00:00A multidisciplinary festival celebrating a diverse community takes place in Molenbeek until September 7th.
00:15This is how Molenfest 2025 presents itself on the streets of a Brussels neighborhood associated with violence,
00:22including having housed perpetrators of terrorist attacks a decade ago.
00:26This second edition of the festival is also used to reinforce its candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2030.
00:34The dream started in 2016 after the attacks of Paris and Brussels.
00:40Molenbeek has been known in the whole world.
00:44But this candidate is the opportunity to show another Molenbeek.
00:48A Molenbeek rich in its diversity, in its youth, in its culture, in its art.
00:54Renowned artists and mediators lead workshops with the community to create costumes, choreography, music, etc.
01:02that will be used in parades as well as dance, circus, theatre and other performances.
01:07There are cultural expressions of a lot of communities, of a lot of young people.
01:12So the living art is very present, but the visual art also, the cinema.
01:18What is the most important is that there are a lot of projects in public space,
01:23a lot of projects that directly involve the inhabitants.
01:27They are very often in free, intergenerational projects.
01:31Molenbeek has about 95,000 inhabitants from 140 nationalities and 40% of them are under 20 years old.
01:42Thank you very much.
01:45Thank you very much.
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