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Arts festival famed across the cultural universe for its irritatingly scrunched-up name, which means -- brilliantly original, this -- Arts Festival, in both Dutch and French. It spotlights stage events, putting an emphasis on opera, theater, and dance, but finds space for cinema, music concerts, and fine-arts exhibits. Various auditoriums and venues around town. Contact Kunstenfestivaldesarts tel.
Three weeks in May. Kattenstoet Cat Parade , Ypres Ieper. During the traditional Festival of the Cats, toy cats it used to be live ones! Contact Toerisme Ieper tel. Every third year on the second Sunday in May. May 10, The bishop of Bruges carries a relic of the Holy Blood through the streets, while costumed characters act out biblical scenes. Contact Toerisme Brugge tel. Ascension Day fifth Thurs after Easter.
Ducasse de Mons Chariot of Gold Procession. Religious procession of guilds and the reliquary of St. George slays the dragon. Contact Maison du Tourisme du Pays de Mons tel. Holy Trinity Sunday first Sun after Pentecost. Brussels Jazz Marathon. Enjoy a long weekend of jazz, all kinds, at a slew of concerts on the Grand-Place, place du Grand Sablon, and place Ste-Catherine; at other open-air venues around town; and in jazz clubs, cafes, and hotel bars.
Contact Jazztronaut tel. Third week in May. Day of the Four Processions , Tournai. Contact Office du Tourisme de Tournai tel. Second Sunday in June. International Cartoon Festival , Knokke-Heist. Belgium is a big producer and consumer of cartoons and comic strips for both adults and children. Here it celebrates the national fascination with the "Ninth Art," as comic-strip art is dubbed by its practitioners and aficionados. Contact Toerisme Knokke-Heist tel.
Mid-June to early September.
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Carillon Concerts , Mechelen. Home to Belgium's Royal Carillon School, Mechelen is one of the world's centers of carillon music, in which a classically trained musician employs a keyboard to play music on clusters of bells hanging in belfries -- in this case, the tower of St. Rombold's Cathedral. Saturday to Monday evenings, mid-June to August. June 26 to 28, ; similar dates Fri-Sun Brussels Film Festival. A 9-day feast of European films, primarily of first or second features, and by independent directors, screened at the Flagey cultural center.
June 27 to July 5, ; similar dates in Entertainment , Grand-Place, Brussels. Concerts, theater, dance, exhibits, and other forms of entertainment "animate" the Grand-Place. Entire month. Ommegang , Brussels. A dramatic annual historical pageant that dates from the 13th century and represents the city guilds, magistrates, and nobles honoring the Virgin Mary.
Participants wearing period costume from the time of the "joyous entry" of Emperor Charles V into Brussels in , escorted by a mounted cavalcade and waving medieval banners, go in procession from place du Grand Sablon to the Grand-Place. Contact Ommegang-Brussels Events tel. First Tuesday and Thursday in July. Brosella Folk and Jazz Festival , Brussels.
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Contact Les Amis de Brosella tel. Cactus Festival , Bruges. A prickly summer rock festival unfolds over 3 days and attracts big names to the city. Contact Cactus Muziekcentrum tel.
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