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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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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