It’s not on everyone’s radar, but Jam’in Jette Outdoor is a fantastic kick-off to Brussels’ summer festival season. The daytime’s family-friendly mix of villages dedicated to kids, crafts and solidarity turns into a music festival come nightfall featuring world, soul and jazz concerts. The...

Brussels-based Mental Health Europe (MHE) hosts the fourth edition of the European Mental Health Week from 22 to 28 May. The online campaign is running under the banner ‘Mentally Healthy Communities’. As a pan-European initiative, its main objective is to raise awareness about mental health and...

As warmer weather sees more people flocking to Brussels' parks and outdoor spaces, the region is launching a new campaign for public cleanliness. With the slogan "Love your park. Keep it clean!", the campaign #WeArePark aims to tackle the issue of litter in the Belgian capital, particularly in its...

A national strike in Belgium planned for 22 May is expected to cause major disruption, including on Brussels' public transport network. The country’s unions have planned a massive demonstration in the capital next Monday and workers at Brussels transport operator Stib are among those taking part...

The Royal Museum for Central Africa, also called the Africa Museum in Tervuren, has inaugurated a new room that focuses on racism. Visitors to the museum who enter the room are confronted with 11 sentences containing a racist message, along with a series of newspaper articles and headlines about...

The Brussels event sector is still struggling and has not yet fully recovered from the pandemic that saw it shut down for more than a year, new figures suggest. The number of cultural events in Brussels is still lower than the pre-pandemic year of 2019, Bruzz reports. In Brussels' parks, the drop...

The listed Art Nouveau building Hôtel van Eetvelde on Avenue Palmerston in Brussels has opened its elegant doors to the public following five months of specialist renovation work. Designed by pioneering Belgian architect and designer Victor Horta, the Unesco-listed monument welcomes visitors for...

Brussels is looking to discourage graffiti artists from targeting Mont des Arts by implementing weekly clean-ups. “Tagging will be a thing of the past from now on,” said federal state secretary Mathieu Michel (MR), who oversees the Régie des Bâtiments, the federal body responsible for public...

Belgium comes second in Europe when it comes to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual rights, according to the annual Rainbow Map of ILGA-Europe, the umbrella of European LGBTI+ organisations. A recent amendment of the criminal law to include discrimination against gender and sexual diversity as...