We talk to Joanna Booth an Editor, Academic, Journalist and long term writer from Bristol who takes us through the leaps and bounds, needed to get to grips with the short story.

In this episode we continue our query - What is a Writers Festival? With none other than Mitchell Kaplan of Books and Books and the Miami Book Fair in conversation with Alia Papageorgiou.

Brussels' PARCOURS Street Art is celebrating its tenth anniversary with nine new murals and three weeks of tours (self or guided), an exhibition of the work of hip hop photographers Martha Cooper and NIka Kramer, documentary screenings and a major closing party.
Thierry Dubois from All About Things gives us the details and explains the philosophy behind the event.
www.parcoursstreetart.brussels

The Eat Festival will take place in the Gare Maritime at Tour & Taxis from September 28th to October 1st while the BXLBeerFest will be taking place next door in Shed 1 at Tours & Taxis September 30th & October 1st. So they decided to work together; giving the visitor the opportunity to mix and match food and beer.
Cédric Dautinger of the Beer Fest and Jeroen Roppe of Visit Brussels explain how to take best advantage of the double festivals.
https://bxlbeerfest.com
https://www.visit.brussels/en/visitors/agenda/eat-festival

Farm Prod, the legendary Belgian street art collective that has enchanted people around the world with their wide array of mural styles is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a free 1500 sq. meter exhibition at La Vallée, the vintage industrial space which is now an eclectic cultural venue. The show is a magnificent explosion of creativity and humanity which will stay with you. Member Guillaume Desmarets explains how it is much more than just an art collective.
https://www.farmprod.be/

Downtown Brussels is transformed into Cinema City as the sixth edition of the Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF) gets underway from 27 June to 5 July.
Setting up its big top on Place de Brouckère, the festival village serves as a hub for the annual cinema event. Festival goers can congregate and meet invited festival guests, enjoy a drink and a snack and discuss the films screened at UGC de Brouckère, Cinéma Palace, Cinéma Galeries and Bozar. They can also sit back and benefit from the village’s free open-air concerts and screenings.
Co-director Céline Masset gives us the details.
www.briff.be

Jeanfrançois Prins, a jazz musician, composer, and the director of GAM Records, an independent record company which specializes in Jazz (but not only) is the third generation of the family that has produced and promoted jazz and music in all its facets in Brussels since the 1940’s. He recounts for us this quintessential Belgian story.
https://www.gam-music.com/

Ohme presents its new artistic-scientific exhibition, Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant at Face B. This intriguing and fascinating collective exhibition explores the concept of truth and the subject of the construction of knowledge, through the relationships between art, technology, science and society. Curator Camilla Colombo explains everything including how a line from a poem by Emily Dickinson became the title of the show and what exactly Ohme is.
May 26 to July 9
www.ohme.be

The current show Brussels Queer Graphics at Design Museum Brussels looks at 70 years of gay life and activism through its ever changing graphic expression and presence.
ULB Professor David Paternotte takes us through the history and the often serendipitous nature of the preservation process of this rich collection of documents.
Through 5 November 2023
https://designmuseum.brussels/

Do you want to discover Brussels from a bike but don't know which streets to take? Pro Velo has just what you need: a biking guide that contains 12 different routes throughout the region. Author and Pro Velo member Thomas Detry tells us what we will find in his book.
www.provelo.be