Shooting Daggers - Nothing Works - Tomar Control - Emergency Broadcast
2026-04-04 12:00 (Europe/London) | Moor Beer Vaults, Railway Arch 71 Enid St, SE16 3RA
CASH PISTACHE – MOOR BEER VAULT, LONDON
Explosive date mixing politically infused punk and hardcore from Peru to Germany,
SHOOTING DAGGERS – LONDON
Shooting Daggers is a dynamic, hardcore punk band from London, known for their intense energy, raw sound, and fiercely progressive lyrics. Their music blends aggressive guitar riffs, driving bass lines, and relentless drumming, creating a powerful sound that channels the spirit of classic hardcore with a modern edge. The band’s lyrics tackle themes like social justice, gender equality, and personal empowerment, resonating strongly with our ethics as a fest. With passionate live performances and a DIY ethic, Shooting Daggers is quickly making a name in the punk scene for both their talent and their commitment to activism.
NOTHING WORKS – BERLIN
NOTHING WORKS is an international hardcore band based in Berlin. Their songs are filled with urgency, honesty, and confrontation. Blending raw emotion with sharp critique. It’s personal and political. Cathartic, direct, and heavy with intent. Musicwise influenced by bands like Drug Church, Bikini Kill, Gouge Away and At the Drive-In.
They are now touring Europe and UK and we’re glad to have them stopping by London
TOMAR CONTROL – PERU
Tomar Control had much success all over Europe during their first tour last year, and we’re glad to welcome them again at The Vault for their second EU/UK tour. This all female band plays old school hardcore with a good dose of feminism and social commentary in their music.
Quoting @laststopsounds from their gig last year in Northwich –
“Musically they are hardcore punk with a lot of rock n roll. Sharp, aggressive and with great songs a plenty. They fly from straight edged motifs via hardcore sounds to high energy punk flawlessly.”
And that nails it completely!
EMERGENCY BROADCAST – LONDON
Emergency Broadcast is a band, amining to be sound of marginalised ideologies and crews with punk/hardcore riffs. Have lyrics all against to sexism,homophobic attitude,inequality,racism and all the government systems. Formed in 2012. Since the year 2016 our group has been vegan, Straight Edge and Anti-Fascist.

Tickets www.instagram.com/cashpistache.promotion/

Quest Master / Flickers From The Fen / Glaciers Of Ice | New Cross Inn
2026-04-04 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
New Cross Live Presents
Quest Master
Fantasy Synth Music from Australia
[www.instagram.com/lordgordith/
Flickers From The Fen
Dungeon synth fantasy folk
[www.instagram.com/flickersfromthefen/
Glaciers Of Ice
Caveman Dungeon Wave
[www.instagram.com/t.b.abraxas/
Saturday 4th April
New Cross Inn
Doors 6pm
£16
14+, u16s with an adult
https://pit.live/events/quest-master

BOOK LAUNCH: 'A Studious Use' with Giovanni Marmont
2026-04-04 19:00 - 20:30 | 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 at play in practices of both study and use. It examines their potential and actual interplay, unravelling the ways in which these are at once shaped by and reproductive of broader social, political, and cultural currents. Here Giovanni Marmont explores how a seemingly inoffensive commitment to the terms of individuation, as a manner of understanding and organising the world first and foremost as an aggregate of separate entities, carries with it profoundly harmful implications. With an eye toward the unseen possibilities of social life, he proposes an alternative mode of engagement with and through artefacts – studious use – predicated instead on our general, shared, practical indebtedness. Through a blend of theoretical critique, philosophical inquiry, and experimental design practices, A Studious Use offers a rethinking of sociality not as a coming together of independent, if interacting subjects and objects but, rather, as a primary, undirected, ongoing collective experiment.
Author of For a Pragmatics of the Useless,Erin Manning says: “How do practices dispossess us? How does use reorient the very question of function and form? Where else can it take us beyond our-selves? In this compelling engagement with use-beyond-use-value, Marmont takes us on a journey to a non-binary account of use that refuses the limited account of any marketable claim. Instead, it moves use toward the surprise of constellations as experimental as they are quotidian.”
As always, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com, and a free ticket will be made available.
If you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or arrange for delivery, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.
Doors Open at 6:45pm, Event Starts 7:00.

