Aventure urbaine - Le Messager
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Brussels
Guided tours
Aventure urbaine - Le Messager
Brussels Hoppy Tour
Discover monuments, history, and facts about Brussels through our urban hunt for beer tasting. Expect some fun and good beer !
The Brussels Hoppy-Tour is an urban treasure hunt to be performed with friends, family, colleagues, ....
Reserve your date.
Meet at the start point, located nearby the Grand-Place in Brussels, between 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Walk to the streets of Brussels armed with your roadbook which will lead you to your hoppy rewards.
Close the tour at your own rhythm, time does not matter. However, you must ensure that you are at the end of your adventure before 9 p.m.
For more details visit our website: www.hoppy-tours.com
BAR L'ECUYER
Brussels
Guided tours
Brussels Hoppy Tour
Chocolate workshop, making chocolates
Discover the wonders of Belgian chocolate and learn how to make these tasty treats at the biggest chocolate store in Brussels. Enjoy a 1-hour workshop with the guidance of expert chocolatiers and have a go at making amazing handmade chocolates yourself.
Discover the wonders of Belgian chocolate and learn how to make these tasty treats at the biggest chocolate store in Brussels. Enjoy a 1-hour workshop with the guidance of expert chocolatiers and have a go at making amazing handmade chocolates yourself.
The experience begins with a warm welcome from your guides and a delicious hot chocolate. While you drink, listen to a short but fascinating introduction into the world of Belgian chocolate and learn an array of chocolate making secrets.
After the intro, the real fun begins with a demonstration of chocolate tempering on a marble table. It’s then time to have a go yourself and make your own chocolate treats with the help of expert chocolatiers. Spend the hour making your very own personalized and tasty mendiants, truffles, lollipops and more. You’ll also taste the ruby chocolate, a newly discovered cocoa bean that is 100% natural but which creates incredibly pink chocolate treats!
At the end of the experience, package up your chocolates and take them home with you to share with friends, or enjoy alone!
Of course you will not become a true chocolate maker in only one hour but I will share with you a little bit of the magic of my job!
Elisabetta Passafaro, Master chocolatier
Patricia Lafargue, Pastry chef
Belgian Chocolate Makers
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Chocolate workshop, making chocolates
Tram Experience
Embark on a unique gastronomic journey through Brussels!
After a well-deserved rest, the completely redesigned Tram Experience offers you a brand-new contemporary adventure through Belgian gastronomy.
Originality, heritage and tingling taste buds are on the menu!
This new season, Belgian cuisine is being reinvented by great chefs from all three of the country's regions. Come and (re)discover Belgian gastronomy in the unique and warm atmosphere of a tram as it travels through Brussels.
Chef Lionel Rigolet** is once again doing us the honour of being the Tram Experience's patron! His rigour and his expertise as a chef, at the head of the prestigious Comme chez Soi, enable us to propose menus with perfect execution.
Our chef caterer Thibault Granville (Taste Great) prepares and finishes the recipes on board.
All aboard!
RATES
Table for 2 persons, 6 course menu : 210€.
Table for 2 people, 7 course menu : 260€ (French)
Table for 4 people, 6 course menu : 420€ (French)
Table for 4 people, 7 course menu : 520€ (French)
STIB Poelaert stop
Brussels
Animations
Tram Experience
EAT Festival
Taste the best of Brussels
After its special "Dinners" event in 2021, Eat Festival is back from 29 September to 2 October in the heart of the Gare Maritime at Tour & Taxis.
Four days of festivities that reflect Brussels: gourmet, lively, innovative and cosmopolitan. Over the four days, more than 60 chefs and craftspeople will bring the event to life and serve the best of the capital through signature dishes, colourful desserts, delicious cheeses, Brussels beers and original cocktails.
