Pride Opening
Pride Week will open with a moment of activist march.
Join us at 6 PM in front of the Ihsane Jarfi mural to share this opening moment with us, which will conclude at Grands Carmes with the launch of the MACS plan.
Let’s kick off these ten days of Pride with joy!
The Pride week will begin with a militant march.
RainbowHouse invites you to join us on Wednesday, May 7 at 6 PM in front of the Ihsane Jarfi mural, Rue des Riches Claires in Brussels, for a moment of commemoration and militant memory. The event will feature artistic performances and speeches from our various partners.
We will continue our journey through various important places for the LGBTQIA+ community and end at Grands Carmes for the launch of the MACS plan.
Let’s begin these ten days of Pride with joy!
Grands Carmes
Brussels
Various
Pride Opening
Nobody's Son
An exhibition of pop art/street art style paintings combining abstract figures and words that together are an expression of the feelings and road the artist travelled from 3 years ago ( first testo shot) to now.
An expo of paintings based on drawings made throughout the artist's transition process over the past 3 years incorporating his acceptance process of his family's non-acceptance. The figures depicted are direct and spontaneous and related to street art and pop culture, as well as stickers, graffiti, paint on clothes, chairs, etc...
Grands Carmes
Brussels
Exhibitions
Nobody's Son
The Art of Becoming through tales, reveries and mirrors
As part of Brussels Pride, this exhibition explores the diversity of identities and questions dominant representations through photography, painting and digital art. Aleksandra Rowicka and Kristell in Wonderland propose an inclusive and committed approach, in which art becomes a space for dialogue and emancipation for LGBTQIA+ communities.
The Art of Becoming through Tales, Reveries and Mirrors is an immersive art exhibition exploring evolving identities through the works of Aleksandra Rowicka and Kristell in Wonderland. At the crossroads of photography, painting, and digital art, this exhibition invites visitors to reflect on self-construction, gender perception, and the personal narratives that shape our identities.
The exhibition will be open for several days, offering a free-flow experience through a scenographic space centered around the themes of metamorphosis and reflection.
Immersive visual installation: The exhibition features large-scale artworks and digital projections, creating a dreamlike and introspective atmosphere.
Meet the artists: Aleksandra Rowicka and Kristell in Wonderland will be present throughout the exhibition to engage with visitors and discuss their inspirations and artistic process.
Workshops and cultural mediation: Discussion and creative sessions on queer representation and gender fluidity can be organized in collaboration with LGBTQIA+ organizations. If any organizations are looking for a space to hold such activities, we would be delighted to host them."
Centre d'Art du Mont-de-Piété
Brussels
Exhibitions
The Art of Becoming through tales, reveries and mirrors
Uurtje DragtUurtje
UURTJE dragtUURTJE is storytime for everyone aged 3 and up.
This time, we’re reading in both Dutch and French, and for this special PRIDE edition, get ready for a glitter-filled session with two fabulous DRAG artists !
Join us at the library on Saturday, May 10th at 11 AM for beautiful stories in Dutch and French.
For all children and adults, starting from 3 years old.
For PRIDE month, we’ve invited DRAG performers to tell you the most magical stories in the most fabulous costumes.
Ready for this special PRIDE edition in drag? Come listen to stories in Dutch, French, and DRAG.
We’ll have a little coffee, a cup of tea, and a lovely story in two languages.
Join us downstairs, on the library steps!
The performers are: Raoul les Mécaniques and Croma!
Raoul les Mécaniques and Croma
Bibliothèque néerlandophone de Saint-Gilles
Saint-Gilles
Various
Uurtje DragtUurtje
Pride in the City : balade guidée au centre-ville sur l’histoire des lieux de rencontre gays et lesbiens à Bruxelles
Pride in the City: A guided tour in the city centre through the history of gay and lesbian meeting places in Brussels
Organized by the Brussels City Museum, this historical walk takes you from the Grand Place through
the neighborhoods where the gay and lesbian community used to gather in the 19th and 20th
centuries: the Galeries Saint-Hubert, Rue des Bouchers, the Bourse, and the Marché au Charbon.
Filled with fascinating anecdotes, the tour explores how these places have changed and evolved over
time along with society. Celebrating Brussels' rich diversity, the tour ends at the RainbowHouse, a
welcoming space for the entire LGBTQIAP+ community.
Practical Information
Date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Tour in French: 1.30pm
Tour in Dutch: 3.30pm
Price: Free
Reservation: https://www.brusselscitymuseum.brussels/en/evenement/pride-in-the-city-a-guided-
tour-in-the-city-centre-through-the-history-of-gay-and-lesbian-meeting-places-in-brussels
Starting point: Brussels City Museum – Maison du Roi
Museum of the City of Brussels / The King’s House)
Brussels
Guided tours
Pride in the City : balade guidée au centre-ville sur l’histoire des lieux de rencontre gays et lesbiens à Bruxelles
"Rainbow Family” Spectacle de théâtre improvisé
It's a committed improv show, in the tradition of "Pride", which was part of last year's program. The project's artistic director offers here her fourth improvisation creation with a purpose, after 'Rouge', 'Pride' and 'Freaks', which have been touring successfully in France and Belgium for years. The project is co-organized with La Ligue des familles.
