LES BALLASTIERES
Tiers-lieu en Ternois
OUR COLLECTIVE
The Ballast collective is made up of different personalities who are experimenting with new models of living together, sustainable, supportive, open, festive and creative.
We wanted to live differently, to create more, bigger.
Learn, understand, and experiment. And above all, we want to do it with everyone who wants to participate in this project: ✨Les Ballastières ✨
The Ballast Collective was born from the desire of a group of friends to offer a spacious space for multidisciplinary creation in a calm setting close to nature, two hours from Brussels and Paris.
We are currently renovating an old farmhouse in the Hauts-de-France region, using participatory projects and a desire to make the site as environmentally friendly as possible.
The house evolves with the people who live there, and from the start, we wanted it to be lively and conducive to meetings and projects.
GIULIA DE VECCHI
Today, she is a programmer for the association Cities of World Music, its Festival and the Point Fort (a third place located in Aubervilliers).
From 2017 to 2021 Design, assembly and operation of the METAXU show barge in Pantin.
From 2011 to 2019 Programming and production at Cabaret Sauvage
From 2007 to 2011 Programming and Production at FGO Barbara
From 2004 to 2007 Design and coordination of the Creativ School Project: training in the performing arts and audiovisual profession for young people who have dropped out of school
From 2000 to 2007 Coordination of the Goutte d’Or Festival.
VERONIQUE KALUILA
Currently an administrator within the association Villes des Musiques du Monde based in the Paris region.
She has always worked in the administrative department (furniture sector, museum and creative studio) where her versatility has always been an asset: general administration, accounting, HR but also project management.
At the same time, she held the positions of president and treasurer in associations whose aim was to promote musical practice.
Member of Brazilian percussion groups for 10 years. The place of amateur artistic practice is all the more important as it allows the creation of social bonds beyond cultural knowledge.
PIERRE ROUZIERE
Pierre is a jack-of-all-trades and enjoys adapting to the space around him to give it a new dimension. Suffice it to say, Les Ballastières is the perfect playground!
He uses his experience as a sound technician, stage manager and luthier to best welcome artists and develop this superb venue with the collective .
Also a DJ, Trusspe will be delighted to make you dance if the opportunity arises!
STEPHANIE BARBOTEAU
Stéphanie Barboteau is the founder and CEO of BLOOM Project, a live performance development agency specializing in the performing arts, based in Brussels.
GIULIA GENTILE
Italian, but having grown up in Europe, Giulia has lived in Paris for 20 years. A graduate of a film school in Milan, she worked for fifteen years in the audiovisual world (documentaries, filming, directing, production, etc.).
In Paris, she worked for 12 years at the Italian Cultural Institute, where she organized cultural events (concerts, screenings, exhibitions, conferences, etc.). She also managed press relations, communications, partnerships, newsletter writing, and social media.
She has just left her job at the Institute and has started taking the "Managing a Third Place" training course. She therefore intends to invest herself in the project and develop and manage the various activities of the third place, both on-site and remotely, as well as the search for partners, funding, and subsidies.
ERIC HERZOG
Architect, graduate of the Villemin School of Architecture. Eric has worked at the Studios agency for 15 years. Thanks to his expertise and understanding of construction techniques, Eric is a valuable asset to teams working on complex and innovative conceptual projects such as the Louis Vuitton Foundation and the Luma Foundation.
Its technological skills applied to the architectural process enable cohesion between all stakeholders and all operations linked to a project.
Eric wants to get involved in the project: planning the spaces, monitoring the work, monitoring the stewardship and maintenance.
DANA ELFENBAUM
Dana Elfenbaum was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied film at the Fundación Universidad del Cine and philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. In 2007, Dana moved to Berlin. There, she studied Sound Art at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK). Since 2013, she has lived in Paris, where she organizes a writing workshop at the Cervantes Institute.
She works as a journalist and continues to make films (including a musical series, "Stay Hungry," which was presented at the FAME festival, the Gaîté Lyrique, and Rock en Seine), take photos, and above all, devotes herself to music with her URS project. She incorporates her experimental approach into her music, mixing live sampling, granular synthesis, and tape loops. She is currently in residence at Mutant Radio, in Georgia, where she offers a space for discovering new music.
Within the Ballastieres project, Dana continues to explore new ways of creating immersive and stimulating experiences, celebrating the eclectic and hybrid between nature and technology, film, music, photography, visual arts and literature.
DAVID CHAZAM
David Votre Chazam is a Brussels-based performing artist, musician, composer, and underground music activist. As a teenager in the 1980s, he made his stage debut in Poitiers, joining a collective called LOOKOOMS VENGEURS, giving solo concerts, and singing in COMMERCIAL CONCERT, which featured music by The Residents (USA) with Madjic and Dominique Pichon. He also hosted radio shows on local channels.
In the 90s, with Olivier Popincourt, he created "TSCHACK!", a disco band that got the city of Bordeaux dancing. With guitarist Monsieur Gadou, he won the first European improvised music competition at the Confort Moderne in 1993. He also began a career as a composer for the theater with directors Renaud Cojo, Gilbert Tiberghien, and choreographer Valérie Rivière. He then began collaborating with electronic music pioneer Jean Jacques PERREY, with whom he recorded two albums and toured Europe.
At this time, the 10-year collaboration with Christian Boltanski as sound assistant began.
In the 1910s, Chazam moved to Brussels and redeveloped his solo project, also creating the electropunk band "Monique Sonique" for the Victor B company in Namur. At the same time, he continued to compose for film and television, and occasionally performed as an actor on stage or in front of cameras.
Votre Chazam's work follows different paths through the music of radio creation, stage, and sound design, developing in these areas a singular vocabulary at the crossroads of pop and experimentation.
He has been playing as a DJ and programming the music at WALVIS in Brussels since 2016.
There he created a new form of participatory dance called GRAND CHOREOKE, which invites the public to dance to videos mixed with different music.
ISABELLE OLMS
Close to Radio Nova in the late 80s. She organizes evenings in Paris (concert screenings and DJs) which aim to promote music through musical films, mainly black exploitation.
She collaborates on music-related TV shows and with Nova Production. In 1996, she founded the electronic music label Versatile with DJ Gilb'r. She joined the FGO Barbara team as an administrator in 2008, a new project of the city of Paris dedicated to programming and supporting young groups with a desire to collaborate with the Goutte d'Or district. She is also an administrator of the Trois Baudets.