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In 2019, it will be the 11th time that Brussels welcomes the Tour de France. After 1958, it will also be the second Grand Départ taking place in the capital of Belgium and Flanders. And of course it’ll be the 50th anniversary of Eddy Merckx’s first victory on la Grande Boucle.
The first stage on Saturday 6 July 2019 goes from Brussels via Charleroi back to Brussels and includes Flanders' legendary cobbled climbs the Muur van Geraardsbergen and the Bosberg.
On Sunday 7 July 20...19, there will be a team time trial in Brussels finishing at the Atomium.
For more inspiration for your next cycling trip to Flanders: https://www.visitflanders.com/en/themes/c ycling/index.jsp
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Brussels will host the start of the Tour de France in 2019. For the second time, the capital of Belgium and Flanders will receive the start of the Tour de France, marking the 50th anniversary of the first Tour victory of legendary road and track bicycle racer Eddy Merckx in 1969.
The first stage on Saturday 6 July 2019 goes from Brussels via Charleroi back to Brussels and includes Flanders' legendary cobbled climbs the Muur van Geraardsbergen and the Bosberg.
On Sunday 7 Jul...y 2019, there will be a team time trial in Brussels finishing at the Atomium.
SHEDULE
Thursday 4 July. Presentation of the Tour de France teams at the Grote Markt/Grand-Place in the centre of the city. Saturday 6 July. 1st stage, Bruxelles - Charleroi - Brussel Sunday 7 July. 2nd stage, Bruxelles Palais Royal - Brussel Atomium - team time trial
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Last week we celebrated our Flanders Day in Edinburgh. It was a wonderful and joyous occasion to celebrate the Flemish community in Scotland. We also launched the book ‘Scotland and the Flemish People’ in Edinburgh, published by Birlinn Books. Alexander Fleming and Roger Mason (the editors of the book) were present to give a brief insight into the book and what the reasons were to make it. Thank you The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo for hosting the event.
More info or a place to purchase the book, can be found through the link below: https://www.birlinn.co.uk/Scotland-and-th e-Flemish-People.h…

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Happy #Pride London! 🌈🌈🌈
This weekend is the climax of Pride in London's festivities, this year paying tribute to 50 years of activism, celebration and protest that followed the #Stonewall Riots in 1969.
Pride Month draws to a close but the fun isn't over yet. The annual march starts just around the corner from Flanders House 😍😀❤️🥳
... #Loveislove
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Featuring in the latest episode of Map Men!
The #Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.
In this projection, parallels and meridians are rendered as straight lines spaced so as to produce at any point an accurate ratio of latitude to longitude. Mercator also introduced the term #atlas for a collection of maps.
... #mapmen
Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Belgium in the UK Flanders in the USA KU Leuven Rupelmonde
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Looking for things to do this sunny weekend?
Why not visit the
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival ?
... Antwerp based Arts collective Captain Boomer Collective brings the installation 'Pasture with Cows', which is performed as part of Greenwich Fair, GDIF’s two-day “festival within a festival” from 21-23 June 2019.
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Brussels - Whose City Is It Anyway?
Next Wednesday 26 June At Rich Mix London 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
... Brussels!
A city made up of different communities, languages, governments and neighbourhoods. A city on the border of two language groups taken over by the vast political and bureaucratic operation of the EU and struggling to integrate its newer migrant residents. We’ll look at the role of the city as a cosmopolitan interconnected hub and who it belongs to through short films, poetry and architecture with exceptional guest speakers and performers from Brussels and the UK.
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Wednesday 19 June. Starting at 6.30 pm.
Come and find fellow VCL (Vlaamse Club London) members at the Aviary rooftop terrace at 22-25 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1DX.

