Outgoing Flemish culture minister Bert Anciaux has included the Flemish traditions surrounding Sinterklaas and St Maarten in the region's register of "intangible" cultural heritage, where they will join traditions like the Aalst carnival and the Holy Blood procession in Bruges. Also included was shrimp fishing on horseback in Oostduinkerke. Traditions included in the register are eligible to be included on Unesco's list of intangible world heritage.

The Antwerp vocal ensemble Graindelavoix has won the prestigious Edison prize in the Netherlands for its CD Poissance d'amours, a selection of 13th-century chants from Brabant. The jury praised the ensemble, seven singers and two musicians under the direction of Björn Schmelzer, for their "musical wilfulness [that] produces hitherto unheard results".

Flemish film director Jan Verheyen (Los) began location shooting in Antwerp last week on his latest movie, Dossier K, the much-anticipated sequel to Erik Van Looy's 2003 hit De Zaak Alzheimer. Both films are based on crime novels by Flemish crime writer Jef Geeraerts. Stars Koen De Bouw and Werner De Smedt return in the lead detective roles. Dossier K is due to be released in December.

Television channel VTM will launch its latest drama series in the autumn, in an attempt to wrest control over the coveted early evening slot from VRT's quiz Blokken. The new series, David, is the story of a young man brought back to the civilised world after spending 15 years on a desert island.

The VRT has begun gathering testimony from the remaining survivors of the First World War. There are about 1,500 centenarians in Belgium, 800 of them in Flanders, of whom 640 are women. The broadcaster wants "to tell how ordinary people lived through the war, not only in the Westhoek [where the fighting took place] but throughout Flanders," said project coordinator Mark De Geest. The recordings will go into the VRT's oral archive, which will later be opened up to all programme makers in preparation for the 2014 centenary of the war's outbreak.

The pilot episode of a new drama set among the trendy Flemings of Brussels' Dansaertstraat quarter was released last week - but Dansaertstraat is an old-fashioned photo novel: "A TV soap about everyday life with still images," as described by author Johan Reyniers. The first issue is free, and subsequent issues will be published every two months from October at €5 per issue. www.kaaitheater.be/dansaert