Spending the weekend enjoying the wintry conditions or staying cosy indoors is tempting. But our rundown of Brussels' cultural agenda in the coming days may change your mind.
Arts, music and culture
Brussels Jazz Festival, Flagey, until Saturday 18 January
Flagey is celebrating the tenth edition of its iconic jazz festival. The programme will feature innovative jazz, young European and international talent, and a collaboration with the London-based contemporary jazz record label Jazz re:freshed.
Credit: Flagey
Over ten days, jazz will bring Flagey alive in all its facets: as well as a selection of concerts, Flagey has also compiled a film programme, workshops for children and DJ sets.
Find more information here.
'Outside the Lines' photo exhibition, Vanderborght building, final weekend
This Brussels-based exhibition marks a decade since Agnès Varda, a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer, decided to link her name to the region's School of Photography and Visual Techniques. Since then, she has defended the idea of an open school accessible to everyone.
Credit: School of Photography
The 'Outside the Lines' exhibition is closing this weekend. It presents a selection of photographs taken by former students since 2013, bearing witness to the richness of the training and the diversity of talents shaped by Varda's influence.
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Get on your dancing shoes
Kumbelé, Brasserie de la Mule Schaerbeek, Saturday 11 January
Temperatures may have dropped outdoors, but they will be rising inside Brasserie de la Mule in the heart of Schaerbeek. The heat will be brought by Kumbelé, a group performing Belgian-Colombian cumbia: musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, and the most representative dance of coastal Colombia.
Credit: Kumbelé
The lively band includes musicians from Belgium, France, Salvador and Colombia, and will play Afro-Colombian classics from Lizandro Meza, Toto la Momposina, Petrona Martinez, Juaneco y su Combo, and others. Get ready to dance the night away!
Find more information here.
Out and about
'From Muse to Artist' exhibition, The Nine, until April
The latest exhibition at Belgium's first female-focused private members' club puts community arts and female artists in the spotlight. For three months, the top two floors will be transformed into a creative hub for women with art made by women.
Credit: The Nine / Tamar Levi
One room will house a collection curated by living artist Tamar Levi of historical artists' original works alongside modern interpretations. The second room reveals her current artworks in progress, documenting life and raising her daughter in Brussels' European Quarter.
Find more information here.
Double exhibition: 'Ne meurent que ceux que l'on oublie' and 'La Résistance au féminin', Château du Karreveld, until Friday 17 January
This double exhibition hosted in the Queen Elisabeth Hall of Molenbeek's Château du Karreveld recounts one of the lesser-known tragedies that took place during the Nazi killing spree, revealed in an extraordinary book by historian Frédéric Dambreville.
Credit: BibZep
The exhibition focuses on Gatti de Gamond boarding school in June 1943. The Brussels building housed several Jews – mostly children – and members of the Belgian resistance, until the Nazi roundup in 1943. The exhibition tells the stories of victims and survivors, including texts by Dambreville. There is also a children's section produced by pupils from local schools aimed at younger visitors.
Find more information here.
