Our Latest Highlights

Since February, BBN has continued to support daily its 55 members, and also covering a wide range of topics both through activations:
workshop on setting up and managing nightlife structures with ILES; a workshop as part of the ‘court-circuits’ initiative (Technopol) on slow-touring; a talk by Vortex and Femmebass on the role of FLINTA people in the festival sector

and close dialog with the scene ;
We met dozens of venues, collectives and partners, launched a Monday drop-in slot for anyone who needs us, and welcomed Gimic Radio, From Athens to BXL, Invasion Latina, Slagwerk, Corne de Gazelle, Cheval Marin, Café Circus, Café des Minimes, XRDS, Biome, Maatwerk, Vollenbak, Continental, Electronic Garden, Ancienne Belgique and Hexagon.

Our new website went live, with 100+ nightlife resources (memos, guides, documentation).
We gave a lot of interviews on a wide range of topics that you can also find on the website, and strenghtened our network through a BE x NL trip to Rotterdam with Vi.be, the low carbon touring event with Technopol and international partners, participation in talks at La Nature Festival, CO-SECURE or Event Confederation.

• We officially relaunched Care Team coordination in April, with new processes built alongside Nocta with 26 outings over the summer and we submitted funding requests to give our volunteers more human and financial resources
• We ended our three years of our Pérenne project (with Modus Vivendi, La Plateforme and Ex Aequo). Final numbers : around 50 venues trained on BBN side, nearly 100 security staff, 40 Red Cross staff members and 83 Care Teams. The project also enabled the deployment of 69 Care Team missions across around 20 venues and events, whilst developing research, tools, guidelines and protocols to make our festival venues safer and more inclusive.
• We trained around 10 structures, gave 3 care team trainings, built a sur-mesure workshop on how to write a value charter for Museum Night Fever and ULB students, collaborated with LEDA collective
• We worked with the Safe Ta Night network on shared training modules, took part in the FEDA working group on sex, drugs and consent, and participated a harm reduction breakfast focused on LGBTQIA+ and racialised communities and a workshop on gender and consumption
• The CQD ongoing project in Ixelles is still in full swing : we ran feminist self-defence workshops for students, a 100% girls podcast workshop with the local youth centre and participatory mapping workshops with Urbanistas and CityTools, and handed in the first-year activity report.