Gare Maritime - Tour & Taxis
Brussels
Festival
EAT Festival
Tram Museum + ride hitorical vehicle
At the Brussels Tram Museum you can find a vast collection of vehicles that have spent their lifetime in the streets of the city, vehicles from a period that spans over a century.
During our opening season you can make a trip with one of our historical vehicles. You can relive the atmosphere of the early 20th century on the Avenue de Tervuren and in the Sonian Forest.
On Sundays and public holidays: A line of old buses will allow you to discover different districts between the Museum and the Central Station via Montgomery and the Cinquantenaire and the European Quarter,...
Please consult the opening hours of the museum and the tram departure times on the website of the Brussels Urban Transport Museum!
Tram Museum
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Exhibition
Tram Museum + ride hitorical vehicle
Guided tour City Hall of Brussels, inner rooms
The City of Brussels Town Hall is without doubt one of most beautiful in the country! Even internationally, few cities can boast such a majestic and ancient town hall! Its age and architectural grandeur make it an unmissable site in Brussels!
This Gothic-style edifice built in the 15th century, is sublimated by the decor of the Grand-Place, often described as the most beautiful square in the world...
Do you know why the wing on the right of the tower is shorter than the one on the left, and why the entrance is asymmetrical? It' s simply due to the fact that the building was built in several phases during the 15th century... did you know that the building still has some original features, but that it also has many additions and restored elements?
As you can see, a guided tour is essential if you want to know everything there is to know about this building, which has been the nerve centre of political and administrative life for more than 600 years, and still is to this day!
In the company of a guide, you'll learn more about the context of the different periods of construction of the building, by observing the main façade overlooking the Grand-Place and the inner courtyard. Then you’ll step inside the Town Hall to marvel at its various rooms and galleries (Council Chamber, College Chamber, Wedding Chamber, Gothic Chamber, Portrait Gallery, Grangé Gallery, etc.), and all the decorations and works of art they contain.
To admire this masterpiece, buy your ticket online or head to one of our tourist offices (BIP, 2-4 rue Royale or the one on the ground floor of the Town Hall itself, on the Grand-Place, on its right-hand side when you face the building). Be advised, tickets are only available 5 days before your visit.
Every Wednesday:
13:00: French
14:00: English
15:00: Dutch
Every Sunday:
10:00: English
11:00: Dutch
12:00: French
14:00: French
15:00: English
16:00: English
Exception: There are no visits when the Town Hall is hosting major events.
The schedule of visits changes during the Flower Carpet and Flowertime (August). Please contact the organisers of these two events: info@flowercarpet.be
Plan your visit:
Tickets on sale online
Price: €8
Children under 12 years old: free when they’re accompanied by a paying adult.
Practical information: the visit begins in the interior courtyard and lasts 55 minutes.
INFO & Reservation for PRIVATE GROUPS
Duration: 1.00 hour
Language: Dutch - English - French - German - Spanish
Indicative price for a group of maximum 25 people
Additional information: Entrance tickets of the Town Hall are included in the price. City Hall is open to private groups on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays between 9 am and 7 pm and on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays between 3 pm and 7 pm. Given the triple character of the rooms (political, administrative and public), all requests must be approved by the protocol service.
Please send us an email with the requested date and time of your visit to : boxoffice@visit.brussels
Or fill in our form by reading our general conditions
City of Brussels Town Hall
Brussels
Guided tours
Guided tour City Hall of Brussels, inner rooms
Art on Paper, the international contemporary drawing fair in Brussels
Art on Paper presents in the heart of Brussels a unique panorama of the quality and diversity of contemporary approaches to drawing through the organisation of an international fair dedicated to this practice.
Art on Paper, the international fair for contemporary drawing in Brussels, will take place from 6 to 9 October 2022 in the Espace Vanderborght.
Art on Paper presents in the heart of Brussels a unique panorama of the quality and diversity of contemporary approaches to drawing through the organisation of an international fair dedicated to this practice.
