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Music that throws
The Jam’in Jette Indoor is thinking of your children this Saturday, November 9, 2024: the winter version of the Brussels world music event is planning concerts and shows for young audiences from 3 p.m. at the CBO in Jette. And there will even be pancakes for snack time. From 6:30 p.m., we continue with festive concerts, as is usual: local rock with Steffig Raff, new hip-hop with Dynamic x Dopa Beatz and reggae by Senegalese Lëk Sèn. And then we will travel to the East to the good vibes of Azahar Orchestra and Turkish Kebap. Before finishing with the after-party DJ set until 3 a.m. The Jam’in Jette, finally saved from the drowning that we feared this summer, announces that this indoor edition will be the last at the CBO “before reinventing itself”.
+”Jam’in Jette Indoor“, this Saturday November 9, 2024 at the CBO, Chaussée de Jette 407 at 1090 Jette, 3/10 €
Balloon travel
The bladders are fashionable in Brussels. After the works of EmotionAir at Heysel, it is the sculptures of Balloon World Adventure which pile them up at Place Rogier. A 2000m2 labyrinth winds “through the five continents”. Sphynx and pyramids of Egypt, Mayan cities, Tower of Pisa, Statue of Liberty and even a hot air balloon trip are entirely made up of 500,000 balloons. It is the Dutch artist Guido Verhoef who is the main organizer. We can say that he has breath! To prevent the balloons from becoming all wrinkled, the installations are “carefully maintained” throughout the show. Children will also be able to “release their creative energy” in a reserved space. And don’t worry about this mass of balloons: their rubber is natural and biodegradable. The immense creations can be evacuated… in just 10 large bags.
+”Balloon World Adventure“, until January 2025 at Place Rogier, from €15 to €19 for a journey of 60 to 80 minutes.
A thousand and one solutions
Can technology save humanity from disaster? This highly debated question is echoed in the free exhibition “City of Tomorrow”, which is being held until January 10, 2025 at Tour&Taxis. Set up by the Solar Impulse Foundation, it brings together “ecological, concrete, innovative, profitable” technological innovations to protect the environment and make cities greener. Because cities are responsible for 75% of emissions. More than 1000 solutions, awarded the “Efficient Solution” label awarded by the Solar Impulse Foundation, are presented there. In the fields of water, waste treatment, mobility, construction, energy, they come from all over the world. And some from Belgium who recondition portable electronic devices, insulate your homes with cut grass, preheat showers with the heat of waste water, or weave your clothes in an organic and recyclable fiber.
+”City of Tomorrow“, free exhibition, until January 10, 2025 at Tour&Taxis, rue Picard 7, 1000 Brussels.
World of m…? Do it yourself
Eco-anxious? Activist? You definitely won’t be alone this weekend if you head to the Arsenal in Etterbeek for the first edition of the Do It Yourself Festival. The idea: “encounters, hope and discoveries”. Conferences await you (art, urban planning, decolonization, sexism, gastronomy, etc.), workshops (frescoes, pastry, finance, etc.), a local creators’ market filled with pretty things and a “makers fair” to create new with old. Not forgetting music, stand-up and beers from the neighboring CoHop.
+”Do It Yourself Festival“, from November 8 to 10, 2024 at the Arsenal in Etterbeek, tickets from €10 to €38 (and €0 to €55 for workshops) to book here.
At the lobby table
Last option of the weekend to tackle the problem of global warming: the Ecopolis Festival, at the Kaaitheater and Espace Magh, which asks “how to be so much on Earth”. At the table there (among others): the French journalist and essayist Nora Bouazzouni, author of three excellent books on the convergences between food and class and gender struggle. Also on the menu: a documentary on seasonal workers who travel across Europe to pick fruit and vegetables and a walk through Brussels to discover where the lobbies who feed off the backs of the EU live. Good app!
+”Ecopolis“, this Saturday, November 9, 2024 from 11 a.m. at the Kaaitheater, Espace Magh and other locations. Free fixed price from €2 to book here.
Upheaval in Ixelles
Chambard this Saturday in Ixelles! The Mercelis theater welcomes families for “artistic perspectives on parenthood”. The theme of the 2nd edition: mother-daughter relationships and the injunctions of society around them. The afternoon is divided into three parts around a show from 6 years old (at 4 p.m.). This one, “Which mothers, which daughters?”, therefore questions the complex bond between mothers and their daughters. Before that (1:30 p.m.), a participatory workshop “for families” asks these questions: “Who decides to be parents? Who decides to be a child?” Finally, a writing workshop reserved for adults (2 p.m.) is offered by the librarians of Ixelles based on their literary favorites centered on parenthood. Reading will then be given at the bar to close the day.
+”Festival Chambard“, this Saturday, November 9, 2024 from 1:30 p.m. at the Théâtre Mercelis, rue Mercelis in Ixelles, free price but reservation required on the Conte en Balade website.
