For Rosa is het waargebeurde en aangrijpende verhaal van Benjamin Van Bunderen Robberechts en Rosa, een jonge klimaatactiviste die in de zomer van 2021 tragisch verdronk in de Ourthe tijdens de verwoestende overstromingen. Rosa was een van de 39 Belgische slachtoffers,  Benjamin leerde haar kort voor de ramp kennen op een kamp voor jonge wereldverbeteraars. Toen het water haar meesleurde, sprong de toen 14-jarige Benjamin haar achterna, maar hij slaagde er niet in om haar te redden. Deze tragische gebeurtenis veranderde Benjamin's leven: hij maakte er zijn missie van om de wereld te redden, precies zoals Rosa en hij dat hadden besproken voor ze stierf.

In juli 2022 was Benjamin door de Klimaatcommissie in het Vlaams Parlement uitgenodigd maar er daagde slechts drie parlementariërs op om zijn verhaal te horen. Deze toespraak vormt het uitgangspunt van de voorstelling. Met behulp van video, muziek, en projecties, waaronder beelden van een stunt waarbij Benjamin de namen van Belgische klimaatslachtoffers projecteerde op iconische Brusselse gebouwen zoals het Berlaymont en de Wetstraat 16, geeft de voorstelling een indringende blik op zijn strijd. De muziek van Rain Requiem, gecomponeerd door Jef Neve en geschreven door David Van Reybrouck, versterkt de emotionele diepgang van het verhaal.

Regisseur Nic Balthazar schreef het stuk samen met Benjamin, wat resulteerde in een krachtige multimedia-monoloog waarin de jonge acteur Felix Maesschalck het aangrijpende verhaal van Benjamin en Rosa tot leven brengt. Felix, die eerder indruk maakte op TAZ 2023 met zijn monoloog Het Nijlpaard, is gecast als de verteller die Benjamin's missie overbrengt: de tragedie van Rosa en de wil om de wereld rechtvaardiger te maken voor toekomstige generaties.

Voorstelling met nabespreking in CC De Meent in Beersel.

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All indicators are alarming: the ocean is overheating, and marine biodiversity is collapsing.This crisis not only threatens marine ecosystems but also poses a threat to the global climate and by extension, the survival of our species. The year 2025 offers a unique political opportunity to achieve concrete progress in ocean protection, thanks to the UN International Ocean Summit in June 2025 in Nice, France. In this context, a Citizens' Coalition for Ocean Protection, composed of 132 french NGOs, 120 public figures, and more than 45,000 citizens, has been formed to advocate for 15 essential points for the ocean, climate, and social justice.

On the occasion of the new European parliamentary session, BLOOM is organizing a mobilization campaign during an event in Brussels on October 16, 2024, and is expanding the coalition at the European level. Following the European legislative elections, we know that the majority of Members of the European Parliament will vote against protecting life unless we prevent them. At the dawn of a crucial European mandate in the face of urgent issues, BLOOM and youth organizations want to hold European institutions accountable for their responsibilities!

18h30 Reception and ocean exhibition

Scientists, activists, and artists will take turns speaking at the microphone.

19h Speeches and artistic performances.

Spaces for meetings and mobilization.

“De Natuur Bestaat Niet” is a film made by Nathalie Faber.

The relationship between humans and nature is in crisis. You could even call it a relationship crisis. So what could be more logical than relationship therapy? In the film, the conflict is presented to the well-known belgian psychiatrist and relationship therapist Dirk de Wachter. Benjamin is one of the four individuals who are followed in the documentary.

The film is an exercise in how we can reconnect and how imagination can help us see nature again for what it truly is. With the dark clouds of climate change looming over us, can we, as humans, find a way to mend our relationship with nature?

The Première will be held in De Balie in Amsterdam.

At the end of August, child rights commissioner Caroline Vrijens published the book “A New World for the Child.

On Friday, October 4, at 6 p.m., she will present her book at the BRONKS theater in Brussels.

During the book presentation, the children's rights commissioner shares her insights. She talks with Mauro Michielsen (ex-chairman Scholierenkoepel), Benjamin Van Bunderen Robberechts (climate activist) and Kristel Verbeke.

Three special people who crossed her path and mean a lot to her. They are key figures in the fight for the rights of children and young people.

More than ever, global challenges — from climate to inequality — are intensely interconnected. The need for global responses and international collaborations is significant. Forward Fest 2024 brings together as many voices as possible under the theme "intertwined". Only together we can collectively unravel the knots of our time.

Nic Balthazar and Benjamin Van Bunderen Robberechts will close Forward Fest 24 with a positive, creative, yet urgent message, because that is exactly what climate activism needs today.

info and tickets: forwardfest.be

On September 25th we will gather in Brussels to manifest with knitted Red Lines from Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland & Sweden.

We will gather at Place du Luxembourg in Brussels and have a ceremony where we hand over scarves to newly installed members of the EU-Parliament and then manifest together with our knitted RED LINE. Our demand is that EU and all other policy makers on earth respect the Paris Agreement and stay under the target goal of 1,5°C.

After 30-40 minutes we will take off and march to the alder tree planted in Brussels’ Ixelles district – known as Rosa’s tree. It is planted to commemorate Rosa, a young climate activist who tragically drowned in the flooding caused by climate change which took place July 14-15 2021. We will show her and all other victims of the ongoing climate crisis our respect and deep compassion.

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CONCERT AND MARCH #NowForFuture
To mark the Global Climate Strike, Youth for Climate, Rise for Climate, Grootouders voor het Klimaat and others are calling for mobilisation to reaffirm to political leaders the importance of social and climate justice measures.
We want to appeal to the world's heads of state who are meeting at the UN for a world summit on the future on 22 and 23 September.

Launched by Fridays For Future in 2019 at the initiative of Greta Thunberg, the Global Climate Strikes bring together young people, citizens and organisations from all over the world to oppose the destruction of the climate and ecosystems.
The aim is to call on politicians again and again to take effective action in the face of the climate emergency.

We are calling for :
- Compliance with the Paris Agreement
- An end to fossil fuel subsidies
- EU countries to adopt the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty ( www.fossilfueltreaty.org )
- An ecological transition that respects people and is socially just
- The universal right to water for the 3 billion people who do not have access to drinking water and sanitation
Why take action:
We are the *last generation* able to do so before an unbearable world in which humanity and all living things will totally disappear. We *cannot* resign ourselves to the failure of the Green Deal and climate protection measures, in favour of profits and economic growth.
Austerity and ‘climate pause’ cannot be the answers to the global crisis we are going through! In solidarity with MAPA and the underprivileged classes, we are marching. We are together. We are determined.
On 20 September, let's all take to the streets for our future!