What's on this week: 9-15 September

Brussels arts complex Flagey kicks off the new season with a weekend festival celebrating “sight and sound”. It’s filled with screen gems for cinephiles of all ages. Flagey’s Young Film Fans programme presents Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 comedy Modern Times. The weekend’s headline event, however, is a screening of Oscar-winning 2011 film The Artist with live soundtrack played by the Brussels Philharmonic under the direction of Ernst Van Tiel and featuring the film’s composer, Ludovic Bource. Another musical highlight is a concert by Brussels-based Tuareg fusion group Kel Assouf, who will present their new album Tikounen.
9-11 September, Flagey, Brussels

Fifteen Brussels chefs and international guest cooks will team up with more than 50 wineries from Bordeaux to offer a weekend of wining and dining at the fifth edition of Eat! Brussels Drink! Bordeaux in the Royal Park this weekend. The chefs will be setting up pop-up kitchens and offering a different dish each day for the fixed price of €9. Additionally those dishes will be paired with Bordeaux wines selected especially for the occasion, as winemakers in six pavilions dedicated to the different Bordeaux wine families will be showcasing their produce. Find out more about the festival here…
8-11 September, Royal Park, Brussels

Brussels’ Design September has grown from a week-long taste of a burgeoning industry to a full-on feast of local and international design, spanning the entire capital for an entire month. The festival encompasses more than 100 design-related events, from exhibitions to conferences to pop-up stores to studio open-houses. Read more about this year's highlights here…
8-30 September, across Brussels

A collaboratory season opener of the National Orchestra of Belgium, De Munt and Bozar, United Music of Brussels features a free musical stroll through the heart of Brussels, with musicians performing a range of concerts in offbeat venues.
10 September 14.30-18.00, across city centre, Brussels

A limited number of tickets are available at the door for Mount Olympus, Jan Fabre’s 24-hour performance featuring a cast of 27 dancers from four generations, who play out the good, the bad and the ugly from Greek mythology. Beds and food available.
24 September 16.00, Kaaitheater, Place Sainctelette 20, Brussels

Art on Paper is a showcase of contemporary drawing stringing together 25 solo gallery shows from around the world.
8-11 September, Bozar, Rue Ravenstein 23, Brussels

Belgian singer/songwriter Me'Asa Weyo (real name Maude Florent) performs a fusion of pop, funk and world music as she plays through her album Way of Indigo in the beautiful setting of the Rotonde in the Botanique on Saturday night. The album features nine songs in English and one predominantly in French, with a few surprises promised along the way.
10 September 20.00, Botanique, Brussels

In Nowhere Beyond, Polish artist Tatiana Wolska creates large and small poetic works of art by giving a new life to objets trouvés - in this case objects she found in the streets of Brussels. Plastic bottles, lost lumber, pieces of old furniture and errant nails find new beauty in her arrangements. She is sharing the gallery space with French painter Jérôme Robbe who glorifies in the physical attributes of the paints that he uses and their chemical and physical interactions.
9 September-22 October, Irène Laub Gallery, Rue de l'Abbaye 8B, Ixelles