Sunset Meetings | Evening Writing Workshop with Dani Blanga Gubbay

Taking its point of departure from the poetry of Etel Adnan (and Jean Genet's Prisoner of Love), the workshop will collectively explore how poetry and solidarity can emerge before shared identity is established, becoming practices of proximity. Through collective reading, writing, and conversations—alongside texts by Mahmoud Darwish and passages from Koltès' In the Solitude of Cotton Fields—the workshop opens a space for reflecting on poetry and writing as practices through which indeterminacy can remain politically situated. The French expression entre chien et loup describes twilight as the moment when one can no longer distinguish the dog from the wolf: over the course of three evenings, sunset will accompany participants as a method rather than a theme, in a shared space of investigation.

place: Warsaw, TBC

dates:
Wednesday, 1.07, 18:00 - 21:00
Thursday, 2.07, 17:00 - 20:00
Friday, 3.07, 18:00 - 21:00

language of instruction: english

Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a performing arts curator and writer. Between 2018 and 2026 he was part of the artistic direction of Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. He has worked as an educator and independent curator of performance and public programs, including for the latest São Paulo Biennial (2025); Yogurt and Other Spaces of Labour (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, 2021, in collaboration with Zeynep Öz); and Can Nature Revolt? (Manifesta, Palermo, 2018). He holds a PhD from the University of Palermo and is among the founding members of Celador, a space for experimenting with language in Brussels, as well as a member of the artistic committee of the Beirut Art Centre. He teaches regularly, including a weekly class titled Contemporary Salmon at the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He writes in various contexts, sometimes publishing under the name Dani—a personal, “night name” in the lineage of artists and queer writers who use a diminutive to signal intimacy, experimentation, and a shift in tone, with the signature becoming a voice more than a label.

The workshop is free to attend and there are no prerequisite requirements for attending. Spaces are limited. After filling out the form, we will contact you to confirm your attendance. In case of any doubts or questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us on instagram @kem.warsaw or via mail kemwarsaw@gmail.com

The workshop takes places within the framework of Kem School 2026, which is co-financed by the City of Warsaw.