Seize the magic of improvisational theater to question our society: ask ourselves questions about parenthood, about "being a family", about the paths of our lives as LGBTQIA+ people.
Create stories - funny, dramatic, tender, sparkling - that challenge us. Share a powerful moment of exchange with the audience on these questions of family and parenthood, and draw inspiration from them to improvise a show, with sincerity, humor and emotion. Spend an evening of improvisational theater together, in the colors of the Rainbow. La Ligue des Familles and La compagnie qui pétille invite you to this unique evening!
Cast: Maïder Dechamps, Peggy Pexy Green, Laurent Franchi, Laura Matthys, Amélie Verreydt
The project's artistic director offers here her third improvised creation with a subject, after 'Rouge' and 'Freaks', which have been touring successfully in France and Belgium for years (see RTBF article).
Further information: https://www.lacompagniequipetille.com/
Show for ages 12 and up
La compagnie qui pétille is a professional theater company based in Brussels, active in the performing arts sector.
Improv à propos, inflammable and fiery material
Improv is for all audiences, and is particularly engaging thanks to its interactive, modular nature. When it blends creativity, humor and commitment, as in La compagnie qui pétille's "Pride" and "Freaks" shows, it is explored as an art form for social change.
It allows us to integrate our values into our creative practice, and to address social issues that are close to our hearts in our theater and improv shows.
Price: €5
Member price: €3
Mercelis theatre
Ixelles
Theatre
"Rainbow Family” Spectacle de théâtre improvisé
PREMIERE - FAMILLE CHOISIE in the presence of the film crew
As part of Pride Week 2025, we are delighted to offer you the PREMIERE of the documentary FAMILLE CHOISIE.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film crew. A festive drink will be served at the Grand Carmes after the screening.
FAMILLE CHOISIE
Elisa VDK
BE, 84', 2025, VO FR ST EN
Synopsis: Massie, Addi, Lylybeth and Joy are four non-binary artists at a turning point in their careers on Brussels' burgeoning drag scene. While this chosen family is close-knit and supportive, their blood family often has difficulty understanding their identity and their profession. Many truths and emotions remain unspoken.
Their shows, sometimes very funny, sometimes very dark, often both, are directly inspired by their daily struggles. The stage allows them to express their gender identities. It's also their livelihood and the place where they draw the energy to force their way into our society.
As their performances become increasingly notable, a quest for identity and artistic recognition takes shape. These artists aspire to something essential: the need to embrace who they are and, above all, to be accepted for who they are.
In collaboration with Screen Box.
Elisa VDK and the film crew
Cinéma Palace
Brussels
Cinema
PREMIERE - FAMILLE CHOISIE in the presence of the film crew
Job Day
RainbowHouse is pleased to invite you to the Job Day, an inclusive job fair that connects job seekers with employers committed to inclusive workplace policies.
The public is welcome from 1 PM to 4 PM to meet various professionals.
We look forward to seeing many of you there!
RainbowHouse is pleased to invite you to Job Day, an inclusive job fair designed to bring jobseekers together with employers committed to diversity and inclusiveness policies.
From 1pm to 4pm, participants will have the chance to discover career opportunities, talk to representatives of companies and organisations, learn more about the inclusion policies in place in different workplaces, and ask all their questions.
Whether you're looking for your first job, changing careers or simply curious to meet safe and committed employers, this is the event for you. There will be information stands, resources to boost your application, and professionals on hand to help you.
The aim is simple: to create a caring space where everyone feels free to be themselves, without fear of discrimination, and encouraged to build their professional future in a respectful environment.
Join us for an afternoon of exchange, inspiration and professional connections!
Grands Carmes
Brussels
Fairs and shows
Job Day
Queerying nature
Did you know that the diversity of nature is much greater and more surprising than you might imagine?
A multitude of animal behaviours can be observed, ranging from relationships between individuals of the same sex to natural sex changes in certain species of fish, as well as a variety of family structures. Biodiversity reminds us that nature is not limited to the frameworks we know. To mark International Day for the Rights of LGBTQIA+ People, Michaël Loriaux, Deputy Mayor for Equal Opportunities, invites you to attend a screening of the film Queerying nature, by Aline Magrez, on Thursday 15 May 2025.
This documentary explores the diversity of behaviour in the animal world and questions the biases that can influence scientific research. Through an innovative look at the plurality of sexual and gender identities, this sensitive and poetic film invites us to broaden our perception of living things.
And to round off the screening in style, we invite you to discover a performance by artist Camille Pier, combining improvisation and spontaneity: an experience full of surprises awaits you!
Maison communale de Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
Cinema
Queerying nature
Mini Pride
As every year during Pride Week, the Mini Pride will take place, a procession to relive the original Pride.
We'll be going from the Town Hall to the RainbowHouse, via the Manneken Pis.
