What's on this week: 3-9 November

Gilbert & George, the "art for all" artists work in many media but call everything they produce sculpture - their drawings are charcoal on paper sculptures, for instance. The pair have been together and lived in an 18th-century house in the East End for 50 years and an exhibition of their latest series The Beard Pictures is celebrating this landmark here in Brussels at the Albert Baronian Gallery. The Beard Picures are violent, scary, poetic, lugubrious or demented and maintain a tension between order and insanity, produced with meticulous detail. Don't miss this opportunity to see their work.
Opening in the presence of the artists Thursday 9 November 18.00, show until 23 December

Brussels ideas club Full Circle invites former Faithless guitarist and political activist turned author Dave Randall to Brussels for an inspiring chat on Tuesday evening. Randall's new book, Sound System: The Political Power of Music, charts how music in its many forms has been used over the centuries to bring about social change. From Beethoven to Beyoncé, from the Glastonbury Festival to the Arab Spring, and Pop Idol to Trinidadian Carnival, he'll take guests on a journey of political inspiration across the musical world. Hear our interview with Randall on The Bulletin's radio show, 98.8FM in Brussels this Sunday from 12.00
5 November, venue to be announced

The esplanade of the Namur Citadel with its spectacular view of the joining of the Sambre and Meuse rivers is the venue for the 13th Namur Circus Festival featuring among many others remarkable motorcycle antics on the roof of a car and other strange places, the ever popular Wheel of Death and phenomenal acrobatics of Acrodreams.
Until 12 November

It's your last chance this weekend to see the new show at the Royal Toone Puppet Theatre. It’s Dracula and takes place in Transylvania, the Marolles and even Knokke-Le Zoute. This is a puppet show for adults and children, performed in Bruxellois with gorgeous sets by Thierry Bosquet, and costumes by Lidia Gosamo and Nazanin Fakoor, adapted from Bram Stoker’s novel by Toone VIII aka Nicolas Géal. Enjoy a unique Brussels tradition that delivers lots of laughs and fun. All voices performed by Nicolas with puppet manipulation by him and his young, very talented team.

If you’re looking for a way to discover the street art of the city this is for you: as of this week, Brussels has a new app ParcoursStreetArt. It lists more than 100 works of art around the city but also proposes a number of circuits, some by neighbourhood, some by artist and some by the amount of time you want to spend. Downloadable with a maximum of information and regularly updated. Artists are invited to register on the app as are property owners who would like their walls embellished.

Until Saturday night it’s the Batard Festival at the Beursschouwberg. Artists from all over Europe "create a frame of sensuous space and analytic time and invite you to move through the thick of their layered pieces," the organisers say. "Pushing ideas and experiences out of their predictable bubbles and making them burst into pores in your brain. Reaching through you, letting them seep into your thoughts."

Calling all Lego fans: it's BRICKLIVE Brussels at Tour & Taxis with the world's best lego builders of all ages. Professional and amateur builders from all over the world can play with millions of lego bricks in the brick pits, and enjoy special guests and launches, displays in the Fan Zone, and ‘have-a-go’ themed areas.

You live on the east side of town and you missed Halloween? Here’s your chance to get dressed up and cut some ice at Ice Skating Poseidon in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert with their Halloween Party on Ice. Costume prizes, a professional make-up artist available and a special Halloween show.
3 November, 19.00

To celebrate the Pyeong Chang Olympic Winter Games 2018, the Korean Cultural Centre and the Korean National Gugak Centre have organised a special concert where you can discover the essence of the Korean folk music, especially the minyo (folk songs) from Gangwon-do Province where Pyeong Chang is located. The Gugak Centre traces its origins to the Royal Music Institute of the Silla Dynasty (57BC to 935AD).
Saturday 17.00. Free but registration necessary.

Very Bad Idea and the Café Floréo invite you to the Saint-Géry neighborhood to the second edition of a Trappist beer/hip hop extravaganza on Saturday from 22.00 to 4.00 in the morning, with great beer and great music with live DJs.

Then stick around the neighbourhood (get some breakfast) as the first Sunday of the month means the Brussels Vintage Market at the Halles Saint-Géry: vintage, second hand, clothes, accessories, jewels, craft, deco, small furniture, toys, vinyls & designers; noon to 19.00, inside and out.