Ben Hur Live!

Fifty years after the first screening of the legendary film starring Charles Heston, Ben Hur dazzles the audiences once again with a breathtaking combination of light, sound, water, wind and pyrotechnic effects in a show performed in the round, like an ancient arena. Ben Hur Live, the major arena extravaganza continues its European tour with thirty-five shows in the UK, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, France, Spain and Belgium selling out fast. Check out when and where the show performs until the end of January 2010 and book in advance.
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Diana Krall’s Quiet Nights in Europe

With a Canadian and US tour now behind her, international jazz superstar Diana Krall is focusing on her remaining European trek behind her latest album, the Brazilian bossa nova-flavored Quiet Nights. The remaining part of her European leg in October and November 2009 is a hectic 37-date tour that spans 33 cities in 19 countries: France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, FYRoM, Serbia, Romania, Czech Rep. and Russia. If you’re anywhere close where she performs do not miss the opportunity.
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Deep Purple tour dates in Europe

More than 40 years after Deep Purple first started touring and making records, their multifaceted musical heritage not only lives on, it is continually evolving through projects featuring other musicians, and some of them are very young. In 2009 audiences across the world are still experiencing Deep Purple in their current formation as they are preparing to sow more musicals seeds on a November-December trek in 22 cities across the UK and another eight countries (Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, France and Italy).
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Red Dragon roars in Europe

With 45 major art exhibitions and more than 60 concerts from traditional to modern music, and 75 performances of theatre, opera, dance, puppets and acrobatics onstage in 40 cities in Belgium (but also in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Luxembourg), europalia.china is definitely the biggest festival held in Europe to date. The festival runs over a period of more than 17 weeks -October 8, 2009, to February 14, 2010- but it is actually an eight-month marathon, since its events start as early as mid-September and some exhibitions run until the end of April 2010. Plenty of time for more than a million Europeans to get to know China’s millennia-old culture and traditions.
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Depeche Mode touring the Universe

The English electronic band Depeche Mode returns to Europe to continue the Tour of the Universe 2009, after a long leg in the Americas. The trek is in support of the group's 12th studio album -Sounds of the Universe, released in April 2009- and takes them to 36 cities in 17 countries (Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, UK, Hungary, Czech Republic, Norway, Russia, Poland, Croatia) from October 31, 2009 to February 27, 2010.
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Massive Attack in Europe

The Massive Attack is launching a "huge" world tour to coincide with the release of their next album, tentatively titled Weather Underground, due in October on Virgin. More than 40 dates have been confirmed in the UK (Isle of Wight, London, Sheffield, Birmingham, Reading, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leicester, Swindon) and 18 countries in Europe (Ireland, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Czech. Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, France Portugal, Switzerland) from September to November 2009.
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Electricity as never seen before

After Shanghai in 2008 and Washington DC last March, Visual Voltage hits Europe’s capital like a thunder. Hopefully, the hands-on Swedish interactive show will help enhance our understanding of energy and encourage interest in environmental issues and energy usage. The Visual Voltage exhibition will be on show from September 10 to October 25 at the the Design Vlaanderen in Brussels, before it goes to Berlin in November 2009 and has two more stops in 2010.
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Paul Delvaux under the Greek sun

One of Greece’s most exciting museums -not only for its content but also for its amazing location- is definitely the Goulandris Contemporary Art Museum in the beautiful island of Andros. Just an hour’s sail by ferry from the port of Rafina, close to the Athens airport, every summer the island attracts art lovers with the top temporary shows presented at the museum. This year, have a short or long holiday break in Andros and until the end of September find the time to visit a unique exhibition of works by famous Belgian surrealist painter Paul Delvaux.
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It’s our Earth 2!

We’re counting down. Many say that Earth has reached that point of no return, simply because people and their governments have done nothing all those years they were simply looking at the signs. But some people do something about it. By informing and educating there’s still some hope. This is the reason you must visit the exhibition It's our Earth 2 - The Copenhagen objective on show at the Tour &Taxis venue of Brussels, from September 10, 2009, to the end of March 2010. Go there and learn. And then press your politicians…
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La Monnaie season’s ancient Greek scent

Fifteen first class opera productions, five dance performances, fifteen concerts and recitals and two theatre plays make the backbone of the 2009/10 season in Belgium’s most prestigious lyrical stage. Hot on the heels of Bozar, Belgium's National Opera, the Koninklijke Muntschouwburg (de Munt in Flemish), or le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (la Monnaie in French) -a reference to its location, the former site of the national Mint- is one of the few cultural institutions which receives financial support from the federal government of Belgium.
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Brussels set for the Design September

Launched 2006 within the framework of the Fashion and Design year, the Design September festival brings together fifty events focusing on all kinds of applications of industrial design: furniture, objects, industrial products, graphic design, architecture, the discipline is enormous and affects a broad public. For the fourth consecutive year, from September 10 to October 2, 2009, a crowd of associations, institutions and other independent organizations tune up their violins in Brussels to offer a rich and varied programme of exhibitions, conferences, private showings, film screenings, debates, visits to designers’ studios, flea market, city tours, pecha kucha, and so on.
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Bozar’s birthday party with famous friends

One of Brussels’ most respected cultural institutions, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, or simply Bozar, as Belgians call it, became eighty years old this year and this is a good reason for celebration. The beautiful Art Nouveau palace built by architect Victor Horta, has brought up from its archives portraits of the remarkable figures, who have created its history and built its international reputation, and presents them in a small but very interesting exhibition you should not miss until September 13, 2009.
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