In the performance Crazy But True, children between the ages of eight and eleven form a panel of experts. A text is whispered to them via headsets. They repeat what they hear, and thus present a growing list of extraordinary facts.

City planners Rien van de Wall and Wim Menten bring the debate on the future of the boulevards to the front. This kick-off event – during the Week of Mobility – will show what is possible on the Petite Ceinture, asking prominent Brussels politicians about their view of the boulevards.

Antigone in Molenbeek is Stefan Hertman's unrelenting tale of a young woman who goes in search of her dead brother. In June 2018, the Kaaitheater will close its season by staging the theatrical version of the piece. But we are presenting the book version now: Birsen Taspinar will introduce the text, three actresses will read extracts, and Hertmans will discuss it with Johan Reyniers.

Lie back and close your eyes. While enjoying a hand massage secluded from the outside world, close neighbours and complete strangers divulge their most intimate secrets. This travelling audio installation reveals compelling and moving new portraits from Molenbeek in Brussels to Slotermeer in Amsterdam. Learn how the universal search for happiness and security can be hampered by relentless reality.

5 September 2017 marked the exact date that the very first Kaaitheater Festival began 40 years ago. Hugo De Greef’s festival charted a new course. It was an indictment of what he called the stale Flemish theatre landscape, intending to inspire something new, an alternative. The fact that in this case the alternative managed to endure calls for a celebration. Four days in a row, from 3 to 6 October 2017.

With the aid of HeadSwap technology, you will make a live connection with someone else. Cameras, sensors, and other extensions will enable you to make a 360° walk around somebody else’s personal space. Citizen.com aims to break through entrenched conventions and transcend social barriers. Moving around a city is the first step to changing that city.

Jan Decorte is leaving the classics behind, but not the great truths and mysteries that they contain. In Jan Paternoster and Dries Van Dijck of Black Box Revelation – and all the uncompromising vehemence that they bring to the piece – Decorte and Sigrid Vinks have found their ideal musical partners in crime. The gentlemen created a brand-new soundtrack especially for Stand Down.