BeLikha Creative Art Group and Friends

30/10/2026

27/10/2026

📦 INSIDE THE EXHIBITION: NO NEED TO EXPORT

📅 18 October–12 December 2026
📍 Mundo-B, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Ixelles, Brussels

Hindi kailangang ipaliwanag ang lahat.

For people living in the diaspora, translation can become part of everyday life. We learn to label what was once instinctive, declare what we carry, and make parts of ourselves understandable enough to travel. Sometimes this is generous, an invitation for someone else to receive. But it can also become an expectation: that migrants arrive with their contents listed, origins clearly marked, and meanings properly addressed. 📦

No Need to Export asks what happens when Filipinos are released from that obligation, and from the exhaustion of constantly providing handling instructions.

Across the exhibition, meaning is shipped through ordinary things. Further along, translation gets held up in transit.

The exhibition does not reject translation altogether. It invites Filipino viewers to notice where translation becomes performance and to allow themselves the freedom not to package every meaning for easy handling. For non-Filipino visitors, it asks for curiosity without entitlement: to approach what is unfamiliar without assuming that understanding must always be delivered.

This post takes a closer look at the artworks behind No Need to Export, alongside glimpses of the vernissage that first brought us together. ❤️

🎨 Featuring artists:
Amihan De Sosa
Anna Beth Santilla
Aurea Calanog
Dr. Carmela Caballero
Joe Lampasa .lampasa
Jonabel Huavas
Lisandra Chapuis
Lise Abitona
Milay Calonge
Mylene “AKIN” Factora
Myra De La Cerna Diaz
Suzette Villanueva .22

🖋 Curated by Sam Domingo

📖 Read our e-catalogue 👉🏼
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/ba063204ee.html

📸 Access & upload expo fotos 👉🏼 event.pics/w/belikha

📷 by Cyndi Bandong

🎟 Free entry

No Need to Export is supported by Ofeljay Store, ICHRP Belgium, UPB, and FEDE vzw.

Not everything needs to be exported.

22/10/2026

NEW IG POST RE: our past exhibit halo-halong hibla-hibla

https://www.instagram.com/p/DeW6SAOCOjH/?exln=MTB3Y3hnMXp3cmRkNg==

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07/10/2026

🎨 MEET BELIKHA ARTIST, MYLENE “AKIN” FACTORA 🎨

[FR/NL IN THE COMMENTS]

Meet Mylene Factora (), also known as AKIN, a multidisciplinary artist and one of the artists taking part in BeLikha’s upcoming exhibition, No Need to Export. 🖼️🎶

Working across visual art, music, and community engagement, Mylene experiments with found objects and handmade elements through sewing, sculpting, painting, and other processes. As a self-taught artist, she values freedom in making and sees each work as something fluid and constantly evolving. ✨

Her alter ego AKIN reflects ideas of self, belonging, and shared Filipino cultural memory within the diaspora. 🇵🇭🇧🇪

BeLikha, in this artist spotlight series, is introducing the people behind the collective and the different ways they navigate making, identity, and life in diaspora. ⭐

You can see Mylene’s work in No Need to Export, and catch her performing as Mylene Factora & The Marcottys during the vernissage! 🎤🎸

📅 18 October – 12 December 2026
🥂 Vernissage: 18 October, 14:00–18:00
📍 Mundo-B, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Ixelles
🎟️ Free entry

RSVP HERE: https://fb.me/e/5Q2zyu7pu 🎫

05/10/2026

🖼 NO NEED TO EXPORT VERNISSAGE 🖼

BeLikha warmly invites you to the opening reception of No Need to Export, a Filipino diaspora exhibition, hosted by the one and only Asher Serrana. 🇵🇭🇧🇪

📅 18 October 2026
⌚️ 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
📍 Mundo B – Matongé, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Ixelles, Brussels
🎟 Free entry

Join us for an afternoon celebrating Filipino talent and community, featuring dance, music, and poetry performances* from artists based in Belgium:

💃🏽 CordiBel, Oyette Calanog, Suzette Villanueva
🎤 Denise Musni, Clarice Manuel, Mylene Factora and the Marcottys
📝 Sam Domingo, AD Capili, Pauline Lacanilao Arnould

👑🎨 Get to know the artists featured in the No Need to Export exhibition, and be among the first to encounter their works!

🎸 Enjoy a mini-concert by Saint December and Joni Sheila

You can also be part of the program by singing your heart out at karaoke! 🎤🎶

Snacks and refreshments to be provided.

*performances confirmed as of 04.10

💁🏾‍♀️ Supported by Ofeljay store, Ichrp Belgium, Ugnayang Pilipino sa Belgium, and FEDE vzw

⚙️ Technical support by M&L Sounds

📩 RSVP via the Facebook event:
https://fb.me/e/5Q2zyu7pu

24/09/2026

🇵🇭🇧🇪 MEET BELIKHA, AGAIN.

