Toots Thielemans 100th Anniversary Official Concert
2022-04-29
The 29th of April 2022 will mark the centenary of the birth of Toots Thielemans. Musicians of international renown will be paying homage to this Brussels born ket who became a worldwide jazz legend and who we lost in 2016.

Colin Stetson
2022-05-05
Saxophonist Colin Stetson is a master of circular breathing. The way he plays the tenor sax is immediately reminiscent of (free jazz) masters such as Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann and Anthony Braxton. His resume is downright impressive: he has already played with or can be heard on records by Feist, Bon Iver, Tom Waits, TV On The Radio, David Byrne, LCD Soundsystem and The National. Stetson is also a member of the live band of Arcade Fire and Bon Iver. His first AB appearance dates back to 2011; in 2022, he will be making his fifth.

ascendant vierge - Les Nuits 2022
2022-05-13

Test Event
2023-11-25 - 2023-11-30 | Comès. Of Shadow and Silence, Place des Palais, 1000, Belgium

Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome + Fireworks + Scorpio Rising
2023-12-06 | Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome + Fireworks + Scorpio Rising, rue Baron Horta, 1000, Belgium

Dop Massacre aka DJ Saucisse
2023-12-07

Brussels Queer Graphics | Through the eyes of Joelle Sambi
2023-12-07 | Brussels Queer Graphics | Through the eyes of Joelle Sambi, Place de Belgique, 1020, Belgium
As part of the Through the eyes of program, external personalities offer their personal views on the exhibitions of the Design Museum Brussels. A unique customized visit where the choice of theme and approach is left to the speakers. Be inspired and guided by exceptional people who will help you see the exhibitions through a different lens.
The museum invites you to discover the exhibition Brussels Queer Graphics through the eyes of Joelle Sambi.
Joelle Sambi, born on a linguistic border between Brussels and Kinshasa, speaks out, manifests and produces a wide range of writings: short stories, novels, slams, poems, documentaries, radio programmes and militant sites… Through these traces, she explores a maze mixing struggles, desires and necessities.
A nomadic soul, she lifts and removes layers from the boxes of normative identity, sanding text, oiling images, soaping the stage. From post-colonial soil to lands of origin, she uses her voice as a migrant, lesbian, Afro-feminist or permanent exile writes not to live, but to abuse, to the point of hearing herself live. Anger, Fusion(s) and Creations.
Reservation : https://www.eventbrite.be/e/billets-through-the-eyes-of-joelle-sambi-748305039517

Hinako Omori - Coline Cornélis
2023-12-09
Since 2022’s critically acclaimed debut album “a journey…“, Hinako Omori has fast become one of the UK’s most compelling breakthrough musicians, blurring the lines between classical, electronic and ambient. A concept album inspired by the ancient Japanese ritual of forest bathing, “a journey…“‘s lush textures, rooted in nature, were called “remarkable” by Pitchfork and received heavy rotation on BBC 6 Music.
Omori’s potent blend of therapeutic frequencies, drones and her ethereal falsetto connected: she has since supported Beth Orton, Anna Meredith and Ichiko Aoba, played with a 60-piece orchestra for BBC Radio 3’s Unclassified and, later this year, will join Floating Points’ esteemed ensemble at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to perform Promises, his collaborative album with the late Pharoah Sanders.This tour will see Omori’s new album “stillness, softness…” performed in full for the first time, as well as being her first headline shows in Europe.
The album explores shining a light on our shadow sides – the act of facing our fears, letting go and finding peace and stillness within ourselves. Incorporating celestial electronic symphonies with ethereal vocals and drum machines, “stillness, softness…” is Omori’s most accessible yet, and one that evidences her true range as a composer, artist and synth virtuoso.

Gloom Club
2023-12-09 | Gloom Club, Anspachlaan, 1000, Belgium
AB welcomes nightclubbers and opens its doors for Brussels nightlife collectives who organize parties in different venues. Gloom Club focuses on progressive club-culture and music. Through their events, they try to feature the best of the emerging international underground, while resolutely breaking down barriers between electronic (sub)genres and niches. Their first gig at AB presents an excellent line-up. Softchaos – (electro, experimental, trance) Softchaos is the pseudonym of Teresa Stout, an American dj, multidisciplinary artist, and writer specialized in research-based visual and sound art. Coming up in a wave of new electronic selectors, they have experienced rapid growth in the last year. Their experimental sets are watermarked by their melodic pairing of hard groove-driven music along with aggressive percussive tracks and far-reaching techno, weaving genres meticulously in acts of reclamation. Jeneen – (dancehall, footwork, jungle) Jeneen is a Palestinian DJ and selector based in London, drawing influence from her experiences in the UK underground as well as the scene back home. She is featured on influencing platforms like NTS Radio, Rinse Fm and Balamii, and has recently embarqued on an international takeover. Jeneen is known for her energetic cross-genre mixing, which includes dancehall, electro, footwork and jungleTogo b2b DJ Takeaway – (reggaeton, electro, experimental) Togo and DJ Takeaway are two producers/dj’s based in Brussels and Berlin, who make up 2/3 of an event row named Local Slang. This movement is built around their shared love for left-field clubmusic, through which a wide range of genres and artists are being promoted. Electronic beats infused with a healthy dose of rattling percussion, carefully designed for the club. As always the resident Gloom DJ’s will round up the night in beauty.