We look forward to sharing this moment with you, in the footsteps of the first Brussels activists.
As every year during Pride Week, the Mini Pride will take place: a city walk following the route of the very first Pride in Brussels.
In a festive atmosphere, we will leave from the City Hall and make our way to the RainbowHouse.
The celebration will continue there in the evening. We look forward to sharing this moment with you!
Rainbowhouse
Brussels
Various
Mini Pride
Apéro-Arpentage: "Sexualités et dissidences queers", de Chacha Enriquez
On the occasion of Pride Week, PAC invites you to an apéro-arpentage of the book "Sexualités et dissidences queers", by Chacha Enriquez.
This collective work brings together people who reflect on the liberation of sexual and love practices from sociology, sexology, social work or a field perspective.
On the occasion of Pride Week, PAC invites you to an apéro-arpentage of the book "Sexualités et dissidences queers", by Chacha Enriquez.
This collective work brings together people who reflect on the liberation of sexual and love practices from sociology, sexology, social work or a field perspective. It provides a rare opportunity for sexual dissidents to speak out together about bisexuality, pleasure, consent culture, sexting, sex work, gay cruising, pornography, polyamory, sexuality education, chemsex, BDSM and asexuality.
What is an arpentage?
An arpentage is a collective reading of a work of art. This technique, which originated in popular education, makes a book more accessible and enables a group to appropriate the work by developing a critical analysis together. You don't need to read the book in advance or buy it to come to a survey.
Free meeting including drinks and snacks.
First, we introduce ourselves and anchor our interest in experiencing this workshop.
Then we'll look at the book as an object, and the details of its cover, colors, texture, price, publishing house...
We then "break" the book, because we also want to desacralize the object, and we communicate the instructions to the public:
1. You must share with the others a rendition of the content you have read.
2. Remember a gift phrase, a burden phrase
3. Perhaps the content echoes our own experience, or that which we have witnessed? Record this and share it, if desired.
After dividing up the pages, we set off for an hour's "reading time".
Then, after making sure everyone is comfortable with the plenary feedback, we begin the restitution process, sharing gift phrases, burdens and echoes of experience. Time is set aside to give everyone a chance to express themselves.
Présence et Action Culturelles - Générale
Anderlecht
Courses and workshops
Apéro-Arpentage: "Sexualités et dissidences queers", de Chacha Enriquez
Depuis longtemps dénoué•es il devrait se recoudre
An apéro poésie with Nanténé Traoré, our associate poet this year, Vanille Bouyagui, Miel Pagès and Noah Truong. This choral reading introduces the cycle of Depuis longtemps dénoué-es il faudrait se recoudre, which looks at collective writing and, in negative terms, the place of solitude in contemporary writing practices.
The guest speakers embarked on a collaborative, eight-handed writing process, drawing on their exchanges, their techniques and their respective sensibilities.
At the meeting, the three authors (excluding Nanténé) will read aloud the texts that have emerged from this collective process.
The reading will be followed by an open discussion to look back together at the writing process, the formal choices made, the dynamics of working together, and the imaginary worlds shared.
It's an opportunity for anyone interested in writing in more than one voice, cross-fertilisation and the creation of a collective text.
A meeting/discussion in partnership with the Théâtre des Riches Claires.
Reservations on the website.
Bibliothèque des Riches Claires
Brussels
Various
Depuis longtemps dénoué•es il devrait se recoudre
RDV Cosmics spécial Brussels Pride : Stand up -Queer Comedy
17 May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia! As part of Brussels Pride, La Villa Cultural Centre and the Ganshoren Prevention Department are joining forces to put on a hilarious Queer stand-up show!
It's a fact that stigma against gender minorities is still with us today. To show our support for the various communities concerned, we will be highlighting young, talented and charismatic Lgbtqia+ artists, where humour will be celebrated in all its splendour.
For one evening, La Villa will welcome extraordinary queer artists, ready to share their stories, experiences and unique points of view through funny and committed performances. The perfect opportunity to celebrate diversity and inclusivity, while having a great time with friends, family or on your own.
Centre Culturel Ganshoren La Villa
Ganshoren
Show
RDV Cosmics spécial Brussels Pride : Stand up -Queer Comedy
Veuves Noires: La Comédie Musicale
Roxanne Tillion, accused of her husband's death, must prove her innocence under the magnifying glass of Inspector Hanssen, a novice but determined to nail her. As he digs deeper, he discovers a family where, generation after generation, women hide dark secrets...
"Veuves Noires", a daring musical that takes you on a whirlwind of emotions, laughter, drama and revelations. From effervescent '60s swing to haunting modern rhythms, each song brings you closer to a family secret as dark - and surprising - as it seems.
Ready to vibrate with the "Veuves Noires" and explore their secrets in an unforgettable show?
Novum
Etterbeek
Show
Veuves Noires: La Comédie Musicale
Brussels Rainbow Seniors Day - Brussels Pride Week 2025
LDC Randstad Molenbeek
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Various
Brussels Rainbow Seniors Day - Brussels Pride Week 2025
