all twenty-seven member states of the European Union in search of the origins of this identity. She wanted to hear and feel what holds us together and what divides us. Her many personal encounters reveal time and again that our own language, history, concerns, desires and dreams are far more universal than we might at first think. Europeans as such don’t exist, and yet we are connected in many different ways, whether we like it or not. Through hundreds of penetrating images and dozens of colourful stories, Lieve Blancquaert shows, as in a travel diary, the complexity, diversity and beauty of this vulnerable continent.We are Europe is a three-part multimedia project. A six-part TV documentary, a book and an exhibition.

We invited Lieve Blancquaert to talk to Ghent University’s international students about this project and show her beautiful and captivating portraits.

Join us for a drink after the lecture

Lieve Blancquaert

Lieve Blancquaert (°1963) studied film and photography at KASK Gent and works since 1985 as a freelance photographer for different newspapers and magazines. Blancquaert's work is full of social commitment and the fight against injustice, especially against women.

She has made and collaborated on about 20 fascinating books, and is a celebrated documentary maker with series such as Beyond the limit, Birth Day, Wedding Day, Last Days, Hold me once again, Let’s talk about sex, and  The last portrait.  We are Europe was broadcasted in 2024 in Belgium. Birth Day was broadcasted in the Netherlands, Sweden, Mexico, Poland and Brazil.

Lieve Blancquaert has exhibited her work multiple times in many different places. In 2022 she also gave a lecture to Ghent University’s international students on  the Circle of Life.

Read all about Lieve Blancquaert on her website www.lieveblancquaert.be/