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Klub Gromka




Running an impressively diverse programme on almost every day of the week, Klub Gromka is among the more important venues of the Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Centre. Located in the very heart of it, this multi-purpose space is used for music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings, DJ nights, lectures, rehearsals, political-activism, and so on.

The place has a stage and a cosy auditorium (which, alternately, also figures as a sweaty dance floor) that can accommodate up to 170 people. Set above the club are two rooms where bands can stay over the night, and adjacent to it is the Schengen/Black kitchen, a funky place where one can often get a tasty and affordable meal during the late hours.



The beginnings of Gromka go back to 1995, when one of the premises at the squatted ground of ex-military barracks was re-programmed to became a theatre space called Teater Gromki, with 'gromki' meaning loud. Eventually the place has been transformed into a club with a bit broader aspirations, and as such it also started to admit music concerts and other art forms.

Political activities always figured as a strong dimension of Gromka, which for many years hosted the weekly lectures of the Workers' Punk University, organised by the Peace Institute and set up by the sociologist Tonči Kuzmanić in 1998. Working outside the institutionalised academic setting, this very influential 'university' enabled an alternative production of theory and presented an important space for dissemination of autonomous and theoretically ambitious thought.


The club's programme is run by a consortium of NGOs and individual organisers, and the events are usually very affordable or even admission-free. Music-wise, currently the most active are Defonija, a renowned series for improvised and experimental music; the genre unbound and loud events by KiborgSpužva Büking; the raging R.A.F.A.L. concerts with grind core, d'beat, crust, and other punk and hard core tendencies; and gigs set up by the similarly punk and HC oriented crews of Giljotina and Human Beans. Theatre is also still very much present in Gromka, with the performances usually held on Wednesdays. Very different groups and producers are involved, one of them for example being the Emanat Institute. Other events involve the cinema evenings and discussions held by the Cultorologist Association, clubbing nights, occasional events organised by humanities students associations, and so on. It is the home of the Ljubljana International Short Film Festival and the DokuBazaar, Ljubljana Independent Documentary Film Festival.

Gromka collaborates with a number of other organisers, institutions and festivals, among them being the City of Women, the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns, the Ljubljana Jazz Festival, MENT Ljubljana, the KUD Mreža Arts and Culture Association and Moonlee Records.

 Moon Duo from San Francisco, United States, performing at Klub Gromka, organized by ŠKUC Buba Booking and Promotion, 2011 The Nebulae Ensemble, rock/blues band from Ljubljana, performing at Klub Gromka, 2011 Crazed Farmers performing at Klub Gromka, 2009 It's Everyone Else, live act at Klub Gromka, 2010 Lolita performing at Klub Gromka, Primoz Simončič - saxophone, Iztok Vidmar - electric guitar, bass guitar, Neža Naglič - keyboards, Uros Srpčič - drums. Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, 2011 Lolita, veteran Slovenian Jazz band established in 1987 with 12 albums under their belt, performing at Klub Gromka, Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone Keyboard player Neža Naglič of the self described "HiEnergy Turbo Porn Minimal Funky Pop SugarFree Overdrive Ethno Broootaal HardGroovie Jawzz band" band Lolita performing at Klub Gromka, Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone Music concert by Sonore at Klub Gromka in Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone in Ljubljana
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