Acoustic Anarchy #102 with James Bar Bowen& Muffy
2026-04-04 19:30 | Waterintobeer, Tara Terrace, 209-211 Mantle Road, Brockley, SE4 2EW
regular acoustic night with Yorkshire-based folk punk bard James Bar Bowen joined tonight by original singer songwriter Muffy

Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2026-04-07 18:00 | LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES
When the anti-globalisation protests at the 2001 European Union summit in Gothenburg turned violent, the Swedish government took swift and decisive action. Some 460 protesters were arrested and 14 of them received long prison sentences. The government deemed the rioters “terrorists”. One of those detained was Stefan Jarl’s son. In their film, Jarl and Lukas Moodysson paint a different picture of the conflict. In moving interviews, young activists talk about their motivation for participating in the protests, voice their criticism of an inequitable economic order, and relate their traumatic experiences facing state forces.
Join us for a screening and discussion with a guest from Gothenburg.
Doors open from 6pm, screening starts at 7pm.

The Rebel Riot | The Restarts | Jakal
2026-04-08 19:00 | The 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
Nine years since their last UK tour. Five years since they took to the streets in Myanmar’s revolution. Now The Rebel Riot are back—bringing their raw blend of punk and resistance to three cities only.
After Glasgow and Manchester Punk Fest, they hit London’s legendary 100 Club on Wednesday, April 8th.
Joining them: The Restarts + newly reformed London legends JAKAL. Hosted by the legendary Andrew O’Neill.
https://wegottickets.com/f/15279

Creativity and Mutual Aid: Creative Anarchy Part 3
2026-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
For the final session, we will collectively explore the connections between creative practice and mutual aid. How might we enact collective creative practices with collective care at the centre? How do we artistically reject the lures of reform and charity? How can we find more creative approaches to our mutual aid practices in ever more dire and urgent contexts? For this session Ruari will be in discussion with artist Ruth Catlow and members of trans collective and mutual aid group We Exist! We will then collectively discuss the session topic, draw some conclusions from the series as a whole, and hopefully find some new comrades and collaborators in the process.
‘Creative Anarchy’ is an event series exploring the relationships between anarchist thought, organising, and creative practice. Resulting from a placement at the Mayday Rooms, researcher Ruari Paterson-Achenbach will host a series of discussions around materials in the archive, alongside creative practitioners, trying to explore what it might mean to ‘create anarchically’. What might it mean to consider creative practice a form of direct action, or vice-versa? How can artists incorporate the principles of mutual aid into their work? Is the notion of ‘art’ compatible with anarchist thought? Across these three events, we will answer these questions together using historical examples, with all the possibilities and limitations they might offer us.

Squat Safety
2026-04-10 19:00 | Lesnes estate, Thamesmead,

SLOW FACTION + BUCHA EFFECT + RAGE DC
2026-04-10 19:00 | The Birds Nest, 32 Deptford Church Street, SE8 4RZ
South London Punk Collective back at the Nest for this banger!
SLOW FACTION + BUCHA EFFECT + RAGE DC
Free entry – bring cash to chuck in the collection bucket for the bands!

