Klub Gromka is a multipurpose space at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Centre with a stage and a dance floor. It serves as an office and rehearsal space for performances and other events which feature various innovative music forms. Other events (poetry readings, lectures, theatre, film and video evenings) also take place here. The Club sporadically hosts several festival and special events organised by Druga Godba Festival, City of Women, Red Dawn International Women's Festival, Ljubljana Jazz Festival etc.
History
The beginnings of Gromka go back to 1995, when performers of various theatre groups decided to set up the Teater Gromki theatre. It was basically street theatre group with strong improvisation tendencies. Some other individuals joined in and it eventually transformed into a club. Its beginnings were regular Tuesday events called Tajna loža živih (The Secret Lodge of the Alive), organized like a semi-public living room gathering with subtly chosen cultural programme.
The current Gromka collective comprises of a colourful bunch of literature, music and film enthusiasts with one thing in common: "(...) we love our Gromka, it gives us shelter and serves as a location where we can socialise and be creative". The little-big Gromka is located in the very heart of Metelkova, and is different from other Metelkova clubs, because it is not just a concert venue, but can be organised more like a jigsaw. It can transform from a lecture hall into a cinema, from a concert venue into a lounge room or a theatre. Gromka is the patron of urban (sub)cultural and underground practices, a shelter for music left with nowhere to go, supporter of political activism and informal education, basically founded on the do-it-yourself principles.
Programme
Gromka is fully open six days a week, from Monday to Saturday. The week usually kicks off with a Retrovizor crew film screening or a poetry or fiction reading of the LUD Literatura group and cinema evenings of the Cultorologist Association, while the second part of the workweek is dedicated to various club evenings (regular ReŠetanje of the Radio Student resident DJ’s, thematic music club nights, etc.) Gromka’s concert programme is varied and extremely colourful: in addition to some specific individual concert events, Gromka hosts improvised, experimental, avant, free music concerts hosted by Defonija and organised under its wing, the ska and street punk concerts courtesy of Twotonebinas, raging R.A.F.A.L. concerts with grind core, d'beat, crust, anarcho and other punk and hard core tendencies, while concerts organised by Kantiteta offer folk singers music. Gromka’s programme includes African nights, organised by the African society, occasional theatre plays, performances, stand-up comedy evenings and weekly Thursday lectures of the Workers' Punk University, organised by the Peace Institute.
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