Darklands 2024 will take place from Wednesday 27 to Monday 4 March in Antwerp, Belgium. As before, the venue will be the Waagnatie event hall.

Not only do we now know the dates, the ticket sale has started and you can book a room at the cooperating hotels. As usual you can buy day tickets, single party tickets or a weekend pass. But those are gone soon. 

Sapphire House, Antwerp’s newest 5-star hotel, is offering a package including the all-in Alpha Madness Pass. 

Other hotels working with Darklands are:

• Darklands The Hotel (A-Stay).
• Radisson Blu Astrid Antwerp.
• Park Inn by Radisson Astrid.
• Holiday Inn Express Antwerp City North.
• Astoria Hotel Antwerp.
• Hampton.
• Holiday Inn Express Antwerp City Centre.
• Hotel Indigo Antwerp City Centre.
• Ibis budget Antwerp Central Station.
• Lindner Hotel ****.
• Mercure Antwerp City Centre.
• Premier Suites Plus Antwerp.

Theme

Darklands’ 2024’s theme is ‘The Void‘. “Infinite kinks. Numerous devoted kinks. Darkness has many dimensions”, it says.

Darklands evolved from LeatherPride Belgium and Leather & Fetish Pride Belgium. For many, it’s a yearly conference involving kinks and fetishes, sex but also shows, performances, competition and buying and selling gear. Darklands also attracts many ‘tourists’, MSM who are not necessarily full time into kink, but surf on the good vibes spread by Darklands and book a ticket for the weekend or one of the parties. 

Information and tickets.

Antwerp Pride 2023 & Antwerp Queer Arts Festival 2023

• ANTWERP PRIDE 2023 | Opening Night concert & party at OLT Rivierenhof.
• 4-27 AUGUST | Antwerp Queer Arts Festival 2023 programme and schedule.
• 2023 Antwerp Pride Parade route includes Kloosterstraat and a hello to czar Peter the Great.
• Antwerp Pride 2023 Festival at Cockerillkaai.
• ANTWERP PRIDE 9-13 AUGUST 2023 ‘BRAVEOLUTION’ | Make Antwerp a brave and safe.
• ANTWERP PRIDE 2023 | ‘Braveolution’ to Brave Space Antwerp.
• Antwerp Queer Arts Festival 2023 seeks contributors.
• ANTWERP PRIDE | Geert Van Praet succeeds retiring chairperson Bart Abeel.
• PHOTOS | Antwerp Pride 2023 from Wednesday 9 to Sunday 13 August.

Darklands 2023-2024

• ANTWERP | Darklands 2024 going into ‘The Void’ under new, stricter city rules.
• “Darklands: The Hotel was an idea of A-Stay”.
• DARKLANDS 2023 | Programme and schedule.
• DARKLANDS 2023 | A-Stay to become official Darklands: The Hotel.
• Darklands 2023 from Tuesday 7 to Tuesday 14 March in Antwerp.
• Darklands 2023 to and from Deep Space.

Queer Antwerp

• Antwerp Pride, Jeffrey’s, Marie Antoinette, Armand Everaert win 2023 Touristico Gaylive Awards.
• ANTWERP | LGBTQIA+ bookshop Kartonnen Dozen stops.
• Rainbow zebra crossings of Antwerp.
• Rainbow zebra crossing in Borgerhout.
• Rainbow zebra crossing in Berchem.
• City chronicle ‘De kleur van de stad maakt mijn ziel amoureus’ recounts Queer Antwerp history.
• ‘Masculinities: Liberation through Photography’ exhibition at FOMU, Antwerp’s photography museum.
• Antwerp’s LGBTQI+ bookshop Kartonnen Dozen wins Çavaria Media Award.
• PHOTOS | Rainbows lit Antwerp.
• Flemish LGBTQI+ press support rainbow community in Ukraine.
• ALLEMAAL ANTWERPENAAR | Antwerp launches campaign to motivate citizens to stand up against discrimination and intimidation.
• Borgerhout flies intersex inclusive Rainbow Progress Pride Flag for IDAHOT.