A road movie, a magic realist fable and an incisive portrait of the seldom-seen Iraq of the 1990s, this is a poignant film focusing on a nine-year-old girl named Lamia who must gather scarce ingredients to bake a cake for Saddam Hussein’s birthday. Touching on collective trauma of growing up in Iraq under sanctions, economy […]
Join Us For A Discussion Of A Global Movement for the Rights of Nature As the world grapples with the escalating climate crisis, ecosystems are collapsing, and the planet’s future hangs in the balance. For centuries, our legal systems have treated nature as something to be owned and exploited, but a bold new movement is […]
‘At this, the man turned in their direction and smiled; he played not for the dream of success but because this new world necessitated beauty of all kinds. The new world was not just labour, but labour for the sake of life-making.’ — Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Join us for Hajar Reads: Play. […]
Real Life presents The Death Metal Violence Tour featuring Dysentery Boston Death Metal Beatdowns https://dysenteryslam.bandcamp.com/ Anhedonia Detroit Deathcore Devastation ” href=”http://www.instagram.com/anhedonia.brutal/]” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>www.instagram.com/anhedonia.brutal/] .357 Homicide Manchester Maniacal Slams https://linktr.ee/357homicide Toil Essex hardcore brutality https://toiluk.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-essex https://pit.live/events/dysentery
Need advice about an issue with your boss or landlord? Want support organising in your workplace or community? Want to talk about anarchism or syndicalism? Want to meet members of the group and find out how SolFed works? Just want to say hi? Then come see us at one of these drop in sessions. We […]
Hackney Anarchists present HACKY Anarchists; a digital utopia for our moribund times. When the pirate cries ‘Aarghh me hearties’ is this a cry for help or a call to arms? Many digital utopians fled the complexities of the world for the hope of better possibilities in the last century. These early sailors charted whole new […]
“Without deviation from the norm, Progress is not possible.” A night of noize, punk and deviation in a basement in Deptford. Featuring: BAD SAM (digital punk – Cardiff) GABBA ZAPPA HEY! (Zappa-punk) SINISTER DELIVERY SYSTEMS (Deptford-punk) ANTIBANNED (working-class punk) BANNED FROM EARTH (wild-punk) ULTRAPUNK (ultra-punk) Pay no more than £5 NOTAFLOF
The Brockley Anarchist Reading Club is excited to begin a new journey as we dive into Elif Shafak’s How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division. In this timely and powerful manifesto, Shafak explores how we can maintain our empathy and mental well-being in a world increasingly defined by tribalism and social fragmentation. […]
For our twenty first reading group we will be reading Social Anarchism and Organisation by the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (FARJ). We also have some additional suggested short readings about Platformism and the arguments around it to go along with the booklet. As FARJ describes the booklet: The first Congress of the FARJ […]
Many of the materials from our ecological holdings offer examples of organised attempts to confront ecological crisis through insurgent, ground-level direct-action. In this spirit, we invite you to join us in this practical session with Manuela Zechner, who will share key takes from her new book, The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, […]
We are delighted to welcome Manuela Zechner to Housmans to talk about her truly original and radical work in postcolonial eco-theory. As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for earthcare? The […]
We’re back at the Blue Monk for another exciting date bringing together different variations of Oi, punk hardcore and associated genres. To headline, none other that Claimed Choice, coming over from Lyon (France) and bringing their own take on Oi music. As far as French Oi is concerned, it is a clear defined genre, that […]
INTRODUCING THE FIRST IN OUR POET’S PROSE SEQUENCE We are delighted to welcome two extremely exciting poets to Housmans for the first installment of our Summer Poetry Series. This season we’re going to be doing something a bit different and focusing instead on the work that poets produce outside of ‘traditional’ lyric modes; focusing instead on prose; […]
Real Life Presents Algae Bloom Celebrating 10 years of ‘I am everyone I’ve ever met’ with their last shows for the foreseeable future, we’re very lucky to bring you a rare London appearance from some UK Screamo legends https://linktr.ee/algaebloom Plus a stellar supporting cast of… Cold Holding Southampton duo, reunited for the occasion https://coldholding.bandcamp.com/ incaseyouleave […]