HA! Fundraiser for Rojava
2026-04-10 20:00 | The Royal Sovereign, 64 Northwold Road, E5 8RL
On Friday 10th of April, we will be at the Royal Sovereign to raise vital funds for the humanitarian support needed by our comrades in Rojava. Stay tuned for more information, bands, and DJ’s to be announced.
Rojava is beset by fascist theocratic invasions on every corner. Under constant attack by regional powers with multimillion dollar technological arsenals. Under threat of territorial incursion, massacres & genocide. Every day is an existential fight to protect what has been earned with years of struggle. Despite this, Rojava’s light shines ever so bright, as a powerful living example of an internationalist women-led social revolution in practice, as an unceasing inspiration and reminder to anarchists across the world that another world is possible. That is what Rojava means to us.
We cannot and Rojava cannot rely on treacherous states for support, look at the orange man in the White House, or at David Lammy in Tottenham withdrawing all support for the KCC once he moved into government. The scene in Hackney and London relies on our Kurdish comrades and it is time for us to extend our solidarity in return. Solidarity is not a moment it’s a muscle. Keep exercising it!

Dalston Solidarity Cafe
2026-04-11 14:00 | , 31 – 33 Dalston Lane, Hackney, E8 3DF
Dalston Solidarity Cafe – Connecting grassroot networks over free food, tea & community resources every 2nd Sat of the month. Generally 2pm-8pm.
What we practically do is rescuing food, turning it into delicious meals, serving it together with drinks on a “pay what you can basis down to £0“. Over the arc of the day, we also host a workshop, generally held by other local mutual aid groups and collectives, to then conclude with a film screening. From 2pm we also have an infoshop with zines/stickers/more, and a free shop/book swap/clothes swap including free binders from Gender Swap.
The cafe takes place every second Saturday of the month at Halkevi, the Kurdish community centre in Dalston (London), with open assemblies every Tuesdays before and after the event.
The space is wheelchair accessible (through the Tyssen Street entrance).

Chalk Hands "The Line That Shapes The Coast Of Us" London release show
2026-04-11 18:00 | Piehouse Co-op, Arches 213-214, Edward St, Deptford, SE8 5HD
Real Life Presents
Chalk Hands
“The Line That Shapes The Coast Of Us” London release party
Celebrating a new album from the Brighton skramz team, releasing 27/3 on the legendary Dog Knights Records
[www.instagram.com/chalkhandsofficial/
+ support from
Hemiptera
String-enhanced stadium crust
[www.instagram.com/hemiptera.crust/
Death Of Youth
New emotional hardcore from London
[www.instagram.com/deathofyouthukhc/
And more still to come…
Saturday 11th April
£10
Doors 7pm
London
Piehouse Co-Op
213-214 Edward Place, SE8 5HD
https://pit.live/events/chalk-hands-1

Anarchist Breakfast Club
2026-04-12 11:00 | Hackney Downs Park, , E5 8NP
Hackney Anarchists are back conquering bread 🍞
Every second Sunday of the month find us at the centre of Hackney downs cooking together, sharing food and discussing politics.
Our food is free to share with whomever might need it or want it. Everyone is welcome, no questions asked.
We are hoping to share food and its preparation with those who want to join. Come at 11 to help us prep and cook. This is also a joyful way to have political conversations and develop mutual aid tools.
This is a shared process and everyone can get involved however they want. We also welcome ingredients, leads for food sourcing, recipe suggestions (vegan), or just your company.
🍲 Abolish the bourgeoise butter bean! We feed ourselves 🏴

Unite Against The Far Right: GNDR x Gay School x Migrant Democracy Project
2026-04-12 18:00 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
For those of us who know that the personal is political, that queer liberation, feminist organising, climate and racial justice are not separate struggles but one interwoven fight, the May elections are not abstract. They are about who controls our streets, our councils, our communities.
The far right is on the rise. But so are we. We’re getting organised. Join us for an evening of talks, workshops, and free supper to unite against division.
-talks on why this moment demands our presence, not just as voters but as organisers, educators, and activists.
-workshops, where you can practice the conversations on the doorstep that change minds,
-create banners and crafts to take to the streets, and even
-a graphic design workshop to turn our politics into social visuals that move people.
Plus, we’ll have a free dinner to enjoy while you take part!
Key details:
Sun 12th April, 5pm
Peckham Feminist Library, Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Rd, London SE15 6JL
Free entry. Free Food. All welcome. Bring your people.

