The Belgium Performance Festival is an event that hosts many Belgian artists and artists in residence in Belgium who are involved with performance art and performance poetry. The Festival started in 2013 and was curated by Stefan Wouters and Thomas Crombez aiming to create a space where local first generation performance artists could work together, dialogue and pass their experience of an ephemeral practice on to new generations of performance artists. The first edition was held at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp on December 18, 2013 and in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp on December 19, 2013. Artists involved were Ludo Mich, Saori Kuno, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Cecile De Mul, Philip Meersman, Isabel Tesfazghi, Sven Goyvaerts, Marthe Ramm Fortun, Kasper Bosmans, Despina Z