EVENTS


MAY


Thursday 29 May | Ceci Ghechi
@ 18:00 -20:30 a writing group for diasporic voices from Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

Ioana will be hosting the 5th session, which will focus on waiting rooms, name days, summer with the grandparents, and bureaucratic delays. In this session, we write through the slow, stretched, and shared textures of time.
Doors open at 18:00. Writing begins at 18:30.  Limited spots, RSVP by May 21st, email: ceci.gheghi@gmail.com

*Ceci Gheghi is a writing group for Eastern European & Balkan voices to explore the layered, messy textures of home, memory, and identity.

Wednesday 28 May | Beyond this Narrow Now
@ 20:00 - 22:00 study group reading The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
send an email to vanreekum@essb.eur.nl to join and for more info!

Saturday 17 May | A Reading Long and Short and Alive and Afterlife Forms
@ 16:00 conversations between Mia You, Lucy Mercer and Kate Briggs

Thursday 15 May | More Than Words
@ 19:00 A Feminist Poetry Reading Group

The next More Than Words, Feminist Poetry Reading Group meeting takes place on Thursday May 15, at 19:00 hours. We are currently reading poems from Festival (2025) by Mia You.

To join, simply send an email to morethanwordsreadinggroup@gmail.com

Wednesday 14 May | Solidarity Poster Printing with Leaky Press
@ 14:00 - 17:00 (rsvp: info@kioskrotterdam.com)

Thursday May 1 | DREAM PULP @ 20:30
a spontaneous sound piece that orbits through eggs (curved logic), surrogacy (proxy intimacy), cycles (slow return). mumbled words and fragmented sounds come together in the moment, a thing you can sit inside of | performed by Mara Schwerdtfeger, Anna Bierler & Colette Aliman


APRIL 

Wednesday 23/4       Studygroup: Beyond This Narrow Now by Rogier van Reekum (20:00 - 22:00)
Thursday 3/4            More Than Words #13


MARCH

Thursday 27/3       Ceci Gheghi - writing group  (sign up ceci.gheghi@gmail.com)
Thursday 13/3            More Than Words #12
Saturday 8/3             !KIOSK CLOSED! See you at the protest!
Wednesday 5/3       Studygroup: Beyond This Narrow Now by Rogier van Reekum (20:00 - 22:00)


FEBRUARY

Thursday 27/2       Ceci Gheghi - writing group  (sign up ceci.gheghi@gmail.com)
Thursday 20/2            More Than Words #11
Wednesday 12/2    Ceci Gheghi - writing group (sign up ceci.gheghi@gmail.com)
Wednesday 5/2       Studygroup: Beyond This Narrow Now by Rogier van Reekum (20:00 - 22:00)
Sunday 2/2               WORD bookmarket with And So On Books & The Base Bookspace @ Het Wilde Weten

JANUARY 2025


DECEMBER

Thursday 19/12            More Than Words #10 + Banner making workshop for Sudan
Wednesday 18/12       Studygroup: Beyond This Narrow Now by Rogier van Reekum (20:00 - 22:00)
Saturday 9/12               Seeds of Time, calendar workshop with Ulufer Celik and Alaa Abu Asad

NOVEMBER

Thursday 28/11            More Than Words #9 
Wednesday 20/11       Beyond This Narrow Now by Rogier van Reekum (20:00 - 22:00)
Friday 15/11               Cooking Images, printing workshop with Acip and Flip, in collab with Gudskul and Nieuwe Instituut
Thursday 7/11           More Than Words #8 
Friday 1/11               BOOK LAUNCH:
‘The Colonial, Familiar, Nostalgic, Radical, Transformative Life of the Strawberry’ with Marika Vandekraats and publisher Humdrum Press

OKTOBER

Friday 25/ 10               Pembe: Apologies to all the people in Lebanon 18:00-21:00
Friday 18/10                Booklaunch Zone Collective: Studies in Character Development (19:00 - 20:30)
Thursday 17/10           More Than Words #7
Wednesday 9/10       Beyond This Narrow Now by Rogier van Reekum (20:00 - 22:00)