Brockley Anarchist Reading Club
2026-04-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Brockley Brewery, 31 Harcourt Road, Brockley, SE4 2AJ
Join us as we begin our discussion of James C. Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. The Art of Not Being Governed examines the historical reality of Zomia, the vast, mountainous region of Southeast Asia, focusing on how its inhabitants deliberately evaded state control for over two millennia. Scott explores the creation of stateless societies through mobile agriculture, fluid identities, and physical geography. The text invites us to look at a massive historical example of state evasion and to consider the possibilities of self-governance in the face of empires and state-making. We’ll be exploring how these historical practices of autonomy and resistance can inform our own political imagination today. All are welcome! Whether you are a lifelong anarchist or just beginning your journey, join us to read, discuss, and imagine a freer world together.

Feminist Fightback reading group: Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
2026-04-13 19:00 | Vibast Community Centre, 167 Old Street, EC1V 9NH
Join Feminist Fightback for our next reading group book: Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
Sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.
The book is 288 pages long. We will discuss this book in 4 sessions:
Monday 9th February (56 pages):
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sex
Chapter 2: Work
Monday 9th March (53 pages):
Chapter 3: A Victorian Hangover: Great Britain
Chapter 4: Prison Nation: The U.S., South Africa, and Kenya
Monday 13th April (50 pages)
Chapter 5: The People’s Home: Sweden, Norway, Ireland, and Canada
Chapter 6: Charmed Circle: Germany, Netherlands, and Nevada
Monday 11th May (31 pages)
Chapter 7: No Silver Cullet Aotearoa (New Zealand) and New South Wales
Conclusion
Please come having read the relevant chapters.
Copies available for sale at The People’s Letters (E2 9RA), a sex worker supportive bookstore.
The event will be at Vibast Community Centre, 267 Old Street, London EC1V 9NH.
It is about 3 minutes walking from Old Street station, or the 55 and 243 buses stop just in front of the Centre. The venue is accessible and has accessible toilets.
Please arrive at 7.00 for 7.15 start; we will finish at 8.30pm. All genders welcome!

BOOK LAUNCH: POLICING THE BEATS: Lambros Fatsis in conversation with Adèle Oliver
2026-04-15 18:30 - 20:00 | 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 his work.
Policing The Beats is a bold analysis that exposes the racist policing of Black music. The emergence of UK drill music made headline news, portraying it as a criminal enterprise instead of recognising it as an art form. This new rap subgenre, however, is neither the first nor the only Black music to be targeted this way.
Policing the beats rewinds the tape to demonstrate how music has been used as an instrument for policing Black people, from the era of colonial slavery to the present day, revealing the racist legal processes that make crimes out of rhymes.
This original and readable book offers the first in-depth account of the policing of Black music in Britain, highlighting the relationship between politics, culture and criminal (in)justice and inviting music lovers, scholars and activists to tune in.
Lambros and Adèle will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour, followed by a q&a.
As always, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com, and a free ticket will be made available.
If you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or arrange for delivery, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.
Doors Open at 6:45pm, Event Starts 7:00.

Don't Try + Cage / Bullet / Errurjean | Real Life @ New Cross Inn
2026-04-16 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
Real Life Presents
Don’t Try
Canada’s hardest, back for round 3.
[www.instagram.com/donttry.qc/
+ Support from
Cage
Swiss hardcore freakmosh
[www.instagram.com/cageisopen/
Bullet
London new blood
[www.instagram.com/bullethxc/
& More tba
Afterparty downstairs in Stocks Bar ft. Erreurjean
[www.instagram.com/_erreurjean_/
Thursday 16th April
New Cross Inn
£13
Doors 6pm
14+, u16s with an adult 18+
https://pit.live/events/dont-try-2

