page_title: Antwerp Jazz Club (AJC)
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Antwerp Jazz Club (AJC) / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: Protected monuments in Antwerp, Belgium, on the square Grote Markt. From left to right: Burgerhuis Witten Engel This is a photo of onroerend erfgoed number 4033 Ambachtshuis de Mouwe (alternative names: "de gulde Mouwe" or "het Cuypershuys") This is a photo of onroerend erfgoed number 4034 Huis Spaengien This is a photo of onroerend erfgoed number 4035 Picture taken on 13 September 2016, at 19:45PM.
context_page_description: The Antwerp Jazz Club is an association in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1938 by Hans Philippi, which delivers weekly lectures about and presentations of jazz music, at no cost, open to the public at large. Its sessions are held in Dutch. Other than these sessions, the club organizes concerts, including helping to organize blues concerts; and has aided in the screenings of jazz documentaries.
  Its Tuesday-sessions are held mostly by a member, and if not by another amateur of jazz, and are often illustrated by DVD-recordings. They are held every Tuesday night from 20PM until 22PM, but not during the Christmas period, nor the month of July. On request, the association also organises events about jazz for interested associations.
  The jazz club is a member of:
  "De Stedelijke Culturele Raad van Antwerpen";
  Hot Club de France; and
  Centre for Black Music Research, Chicago, United States.
  The now obsolete Dutch-language website Gratisinantwerpen.be, which was supported by the city of Antwerp and listed free events in Antwerp, used to advertise the weekly Tuesday-sessions of the AJC.
context_section_description: Since 8 November 1994, AJC holds its sessions in a bar called "Den Bengel" in Antwerp.
  More precisely, the clubhouse of  AJC is housed in the same building as that bar (which occupies the ground floor), yet on the second floor. The building is actually an old guild house (Dutch: ambachtshuis) called "Ambachtshuis de Mouwe" (alternative names: "de gulde Mouwe" or "het Cuypershuys"), which is registered and protected as a monument since 2 September 1976 into the Flemish inventory of immovable property, part of the heritage registers in Belgium.
  The building's ground floor is dated 1579, its gable is dated 1628. The building was originally the "house" of the craft of cooperage (Dutch: kamer van het Kuipersambacht). The architectural style of the building is renaissance architecture, it was designed by Léonard Blomme, and restored in 1907. The top of the building is crowned with a triangular pediment which holds a gilded statue of Saint Matthias, the patron saint of the coopers.
  The building is part of the square Grote Markt. When facing its façade, one finds the building Burgerhuis Witten Engel (in Dutch) at its left and the building Huis Spaengien (in Dutch) at its right, which are also protected monuments.
caption: The clubhouse of AJC is located on the second floor (where windows can be seen opened) of the building in the centre (Ambachtshuis de Mouwe), a protected monument. Picture taken on 13 September 2016, fifteen minutes before the 8PM Tuesday-session of the jazz club.
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