SEPTEMBER

DATE TBA                   RISO CLUB! email info@kioskrotterdam.com for more info
Tuesday 10/9             Start of weekly studygroup: Breaking Down Whiteness
Saturday 14/9            Read my World book market, Amsterdam
Saturday 21 
& Sunday 22/9            Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend with Ioana Lup, Marijke Appelman, Arie van Vliet & Philippa *Flip* Driest
Thursday 26/9            More Than Words #6
Saturday 28/9            Library of Narrative Types by the Rotterdam based designer Nóra Békés
Sunday 29/9                Riso workshop by Hasret Emine & Philippa Driest x VULVA VERSE 


AUGUST


Wednesday 28/8       Beyond This Narrow Now by Rogier van Reekum
Saturday 17/8             Lisetter Keyser Wax Workshop
Thursday 8/8            More Than Words #5

JULY

Thursday 25
& Friday 26/7            The Base Bookspace TAKEOVER!              
Thursday 18/7            More Than Words #4
Saturday 13/7            Summer Fair Cafe Oto, London
Thursday 11/7            Stad in de Maak Magazijn Launch
Saturday 6/7             Studio Art Office: Op die fiets!
Friday 5/7                 On Translating Ecologies with Alaa Abu Asad and Ulufer Çelik                       
𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓭 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓟𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮
Alaa Abu Asad in conversation with Hannah Dawn Henderson & Flip Driest                                                                                          

JUNE

Friday 28/6                WYRD JEWELLERY DROP
Thursday 27/6           More Than Words #3
Sunday 23/6             Solidarity Poster Printing (riso workshop)
Saturday 22/6           Archival Textures POSTING! Booklaunch
Friday 21/6               Armed by design, Lani Hanna
                                   Interference Archive in conversation with Megan Hoetger
Tuesday 18/6 &
Wednesday 19/6      Booktable and Leaky press for Sara Ahmed, HNI
Saturday 15/6           Soup Spoon Collective Zine Launch
Saturday 15/6           Beyond This Narrow Now by Rogier van Reekum
Saturday 8/6            Seasonal Matters, Rural Relations Booklaunch
Friday 7/6                 W’ahu Magazine Launch
Thursday 6/6           More Than Words #2

MAY

Friday 24 &
Saturday 25/5           Usufructuaries of earth Convention & Reading Group
Sunday 19/5                 Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care Workshop
Saturday 18/5          16:00-19:00 WORKSHOP Cruising at Kiosk
                                    with Sára Iványi & Katinka van Gorkum
                                    19:00 - 23:00 Queer Bar Night (DRINKS!)
                                    + LCIGSS Presentation
                                    + eddie azulay on Lesbian Cruising
                                    + with short film screenings
Friday 17/5                 Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care Booklaunch
Thursday 16/5          More Than Words #1 

APRIL

Sunday 28/4               Undoing Debt    Reading Group convened
                                        by Iliada Charalambous and Philippa Driest, BAK
Friday 26/4                   Smooth City with Rene Boer, Kees de Klein,
                                     Urbanistas RDAM and Colin Keays

MARCH

Saturday 30/3            Beyond This Narrow Now by Rogier van Reekum
Friday 29/3                 Gaza benefit and Book Launch Shahid
                                        with Matt Plezier, Cengiz Mengüç, Jizz Taco, Zeloot & Flip
Saturday 16/3               Reading Rythms Club | My Feelings are a Witness
                                       On poetry from urgency and solidarity by Yusser al Obaidi
Friday 15/3                  “Kijken of ik nog vrienden heb” door Jip Piet en Roy Vast
Saturday 2/3                Beyond this narrow now by Rogier van Reekum

FEBRUARY

Sunday 18/2            Zine Workshop with Hasret Emine at Doelen 
Wednesday 7/2        Solidarity Poster Printing

JANUARY

Tuesday 9/1            Book table at Leeszaal West Radical Hope with Rogier van Reekum en Willem Schinkel organized by ESOC                                                                                 

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