Every summer Zomer van Antwerpen opens a disused gasworks on the Minkelersstraat to anyone who walks in. The Zomerfabriek is free, open until one in the morning, and has a skate zone.
Category: 📅 Events
Discover the latest events and happenings in and around Antwerp.
Summer in Antwerp: a swimming dock and 74 days of festival
Zomer van Antwerpen ran for 74 days in 2026, and much of it was free. Here is what actually runs in Antwerp in July and August, from a swimming dock by the MAS to the Bollekesfeest.
The Sinksenfoor, Antwerp’s Pentecost fair, and the move that worked
The Sinksenfoor opens on Pentecost weekend with about 150 stalls on Spoor Oost in Borgerhout. It moved there from the Zuid in 2015, after three years of court cases.
Antwerp Fashion Weekend becomes the Antwerp.Fashion Festival
Antwerp’s fashion weekend now has an official name and a plan behind it. The first Antwerp.Fashion Festival, 4 to 7 June 2026, put on more than 100 shows and drew 26,500 visitors; the next is planned for 2028.
Easter in Antwerp: Rubens, a printing house, a zoo and 4,460 bikes
Easter 2027 falls on 28 and 29 March. Antwerp has no Easter market, but its cathedral holds the Rubens Passion paintings, and one of them is away for restoration.
The Antwerp 10 Miles goes under the Scheldt twice
The Antwerp 10 Miles started in 1986 with 800 runners. For its 40th edition, in April 2026, all 40,000 places for the Sunday race sold out in under an hour.