Discover Brussels' beer world with a passionate young local incl. a chocolate pairing
Visit a craft brewery
Taste 5 high quality beers
Storytelling of the local prestige: from the Lambic source to the Zennepils
Explore hidden places like a historic site that will transform into a brewery
Learn about the history of Belgium’s Trappist, Lambic and other traditional brews
Discover the real taste of hops and malts
Get inspiration for new destinations in Belgium
As we make our way to the first brewery, we’ll pass by your guide’s favorite beer shop to find out how familiar you are with the Belgian and local beer portfolio.
Our first stop will be at our hidden gem inspired with medieval atmosphere. Here, sample your first beer and exchange thoughts on the flavor and notes and soak up the convivial spirit as you chat to your group. If you don’t know the difference between an ale and a lager, listen carefully cause your guide is about to share the secrets of the brewing process. At every venue, we’ll surprise you by combining our beers with some local food to make sure you enjoy the full Belgian beer-and-food experience. So now it’s time to enjoy that delicious Brussels’ chocolate your guide has put on the table for you.
It’s time to move on to another lively beer spot. The knowledge of Liselot is more than only about beers: as a proud citizen, she’ll share fascinating novels about Brussels Belfry, Manneken Pis and the historical Pelgrim church. Your sightseeing will be completed with a walking encyclopedia.
At our second location, we’ll discover more different styles and further explore the world-famous Belgian brew portfolio. By tasting the very ingredients that make up the brewing process, you’ll feel like you’re visiting a brewery and you’ll get a sense of what makes a beer sour, sweet or bitter. Now, have you ever tried unique Belgian types like Trappists and our local Brussels brews? Make sure your taste buds are ready cause you are about to be introduced to the widest range of Belgian beers you have ever seen in just one bar. This visit will be completed with another surprising local food pairing.
For our second promenade, Liselot demonstrates how Brussels got this fertiled environment to make Lambic beers. Only a few metres further, you’ll hear more history of the old city wall and a recognised statue.
Last but not least, at your 3rd location you’ ll be introduced to the upscaling local craft beer market and will get the chance to try an exclusive beer you can only find in this town. Have you found your new favourite beer? Explore variants of it and make the most of these last moments together!
After 3 hours, your tour will come to a close in the nicest area of town where you will be free to spend time with your new friends or to continue this unique beer experience.
Liselot Caura and/or colleagues
BeerSecret
Brussels
Animations
Discover Brussels' beer world with a passionate young local incl. a chocolate pairing
Brussels craft brewery tour & meet the brewer
Explore the differences between the 100-year-old Lambic and the youngest brewery in town. Bonus: get to meet the brewer!
Get introduced to the Belgian beer market by exploring two different local breweries.
Included in the price:
6 high-quality Belgian beers from limited editions to our traditional brews
2 craft breweries: Cantillon & L'Annexe, which is not usually open to the public
1 renowned beer lovers' spots
A young and passionate local guide who launched one of the first Belgian craft beers
Transportation between breweries
HIghlights:
Visit a Lambic brewery and discover the old Brussels style (not on Sundays)
Meet the brewer
Learn about the brewing process, from the maltery to the fermentation room
Challenge your friends during the beer game
Discover the real taste of hops and malts
Get inspiration for new brewery visits all over Belgium
Discover more of the local delicacies thanks to a special food pairing
Liselot Caura ( founder & passionated beer guide)
Maxim & Gregoire ( brewers brewery L'Annexe)
BeerSecret
Brussels
Guided tours
Brussels craft brewery tour & meet the brewer
KVS achter de schermen
KVS - Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg
Brussels
Guided tours
KVS achter de schermen
Flashtours
A quick dive into the heart of our iconic brewery in Brussels!
In just 45 minutes, explore the world of Brussels Beer Project with a guided tour of our production space. Discover the secrets behind our brewing techniques, our innovative approach, and our passion for craft beer. Of course, no visit would be complete without a freshly poured beer tasting!
Perfect for beer lovers or the simply curious, this flashtour is a great way to experience Brussels’ beer culture in a short but memorable visit. Plus, enjoy 10% off in our shop to take some of the magic home with you.
Brussels – Antoine Dansaert 188 | €15 pp | 1-15 people
BBP Staff
Brussels Beer Project
Brussels
Guided tours
Flashtours
Tastings
A full brewery experience with a tasting of our finest craft beers!
Discover Brussels Beer Project with a guided brewery tour followed by an exclusive tasting of our craft beers. Over the course of two hours, explore our production space, learn about our brewing techniques, and enjoy a selection of beers ranging from best-sellers to limited editions.
For those who want to enhance the experience, an aperitif board option is available, offering the perfect pairing to highlight the flavors of the beers. A friendly and relaxed moment to share with friends, family, or colleagues for a team-building activity. A 10% discount in our shop is also included.
Brussels – Antoine Dansaert 188 | €25 per person | €35 with aperitif boards | 12-30 people
BBP Staff
Brussels Beer Project
Brussels
Guided tours
Tastings
Le Marché Saint-Géry
Brussels Daily Market
Fish, Butcher/Rotisserie, Fresh Produce, Cheese, Bakery, Pastries, Coffee, Drinks
Eat in & Take away
Halles Saint-Géry
Brussels
Markets & flea markets
Le Marché Saint-Géry
La conscience politique - Un portrait de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
La Conscience politique (Political Consciousness) offers an analysis of our present through a portrait of the philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie. Combining fragments of his life, readings, and archival footage of queer struggles, this film shows us the moment when political thinking is shaped by lived experiences. It unflinchingly examines the judicial and punitive system, family and sexual norms, and institutional and police violence. But above all, this film is a portrait of friendship as a way of life and a form of resistance, as well as an invitation to collective struggle.
The film will be followed by a discussion with director Léolo Victor-Pujebet and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie.
Cinéma Palace
Brussels
Cinema
La conscience politique - Un portrait de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
Citizenchips 1
People Live Here
Year: 2025
Country: Canada
Director: Gabrielle Côté
Duration: 12min
Montréal is a city full of parks, cafés and bicycles. Until a new wind starts blowing: historic buildings disappear, making way for AI-controlled towers that erase all traces of the past and cast a shadow over the cyberpunk city. When the system collapses, nature reclaims its rights.
Zau
Year: 2025
Country: Germany
Director: Lennart Langanki, Tom Reimer
Duration: 7min
Zau loves nature and music. Until he finds himself in a world where such things no longer hold any value. Zau allows himself to be swept away by the spell of data and profit, and risks forgetting who he really is. Based on Goethe’s story of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
Up to No Good (Op Boevenpad)
Year: 2026
Country: The Netherlands
Director: Eva Nijsten
Duration: 14min
Everyone gets up to a bit of mischief now and then… don’t they? But what makes that mischief get worse and worse, until you end up in prison? As teenagers, Jordi and Daan made the wrong choices. They explain why that happened, and how they got their lives back on track.
EMPATHY REHEARSALS
Year: 2026
Country: Italy
Director: Jacopo Cullin
Duration: 20min
Tommy, the school bully, believes that strength and fear are the only ways to earn respect. Following yet another act of aggression, the principal makes him take part in a theatre workshop, which forces him through acting exercises to step into his victims’ shoes.
Iyawo
Year: 2025
Country: France
Director: Inès Marteel, Maelle Kaufmann, Manon Ruckebusch, Pauline Bernard, Shufau Damilola Abdulateef, Thomas Logez
Duration: 6min
A young girl in Nigeria is celebrating her wedding. As the women in her family prepare her for the ceremony, she reflects on her decision and the pressure exerted on her by her community. In doing so, she tells the story of many Yoruba women.
Beursschouwburg
Brussels
Cinema
Citizenchips 1
Amplitude x STOEMP met Amaea Rae en Saving Nico
GC De Markten
Brussels
Concert
Amplitude x STOEMP met Amaea Rae en Saving Nico
Liesa Van der Aa + Sam Gélis
19:30 (open)
20:15 Sam Gélis
21:15 Liesa van Der Aa
23:30 (end)
Liesa Van der Aa
‘Like a snail on a razor.’ That’s how a friend of Liesa Van der Aa described her new album ‘Caramel’ — as softness that wraps itself around sharp edges, yet never allows itself to be cut. A fitting image, for with ‘Caramel’, Liesa presents her most personal work to date.