Art on Paper offers the various audiences, both professionals and amateurs, the opportunity to discover this diversity through the presentation of artists selected by established and emerging Belgian and international galleries.
Art on Paper will be held as part of the third edition of the Brussels Drawing Week (3 to 9 October), which will bring together a series drawing events in the Espace Vanderborght.
Espace Vanderborght
Brussels
Fairs and shows
Art on Paper, the international contemporary drawing fair in Brussels
Music Nostalgie
The best of 20', 30'& 40'
Blues, Jazz, Dixieland, Swing
The Brussels Concertband
Silke
Bruce Ellisson
Tram Museum
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Concert
Music Nostalgie
ARTONOV 2022 - Arpenteuses
Dance, contemporary circus, furniture art
Arpenteuses is an ephemeral performance that continually folds and unfolds. It convokes three beings that become the architects of a space that never ceases to reinvent itself. Three bodies meld together, melt into chairs, moving them and moving themselves. Bodies that enter, occupy and define the space in a constant quest for balance, tension and dialogue with an object and with another.
Conception: Satchie Noro
Performers: Natacha Kierbel, Fleuriane Cornet et Laure Wernly
Conception and construction: Silvain Ohl
Music: Carlos Canales
New Hope Gallery
Saint-Gilles
Show
ARTONOV 2022 - Arpenteuses
ARTONOV 2022 - Nuage
Aerial acrobatics, dance, design collection
Nuage is an installation in choreography for a dancer and a musician and an imaginary cloud.
A study in sound linked to the breath and the wind.
A study in dance dedicated to the transformation of form and suspension, in a setting imagined by Silvain Ohl.
This performance, created in 2013 and first performed by Satchie Noro, has been recreated for her daughter, Yumi Rigout. Accompanied by musician, Fred Costa, the aerial acrobat invites us on an aerial journey that assumes chameleon-like dimensions: a refuge, a net, a nest, a pedestal, a sieve, a diving board, a trap, a lifeboat…
Compagnie Furinkaï
Conception: Satchie Noro
Dance: Yumi Rigout
Music: Fred Costa
Conception and construction: Silvain Olh
New Hope Gallery
Saint-Gilles
Show
ARTONOV 2022 - Nuage
Brussels Tourist Tramway
Tram Museum
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Guided tours
Brussels Tourist Tramway
ARTONOV 2022 - Memory of a Place
An audiovisual performance for voice, cello, electronics, 2 lasers, diffused lights and haze
Dedicated to the architecture of the Samyn and Partners offices, the piece summons the memory of the place through light, sound and movement: what it used to be and what it is now but also what it could be, what it may become. The light and music composition evokes the passing of time, with the deteriorations and transformations it brings. The waves of sound and the rays of light are exposing layers of memory. The artists wander around the space and fill it with their presence in a way that evolves into a sort of ritual. With Memory of a Place, Ofer Smilansky pushes his interest for in situ audiovisual art further and composes a piece that celebrates the straight outline and sober yet mysterious atmosphere of the architectural ensemble.
Ofer Smilansky, audiovisual artist, composer
Jean-Paul Dessy, cello
Coline Dutilleul, mezzo-soprano
La Ferme de Stassart, bureaux de Philippe Samyn and Partners
Uccle
Show
ARTONOV 2022 - Memory of a Place
Prof.Turing
Centre Culturel d'Uccle
Uccle
Theatre
Prof.Turing
ARTONOV 2022 - Silence
Dance, music, urban art
Silence, the new creation by choreographer Isabella Soupart, delves into the heart of the book 21 Lessons on the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari. For this production, she continues her collaboration with pianist Guy Vandromme and invites the Swedish-Swiss Silas Bieri to curate the sound design. In this work Isabella Soupart analyzes the challenges of contemporary technology, the impact of social media, political issues and the way we show resilience in handling despair and hope. Silence explores the malleability of time and the immobility and the iconography of movement, based on our digital and analogue world.
