The BD Comic Strip Festival is coming to the Gare Maritime at Tour & Taxis from 6 to 8 September. This new edition’s programme includes exhibitions, meetings, book signings, and activities for everyone. Not to mention the unmissable manga space and the giant balloons. Plunge into the ninth art at this major event that will delight comic book fans of all ages. From 6 to 8 September, comic strips will, once again, be in the spotlight at the BD Comic Strip Festival. On the agenda are activities, book signings, meetings and the iconic giant balloons, sure to please fans of the ninth art, whether they are enthusiasts or casual readers. In addition to the countless activities for all audiences, a manga space will make its appearance, immersing fans in the world of Japanese comics,...
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Inside or outside, here or there, open or closed, public or private... The concepts of "limit" and "threshold" have particularly fascinated and inspired Western culture. The ARTONOV Festival at the Belgian capital has made them the central theme of its 9th edition. From October 7th to 15th, the festival will host an eclectic range of artists in remarkable venues such as the fondation blan, Les Brigittines, the architectural complex BOB361, and École n°13 de Schaerbeek. The artists range from Xenakis Trio to Silvia Costa, presenting a multitude of performances premiering in Brussels. To open the festival the Galerie Ravenstein will host the contemporary circus performance by Chloé Moglia and it will be accessible for free. The ARTONOV Festival is the convergence of performing arts (...
Read MoreThe BD Comic Strip Festival returns to Tour & Taxis, at Belgian capital Brussels from 9 to 11 September. In addition to the exhibitions and the inevitable giant balloons, the festival features most popular contemporary authors. The festival is rich in meetings and activities. It would be great opportunity to discover the authors and immerse yourself in their world. From 9 to 11 September, the BD Comic Strip Festival (the new name of the Brussels Comic Strip Festival) will put the ninth art under the spotlight. The programme includes exhibitions, activities, signing sessions, talks and the inevitable giant balloons for all comic book lovers and fans of the genre. The event takes place at the spectacular setting of Tour & Taxis. The BD Comic Strip Festival is the major event...
Read MoreThe creators of Brussels' vast flower carpet, unfurled every two years in front of city hall, are opting for more heat-resistant blooms and the use of pot plants for the first time in the art project's 50-year history to adapt to Europe's heatwave. Returning to the Belgian capital's opulent Grand Place after a COVID-imposed absence, this year's design recalls the first carpet laid out in 1971 which was inspired by Arabesque shapes. A view shows a 1,680 square meters flower carpet made with Belgian begonias, dahlias, grasses, barks and chrysanthemums at Brussels Grand Place, Belgium, August 12, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron With the installation expected to endure four days of temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), the designers have had to swap many begonias ...
Read MoreGalerie Templon has kicked off the new season in Brussels with the return of Philippe Cognée for his newest series, Eye of the Storm The French painter Philippe Cognée, famous for his inimitable blurred wax technique, unveils a series of fifteen canvases flirting with abstraction. Created over the last year during the pandemic and keeping pace with the successive waves of lockdown, these new series alternate indoor and outdoor scenes. Views of a deserted but strangely serene studio contrast with a number of large impetuous landscapes, drenched in a nature bubbling over with life. Philippe Cognée has long used his painting to explore the shifting contemporary perception of the most ordinary features of our environment, from motorways and supermarkets to anonymous hotel rooms and ...
Read MoreGiant balloons will be back with a sneak peek into Korean comics world From 10 September to 10 October 2021, the 12th edition of the Brussels Comic Book Festival will be held in an exceptional new format: a month-long festival punctuated by exhibitions, events and original meetings. With a fun exhibition, a treasure hunt, guided tours and book signings, there will be something for all ages and tastes. And, to top it all off, the giant balloons will return, to a few strategic locations. 10 September will mark the start of a month-long celebration of the ninth art in Brussels. This special edition of the Brussels Comic Strip Festival will be full of surprises. It will be an invitation to travel, starting with a flight to South Korea - the festival's guest of honour-on the occasion...
Read MoreFrom 10 September to 10 October 2021, the Comic Strip Festival is back with a special month-long edition, punctuated by numerous activities in various locations in the Belgian capital, Brussels. This year, artist Bastien Vivès has designed the magnificent poster for this edition, a design featuring hero Corto Maltese, which takes you on a journey. Exhibitions, treasure hunts, signing sessions, there will be something for everyone. Not to mention the unmissable Atomium Awards. FILE PHOTO: Stripfeest - Comic Book Festival Parc de Bruxelles - Warandepark ©visit.brussels/Eric Danhier This year, to offer visitors a fantastic experience, while complying with the health regulations in force, the Comic Strip Festival will be celebrated over one whole month. Four wonderful weeks to travel th...
Read MoreBrussels’ cavernous basilica is one of the largest churches in the world but COVID-19 rules allow only 15 people at a time to attend mass there, the same limit applied to much smaller religious venues in Belgium. Dozens of worshippers of different religions and clergy demonstrated in the centre of the Belgian capital on Sunday calling for a change to the rules. Parishioners, who can only gather in a group of maximum of 15 people at the same time in the building, attend a mass in the Belgium's national Koekelberg basilica, one of the largest churches in the world, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brussels, Belgium February 21, 2021. REUTERS/Johnny Cotton “Here, more than in any other building in Belgium, this law is an incredible absurdity,” said the Catholic ba...
Read MoreOn October 24th, a surprising new place of art will open, a stone's throw from WIELS, Brussels’ contemporary art center. The public will have the chance to discover Galila’s P.O.C, a collection organized around a multitude of heterogeneous themes and presented in the form of a cabinet of curiosities. Galila, the passionate lady of the house, will guide the visitors through her phantasmagoric world. Galila’s P.O.C is also engaging with the local community by working on an educational project in two neighbouring buildings. Artists: Rina BANERJEE, Pascale MARTHINE TAYOU, Jim LAMBIE, Dionyssopoulos PAVLOS, Kristof KINTERA, Jean-Luc VILMOUTH, OPAVIVARA, Michael DELUCIA, Faig AHMED An exceptional collection Galila started collecting about 15 years ago. From the very first moment, it ha...
Read MoreThe sixth edition of the ARTONOV Festival will take place in European capital Brussels, in various Art Nouveau, Art Deco and other remarkable architectural venues. This year’s central theme is "what the day owes to the night". With this 6th edition, from the 4th to the 11th of October 2020, the ARTONOV Festival is more committed than ever to surprise the audience with a unique program, thanks to the motivation of the festival team, the artists and the partner venues. Schaerbeek - Schaarbeek Avenue Louis Bertrand - (Gustave Strauven 1906) © visit.brussels - Jean-Paul Remy This year’s program has been adapted to comply with the current health and safety regulations while maintaining the theme, “what the day owes to the night,” as well as the sense of artistic adventure that is in...
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