The “younger, softer sister” to Liesa Van der Aa’s previous album, ‘Easy Alice’, still inhabits the same jazzy universe. Although, to name just a few references: you can hear echoes of Laurie Anderson, this time interwoven with the early classics of James Blake and snippets of Billie Eilish and FKA Twigs. Electronic, contemporary classical, baroque, jazz and hip-hop — ‘Caramel’, as Van der Aa herself likes to describe it, wears all these coats at once, nonchalantly layered one over the other. And on top of that, more than ever before, the masks fall away. “I wanted to make a record that feels like you’re hearing someone’s thoughts out loud,” she says. “As if you’re perched on the very edge of someone’s consciousness, before everything has been spoken.”
https://www.instagram.com/liesavanderaamusic/
Sam Gélis
Sam Gélis is a bassist originally from Brussels. Accompanied by his band, he performs original compositions influenced by alternative folk and jazz, with trip-hop rhythms, over which he layers his poetry.
https://www.instagram.com/sam_gelis/
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photo Liesa: ©Angela Vanderstraeten
Beursschouwburg
Brussels
Concert
Liesa Van der Aa + Sam Gélis
Ceci n'est pas Noire: act II
Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II by Alesandra Seutin at KVS is an immersive performance on identity, body and belonging. The work explores hybrid identity, transformation and the tension between vulnerability and strength.
Alesandra Seutin presents Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II, a performance that understands the body as a site of echo and cultural resonance, where conceptions of identity and belonging are constantly transformed. Immersive in nature, the work reflects on Alesandra’s experience of being of both white European and Black Southern African heritage, a constant negotiation between intimacy and exposure, vulnerability and projection, Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II is about embracing inner tensions in the discovery of one’s own truth. Between surreal visions and hybrid narrative forms the piece unfolds through an episodic structure, punctuated by multiple figures embodied effortlessly through Seutin’s movement vocabulary. Gestures, vocals and live sounds intertwine to awaken memories, traverse geographical and personal landscapes, and reveal the layered complexity of a hybrid identity. In Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II, Seutin explores anew her earlier 2013 work of the same name. She deftly interweaves character devices to explore themes of the external gaze, transformation and assumed social roles, questioning how appearances can be fluid and deceptive. An intimate but frontal journey, Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II invites audiences to consider the body as a space of memory, imagination, vulnerability and, ultimately, strength. Looking to delve deeper into Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II?Read the dramaturgical text by Funmi Adewole Elliott, dramaturg for Alesandra Seutin and Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II, HERE.
KVS BOX
Brussels
Theatre
Ceci n'est pas Noire: act II
Compromis - BXL sur Scènes
Le Jardin de ma Soeur
Brussels
Theatre
Compromis - BXL sur Scènes
Speelweek - MashaaDunya
GC De Markten
Brussels
Animations
Speelweek - MashaaDunya
Filem'on
MORE INFO & TICKETS SOON-ISH
Beursschouwburg
Brussels
Festival
Filem'on
Je suis un voleur • Loutfi Chama Fabrice Murgia
A life spent almost entirely in a state of confinement. Since childhood, Loutfi, aged 44, has gone from one institution to another
Fabrice Murgia returns to the Théâtre National with a production that combines an epic scope with the realism of a deeply immersive narrative.
A life spent almost entirely in a state of confinement. Since childhood, Loutfi, aged 44, has gone from one institution to another: sent to a care centre at the age of 2 on the initiative of social services, he was subsequently put through a series of institutions for minors before being sent to prison several times for petty crimes. His meeting with Fabrice Murgia sparked the idea of telling his story, a necessary step towards finally managing to deal with life ‘on the outside’.
Designed for an intimate stage setting, in close proximity to the audience, Je suis un voleur unfolds the episodes of Loutfi’s past as a series of scenes brought to life by the performers. This unique, almost novelistic journey sheds light on a whole facet of life in detention centres, a violent, dead-end world that still deserves our attention today.
Coproduction Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Copresentation La Montagne Magique
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Brussels
Theatre
Je suis un voleur • Loutfi Chama Fabrice Murgia
Montaigne
Théâtre des Martyrs
Brussels
Theatre
Montaigne
Ricochet
Théâtre des Martyrs
Brussels
Theatre
Ricochet
Tout là-bas la lumière
Les Riches-Claires
Brussels
Theatre
Tout là-bas la lumière
dancefloor radiomix
Madame Moustache
Brussels
Clubbing
dancefloor radiomix
Icons, 20 years Designer of the Year
In 2006, the first “Designer of the Year” award was presented in Belgium. The prize was originally established by the Interieur Biennale and the magazines Knack Weekend and Le Vif Weekend, and was awarded that year to Brussels-based designer Alain Berteau. Over the years, various partners joined the initiative, and it grew into a well-established reference in the Belgian design landscape.
Twenty years later, the list of laureates reads as a best-of-the-best of what the country has to offer in contemporary design: from ceramic designers and silversmiths to product and lighting designers. Concepts such as innovation, originality, and ecology are often central to their work. The list includes names such as Muller Van Severen, Alain Gilles, Nedda El-Asmar, Julien Renault, and Linde Freya Tangelder. On the occasion of the 20th edition of the title, all twenty names come together in an exhibition at MAD Brussels, on view from 1 October to 12 December.
MAD Brussels
Brussels
Exhibitions
Icons, 20 years Designer of the Year
Future Generation, MAD Graduation Show 2026
A ceramic installation evoking a rural interior and textiles made from reclaimed cardboard collected in Brussels. Following its annual tradition, the group exhibition 'Future Generation: The MAD Graduation Show' celebrates the winners of the MAD Graduation Prize 2026 while showcasing their innovative graduation projects. No fewer than seven institutions are represented in the exhibition: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, College of Art and Design, Ateliers Saint Luc, École supérieure des arts Saint Luc, Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer, La Cambre and LUCA School Of Arts. From textile design and interior design to industrial product development and fashion design, a total of 14 winners are honoured at MAD Brussels from 1 October to 12 December.
MAD Brussels
Brussels
Exhibitions
Future Generation, MAD Graduation Show 2026
150 jaar Pogge en zijn vrienden.
This autumn, AMVB presents the retrospective “Alles es Just!” about the Pogge Friends. You’ll discover Pogge in all its forms through objects, photos, drawings and archival materials. Together with Sputnik non-profit, many activities are organized around the exhibition. By the end of the festive year, you’ll know everything about Pogge.
This autumn, the Pogge Friends are featured in a major retrospective at the AMVB. The exhibition focuses on Pogge in his many forms, with a wide range of objects, drawings, photos, archival documents, and of course his ceremonial figure. The title “Alles es Just!” refers both to Pogge’s 19th-century heroic deeds and to the way the festival of the same name explored Schaarbeek’s intangible heritage over 10 years.
In collaboration with Sputnik vzw, AMVB brings Pogge’s world to life through numerous side activities. By the end of the festive year, you will truly know everything about Pogge.
Guided tours for groups available on request via info@amvb.be.
AMVB - Archives and Museum of Flemish Life in Brussels
Brussels
Exhibitions
150 jaar Pogge en zijn vrienden.
La Belgique émaillée
You may have come across them before without even noticing. Yet these enamel signs are true design icons that have shaped the visual identity of Belgian streets. They have withstood changing trends, the elements, and the passage of decades. “Enameled Belgium” invites you to discover how these everyday objects have become witnesses to our history and a source of inspiration for today’s artists. An exhibition where heritage meets design, and where every sign has a story to tell.
Featuring Belgian artists Liliane Vertessen, Kasper Bosmans, Hugo Janin, and Jacques Weemaels.
Opening reception on September 18 at 6 p.m.—reserve your spot here
The exhibition, produced by Les Halles Saint-Géry, was conceived and coordinated by Jan De Plus and La Brigade. This project received generous support from Mr. Laurent Levaux.
Halles Saint-Géry Culture et Patrimoine ASBL
Brussels
Exhibitions
La Belgique émaillée
Boomerboks
GC De Markten
Brussels
Sport
Boomerboks
Escape Game - Masonic Quest
Escape Game - Masonic Quest
A mysterious bagpack has been found in the Museum…
The Belgian Museum of Freemasonry invites you to embark on a truly immersive experience: Masonic Quest, a thrilling escape game that takes place throughout the entire museum. Each puzzle you solve will bring you one step closer to uncovering the hidden treasure.
Succeed in your mission, and you’ll be rewarded with a photo alongside the treasure, an exclusive badge, and a certificate of investigation to commemorate your adventure.