With Silence, the choreographer designs a contemporary electro ballet, where nine dancers/performers play with the codes of contemporary dance, in the spirit of pop-rock-punk culture. A performance in which the inclusiveness of this world is offered as a quest and response to the globalisation of the 21st century.
Concept & choreography: Isabella Soupart
Dancers: Johanna Willig Rosenstein, Amine Mazhoud, Abigail Aleksander, Eleni Roberts, Elsa Tagawa, Loredana Olivier Taskin, Gargano, Macarena Bielski Lopez, Marita Schwanke
Musical direction: Guy Vandromme
Sound design: Silas Bieri
Musicians: Guy Vandromme, keyboards
& Gašper Piano, electric guitar
Brasserie Surrealiste
Brussels
Show
ARTONOV 2022 - Silence
ARTONOV 2022 - Reflets de cristal
Music, history
ARTONOV invites you to an exceptional musical encounter with Thomas Bloch, one of the very few professional glassharmonists in the world. A unique opportunity to hear the crystalline sounds of this unusual and little-known instrument.
Composed of 37 glasses that turn on an axis, rubbed with moistened fingers, the glass harmonica was invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin, who had previously heard a musician play on wine glasses arranged on a table. He thereafter decided to improve upon the principle. Unfortunately, his efforts aggravated certain of his contemporaries to the extent that the police banned the instrument, which subsequently disappeared around 1835. A doctor even suggested, in a text dated 1804, that the instrument could slacken all the nerves in the body and could bring to their knees even the most robust of men in under an hour. Happily, he was able to convince others of its merits, including Paganini who attributed it the nickname the ‘angelic organ’. The instrument’s potential for virtuosity was recognized by Mozart, Beethoven, C.P.E. Bach, Weber and Donizetti among others, as well as by contemporary composers such as Dusapin, Benjamin and Connesson. It has also featured in film music by Philippe Sarde, Gabriel Yared, Nino Rota and Alexandre Desplats.
Thomas Bloch, glass harmonica
Queens Brussels
Laeken
Concert
ARTONOV 2022 - Reflets de cristal
ARTONOV 2022 - Rêve d’Égypte
Music, history
Rêve d’Égypte – a musical dream for a dream space! With the befitting backdrop of Emile Bockstael’s house, Belgian pianist and art historian Thérèse Malengreau proposes a recital retracing the history of Orientalism in music and art through the unique phenomenon of Egyptomania.
In a context where the French and English occupation and domination of the region was in full flight, musicians, painters and writers alike dreamt of Egypt. Towards the middle of the nineteenth century many European composers had taken part in expeditions of an ethnographic nature, and in their works made allusions to Arabic music, either by grafting authentic material or by adopting motifs perceived or interpreted as oriental. The next generation elaborated on this exoticism drawing on pseudo-antique forms suggestive of ancient Egypt that developed into a type of musical Egyptomania, distinct from Arab exoticism or general Orientalism, yet always adhering to a Europe-centric approach. Another musical illusion of the mythical land, contemporaneous with the construction of Emile Bockstael’s house, can be seen in the work of the Impressionists who continued the esoteric vein linked to ancient Egypt, that of The Magic Flute.
Thérèse Malengreau, piano
Queens Brussels
Laeken
Concert
ARTONOV 2022 - Rêve d’Égypte
ARTONOV 2022 - Rite de passage - solo II
Dance, contemporary art
In the exceptional setting of the Vanhaerents Art Collection, the dancer and choreographer Bintou Dembélé presents her latest work, Rite de Passage – solo II and imagines a « Maroon » dance for the dancer Meech that questions colonial heritage. Whilst historically, “marronage” refers to the flight of African slaves from the plantations that held them in captivity, the term has come to signify, in art and philosophy, a space of liberty in the face of constraints imposed by a system.
