This arts festival covers a lot of ground. Not only are 20 diverse venues employed all around the city, but the scope of the festival embraces theatre, music, dance, film, visual arts and all imaginable combinations thereof. Kunsten describes itself as a resolutely forward-looking festival. 20 artistic and technical teams are drawn together in May in a single project producing some 30 events. Besides Belgian talent, the festival also invites a good number of performing arts companies from abroad, who find a platform for expression before an attentive and generous audience. Many first productions are performed, using this as a testing ground for future creative work. Theatres, arts centres, cinemas and exhibition rooms are used to provide a great variety of performance spaces.

Times
Various. A full programme is available from the organiser website.