VIERNULVIER
Ornate nineteen-thirteen workers' festival hall turned arts centre for concerts, theatre and parties.
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This guide to VIERNULVIER in Ghent starts with a spokesperson defending a strange choice of name in twenty twenty-two, and with a building that opened in nineteen thirteen as a socialist cooperative's festival hall for workers. It follows a quarrel over a single word between an arts centre and a political party. Along the way you'll meet a theatre maker who used to break in at night. Best heard across the street, facing the facade.
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