On November 29, 2021 from 8 to 11 p.m., Marc Filipson opens the doors of Filigranes to the 101 Genomes Foundation (F101G) in the presence of Philippe Geluck, Fred Jannin, Gilles Dal and many other authors. During the evening, 20% of purchases and all bar receipts will be donated to the F101G.

In 2019, Marc Filipson attended a presentation by the 101 Genomes Foundation (F101G), at the end of which he promised to support us. Marc has kept his word, and this year he has added the F101G to the program of ‘charity evenings – the pleasure of giving, sharing…and getting together‘ that he organizes at Filigranes avenue des Arts in Brussels.

Marc’s idea for the evening is simple Marc invited Philippe Geluck, Fred Jannin, Gilles Dal, Geneviève Damas, Anouchka Sikorsky, Michel Van Zeveren, Eric Boschman and Thomas Lavachery to sign their works on the evening of November 29, and 20% of the evening’s sales and all proceeds from the Cafffé will be donated to the 101 Genomes Foundation.

We invite you to join us in force on November 29, to meet the authors, have a drink with us, eat and buy your end-of-year gifts to please your loved ones while supporting the F101G. 

For those of you who don’t know, in addition to a great selection of books and comics (in French, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese), Filigranes also offers wines, board games, toys and many other products to delight young and old alike.

Register free of charge so that we can
welcome you in the best possible conditions.

If you can’t make it that evening, feel free to place your orders online between November 22 and 29 on filigranes.be by entering the code “filigranes.be”. 101 GENOMES ” (in uppercase) to ensure that 20% of your online purchases will be donated to the 101 Genomes Foundation.

Finally, you can still support the F101G directly by making a tax-deductible donation either online via the interface provided by the King Baudouin Foundation, or by transferring funds to account BE10-0000-0000-0404 together with the structured message +++017/1730/00036+++.

Proceeds from the Filigranes evening will go towards funding bioinformatics research into Marfan syndrome by a Franco-Belgian team.

Thanks again to Marc for organizing this evening to benefit the 101 Genomes Foundation !

Don’t hesitate to spread the word – it’s a wonderful opportunity to get together!

We look forward to seeing you on November 29!

Ludivine and Romain

Address of the day
 Avenue des Arts, 39-42, 1040 Brussels (parking : 41, avenue des Arts)

Information, volunteer opportunities and offers of support for the November 29 event
  info@f101g.org or +32 (0)476/87.18.63

! IMPORTANT! The Covid Safe Ticket is mandatory.
Make sure you have this document with you on D-day! 

About Filigranes

The Filigranes bookshop has been located on Avenue des Arts in Brussels since 1989. Marc Filipson has turned it into one of Brussels’ must-see places, where you can browse the shelves, read over a cup of coffee or listen to authors at presentations and book signings. Filigranes has built its reputation around high-quality services : a wide choice of books in several languages, author meetings and signings, coffee and snacks, mini-concerts, a large selection of comics and children’s toys, etc.  Filigranes is Belgium’s largest bookshop : it has a surface area of 2 600 m² and is open 7 days a week. Its sales rank it among the top 5 independent bookshops in Europe.

For many years now, Marc Filipson has been organizing charity evenings in aid of various philanthropic causes:

About the authors

Philippe Geluck

Philippe Geluck is a Belgian artist born in Brussels on May 7, 1954. He is best known as the author of the comic strip series Le Chat. He also participates in several TV shows as a columnist, notably in collaboration with Laurent Ruquier.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Geluck
https://lechat.com/
https://www.facebook.com/lechatdegeluck
https://twitter.com/GeluckOfficiel

Fred Jannin and Gilles Dal

Fred Jannin and Gilles Dal are the authors of Belgian Brol, published by Jungle, May 2021.

