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This week the city has a lot: documentaries, cabaret, salsa nights, winter markets, cookbook launches, new exhibitions, club nights, family activities, and a walking gallery tour!
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🎟️ FEATURED EVENTS
🎥 MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN
⏰ Date & Time: Wed 26th, 8pm
📍 Location: De Roma
🎟️ Ticket: €5
A powerful 90-minute documentary about a humble Russian school teacher, Pavel Talankin, who secretly films how Putin’s regime indoctrinates children and quietly resists from within.
🎭 Comedy Debut Show: Rosalie Custers - VAAS (NL)
⏰ Date & Time: Thu 27th, 7pm doors open, show starts at 8pm
📍 Location: c o r s o, Grote Zaal
🎟️ Ticket: € 15 (standard), € 11 (-26), € 3 (A-kaart kansentarief)
Cabaret by Rosalie Custers that mixes soft-spoken honesty, music and humor to explore coming-of-age, family and identity.
🕺 CAPITAL DE LA SALSA
⏰ Date & Time: Fri 28th, 8pm-1am
📍 Location: Zuiderpershuis
🎟️ Ticket: Free
A Cuban-dance evening with a salsa workshop (8–9 pm) and a late-night fiesta with DJ El Ratón Rabioso.
🌳 CERAMICS WINTER MARKET
⏰ Date & Time: Sat 29th, 11am-6pm
📍 Location: Sukoon Studio
🎟️ Ticket: Free
Pass by Sukoon Studio where their talented studio members & teachers will showcase and sell their pieces.
🍸 EAT INDIA COOKBOOK LAUNCH
⏰ Date & Time: Sun 30th, 12pm-6pm
📍 Location: Wolf
🎟️ Ticket: Free
Celebrating the cookbook launch of Mission Massala with bites and a DJ!
Psst, on Saturday Stad Leest will also do an event. Twice the fun so check in other events.
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“The F Word”, Antwerp’s first-ever female comedy night is here! Hosted by Kym Nelson, known for sold-out shows in Brussels, features a powerhouse all-female line-up of Europe’s funniest rising comedians!
⏰ Wed Dec 3, 7:30pm (doors open), 8pm (show starts)
📍 De Groene Waterman Bookstore (in the Comedy Cellar)
🎟️ Get your tickets!Lucy’s is hosting its first Makers Market! Featuring 28 local creators sharing ceramics, crochet, storybooks, and more. Enjoy workshops, coffee, and vegan treats. Lucy’s is a women’s centre creating space for community and transformative leadership, supporting women since 1919.
⏰ Sat Dec 6, from 1pm-6pm
📍 Lucy’s Kafè
🎟️ Free
📌 LISTINGS
🗺️ Activity of the Week
TO BE ANTWERP ROUTE
⏰Friday (6pm-9pm) and weekend (12pm-6pm)
📍Where: Theaterbuurt & surrounding streets
This weekend the Theaterbuurt turns into one big walking gallery tour. Dozens of young artists and designers show their work in galleries, stores, cultural spaces and random buildings you normally walk past without noticing.
You can join the Friday speed tour and visit 4–5 locations in about an hour for only €5 (registration via [email protected]).
👉Info
🏡Property of the Week
Belpairestraat 61 2600 Berchem
We’re suckers for pretty façades. Step into a 19th-century townhouse. With wooden floors, garden, walk-in closet space and a bathtub. Plus, Café Betty is right across the street.
4 bedrooms, 217m², €669,000.
🍷Your Weekly Date Spot
Graaf Van Egmontstraat 19, 't Zuid
STAFF’S KANTINE
Staff’s Kantine is the restaurant we always turn to on a cold winter day. Maybe it’s the warm lights outside hinting that Christmas is near, the proper Belgian comfort food, or the welcoming service. Candlelight, a glass of wine, truffle kroketjes…honestly, do we need to say more?
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OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK
Second round of trying a new format: Events are grouped by categories instead of by days. Our team is divided so we need your help: there’s a quick poll at the end and we need your opinion, it takes you 1 second.
