Events

Join us for a summer reading group taking place on Tuesday evenings in July. Over the three sessions we will read through the wildly poetic and radically political Lesbian Peoples: materials for a dictionary written by Monique Wittig and Sandie Zeig in 1976. The reading will be held in english, french editions will be available. No prior study or reading necessary. 

We are delighted to welcome poet and activist Fariha Róisín to read from her most recent book of poems Survival Takes a Wild Imagination. Through the collection Róisín prays, claws, and scratches her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received and the kindness she couldn’t give. 

Join us for a summer reading group taking place on Tuesday evenings in July. Over the three sessions we will read through the wildly poetic and radically political Lesbian Peoples: materials for a dictionary written by Monique Wittig and Sandie Zeig in 1976. The reading will be held in english, french editions will be available. No prior study or reading necessary. 

Social text* is a collective practice that attempts to facilitate reading with and through pleasure, moving from conversational modalities toward experimental modes of poetry-making. Participants are encouraged to bring their own books, especially those they find difficult or resistant. Through cyclic phases of aleatory reading, writing, and discussion, we will gain new access to the text as social fields.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.