Step into Masonic Quest, the captivating escape game at the Belgian Museum of Freemasonry! Dive into a world of intrigue, where mystery, symbols, and riddles intertwine. Follow in the footsteps of a historian who once hid a treasure deep within the museum’s walls.
Work as a team, explore every corner, crack codes, and solve puzzles to discover what’s been concealed.
Book your spot now by emailing info@mbfm.be
1h30 | 15€ pp | Recommended age 15+ | FR/NL/EN
Belgian Museum of Freemasonry
Brussels
Animations
Escape Game - Masonic Quest
Tone up - GOLDkaart
Brussels Ouderenplatform vzw (BOp vzw)
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Tone up - GOLDkaart
Idrissi Boxing Club: Alleen vrouwen
BoxingClub VK/Idrissi
Brussels
Sport
Idrissi Boxing Club: Alleen vrouwen
Discover More of Brussels by Bike – Highlights & Hidden Gems
Go beyond the tourist trail. See iconic Brussels alongside neighbourhoods and hidden gems along the less beaten tracks most visitors miss.
Discover more of Brussels than just the historic centre! Hop on a bike and explore the Belgian capital in 3.5 hours with a local guide. Cycling lets you go beyond the main sights and discover vibrant neighbourhoods and surprising places further afield.
Admire iconic landmarks such as the Palace of Justice and the Royal Palace, explore characterful areas like the Marolles and Sainte-Catherine, and discover what makes each neighbourhood unique. Depending on the route, you may also visit unexpected gems such as Tour & Taxis and the impressive Gare Maritime.
Your guide brings Brussels to life with fascinating stories, historical insights and local anecdotes. Along the way, we stop at a Brussels café to relax and soak up the local atmosphere.
Cycle further, discover more and experience Brussels from a different perspective. Book your spot on our website and experience an unforgettable adventure in Brussels on two wheels!
Cactus Brussel à vélo
Brussels
Guided tours
Discover More of Brussels by Bike – Highlights & Hidden Gems
Work-in-progress • Africa is/in the Future
The festival continues its vital work of highlighting Black and Afro-descendant artistic initiatives in Brussels.
The festival continues its vital work of highlighting Black and Afro-descendant artistic initiatives in Brussels.
Over more than a decade, Africa is/in the Future has established itself as a space for artistic and festive convergence. A multidisciplinary festival, now organized by La Bellone, which no longer merely curates programmes but encourages dialogue between practices from different contexts. Open to all, it nevertheless extends an explicit invitation to Black and Afro-descendant people, originating from the African continent and the diasporas.
For this 11th edition, the festival underlines the need for constant, collaborative and complex redefinition as a prerequisite for a truly shared future.
At the Théâtre National, a discussion explore these fascinating ideas in greater depth. Four artists, invited by Marie Umuhoza, the festival’s programmer, share fragments of their research and works in progress. The conversation continues with a discussion between Sékou Séméga, artist and programmer at La Bellone, and the guest artists.
Coproduction Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
→ Complete programme on
www.africaisinthefuture.be
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Brussels
Show
Work-in-progress • Africa is/in the Future
(titre provisoire)
Words, always words.We learn them, think them, speak them. They settle and accumulate. First on the surface. Then they seep through our pores, take root within us, shape us — sometimes without our knowing. (titre provisoire) is a solo that resists being named. A flight from identity. A flight from definition. A flight from words. On stage, a body and an LED screen — nicknamed the big label —coexist, respond to one another, and rub against each other.Words appear at random, slipping, lying, or striking true, like projected labels attempting to crystallize images and inviting us to revisit our own filters in a subliminal impulse. Where does our need to name, to understand, to classify come from? This performance explores the in-between: between cultures, between languages, between perceptions. The body slips between images and expectations, evades assignments,unsettles representations. It becomes a site of metamorphosis, evaporation, and ambiguous resistance. A sensitive, shifting space where the ephemeral becomes a territory of invention. The spectator’s gaze then becomes a shifting field of experience.Neither narrative nor confession: this solo is a surface. A fracture. A mirror. Johana Malédon is a French Guianese choreographer and dancer based in the Île-de-France region. She trained at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, the Alvin Ailey School in New York, the Pôle Supérieur Paris Boulogne-Billancourt, and later with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel. She holds a DNSPD and a State Diploma in jazz dance teaching, as well as a degree in Performing Arts from Université Paris 8 and a Licence’s degree in Cultural and Artistic Project Management. Her choreographic work explores the body as a material shaped by memory, contradictions, and states of transformation. It relies on performative frameworks that place dancers in situations of tension, displacement, and instability. As a performer, she collaborates notably with Léo Lérus, Kristina Alleyne, Abou Lagraa and Nawal Aït Benalla within La Baraka, as well as with Fouad Boussouf, Yoshiko Waki, and Sylvain Groud. She also joins Tanz Münster in Germany as a guest dancer for the 2025–2026 season. In 2019, she founded Compagnie MÂLE after receiving the Grand Prize at the Sobanova Dance Awards for her first piece, À Bientôt. She then created 40, followed by the solo (titre provisoire), selected for Aerowaves Twenty26. Her works are presented both in France and internationally.
Johana Malédon / Compagnie MÂLE
Kaaistudio's
Brussels
Show
(titre provisoire)
Visual Storytelling - Interliltratour Ateliers
Visualize migration, memory, and identity through collage, text, and photography.
A visual storytelling workshop exploring migration, diaspora, and memory. Using collage, text, and images, participants create a personal narrative around identity and heritage. Personal items may be brought along, but materials are also provided. No artistic experience is required.
Participation: €5 per workshop (incl. a light meal)
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Interlitratour Ateliers
Brussels is full of stories. The Interlitratour Ateliers (Workshops) bring together writers, artists and performers to explore words, images, rhythm and personal narratives. From rap to spoken word, from opinion writing to pictopoetry, each workshop offers a different creative lens on the city and its many voices.
Organisers: Arthis – Belgisch-Roemeens Cultureel Huis vzw, Davidsfonds Brussel vzw, Internationaal Comité (IC), Kuumba vzw, Masereelfonds vzw, Vermeylenfonds, Willemsfonds BHG vzw.
Local Partners & a Broader Network: ArthisArtists, Entrée, Frontal Streamlines, Netwerk van de Brusselse Gemeenschapscentra, Orpheus - Bulgaars-Belgische vereniging, Romavrouwen, Romnia Feminist Library, Shabbes 24/7, Untold Asian Stories
Hosting and Supporting Partners: De Markten, Kompass, Muntpunt, The House of Growfunding, Passa Porta, HuisvandeMens Brussel.
With the support of Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
Facilitator: Fran C. Bracho
Passa Porta
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Visual Storytelling - Interliltratour Ateliers
Conférence: La vie à l’œuvre. Entretien avec Didier Eribon et Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
On the occasion of the screening of La conscience politique, a portrait of Geoffroy de Lagasnerie directed by Léolo Victor-Pujebet, and the reissue of Didier Eribon’s biography of the renowned philosopher Michel Foucault, Pink Screens brings together these two major figures of contemporary thought for an extended conversation at Cinema Palace.
The discussion will begin with the fundamental question of the interplay between thought and life, particularly when those lives are queer lives. How does theoretical work take shape at the intersection of a personal journey, social experiences and a gay life? How can life nourish or embody thought? And, in turn, how can political, sociological or philosophical thinking radically transform a way of life, or even propose new ways of living?
This encounter builds on the questions raised by cinema when it goes beyond simply portraying lives or ideas and instead shows how thought takes shape through bodies, gestures and stories, making the screen a unique space for dialogue between work and existence. An encounter between art and life that echoes one of Foucault’s powerful final ideas, shortly before his death from AIDS, concerning the possibility of an “aesthetics of existence”: can we make each individual’s life into a work of art?
Didier Eribon is a sociologist and philosopher. He is the author of numerous works, including Réflexions sur la question gay, Retour à Reims and Michel Foucault, 1926-1984, a new edition of which has recently been published in Flammarion’s Champs collection.
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is a sociologist and philosopher. His works include 3. Une aspiration au dehors. Éloge de l’amitié, Par delà le principe de répression. Dix leçons sur l’abolitionnisme pénal and L’âme noire de la démocratie. All three were published by Flammarion.
