{"id":6374,"date":"2021-05-03T13:01:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T11:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpzimmer.spot-digital.co\/artists\/jovial-mbenga\/"},"modified":"2021-05-03T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T11:03:24","slug":"jovial-mbenga","status":"publish","type":"artists","link":"https:\/\/wpzimmer.spot-digital.co\/nl\/artiesten\/jovial-mbenga\/","title":{"rendered":"Jovial Mbenga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong class=\"\">JOVIAL MBENGA&nbsp;<\/strong>is al tien&nbsp;jaar actief in het Belgische kunstenlandschap als acteur, schrijver en regisseur. Hij werkt zowel voor theater als film. Zijn Belgische parcours startte bij KVS, in het kader van de Belgisch-Congolese creatie&nbsp;<em class=\"\">A l&#8217;attente du livre d&#8217;or&nbsp;<\/em>(2010,&nbsp;regie&nbsp;Johan de Hollander). Later volgde de monoloog&nbsp;<em class=\"\">Mon Noord&nbsp;<\/em>(2013). Mbenga schreef de&nbsp;tekst en stond op sc\u00e8ne, Nele Vereecken deed de regie.&nbsp;De voorstelling speelde in de Brusselse Matong\u00e9-wijk, in Antwerpen en op Theater aan Zee (Oostende). Dankzij dit project leerde Mbenga organisaties als KunstZ, Mestizo Art Festival en deBuren kennen. Kort daarop speelde hij in de kindervoorstelling&nbsp;<em class=\"\">Het vertrek van de&nbsp;<\/em><em class=\"\">mier&nbsp;<\/em>(2014)&nbsp;van hetpaleis, Toneelhuis en KunstZ. In 2020 speelde hij bij Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National&nbsp;in de voorstelling&nbsp;<em class=\"\">Le Pr\u00e9sent qui D\u00e9borde&nbsp;<\/em>van regisseur Christiane Jatahy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mbenga werkt samen met het RITCS. Hij maakte&nbsp;een collectieve&nbsp;voorstelling met de studenten drama, geregisseerd door&nbsp;Johan de Hollander, Geert Opsomer en&nbsp;Aurelie Di Marino, en&nbsp;gidst&nbsp;de studenten van het RITCS vaak door Matong\u00e9. Ook is hij geregeld&nbsp;te zien in hun eindwerken, zowel bij film als bij theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mbenga hecht aan het idee dat theater best middenin de gemeenschap staat. Hij is heel actief in sociaal-artistieke milieus, waar hij met kwetsbare personen, mensen met een beperking en niet-professionele spelers werkt.&nbsp;Hij is onder meer actief bij&nbsp;Theater Tartaar, GC Everna en ENTER Festival. Door mensen die je normaal niet in het theater terugvindt&nbsp;een podium te geven, worden personen weerbaarder, versterkt het sociale weefsel&nbsp;en verschuift de canon die nog vaak eenzijdig bepaald wordt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mbenga speelde ook in verschillende films, waaronder&nbsp;<em class=\"\">De Kraak&nbsp;<\/em>met Frank van Mechelen en&nbsp;<em class=\"\">Ghost Tropics&nbsp;<\/em>van de jonge filmmaker Bas Devos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6373,"template":"","class_list":["post-6374","artists","type-artists","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jovial Mbenga - wpZimmer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wpzimmer.spot-digital.co\/nl\/artiesten\/jovial-mbenga\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jovial Mbenga - wpZimmer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JOVIAL MBENGA&nbsp;is al tien&nbsp;jaar actief in het Belgische kunstenlandschap als acteur, schrijver en regisseur. 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