Vrijdagavonden: rokko: How To Create Free Space in an Unfree World?

• The bar is open from 19:00
• Program starts at 20:00
• Entrance: Pay What You Can
• Language: Dutch & English

We want to create a shared, travelling, boundless collection
of books, texts, writing, drawings and other forms of knowledge
bring a book/piece of knowledge that is dear to you,
and that you’re willing to send out into the world
find a new favourite to read, talk about it
and pass it on to someone else
join our open mic with work of your own
or share your favourite texts
visit the endless exhibition of kunsthal gent
enjoy homemade food & drinks

love,

rokko

Until August 2023, rokko was a radical feminist queer bookstore and café in Gent. In 2024, we hope to continue rokko. At a different location, in a new structure, and with new faces. But with the same goal: trying to bring the margin to the center. In books and in people.

For now, rokko is in between what it was and what it will be. While shaping the future of rokko, we found a temporary home at Kunsthal Gent.

How to create free space in an unfree world? That’s the big question we’ll be asking ourselves over the next few months in order to shape rokko. Every Wednesday night, we open our doors at Kunsthal Gent for the rokko nights. You’re very welcome if you want to think along.

This autumn, we will present a programme around one or more artists, a collective or organisation for 10 weeks during the Friday Evenings. We offer local partners a platform. And we put artists with whom Kunsthal Gent currently collaborates in the spotlight. Every Friday evening is different: from performance, artist talk and book presentation to conversation, dinner or film screening.