Ancienne Belgique & AB club

Ancienne Belgique & AB club

  • Address : Boulevard Anspach 110, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique

Since the re-opening in 1996, AB has been able to rely on sufficient support – initially due to the Music Decree and later through the Arts Decree. Since 2008, it may even include itself – as the first pop & rock temple – among the select group of ‘Institutions of the Flemish Community'.

Since 2017, AB has been included as one of 7 official Flemish Arts Institutions – together with the likes of deSingel, Opera Vlaanderen and Kunstencentrum Vooruit.

Arts Institutions are large-scale initiatives with a national and international reputation and an important symbolic value in cultural policy. They are organisations that have a structural bond with the Flemish Community.

In all those years, the venue’s profile has barely changed: AB presents today’s music, by today’s people, about the world we live in. With concerts in the Main Hall and the Club, but also with AB TV, AB Sessions, living room concerts, listening sessions and lectures in AB Salon.  Every summer, the Feeërieën and Boterhammen in het Park (already 30-years-young, in 2019!) enchant the Warande Park with their magical outdoor concerts.

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