Conception, choreography: Bintou Dembélé
Initiate: Michel « Meech » Onomo
Music: Charles Amblard
Sound mixing: Vincent Hoppe
Sound Engineer: Vincent Boissonne
Lighting: Emmanuel Gary
Costumes: Annie Melza
Vanhaerents Art Collection
Brussels
Show
ARTONOV 2022 - Rite de passage - solo II
ARTONOV 2022 - Atlas
Music, contemporary art
A starry sky in concert: SPECTRA renders a unique interpretation of our fascination with the firmament.
In an adaptation specially made for this setting, SPECTRA positions eight musicians and loudspeakers over the length, breadth and depth of the Vanhaerents Art Collection. In his work Atlas Eclipticalis, John Cage was inspired by the collection of sky maps published by Czech astronomer Antonín Becvár in 1958. He literally took this book as a point of departure: on top of the star charts, he placed staves on which he drew larger or smaller dots according to the stars’ brightness. The result is a murmuring multitude of subtly buzzing dots in a sonorous firmament. Karlheinz Stockhausen on the other hand departed from astrology for his Tierkreis. Twelve melodies characterise the signs of the zodiac. Dirk Veulemans’ composition Voyager I & II arose from the awe of space and the amazement that humans were capable of sending two unmanned spacecraft, Voyagers 1 and 2, into interstellar space.
SPECTRA conducted by Filip Rathé
Wannes Gonnissen: live-electronics
Pieter Jansen, violin
Bram Bossier, viola
Peter Devos, cello
Francis Mourey, cello
Sofia Gantois, flute
Dries Tack, clarinet
Björn Denys, percussion
Kaja Farszky, percussion
Vanhaerents Art Collection
Brussels
Concert
ARTONOV 2022 - Atlas
ARTONOV 2022 - Nine Bells
Music, Butoh dance
In Nine Bells, Aya Suzuki moves among an array of nine metal bells like a Japanese Butoh dancer. American composer Tom Johnson not only set down the notes of this piece, but also the path the performer has to follow through the instruments. The result is a repetitive, hypnotic ritual for the eyes and ears. Aya uses Johnson’s original bells from 1979. This performance will take place on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Shin hanga - The new prints of Japan (1900-1960) at the Art and History Museum.
More information : https://www.festival-artonov.eu/event/nine-bells
Aya Suzuki, percussion
Art & History Museum (RMAH)
Brussels
Show
ARTONOV 2022 - Nine Bells
ARTONOV 2022 - Phantasticus
Musique, Nō dance
The Japanese art of theatre and dance Nō echoes the very life force invoked by the Stylus Phatasticus, a unique Western musical style born in the 17th century, in which all liberties seem permissible. Each moment brings about surprises, emotions, playfulness or even meditation.
Masato Matsuura’s choreography, based on a very pure tradition of Nō and infused with astonishing beauty and mysterious intensity, reveals here the hidden dance-like dimensions that are the lifeblood of all baroque music, present even and perhaps especially in the freest music of the period. The music of Biber engages in dialogue with that of Froberger and Weckmann, all masters of the strikingly modern-sounding Stylus Phantasticus.
Ensemble Ausonia
Mira Glodeanu, violin
James Munro, violone
Frédérick Haas, harpsichord and musical direction
Masato Matsuura, Nō dancer
Town Hall – Saint-Gilles
Saint-Gilles
Concert
ARTONOV 2022 - Phantasticus
ARTONOV 2022 - Dans l'ombre, les yôkai
Rakugo, music
Stéphane Ferrandez presents Rakugo, a Japanese theatrical art born 400 years ago that skilfully combines gesture and spoken word. It takes no more than a minimalistic set, a few props and the artful mimics of the storyteller, invariably seated on the floor, to transport you into an imaginary universe. Come experience the thrill of these chilling traditional tales from Japanese folklore and perhaps even come head-to-head with your first yōkai.
Following each performance will be a guided tour given by Massimo Minneci, the owner of the Maison Tenaerts.
