What's on this week: 7-13 October

Last year, for its first edition, the Artonov Festival presented music, dance and theatre performances as well as fashion design and visual arts in various Art Nouveau locations across Brussels. For this second edition the Artonov Festival adds Art Deco locations to Art Nouveau locations. The Villa Empain for instance will host the Osuna Trio with their cross-cultural mix of medieval viola, saz and chatkan and overtone chants who will perform while sand artist Colette Dedyn creates a piece. In the Art Nouveau Borough Primary School #1 of Schaerbeek there will be a family show The Musicians of Bremen based on a Brothers Grimm tale about a donkey, a cat, a dog and a rooster who escape certain death by running away to the big city, but what can they do once they are there? And at Contemporary Art Brussels there is a music/dance/fashion/plastic arts/visual arts mash-up.
6-9 October, across Brussels

To celebrate half a millennium since the death of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, whose paintings evoke wild worlds of demons, monsters and regular folks, one of Brussels's loveliest museums (and one of the oldest buildings in Brussels), the Erasmus House, in the underrated Saint-Guidon neighbourhood in Anderlecht, is putting its Bosch, The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1510) at the centre of a day that will bring his epoch to life. Musicians and dancers in 16th century clothes, medieval crafts artisans, a storyteller/harpist, history guides, a fire eater, children's workshops, and foods and drinks from the era will bathe the visitor in the past. And on Saturday evening there will be a ball illuminated with paper lanterns with live music by Prima Nocta.
8-9 October, Erasmus House, Anderlecht

Belgian dance is known the world over for its progressive flair, often crossing artistic frontiers and incorporating elements of other cutting-edge art forms like video and performance art. This retrospective group exhibition traces the history of the contemporary scene from its beginnings in the 1970s to its flowering in the 1980s and beyond. Step Up! celebrates dozens of artists, including iconic choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Wim Vandekeybus as well as pioneering filmmakers like Thierry De Mey. And this is just the beginning. The Step Up! project continues into 2017 with several future chapters.
9 October to 18 December, Argos, Brussels

Sarah Ferri, a Ghent-born singer-songwriter with Italian roots, mixes piano, pop, R&B and soul inspired by legendary songbirds Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone.
7 October 20.00, AB Club, Boulevard Anspach 110, Brussels

Dedicated to one of the world’s most versatile instruments, the Brussels Harp Festival features Celtic, chromatic, Scottish, classical, folk and Japanese sounds.
7-9 October, Solvay Library, Rue Belliard 137, Brussels

Age d’Or is an annual film festival focused on experimental and trend-setting cinema in promotion of the subversive, maverick and poetic side of the film industry. Guests include filmmaking duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige of Lebanon and American filmmaker and film preservationist Mark Toscano.
6-11 October, Cinematek, Rue Baron Horta 9, Brussels

Staminee de Bib sees Muntpunt transform into a cafe for a week, where books and beer, stories and meetings, coffee and cake go hand-in-hand, plus book sales, quiz, debates and more.
7-15 October, Muntpunt, Munt 6, Brussels