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The 505 concerts on Antwerp’s Sint-Jansplein were a great success. About 20,000 spectators came together to enjoy the music and, above all, to call for ‘more humanity’. Tastes like more, doesn’t it?
More humanity, it was the main denominator of 505. A vague concept, but for the artists the themes were clear. Singer and actor Pieter Embrechts, for example, harked back to George Floyd, “murdered by a white police officer”, to Sanda Dia, and to “all other victims of racism”. He also spoke out against the “advancing extreme right”. Illustrator Chrostin made a text for Palestine, calling Israel “genocide perpetrators”.
The initiators of 505, Els Hertogen from 11.11.11, Elisabeth van Lierop and Tijs Delbeke, call the event, with 20,000 spectators on and around Sint-Jansplein and at least 15,000 individual livestream viewers, “a great success”. For Hertogen, 505 is from now on “the moment when Flanders indicated loudly and clearly that humanity must form the basis of policy.”
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What did you think of the 505 concerts? Should there be more?
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