Sandrine Garbuglia, author
Stéphane Ferrandez, narrator
Elsa de Lacerda, violin
Maison Tenaerts
Uccle
Show
ARTONOV 2022 - Dans l'ombre, les yôkai
ARTONOV 2022 - Toutes les étoiles sont des soleils
Music, science
Each star is a sun similar to our own. And in infinite space, an infinity of stars are home to an infinity of worlds, invisible to the naked eye…
A declaration of love for the beauty and the mystery of the Universe that constantly proves bigger and “more infinite” than we ever imagined, this concert-conference brings together the physicist, philosopher and well-known advocate of science, Etienne Klein with the musicians of Ensemble Oxalys. The musical creation by Patrick Leterme is inspired by the contemplation of the emerging cosmos that surrounds us, from intuition to discovery…
Now more than ever, it is time to raise our eyes poetically to the stars and to feel once more an expansion of the limits of the Universe in which we believe we live.
In partnership with the Belgian Comic Strip Center
Ensemble Oxalys
Shirly Laub, Frédéric d'Ursel - violin
Elisabeth Smalt - viola
Didier Poskin - cello
Koenraad Hofman - double bass
Toon Fret - flute, piccolo
Nathalie Lefèvre - clarinette, bass clarinet
Bart Cypers - horn
Annie Lavoisier - harp
Titus Franken - percussion
Patrick Leterme, composer
Etienne Klein, lecturer, philosopher and scientist
The Belgian Comic Strip Center
Brussels
Concert
ARTONOV 2022 - Toutes les étoiles sont des soleils
ARTONOV Festival
Freeing architecture : Eighth edition of the Festival ARTONOV
The eighth edition of Festival ARTONOV is dedicated to creative freedom within architecture. Can we free architecture from its utilitarian function and offer an experience of the space itself? Can the performance of an artist in a particular space accentuate this feeling of freedom and open new dimensions? The architectural choices proposed in this edition all share a subtle interaction between interior and exterior and between experimentation and the theory, knowledge and technology upon which their poetic dimension rests.
Art Nouveau and Art Deco remain the guiding thread of the festival but open up to contemporary architecture. In the past few years, Brussels has produced some inspiring architectural innovation. Ensuring that the city maintains a strong identity going into the future is more challenging than ever before.
Human beings never feel at home in the infinite. The house is our corner of the world, our primary universe. But as emphasised by Gaston Bachelard in his book on the poetic nature of space, the home is also an opportunity to use our imagination and even to create poetry. And poetry owes much to freedom.
This year, we give the spotlight to architects Philippe Samyn and Olivier Dwek. This edition also highlights in particular the work of women, with creations by Isabella Soupart, Satchie Noro and Bintou Dembélé. The latter will present a crossover of hip-hop, urban art and African dance. The performances by Satchie Noro will be preceded by in-depth workshops with diverse audiences.
With Satchie Noro and Silvain Ohl’s giant origami in the centre of Brussels, we will witness the transformation of a public space in the name of art.
We will have the chance to visit two exceptional collections, the New Hope Gallery with furniture by Georges Nakashima and the Vanhaerents family collection of contemporary art. This corresponds perfectly with the festival’s vision to incorporate art collections as part of its interdisciplinary approach.
The Brasserie Surréaliste also features among the new venues for this edition. A local and responsible brewery that has made its name thanks to a spirit of transgression and deviation from the norm. Here, beauty springs from the unexpected with the new creation by Isabella Soupart and Guy Vandromme, specially conceived for this space.
We once again invite you to embark on a journey of the imagination with the Festival ARTONOV, to discover the taste of freedom and new poetic dimensions throughout this eighth edition!
asbl ARTONOV
Ixelles
Festival
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ARTONOV Festival
Prof.Turing
Centre Culturel d'Auderghem
Auderghem
Theatre
Prof.Turing
