This Week's Edition 👋
This week’s Hive has something for everyone. Kids can meet alpacas, hear wild stories, and fix their favorite stuffed animals. Foodies, get ready, the SoCal Tacos foodtruck season kicks off with music and street food. And don’t miss MoMu x PULSE celebrating women in creativity, style, and culture on Saturday 🐝
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Wednesday
👪 STORMBOK
⏰ 12:30pm-5pm
📍 Stormkop
🎟️ Free
Parents, bring your 4-12 year olds for this animal adventure. Pet alpacas while reading them their favorite stories from the cuddle-friendly animal library, bring your sick or worn-out stuffed animal for repair, and create new creatures from recycled materials. Expect wild storytelling in the expedition tower with lion tamer Fons Oerlemans and a seal show at 3PM 🦙
Thursday
🌮 Foodtruck Season Opening SoCal Tacos
⏰ 6pm-8pm
📍Napoleonkaai 25-27
🎟️ Pay what you consume
Music and Mexican street foodtruck!
Friday
🕺 BAKFISSA
⏰ 8pm-3am
📍Paardenmarkt 88
🎟️ Free
Bakfissa returns to Paardenmarkt with a lineup of hard trance, house, and relentless bounce. Expect high intensity and BPMs exceeding 140, plus a rumored surprise DJ!
Saturday
🕺 International Women’s Day: MoMu x PULSE
⏰ 10:30pm
📍 Het Bos
🎟️ €10-15 (only women, transmasculine and non-binary people)
Celebrates creativity, style and culture with a special program of talks, performances and fashion-focused activities that put women’s voices in the spotlight.
Sunday
Kids Day
⏰ Starting at 12pm
📍 Wolf
🎟️ Free
Celebrate the opening of their brand-new Kids Corner. A full day of fun activities, games, and creative workshops led by Speelatelier.
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🗺️ ACTIVITY
A creative Sunday afternoon!
At Krispi Ceramics’ Brunch & Paint session, you get to decorate your own ceramic piece while enjoying a relaxed breakfast/brunch spread.
What to expect:
🎨 A selection of pottery to paint (plates, mugs, bowls — your pick)
🍳 Brunch
📍 Foodbar Deprince
⏰ 10am-1pm
🎟 €70: Includes pottery piece & brunch
🏡 PROPERTY
Britselei 64, 2000
Discover this stylish 81m² apartment on the 4th floor, bordering Zuid.
The bright living area features large windows and continuous parquet flooring, flowing into a fully equipped open kitchen with storage and laundry connections.
Two bedrooms, a bathroom with walk-in shower, and a 6m² terrace.
This move-in-ready apartment with secure bike storage, elevator access, and EPC A can be yours for €425,000
🍷 YOUR NEW TREASURE
Trying to find a place for a proper coffee after 4pm on the weekend? Start taking notes!
Hubbi, which opened in early February, might just be the best recent addition to Sint-Andries. The interior is charming, the terrace catches the sun, and they serve wine, coffee, and brunch all day. Hannah and Abudi welcome you in a way that makes you want to stay a little longer.
We went for the pulled chicken toast (don’t skip it) and the French toast. Safe to say, we’ll be back at this neighbourhood gem.
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— OTHER EVENTS —
🕺PARTIES
Friday
Rampage at AFAS Dome | until Saturday
Club Ziek x Warrecords at Bar Ziek | 7pm-1am
70's 80's 90's party at Djingel Djangel | Free
Climax Club with Paige Tomlinson & Tjade at Ampere
GIMME GIMME Disco: An ABBA-Inspired Disco Party at Ampere | 2.5 hours
Parapher & Sorenga at Club Vaag
Rads Vanbuiten at Plein Publiek
Saturday
Liminal Something at Café Cousteau
Schuren met de Buren - DJ Drezz at Bar Brul
Disney / Nick Party – Childhoodnites at Kavka Zappa
ANNA at Ampere
Cafe au Lait Party x RAW Dancehall at Plein Publiek
Housey presents CANDYLAND at Leienpaleis
Prozak & Skeptic at Club Vaag
Woodpop at Cargo Club
🎶 CONCERTS
Wednesday
Vliegwerk: Roasted Jazz at De Kern | Jazz
Replaced Music at Het Leienpaleis | Rock
Afterdust and Polly & The Jester at Café Cabron | Rock
Rites of Noise - Winter Edition at Het Bos | Experimental /Underground
Malena Zavala at De Roma | Indie
Cannonball Adderley Tribute Jazz Quintet at Harmoniewijk
Thursday
Northwalk + Dismembered + Lose + Spit at Antwerp Music City | Hardcore
His Trust Fund + the Payola Kid at Het Bos | Indie
Tom Eylenbosch & Robbert Duijf Band at De Kern | Blues
Adinda Hertmans - jazzzang at KMSKA
KMSKA LAAT Live - Edoardo Brandi at KMSKA | Classical
Friday
Dolk at Café de Kroon | Alternative
Sindicato Sonico at Het Oude Badhuis | Cumbia, hiphop
Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally Unofficial Listening Party at Kavka Oudaan | Pop/Rock
Linda Fredriksson at De Singel | Indie Folk Meets Jazz
Festi: Foyerconcert at Schouwburg Noord | Folk
Jazzanova Live feat. Wayne Snow at De Roma | fusion of jazz, electronic, soul, funk
Unfinished Business at Het Rubenshuis | Jazz
Saturday
Wrapped In Rhythm: Tutu Puoane, Ewout Pierreux & Lebo Mashile at Rataplan | Jazz
50 jaar The Kids at De Roma | Rock
Emo Night Brooklyn at Ampere
Mean Mistreater + Animalize (Chains & Fangs Tour) at Djingel Djangel | Metal
The Bobby James Family at Het Beestenbos | Funk
Bruce Liu Piano Concert at De Singel | Almost sold out
Sunday
Bad Suns at Kavka Oudaan | Indie
Concert Johan Famaey & Marina Martín Maldonado at The Antwerp Pianist
Selah Sue & The Gallands at De Roma | waitlist
Live music - For and by women at KMSKA
Virago Symphonic Orchestra: The Score is Hers at Toneelhuis | Classical
Barwalker Louis at Café Rood Wit | Blues
🌳 COMMUNITY
Wednesday
Burentafel! at Blikfabriek
Iftar Potluck at Lucy’s
Saturday
Party at My House by Nowadays Magazine at Steenhouwersvest 25 | weekend pop-up
Taro 5 year anniversary at Kupuku Store | 10% discount on all designs with cat plus Homemade Taiyaki pancake and Japanese tea (While supply lasts!)
