Independent international bookshop just around the corner of the University building & library
Fiction | Graphic Design | Poetry | (Social) Sciences | Gender studies | History | Nature | Postcards | Posters | Notebooks | Planners | Plint | Art prints by local artists
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Walter’s is owned by Bookstore Godert Walter – Oude Ebbingestraat 53, Groningen.
Disclaimer: Money spent at Walter’s Bookshop will be invested in new books for Walter’s Bookshop, the daily maintenance of loved ones and/or our cats but never on space travel.
Webshop
Webshop
You can order books through our webshop at Godert Walter. Of course you can also order books by mail, phone or in the store. It usually takes about 2 to 3 workdays for your order to arrive. Dutch books are usually in store the next day. It’s also possible to order German Books.
You can add if you want to pick up your book at Walter’s Bookshop or Godert Walter.
Agenda
May
Pink Cube - Our Exquisite Corpse: 24-05-25
A participatory artwork
The waiting lists for transgender healthcare in the Netherlands are massive. The average waiting list for a first interview with a psychologist to get a gender dysphoria diagnosis is two years. This is not the beginning of treatment, but an assessment to see if you even qualify for specialized care. As of March 2023, the waiting list at the UMC in Groningen is 30 months long. 30 months equals 130 weeks. 30 months equals 912 days. 21.900 hours. 1.314.900 minutes.
The ongoing participation project OUR EXQUISITE CORPSE visualizes these endless waiting lists. A cadavre exquis is a poem or a drawing made up of multiple segments by different people to form an, often barely legible, end result. OUR EXQUISITE CORPSE is such a cadavre exquis, but time-based. We welcome everyone to contribute one or more tiles to a quilt spanning several meters. You keep track of how much time you spend on the tiles. Seconds, minutes or hours, as long as you want. All these minutes are added up. We keep going until we reach 1.314.900 minutes. 21.900 hours. 912 days. 130 weeks. 30 months.
Over the next couple of months, maybe even years, we will bring the artwork to several locations where you will be able to contribute.
This event is organised by Pink Cube.
Walter’s Bookshop
Oude Kijk in ’t Jatstraat 10
Saturday 24th May
From 12:00 till17:00
More dates:
21-06-25, 19-07-25, 16-08-25 en 20-09-25
June
Live music: 23-06-25
Silent Book Club: 18-06-25
19:30-20:30h – Read in silence
20:30-21:00h – Either keep reading, hang around to talk about what you’re reading, or don’t hang around if you don’t feel like talking 🙂
Walter’s Bookshop
Oude Kijk in ‘t Jatstraat 10
Wednesday 18-06-25
Start 19:15h
Free admission
Walter's Showcasse