📖 November Book Month
🕺 Clubs & Parties
Thursday
STADSNACHT | KARAKALS and more at KAVKA OUDAAN
Friday
Head On & Flatline present: Spectra T at Philly’s Bar
Klub Affaire at Skybar
Love On Top Club w/ Girls Don’t Sync at Ampere
Vloerbedekking x Velocity at Traum
DYEN & Reckless at Garage
Virus Apek: "Beaks Out” at IKON (Aura)
Groove Merchant B-Day Bash at Vertigo
AUTOFLOWER at WOOM
Reckless w/ DYEN at Garage
Saturday
Warrecords x Cabronrave at Cabron Cafe
Old Skool House Classics at Fill Collins Club
RAMPAGE at GARAGE
Kölsch at Ampere
STRICTLY 90ies - WOLF X EARLY EDITION
Into the Deep V at Lokaal Talent
Space Invaderz: B2B Edition at Club Aura
CAVE 28: Hard Frequencies at Vertigo
JIMMYZ CLUB at Leienpaleis
25 Years Space at Space
Phuong Dan & Ophélie at Grote Pieterpotstraat 12
Sunday
Merecumbé Latin SunDay at Plein Publiek
🍸 Food, Drinks & Social
Thursday
Beats, Burgers & Booze at YUST
Hafsa & Latifa x Boslabs at Boskeuken
Friday
Evening with Trésor Vets and Alex Brovia at Bar Misera
Barmonie Buurtcafé at Koetshuis Harmonie
Saturday
Food for thoughts at Stormkop (part of When the Bulbul Stopped Singing benefiet)
Gaymers go: Karaoke Antwerp at JOYT
MISSION MASALA x Boekhandel Stad Leest
Tango invites Matthias Ingelmann at Tango Bar
🎶 Concerts & Live Music
Wednesday
Deathstar Macgyver & Spout Big Space at Café Cabron
Swim Skool + Projector at Kavka Oudaan
Jokke Schreurs & Deborah Ostrega at Den Hopsack
C-RHYMS Album Showcase at Bosbar
Yuuf at De Roma
Lennart Henderickx & friends at De Muze
Thursday
Jazz with Kobe Gregoir at KMSKA
Don Giovanni vertelconcert at KMSKA
The Go Find at Blikfabriek
Babylon & Minding Dolls at Café Cabron
La Jungle + FROG! + Swells at Het Bos
Oh Wonder Songs At The Piano at De Roma
Jef Neve & Teus Nobel Jazz at Sint-Pius X-kerk
Friday
Ænima – A Tool Experience at Kid's Rhythm 'n' Blues Kaffee
The Kiffness at Kavka Zappa
Aminé at De Roma
Bernaded Dexters, Rudy Trouvé & Elko Blijweert at AR’T Glorie Kunstencentrum
Saturday
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra: Mahler’s Second Symphony at the Queen Elisabeth Hall
Artists in Residence: Sam Hinnekens Quintet at Rataplan
UrbanRecCity at Arenberg
Sunday
Glenn Miller Orchestra at De Roma
Pianokwartet at Plarform Bernaerts
Monray at Cafe Rood Wit
Nothing More at Trix
Delay Brothers at Bar Lucy
🌳Community, Markets & Pop-ups
Saturday
📖 Closing Book Month at Bib Permeke (until Sunday)
Rommelant at Antwerp Expo (until Sunday)
Get it pierced at Wouters & Hendrix
BILDY Markt at Buurthuis Unik
Sunday
Extended Closing Nowadays Magazine Pop-Up Store
🖼️ Exhibitions & Art
Thursday
My Wonderful Whorehouse at M HKA
Friday
Sunday
Letter by Letter (By the Woolf’s Hands) The Handprinted books by Virginia & Leonard Woolf at Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library
🛠️Workshops & Talks
Wednesday
Boekpresentatie ‘Vrouwen In Duistere Tijden’ at Arenberg
Thursday
Symposium 'The Forest School’ at Middelheimmuseum
Friday
📖 Marc Van den Bossche presents 'World Citizens' (NL) at Boekhandel De Groene Waterman
Saturday
📖 Stripworkshop (16+) at Bib Permeke
DENOISED (conference for digital artists) at De Studio and Blikfabriek
Christmas Pavuk Workshop at Objekty
🎭 Theater, Comedy & Performance
Wednesday
Malgré tout (NL/FR) at Monty (until Thursday)
Thursday
Thomas Smith comedy at Arenberg
Dollhouse Dreams: Riot & Ruffles Cabaret at Djingel Djangel
bron at hetpaleis (until 29)
iRRooTTaa at hetpaleis
theater arsenal, DE MAAN & deCompagnie (NL) at Schouwburg Noord
Carmina Burana at Staddschouwburg
Friday
O Superman at cafe corso
Open Mic november (NL) at Noordpoort Dambruggestraat 336
Saturday
Ell Circo D'ell Fuego at at Het Oude Badhuis
Van Bruegel tot de Bronx at Museum Mayer van den Bergh
The Opposite Sex at Multatulitheater
Theater Malpertuis De Jaren at De Kern
BORRELNOOTJEZ at Stadsschouwburg
Mohsin Abbas comedy at Arenberg
DeepFried Improv Show at Zirkus - Zirkstraat 36
Sunday
Artists Against Stigma at Toneelhuis
👪 Family & Kids
Saturday
Arabische Sprookjes voorleessessie at Stormkop (part of when the bulbul stopped singing benefiet)
📖 Esohe Weyden vertelt over haar kinderboek at Bibliotheek De Poort (NL)
Sunday
Camping Koekoek at AR’T Glorie Kunstencentrum
Zannemie en de bende: Luister Naar de daken (NL/4+) at De Kern
DE MAAN aai (4+) at Schouwburg Noord
De Spiekpietjes Musical 2025 at Stadsschouwburg
🎥 Film & Docu
Wednesday
SIX INCHES OF SOIL at De Studio
Thursday
From 2004 to 2024: 20 Years of an Exclusion Law at Arenberg
Transformeur at Dingen Die Niet Verkopen
YI YI at De Studio
Sunday
Searching for Ludo (portret of Ludo Abicht, longest-serving professor in Belgium) & Talks after screening at De Studio
🗓️ AROUND THE CORNER
Sketch 5 at De Studio Dec 18-20
Masterclass Porcelain at Misena Dec 3
Starfish Deli Brunch: Dec 7
Art Antwerp: Dec 11-14
Nothing in this section is sponsored. We'll always let you know when something's sponsored.
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That’s your week, Antwerp!
Dadaaa,
The Antwerp Hive Team 🐝
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