Sunday
LS X LPQ: Post Running High | 5km social run that ends with coffee, croissants & a dancefloor, waitlist
Read & Relax at Toneelhuis | Free
🍸 FOOD & DRINKS
Wednesday
Pop-up Piva x Kafei at Wolf | until Friday
Thursday
Patzoa Nights at MEA
Friday
Foodie Friday with Antwerp Kitchen Club | Korean cuisine at Chingu
3 years of CARAF | Afterwork anniversary with cosmopolitans and pizzas
🖼️ ART & CULTURE
Wednesday
Day of the KSO at M HKA
Thursday
EXPO | Where the mesh folds: Anatomies that could be at Kavka Oudaan | Until 26/03
Friday
The Instruction Project at Showroom Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Van Schoonbekestraat 143 | vernissage from 6pm, open Sat and Sun 2pm-6pm
Karien Maes vernissage “Painted Waltz” at Den Hopsack
Goda Palekaitė at Kunsthal Extra City
Saturday
Expo Image Labyrinth The Tower at Zuiderpershuis | until Sunday, 8 artists with young dementia exhibit their work
Billie J.Kanter & Faryda Moumouh Exhibition at Shoobil Gallery
Antoine Roegiers Exhibition at Keteleer Gallery
Freya Devel vernissage at Galerijke Marijke
Opening Yemo Park — “Wollamhsram” at Lichtekooi | from 6pm
Exclusive solo exhibition featuring the latest works of Yaniv Edery at Vision XR Gallery | until Sunday
WHEN LIFE GIVE YOU MELLUNS at MINO
Sunday
Ann Grillet - Chris Meulemans - Veroniek Van Samang “The Quiet Between Things” at Eva Steynen Gallery
‘Vrouw in beeld’ guided tour at KMSKA | Dutch
Aperitif moment - Women in art at KMSKA
🎭 COMEDY & PERFORMANCE
Wednesday
A rite of spring at Toneelhuis
Comedy Open Mic at Cafe The Joker | Dutch
Thursday
STOMP at Stadsschouwburg
The Hilarious Deep Amazing Antwerp Comedy Show with Gilli Apter at Theater Het Klokhuis | English
De Willekeur — Freestyle Comedy at Antwerpse Brouw Compagnie | Dutch
Saturday
Mad Goat: All You Can Laugh at Arenberg | Buy 1 ticket, choose the comedy show you want to attend, Dutch and English
Antwerp en Español at Theater Het Klokhuis | For the Spanish speaking community, a stand-up comedy
International Women’s Day at Peperfabriek | Improv and acts
Fade Into You at De Studio
Sunday
Michael Van Peel at Arenberg | Dutch, comedy
🛠️ WORKSHOPS & TALKS
Wednesday
Shut Up & Write at Het Bos
Thursday
KMSKA LAAT - Zaal Z op Zaal at KMSKA | Authors tell the ultimate story, live and realistic, about 4 works from the KMSKA collection, Dutch
Friday
Painting in the dark at Wolf
Saturday
International Women's Day at Theater Garage | Dutch debate
Sunday
Masha Plokhuta , The Seed of Potential at Schouwburg Noord | English-held workshop to make your own piece of art - Waitlist
Pottery Painting at Cat Café
Atelier - Wie is jouw Superheldin? at KMSKA
👪 FAMILY
Wednesday
Maak een dierenprint at Bib Permeke | 6-12y
Family Day with Amai Special Chapeau at Het Oude Badhuis
Kwispellezen at Bibliotheek Vrede (Borgerhout) | 6-11y, practice reading to a dog
Kidsfarm at Bibliotheek Brederode
Thursday
Little Explorers - Een beestig tuin- en boekenbezoekje at Rubenshuis | Throughout March
Friday
ANNIE DJ SCHMIDT at ‘t Werkhuys | Listening stories on vinyl
Saturday
Bye bye ballenbad! at Ikea | Your last chance to take a jump into the iconic ball pit
Sunday
Kinderworkshop: make your own paint at Rubenshuis | 6-12y
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That’s it for this week!
Dadaaa,
The Antwerp Hive Team 🐝
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