BeLikha is a tropahan/multidisciplinary collective of Filipino artists and creatives based in Belgium. What began in 2023 as a simple need to find one another has grown into a space for artists across generations (from oldies to the young fr), disciplines, and backgrounds to gather, create, experiment, and build community together. 👫🏻

Since then, BeLikha has moved through exhibitions, workshops, festivals, and collaborations across Belgium, France, and Norway, bringing Filipino creative practice into churches, embassies, restaurants, fortresses, community spaces, and anywhere we can get a free/sponsored space. Our projects have explored diaspora, Philippine history, migration, gender, belonging, and the changing meanings of being Filipino away from the archipelago. ✈️

There is no single BeLikha aesthetic. What connects us is the act of making alongside one another, and creating room for the many ways we exist. 🎨🎭🎶

As we open a new chapter online aka this new and improved Facebook acount, we’ll be looking back at our archive, introducing the artists behind the collective, and sharing what we’re creating now.

Next up: 📦 NO NEED TO EXPORT, our upcoming Filipino diaspora exhibition in Brussels.

📅 18 October to 12 December 2026
🥂 Vernissage: 18 October, 14:00 to 18:00
📍 Mundo-B, Ixelles
🎟 Free entry

RSVP HERE: https://fb.me/e/5Q2zyu7pu 🎫

Welcome, or welcome back, to BeLikha. 👋🏼

23/09/2026

🎨 MEET BELIKHA ARTIST, LISANDRA CHAPUIS 🎨

[FR/NL IN THE COMMENTS]

Meet Lisandra Chapuis (), a painter based in Brussels and one of the artists taking part in BeLikha’s upcoming exhibition, No Need to Export. 🖼️

Lisandra joined BeLikha last year, becoming part of a growing community of Filipino artists and creatives working across Belgium. She is part of the Académie des Arts de la ville de Bruxelles. 🇵🇭🇧🇪

Lisandra’s work focuses on the joys she finds in life - simple meals, flowers on the table, shared moments with family and friends. Her goal is to capture these moments through her art as a reminder of this beautiful life that still exists and surrounds us. Through her art, she documents certain times in her life and pours softness, colour and warmth in the world. 🖍️

Through this artist series, BeLikha is introducing the people behind the collective, their practices, and the different ways they navigate making, identity, and life in diaspora. ⭐

You can see the work of Lisandra and the other participating artists at the opening in No Need to Export, opening this October in Brussels. 📦✨

📅 18 October – 12 December 2026
🥂 Vernissage: 18 October, 14:00–18:00
📍 Mundo-B, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Ixelles
🎟️ Free entry

RSVP HERE: https://fb.me/e/5Q2zyu7pu 🎫

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22/09/2026

🖼️ OFFICIAL INVITATION: NO NEED TO EXPORT EXPO 🖼️

BeLikha Creative Art Group and Friends is pleased to present No Need to Export, a Filipino diaspora exhibition bringing together Filipino artists based in Belgium. 🇵🇭🇧🇪

The exhibition considers the pressure placed on diaspora communities to make themselves legible, to explain their humour, soften contradictions, package culture, and translate identity for an outside audience. 📝

No Need to Export turns away from that expectation. ❌

Across different practices, the participating artists engage memory, labour, faith, care, humour, desire, class, migration, and contradiction. The works do not attempt to offer a single image of Filipino identity. Instead, they make space for what may remain coded, intimate, excessive, sentimental, devotional, uncomfortable, or difficult to translate. 📦🌍

What happens when Filipino artists do not perform culture as hospitality, nostalgia, decoration, or proof of integration? What becomes possible when meaning is allowed to remain partly untranslated? 🤔

🥂 Vernissage
18 October 2026, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

🗓 Exhibition
18 October to 12 December 2026
09:30 AM to 5:00 PM (Weekdays)
By appointment (Weekends)

📍 Venue
Mundo B - Matonge
Rue d’Edimbourg 26
1050 Ixelles, Brussels

🎟 Free entry

🎨 Featuring artists:
Amihan De Sosa
Anna Beth Santilla
Aurea Calanog
Dr. Carmela Caballero
Joe Lampasa
Jonabel Huavas
Lisandra Chapuis
Lise Abitona
Milay Calonge
Mylene “AKIN” Factora
Myra De La Cerna Diaz
Suzette Villanueva
and other members of BeLikha

🖋 Curated by Sam Domingo

💁🏾‍♀️ Supported by Ofeljay store, Ichrp Belgium, Ugnayang Pilipino sa Belgium, and FEDE vzw

Join us for the opening on 18 October to meet the artists, sing and celebrate, and encounter the works in person. 🥳

📩 RSVP via the Facebook event:
https://fb.me/e/5Q2zyu7pu

10/05/2026

Our very own, Oyette Calanog Filipino artists based in Belgium, member of BeLikha is participating in this exhibition.

10/05/2026

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Chiara Capony is a Filipino artist based in Belgium and is a member of BeLikha.