Cinéma Palace
Brussels
Conferences and conventions
Conférence: La vie à l’œuvre. Entretien avec Didier Eribon et Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
The Newcomers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY9OO-XxWXc
Los nuevos
Year: 2026
Country: Mexico, Spain
Director: Rodrigo Plá
Duration: 79min
Producer: Ángeles Hernández, David Matamoros, Gabriela Maldonado, Laura Santullo, Rodrigo Plá
Genre(s): Fiction
Original language: Spanish
Beursschouwburg
Brussels
Cinema
The Newcomers
dancefloor radiomix
Madame Moustache
Brussels
Clubbing
dancefloor radiomix
Lena Willikens + Rick Shiver + Donia
22:00 Rick Shiver
00:00 Lena Willikens
03:00 Donia
05:00 (end)
https://youtu.be/JWrXV_QQxh8?si=iKJDtY0lI1MWk__A
Lena Willikens
Layering extended lines of polyrhythmic thought that can only be properly understood in-the-flow – by bodies in motion – Lena Willikens can switch gears in the blink of an ear between upfront UK bass mutations, motorik offbeats, and nEuropean synth curios – all is welcome as long as it is twisted in a one-of-a-kind way, and no two sets are ever the same. Lena hosts 2 regular shows on NTS (Homunkuli, and Lightning Conductor), holds down a DJ residency at Düsseldorf’s free-spirited club/bar Salon Des Amateurs, and releases her own productions on Dekmantel Rec. More or less permanently traveling to clubs and festivals all around the globe (often in the fine company of her spiritual brethren-partner-fan Vladimir Ivkovic), the term “DJ royalty” just might have been coined for an artist such as Lena Willikens.
https://www.instagram.com/lena_willikens/
Donia
Co-founder of the Brussels based label Sketchy Lines Records (and beloved Beursschouwburger), Donia roams the streets of this world in a permanent pursuit of percussion-loaded and bass-heavy sonics. She has been described as a local-global dopamine dealer, who stretches genres until they lose their ego, allowing you to focus on your inner dance. Welcome back
Beursschouwburg
Brussels
Clubbing
Lena Willikens + Rick Shiver + Donia
We are Dancehall / Dancehall Station X Slowbounce
Madame Moustache
Brussels
Clubbing
We are Dancehall / Dancehall Station X Slowbounce
Bursts of Fantasy
A Serious Thought
Year: 2026
Country: Estonia
Director: Jonas Taul
Duration: 16min
A little boy can’t sleep. His head is full of thoughts: cute, scary, bitter, or sweet thoughts. Or very serious thoughts about the Earth, which is just a marble in the endless expanse of space. He goes for a little walk in the garden, where the animals help him with his worries.
Into the forest
Year: 2026
Country: Switzerland
Director: Antonin Niclass
Duration: 9min
In an empty film studio, a little monkey wakes up. On a computer screen, a luminous jungle appears, seemingly close by but out of reach. Until the little fellow meets two friends. Together, they set to work and build a jungle thanks to the magic of animated film and imagination
SHORTS FROM THE BOX - Wild Things
Year: 2025
Country: Hungary
Director: Géza M. Tóth
Duration: 8min
Do you really believe that humans can conquer nature? Forget it! Nature always does as it pleases. Even a ‘little matchstickman’ has to learn that the hard way. Can you guess what the little figure comes across along the way? An exercise in ‘out-of-the-(match)box’ thinking.
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe!
Year: 2025
Country: Slovakia
Director: Andrea Szelesová
Duration: 11min
High up in the clouds, the young children of Greek goddesses, gods, and monsters come together to play. Among them is Yios, a little boy with a shining sun on his head. The other kids devise a mean prank which leads to Yios falling from the clouds, all the way down to Earth.
Christopher & the Bug
Year: 2025
Country: Canada
Director: Vanessa Esteves, Kevin Micallef
Duration: 11min
An owl’s peaceful solitude is disrupted when a tiny bug moves into his home. Determined to get rid of the uninvited guest, Christopher embarks on a series of attempts to reclaim his space. However, as their paths intertwine, he discovers the transformative power of friendship.
Beursschouwburg
Brussels
Cinema
Bursts of Fantasy
Modern Love
Kilómetro 9 o desde cuándo te parás a ver la ciudad
Mika Nivola
2024 - 17' - Colombia
vo: es
sub: fr-en
Wandering the sleeping streets of Medellín, two boys philosophise about their worlds and the desire that binds them.
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À quoi rêvent les Maknines
Sarra Ryma
2026 - 23' - Algeria - France
vo: ar-fr
sub: fr-en
Two young Algerians are about to leave everything behind and cross the Mediterranean. Over the course of one day, we join this unusual couple as they wander the city, sharing their passions and their fears.
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Fale a ela o que me aconteceu
Pethrus Tibúrcio
2025 - 25' - Brazil
vo: pt-br
sub: fr-en
Giu isn't entirely sure what's going on with Danilo, but he decides to tell his side of the story.
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The New Gardener
Ryan Parma
2025 - 16' - United States
vo: en
sub: fr
Larry and Leo's relationship is put to the ultimate test by the arrival of an extremely seductive young man posing as their new gardener. Sexy, quirky and deliciously kitsch.
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Intervalo
Roberto Fiesco
2025 - 20' - Mexico
vo: es
sub: fr-en
Carlos is desperate: his boyfriend isn’t replying. But Aurelio, a rather sexy taxi driver, watches over him all night long.
Cinéma Palace
Brussels
Cinema
Modern Love
Exhibition | Perreología
José Miguel del Pozo (1985, Venezuela) presents 'Perreología' at Espace F.12, an exhibition arising from his fanzine 'Only Doguettes' (2020) and exploring our intention to spend all day looking at screens. Revealing a form of soft voyeurism, pixels of poor images appear in front of us to question these video surveillance images that are gradually becoming normalized.
A black-haired dog with curly fur licks herself on a rug. Queen Dembow, the dog, has a diva-like character, or so they say. When her owner is not at home, she is filmed non-stop by a camera installed in her living room, which broadcasts her images to her owner's mobile phone via the internet, and consequently to the world. Come and joins us for an exhibition on artist's publications, pixels, dogs and more!
Queen Dembow & José Miguel del Pozo
Grand Hospice
Brussels
Exhibitions
Exhibition | Perreología
Carnets d'artistes
This exhibition offers an immersion into the world of artists’ notebooks, bringing together historical and contemporary works. From the studio notebook to the most intimate visual diary, these objects reveal a space of creation where sketches, notes, fragments of text, collages and collected images intersect.
This exhibition offers an immersion into the world of artists’ notebooks, bringing together historical and contemporary works. From the studio notebook to the most intimate visual diary, these objects reveal a space of creation where sketches, notes, fragments of text, collages and collected images intersect.
Beyond their preparatory function, notebooks appear here as genuine spaces of self-narration. Whether historical or contemporary, they reveal how artists construct, page by page, a form of self-narrative in which the creative process, personal memory and observation of the world come together. Within these mobile and fragmentary surfaces, gestures, rhythms and temporalities specific to each artistic practice take shape.
The exhibition pays particular attention to notebooks that belong to distinct artistic practices. For certain artists, including Marianne Berenhaut, Sarah Kaliski and Steven Baelen, the notebook is not simply a preparatory tool, but a space of creation in its own right, where drawing, writing and the assemblage of images form works of art. The notebook thus becomes a singular artistic territory, where material experimentation and visual thought develop according to their own continuity.
Alongside these notebooks rooted in established practices, the exhibition will feature notebooks created especially for the occasion by artists from our wider personal and professional circles. Working on Saint-Martin Bookshop notebooks sent to them ahead by the bookshop, these newly created contributions will extend the reflection on the notebook as a living space of creation, bringing together different generations, sensibilities and ways of working.
By bringing together these diverse approaches, the exhibition highlights the notebook as an artistic form at the crossroads of the studio, the personal archive and the diary. It reveals itself here as an autonomous space, conducive to experimental, hybrid and deeply sensitive practices.
