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Community life: Marathi Mandal connects expats from the Indian state of Maharashtra

Why did you set up Belgium Marathi Mandal ? The group was formed in 2017 by eight members because there was not much community activity for our region compared to other countries. The purpose was to connect the Marathi network, to create a community where we can come together to celebrate our...

New building code to require terraces on newly built flats

Pascal Smet, state secretary for urban development in the Brussels government, wants to rework regulations to require new houses and flats to include a garden or terrace in the building plan. This is one of the changes he would like to see made to the draft document on development reform. The...
A 'Still Standing' sign shown during a protest of the cultural sector, in Liege, Saturday 20 February 2021. The cultural and creative sectors are struggling as events have been cancelled because of the pandemic. (BELGA PHOTO THOMAS MICHIELS)

'Still Standing for Culture' plans events for first anniversary of sector's closure

Demonstrations in support of the Belgian cultural sector will be held across the country on Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of the first coronavirus shutdown, which closed venues, cafes, bars and restaurants. The collective "Still Standing for Culture" announced in a statement on...
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Illustration shows a 'Zone 30' road sign in the centre of Brussels. (BELGA PHOTO VIRGINIE LEFOUR)

Traffic disruption expected as drivers protest Brussels mobility policies

Hundreds of cars, taxis and motorbikes are expected to descend on the area in front of Brussels North station on Thursday morning from 9.30 as part of a demonstration against the mobility policies implemented in Brussels by the regional government. Police have warned that large-scale traffic...

Molenbeek nursing home produces hilarious send-up of Frozen

The 80-year-old Thérésa was handed the role of a lifetime as she donned a blue gown to play Elsa in a brilliant parody of the animated film Frozen . The video was made in the Acacias nursing home in Molenbeek. As nursing home residents were getting vaccinated against the coronavirus, one of the...

Willehad Eilers & Philip Mueller - 'Reality Kings'

Submitted by Harlan Levey Pr... on Wed, 03/10/2021 - 15:56

In partnership with Carbon 12 (Dubai), Harlan Levey Projects presents the first collaborative exhibition of Willehad Eilers and Philip Mueller. Titled Reality Kings, the exhibition consists of a series of four handed paintings as the two artists make use of their respective specific skills in order to build a body of work that is neither Eilers’ nor Mueller’s. The crude lines typical of the former, clashing with the refined style of the latter, merge into a new production that is not so much a planned project as the result of fruitful serendipity.

Nails twice found scattered in bike path along Brussels Canal

Someone has been scattering nails on the double bike lane on Quai des Charbonnages, along the Brussels Canal. Nails were already cleaned off the paths by cyclists at the weekend, and yesterday, the culprit struck again. A cyclist who got a flat tyre from a nail on the path on Saturday alerted Bruzz...

Mileen Malbrain | Rhythms

Submitted by Xavier Huysmans on Wed, 03/10/2021 - 10:08

Black and white, interrupted-undisturbed, high-low, fixed-disconnected, hiding-revealing, order-chaos, moving-paralysed, turbulent-laminar, geometric-organic, and silence-drone compose twins of shown rhythms. Abstract artworks in various materials showing contrasts of rhythms under multiple forms and colours.

Vaut le Vicomte “Fit for a King”

Submitted by yttap on Wed, 03/10/2021 - 09:52

Illustrated talk in English on Versailles

https://theartssociety.org/events/vaux-le-vicomte-fit-king-0

 

 

Illustration picture shows masked and equipped members of the Special Forces team of the federal police, in Brussels (BELGA PHOTO DIRK WAEM)

Organised crime networks hit in Belgium's biggest police operation

After more than two years of intensive investigations, some 200 simultaneous searches took place on Tuesday morning in the context of a major operation against organised crime in Belgium. More than 17 tonnes of cocaine were discovered, along with €1.2 million in cash, 15 prohibited weapons...

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