What's on this week: 23-29 June

Brussels celebrates UN World Refugee Day by participating in the international Refugee Food Festival, an event that transforms restaurants across Europe into showcases for refugee chefs and their respective national and regional cuisines. The festival unfolds at eight Brussels restaurants including hip fusion bistro Gramm, organic haven Oficina and popular Saint-Gilles hangout Cipiace. For the occasion, these establishments’ resident chefs lend their kitchens to counterparts from Syria, Palestine, Kurdistan, Iraq and Somalia. It’s not just about exchanging flavours and ideas. The festival is also an opportunity for these expatriated chefs to establish professional networks in their new city.
Across Brussels, 19-25 June

Kicking off the rich Belgian summer music festival season is Paradise City, featuring electronic/dance music in all its iterations. The festival takes place in Steenokkerzeel on the outskirts of Brussels on the lake-studded property of the centuries-old castle of Perk-Ribaucourt, now the home of the Counts of Lannoy. A major feature of the festival other than the music is the high-quality organic, as much as possible locally sourced food that is available. Celebrity chef Sofie Dumont will be offering three-course dinners and appetisers at the temporary restaurant on Paradise Island. But there's a lot more with 15 foodtrucks and food stands featuring Belgian, Korean, Greek, and even entomological cuisine.
23-25 June, Steenokkerzeel

Saturday is the 13th edition of the Visual Festival of Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, one of Brussels' less-known but well worth discovering boroughs with its varied open spaces and quality medieval, 19th and 20th century architecture. The festival celebrates "Circus Fun and Urban Arts" with a full roster of top talent.
24 June, 14.00-01.00, free

Singer Kaiti Koullia from Kalymnos performs traditional Greek island songs, accompanied by Kyriakos Gkouventas on violin and Vasilis Smanis on lute and voice.
24 June 20.00, Art Base, Rue des Sables 29, Brussels

Picturing Belgium 14-18 is an open-air exhibition in the park, featuring the most striking and intriguing photographs made in Belgium between 1914 and 1918.
Until 17 September, Royal Park, Brussels

A regular fixture in the Flagey building, the Brussels Film Festival features a mix of short, medium and full-length films, with an emphasis on new, mostly European work, and also includes concerts and open-air screenings.
Until 23 June, Flagey, Place Sainte Croix 1, Brussels

Yoga in the Park is an outdoor yoga flow class suitable for all levels, including beginners, and is taught in English. Just wear comfortable clothes. Bring a towel or blanket or just enjoy the feel of grass under your feet. No registration required.
25 June 11.00-12.00, La Guingette, Parc de Forest, Brussels; free

The Nuit Africaine, the only festival in Wallonia devoted exclusively to African cultures and realities, is back for a 24th edition. It takes place in the Domaine Provincial du Bois des Rêves in Ottignies and offers musical performances on two stages, food, events, workshops and lots of children's activities. The Nuit Africaine Prize, created last year, allows online visitors to "like" various projects and based on the number of likes each project will receive funds. The theme this year is forced migration and its effects on families and especially children.
24 June, from 14.00

French singer songwriter Arnold Turboust returns to Brussels following a sell-out concert in Namur last week. In the Walloon capital the musician performed a selection of hits from the 1980s such as Adélaide and Epaule Tattoo (co-written with Etienne Daho), to recent singles Souffler n’est pas jouer and rock-influenced Bubble Gum. Turboust is an assured musician, relaxed and accessible and forever a French dandy. Despite the torrid temperature, his jacket remained firmly buttoned up.
28 June, 20.00, l’Archiduc, 6 Rue Antoine Dansaert, Brussels (€15)

Bozar is showing a new piece by Finnish artist Anssi Pukkinen entitled Street View (Reassembled) which "discusses homelessness both in concrete and symbolic ways. Pulkkinen presentsthe remains of a destroyed Syrian home on a 13.5-metre-long truck trailer. The caravan-like, touring piece of contemporary art creates an alternative street view from Syria in our urban European city environment. The work provokes questions around, amongst others, home, belonging, identity and free mobility."
Until 6 July, Bozar, Brussels, free