The activities include: different concerts, live art, events on terraces, cinema under the stars, events in museums, ‘carte blanche’ for festivals, theatre for children, and many more.

These events will be taking place at various locations in Brussels (Laeken, Neder-Over-Heembeek, Square Ambiorix, the esplanade of the Cité Administrative at the Congress Column, the Vaux-Hall at the Brussels Park,…).

Until August 30, there will be plenty of choice to celebrate the Brussels summer together! You can find all the necessary details on their website.

Enjoy and don’t forget to be careful and wear your mask.

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Unlike official taxis, Uber vehicles won’t be able to circulate in the city: “A few weeks ago, we communicated to the Uber drivers that they won’t be able to circulate on Sunday, unless they’ll be in possession of a specific authorization,” explained the spokesman of Brussels Mobility, Camille Thiry, to La Capitale.

Public transports

As every year, the STIB will offer its services for free. Anyway, since its buses will have to circulate, like all the other vehicles, at 30 km/h the timetable cannot be respected.

De Lijn buses will be free, as well, for all the rides within the 19 communes of Brussels.

For those who don’t live in Brussels, but want to reach the capital by train, the SNCB propose a Mobility Ticket. For that day, it will be possible to travel in Belgium with no limits for just 6 euros.

Parking

In case you prefer to come to Brussels by car, all the entrances to the city will remain open to permit the vehicles to reach the six car parks available. All car parks will be free for the occasion, except for parking C of Heysel (10 euros all day) , and for the car park in the Westland Shopping Center (5 euros all day).

The other car parks available (with limited capacity) are:

Parking Stalle

Parkings UCL sur le site de Bruxelles Woluwe

Parking Brico Plan-t

Parking Ceria

Activities

The day is also going to be full of activities to celebrate and sensitize on the topic of mobility.

At Place Royale, Place des Palais e Parc Royale, will take place the event Bucolic Brussels. Between 10 am and 7 pm it will be possible to find food trucks, brewers, children’s activities, shows, artisans, associations and much more.

At place De Brouckère, it will be set the “Mobilxmix Village” where it will be possible to have a scooter ride and receive some knowledge about road safety.

As for every year, the STIB is going to open the doors of its deposit in Ixelles between 10 am and 4 pm.

Finally, it will be possible for runners to participate to the 20 km of Brussels but… upside down. In fact, the race will follow the opposite direction of the official 20 km.

To know all the activities organized in the 19 communes of Brussels Region visit the website of the Mobility Week.

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For teens and adults, layout of the photo book with Marina Cox, collage, folding and making notebooks with Marianne Fripiat, Japanese calligraphy with Satoru Toma, for children, the comic book with Sarah Debove extend the « notebook » experience. And then to discover or lead new experiences …

For adults and teens

• Sculpture / The living model 

With Julie Doutrelepont from monday 26 to friday august 30 from 10h to 17h

Price: 165 € and registration through this link.

Yes the living model will be present but this time the nude will be treated in the manner of Picasso, Giacometti …

• Photography/ Designing and making a photo book

With Marina Cox from monday 26 to friday august 30 from 10h to 17h

Price: 165 € and registration through this link.

Images – like words – make sense in their juxtaposition.
This workshop proposes to start with you a reflection on the book of photographs and to accompany your first steps in the realization of a personal project. You will go through the different stages, from conception to realization (editing, sequencing, layout, typography, realization of a model on paper and a layout software).

The participants will bring 50 photographs resulting from a first editing (in high resolution on digital medium and on paper), 100 photographs to widen the choice (not selected, on digital medium), texts and possibly a selection of 3 or 4 books reference.

• Japanese calligraphy / 書 道 Sho do – Breathing and gesturing

With Satoru Toma from monday 26 to friday august 30 from 10h to 17h

Price: 180 € and registration through this link. 

The Japanese calligraphy workshop is based on the Japanese language using pineau and Indian ink. In this workshop, you will work especially the « Kanji » – ideogram.
Starting with kanji very simple as 一(ichi – un), 川(kawa – river), you will learn more and more complicated kanji by developing different styles of writing 火(hi – fire), 炎(honoö – flame ). The Japanese writing, the sign drawn by the brush is very strongly linked to the movement of the body and the breath of the calligrapher. Before looking for a visual result, we try to feel the birth of a breath and a gesture. This workshop is open to all levels.

For teens

• Mechanical bike / retap’ bike

With Joëlle Carpentier from monday 26 to friday 30 august from 9h to 16h

Price: 135 € and registration through this link. 

Choose a second-hand bike and give it a second life.
At the end of the internship, you leave with the bike and know-how in mechanics.

