The tenth Passa Porta Festival will be held from 28 to 30 March 2025
Power to the imagination in Brussels! Next spring, a hundred writers and artists will animate the city, as literature takes over the capital for three days. Welcome to the Passa Porta Festival!
Every two years, the international house of literature Passa Porta hosts a multilingual festival, the largest literary event in the Benelux and a regular fixture in the calendar of many readers.
For its 10th edition, the Passa Porta Festival once again takes us on a wonderful voyage of discovery into contemporary literature, driven by an inspiring theme: GHOSTS. Each new book conjures up the ghosts of past writers, while casting its shadow into the future. Writers never die. From 28 to 30 March, they will conspire with ghosts to turn Brussels into a great literary hall of mirrors.
Authors, musicians, artists, and actors will explore the different aspects of this theme and confront the ghost worlds of family, love, and politics. Writers will poke holes in time and space, debate the shadowy sides of history, and reflect on apocalyptic visions of the future.
You won’t find any ghostwriters at the 10th Passa Porta Festival, but there will be plenty of flesh-and-blood writers to enthral you with the most vibrant works of literature.
On the programme
The full programme will be revealed in February, but you can already save the following dates:
Friday 28 March
Five international authors read a new text in ‘Ghost Stories’, a haunting evening at La Monnaie.
Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 March
Meetings, interviews, panel discussions, readings, reading clubs, concerts, book signings, workshops, walks, tours, and performances at a dozen cultural hotspots in Brussels, making for two days of literary celebrations.
Today we are also launching the ‘early bird’ tickets for the festival. You can buy a discounted weekend pass from 2 December to 31 January.