Hunting zombies in VR, time-travelling through 25 escape rooms, or coming face to face with Tutankhamun: at Terminal 1 in Brussels Expo, gaming, esports and immersive art melt together into one world of experience. SCENIO couldn't resist the call and put it to the test. Read our verdict below.
It survived the French Revolution, the Nazis, and seven centuries in a wooden chest. This autumn, the 68-meter-long Bayeux Tapestry will lie flat on a table for the first time, and that's just a stone's throw from where it originated.
Fifty animators, a dramaturge, an Egyptologist and a year and a half of craftsmanship – no AI in sight, apart from a photo booth. The story behind the making of Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition, told by the man who conceived it. CEO Jelle de Jong of Madrid Artes Digitales takes you behind the scenes of a production that ultimately even convinced the Grand Egyptian Museum.
What starts with toddler gymnastics in Antwerp ends up on a stage for thousands of people in forty countries. Jorn De Laender is a tumbler at Cirque du Soleil and one of the 53 artists coming to the ING Arena in Brussels with OVO this autumn. How do you build a career at the largest circus company in the world? And more importantly: how do you keep it up? Jorn tells us from the inside.
What starts with toddler gymnastics in Antwerp ends up on a stage for thousands of people in forty countries. Jorn De Laender is a tumbler at Cirque du Soleil and one of the 53 artists coming to the ING Arena in Brussels with OVO this autumn. How do you build a career at the largest circus company in the world? And more importantly: how do you keep it up? Jorn tells us from the inside.
With a sold-out debut already under its belt, the Water Lantern Festival takes its second step in Brussels. Whether the setting of the Bois de la Cambre can match the magic of the castle estate remains to be seen this time around. Anyone who loves atmospheric, slightly sentimental outdoor events already knows where to be on 19 or 20 September.
For the first time, Bozar is naming a 'Grand Invité' — a guest artist who helps shape an entire season. South African master storyteller William Kentridge is handed the keys to a full season: a retrospective exhibition, opera productions and performances running through April 2027, built around his own life motto: I am not me, the horse is not mine.
The man who taught Victor Horta the trade is getting his own exhibition in the historic greenhouses of Meise Botanic Garden. One of them, the Balat Greenhouse, served as a trial run for the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken. From 5 September, discover more about this architect to nobility and king in the exhibition Paradise Lost? - Alphonse Balat, the King's Architect, at both Meise Botanic Garden and its extension in Kortrijk.
John Coltrane would have turned a hundred this year, his wife Alice turns that next year. That's why Ancienne Belgique, Bozar and Kaaitheater are joining forces for Coltrane & Coltrane: a season of concerts, dance, film and talks centred on the man who changed jazz forever, his wife, and their son Ravi.
Ten years after his death, David Bowie lands in Lightroom, King's Cross. Not as Ziggy Stardust or the Thin White Duke, but as himself. For an hour, spread across four walls and the floor, speaking in his own words, taken from hundreds of interviews. A must-see for Bowie fans!
