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Agenda: Soon ?

→ B.A.A.D.M.
→ concert
→ 20:00

Thursday 20.11.25

B.A.A.D.M.:

Processing: Casimir Geelhoed

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→ concert
→ 20:00

Casimir Geelhoed

→ 17:00

Friday 21.11.25

Dutch Language Café

→ Symposium
→ 19:30

Friday 21.11.25

Friday Evenings:

Legacy Ghent 2030: TOOPen Festival

→ Symposium
→ 19:30

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Screening programme
→ 20:00

Saturday 22.11.25

Art Cinema OFFoff:

Jakub Jansa — Club of Opportunities

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Screening programme
→ 20:00

Jakub Jansa The Garden Of Problems Dum u kamenneho zvonu GHMP ph Jan Kolsky 35

→ 13:00

Monday 24.11.25

Creative path to self-care

→ 17:00

Friday 28.11.25

Dutch Language Café

→ Workshop
→ 19:30

28 — 29.11.25

Friday Evenings:

AI: Glitches, Hacks & Utopias

→ Workshop
→ 19:30

→ Workshop
→ 09:30

Saturday 29.11.25

AI vs UTOPIA: a Participatory Workshop

→ Workshop
→ 09:30

Schermafbeelding 2025 11 17 om 10 02 44

→ Book launch
→ 19:00

Saturday 29.11.25

Haven for Artists: A Queer Anthology on Arab Art

→ Book launch
→ 19:00

Schermafbeelding 2025 11 17 om 21 52 36

→ Award
→ 15:00

Sunday 30.11.25

Award ceremony Louis Paul Boon Prijs 2025

→ Award
→ 15:00

MDC KH ANB 01 002 LR

→ 13:00

Monday 01.12.25

Creative path to self-care

→ performance
→ 18:00

Thursday 04.12.25

Museum Night: Charlotte Bouckaert

→ performance
→ 18:00

24 12 05 KH MUSEUMNACHT VRIJWILLIGERS 55

→ 17:00

Friday 05.12.25

Dutch Language Café

→ Showcase
→ 19:30

Friday 05.12.25

Friday Evenings:

broei.lab unfolds: showcase

→ Showcase
→ 19:30

→ 17:00

Friday 12.12.25

Dutch Language Café

→ Panelgesprek
→ 19:30

Friday 12.12.25

Friday Evenings:

Anaïs Berck: Copyright for Trees

→ Panelgesprek
→ 19:30

→ Prijsuitreiking
→ 18:00

Tuesday 27.01.26

Henry van de Velde Awards 26

→ Prijsuitreiking
→ 18:00

Schermafbeelding 2025 11 14 om 11 41 51

Agenda: Archive

→ 13:00

Monday 17.11.25

Creative path to self-care

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 20:00

Monday 17.11.25

Art Cinema OFFoff:

A Searching Eye – Karl Kels retrospectieve (I)

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→ Film
→ 20:00

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 19:30

Art Cinema OFFoff

Monday 06.10.25

Art Cinema OFFoff:

Louis Paul Boon

Louis Paul Boon (1912 – 1979) was one of the foremost Flemish writers of the 20th century. Although the popular image of Boon is that of a reclusive author, working mainly within the private sphere of his family in Aalst and supported by his wife Jeanneke, this is not entirely true. Boon made public appearances on various occasions, certainly from the 1960s onwards. In collaboration with Art Cinema OFFoff, Flemish Review de la Poëzie presents three audiovisual works that shed light on the relationship between Boon and Flemish visual culture.

Inkom: €8 / €5 (Student)

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 19:30

→ Art Cinema OFFoff

Inkom: €8 / €5 (Student)

OF Foff boon 1

In 1962, quizmaster Paul Van De Velde invited Boon to join the panel of the television program ’t Is maar een woord. Boon accepted, and his participation in the humorous game show increased his popularity with the general public, independent of his literary work and his journalism for the daily newspaper Vooruit. This early example of the mediatization of Flemish literature illustrates how the medium of television could create a different public for an author. During the 1960s, however, Boon was not only embraced by a wider popular audience, he was also discovered by a younger generation of artists who saw in him both a precursor and a kindred spirit. For that reason, the leftist Antwerp filmmaker Robbe De Hert (1942 – 2020) casted Boon in his 1969 short film De Bom. A film with a clear anti-nuclear message, it features Boon as a garage owner who finds an atomic bomb lost by the Americans and who plans to use the weapon to force the Belgian state to disarm. An intriguing and energetic short film, it shows that Boon could not only be a popular joker but also a supporter of the young counterculture.

This ambiguity also surfaces in the third work, an episode of Ten huize van from 1971 devoted to Boon, just as he was about to publish his novel Pieter Daens. Three presenters interview Boon extensively about his life and work, while also offering a close look at the author’s home. We see Boon sometimes sincerely, sometimes jokingly struggling with the demands of the new format, while his grandson David is stealing the show. The result is a fascinating portrait of the established Boon, only eight years before his untimely death.

Program by Flemish Review de la Poëzie
Introduction by editor and poet Benjamin De Roover

Boon 2

Boon 3