Sextile
2023-12-11 | Sextile, Rue Royale, 1210, Belgium

Finissage | Brussels Queer Graphics
2023-12-14 | Finissage | Brussels Queer Graphics, Place de Belgique, 1020, Belgium
On December 14, get ready to immerse yourself in the captivating world of the exhibition Brussels Queer Graphics during an exceptional evening at the Design Museum Brussels. Meet the museum team and the exhibition’s co-curators, be dazzled by the artists of Cabaret Mademoiselle, and dance the night away to GEM&I’s spellbinding dj set.
If you are feeling thirsty or hungry, don’t worry. We’ve got you covered! A bar and foodtruck will be available on site.
A unique evening to celebrate art, diversity and creativity with us!
Program:
– 7pm: Doors open and Meet the team in the exhibition Brussels Queer Graphics
– 8pm: Drag show by Cabaret Mademoiselle (Susan from Grindr et Chéri·e Chapstick)
– 9pm > 11pm: GEM&I (Dj set)
– 11pm: End of the party
Price: admission to the evening is free. The bar and foodtruck are paying (payment by card).
Info: info@designmuseum.brussels / 02 669 49 21
Reservation: https://BrusselsQueerGraphics_Party.eventbrite.be

Whose aids?
2023-12-14 | Whose aids?, Rue Notre-Dame du Sommeil, 1000, Belgium
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Whose aids? interrogates who is speaking about aids, who is listening, and who is hosting. In other words, who is owning aids. We ask these questions in two acts.

From 5:30 to 7:30 pm:

Insistence and Consistency: Lesbians and aids is a double bill of performances by Fefa Vila and Talya. Fefa will recount her experiences in LSD and La Radical Gai, two lesbian and faggot collectives practicing aids activism and publishing queer zines in Madrid in the 1990s. Talya will address her gender and HIV transitions from her radical trans lesbian experiences in Paris and beyond. Also, two paintings by Marnie Slater will be exhibited, which adapt the artwork on the walls of the former lesbian bar Le Madame, which was open in Brussels between 1981 and ’83. This double bill is only accessible to a chosen diverse audience of lesbians concerned with HIV and aids.
Book a free seat for Insistence and Consistency: Lesbians and aids if you identify as a lesbian concerned with HIV and aids by emailing viralmail@proton.me. You can register under any word or number of your choice. The team of “Aids, archives, and arts…” will add you to a participant list that they will check themselves on the event date. All correspondence on this matter will be deleted by December 17.
Alternatively, you can show up on December 14 from 5 pm. The remaining free tickets, at least 10, will be given on a first come first served basis.
Note that all seats for Insistence and Consistency: Lesbians and aids are reserved for lesbians concerned with HIV and aids. The full capacity is 100 people.
The performances will be in French, English, and Spanish; and whispered translation will be organized between participants.

From 8:30 to 10 pm:

We Need to Talk is the recording of a discussion on aids and resting between Emmanuel Cortés, Héloïse, nixie, and Raphaël Kalengayi Junior in conversation with a small audience. This recording marks the publication of a sofa which is a conversation starter on aids and rest because we need to talk. The recording will be aired on a local radio in 2024, and shared online by this project’s institutional partners.
60% of the seats for We Need to Talk (30 seats) are reserved for poz people, and for BIPOC, trans people and lesbians concerned with HIV and aids. The full capacity is 50 people.
If you identify as poz and/or a BIPOC, a trans person, and/or a lesbian concerned with HIV and aids, book a free seat for We Need to Talk by emailing viralmail@proton.me. You can register under any word or number of your choice. The team of “Aids, archives, and arts…” will add you to a participant list that they will check themselves on the event date. All correspondence on this matter will be deleted by December 17.
Anyone else can book a free seat for We Need to Talk by emailing tickets@kaaitheater.be.
The conversation will be held in English, and whispered translation will be organized between participants.
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A presentation committee has programmed Whose aids? as a tool to attempt at satisfying some of our desires for our future assemblies, as listed by our first assembly, which we held last summer at BUDA Kunstencentrum. More precisely: the desire to participate in communities of lesbians concerned with HIV and aids, and the desire to rest.
We are a group of people collaborating throughout 2023 under the name “Aids, archives, and arts assemblies in Belgium” and alongside the threefold question, “Who is listening, who is missing, and whose aids?” Our project is to host three intimate and self-organized assemblies in 2023, ’24, and ’25 between chosen diversities of people concerned with HIV and aids. The assemblies, with their self-contained audiences, are our artwork of choice, where we share inter-community knowledge, where we self-govern our project. In the past months, we also hosted other events with different audiences: residencies and workshops at Le Delta, erg: école de recherche graphique, and Sint Lucas Antwerpen; and an intimate arts festival by and for people concerned by HIV and aids programmed at La Bellone, which we titled aids, who?
Azahara Ubera Biedma, Castillo, Emmanuel Cortés, Fefa Vila, Héloïse, Joëlle Bacchetta, Marco Labellarte, Marnie Slater, Matteo Sedda, nino_uncut, nixie, Oscar Mathieu le Bussy, Raphaël Kalengayi Junior, Talya, Turi Cantero and others have collaborated in “Aids, archives, and arts…” in 2023.
We aim at devising processes to carry out projects on aids, archives, and arts made by and for people concerned with HIV and aids. We direct this project from our transfagbidyke and queer, poz, feminist, antiracist, materialist, and intersectional community health political agendas. It is coproduced with La Bellone, BUDA Kunstencentrum, Le Delta, erg: école de recherche graphique, Kaaitheater, and Sint Lucas Antwerpen, all of them in Belgium.

MimiCof
2023-12-16
The Japanese, Berlin-based musician, composer and producer of music Midori Hirano took up the piano at the age of five and continued her classical training at university. She began releasing her work in 2004 under her own name and after relocating to Berlin in 2008, Hirano started other solo project: MimiCof. Under this moniker, she melds detailed rhythmic patterns with swirling melodic soundscapes, exploring the intersection between the natural and the artificial. Besides producing her own works, Hirano has composed music for films, video installations and dance performances.
