Wednesday 21 OCT20:00
Farida Amadou / Louis Vanhaverbeke: Soil Biographies
DE SINGEL · Theaterstudio · Antwerpen-Zuid
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This week’s top editorial picks
Monday—Sunday
This week
Live music, performance and artist-led events across Antwerp.
MondayOCT19
20:00
In conversation with Maria ‘Masha’ Alyokhina
DE SINGEL · Muziekstudio · Antwerpen-Zuid
A day after RIOT DAYS, the Pussy Riot artist and author speaks with Sofie Avery about political persecution, prison, exile and the continuing work of resistance.
MondayOCT19
Formerly 19:00
СОЮЗ (SOYUZ) + Honey
Kavka Oudaan · Historic Centre
Kavka has cancelled the concert because the band could not obtain the necessary visa. The event is retained here only as a practical status update.
WednesdayOCT21
20:30 · doors 19:45
Breathing #61
Rataplan · Borgerhout
Bo van der Werf and Michel Hatzigeorgiou coach an Antwerp Conservatoire ensemble through an intensive collective research period, ending in a public concert shaped by improvisation.
WednesdayOCT21
20:00
Farida Amadou / Louis Vanhaverbeke: Soil Biographies
DE SINGEL · Theaterstudio · Antwerpen-Zuid
Earth becomes backdrop, instrument and co-performer as Amadou’s physical bass language meets Vanhaverbeke’s farming practice in a ritual landscape of sound and transformation.
WednesdayOCT21
20:30
WALL TO WALL
Monty · Antwerpen-Zuid
Kris Verdonck’s short film DEMO meets Marc Iglesias Figueras’s dance solo NOT TOMORROW in a portrait of the city as spectacle, pressure system and place where the body keeps performing.
WednesdayOCT21
20:00
Science café with Paul Leysen
Den Hopsack · Historic Centre
Nuclear engineer Paul Leysen opens up how reactors work, where nuclear technology appears beyond power generation and what technically failed at Chernobyl and Fukushima.
ThursdayOCT22
20:00
Saving Nico + Frederik Daelemans
Het Bos Club · Antwerpen
Saving Nico launches Flood, recorded largely live with Nicolas Rombouts among the guests. Daelemans opens by merging voice, cello and effects into folk-shaped ambient soundscapes.
ThursdayOCT22
17:00–20:00
De nexus: artistic research in connection
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp · Antwerpen-Zuid
FORUM+ brings artists and researchers from art schools across Belgium and the Netherlands into a public evening on how artistic research meets higher arts education, with contributions woven through a walking dinner.
ThursdayOCT22
20:00
Lo Meulen + special guests
Djingel Djangel · Eilandje
The former Aroma di Amore bassist presents a tree for eternity with Geert Waegeman, combining krautrock, minimal music, experimental techno, improvisation and live video; Elvis Peeters joins as a guest.
FridayOCT23
20:00
Trajal Harrell / Zürich Dance Ensemble: The Romeo
DE SINGEL · Rode Zaal · Antwerpen-Zuid
Fifteen dancers move through ballroom, voguing, butoh, ancient Greek theatre, fashion and pop culture in Harrell’s imaginary universal dance.
FridayOCT23
20:00
Club Gewalt: NOISE
DE SINGEL · Antwerpen-Zuid
Club Gewalt turns the permanent information-noise of the polycrisis into a hallucinatory performance opera where tekno, post-punk, improvisation and catastrophe collide.
FridayOCT23
20:30 · doors 19:45
Alex Koo: Kimono Garden
Rataplan · Borgerhout
Koo expands his lockdown-era electronic solo album with Lorena Del Mar, Trui Amerlinck and Andrew Claes, moving between piano, synths, loops, cello, EWI and percussion.
SaturdayOCT24
12:00 · De Roma from 18:00
When The Bulbul Stopped Singing
Rataplan + De Roma · Borgerhout
A full day of Palestinian culture and solidarity moves from family workshops, food, films, printmaking and an art market at Rataplan to talks, dance and live music at De Roma.
SaturdayOCT24
15:00 + 17:00 · procession 16:00
The Early Years of the Earldom of Watou
Kunsthal Extra City · Antwerpen-Centraal
Guillaume Bijl’s only theatre piece is reconstructed inside his fictional-historical museum, directed by Aline Bouvy and performed twice by Antwerp amateurs; between shows, its medieval tableau walks out into the city.
