Brussels, Jun 13 (EFE).- The New European Bauhaus (NEB) festival of architecture, design and sustainability concluded its third edition on Saturday with a family-friendly program featuring interactive workshops using recycled materials and a variety of music and dance performances.
Throughout the week, the festival transformed Brussels’ Art and History Museum, located in the iconic Cinquantenaire Park, and its surrounding areas into a showcase of architectural projects, expert discussions and European art for hundreds of visitors.
On its final day, NEB organized activities in which younger participants explored their creative side using natural materials in a series of workshops held among the museum’s historic collections.
The program also included dozens of activities for adults and families, such as tapestry-making workshops using recycled fabrics, including old T-shirts transformed into weaving strips.
Other workshops, led by artists from several European countries, invited visitors to decorate lamps and other objects with dried plants or to repurpose metal coins into seed containers.
Performing arts also played a prominent role, with appearances by Cypriot dancer and choreographer Panos Malactos and Valencian flamenco dancer Irene de la Rosa, who presented her project adapting flamenco performances for deaf audiences.
Italian gypsy jazz, swing, and blues group Patagarri closed the festival in the afternoon, followed by a performance by Mielotxin, a band known for its interpretation of the traditional music of historic Navarre, with lyrics in both Basque and Spanish.
New European Bauhaus, which will return in 2028, is an initiative promoted by the European Commission to give visibility to young designers and innovative architectural projects, to explore new ways of creating spaces through sustainability, aesthetics and resilience in a changing world. EFE