Upcoming Projects

Sat 07 December 2024 (19:30)

[Reading] Nat Raha & Sulaiman Addonia

We warmly welcome you to an evening of readings by poet and activist-scholar Nat Raha and novelist Sulaiman Addonia. They will read excerpts from their latest books, apparitions (nines) by Nat Raha and The Seers by Sulaiman Addonia. The reading will be followed by a conversation between both authors. 

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Ongoing Projects

Sun 10 November until Sun 22 December 2024

[Podcast] New series ♡
[Podcast] New series ♡

Excited to announce our new series of podcast episodes! We'll be releasing recordings of some of our recent events with Farid Matuk, LAWarman, Asiya Wadud, and Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, among others. Available wherever you get your podcasts. More info at www.rile.space/podcasts

Sun 06 October until Sun 15 December 2024 (12:00-14:00)

[Reading group] ...have ...word reading group #3

…have …word reading group is back for its third series. You’re warmly invited to join us every second Sunday 12h-14h00 from October 6 to December 15 2024. Kathy Acker once wrote “Language pre-supposes community. Therefore without you, nothing I say has any meaning.” In this reading group we look to language as a site of relation and communion. Following on from our previous series we question what it means to have, to hold, to let go and to be transformed by language.

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Recent Projects

Sat 30 November 2024 (19:30)

[Launch] How to Leave the World, by Marouane Bakhti

Join us for the launch of How to Leave the World, by Marouane Bakhti, translated by Lara Vergnaud (Divided 2024). A fragmentary work about growing up as a diaspora kid in rural France, Bakhti's debut novel explores shame, forgiveness, desire and identity. The reading will be followed by a conversation between Maroune Bakhti and Oscar Mathieu.

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Thu 07 November until Fri 29 November 2024

[Promo] GIVEME30

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Thu 07 November until Fri 29 November 2024

[Promo] GIVEME50

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Thu 17 October 2024 (19:30-21:00)

[Launch] She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of She Follows no Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader with a reading and discussion from editors Juwon Jun and Rachel Valinsky. Published in May 2024 by Wendy's Subway, She Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s work and legacy, collecting essays, personal narratives, poems, conversations, letters, and the extratextual in a reader that attests to Cha’s genre-bending vision and political imagination. 

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Sun 13 October 2024 (15:00-16:00)

[Launch] sex and place vol 1 & 2 with Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen

Join us for the launch of the first two volumes of sex and place, a publication project by artists Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen. On this occasion Andrea and Adriano will present sex and place and invite the audience into a collective reading. There will be cake and toys for children. Content note: Sexually explicit material.

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Sat 12 October 2024 (16:00-17:00)

[Reading] Mandible Wishbone Solvent by Asiya Wadud

Join us for a reading of Mandible Wishbone Solvent by Brooklyn-based poet Asiya Wadud. In her fifth and latest poetry collection, Wadud engages with migration, climate change, race, sexuality, and art. She will also read from a manuscript-in-progress, Any Want Rings The Circle.

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Sun 29 September 2024 (15:00-16:00)

[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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Thu 26 September 2024 (19:30-21:00)

[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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