Events

Join us for the performance of Mean Time by Amina Szecsödy. Emerging from the space between the present and it's future, Mean Time is a textual and sonic work that offers a darkly surprising philosophical poetics.

Join us for “With eyes closed I see”, a sharing of performative reading practices from Glaneuses et Vers Terre (Gleaners and the Worms), a collective research project by Emilie Gallier, Nina Boas, and Nienke Terpsma. They will host a participatory reading session, entering text as a landscape to move within.

Join us for to the launch of mnemotope issue 003 by bog bodies press. mnemotope is a community magazine that collects various kinds of literature within its pages: poems, recipes, short stories, essays. For the launch the editors Lilou Angelrath and Reitlin O'hagan, will present the new issue and host an open-mic style participatory reading of their new issue.

Join us for the launch of Oostende, a new book moving between poetry, diary and novel by Martín Zícari, published in Spanish by Poesía Paripé. For the launch Martín will read newly translated excerpts in English alongside selected excerpts in Spanish.

Join us for a reading and presentation by LA Warman, author of Dust and Whore Foods, accompanied by a launch of the French translation of Whore Foods (RAG Editions) by Clara Pacotte.

You are invited to a speculative listening session of An (In)Complete History of the World by Jen Rosenbilt. The performance research puts questions of repetition, desire, removal, decay and transition at stake. In collaboration with Li Tavor and Gærald Kurdian.

Welkom voor de lancering van het nieuwste nummer van nY, een Vlaams tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek en entertainment. 'Sex Negativity', de titel en het thema van dit nummer, stelt dat "we als subjecten niet compleet, soeverein of stabiel zijn. Seks onthult het fundamentele gemis in onszelf, zonder het op te lossen." Het nummer zal worden gepresenteerd door nY-redacteuren Persis Bekkering en Tessel Veneboer, samen met voordrachten van dichters Alara Adilow en Stefa Govaart.

Welcome for the launch of ROT ISSUE ONE: IMMUNITY, edited by Sara Manente (Varamo Press, 2023), with a performance of Step into the Limelight by Natasha Papadopolou, and more.

Chères filles de la nuit et les autres — Dearest Daughters of Darkness,

Welcome to the launch of How to Become The Daughters of Darkness, an evening program of emboldened readings, where a fountain of bloody marys will be waiting for you to drown all your sins at best, and your sorrows at worst. Plus, we’re bringing with us all sorts of pocketable, kissable DIY goodies. — Bienvenue au lancement de How to Become The Daughters of Darkness, une soirée de lectures, où une bassine de bloody mary vous attendra pour y noyer tous vos péchés et à défaut vos soucis. De plus, plein de goodies DIY trop fun & dark and kissable and pocketable.

Join us for a reading by renowned and award-winning poet and performance artist Ariana Reines who will read from her yet unpublished poetry collection The Rose and from her latest book A Sand Book. Ariana Reines will be joined in conversation by performing artist and writer Stefa Govaart.