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Author Archives: Penelope Turner

How Important is Culture?

The 2009 Flemish Participation Survey shows that since 2004 the figures for those attending cultural events have pretty much stayed the same. 30 percent of Flems do not participate in cultural events; 20 percent does something cultural a couple of times every 6 months; 23 percent goes out between 3 and 6 times in 6 […]

Free concerts are a BAD idea

Yesterday evening we jumped on our Villo! bikes and headed for Flagey for the attractive sounding concert ‘Au son de soi’.   It was a wee bit cold, but we were motivated and well wrapped up.  Ok, so the first Villo! stand we came to at Flagey was already full of bikes; no problem, we cycled […]

Concert tomorrow

Oops, I can’t read my own writing.  The concert at Flagey, Studio 1 on Saturday night begins at 20:15 NOT 20:35 as I wrote in my previous blog.  By the way, it’s free!

Concert recommendation for this week

Introspective, contemplative, contemporary chamber music by Henryk Gorecki in Flagey, Studio 1 at 20:35 on Saturday 29th. See you there!

What’s On blogs

Sadly I won’t be able to continue with my ‘What’s On in Brussels’ blogs on a regular basis.  I hope still to be able to flag up concerts that are ‘not-to-be-missed’, but my regular weekly is not possible for the moment.  Sorry.