Saint-Martin Bookshop
Brussels
Exhibitions
Carnets d'artistes
Idrissi Boxing Club: Volwassenen (+18 jaar)
BoxingClub VK/Idrissi
Brussels
Sport
Idrissi Boxing Club: Volwassenen (+18 jaar)
Tai Chi met de waaier: GOLD-kaart
GC De Markten
Brussels
Sport
Tai Chi met de waaier: GOLD-kaart
Idrissi Boxing Club: Kinderen (5-11 jaar)
BoxingClub VK/Idrissi
Brussels
Sport
Idrissi Boxing Club: Kinderen (5-11 jaar)
Idrissi Boxing Club: Jongeren (12-17 jaar)
BoxingClub VK/Idrissi
Brussels
Sport
Idrissi Boxing Club: Jongeren (12-17 jaar)
Tentative Tornade
Tentative Tornade is a performance by Maïa Chauvier and Jonathan De Neck, where poetry, music, song and spoken word come together in an intimate dialogue. Through fragments of stories and voices, the piece explores the contradictions of our time with sensitivity, hope and resilience.
Tentative Tornade is a creation by Maïa Chauvier and Jonathan De Neck, at the crossroads of poetry, music and spoken word. Together, they create an intimate and immersive performance where words and music engage in a powerful dialogue.
Poet, slam artist and actress Maïa Chauvier gives voice to deeply personal and socially engaged texts, accompanied by Jonathan De Neck on diatonic accordion, piano, percussion and vocals. Their performance weaves together poetry, songs and musical compositions into a rich tapestry of stories, memories and emotions.
Through fragments of lives, voices of resistance, love songs and reflections on today's world, Tentative Tornade explores the contradictions of our time without losing sight of hope. The result is a sensitive and evocative experience that invites audiences to listen, reflect and travel through a landscape of words and sound.
Maïa Chauvier (voice, poetry, spoken word); Jonathan De Neck (diatonic accordion, piano, percussion, voice).
ZoArt
Brussels
Concert
Tentative Tornade
meet the author: katie kitamura
One of America’s most brilliant novelists, recently shortlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in an exclusive conversation in Brussels.
Katie Kitamura is an American journalist, writer and critic of Japanese origin. She holds a PhD in American literature, teaches creative writing at New York University and lives in Brooklyn with the writer Hari Kunzru (The Illusionist).
After the publication of her first two novels (The Longshot and Gone to the Forest), Kitamura’s international career took off in 2017 with A Separation, a fascinating psychological thriller set in the Peloponnese. It was followed by Intimacies, which delved into the mind of an interpreter at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. With her fifth novel, Audition – shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize – Kitamura has cemented her status as a leading American writer, admired by Barack Obama as well as by fellow writers Samantha Harvey, Hernan Diaz and Lauren Groff.
Audition
Audition opens in New York with a glimpse into the daily life of an accomplished actress. Married to a man she loves, she is enjoying a string of successful theatre productions. But a young stranger throws her life into turmoil when he announces that he is her son. Who are they to one another? It is with this question that Katie Kitamura, at the height of her artistry, sets in motion a game of deception. Blurring the lines between reality and performance, Audition is a multilayered book that questions the roles we all play, more or less consciously, in our lives. Readers are kept on their toes. Loosely inspired by Rosemary’s Baby, Audition is a brilliant, unsettling and fascinating book.
Don’t miss this unique chance to meet the American writer during her visit to Brussels.
About Audition
‘A lightning bolt of a novel.’
— Financial Times
‘Katie Kitamura is one of our most brilliant writers, saying far more in her silences, blank spaces, and disruptions than most novelists can say in a hundred thousand words. Audition is eerie, a book so cold it feels hot.’
— Lauren Groff
Passa Porta
Brussels
Various
meet the author: katie kitamura
Rawabet closing night w/, Deena Abdelwahed + Mezar + Lynn Adib + prnc
Rawabet — Arabic for ‘links’ — is an international project connecting Europe and the Arab world, with a focus on the Arab Levant, including all minorities.
From 5–7 November 2026, the 4th and final Rawabet Festival takes over Brussels for three days of live performance, music, multimedia, and conversation. Across the city, discover new works developed through the Rawabet production grant programme, bringing together artists and ideas from across Europe, in a space for encounters, exchange, and new connections across artistic practices, cultures, and borders.
FULL PROGRAMME >>
Organised by the Brussels–Beirut-based organisation Ettijahat – Independent Culture, the Rawabet Festival marks the culmination of a three-year Creative Europe programme (2024–2026). And what beter place than the Beursschouw-rooftop between the clouds and the stars of Brussels by night, to dance the final dance?
20:30 (open)
21:00 performance by Deena Abdelwaheb
22:15 performance by Mezar
23:30 performance by Lynn Adib
00:45 dj set by prnc
03:00 (end)
https://youtu.be/-LWXbUt2VPQ?si=2ZhleIW1y-nUNYFZ
Deena Abdelwaheb – Diwan Midi
Deena Abdelwaheb – vocals, computer music
Nidhal Jaoua – qanun MIDI
Imed Alibi - percussion MIDI
Widad Mjama – vocals
A contemporary exploration and reinterpretation of Arabic music via the Qanun MIDI, a prototype instrument developed at IRCAM. Deena Abdelwahed is rethinking the performance of electronic music by drawing on the intuition of Arabic music, a landscape where improvisation plays an essential role.
https://www.instagram.com/deena___abdelwahed/
https://youtu.be/2ntEOJoqKdw?si=g-kxNxcDH54GXznT
Mezar
Chakib Kouidri – vocals, cigare box
Elsa Corgié – keyboards, backing vocals, violin
Mounir Hachemaoui – bass, backing vocals
Pablo Giusiano – drums
Mezar plays a Bedouin blues, carried by a trance rooted in Afro-Oriental heritage. Vocals, cigar box guitar, analog-toned synths, bass and drums build a sound that moves between hypnotic and euphoric, in service of a heritage still very much alive.
https://www.instagram.com/mezar_______/
https://youtu.be/Bp6kTrjAvhI?si=s8FIzaG2yjw51aot
Lynn Adib – Malakout
Syrian singer, composer, and improviser Lynn Adib brings together jazz, Arabic traditions, and sacred forms in a distinctive, fluid sound. From maqâm and Byzantine chant to free improvisation, her music moves between traditions, cultures, and sonic worlds. For Malakout, Adib takes the stage with the musicians who brought her forthcoming album to life in the studio. Together, they revisit its repertoire in an intimate live performance where voice, dialogue, and collective expression meet. Rooted in spirituality, memory, and transformation, Malakout opens onto a rich and immersive sonic landscape.
https://www.instagram.com/lynnadib/
https://youtu.be/kyl4eVkxojw?si=YOsyOyrelugm5bel
prnc
prnc is a Palestinian DJ based in Brussels, weaving raw underground energy into sets that are as intimate as they are electric. Moving through driving grooves, trance-soaked rhythms, Arabic pop, traditional melodies, and fractured electronic textures, he builds sonic worlds where boundaries blur and bodies take over. For prnc, the dancefloor is a space for freedom, queer expression, and resistance.
https://www.instagram.com/prncjdg/
about
Ettijahat – Independent Culture was founded in Syria in 2011 and has since become one of the most active organisations supporting Arab arts in exile. With legal status in Belgium (ASBL) and deep roots across the Arab cultural landscape, Ettijahat operates at the intersection of two worlds – embedded in the realities of cultural production in the Arab region and fluent in the institutional logics of the European sector.
For over a decade, Ettijahat has developed sustained programmes supporting artists working under conditions of displacement, precarity, and political constraint, through residencies, production grants, mobility support, advocacy, and the creation of transnational networks. Rawabet is the most ambitious expression of this commitment to date, bringing together partners across five European countries to support emerging artists through a full three-year development arc.
This dual anchoring – in Europe and the Arab world – shapes the organisation's approach. Ettijahat neither imports nor exports culture; it works at the point where the two landscapes meet, with all the tension and possibility that entails.
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Photo Deena Abdelwaheb – ©Bachir Tayachi
Photo Mezar – ©Virgile Robert Leroudier
Photo Lynn – ©Alice Fave
Photo prnc – ©Yousif Lama
Rawabet is a project by Ettijahat Independent Culture and i-vzw, with offices in Brussels and Beirut, in partnership with Transversal, Voce, Masahat, Gezmataz, and Coculture, with the mission to support artists in and from Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan.
Rawabet is co-funded by the European Union.
