Join us for an evening of reading performances at rile* with Pelumi Adejumo, a runaway pastor child, writer and singer, and Nikima Jagudajev, a choreographer and writer based between New York and Brussels. Pelumi Adejumo will read a collection of poems titled De Verstrengeling followed by a reading of The Backstreet Boys a text focusing on kinship and mothering by Nikima Jagudajev. 

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A conversation with artist Grace Ndiritu and director of argos Niels Van Tomme on the topic of Ndiritu’s new book Being Together: A Manual For Living and her ideas on community, radical experimenting and pedagogies which her art and life is based on. 

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To celebrate the launch of Simon(e) van Saarloss's new book, TAKE ‘EM DOWN: Scattered Monuments & Queer Forgetting, we welcome you to a night of conversation, presentation, performance and an abundance of presence with Daniela Berhsan and Khadija El Kharraz Alami.

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rile* is pleased to welcome you to LINE, an exhibition of in situ drawings and poems by Vava Dudu.

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Join us for a concert and launch of Clones, a new album and CD by Matilda Tjäder.

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Join us for the launch of the third issue of FIELDNOTES a biannual arts journal publishing new writing and artworks with a focus on practices that work between disciplines and against type. To celebrate we will be screening the short film CASTOROCENE by Alexander Hetherington and George Finlay Ramsay. The screening will be followed by a virtual reading from the poet CAConrad who will be reading their text from Issue 3 of FIELDNOTES, written in response to the film.

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Join us for a celebration of the past three issues of F.R.DAVID: “very good*”, “Correctional Facility” and “Take, Eat".

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Welcome for the Belgian launch of Bianca Baldi's book Play-White, with contributions by Amy Watson & Mika Conradie, and a conversation between Bianca Baldi and Zeynep Kubat.

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A new episode of our rile* books podcast series is now available! The podcast features Cinderella's Diaries, a project by Brussels based artist and researcher Sina Seifee, with readings by Bryana Fritz. Over the last few years Sina has been working on fairy tales, zoologies and the participation of animals in texts. More recently Sina started to work with the figure of Cinderella, thinking with her about the human-animal modes of imagination. Find more info and listen here: https://rile.space/podcasts

Welcome to the launch of Le Chauffage, Issue 02, edited by Emile Rubino, Felix Rapp and Francesca Percival, with readings and contributions by Artun Alaska Arasli, Chloe Chignell, Emile Rubino, and Felix Rapp.

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We are taking a break from the 20th of December. We won't be shipping orders during this time, and may respond slowly to emails. We'll reopen on the 27st of January with new books, a winter stock sale, and a new program - see you then!

rile* welcomes Clara Amaral with her performance work 'She gave it to me I got it from her'. It is a book and a choreography, read out loud and handled by a performer, for a group of people.

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