“The future will be Belgian or it won’t be: What if the Earth became completely Belgian? In a few years, Belgium will have conquered the world. This is the premise of the new opus by Gilles Dal, PhD in history, and Fred Jannin, cartoonist, both regular contributors to C’est presque sérieux. This third volume, Belgian Brol, after Comment devenir belge and Comment redevenir belge, closes the trilogy with a bang.“. https://www.rtbf.be/lapremiere/emissions/detail_le-mug/accueil/article_gilles-dal-et-fred-jannin-l-avenir-sera-belge-ou-ne-sera-pas?id=10754168&programId=14712

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Jannin
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Dal

Geneviève Damas

Geneviève Damas is a Belgian writer, actress and director.

Her books include the award-winning ” Si tu passes la rivière “, ” Patricia “, ” Monsieur André ” and ” Bluebird “, out in 2021.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Damas

Anouchka Sikorsky

Anouchka Sikorsky is a writer, presenter, journalist and producer of various programs (RTBF and RTL), born in Liège on October 1, 1955. His parents come from Poland and Ukraine. She is the author of ” Dracula est Bruxellois ” éditions Dricot, 2021, ” Confidences au Touquet “, éditions Dricot, 2018, ” Disparition à Liège “, éditions Dricot, 2016, ” Meurtre à Rixensart : Petits Scrupules et Grande Vertu “, éditions Dricot, 2014, ” La Boite à Mirages “, 2013, ” Crime à Louvain La Neuve “, Luc Pire, 2012.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anouchka_Sikorsky

Michel Van Zeveren

Michel Van Zeveren was born in Ghent in 1970. He enrolled at the École de Recherches Graphiques (Erg) to do cartoons. At the moment, he prefers to focus on illustration courses, and children’s books in particular, so that he can tell his own stories. Today, he divides his time between books, comics and contributions to various magazines.

https://www.ecoledesloisirs.fr/auteur/michel-van-zeveren
https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Michel-Van-Zeveren/132546

Eric Boschman

Eric Boschman is a world-renowned Belgian sommelier and humorist.

” Shows : “Ni dieu, ni maître mais du rouge”: a one-wine show about the vines and wines of the world. A cheeky, improvisational teacher, he traverses history, taking us on a tour of vineyards from Greece to Lebanon, Chile to Argentina and Europe. And from one journey to the next, he puts us head over heels, intoxicating us with anecdotes as much as with the nectar that has accompanied our lives for millennia. An enthusiastic Eric Boschman shares his “gai savoir” in the manner of a modern Rabelais, with wit and a certain irreverence. “L’âge de bière”: the show that foams. In November 2021, he plays his wine show at the Profond’ément Drôle Festival, a comedy festival in Profondeville (Namur). “

https://eric-boschman.be/
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Boschman
https://www.facebook.com/EricBoschmanProfil
https://twitter.com/zemetre

Thomas Lavachery

“ Thomas Lavachery is an art historian and filmmaker. He started out as a comic strip artist, publishing short stories in the weekly magazine Tintin. For La Croix newspaper, he adapted Roland Topor’s Téléchat series into a comic strip. He is a documentary filmmaker, and made a film about his grandfather’s (Henri Lavachery, archaeologist) expedition to Easter Island in 1934. He is best known as a writer of novels aimed at teenage readers; he is particularly popular for the heroic fantasy adventures of Bjorn the Morphir, which number eight volumes. He adapted this saga into a comic strip with the collaboration of illustrator Thomas Gilbert. In 2018 and 2021, the triennial Grand Prix de Littérature de jeunesse de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles was awarded to author and illustrator Thomas Lavachery for his body of work. A protean yet coherent work, featuring friendly trolls, wacky monkeys, stunted dragons, emboldened warriors and a green family. News : recent release of the novel ” Le Cercle ” : Freed at last from the obligations and judgments of others, a retired man begins a new life which he hopes will be rich in bicycle explorations and encounters. “

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lavachery
https://www.facebook.com/Thomas-Lavachery-253070048095105
https://twitter.com/thomaslavachery

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