Beursschouwburg
Brussels
Clubbing
Rawabet closing night w/, Deena Abdelwahed + Mezar + Lynn Adib + prnc
OLDSCHOOL PARTY | 80's 90's 2000's
THIS SATURDAY, 07 NOVEMBER 2026 | BXL MAIN EVENT | 10:00 PM - 4:30 AM
INTERNATIONAL PARTY - MADAME MOUSTACHE | 80s 90s 2000s - SAT. 07.11 | Powered By Just A Night
Facebook: https://fb.me/e/6CrwfxVro
Skip the Line and Guarantee Pass: https://partyfinder.com/en/event/17961
Or tickets at the door
INTERNATIONAL PARTY
BACK TO THE 80s 90s 2000s
MADAME MOUSTACHE - Powered by Just A Night
SPECIAL GUEST DJ: Bobounce and friends
XXL BRUSSELS PARTY | INTERNATIONAL VIBES | COSMOPOLITAN ENERGY
Just A Night is landing at Madame Moustache for an exceptional edition!
A must-attend roaming concept in Brussels, Just A Night has been bringing together nightlife lovers for over 10 years:
Artists, DJs, models, party people, globe-trotters, expats, and cool crowds from all backgrounds!
This time, get ready to dance to the best old-school hits from the 80s to the 2000s, remixed like never before.
Retro vibes and atmosphere. A musical journey to experience with friends, right in the heart of the city nightlife.
AT MADAME MOUSTACHE, WE ARE TURNING UP THE HEAT
INFO AND BOOKINGS
info@justanight.net
+32 478 58 60 39 (bookings and birthdays)
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Madame Moustache
5-7 Quai au Bois a Bruler, 1000 Brussels
Just A Night is landing at Madame Moustache for an exceptional edition!
A must-attend roaming concept in Brussels, Just A Night has been bringing together nightlife lovers for over 10 years:
Artists, DJs, models, party people, globe-trotters, expats, and cool crowds from all backgrounds!
Madame Moustache
Brussels
Clubbing
OLDSCHOOL PARTY | 80's 90's 2000's
Flesh and Fewl
Étienne is a truck driver and a serious guy, not very talkative, totally dedicated to his job. He is gay, but only permits himself occasional one-night stands in car parks or woodland. When Étienne meets Bartosz, a Polish trucker, new emotions make an appearance. Crushed by the relentless time pressure of their work, the two lovers will need a thousand tricks to meet again. Alexis Manenti's dazzling charisma fuels a film that is all the stronger because it operates on two levels, both romantic and social. This harsh and precarious world makes the perfect setting for an absolutely believable love story.
Cinéma Palace
Brussels
Cinema
Flesh and Fewl
Live Music Every Weekend
Live Music Every Weekend !
Saturday's Jazz After Shopping & Sunday's Round About Five
>> from 5 pm to 7 pm <<
L'Archiduc
Brussels
Concert
Live Music Every Weekend
Queer Writing Group
Passa Porta
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Queer Writing Group
Laurence Cousseau Quintet
Laurence Cousseau Quintet presents its debut album, Les Groseilles de Novembre, rooted in an aesthetic of magical realism. The group’s singular sound is shaped by the combination of alto flute and bass clarinet, creating a rich and distinctive sonic palette. The quintet draws on the energy of jazz figures such as Eric Dolphy and Charles Mingus, while embracing influences from modern music and contemporary jazz.
Café Roskam
Brussels
Concert
Laurence Cousseau Quintet
Dimanche à vélo - Kerkhof van Laken
Cactus Brussel à vélo
Brussels
Guided tours
Dimanche à vélo - Kerkhof van Laken
poeticafe: sandrine verstraete and maarten van der graaff
Lord Byron
Brussels
Various
poeticafe: sandrine verstraete and maarten van der graaff
Deze maand in Cinema RITCS
RITCS Cinema
Brussels
Cinema
Deze maand in Cinema RITCS
Body conditioning 1
GC De Markten
Brussels
Sport
Body conditioning 1
Body conditioning 2
GC De Markten
Brussels
Sport
Body conditioning 2
Body stretch
GC De Markten
Brussels
Sport
Body stretch
Early birds pilates 26
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Early birds pilates 26
Yoga bij ochtendgloren 26
GC De Markten
Brussels
Sport
Yoga bij ochtendgloren 26
Breakdance 4e-6e leerjaar
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Breakdance 4e-6e leerjaar
Breakdance 1e-3e leerjaar
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Breakdance 1e-3e leerjaar
Boomerboks
GC De Markten
Brussels
Sport
Boomerboks
Parkiboks als medicijn voor iedereen - GOLDkaart
GC De Markten
Brussels
Sport
Parkiboks als medicijn voor iedereen - GOLDkaart
Les Marolles : la voix du logement modeste
Poelaertplein, on the stairs of the Palace of Justice
Brussels
Guided tours
Les Marolles : la voix du logement modeste
Jules & Jo – Le Futur est Génial - BXL sur Scènes
Le Jardin de ma Soeur
Brussels
Concert
Jules & Jo – Le Futur est Génial - BXL sur Scènes
Fifty Lab
more on
https://www.fiftylab.eu/
https://www.instagram.com/fiftylab_festival
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photo ©ZENA
Beursschouwburg
Brussels
Festival
Fifty Lab
Swipe. Scroll. Sniff. Repeat
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Swipe. Scroll. Sniff. Repeat
Stemmer 26-27
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Stemmer 26-27
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western exposes the hypocrisy of contemporary neo-imperialist Western policies. The result is a satirical, epic-historical deconstruction of our (so called) postwar history.
“Just over half a century after the genre’s heyday, we feel it is time to make a new spaghetti western. At a moment when violence and aggression bombard us from all sides, while at the same time every blow in fiction seems to require a trigger warning, we want to scrutinize the hypocrisy of Western policy, the new imperialism, the (growing taboo around) violence, and the new (puritanical) morality that attempts to mask the West’s glaring lack of ethics, through a theatrical spaghetti western in 2026.” (Aurelie Di Marino)With Spaghetti Western, performers and theatre makers Aurelie Di Marino, Renée Goethijn, Femke Stallaert, Michiel Soete, Oscar Briou, Edoardo Ripani, Oxana Sankova, Atta Nasser, Nona Buhrs, Roel Faes, Paola Bartoletti, Yuni Mahieu, Giovanni Barcella, Kaat Arnaert, Tomas Pevenage, Anne-Catherine Kunz and Anthony Chang draw inspiration from the Italian film genre of the same name, the subversive counterpart to the classic American Western that reached its peak in the late 1960s.Amid dirty plates, empty bottles, and shattered glasses, a world of cowboys, outlaws, heroes, and antiheroes unfolds. Someone’s head is smashed in, just because. Christ’s cross is blasted apart, and from its fragments a duel emerges. Beginning with a prologue steeped in violence and cliché, Spaghetti Western exposes the hypocrisy of contemporary neo-imperialist Western policies. The result is a satirical, epic-historical deconstruction of our (so called) postwar history.
KVS BOL
Brussels
Theatre
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western
A world of cowboys, outlaws, heroes, and anti-heroes opens up amidst dirty plates, empty bottles, and shattered glasses. Along with a Brussels-based cast of actors and theatre makers, Aurelie di Marino and Renée Goethijn take a close look at the Spaghetti Western. In a time when violence and aggression lash out at us, but every fictional blow asks for a trigger warning, they call out the hypocrisy of Western policy. Inspiration source: the Italian Spaghetti Western, the critical variant of the classic American Western.
