Thursday night museum openings

Here it is again: The yearly late-evening museum openings program.

What is this? A number of participating museums in Brussels will keep their doors open a few hours longer on Thursday evening to allow people to visit for a reduced fee of just EUR 2.50 (or EUR 1 if you are under age 25).

When? Every Thursday evening from September 25 to December 18.

Where? Participating museums change every week. Please check schedule.

Other years they had special festivities on the opening and closing nights, but it’s not very clear if they will do that this year. For recommendations on what museums to visit, check this previous post (although not all museums listed will participate this year).

2008 Heritage days and no-car day

Two things coming up this weekend:

Sat-Sun, September 20-21: Journees du Patrimoine (Heritage days)- Museums and other activities around the theme “50th anniversary of the 1958 World Expo in Brussels”. (Download the full programme on the link above)

Sunday, September 21: Car-free day in Brussels The city will be car-free but watch out for bike riders who decide to take advantage of this day to undust their bikes and go for a (yearly) ride around town… You’ll see more pedestrian traffic than ever, but if the weather is nice it’s a nice way to rediscover the city on foot or by bike, rollerblades or skateboard…

Movie festivals in Brussels: Wolubilis + FilmDays

The new school year brings new cultural activities. There will be a couple of movie festivals this month:

Brussels Movie Days will take place at the Wolubilis (Metro Roodebeek) from September 10 to September 14.

Brico will also be sponsoring a 3-day film festival called Brico FilmDays from September 28 through September 30, showing movies for just EUR 3 per film. Below is the list of films and participating movie theaters in Brussels. For the full details, check out the official website.

Movie list:

• “Angus, thongs, and perfect Snogging” – Gurinder Chadha
  Starring Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aaron Johnson
• “Burn after Reading” – Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  Starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand
• “Death Race” – Paul W.S. Anderson
  Starring Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Joan Allen, Ian McShane, Natalie Martinez, Jason Clarke
• “Eagle Eye” – D.J. Carus
  Starring Shia Laboeuf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson
• “Hellboy 2 – The Golden Army ” – Guillermo Del Toro
  Starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Luke Goss, Thomas Kretschmann, Doug Jones
• “Mes Stars et Moi ” – Laetitia Colombani
  Starring Kad Merad, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart
• “Tropic Thunder ” – Ben Stiller
  Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Nick Nolte

Movie theaters:

* Actor’s Studio
* Kinepolis
* Movy club – Forest
* New Stockel
* Styx
* UGC De Brouckere
* UGC Toison d’Or