What's on this week: 25 February

Chantal Acda performs with a little help from her friends. The Antwerp-based pop/rock singer’s latest album may be a solo effort, but she is not alone. After a decade of paying dues in projects like Sleepingdog, Isbells and True Bypass, Acda’s Rolodex is brimming with the names and numbers of Flanders’ top rockers. Now she’s calling in a favour, inviting members of dEUS, DAAU and Marble Sounds on stage for one night only. 28 February, 20.30 at De studio, Antwerp
www.destudio.com

The recent debt crisis has made Greece an object of either pity or scorn. But nobody should forget that the tiny Mediterranean country has already given the rest of Europe so much. After all, it’s the cradle of classical democracy, Orthodox Christianity and good eats. This sound-and-vision spectacle celebrates Greek folk culture with panache. A family of bouzouki-strumming Greeks provide the soundtrack, while dancers from Brussels and Paris demonstrate traditional steps from Thessaloniki in the north to Kalamata in the south. 1 March, 15.30 at Bozar, Brussels
www.bozar.be

Twentieth-century painter Marc Chagall is lauded for marrying the internationalist avant-garde of St Petersburg, Berlin and Paris with the Jewish folk culture of his rural hometown in Russia, and creating something entirely new in the process. Brussels’ Royal Museum of Fine Arts holds six of the ground-breaking modernist’s works in its permanent collection. Not bad. This retrospective, which pools Chagalls from 20 world-class institutions, augments that number with 194 pieces spanning the breadth of the painter’s career, from early days in pre-Revolution Russia to his death in Paris in 1985 (with two World Wars in between). 28 February to 28 June at Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels
www.expo-chagall.be 

Guido Belcanto: The Flemish singer performs songs from his new album Cavalier Seul, a mix swing, melancholy, romance and rock’n’roll. 27 February 20.00, Ancienne Belgique, Anspachlaan 110, Brussels
www.abconcerts.be

Five Years of Solidarity: Clarinettist Géraldine Fastré performs works by Mozart and Beethoven, with proceeds going to a development project in support of hospitals and training centres for nurses and midwives in Togo, West Africa. 27 February 20.00, W:Halll, Charles Thielemanslaan 93, Brussels
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Gao Xingjian: Retrospective of the Nobel Prize-winning author, playwright, filmmaker and contemporary artist whose work is devoted to the free exploration of a stream of consciousness through the movement of ink on paper. 26 February to 31 March, Museum van Elsene, Jean Van Volsemstraat 71, Brussels
www.museumvanelsene.be

Aromagic: Children’s theatre group Laika presents the pilot for a new television programme about food and flavours, including tastings and magic tricks (ages 8 and up; in Dutch). 26 February to 1 March, De Warande, Warandestraat 42, Turnhout
www.laika.be

Ben Okri: One of Nigeria’s most influential authors talks about his literary work in conjunction with the screening of N: The Madness of Reason by Flemish director Peter Krüger, for which he wrote the screenplay (in English). 4 March 19.00, Bozar, Ravensteinstraat 23, Brussels
www.bozar.be

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Russian Festival: The Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra presents three great Russian works, including the fairy-tale opera Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 2 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 4. 3 April 20.00, Royal Conservatory, Regentstraat 30, Brussels
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