A world of cowboys, outlaws, heroes, and anti-heroes opens up amidst dirty plates, empty bottles, and shattered glasses. Someone gets their head bashed in for no reason. Christ’s cross is shot to pieces, and a duel using the rubble ensues. Starting from a prologue full of violence and clichés, Spaghetti Western questions the hypocrisy of the new imperialist Western policy. A satirical and epic-historical deconstruction of our (so-called) post-war history. In this performance, the Wild West is not located in the 19th century, nor in the US. On the contrary. We find ourselves in the Wild West here, everywhere, and now. Images of violence can no longer be banished from daily life. Propaganda justifying Western policy within the geopolitical order is also omnipresent – to such an extent, in fact, that we are beginning to consider it normal. Meanwhile, polarization and unease are growing among the citizenry. With Spaghetti Western, the actors and theatre-makers Aurelie Di Marino, Renée Goethijn, Femke Stallaert, Michiel Soete, Oscar Briou, Edoardo Ripani, Oxana Sankova, Atta Nasser, Nona Buhrs, Roel Faes, Paola Bartoletti, Yuni Mahieu, Giovanni Barcella, Kaat Arnaert, Tomas Pevenage, and Anthony Chang draw inspiration from the Italian film genre of the same name, the critical variant of the classic American Western, that flourished in the late 1960s. • Aurelie Di Marino (b. 1986) is a theatre-maker and director. She studied Literary Studies at KU Leuven and obtained a Master in Directing at RITCS School of Arts in Brussels in 2013. In her work, she moves between theatre, performance, and research, developing a distinct artistic trajectory, both individually and within long-term collaborations and collectives. Her artistic practice is characterized by a strong interest in ideology, power, ethics, and collective mythology. She has performed as an actor and maker on stage and in exhibition contexts, and has been involved in productions at venues including Kaaitheater, Antigone, Beursschouwburg, theater arsenaal, detheatermaker, and Buda. From 2013 to 2022, she was one of the core members of Koekelberg Alliance of Crafters (K.A.K.), a collective that, via artistic occupations of public and abandoned spaces in Belgium and internationally, investigated self-organization, community, and artistic autonomy. Since 2022 she has been working on Malgré Tout, a multi-year chronicle of Western ‘civilization’ that premiered in Brussels in June 2025, a collaboration between Kaaitheater and Théâtre Varia. • Renée Goethijn (b. 1987, BE, she/her) studied in the makers' program at the RITCS School of Arts in Brussels. She explores the boundaries between theatre and visual art, creating visual, absurd performances in which the scenography often forms the core of the production. In doing so, she creates bizarre parallel realities that expose the principles and mechanisms that steer and determine our societal reality. Since her graduation, Renée’s artistic work has consisted of a continuous interplay between an individual trajectory, collective practices, and other collaborations. She founded Koekelberg Alliance of Crafters (K.A.K.) in 2014 with a number of other former RITCS students – a horizontal alliance of 16 theatre-makers, tinkerers, thinkers, and other charlatans in search of alternative forms of creation, presentation, and collectivity. With K.A.K. she has created Office de Tourisme/ Agence de Voyage (2016), Life, Death and Television (2018), Snøw (2019), The Unheard (2020). At Kunstenwerkplaats (KWP), she created 4 Women Getting Sick (2025), a co-production of Kaaitheater, Viernulvier, Antigone, C-takt/Beyond the black box, among other productions.
Aurelie Di Marino / Renée Goethijn
KVS BOL
Brussels
Theatre
Spaghetti Western
Book club: Lize Spit
Passa Porta
Brussels
Various
Book club: Lize Spit
dancefloor radiomix
Madame Moustache
Brussels
Clubbing
dancefloor radiomix
Untitled activity #4855
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Brussels
Guided tours
Untitled activity #4855
MAD Parcours 2026
From Thursday 12 to Saturday 14 November, MAD Brussels presents the third edition of MAD Parcours, the annual event opening up Brussels’ fashion and design scene to the public. Over three days, Brussels-based creatives take over the city centre, transforming the capital into a vibrant creative trail.
This third edition brings together a diverse range of Brussels-based creatives across studios, boutiques, concept stores, galleries, showrooms and other iconic local addresses. Throughout the parcours, participating venues will host encounters with creatives, collection presentations, launches, demonstrations of craftsmanship, installations, as well as a selection of pieces and objects to discover or (re)discover and, for those who wish, to take home. It is an opportunity to step inside places that may be less familiar, meet the people shaping Brussels’ creative scene, and discover creations, collections and objects that reflect the diversity of approaches and expertise found across the city.
To help visitors find their way, MAD Parcours offers several thematic routes, allowing everyone to explore the city according to their interests. Independent fashion, collectible design, contemporary jewellery, contemporary ceramics or new creative addresses: each route highlights a different facet of Brussels’ rich creative scene, while encouraging visitors to venture beyond the usual circuits and rediscover the independent businesses that form part of it. A printed map, available at MAD Brussels and at participating venues, allows everyone to freely create their own itinerary and explore the city at their own pace.
Conceived as a journey of discovery, MAD Parcours offers a different way of experiencing Brussels: by following the thread of its creativity. The event shines a light on both emerging talents and established creatives, celebrates independent businesses and venues, and invites visitors to discover a local scene renowned for its diversity, boldness and spirit of innovation.
This initiative is supported by Entreprendre Bruxelles, Local Guide and the Alderman for Economic Affairs.
MAD Brussels
Brussels
Exhibitions
MAD Parcours 2026
Schrijfatelier
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Schrijfatelier
Total body 1
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Total body 1
Total body 2
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Total body 2
Introductie tot modeltekenen
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Introductie tot modeltekenen
Babbelut-conversatietafel Nederlands 2026-2027
GC De Markten
Brussels
Conferences and conventions
Babbelut-conversatietafel Nederlands 2026-2027
Valhalla
Valhalla is the musical project of Karim Gharbi and Clément Nourry, born from a shared passion for songwriting, sound experimentation and long-form improvisation. Blending voice, guitar and electronic textures, the duo creates immersive performances that dissolve the boundaries between composition, improvisation and ambient music.
Valhalla is the artistic project of Karim Gharbi and Clément Nourry, born from more than twenty years of artistic collaboration. Rooted in a shared passion for songwriting, sound experimentation and long-form improvisation, the duo explores the space between composition and spontaneity, creating music that is constantly evolving.
Moving beyond the traditional roles of singer and guitarist, the two artists sculpt sound in real time using voice, guitar, helicon, MicroKorg, effects, loops and electronic textures. The result is an immersive performance where songs, ambient music and free improvisation merge into a unique sonic landscape.
Conceived as an experience rather than a conventional concert, Valhalla invites audiences into a contemplative world where unpredictability, freedom and discovery take centre stage. Each performance is an "eternal first time," shaped by the moment, the space and the encounter with the audience.
Karim Gharbi (vocals, helicon, MicroKorg); Clément Nourry (guitar).
ZoArt
Brussels
Concert
Valhalla
FOOD
This humorous spectacle isn’t your ordinary feast. FOOD invites you into an amusing and, at times, bizarre world of consumption. Fueled by our very own appetite for more.What begins as a simple act of eating gradually transforms into a maniacal, almost mechanical ritual. We watch as the boundaries between desire and necessity blur, giving rise to something grotesque, surprising, and disturbingly hypnotic. Through acrobatics and object manipulation, these witty circus performers create a vivid physical language. One that questions not just their own, but perhaps even our collective consumption habits – habits subtly shaped by desires that may not be entirely our own.
BRONKS
Brussels
Theatre
FOOD
One More Time
Madame Moustache
Brussels
Clubbing
One More Time
Let's Talk | Theaterforum
BoxingClub VK/Idrissi
Brussels
Guided tours
Let's Talk | Theaterforum
Musical makers
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Musical makers
Yoga voor vrouwen
GC De Markten
Brussels
Sport
Yoga voor vrouwen
Final Event – Interlitratour Ateliers
Participants will present their creations and invite friends, family, and the audience from all workshops to experience these performances live.
In a single evening, performance, text, and image will merge through Spoken Word, live stage acts, and an exhibition of picto-poetry. The focus is on powerful presentations and storytelling in all its forms—from text and performance to image and experimentation. An open and inclusive celebration of voices, stories, and identities, where everyone is welcome.
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Interlitratour Ateliers
Brussels is full of stories. The Interlitratour Ateliers (Workshops) bring together writers, artists and performers to explore words, images, rhythm and personal narratives. From rap to spoken word, from opinion writing to pictopoetry, each workshop offers a different creative lens on the city and its many voices.
Organisers: Arthis – Belgisch-Roemeens Cultureel Huis vzw, Davidsfonds Brussel vzw, Internationaal Comité (IC), Kuumba vzw, Masereelfonds vzw, Vermeylenfonds, Willemsfonds BHG vzw.
Local Partners & a Broader Network: ArthisArtists, Entrée, Frontal Streamlines, Netwerk van de Brusselse Gemeenschapscentra, Orpheus - Bulgaars-Belgische vereniging, Romavrouwen, Romnia Feminist Library, Shabbes 24/7, Untold Asian Stories
Hosting and Supporting Partners: De Markten, Kompass, Muntpunt, The House of Growfunding, Passa Porta, HuisvandeMens Brussel.
