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La Verrière, l’espace galerie qui se trouve à l’arrière de la boutique Hermès boulevard de Waterloo, a depuis peu un nouveau directeur, le curateur français Guillaume Désanges. Avec Des gestes de la pensée, il nous propose une exposition qui en même temps sert de teaser de ce que nous pouvons attendre de sa programmation.

For the last few years, the industrious thirty-year-old rocker Bradford Cox with - "God”, according to some media – has been making a big impression with the guitar pop of his solo project Atlas Sound and the indie rock group Deerhunter.

Brussels is one of twenty cities taking part in the 2013 edition of the European Literature Night tonight. You'll be able to listen to Dutch- and French-speaking writers reading texts from their European colleagues at seven locations throughout the city: Tropismes Librairie, the Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits, La Bellone, Passa Porta, Le Cercle des Voyageurs, Le Wolf, and the Bibliothèque des Riches Claires!

The timetable is available here: http://www.literaturenights.eu/uploads/273/47d58e745d28bf83eb76372850f6d79d.pdf.

For quite some time, La Tentation has been drawing in crowds that like parties with a twist. From salsa lessons on Sunday evenings to the flashbacks to the Fifties and Sixties of Radio Modern, they all have their own niche.

The beautiful dance hall is now also the setting for Groovalicious, a recent party concept that takes a musical journey around the world. DJs Mukambo and Bruselo came up with the idea. Both gentlemen have been promoting world music in Brussels for years. The first is more specialised in Afro-beat, Afro-Latin, reggae, global hip hop, and exotic sounding genres like mangue beat and Ethio-grooves. The latter of the two, on the other hand, is a Balkan beats, cumbia, drum & bass, and dubstep wizard. We probably don’t need to tell you that these two guys guarantee fireworks on the dance floor. Elated birds of different feathers all happy together. Want to watch Brussels transform into an urb’n’jungle? Come to La Tentation this weekend.

Groovalicious 17/5, 22.00, €5/8, La Tentation, Lakensestraat 28 rue de Laeken, Brussel/Bruxelles, www.centrogalego.be

He has been called the “one man Coldplay,” but that’s a bit too simplistic for Tom Odell. The young Brit and his melodious, heartfelt piano pop are nevertheless knocking at the door of fame.

Est-ce que mes acteurs ont l’air suffisamment efflanqué ? Jusqu’où puis-je aller pour l’entertainement du spectateur ? Quelle esthétique serait adaptée ? Comment éviter une banalisation obscène et irréfléchie de l’holocauste ?