The most revealing Brussels run of Thursday 10 through Sunday 13 September takes place across three consecutive dates at Recyclart. The Molenbeek venue’s programme begins in the sewing workshop, expands into a free reopening night of art, food and music, then lands in a five-act late bill from Zazaclub. It is a compact picture of how the place operates: an arts centre alongside a bar-restaurant and Recyclart Fabrik’s wood, metal and infrastructure workshops. Recyclart has been based in Molenbeek since 2018, following its earlier life at Brussels-Chapel station. For listeners, the useful point is the changing scale of attention across the weekend: make something on Thursday, circulate through the building on Friday, then stay late with sounds built for a club room on Saturday.[1][2][3][4]

Thursday begins at 17:00 with Couture Club, a four-session introduction to industrial sewing whose first meeting falls on 10 September. The session is free, with registration requested, and runs until 20:00. Recyclart locates the activity in the sewing workshop behind the venue, a space connected to the making of its Musée Gonflable. The invitation is deliberately open to experienced makers and newcomers alike, with collective creation at its centre. Calling this a concert pick stretches the usual category, yet that is precisely its value in this guide: it shows the infrastructure surrounding a live programme before the rooms fill with an audience. Arrive early enough to take the workshop seriously, then leave space for the venue’s Bar Resto, which remains open into the evening.[1][2]

Friday 11 September is the public reset. Recyclart Reopening runs from 18:00 until midnight and is free. Its bill joins the vernissage for Saveur fleurs coupées with visits to the Fabrik workshops, Face B’s Rendez-vous Créatifs, La Boîte à Chansons de Lutte, Patho’s Compagnie, DJ Wait & See, food and drinks. This is a programme for moving between rooms and formats. The exhibition gathers collages and photographs, while the reopening page frames the surrounding activity through workshops, installations, performance and music. DJ Wait & See is scheduled for the courtyard with a set drawing on jazz, funk, drum’n’bass, hip-hop and trip-hop. Treat Friday as the evening to get oriented: the building, its working spaces and its social rhythm are all part of the event.[1][3]

Saturday’s return of Zazaclub

On Saturday 12 September, Zazaclub brings the weekend into focus at 22:00 with Klein & XT1ANA performing live, plus Shauwdii, Soa420, iced lattina and VINESSETT. Recyclart describes the series as a place for unexpected connections across deconstructed club music, experimental electronics, rap and live performance. The individual roles give the bill a useful internal shape: Klein and XT1ANA’s live collaboration anchors the night; Shauwdii works around darker club selections; Soa420 handles bass-heavy, experimental electronic material; iced lattina moves through ambient, plugg, trap, drone and distorted club textures; VINESSETT takes a house-and-techno route. Klein’s wider practice has been associated with urban mapping, surveillance, humour, hip-hop, noise and identity, making this live pairing a particularly compelling hinge within a long, mixed-format night. Doors-to-close timing is listed as 22:00 to 05:00.[4][5]

All three dates are at Recyclart, Rue de Manchester 13–15, 1080 Molenbeek. Delacroix metro is about a five-minute walk via the Quai Fernand Demets exit; Duchesse de Brabant tram and bus stop is listed about three minutes away. The site says its arts-centre rooms are step-free and wheelchair accessible, while the cobbled, sloping courtyard may require extra assistance. Friday’s reopening is free; Thursday’s Couture Club requires registration; Saturday’s Zazaclub lists presale and door prices. Recheck Recyclart’s official pages before leaving for availability, access arrangements, door policy and any last-minute programme changes.[2][3][4][6]

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From a sewing workshop to a shared opening night

The three dates work best as one local itinerary because each exposes a different layer of the same address. Thursday’s practical session foregrounds skills and collective making. Friday places those workshops beside a vernissage, performances and a courtyard DJ set. Saturday gives the room over to a focused electronic programme whose live element and DJ selections keep changing the temperature. That progression makes Recyclart’s September restart feel grounded in activity, conversation and sound. It also gives regular concertgoers a reason to approach the venue before the late-night programme begins: the weekend’s earliest events offer a view of the people, spaces and materials that feed into the concert calendar.[1][2][3][4]

Plan the weekend at Manchesterstraat

For a full Recyclart weekend, start Thursday 10 September at 17:00 for Couture Club, return Friday 11 September from 18:00 for the reopening, and keep Saturday 12 September clear from 22:00 for Zazaclub. Recyclart’s official access information advises that Delacroix and Beekkant are the closest metro options, and it asks visitors with specific access needs to contact the venue in advance. Recheck official pages for changeable information, including schedules, registration, prices, accessibility support and line-up updates.[2][3][4][6]

Sources

  1. INFO — Recyclart
  2. Couture Club — Recyclart
  3. Recyclart Reopening — Recyclart
  4. Zazaclub w/ Klein & XT1ANA (live) + Shauwdii + Soa420 + iced lattina + VINESSETT — Recyclart
  5. Klein — Cafe OTO
  6. Bereikbaarheid — Recyclart