Some end-of-year concerts and events hope to bring festive cheer to audiences across Brussels.
In the spirit of Ernest Solvay, who dreamed of places where science and humanity meet, the Solvay Library and the City of Sciences will, for one of the upcoming events, become spaces to restore balance between body and mind, and to explore vibration and energy.
It is in this setting that Edificio, an event and cultural agency, warmly invites people on 19 December to what promises to be an extraordinary afternoon.
The Classical Quantum Tai Chi event on that day offers, says a spokesman, a unique way to “unite movement, breath, and sound, restoring the harmony that winter tends to disperse.”
The performance takes place from 1pm to 3pm and places are limited.
Elsewhere, the Foundation for a Civic Hungary is organising a Christmas charity concert and reception at Brussels’ Concert Noble on 9 December at 6.30pm.
The opening remarks will be delivered by Ádám Kavecsanszki, Chairman of the Foundation for a Civic Hungary and Member of the Board of the PfE Foundation.
The atmosphere will be enriched by live music by Zoltán Maga, an award–winning violinist and his orchestra, as well as a Hungarian wine selection.
Meanwhile, Colnaghi Brussels will stage the opening reception of Northern Lights: Masterpieces of Flemish Caravaggism on 10 December from 6–9pm at Rue Jacques Jordaens 30, Brussels.
The presentation celebrates the first year of the group’s Brussels space with a museum-quality selection devoted to the encounter between Flemish painting and Caravaggio’s radical naturalism.
The exhibition looks at how Flemish artists drawn to Italy reinterpreted Caravaggio’s light, intensity, and realism through their own northern sensibility and the lasting influence of Rubens. While painters such as Matthias Stom and Hendrick de Somer remained in Italy, others, including Abraham Janssens and Jan van Dalem, returned to Flanders to develop a distinctly local version of Caravaggism.
Together, these works are said to reflect the vibrant exchange between Rome, Naples, and Antwerp.
- Photo Credit: Edificio
