What's on this week: 10-16 March

Saturday is the 10th edition of the wildly successful Museum Night Fever: 23 museums, 45 performances, live music, dance, workshops, videos, installations, guided tours and more. From moving like dinosaurs to posing for posterity in Benoît and Bo's photobooth to Frank Zappa's songs being performed at the Museum of the Army to a dialogue between Baroque music and contemporary visual creation to chocolate eating while dance watching, there is definitely something for everyone.
11 March, 19.00-1.00, across Brussels

Home Sweet Home: the new edition of the Klara Festival in Brussels has a comforting title, but the past 12 months have been a turbulent time for the capital, and the festival’s 2017 edition reflects this turmoil. For two weeks, it will be looking at composers and musicians “for whom place and displacement, whether or not forced, played a crucial role”. This means there’s room for exiled composers like Sergei Rachmaninoff, who fled Russia after the Revolution of 1917, and Gustav Mahler, who called himself “thrice homeless. As a Bohemian in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew in the world”. Also present at the Klara Festival is the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra, comprised of Syrian musicians living all over Europe, having fled their country because of the civil war. It’s not a coincidence they make their Belgian debut on the eve of the first commemoration of last year’s terrorist attacks in Brussels and Zaventem.
9-24 March, across Brussels

American documentary Dreamcatcher tells the story of Brenda Myers-Powell, who went from a drug-addicted teen prostitute to a powerful advocate and ally of young sex workers. Dreamcatcher explores the cycle of neglect, violence and exploitation that leaves thousands of girls and women feeling that prostitution is their only option. Reservations via the website. (In English).
13 March 19.00, Muntpunt, Place de la Monnaie 6, Brussels; free

For two weekends, creative workshops for children aged six months to two years are offered at WIELS contemporary art centre. The workshops focus on artistic and sensory exploration, through visual art, music and movement. Each workshop lasts 1.5 hours and requires registration.
11-12 & 18-19 March 10.00/14.00/16.00, Avenue Van Volxem 354, Brussels; €5

Jazz combo Music 4 A While has a new sound as they take a contemporary, personal and original look at early European music: Renaissance and Baroque. They take music by Purcell, Monteverdi and Dowland, plus tarantelli, traditional Catalan hymns and ancient French popular songs and inflect them with jazz sensibilities for a fresh result. After the concert highlighting this new approach, they promise musical surprises at the bar.
16 March, Théâtre Marni, Brussels

Hidden in WIELS' shadow is another Wielemans-Ceuppens building: The Brass. It was once the electric generator and included some brewing rooms of the W-C brewery and is now the cultural centre of the borough of Forest. The interiors are remarkable and there's a great reason to stop by: The Art of Perpetual Motion, a new affordable art fair. To make the experience complete, there will also be screenings, concerts, DJ sets, world cuisine, participatory art creation and workshops including some organised by Refugees Got Talent.
16-19 March, The Brass, Forest

Brussels celebrates the versatility one of mid-century Hollywood’s biggest stars with a three-month retrospective. See Robert Mitchum from his breakthrough in the 1940s through his 1950s and ’60s blockbusters and into the sunset of his acting days. Edward Dmytryk’s 1946 film Till the End of Time follows a group of returning soldiers as they cope with the physical and emotional wounds of the Second World War. Vincente Minnelli’s film noir Undercurrent, released the same year, casts Mitchum as the sensitive man in a sinister love triangle. In Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter (1955), he’s the one who’s sinister – and how.
Until 29 May, Cinematek, Brussels