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[Reading] Bitterness & Wit by Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung

Join us for a reading and conversation with Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, a writer and cultural worker whose work focuses on anarchist and dissident publication practices, utopian thresholds in language, and literary expressions of the revolutionary consciousness. Eugene will read from his recent publication Bitterness & Wit (Asymmetry Art Foundation, 2023) followed by a conversation with Chloe Chignell. 

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[Launch] Ginny Suite by Stacy Skolnik

Join us for the launch of The Ginny Suite (Montez Press, 2024) by Stacy Skolnik, a novel which asks how much—and who—we’re willing to sacrifice in the name of progress. The evening features a reading of The Ginny Suite by Stacy Skolnik alongside readings by Christiane Blattman, Annee Grøtte Viken and Tessel Veneboer.

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[Lancement] Pour des écoles d'art féministes avec Sophie Lapalu, Michèle Martel et Nino André

Bienvenue au lancement de Pour des écoles d'art féministes !, un manifeste collectif rassemblant une série de conférences, d'entretiens et d'ateliers féministes intersectionnels. A l'occasion de ce lancement editrice Sophie Lapalu, Michèle Martel et artiste Nino André présenteront ses recherches et lira des extraits de la publication.  

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[Launch] JJ, Tartine-moi et autre textes par Jill Johnston

Bienvenue pour une présentation et lecture d'extraits du livre de Jill Johnston, JJ, Tartine-moi et autres textes paru aux éditions Brook avec les traducteurices et éditeurices Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor et Rosanna Puyol Boralevi.

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[Reading] Corrections and Clarifications, with Anita Di Bianco

Join us for a reading and presentation of Corrections and Clarifications, by Anita Di Bianco, a publication project tracing daily revisions, retractions and re-wordings of print and online news. Anita will read from the June 2024 edition, charting patterns of selective telling and misrepresentation of the Eastern Mediterannean region from 1981 to the present, and from Adrenalin, a poetry collection by Palestinian author Ghayath Almadoun.

All sales from this event will be donated to Warm Bed asbl, a grassroots organisation providing and facilitating the housing of Palestinian refugees in Brussels. Additional editions have been donated to the fundraiser by Cutt Press and Anita Di Bianco.

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[Reading] Loucka Fiagan

Welcome to A time will come where there will be nothing left but ashes, a reading-performance by Brussels based poet, musican and artist Loucka Fiagan. The performance draws together sound, field recordings and two poetic essay-fictions written during a recent trip to the Canary Islands.

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BRICKS FROM THE KILN: an A to Z of Indexing / Organising / Cataloguing BFTK for Two Voices

Join us for a presentation of Bricks from the Kiln, a multifarious publishing imprint and irregular journal edited / run by Matthew Stuart and Andrew Walsh-Lister.

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[Launch] Confidences / Oracle, by Ivan Cheng

Join us for the book launch of Confidences / Oracle (OCT0, 2024). Ivan Cheng will read passages from his latest theatre novel, which extends the vampire universe established in earlier volumes of the Confidences series.

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[Reading] Moon Mirrored Indivisible by Farid Matuk

Join us for a reading by US based, Syrian-Peruvian writer Farid Matuk. He will read new poems from the forthcoming collection Moon Mirrored Indivisible. The poems explore the aesthetic perversions of syntax and rhyme to search for yet unrealized perversions and purities amidst national, sexual, and ancestral orthodoxies. After the reading he will be in joined in conversation by Brussels based writer Filip Jakab.

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[Launch] To Enter The Forest by Lucia Palladino

Join us for the launch of To Enter The Forest, a new artist edition by Lucia Palladino published by Nero Editions (2024). On the occasion of the launch Lucia will activate the publication with a performative reading. 

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