With the support of Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Final Event – Interlitratour Ateliers
Marie Warnant – Panorama 20
Le Jardin de ma Soeur
Brussels
Concert
Marie Warnant – Panorama 20
Taalatelier VM
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Taalatelier VM
Taalatelier NM
GC De Markten
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Taalatelier NM
Bewegingsatelier
GC De Markten
Brussels
Sport
Bewegingsatelier
Eve Beuvens Quartet
Café Roskam
Brussels
Concert
Eve Beuvens Quartet
Antes de…
Between the foot and the step.Amid the breath and the word.That’s where curiosity encounters fear. Here, doubts, hesitations and decisions fill the void.This is where you move for the very first time.You dance, desirous, innocent and bold.What is going on, mentally and physically, right before a first time? A first step? A first word? What journey does an action take before it becomes reality? And can we map that invisible, but deeply moving, journey?In Antes de..., Compagnie Tea Tree finds their inner child, and ventures into the unknown. Acrobatics partners Sara Olmo and Pierre Viatour rely solely on each other. Hand in hand and foot to foot, they take turns leading the dance, show each other the way, and strike a path through unexplored territory. A poetic, playful and acrobatic performance for ages 2+.
BRONKS
Brussels
Theatre
Antes de…
XL AIR Invites: Paola Verhaert, Radio Panik and others
RITCS
Brussels
Courses and workshops
XL AIR Invites: Paola Verhaert, Radio Panik and others
LOUNGE
As a verb, ‘to lounge’ means to sit or lie down in a relaxed manner. As a noun, ‘a lounge’ signifies a public space for relaxation. Two bodies who identify as women move in a duet through states of active and passive rest. In the performance, they play with the notion of the Invisible Lapdance, which consists of small, almost imperceptible forms of dance that repeatedly blur the gaze between giver and receiver. The comfort of relaxation emerges as an active statement of femininity.
As a verb, ‘to lounge’ means to sit or lie down in a relaxed manner. As a noun, ‘a lounge’ signifies a public space where people can relax. ‘Lounge’ is therefore both an action and a place, a space that you can shape, inhabit, and enjoy. This dual nature of rest – of waiting, of moving and being moved – is central in this performance. LOUNGE is a duet for two bodies who identify as women. Together, they move through states of active and passive rest. In doing so, they make use of each other's presence to delve deeper into themselves and the atmosphere. The notion of the Invisible Lap Dance plays a role throughout the piece, consisting of small, quasi-imperceptible dances that make use of the gaze to blur the boundaries between giver and receiver. Leaning on eroticism and forms of togetherness, the comfort of relaxation emerges as an active statement of femininity. Marga Alfeirão (Lisbon, 1994) uses different media to create safe spaces in which intimacy and sexuality can be explored through dance and performance. Strongly influenced by dance genres and sound textures from the African diaspora that have permeated the social fabric of Lisbon, Alfeirão tries to actively lay claim to femininity, through which she creates space for feminine forms of sensuality and forms viewed from a feminine perspective. Lounge (2023) was awarded the [8:tension] Young Choreographers Award. In that same year, she premiered No Biggie Deal, a solo piece about Notorious B.I.G., the rapper from Brooklyn, stemming from the sensationalism and nostalgia that raised the question: was Biggie bisexual? Her first group work, no c o r a ç ã o dela, premiered last December with a team of eight artists, in Sophiensaele, Berlin.
Marga Alfeirão
Kaaistudio's
Brussels
Show
LOUNGE
verschijningen: jaap robben, sien volders, els snick and wout vermijs
Passa Porta
Brussels
Various
verschijningen: jaap robben, sien volders, els snick and wout vermijs
Stripconcert: Wide Vercnocke en Philippe François
The Church of Saint John the Baptist at the Béguinage
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Stripconcert: Wide Vercnocke en Philippe François
Juliette et Roméo
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Brussels
Theatre
Juliette et Roméo
Juliette & Roméo • William Shakespeare Eline Schumacher
Eline Schumacher transforms Shakespeare’s masterpiece into an explosive celebration, a pretext for the blossoming of a new folklore.
Following La Ville des zizis, which was staged here in 2022, Eline Schumacher continues her exploration of a joyful and generous form of theatre.
You go to a party, you get into a fight, you fall in love, you climb up her balcony, you make love, your best friend is killed, you take revenge, you have to flee, you find your love again, she’s dead, you kill yourself, she wasn’t really dead, but you were, so she dies, too bad. But legendary.
Some texts transcend theatre to become something resembling a passion, almost a belief. Such texts are no longer performed, but celebrated. And so Eline Schumacher transforms Shakespeare’s masterpiece into an explosive celebration, a pretext for the blossoming of a new folklore. This is about a discreet brotherhood devoted to Romeo and Juliet, a sign of absolute love for the classics that is shared as a collective ritual. Between scenes that are revived and reinvented, live music and a complicit audience, the play unfolds in a burst of energy. The performance takes the form of an immersive celebration where the auditorium and the stage vibrate together to honour love.
This performance features live music, including a brass band. Earplugs and hearing protection earmuffs are available in the foyers or at the reception desk.
Première
Studio creation Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Copresentation Théâtre de Poche
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Brussels
Theatre
Juliette & Roméo • William Shakespeare Eline Schumacher
MINDBLOWERS @ PRÓXIMAMENTE
VUB and KVS explore ghost memory and how memory and reality are shaped and reimagined from different perspectives.
What happens to stories that are not allowed to be told? To memories that are suppressed? Or to knowledge that has never been considered valuable?In this edition of Mindblowers, VUB and KVS bring together artists and researchers from Belgium and Latin America around the theme of ghost memory: stories, people and knowledge that have been forgotten, erased or pushed to the margins, yet have never completely disappeared.Through personal stories, artistic projects and academic research, the speakers explore what endures when people are forced to flee, when histories are forgotten, or when certain voices remain unheard. You will hear about Syrian journalists continuing their work in exile, a woman who was abducted as a baby during the Argentine dictatorship, forms of knowledge that have been pushed to the margins for generations, and artists imagining alternative narratives about the past and the future.Expect an evening of art, research and personal testimonies in which ghost memories take shape: things that seemed forgotten, yet never truly disappeared.With contributions by Claudix Vanesix, Claudia Poblete, Yazan Badran, Adriana Moreno Cely and Laura Vandewynckel. Speakers Yazan Badran is a lecturer and researcher at VUB. For Mindblowers, he draws on his research with Syrian journalists living in exile in Istanbul. Their story shows how knowledge, language and journalistic practices continue to exist when people are forced to leave their country. Through his research on media, politics and diasporic communities, he explores who is recognized as a legitimate knowledge holder and how stories, memories and experiences can cross borders without being lost.Adriana Moreno Cely is an activist, researcher and lecturer at VUB. During Mindblowers, she presents her lecture-performance PULPO. Using the octopus as a metaphor, she explores how colonial ideas about race, knowledge, progress and development continue to shape our societies today. Through storytelling, personal experience and critical reflection, she examines which forms of knowledge are recognized and which are systematically pushed to the margins.Laura Vandewynckel is a filmmaker, theatre maker and researcher. During Mindblowers, she draws on her project Let the Sea Take Away All Evil, set on the Brazilian island of Itaparica. Together with local artists and residents, she explores how hopes for change, progress and a better future take shape through stories, rituals and collective imagination. Her work examines how communities respond to social change and how stories help make sense of both the past and the future.PerformancesXenocene: A Manifesto in MotionClaudix Vanesix will share a lecture performance called Xenocene: A Manifesto in Motion."Xenocene" challenges human dominance over meaning by juxtaposing human “reality” with the "xenoreality" produced by an AI system. Is the world we perceive the only one that exists? Or merely one perspective among many, entangled in a post-human ontology where non-human intelligences also claim agency? ClaudiaClaudia by La Conquesta del Pol Sud is the second part of the trilogy exploring the relationship between history and identity through the story of Claudia Poblete.Claudia Victoria Poblete Hlaczik lives in Buenos Aires, works as an IT technician and is passionate about science fiction. Claudia leads a “normal” life, but behind this appearance lies an extraordinary life story. She grew up immersed in the values of a military environment, until, at the age of 21, she discovered that her biological parents were 'desaparecidos' (people who were secretly arrested, tortured and murdered under a military dictatorship) and that the life she had known was fabricated.Her case led to an important turning point in Argentina because it meant the beginning of the end of the military leadership’s impunity. Claudia’s life experience, which is communicated by herself on stage, is the primary material this theatrical documentary is based on. What do some individuals’ experiences have to do with us? What is the meaning of words like revolution, memory, and education today?
KVS BOL
Brussels
Conferences and conventions
MINDBLOWERS @ PRÓXIMAMENTE
