There are still a few tickets available to the Leonard Cohen concerts in Ghent’s Sint-Pietersplein on 15, 17 and 18 August. Several shows were added after the first two sold out so quickly. Tickets are €58.50 to €88.50. The inimitable Canadian songwriter, who will move on to play concerts in Amsterdam after Ghent, also sold out the square two summers ago. www.leonardcoheningent.be
Three new installations have been added to the unique Klankenbos, or Sound Forest, in Neerpelt, Limburg province. The forest, surrounding the Dommelhof culture centre, is dotted with interactive sound installations by international artists. In one of the new installations, “Composed Nature”, visitors can dial a telephone number to make 24 birch trees play a composition. Two additional sound installations can be found inside the culture centre until 26 August in the temporary exhibition Awakening Woods. www.musica.be
Two Flemish feature films have been chosen to screen at the Montréal World Film Festival, which begins on 23 August. Patricia Toye’s Little Black Spiders, set in the 1970s and telling the story of pregnant teenage girls sent to a secret location to give birth, will screen as part of the Focus on World Cinema programme. Little Black Spiders will also open the Ostend Film Festival next month. Tom Heene’s debut feature Welcome Home, meanwhile, which premieres in Venice before heading to Montréal, will have a chance at one of the awards in the First Films World Competition. It was also reported this week that A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures, one of Flemish director Ban Stassen’s 3D animated movies, will open in China later this month. In circulation since 2010, the film has been released in more than 80 countries and has earned €70 million in ticket sales, which, according to the director, makes it the highest grossing Belgian film ever made. Sammy 2 comes out in local cinemas next week. www.nwave.com