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MELLY Bookshop & Café

This page gives an overview of past and upcoming programs happening in our ground-floor MELLY Bookshop and Café.

Exhibition
Live
Host
1 July 2026
12 pm
The Rhythm Remains. A Celebration of Diaspora Sounds and Freedom With Free Heri Heri For All
Live
27 June 2026
11 am
[CANCELLED DUE TO EXTREME HEAT] Monthly Suitcase Economy Brunch #8
Live
12 June 2026
7 pm
A Mic Of One’s Own
Live
30 May 2026
11 am
Monthly Suitcase Economy Brunch #7
Live
25 April 2026
11 am
Monthly Suitcase Economy Brunch #6
Live
28 March 2026
11 am
Monthly Suitcase Economy Brunch #5
Live
20 March 2026
7 pm
A Mic Of One’s Own
Live
28 February 2026
11 am
Monthly Suitcase Economy Brunch #4
Live
6 February 2026
6 pm
Kunstavond: In Between Screens - Take a Break from IFFR in Suitcase Economy
Live
31 January 2026
11 am
Monthly Suitcase Economy Brunch #3
Live
19 December 2025
7 pm
A Mic Of One’s Own
Live
29 November 2025
11 am
Monthly Suitcase Economy Brunch #2
Live
25 October 2025
11 am
Monthly Suitcase Economy Brunch #1
Live
6 June 2025
7 pm
A Mic of One’s Own
Live
27 September 2024
7 pm
A Mic Of One's Own
Live
14 June 2024
7 pm
A Mic Of One's Own
9 June 2024
11 am
Kunstinstituut Melly's Book Market: Free Books with Every Ticket!
Live
8 June 2024
11 am
Kunstinstituut Melly's Book Market: Free Books with Every Ticket!
Live
7 June 2024
11 am
Kunstinstituut Melly's Book Market: Free Books with Every Ticket!
Live
6 June 2024
11 am
Kunstinstituut Melly's Book Market: Free Books with Every Ticket!
Live
5 June 2024
11 am
Kunstinstituut Melly's Book Market: Free Books with Every Ticket!
Live
8 March 2024
7 pm
A Mic Of Ones Own: Icons
Live
28 January 2024
3 pm
Poetry International: Home Is A Poem
Host
15 September 2023
7 pm
A Mic of One's Own: Waste
Live
9 June 2023
6 pm
Opening Reception Summer Exhibitions 2023
Live
12 May 2023
6:30 pm
A Mic of One's Own: Rites of Passage
Live
18 March 2023
2 pm
SESSION: Frontaal x Spraakuhloos
Live
10 March 2023
7 pm
A Mic of One's Own: Kinship
Live
8 March 2023
6 pm
Studium Generale x International Womens Day
Live
4 March 2023
8 pm
LIVE: MELLY X AMARTE
Live
21 February 2023
6 pm
FORUM: 35th Bienal de São Paulo | with Manuel Borja-Villel
Live
28 January 2023
3 pm
CLIP Open House: Kunstinstituut Melly x IFFR
Live
9 December 2022
7 pm
A Mic Of One’s Own: Home
Live
25 November 2022
7 pm
SESSION: Getting Tropical — Part 1
Live
7 October 2022
7 pm
A Mic of One’s Own: Coincidence & Chance
Live
30 July 2022
11:15 am
SUMMER PROGRAM: Writing / Spoken Word Workshop by Ivan Words
Live
23 July 2022
11:15 am
SUMMER PROGRAM: Writing / Spoken Word Workshop by Ivan Words
Live
16 July 2022
11:15 am
SUMMER PROGRAM: Writing / Spoken Word Workshop by Ivan Words
Live
8 July 2022
6 pm
BOOKS: Bad Gays
Live
1 July 2022
4:30 pm
FORUM: Free Heri Heri
Live
4 June 2022
3:30 pm
BOOKS: Light grey blue folds me open like a book
Live
3 June 2022
6 pm
KEYNOTE: Erik van Lieshout ‘René Daniëls — Between presence and painting’
Live
27 May 2022
6 pm
SESSION: MELLY x Eathouse x Bérénice Staiger
Live
14 May 2022
2 pm
BOOKS: ‘From the Source’
Live
22 April 2022
6 pm
SESSION: MELLY x Eathouse x Family Dinner
Live
15 April 2022
7 pm
A Mic Of One’s Own: If the body is a home, who is our neighborhood?
Live
25 March 2022
1 pm
Fundraiser for Ukrainian artists and cultural workers
Live
25 February 2022
6 pm
BOOKS: Entangled Species with Sasha Dees
Live
4 December 2021
3 pm
BOOKS: Letters from Spain
Live
26 November 2021
6 pm
Eathouse x Alejandra López & Lena Longefay
Live
12 November 2021
6 pm
BOOKS: Publication Studio’s Garage Book Sale and Closing Drinks
Live
4 November 2021
6 pm
BOOKS: Amelia Groom
Live
9 October 2021
3 pm
SESSION: Laying a Table for the Ancestors
Live
8 October 2021
8 pm
A Mic Of One’s Own: The Politics of Language
Live
Riet Wijnen: Suitcase Economy
11 October 2025 — 6 September 2026
Exhibition
MELLY: Tools for Conviviality
20 September 2024 — 14 September 2025
Exhibition
A new artistic environment in MELLY by Loes van Esch and Simone Trum from the graphic-design studio known as Team Thursday, architect Tomas Dirrix, and artist Koen Taselaar
9 June 2023 — 1 September 2024
Exhibition