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The Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival promotes the Art Nouveau and Art Deco heritage of the Belgian capital and this year it is taking place over the last three weekends in March.

Visits to over 65 buildings across the city have been arranged and amongst the new attractions this year are historical lifts and the newly restored Saint-Josse public swimming pool. 

Find out more about this unique event and book your visits at the BANAD website.

This summer the landmark Bourse building on Boulevard Anspach will be transformed into a tourist attraction with a focus on Belgian beer.

The ground floor will be an open gallery where visitors can walk through anytime they want 24/7 and will also be used as event space. The second floor will be home to a beer experience centre, which will be a paid attraction, and above that will be a ‘sky bar’, including a rooftop terrace.

More on The Bulletin website.

According to a new international report published today by the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and The Lancet, Belgium is the eighth best country in the world to bring up children.

Belgium ranked ahead of its neighbouring countries (10th), Luxembourg (11th) and Germany (14th) with the top seven countries being Norway, followed by South Korea, the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Denmark and Japan.

More on The Bulletin website.

BBCA council member and treasurer Christopher Thubron has recently been featured talking about his life in Belgium in The Bulletin Magazine.

Read about the life and times of Christopher Thubron here: http://bit.ly/38JEmbE

Get your walking shoes on. From 04h15 on Saturday 9 May 2020 the third Darkness into Light walk will take place in Park du Cinquantenaire/ Jubelpark in Brussels. Will you walk with us against suicide, self-harm and stigma?

Registration for this event will open on 25 February on the Darkness into Light 2020 website. #DIL2020

Here's an innovation. Liege start-up Connect2Move has just launched the BrusselsTransit map that shows every Brussels STIB/MIVB metro, tram and bus moving around a regional map in real time.

On time services are displayed in blue with later runners in red. The developers hope to integrate real-time information from SNCB, TEC and De Lijn in the map too in the near future.

More on The Bulletin website including a link to the map.

The Leopold II tunnel will be reduced to one lane heading into Brussels city centre from the Charles Quint entrance to Simonis from Monday 17 February to 16 March. The Koekelberg basilica entrance of the city-bound tunnel will also be shut as a result.

For more information on The Bulletin website.

The Brussels Madrigal Singers are giving an unconventional performance of the Mozart Requiem, for soloists, small chamber choir and ensemble of recorders conducted by Gabriel Hollander on Sunday 1 March at 19h00.

The performance takes place at St Andrew’s Church of Scotland, Chaussée de Vleurgat 181, 1050 Brussels and a contribution to costs of EUR 12 is requested.

More information on Brussels Madrigal Singers can be found on their website and Facebook page.

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