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Brussels reads aloud (in 13 languages)

Each year during the second half of November the Flemish Reading Foundation organises its “Reading Aloud Week”. The Reading Aloud Week is designed to get people of all ages to read. The Reading Foundation believes that reading is important as it stimulates a person’s language development and their imagination.

Reading opens the door to a whole new world of ideas, not just for children, but also for adults. Many older people with failing eyesight also enjoy being read to.

The Reading Foundation says that reading aloud is for everyone from children to the very old. A total of 244 events are being held in libraries, schools, cultural centres and day care projects across Flanders and Brussels.

The Flemish libraries in our multi-cultural and cosmopolitan capital Brussels have joined forces to provide an 11-day programme of readings in Dutch and a total of 13 other languages.

The English readings will take place in the library at Sint-Gillis on Saturday 29 November at 11am and on the same day in the brand new Flemish library in Sint-Pieters Woluwe, also at 11am.

Elsewhere, you can attend readings in Japanese in Oudergem and Watermaal-Bosvoorde, Farsi in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Chinese in Etterbeek and Spanish in Ukkel.

Click here to access a full list of all the multi-lingual events in 18 Flemish libraries across the capital.
 

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