PRACTICAL. Opening weekend KMSKA: this is all on the program (Antwerp)
Performances Saturday
-10.30 am-11 am: opening ceremony with cutting of the ribbon, accompanied by dancers, choirs and musicians. 11 am-11.30 am: Rubenscantate by oratorio choir deCHORAL-12.30-13.00: students of the Royal Ballet School Antwerp (Prince Dries)-14.15h-15h: life songs by Tutti Fratelli-15.45h-16.45h: dance performance by Joffrey Anane with two DJs and ten hip-hop dancers-5.45pm-6.45pm: jazz saxophonist Robin Verheyen with Goeyvaert’s String Trio and percussionist duo -20h-21h30: Stef Kamil Carlens’ band invites Admiral Freebee, Jaouad Alloul and Ikraaan-22h-24h: dj set with 2manydjs
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Performances on Sunday
11am-12pm: aperitif concert Antwerp Symphony Orchestra-13.15h-13.45h: Flemish Radio Choir sings Ensor-14.45h-15h: choreography Iris Bouche accompanies dancers of the! art high school -4 pm-4.45 pm: Everyone Sings! with children from neighborhood schools-5.45 pm-18.45 pm: dance workshop Joffrey Anane-20 am-21.30 pm: closing concert Het Zesde Metaal
All concerts at the museum during the Cleanest Opening Festival are free. Anyone who pays to visit the museum this weekend will also be treated to performances within its walls.
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In the museum garden and around the KMSKA there is free entertainment throughout the weekend between about 12 noon and 8 p.m. Theater Stap, for example, is going on the road with its Ensorparade, while ‘t Akkorde and Majoretski sign up for a ‘fanfare with pompoms’ on Sunday.
The catering industry in the area will be offering Festive Snack Bij De Buren on both Saturday and Sunday between 11 am and 11 pm. The painters’ market Lambermontmartre Musée settles on Sunday in the Leopold de Waelstraat between 12 and 5 pm.
On Sundays at 4 pm the museum hands out cupcakes as De Schoonste Traktatie. Joren Carels makes Saturday from a mobile studio radio for StuBru from 1 to 5 pm. Alexandra Gadzina will be present for MNM on Sunday between 12 and 4 pm.
M HKA and FoMu, the two other museums in the South, can be visited for free this weekend.
Smart ways to Antwerp words for traffic nuisance this weekend in and around Antwerp, because of three major events. Take into account closed streets during the Giants Parade in Borgerhout on Saturday and the Geites Parade in Wilrijk on Sunday. For the opening weekend of the KMSKA, some streets around the museum will be closed on both Saturday and Sunday. There is no car traffic possible in the Volkstraat and the Leopold de Waelplaats all weekend. On Sundays, there is also no traffic in the Leopold de Waelstraat between the Lambermontplaats and the Leopold de Waelplaats. The Schilderstraat and the Beeldhouwersstraat are only accessible to local traffic. In the Burburestraat and the Museumstraat, two-way traffic is temporarily possible.
If you want to go to the KMSKA this weekend, follow the advice of Slim to Antwerp to get to the city on foot, by bike, via shared mobility or by public transport. De Lijn deduced a detour for the bus near the museum. Tram travelers get off at the Bres van Kasteelplein stop on the route of tram 1 of 10.
Motorists are referred to P+R car parks on the outskirts of the city or to the new Kooldok car park under Gedempte Zuiderdokken.
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