The Festival of contemporary music in Belgium was founded in 1989, initiated by a bunch of music lovers …
In the two decades of its existence it became one of the reference festivals in Europe.
The concerts take place in March, each year. The bulk of the concerts happen in Brussels where Ars Musica is based, yet concerts also take place in Antwerp, Bruges, Liège and Mons. Altogether over 50 concerts and events for an audience of about 20.000 people.
Bulex parties were amazing. The concept was alternative and held in old naval school in the northern part of the city. Many rooms, different types of music. Art on the walls, broken windows, quite underground. Then it become popular like real clubs and then the school was no longer accessible for the parties so Bulex came to an end. Well not exactly, the parties started to take place in random locations.
And now after some years Bulex is going to rock again. You want to indulge yourself?
Great festival, great animations. I will update this post with the films I have seen. Now the best of shorts is going to start.
EDIT: Anima 2012 made me really happy. Here is the list of long feature films that I have seen in the order I found from best to worst. Actually there are is no worst, they all were amazing.
Let’s have a short walk with three photos from Brussels.
We are in the upper town near the posh shopping street in Rue Namur. This is one of the most narrow streets in Brussels. It is called “donkey street”. Can a donkey pass here?
Now we are in the center in St Catherine area. ABC fish market is a nice spot to eat tasty food. You can not sit but take your fish and wine and eat on the tall bar tables.
So here in the north part of the city we have a lot of things related to Turkish minorities, even the film posters.
‘Sagalassos, City of Dreams’ is a dream of an exhibition. Like Sagalassos, it is ambitious and, like Sagalassos, it takes you off the beaten track. I was there in Sagalassos two years ago with my father while doing the short military service in Burdur. We drove up the mountain. I still remember touching the clouds, the ancient city was with an epic view. I wonder how would it be in the night time. Touching the stars, not scary definitely. Below is a video my beloved father (RIP) done with photos taken from the archeological museum in Burdur.
Sagalassos is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey, about 100 km north of Antalya (ancient Attaleia), and 30 km from Burdur and Isparta. The ancient ruins of Sagalassos are 7 km from Ağlasun in the province of Burdur, on Mount Akdağ, in the Western Toros mountain range, at an altitude of 1450-1700 metres. In Roman Imperial times, the town was known as the ‘first city of Pisidia’, a region in the western Taurus mountains, currently known as the Turkish Lakes Region. Already during the Hellenistic period, it had been one of the major Pisidian towns.
Verdi’s Nabucco is playing in Brussels again. I have already seen it. It’s about the plight of the Jews as they are assaulted, conquered, and subsequently exiled from their homeland.
Here in my tram stop I have recognised an Arabic sign on the poster. I wonder if it means something?
Big Altay
This movement is not just a contestation movement but a movement of social transformation. We all think there is a different way, and we are prepared to design it, because the alternatives are yet existing and we work on it. We want to live this alternatives, where people live up to their possibilities, where food is not wasted and people live to their full potential. We want to live in a fair world.
There are 2000 people dying everyday of hunger in Somalia. Every night tons of food get thrown away in supermarkets. Can’t we do it better than this prehistorical system?
So we want to change it
Stencils, stickers, posters, graffiti and paintings. Walking on pavements in Brussels is fun… Enjoy the collection with a Green Day remix.
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