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Horst Festival is a blueprint for a creative, collective future

Hymn — Highlighted by an engrossing performance directed by Fallon Mayanja, the 2026 edition was a showcase of ASIAT Park’s ever-evolving space as an incubator for art, music and creativity.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk
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At Belgium’s Horst, electronic music, skate and community collide

More than a festival — With art exhibitions, youth projects and a brand new skatepark, the Vilvoorde-Brussels weekender is demonstrating how music events can have an impact all year round.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk

The Brussels festival dismantling the stigma around sex work

Belgium became the first European country to decriminalise sex work, thanks in part to SNAP! – a sex worker-run festival fighting for visibility, rights and sexual freedom.

  • Sex Work
  • Alex King

Cycling for equality in Europe’s bike messenger scene

The race is on — This week, couriers from across the continent and gender spectrum are racing around Brussels in pursuit of the European Cycle Messenger Championship.

  • Bike
  • Michael Henson

The DIY Brussels skatepark creating a community against the odds

For skaters, by skaters — Looking to bring his community together and protect them from the cold, Youssef Abaoud and his friends hand built the Byrrrh – Brussel's first official DIY indoor skate park to open in over a decade.

  • Skate
  • Biju Belinky

The photographer capturing youth in defiance

We keep on living free — Italian photographer Giacomo Cosua’s show ‘I’m Not Afraid’ documents youth determined to express themselves - no matter what - around the globe.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

10 ways Brexit could affect young people

Surviving a sinking UK — Britain’s split with the EU won’t be pretty. Huck gets to the bottom of the propaganda, myths and the deluge of questions nobody can answer yet, to look at how Brexit will affect you.

  • Activism
  • Alex King, Andrea Kurland and Max Gayler

The actors turning Guantanamo Bay torture techniques into theatre

Welcome to a dystopian paradise — Theatre company 2Magpies are no strangers to tackling controversial subjects, but their latest project - exploring music and torture at Guantanamo Bay - may well be their boldest performance yet, showing us the songs used for torture at Guantanamo Bay, and asking questions about how we react to terror.

  • Brussels
  • Natasha Turner

Artists respond to the Brussels terror attacks

U.N.I.T.Y. — After Brussels is hit by coordinated terrorist bombings, illustrators and artists around the world share their responses.

  • Culture
  • HUCK HQ

The Brussels teenagers defying cultural divisions

Terror, division, skateboarding and unity in Brussels — Links to the Paris attacks put Brussels at the centre of Europe’s debate on immigration, throwing up some heated questions. Is a lack of integration leading to radicalised teens? But at Les Ursulines skatepark a refreshing counterpoint is thriving, as kids from all backgrounds skate together in peace.

  • Reportage
  • Alex King

The Defiance Issue

Out Now — This year Huck is all about attitude. The energy, emotions and lenses on life that create connections across the divide. The Defiance Issue traces a jagged line across the globe, picking up voices of rebellion along the way.

  • Culture
  • HUCK HQ

Teenage Utopia: Skating Through the Lockdown

Skateboarding and unity in Brussels — The Paris attacks pushed Brussels into the centre of Europe's debate about immigration, intolerance and radicalisation. Ursulines skatepark offers a refreshing counterpoint, here kids from all backgrounds skate together in peace.

  • Film
  • Alex King

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