SaturdayOCT24
20:00–22:00
Colourful Skies, Burnt Lands
Out of Sight · Antwerpen-Centraal
Maxime Corbeil-Perron plays three analogue film projectors through a custom light-control system, hand-built shutters and electronics, binding blazing 16mm colour to sampled and synthetic sound in real time.
SaturdayOCT24
20:00 + 21:30
The Handover + Abdullah Miniawy Trio
DE SINGEL · Theaterstudio · Antwerpen-Zuid
The Handover’s rural Egyptian rhythms, drones and krautrock build toward trance before Miniawy’s voice meets two trombones in a spiritual field of jazz, poetry and Coptic traditions.
SaturdayOCT24
21:00
Loe Elix
Den Hopsack · Historic Centre
Guitarist Jasper Iturrospe leads a quartet with Jens Wierckx, Raaf Lopes Cardozo and Nathan Kerstens through a colourful set of original instrumental pieces for classical guitar, drums, synth and bass.
SaturdayOCT24
20:00
A Slice of Life: EP release
Djingel Djangel · Eilandje
The Antwerp six-piece marks ten years with a new EP, bringing its melancholic collision of post-punk, new wave and alternative rock into the intimate record-shop venue.
SaturdayOCT24
21:00
VHS Volume 4
Het Bos Club · Antwerpen
A deliberately unstable party bill runs through rap, trap, punk, synthwave, dungeon synth, dark ambient and Memphis rap, with free VHS tattoos promised in the room.
SundayOCT25
15:00
Hideaway: 40 Years of Blues
Djingel Djangel · Eilandje
A free Sunday-afternoon concert celebrates four decades of Hideaway in one of the city’s smallest dedicated live-music rooms.
SundayOCT25
15:00
Traditional Irish session
Den Hopsack · Historic Centre
The monthly Hopsack session keeps Irish and Celtic tunes and songs in circulation through informal ensemble playing shared at close range with the café audience.
Next eight weeks
Forward look
Upcoming dates worth keeping in view.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Soundpainting jam
Karen Claessens directs a live soundpainting ensemble with Hanne De Backer, Carla Biber, Jaouad and Daniel Menezes before opening the floor to participating musicians.
MIXED AVAILABILITY
FC Bergman: Guernica Guernica
A large-scale, wordless image-world by FC Bergman, presented across four nights with date-by-date availability ranging from sold out to tickets remaining.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
De Kloe: Vanity Fair album release
De Kloe splices unstable club rhythms, obscure samples, fractured lyrics and serrated guitar into continuously mutating structures for the release of Vanity Fair.
NOT TO MISS
Nacht van de Experimentele Film 2026
OFFoff reconstructs 1967 expanded-cinema works with simultaneous 16mm projectors, live HERMESensemble musicians, performance and four-channel sound.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Elena Farahani
The Iranian recorder player leaves her usual baroque practice to reinterpret Persian traditions associated with Mohammad Reza Shajarian in a close living-room concert.
TICKETS AVAILABLE
The Golden Stool
Görges Ocloo interweaves opera, African percussion, beats, theatre and dance in the story of Asante resistance leader Nana Yaa Asantewaa.
TICKETS AVAILABLE
Wayne Shorter & esperanza spalding: (…) IPHIGENIA
Shorter and spalding dismantle the conventional myth through fluid orchestral writing, jazz, collective voices and a protagonist distributed across multiple bodies.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Anne van de Star + Skordatura
Van de Star turns bass-clarinet recordings into physical, transducer-driven electronics before Skordatura answers with angular grooves and abrupt ensemble interventions.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
OLA TUNJI / Stann
OLA TUNJI channels Coltrane, Sanders and Ayler; Stan Nieuwenhuis transforms cornet studies through granular delay into a multiplied one-person brass ensemble.
TICKETS AVAILABLE
La Noche de Aparición
A playful wordless horror story combining migration, Mexican myth, paranormal experience, Latin American pop culture, masks, choreography and original music.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Lisa Vereertbrugghen: Again Forever
Four performers approach slow dancing as the queer, potentially subversive sister of rave culture, accompanied by Michael Langeder’s live sound.
A short train away
Brussels
When the reasons to travel are unusually strong.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Greg Malcolm & Erica Dawn Lyle
AB Salon · Prepared / experimental guitar
€10 · student €8.60
TRAVEL PICK
Bozar Bassment #1: cratje / Shapednoise / Slikback
Bozar · Terarken · Live A/V / electronics / real-time visuals
€24 · under 26 €17
KAITHEATER TRAVEL PICK · ALSO SAT 24
The Harvest of Broken Promises
De Kriekelaar · Performance / moving image / visual art / storytelling
Pay what you can