For children

• Comic/ Album

With Sarah Debove from monday 26 to friday 30 august from 9h to 16h

Come create an album or a comic.
You will learn storytelling techniques for the comics and the album. You will mix traditional tales and what we observe around us. You will wander in nature. And of this nature, your observations and your walks you will write a story entirely in drawing. At the end of the internship everyone will have their own story, a real unique book!

children from 6 to 9 years

Price: 135 € and registration through this link.
nursery from 8:30 am and until 5 pm

For more workshops visit their website. 

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On the 29th and 30th of June the city will host Hungastry, the second edition of the Hungarian Festival, organised by the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the European Union! It enhances the Hungarian culture, history and traditions and it will introduce you to its surprises and hidden treasures. It will take place at the Cinquantenaire Park.

The festival will be a great opportunity to spend some time in one of Brussels’ best parks with friends and family: there will be several different options for the youngest, as well as for the adults!

The weekend-long festival will introduce the visitors to the Hungarian gastronomy, art, handcrafts and artisan products; it will present the folk music and the traditional dances.

Check out the program:

You may find more information on their page.

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“Every year, Courants d’airs offers students both a free space to be creative as well as the opportunity to experience the realities of a professional career in the arts. However, above all it encourages the mixing of different genres and arts,” explains president and founder of the festival, Pierre-Moïse Pivin.

This year, theater, music, dance, the circus and opera are the art forms being honoured. Performances will be held at the Royal Brussels Conservatory, at the Brussels Parliament (where a performance of “The Tragedy of Carmen” will take place on April 25 and 26 in the Ice Hall), at the Free University of Brussels, and at the Grand-Place.

The festival will open on April 24 at 8:00 pm in the Royal Brussels Conservatory’s Main Hall. It will bring together more than 60 students from over 10 different countries and from several different conservatories (Ghent, Brussels, Liege and Geneva), who together will be performing Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4.

A unique project called “Waffle Time”, which (according to the festival’s program) “combines juggling, circus and waffle making”, will also take place on April 26th and 28th at the Royal Brussels Conservatory, and at the Grand-Place on April 27th.

In addition to the young artists from the Royal Brussels Conservatory, the festival will involve students from the Institute of Arts of Broadcasting (IAD), the Arts² school, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (ARbA-EsA), the Higher Institute of Arts (Insas), La Cambre, Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (KCB) and the Higher Institute of Arts and Choreography of Brussels (Isac).

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This year BATIBOUW is 60 years old.

If you intend to build, renovate or insulate your home; if you are sensitive to the latest technological solutions as well as the materials for a saving of energy, then Batibouw is the place for you.

So, go to the biggest construction and renovation fair in Belgium from February 22nd to Sunday, March 3th.

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Water kettles, portable heaters and lamps. All simple electrical devices that you can find in almost every home in Belgium. They’re easy use and even easier to break. But did you know that 60% of broken appliances can be easily fixed?

Refugee youth as part of SB Espoir learned this surprising fact and how to do simple fixes of electrical devices through a workshop with Repair Café. On a brisk Saturday morning, the youth and volunteers assembled at the Repair Café workshop in Ixelles.

With the help of the technicians at Repair Café, the volunteers and youth were taught and practiced strategies on how to diagnose a problem and techniques of repair. Our first task was to fix a portable heater, and we did! Well, with the guidance of the technicians but we used the tips and tricks that we learned, we would determine if an item was fixable and then looking at the best options to fix it.

The youth and volunteers had the opportunity to try soldering wires to circuit boards, using an ohm meter, removing broken switchboxes, among other useful techniques.

Repair Café is a part of the Repair Together movement and the Repair Café International Network, all working towards promoting the repair and reuse of appliances, electrical devices, and other fixable items. They support the principle of reducing waste and second-hand sales and exchanges.

This Repair Café in particular works with Les Petits Riens to repair donated appliances and electrical devices that are then resold in the Les Petits Riens shops.

The volunteers and youth fixed about 10 items that will be sold at the Les Petitis Riens shop in Ixelles at Rue Americaine.

These kinds of partnerships with the local community in Brussels exposes the youth to learn about different life skills and opportunities for their future.

Interested in partnering with SB Espoir for a workshop or activity? Check out more information on our website and contact us hq.dev@sboverseas.org

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Brussels is planning a huge range of events. From tech house to dance and hip hop, there’s something to suit everyone’s musical style and taste. Streams of party-goers head to the Belgian capital for a night looking to catch the DJ of the moment or let their hair down at one of the countless parties going on in the European capital.

Brussels night life in all its guises

For the past 5 years, the Happy Brussels pass is a unique opportunity to experience everything the « Made in Brussels » night life has to offer for the new year. From the remarkable architecture of the Horta Gallery to the chilled-out atmosphere of Sounds Jazz Club, not to mention the unmissable Fuse and Bloody Louis, the nocturnal events on offer are happening in some of the most emblematic locations across the capital.

