For our seventeenth reading group we will finish reading Abolitionist Voices, a compilation edited by David Gordon Scott. From the blurb: Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment? And why have their ideas been so difficult to popularize or garner the political will for change? This book outlines […]
As part of its international tour, we are showing Kamal El Salim’s “Viva Palastina – Reason of Resistance” Set in Berlin, this documentary follows four activists navigating the Palestine solidarity movement and the escalating repression it faces, centring on the shutdown of the “Palästina Kongress” in 2024. From there, it turns to the city’s student […]
Open: Thurs 2-8 / Fri 3-7 / Sat 2-6 56a Infoshop is a long-term volunteer-run, 100% unfunded, DIY social centre in Walworth, South London since 1991. We share a collectively-run building with the brilliant Fareshares Food Co-op and the awesome 56a Bikespace. we sell radical books, zines, magazines, pamphlets and other printed matter on a wide variety of […]
Open: Thurs 2-8 / Fri 3-7 / Sat 2-6 56a Infoshop is a long-term volunteer-run, 100% unfunded, DIY social centre in Walworth, South London since 1991. We share a collectively-run building with the brilliant Fareshares Food Co-op and the awesome 56a Bikespace. we sell radical books, zines, magazines, pamphlets and other printed matter on a wide variety of […]
Join us this January as we start the year with a genre-bending comedy to beat the winter blues. Sister Midnight (2024, 110mins) by Karan Kandhari is a film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses which lead her to unlikely situations. Uma travels to Mumbai for a newly arranged marriage. The oddball couple […]
Rockaway Beach is proud to present the First anarchistwood Festival… What A Riot… we will also be doing a Food Drop for (Food For All UK) PLEASE BRING A BAG OF RICE, PASTA, LENTILS The line up is Fantastic! check it out: +++ anarchistwood “anarchistwood aren’t a screeching anti everything band, they take that hippy/punk […]
Open: Thurs 2-8 / Fri 3-7 / Sat 2-6 56a Infoshop is a long-term volunteer-run, 100% unfunded, DIY social centre in Walworth, South London since 1991. We share a collectively-run building with the brilliant Fareshares Food Co-op and the awesome 56a Bikespace. we sell radical books, zines, magazines, pamphlets and other printed matter on a wide variety of […]
Saturday 31st of January at Helgi’s, Hackney Repulsive Vision death/grind from Cumbria https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ZRKL1Uk1qrfhnfjRtSVRC?si=syQIKmIXQnScrFcOXrPqbA T.R.E.S.T crustcore from the midlands https://open.spotify.com/artist/0azytDJ1GU2sLwBCv65dSl?si=30yxrJCPQjCkZ8TPZdQTxQ Decay87 punk rock, Birmingham https://open.spotify.com/artist/38X4i2P9mUWf4InnSHk0GN?si=YMqBwQLPSsKvZSOzrib25w Sewer Trench london stadium crust https://open.spotify.com/artist/6qDoV3PFJHlUosw6ATltxl?si=xGHdKN1FSFuBYd6UZAvAlQ £6 adv £10 otd https://wegottickets.com/event/680957
We are proud to be promoting this as part of independent venues week. Headliners I, Doris are patriarchy smashing, internationally famous, mummy-core rockers bringing their joyous take on feminism to the Trades for the first time. There will be keytars We’ll keep putting on Moron Butler until everyone has seen them. Skewed, inventive catchy post-punk […]
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! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mince-tickets-1979988558077
Open: Thurs 2-8 / Fri 3-7 / Sat 2-6 56a Infoshop is a long-term volunteer-run, 100% unfunded, DIY social centre in Walworth, South London since 1991. We share a collectively-run building with the brilliant Fareshares Food Co-op and the awesome 56a Bikespace. we sell radical books, zines, magazines, pamphlets and other printed matter on a wide variety of […]
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.
THE HISTORY OF SWITCHBOARD An intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes. Switchboard was founded at Housmans, and operated out of our premises for many years. So we are honored to start LGBT+ History Month by launching a book that covers an intimate part of Switchboard’s […]
please note this event is now sold out. To be added to a waiting list please email shop@housmans.com An intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes. Switchboard was founded at Housmans, and operated out of our premises for many years. So we are honored to start […]