Bach: Mass in B minor Collegium Vocale Gent/Herreweghe
14 Jun 2019, 19:30 ,Barbican Hall
... There’s no mightier spiritual or artistic challenge than Bach’s transcendent Mass setting – and few modern performers are better equipped to tackle it than Philippe Herreweghe’s pioneering ensemble.
Under Herreweghe’s direction, Collegium Vocale Gent has been performing #Bach in a historically informed style for nearly six decades. And after a near-lifetime’s experience, Herreweghe’s ensemble approaches this music with an understanding and a naturalness that’s almost unequalled.
The Guardian sensed ‘a spine-tingling sense of the infinite’ when Herreweghe directed the B minor Mass in London in 2011: and after a whole career spent contemplating Bach’s divine mysteries, his self-effacing manner takes him remarkably close to the soul of this sublime music.
Barbican Centre Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe Flanders Arts Institute
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6 June 2019: Opening night with a guided tour of the exhibition with curators Nina Serulus and Bart Tritsmans, followed by a lecture by dr. Sofie De Caigny (director Flanders Architecture Institute) and dr. Barnabas Calder (University of Liverpool).
This exhibition focuses on the postwar architecture of the Belgian architect Léon Stynen (1899-1990). His post-war oeuvre is characterised by brutalist architecture with a sensitivity to the human scale. It reflects the wealth a...nd wit of post-war architecture, and it highlights the contemporary relevance of modern heritage. Léon Stynen wrote that only humankind should form the basis of architecture. With his designs, he intended to contribute to the creation of a modern environment for the contemporary individual. Stynen's oeuvre is not only particularly extensive, but also demonstrates that he mastered all the scales of the profession; from the landscape to the interior.
Belgian architect Léon Stynen epitomises a generation of post-war modernist architects in Europe. Their oeuvres and profiles share many similarities. Typically, these architects were part of a strong national and international network. They were up-to-date and knowledgeable, prolific and varied builders, consummate professionals, and able to access large-scale, highly visible commissions for the welfare state. Showing Stynen’s oeuvre at the brutalist Silver building, a former brewery by the Irish architects Munce & Kennedy, underlines the value of modernist heritage and its contemporary relevance.
The wooden structures enclosing the public space in front of the Silver Building, created in collaboration with Eagles of Architecture and a group of high school students, analyse the proportions in Stynen’s façades. Ten large photographs by Filip Dujardin show Stynen’s buildings in their current condition. In the boiler rooms, a selection of exceptional pieces from the Stynen archive - part of the collection of the Flanders Architectural Institute - reflect the genius of Stynen’s oeuvre, and the wealth of paper architecture.
Images by Agnese Sanvito www.agnesesanvito.com
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BRUTALISM ON A HUMAN SCALE. POST-WAR ARCHITECTURE BY LÉON STYNEN (1899-1990)
On view 6 - 30 June at The Silver Building, 60 Dock Rd, Royal Docks, London E16 1YZ

Happy to share images of yesterday's opening night of the exhibition 'BRUTALISM ON A HUMAN SCALE. POST-WAR ARCHITECTURE BY LÉON STYNEN (1899-1990)'
Curated by the Flanders Architecture Institute Coinciding with the London Festival of Architecture
... This exhibition focuses on the postwar architecture of the Belgian architect Léon Stynen (1899-1990). His post-war oeuvre is characterised by brutalist architecture with a sensitivity to the human scale. It reflects the wealth and wit of post-war architecture, and it highlights the contemporary relevance of modern heritage. Léon Stynen wrote that only humankind should form the basis of architecture. With his designs, he intended to contribute to the creation of a modern environment for the contemporary individual. Stynen's oeuvre is not only particularly extensive, but also demonstrates that he mastered all the scales of the profession; from the landscape to the interior.
The wooden structures enclosing the public space in front of the Silver Building, created in collaboration with Eagles of Architecture and a group of high school students, analyse the proportions in Stynen’s façades. Ten large photographs by Filip Dujardin show Stynen’s buildings in their current condition. In the boiler rooms, a selection of exceptional pieces from the Stynen archive - part of the collection of the Flanders Architectural Institute - reflect the genius of Stynen’s oeuvre, and the wealth of paper architecture.
Entry is free. The Silver Building 60 Dock Rd, Royal Docks, London E16 1YZ
More info: https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture. org/…/brutalism-o…/
Vlaams Architectuurinstituut Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Belgium in the UK
Images by Peter Nelissen
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On view throughout June.

Happy to announce the upcoming networking drinks organised by the Vlaamse Club London (VCL) on 19 June at 6.30 pm.
Come and find fellow VCL members at the Aviary rooftop terrace. Location: The Aviary, Royal London House, 10th Floor Montcalm, 22-25 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1DX
... Please register so they can communicate in case of rain https://vlaamseclublonden.wildapricot.org /event-3317762
Embassy of Belgium in the UK Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce Vlamingen in de Wereld / VIW
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