Culture beat: 30 October

The leisure pool complex Océade at Heysel offers swimmers a scary Halloween experience until Sunday. Every day at 15.00 the pool’s water turns into a red bloodbath. Fear not, the pool says it uses a 100% natural colourant. Meanwhile, in the centre of the city, the ghosts of Brussels’ past appear as light falls in a deadly walk in the Royal Park on Saturday at 16.00 (reservation recommended). If dressing up tickles your fancy, a Michael Jackson Thriller-themed Halloween Experience is a public dance at Place de la Bourse, Grand‘Place and Mont des Arts from 14.00. Why not stay in costume for a Halloween party at the Hard Rock Café in the Grand‘Place from 19.00 to 1.00. Alternatively, head to La Tentation in Rue de Laeken for Radio Modern’s Haunted Halloween Edition. Don’t forget that you may need to adjust your scary costumes as retro-party organiser Radio Modern specialises in 1940s and 50s style and ambiance. Afterwork party peeps @seven are preparing to scare in a Haunted Halloween Costume Ball tonight 30 October at Bouche à Oreille where the fun starts from 19.00. Dinner by reservation, costume awards at 21.30 and DJ ball from 22.00.

Belgium’s biggest arts festival Europalia has school holiday activities with a Turkish theme in honour of its guest country. For children aged four to six and six to 12 there’s a storytelling stage at Le Wolf bookshop (details from 02 512 1230 or info@lewolf.be). On Wednesday 4 November, children six and up can explore Europalia’s flagship exhibition Anatolia in a discovery trail for families at Bozar. You can also enjoy the event on 23 and 30 December. As part of the international children’s film festival Filem’on, a screening of Snow Pirates by Faruk Hacihafizoglu is at Cinéma Nova on Thursday 4 November. It recounts the risky search for coal by three children in Turkey following the 1980 coup d’état (from 10 and up). Other family Halloween activities include a Witches walk at Maison Pelgrims in Saint Gilles on Saturday at 17.30, part of the Fantastic Museum’s Halloween Festival offering thrills until 4 November. Check out the Bulletin’s event listings for Halloween and other activities.

English Comedy Brussels moves from its usual Black Sheep haunt to Espace Senghor in Chaussée de Wavre on 4 November for a one-night performance by stand up Jon Richardson. The English comic and TV show regular is currently on his new live tour ‘Nidiot’. Tickets €28.

Looking ahead, ETCetera presents Amour et Musique a French musical comedy programme at Théâtre Le Petit Varia from 11 to 14 November at 20.00. The show includes the one-act farce Amour et Piano by Georges Feydeau (in English, surtitles in French) and a one-act comic opera Mr Choufleuri restera chez lui le… by Jacques Offenbach (in French, surtitles in English). Reserve tickets (€16, €14 for 10 tickets or more) at tickets.etcetera@gmail.com or by telephone 0479 687 503.

Brussels’ prime networking club Full Circle returns on 11 November with an evening talk by world-class economist and social entrepreneur Laurence Brahm. Presenting his latest book, Fusion Economics, How Pragmatism is Changing the World, Brahm will also participate in a Q&A. Tickets €10 members/concessions, €20 non-members. The venue of the talk, in Full Circle fashion, will be announced a few days before the event.