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Exclusive visits
Heritage days at KANAL
18/09/2021 — 19/09/2021
19/09/2021 — 20/09/2021
A marked-out circuit in the heart of the building site. All along the route, the KANAL staff and the mediation team will give explanations and answers to your questions. Musical animation by Fanfakids.
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Finissage - Gates (Might) Open Soon
17/07/2021 — 18/07/2021
Gates (might) open soon explores the socio-cultural phenomenon of the festival and its various manifestations. Traditionally understood as celebrations that include rituals and ceremonies, festivals also question social hierarchies and produce ephemeral communities based on sharing. Offering both escapism and liberation, festivals open the gates to a flow of emotions, revealing the sensual, spontaneous, and even darker sides of human nature.
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Ninon Mazeaud
Beguinage Stories
24/04/2021
25/04/2021
The church of Saint John the Baptist in the Brussels Beguinage, not too far from Place Sainte-Catherine, has been occupied by more than 150 undocumented immigrants ever since January 30th, 2021. In its recent history, it has not been the first time that a group of women, men and children have taken over the church as a battlefield with one common goal: the regularisation of all undocumented immigrants in Belgium.
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Vlatka Horvat
Beginnings Marathon
25/04/2021 — 26/04/2021
We have all had an extraordinary and difficult year. Our world came to a partial standstill. We are longing for a new beginning. But how do we begin again? Do we start where we ended in March 2020? Or will it be the beginning of something totally different? Do we start again cautiously or will it be the new roaring twenties? And should we be looking for that one new beginning? The importance and the danger of a new beginning amidst the 'post-crisis' vulnerability cannot be overestimated.
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Nocturne at KANAL
22/04/2021 — 23/04/2021
As part of Brussels Museum Nocturnes, KANAL-Centre Pompidou exceptionally opens its doors by night on April 22nd! KANAL invites you to an evening full of art and surprises through the It Never Ends exhibition. (Re)Discover by night the multidimensional artistic proposal conceived and staged by John M Armleder.
KANAL is one of the 22 museums in Brussels taking part in the event Brussels Museum Nocturnes.
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SEPARATION / IMPROVISATION
MÂÄK QUINTET
11/04/2021 — 12/04/2021
More than 20 years ago, Mâäk Quintet emerged as a classic jazz quartet centered around trumpet player Laurent Blondiau. Today, the quintet is a multifaceted collective with international connections. And easily one of Belgium’s most praised avant-garde jazz formations. Out in the streets or inside a concert hall, acoustic or amplified, in front of crowds or in a more intimate setting… Mâäk is all about vitality, dynamism and musical freedom. Within well-defined musical boundaries, the quintet creates a sound that ranges from sophisticated and fascinating to magnetic and sensual.
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The Museum of Performing Arts
KANAL takes part in « Still Standing for Culture »
20/02/2021 — 21/02/2021
Performative actions with Pauline Etienne, Constanza Sommi, Marta Lodoli, Denis Michiels, Nelly Meriguet, Regina Bikkinina, Lola Ruiz, Gianna Vincenza, Gaëlle Coppée, Clémént Paly, Hanna de Vletter, Fabien and Camille (tbc)
A collective of artists from all walks of life invites you to come and visit the museum of performing arts. It is an authorized, momentary, secure exhibition of the intangible heritage of humanity.
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John M Armleder in conversation with Bernard Blistène and Mai-Thu Perret
Tea Time #1
24/09/2020 — 25/09/2020
Drinking tea, artists talking to each other, friends talking amongst each other, including the public in the exchanges, creating a contact between art and everyday life. John M Armleder has been conceiving works of art, exhibitions and events as encounters ever since the 1960s. The work of art becomes both the object of an aesthetic experience and the occasion for a meeting and an exchange. Every day therefore, as part of the exhibition It Never Ends, Armleder talks, at tea time and in public, with his guests: artists, curators, friends and acquaintances, etc.
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Visit #OrigamiForLife
13/06/2020 — 15/06/2020
The House of Origami is open to the public. On 13 and 14 June, KANAL-Centre Pompidou invites the public to discover the installation imagined by designer Charles Kaisin as part of the solidarity action ‘Origami for Life’. Charles Kaisin and KANAL-Centre Pompidou wish to thank the public for the surge of solidarity which made it possible to finance Covid-19 units and the search for treatments at the Erasmus Hospital.
