What's on this week: 11-18 March

For the fourth consecutive year, the Leuven Jazz Festival will be serving a broad menu of all things jazz, from concerts by acclaimed and emerging artists to movies, lectures and exhibitions. There’s even a quiz. Nearly all of the city’s cultural organisations are involved. The biggest names are lined up in the 30CC Schouwburg and Het Depot. But there’s also a lot of activity in smaller venues and bars, such as Oratoriënhof, De Libertad and At The Bebop, where the contagious Ethio-jazz grooves of the amazing Black Flower quintet will launch an attack on your hips.
12-20 March across Leuven

The traditional St Patrick's Day celebration takes over the Parc du Cinquantenaire for a 10th year, with Irish sports, culture and music, plus food and drink. Games for the kids and hurling and camogie demonstrations. Don’t know what those are? Come find out - or read more about the festival here.
13 March, 12.00-17.00, Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, free.

Meanwhile in Kraainem there's a weekend-long St Patrick's festival on 12-13 March at the Lijsterbes community centre, with an Irish dance workshop, a screening of the Six Nations rugby match between Ireland and Italy and a cabaret-style concert over dinner. Tickets for all the events can be booked online through the Lijsterbes website.

Still on the St Patrick's theme, there's an all-Irish comedy night at the Black Sheep on Tuesday, 15 March, featuring Rory O'Hanlon and Northern Irish funnyman Paddy Lennox, hosted by the Antwerp-based Irish comedian David Hayden. 
Black Sheep, Chaussée de Boondael 8, Ixelles, 20.00, €17.

Belgium’s biggest fair for crafters and DIY-ers, Creativa Brussels, includes needlework, sewing, cake decorating, paper crafts, flower arranging, jewellery making, ceramics, home decor and more. Workshops for adults and kids, plus exhibitions of art quilts and Swarovski crystals.
10-13 March, 10.00-18.00, Brussels Expo, €12-€13.

Vincent Glowinski is a known quantity in Brussels. The Parisian street artist has been based in the capital for years and has even helped transform the landscape of his adopted hometown with several large-scale murals. One such intervention, “The Jungle”, changed the face of the Botanique. Now the former botanical gardens turned cultural complex invites Glowinski inside to modify its Museum room. The artist takes his inspiration from natural history, planting fossils and skeletons from the Botanique’s history – and possibly his own. The exhibition also features works by Glowinski’s mother, Agnès Debizet, making it a very personal affair for the artist.
Until 17 April at Botanique, Brussels

One of Korea’s leading chamber music ensembles, Novus String Quartet, performs interpretations of masterpieces by Mozart, Mendelssohn and György Ligeti.
16 March, 20.15, Flagey, Brussels

A classical music concert in aid of the victims of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami makes its return to Flagey on 11 March - marking exactly five years since the disaster which killed 15,000, left more than 300,000 people displaced and triggered the Fukushima nuclear accident. Fukko (meaning reconstruction in Japanese) includes performances from classical musicians such as 21-year-old violinist Kaoro Ooé, who is from the Sendai-Fukushima region.
Fukko, 11 March at 20.00, Flagey. Tickets €35, students €10.