Day and night

Apart from a dozen night-time events in the new year, the Happy Brussels pass also includes plenty of ways to enrich your stay with fantastic daytime activities. In fact, Happy Brussels reveals all the right maps in terms of bars and unusual places to party. It also includes free entry to any screening you choose at the Galeries Cinema. To cap it all, the pass includes a visit to Atomium, the must-see architectural giant, a symbol of Europe’s capital, as well as two exclusive exhibitions on the subject of music and clubbing.

Exhibitions

Revolutions: Records and Rebels 1966-1970 at the ING Art Centre

An odyssey that will immerse you in the ideals, aspirations, utopia and thirst for freedom of the late sixties, as well as its anti-establishment movement and demonstrations. These cultural, social, artistic and technological revolutions, which all took place between 1966 and 1970, have influenced the way we live today and are still influencing
the way we see ourselves in the future.

 

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Night Fever. Designing club culture

Clubs and nightclubs are the epicentres of pop culture. Ever since the 1960s, these are the venues where groundbreakers have challenged norms and created alternative realities. As a result, many nightclubs have developed into full-blown modern works of art, with an unprecedented blend of interior architecture and design in their furnishings, art and graphic prints, lighting and music, fashion and performance. Night fever. ‘Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today’ is the first exhibition devoted to an exhaustive international history of nightclub design and culture.

For tickets and more information, visit

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Schaerbeek Museum of Beer

The small Museum of Beer is located in the workshop of a former school. It is surrounded by a beautiful garden. This inconspicuous place gives you a taste of the famous beer called Schaerbeekoise, which is unique and not available anywhere else.

Its scenography shows the various states of beer production and a collection of around 2000 beer bottles, many of them are accompanied by their brand glass.

The museum encourages you to approach the history of brewing such as: old beer-making machines, coopers’ tools, pub and beer signs, various publicity materials and even documents from former or existing breweries.

Cheers!

The Belgian Chocolate Village

The Belgian Chocolate Village (BCV) is one of the largest museums dedicated to chocolate. It covers more than 900 m². The tour shows the history of chocolate, its culture and production, the associated benefits for health. It appeals to all the visitors’ senses through different activities being held in the museum.

The permanent exhibition displays chocolate sculptures made by Belgian chocolatiers: the Atomium, the Cinquantenaire, as well as Greek mythological creatures made of chocolate. You can also witness the creative process of making chocolate by a local artisan chocolatier.

There is also a tropical greenhouse, an indoor orangery with cacao trees and other exotic plants. Finally, there is a boutique where chocolate lovers can buy handmade chocolate from all around Belgium.

Mmm!

Brussels Museum of the Mill and Food

The museum is a National Heritage building, located in an old mill. The permanent exhibition shows the milling process, milling techniques, its milling history and energy use. The exhibition is completely changed each year to highlight different aspects of food.

This year the museum holds the exhibition ‘Kids menu. A big history of little eaters.’

It’s all about the way children are fed from the time they are babies and onward. Moreover, the exhibition tries to compare Belgian cultural heritage with other cultures. The theme is covered by explanatory texts, period objects, photographs, archival documents from various Belgian and foreign collections. It is presented with the help of dynamic display. It also explains the children’s appetite for sweets and fast food.

Bon appetit!

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Around a thousand children aged between five and eight, accompanied by their teachers, will have a warm welcome for the patron saint of schoolchildren. The party will be in full swing from early in the morning. On the programme: entertainment, music and hot drinks.After the Great Saint lands at the port, Minister-President Rudi Vervoort, a band and a throng of enthusiastic children will give him the warmest of welcomes.

St. Nicholas’ boat will land at Beco quay. The Great Saint will then go to Quay01 to welcome several groups of children and share a special moment with them in his “Throne Room”. They will go back home with some wonderful surprises.

The activity has been suggested to all schools in the Brussels-Capital Region. As happens every year, great numbers of them wanted to take part. A total of 18 schools in Brussels will take part in the event.

Good to know:

• Date: 30 November
• Program: 09:30 a.m.: Welcome speech to the children
  • 10:00 a.m.: Arrival of Saint Nicholas
  • 10:00 to 10:15 a.m.: Welcome speech for the Great Saint from Minister President Rudi Vervoort
  • 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Meeting with Saint Nicholas for children aged between 5 and 8
  • 12:30 p.m.: Departure of Saint Nicholas

• Venue: Quai Béco – 1000 Brussels
• Attendance confirmation via email to:  n.wibail@visit.brussels

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