TIPS. Dating in Brussels-Central, movies for the little ones and snowdrop splendor
Art in the station
18/02
Commuter to or from Brussels? Brighten up your jaded Friday night with a late Valentine’s Day gift for yourself. The poetry collective Slameke is waiting for you at Etterbeek station – it will use its most beautiful words until 8 pm to deliver you a personal love poem. Or score a last-minute ticket for The Dating Project by Dan Musset that same evening. Young people meet more in the station, if not on the Musset: because they are on their phone all the time. Mussett made an interactive and playful performance about it, in a special location: the Brussels-Central station.
JEF festival
until 06/03
Young film lover at home? Then you can visit the JEF Festival from this weekend. The youth film festival takes place in no fewer than seven cities (Leuven, Antwerp, Kortrijk, Roeselare, Hamme, Bruges and Ghent) and online: watch the very best children’s and youth films of the moment and afterwards dive into the media lab, a playground full of digital experiments. JEF is applied to the sky, a wonderful stop-motion film about a touchy mouse and an insecure fox. And oh yes: the theme this year is ‘science’. Ready to discover distant planets, search with special effects and find the secret?
19/2
Everyone has their own museum night, so the museum and gallery doors will swing open late into the night in the Stad Aan Zee this weekend. During The Night of the Museums and the Galleries you can visit no fewer than 39 Ostend art places for an atmospheric evening session. Mu.ZEE and The James Ensorhuis are just a few of the big names, but especially in the many and cozy galleries that the city has to offer.
until 11/12
It seems logical that you have the right to education, to experience your own religion and slavery is out of the question. But where do those rights come from? You will find the answer in Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen, more specifically in the temporary exhibition Universal Human Rights. Feel free to take your
toads
join in, because children walk through the exhibition via a special route, together with ‘Alain the alien’. Teenagers are also catered for in a mapped out youth route. In short, an exhibition for how could it be otherwise – really.
until 20/02
Until the end of this weekend you (probably) have the chance to go and have a look… after that the snowdrops will most likely have finished flowering. They are less beautiful than the purple hyacin flower, but who doesn’t fall for these modest, white but oh-so-beautiful ones? And then we haven’t even talked about their wonderful scent… If you follow the snowdrop walk in the Arboretum, you can fully enjoy the snowdrop carpets. Along the way you will learn everything about the fantasy surrounding this Galanthus nivalis, as the sympathetic bell is officially called.