POETRY: Jazmine Linklater, Frank Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar and more

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Please join us for our second poetry night of the year. This time we celebrate Jazmine Linklater’s immense and devastating new long poem ‘Snagged on red thread’ (published by Monitor). Reading alongside Jazmine we have Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Al Anderson, Harriet Rose and JD Howse. This is a free event, but please RSBP […]

POETRY: Jazmine Linklater, Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar and more

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Please join us for our second poetry night of the year. This time we celebrate Jazmine Linklater’s immense and devastating new long poem ‘Snagged on red thread’ (published by Monitor). Reading alongside Jazmine we have Fran Lock, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Al Anderson, Harriet Rose and JD Howse.

Unfurling Māori & Pasifika Print Publishing: A Group Study Session at the Feminist Library

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unfurling-maori-pasifika-print-publishing… Join publisher Kaiya Waerea in a group study session exploring the Feminist Library’s collections relating to Māori & Pasifika feminist organising in the late 20th century. Together we will look at key periodicals including Bitches, witches & dykes (1980-82) and Broadsheet (1972-1997) and reflect on questions including: How have indigenous practises of knowledge sharing […]

First Thursday Freedom board game night!

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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Come and join us for a night of frivolity, fun and friendly competition. Every 1st Friday of the month. Next one is the 5th February, 7pm Decentre.

First Friday Freedom Fun board game night!

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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Come and join us for a night of frivolity, fun and friendly competition. Every 1st Friday of the month. Next one is the 1st November,  7pm Decentre.

BOOK LAUNCH: ‘A Studious Use’ with Giovanni Marmont

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons. Join us for some radical thinking, some real radical autonomist thinking, with one of our favourite vanguardist publishers, Minor Compositions. Come and celebrate the publication of another vital, alert and mind bending work of theory. A Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities […]

BOOK LAUNCH: POLICING THE BEATS: Lambros Fatsis in conversation with Adèle Oliver

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Policing the beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice We are absolutely delighted to welcome Lambros Fatsis to Housmans to discuss the criminalizing of black culture, music and youth. We are thrilled also to welcome back the brilliant Adèle Oliver, author of ‘Deeping it: Colonialism, Culture and Criminalisation of UK Drill’, to interview Lambros about […]

Book launch: The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy Taking with Ida Susser

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX

We welcome Ida Susser to celebrate the publication of The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century. Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the United States and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the twenty-first century. It foregrounds […]

Solidarity Screening: – Mohammad Rasoulof – The White Meadows کشتزارهای سپید

Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
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Mohammad Rasoulof is an Iranian writer and director, with other notable films including “The Twilight,” “Iron Island,” and “Lerd”. He was arrested in Iran and was sentenced to a year in prison in 2010. Rasoulof continues to be banned from making films in his home country as his work was labelled “propaganda against the regime” […]

The Poetics of Infrastructure.

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986345886016/preview?_gl=1*tmq8*_up*MQ..*_ga*ODk3ODk2MTE3LjE3NzUwNjY4ODI.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NzUwNjY4ODIkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzUwNjY4ODIkajYwJGwwJGgw This April, we at the Feminist Library are delighted to host the opening session of “The Poethics of Infrastructure.” With @threadbarecollective. Threadbare Collective is an art-curatorial collective based in SE London, focusing on architecture, rest and the body. They were recently in residence at Goldsmiths CCA 24/25 where they ran a monthly programme of […]

HA! Book Swap

LARC, , E1 1ES
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On the 19th of April, we will be meeting again to swap books. Bring your favourite books or those that you cannot stand to look at one second more! It could be fiction or non fiction. Alternatively, just bring yourself and drinks and snacks! As part of the event, we will discuss our next zine, […]

Black feminist reading group

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-feminist-reading-group-tickets-1987… Join us to reflect and imagine together. There’s no set text, instead we’ll be led by what we bring to this space together. The Black Feminist Reading Group is back next week! Join us on Tuesday 21 April, 6:30–8:30pm at the Feminist Library (please note the change to our end time). This month, we’ll be taking time […]

NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES: CHRISTINE DONOVAN & TOM VAGUE IN CONVERSATION Join us for a conversation between two of the most brilliant writers of psychogeography working the country at the moment as they talk about their recent published works. Christine Donovan’s novel Dériveville explores the long term influence of the Situationist International. Setin 1981 in Paris it […]

DOG SECTION PRESS PRESENTS: FEMINISMS

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Dog Section Press presents an evening of poetry, words and music in celebration of their recent publication: Feminisms. Curated and hosted by Antonia May Cross, featuring book contributors Janey Starling (Yakkie band) & Abu Leila (London Renters Union) and music and poetry from Dream Date and Alice Brady. Feminisms is a collection of ten essays from a diverse milieu of writers […]