L'Ecurie: the private cultural club on rue d'Autriche

The name means what it says: a stable. The place writes it in three languages, L'Ecurie, الكوري, 馬厩, and describes itself as a private cultural club. The address is 8 rue d'Autriche, on the corner of rue du Venezuela, between Lafayette and Belvedere, Tunis 1002. Since January 2026 almost everything in Tunis that has no room of its own has passed through it: a record shop, a chess club, a comedy club, jazz concerts, amateur cinema, film photography workshops, a street football world cup.

A club, not a venue

L'Ecurie is not a bar or a concert hall: it is a private members club, run by a collective that signs itself Hmdlh Bravo Club, in Arabic حمدوﷲ برافو كليب, in Chinese 讚美上帝俱樂部. The three languages are not a detail: everything the place posts goes out in Arabic, in French or English, and in Chinese, down to its own section headings, الأندية / Clubs / 俱樂部, الفعاليات / Events / 事件. It is a way of saying what it claims elsewhere in one word: intergenerational, بين الأجيال.

The rule of entry is posted plainly: if you are an artist, a cultural worker or simply someone who loves art and culture, you are welcome; collaborators and partners too, as long as they are not competitors. The place is open seven days a week, 21 and over, non-smoking and wheelchair accessible.

The calendar tells the story of a slow opening. The account posts its first pictures of rue d'Autriche in the summer of 2025, under the title "Austria street, a true story". Registration for the chess club, run by master Slim Bouaziz, opens in November 2025, by message or by phone between noon and 6pm, Monday to Sunday. The place closes for the week between Christmas and New Year, reopens in pre-opening on 5 January 2026, restarts on 30 March with hours of 8am to 10pm seven days a week, and announces in the autumn that the official opening has been pushed back. In other words: by autumn 2026 the place is running, programming and hosting, and its inauguration date is still to come.

What happened there in 2026

The programme has no single line, and that is the point: an address where collectives with no walls of their own come and put theirs up, for a night or for a season.

• RESONANCE, 28 January, a multidisciplinary gathering built by Neokorp where film, music and visual art meet, 5pm to 10pm. Entry 10 DT.
• AYCHEK, the premiere of Ksouri's film, 31 January, 5pm to 9pm, free entry, ID required.
• Club Carre, the monthly gathering by Fichier Cache and DFND, billed as the private club for sound, creation and connection. The Ramadan episode, on 27 February, mixed workshops, DJ sets, a talk on sampling and copyright and a live rap set, for a hundred people at most. Episode 4, on 3 May, was called World Full of Bass: Subculture, with Shinigami San live and in conversation, and BoomJ.
• Hdith Comedy Club, the Tunisian national comedy team, in residence since 2026.
• A vernissage day on 13 April.
• Eddisco Records opened its record shop inside the building on 19 April, with a vinyl-only night.
• Hot Club de Tunis x L'Ecurie, a Latin-Jazz night followed by a jam session, on 24 April at 7.30pm, pass 20 DT, limited places; again on 25 May.
• Sunday Sketch Retreat, Nour Zarougui's drawing Sundays, on 26 April and again on 11 October, free entry, homemade chocolate fondants included; bring a sketchbook, watercolours or an iPad.
• Pop-Up Art & Workshop, 24 to 30 May.
• An art therapy session with Fatma Ayadi, 6 May, in two slots.
• Ydour / يدور, second edition, three days of amateur cinema with FTCA Hammam-Lif, 15 to 17 May.
• Rewriting the Mediterranean in a Contemporary Key, 4 June at 5pm, a talk from the Shluq project, run by Chouilli Agency with the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis: Fernanda Fischione (Arabpop), Giovanni Napolano (MBE Series) and Hedy Ben Hmida (Tunez Magazine), talk then vinyl set, free entry.
• Reflexi by Hakim Kalboussi, 14 June.
• ELL CANAPET / 4LFA COSMIC live, presented by 2NZI Records and L'Ecurie.
• TN Street World Cup by TNZ.WORLD, 20 and 21 June, 10am to 7pm: two days of football, music, art and street culture, exhibition and stands, DJ sets, workshops and a game zone, with the jersey of your favourite national team as the dress code.
• Poesie Chimique Vol.1, 24 October, a film photography masterclass with Abdessattar Berek and Mondher Masmoudi, more than fifty years of practice between them: shooting and developing, two slots, 1.30pm to 4pm and 4.30pm to 6.30pm, 40 DT, limited places.

The record shop inside the club

Since April 2026, Eddisco Records has occupied a corner of L'Ecurie. The shop and label, opened in 2018 in a Lafayette apartment and listed by The Vinyl Factory among the world's best record shops, moved its crates a few steps from its old address. Monday to Sunday, 10am to 10pm, by appointment, with coffee and soft drinks on site.

It is the detail that best explains how the place works: L'Ecurie is a members club, but seeing Eddisco only takes a message. You book, you walk in, you dig. Since October 2026 the shop has also run Live Experiment there, a series of live performances in the store, the first being a dub and reggae set by Adubtation.

Getting there

L'Ecurie is at 8 rue d'Autriche, on the corner of rue du Venezuela, Tunis 1002, on the Lafayette - Belvedere side; the venue posts its exact pin on Google Maps. Posted hours: 10am to 8pm, seven days a week, 21 and over, non-smoking, accessible. Membership, invitations and workshop bookings are settled by message on Instagram, which is also where the dates, the gatherings and the calls for collaboration are announced.

Photos: © Hot Club de Tunis (Latin-Jazz night); © Jbeli Ale for Eddisco Records (the shop opening).

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