Culture
Our pick of Brussels’ best activities – online and off – for the coming week
La Monnaie continues to livestream concerts and operas scheduled for this season. Up this week, it’s young Paris versus old Vienna as the house’s symphony orchestra offers both Mozart’s Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra and Symphony Nr 39. Carrying on the Mozart series is
Der Schauspieldirector (
The Impresario), his wonderfully amusing take on the vanity within the opera world itself. La Monnaie’s very reasonably priced tickets give access to the recordings for a week.
Concert 21 February, Opera 19 February
French photographer Antoine Agoudjian spent three months in Nagorno-Karabakh, the centre of last year’s war between Azerbaijan and the Armenian ethnic majority. You’ll see the astounding results of his work during his talk The Armenians: An Abandoned People? sponsored by Boghossian Foundation (in French)
Dormir dans une bulle transparente avec vue sur la Grand-Place de Bruxelles
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Leisure
13:30 17/12/2020
Imagine waking up with stunning views over what Victor Hugo once described as the most beautiful square in the world. Well, now you can thanks to a special offering from start-up Imagine Belgium, a company which is committed to providing visitors with unusual and unique ways to enjoy the Belgian capital.
For an average price of €228, you can spend the night in Cocoon, Imagine Belgium’s new pop-up bed and breakfast, which has been installed in the attic of the Maison de la Balance, one of the houses which surround the Grand Place.
Just in time for Christmas, guests can disconnect from the current reality and sleep in their own Christmas bauble and wake up to views of the breath-taking architecture outside before enjoying a delicious breakfast.
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mast the belgian interior minister promised to clean up that neighborhood. joining me now right here is belgium s ambassador to the united nations, benadicte francille. welcome to program. tell us why your city is under lockdown and your prime minister says possibly until wednesday. it is under lockdown because obviously the priority is to make people safe. after what happened in paris, i don t think any government was in position given the information that was available to take any chances. give me your best analysis n information where these paris attacks were planned. were they planned in belgium? there is a combination obviously of triangle between syria itself, belgium for some suspects obviously and then some paris also, but i think for me to speak about it is a lot of
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