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Agenda: Soon ?

→ Guided tour
→ 12:00

Sunday 08.09.24

Open Monuments Day: historical guided tour

→ Guided tour
→ 12:00

→ Debat
→ 19:30

Tuesday 10.09.24

The Ghent LGBTI+ election debate

→ Debat
→ 19:30

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 19:00

Friday 20.09.24

Art Cinema OFFoff:

EP Release & Première: Every Four Minutes from Now On

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 19:00

→ Exhibition
→ 20:00

27 — 29.09.24

Opening Weekend: Clara Spilliaert — My Sister Is Pregnant

→ Exhibition
→ 20:00

Full Archive

Agenda: Archive

→ Guided tour
→ 12:00

Sunday 08.09.24

Open Monuments Day: historical guided tour

→ Guided tour
→ 12:00

→ Kunstwerkt
→ Exhibition
→ 20:00

19.07 — 25.08.24

Kunstwerkt:

Pet Shop

→ Kunstwerkt
→ Exhibition
→ 20:00

Sluiten

→ 20:00

Friday 29.03.24

Death Cafe with Julie Van Wezemael & Josefien Cornette

Despite the fact that death awaits us all, being conscious about it is not an obvious thing to do, and it is a fraught topic for many people. At a Death Cafe, people, often strangers, come together to talk about death in a friendly way in a safe and warm environment, with drinks and snacks.

Entrance: Pay What You Can

→ 20:00

→ Register

Entrance: Pay What You Can

Death Cafe is a group discussion, with no intention of having to reach a conclusion or plan of action. It is not a grief support or therapy session, but purely an open conversation with the aim of making people more aware of the subject. After all, consciously dealing with death automatically implies consciously dealing with life.

Death Cafe was first organised by Jon Underwood in London in 2011, inspired by the work of Bernard Crettaz. Since then, 17367 sessions have already taken place in 87 different countries. The event is a ‘social franchise’, meaning that anyone who adheres to the set rules and principles can organise their own Death Cafe.

To keep the conversation running smoothly, we are limiting ourselves to a group of 12 people. Registration is free. The talk will be supported by Josefien Cornette and there will be coffee, tea, cake and pie.

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Josefien Cornette

Josefien Cornette is an artist-writer. Josefien has a multidisciplinary practice with a background in art history, feminism, queer studies and disability studies. Josefien was editor at rekto:verso, where it co-ordinated the issue CRIP, collaborated with Engagement Arts and today is building a grassroots movement of crip artists in Belgium. Today, Josefien focuses on narrativity and testimonials as art objects. In 2023, Josefien released their first book entitled ‘A House That Hurts’, where it writes about disability, mourning and the loss of a loved one.

Julie Van Wezemael

Julie Van Wezemael (she/her) is an illustrator from Ghent. Besides drawings, she also makes small sculptures from wood and ceramics. She builds colourful worlds laced with symbolism, fauna, flora and playful details, sometimes with a dark side. She is part of Garden of Delights, a collective investigating undervalued work and dilettantism. The idea to host a Death Cafe arose during one of the meetings for their exhibition Hard Work and Gentle Labour at Kunsthal in 2022.

Vrijdagavonden

During Friday Nights, we present a programme around one or more artists, a collective or organisation for 9 – 10 weeks. We offer local partners a platform. And we highlight artists with whom Kunsthal Gent is currently collaborating. Every Friday night is different: from performance, artist talk and book presentation to conversation, dinner or film screening.