Annual overview
2023
Juni
Artefact Festival | 08.06-25.06.2023
Artefact in STUK is an exhibition and festival in which contemporary art, current affairs and social challenges are highlighted. In 2023, with the theme 'Between knowing and understanding. Notes on the ecstatic being', the festival will explore how other states of consciousness influence the way in which we understand ourselves and our relationship to the world.
July & August
Summer in Leuven | 07.07-12.08.2023
Move to the beats of bands or take in a movie at surprising outdoor locations. There’s plenty of fun and enjoyment to be had during a summer city trip to Leuven.
September
Tour of Leuven | 03.09.2023
One-day cycling race in which the riders cover a lap through the city several times. The heritage as a World Championships city and the well-known GP Jef Scherens are merging here into the new annual event: ‘Tour of Leuven - Memorial Jef Scherens’.
WK Breaking | 22+23+24.09.2023
During this World Breakdancing Championship, you can qualify for the 2024 Olympics, where breakdancing is making its debut.
New horizons in Leuven | 22.09.2023-14.01.2024
Leuven is all about Bouts. The city will be entirely dedicated to Dieric Bouts. With this grand city festival, not only is Leuven being inextricably linked with Bouts, but we are also putting our city on the map nationally and internationally as a destination and breeding ground for new perspectives. Make a note of the exhibition in Museum M ‘Dieric Bouts, creator of images’, which opens on 14.10.
Festival 20•21 | 25.09-30.10.2023
Festival 20·21 brings the varied and sometimes daring worlds of sound of the 20th and 21st centuries to Leuven’s stages. There, you will experience the classics of tomorrow!
October
New horizons in Leuven | 22.09.2023-14.01.2024
Leuven is all about Bouts. The city will be entirely dedicated to Dieric Bouts. With this grand city festival, not only is Leuven being inextricably linked with Bouts, but we are also putting our city on the map nationally and internationally as a destination and breeding ground for new perspectives. Make a note of the exhibition in Museum M ‘Dieric Bouts, creator of images’, which opens on 14.10.
Festival 20•21 | 25.09-30.10.2023
Festival 20·21 brings the varied and sometimes daring worlds of sound of the 20th and 21st centuries to Leuven’s stages. There, you will experience the classics of tomorrow!
- Transit | 20.10-20.10.2023
Transit (a three-day event during Festival 20·21) highlights today’s composers with world premieres, cutting-edge concerts and a multimedia spectacle.
November
New horizons in Leuven | 22.09.2023-14.01.2024
Leuven is all about Bouts. The city will be entirely dedicated to Dieric Bouts. With this grand city festival, not only is Leuven being inextricably linked with Bouts, but we are also putting our city on the map nationally and internationally as a destination and breeding ground for new perspectives. Make a note of the exhibition in Museum M ‘Dieric Bouts, creator of images’, which opens on 14.10.
International Short Film Festival | 24.11-02.12.2023
A wide range of hundreds of new short films in all possible styles and genres: children's films, non-narrative films, fiction and animation films and all conceivable crossovers.
Playground | November 2022
A unique arts festival in which artists are not bound to a single discipline, but merge elements freely. In challenging performances, they bring objects and bodies together.
2024
December
New horizons in Leuven | 22.09.2023-14.01.2024
Leuven is all about Bouts. The city will be entirely dedicated to Dieric Bouts. With this grand city festival, not only is Leuven being inextricably linked with Bouts, but we are also putting our city on the map nationally and internationally as a destination and breeding ground for new perspectives. Make a note of the exhibition in Museum M ‘Dieric Bouts, creator of images’, which opens on 14.10.
International Short Film Festival | 24.11-02.12.2023
A wide range of hundreds of new short films in all possible styles and genres: children's films, non-narrative films, fiction and animation films and all conceivable crossovers.
Winter Season Leuven | December 2023 & January 2024
Winter Season in Leuven banishes the first chill of winter with a heart-warming program filled with music, winter walks, Christmas shopping and more in a cosy atmosphere.
2024
Januari
Winter Season Leuven | December 2023 & January 2024
Winter Season in Leuven banishes the first chill of winter with a heart-warming program filled with music, winter walks, Christmas shopping and more in a cosy atmosphere.
New horizons in Leuven | 22.09.2023-14.01.2024
Leuven is all about Bouts. The city will be entirely dedicated to Dieric Bouts. With this grand city festival, not only is Leuven being inextricably linked with Bouts, but we are also putting our city on the map nationally and internationally as a destination and breeding ground for new perspectives. Make a note of the exhibition in Museum M ‘Dieric Bouts, creator of images’, which opens on 14.10.
March
Leuven Jazz | March 2024
Leuven dances to a jazzy beat. Enjoy some of the world’s best musicians, Belgian heroes, up-and-coming talent, films and family concerts or dive into pubs just bursting with jazz.
Docville | March 2024
The best national and international documentaries. All films are either in English of subtitled. The programme also includes several debates, lectures and other interesting fringe activities.
April
Passie van de Stemmen (Voices of Passion) | 27.04-04.05.2024
This unique site swells on the sounds of beautiful polyphony. Musical gems from the early Renaissance to the early Baroque period are performed by elite (inter)national ensembles and soloists.
May
CIRKL | May 2024
Discover the circus of today and tomorrow. An impressive festival with elite international artists, a lot of young talent, sneak peeks, and
Leuven Innovation Beer Festival | May 2024
Craft breweries from all over the world present their innovative beers in Leuven.
Passie van de Stemmen (Voices of Passion) | 27.04-04.05.2024
This unique site swells on the sounds of beautiful polyphony. Musical gems from the early Renaissance to the early Baroque period are performed by elite (inter)national ensembles and soloists.
