Herstories Book Club: the volcano lover

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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☕ Next Herstories Book Club: Sat 25 April, 2.00-3.30pm 📍Location: Feminist Library 📖 Book: The Volcano Lover, by Susan Sontag (1992) 📚 Previous books we’ve read: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/herstories-book-club A historical romance, Sontag’s book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. […]

Camera Obscura: Four Daughters

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES
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🗓   Tuesday 28th of April, 7pm (doors 6pm) 📍 LARC (62 Fieldgate St, London E1 1ES) A docu-drama telling the story of a Tunisian mother and her four daughters. The four daughters endure the cycles of violence, repression, followed by radicalisation that led to two young daughters  joining ISIS. Join us for screening & discussion […]

Reading Group 20 – How Nonviolence Protects The State

Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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nce Protects The State For our twentieth reading group we will be reading How Nonviolence Protects The State by Peter Gelderloos. From the blurb: “Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities–even organizers of rallies against […]

BOOK TALK: The Journal of a Kurdish Political Prisoner

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

Join for a discussion of the journal of Kurdish revolutionary, Ali Poyraz. He spent twenty-one years and four months in Turkish prisons. He was born in 1962 in Bozüyük, an Alevi village in the Gürün district of Sivas. According to Yeni Özgür Politika, his political consciousness was shaped by his older brother, Hüseyin Poyraz (also […]

1st of May: The Red in the Green – Screening, free pamphlet and collective reading 

Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
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The Red in the Green will mark the 1st of May, International Workers’ Day. Celebrating the convergence of worker and environmental organising, the evening will begin with a film screening and discussion (Who bombed Judi Bari?, 2012, 92 mins) and conclude with a collective reading of excerpts from Peter Linebaugh’s pamphlet The incomplete, true, authentic […]

Omega Tribe + Daffodildos + Angry

Aces & Eights, 156-158 Fortess Road, NW5 2HP
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£10

Omega Tribe, Daffodildos and Angry – a great night of punk positivity awaits! https://www.outsavvy.com/event/34458/otdaffangae

Nesian Punx #2 – a night of Pasifika POC Punk

VFD, 64-66 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XB
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£6 – £8

8pm to 11pm, doors open at 7:45pm Tickets £6 in advance (book here) or £8 on the door Nesian Punx #2 A night of Pasifika – poc punk raising money for Free West Papua Campaign. Since the first days of Indonesian colonial occupation in 1963, the people and land of West Papua have been under […]

BOOK LAUNCH: LIQUID REFLECTIONS WITH LILIANE LIJN

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

We are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world’s greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation by leading art writer Jennifer Higgie. Liliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring, often ostentatious and always poetic works are dotted […]

[POSTPONED] Book Launch: Liquid Reflections with Liliane Lijn

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

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES – PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON FOR A RESCHEDULED DATE. We are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world’s greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation by leading art writer […]

Punks For Palestine VI

New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
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£13

Punks For Palestine VI All proceeds split between The Sameer Project Providing aid to displaced families on the ground in Gaza Da’m: Defend and Mobilize Supporting direct action and activism in the UK against the Israeli arms trade. Louder than ever as this world grows harder. As always: hardcore, punk and hiphop joining forces in […]

BOOK TALK: PUNK SPIRIT!

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

AN ORAL HISTORY OF PUNK ROCK, SPIRITUALITY AND LIBERATION We are super excited to welcome John Malkin over from California to talk about his incredible, and as far as we can tell, unique, book: Punk Spirit! We’ve had countless books about punk (not to mention zines) pass through Housmans over the year but none that […]

MINCE!

The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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£10

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mince-tickets-1987510848450?aff=oddtdtcre… sharing new/experimental/queer work in progress, music, film, performance, and other stuff that can happen live. MINCE is a variety show of queer, experimental, work-in-progress art. Anything that can be performed live or shown on a screen! Ticket proceeds will be going to Fiveforfive. Fiveforfive is a wealth redistribution project by-and-for trans women and femmes. […]