Events

Welcome to the launch of Crossings: creative ecologies of cruising by João Florêncio and Liz Rosenfeld. Hovering between scholarship and avant-garde experimentation, between critical manifesto and sex memoir Crossings takes queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making. On the occasion of the launch Liz Rosenfeld will screen a series of short films – Tremble (2021), Liz/James/StillHoles (2017) and Daisy Chain (2014) – made on their experience of cruising.

Join us for the second edition of 'Talking with Time' - a Library Session all about time. In this coming gathering in Brussels we will study the relation between queerness and temporality, futurity and history. The source of our reflections will be an email exchange organized by Elizabeth Freeman in 2006 with Carolyn Dinshaw, Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, amongst others. We will take our time reading, asking and thinking together. 

Join us for a reading by poet Bahaar Ahsan and artist Stefa Govaart. Stefa will read from letters and poems under the title “psalms/Duplicity”, using various intra-English translations of the psalms of the Old Testament as tools for language acquisition. Bahaar will read poems from a first full-length manuscript that deals with metonymy and love. 

We are excited to welcome you for an evening of readings by poets Rosie Stockton (US), author of Fuel and Permanent Volta, and Hannah Baer (US) author of trans girl suicide museum.

On the evening of May 19 the extraordinary poet Alice Notley passed away in Paris. We invite you to join us for an evening to gather around her poetry and share a drink. Bring your favourite Notley poems to read or come to listen.  

We love you Alice, you gave so much.

Join us for the launch of As If They Had A Spirit the first comprehensive monograph of artist Pontus Pettersson edited and published by Galerie. On the occasion of the launch Pontus together with Izabella Borzecka and Galerie (Simon Asencio and Adriano Wilfert Jensen) will activate the book through reading, drawing and conversation. 

You’re invited to join us for a meeting of The Anonymous Poet Society hosted by Kate Paul, nene noï and Roya Zahra Shadmand. An evening of anonymous readings invested in providing a space for textual and vocal play without authorship. Throughout the evening together we read aloud each other’s anonymised poetry, or other forms of writing, until all is read.

Join us for the launch of Alternative Pedagogical Spaces – From Utopia to Institutionalization (Villa Arson, Sternberg Press, 2025), with Anna Colin in conversation with Alice Dusapin.

Rejoignez-nous pour le lancement de Sarahland (burn août, 2025), en présence de son autrice, Sam Cohen, et du designer du livre, Flo*Souad.

Welcome to the launch of the third issue of A4, a poetry review exploring contemporary writing practices run by the Brussels based Littérature Supersport collective. With readings by Gabriel Gauthier (French), Ahmed Saleh (Arabic-English) and a performance by Marjolein Guldentops.

Join us for the fifth episode of “Living Contents”, an evening of performative readings by students from Erg Brussels. With readings and performances by Colline Fournier Montgieux, Chloé Vanden Bossche, Kimera Morphoses, Amélie Coutures, Zazie Maroy, Elle Marchese and Pénélope Chapuis.

Join us for the launch of Prepositions (Montez Press, 2024) by Timmy Simonds and Aaron Lehman. Prepositions is a catalogue of exercises, interviews, essays and creative explorations, this workbook-compendium invites the reader to investigate how we practise empathy, understanding, and contact, by learning and teaching all at once.