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Archive for the ‘Hub People’ Category

Internships @ the Hub

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Hub Brussels has two internships open at the moment. See here for more information:

Art and design Internship

Conference and Event Internship

Featured Project: Employee of the Day

Sunday, August 1st, 2010
The Hub Brussels Art Materials

If you have been to the Hub recently you might have seen these words hanging around on the walls, waiting for you to check them out:

Hi everybody!

Alex Cullen contacted me to participate in an art exhibition at the Hub around mid-August. Together with other artists, we decided to choose the topic of “enterprise”, which could bring in an interesting and suitable dialogue in The Hub. For my part of the work, I’m working on the notion of “the employee of the month”. For that purpose, and for those of you who would like to participate, I would need your picture, your name and your birth date. I will also ask to other fellow members to tell me 3 features about yourself, that could make you the employee of the day.

I will come to The Hub every day, and choose the employee of the day. By the end of the exhibition, all the portraits will occupy the wall… I will make an edition of each drawing that will be offered to those of you who participated, and the originals will be sold at 60€/unit.

Thanks for participating!

If you need more information, please contact me in: emilie.maidon@gmail.com

In order to investigate the project further, we asked Emilie for a sit-down and discussed her motivations.

Why The Hub?

Alex Cullen (Hub Host) got in touch with her after seeing an exhibition in a cafe in Brussels where she had made paintings of the place while people sat at the bar. Alex talked about an exhibition in The Hub based on the same concept: drawing people while working and talking in The Hub. However, from that first meeting, the exhibition concept has developed differently and has ended up being a collective exhibition where 3 artists, Emilie, Nicolas and Valentine; all of whom are working on artworks around the topic of ” enterprise”

What’s the main motivation?

The exhibition topic enterprise came out of several visits to The Hub, feeling that it was a “different office”, and brought up ideas very much related to the usual idea of capitalist enterprise that exists in peoples’ minds.

To get involved, please send an email along to Emilie: emilie.maidon@gmail.com

Featured Member

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Hub MemberCaroline Grégoire grew up in Burundi and came to Belgium for her studies. From the very beginning she wanted to be independent and control her own professional activities and she also wanted to work in a field that could be useful to the world. Thus she works as a freelance consultant in environment and as of late, sustainable development.
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Entrepreneurs Anonymous

Monday, June 21st, 2010

A video creation by Ane San Miguel, one of our hosts with participation of Hub members!

Featured Member

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Imaginell, Green Toys, Environmentally Friendly, Milieu, Environnement Martina Von Richter is the mother of 3 boys and a once-upon-a-time consultant for sustainable development to large businesses. However, she decided that in order to best live out her ideals, she would have to get even more proactive. From this came Imaginell, a Green toy manufacturer.

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Hors-Pistes 2010

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

New call for proposals “Hors-Pistes” from the King Baudouin Foundation. Our fellow member Filip Van Mullem and his project Hu-Bu, empowering employee volunteering, got selected under this call in 2009. Hors-Pistes soutient des hommes et des femmes qui font preuve de capacités de leadership, des ‘entrepreneurs sociaux’ qui souhaitent impulser de nouvelles idées ou approches dans leur secteur ou dans leur communauté. Le soutien financier octroyé est de maximum 7 500 euros par candidat-e sélectionné-e. La Fondation Roi Baudouin prévoit d’attribuer environ 15 bourses par an.

  • Lancement de l’appel: 21/04/2010
  • Date limite d’introduction des dossiers: 31/08/2010
  • Annonce de la sélection par un jury indépendant: 25/11/201

Plus d’infos sur le site de la Fondation Roi Baudouin.

Be part of it !

Monday, June 7th, 2010

livreThe Hub Milan is developing a project with an Italian writer and radio presenter, Marco Liorni, who is interested in writing a book about Hubbers and their world-changing personal and professional stories.

Marco Liorni goes live every day on RDS (one of Italy’s most popular radio broadcasting networks), after seven years spent working in TV. Marco is the author of an instant book titled “Facebook. All in the vortex”, about the world’s most famous social network, published in Italy with good success. (more…)

Théâtre Carbonique @ Fête de l’environnement

Friday, June 4th, 2010

This Sunday pm, visitors of the «  Fête de l’Environnement » will be able to see le Théâtre carbonique (Hub member Martin Ophoven and two other comedians) playing their « improshow” . An interactive play looking for alternative solutions to consider serious topics. The show is in french & dutch.
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Full House!

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Today’s Sexy Salad was full of people from our Global Change Journey training course so the table was fuuuuuull! It’s much more impressive in person when you walk in and see it yourself, of course, but here’s a capture:

Sexy Salad Lunch - the Hub Brussels social entrepreneurs meeting space

Member of the Month

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Philippe Lacour

Philippe Lacour

President of Zanchin NGO
Philosopher by occupation, an academic by nature and an entrepreneur at heart, Philippe Lacour has found a way to combine his passions into a vision and soon-to-be fulfilled project. Born in Brittany and now living in Belgium, Lacour is currently working on Traduxio, an open source platform for precise (human) translation.
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