Book launch: The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy Taking with Ida Susser
2026-04-16 19:00 | 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 the Yellow Vests to present an accurate and timely picture of a protest movement that baffled analysts and blurred the boundaries of left and right.
Comprehensively exploring the meaning of “les Gilets Jaunes triompheront” (the yellow vests will win), written on the Arc de Triomphe in 2018, The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy details how people of all ages, many from the provinces and the urban periphery, rushed through the Paris streets, breaking windows and braving tear gas, challenging the ruling class in extraordinary and unpredictable ways. Avoiding hierarchy and stable organization, and claiming a right to a territory or space that is between the private and the public, these protests imagined a different form of collectivity that is not commodified but established by the social practice of “commoning”—of momentarily linking protests in the streets and other spaces.
An essential book for activists and researchers on contemporary protest movements, this book offers crucial insight into the formation of protests and popular resistance and how social movements generate their own political and ideological character.
About the author:
Ida Susser, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has published on popular mobilizations, social movements, and the urban commons in the United States, Europe, and Southern Africa. Her books include Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (2012) and the co- edited volumes, Rethinking America (2009) and Wounded Cities (2003).
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/28/what-american-activists-can-learn-from-france-right-now/
https://open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/why-you-cant-wear-a-yellow-vest-in

IPA Community Prepardness Meeting
2026-04-16 19:00 | TRESPASS, 48 albury street, SE8 3PS
“we are already situated within the collapse of civilisation. To go on waiting is madness”,
In the two decades since the Invisible Committee wrote these words, the situation has only gotten worse. financial crisis, pandemic, genocide, war – we don’t need to list everything because we’ve been struggling through it together. Resistance has been met by fierce repression as well as apathy in the absence of any positive vision of the future. Rather than the collapse of civilisation in the abstract we increasingly find ourselves in the suffocating conditions of impending extinction. The promise of insurrection has given way to the reality of apocalypse. If we are to navigate this apocalypse, we will have to follow another piece of advice from the Invisible Committee and find each other. We are organising this series of meetings, discussions and workshops – on everything from what food to keep at home to how to set up a long range radio (LORA) network – in order to do just that.
This thursday at the TRESPASS event space we will be discussing the motivation behind this series and starting conversations about what we and people around the world are doing to make themselves and their communities more resilient to crises. If you have any trouble finding the space call us on +447438106417.

Monthly Drop In
2026-04-16 19:00 - 20:00 | LARC, 62 Fieldgate St, E1 1ES
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 will be on the top floor of LARC.

Solidarity Screening: – Mohammad Rasoulof – The White Meadows کشتزارهای سپید
2026-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
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” and “activity against national security.” After multiple attempts to silence his work, and bans placed on him and his crew to prevent them leaving the country, he fled Iran. He currently lives in exile in Europe.
The White Meadows 2009, 95 mins
Rhamat, a sailor without wind who rows his way through a circuit of desert islands is tasked with collecting the tears of the inhabitants. Through allegory, memory and symbolism, The film offers a scathing critique of Iran’s political leadership.
The screening will be followed by an informal discussion about contemporary struggles in Iran, as well as solidarity taking place here in the UK.

FORDS FUZZ INFERNO (Netherlands) + GLU + more
2026-04-17 19:00 | The Birds Nest, 32 Deptford Church Street, SE8 4RZ
South London Punk Collective loudly resents…
Back for a rare appearance in the UK – FORDS FUZZ INFERNO (Netherlands) are starting their mini-tour at the Bird’s Nest!
Joined by the awesome GLU + 1 more tba
3 bands….free entry….please bring cash for the bands…. bucket donations doing the rounds, merch and more to help sustain the touring band and DIY circuit!

The Poetics of Infrastructure.
2026-04-18 16:30 | 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 workshops and a performance night as part of Deptford X.
For their first reading group, “Reading Maps,” They will gather us together around texts that approach the practise of cartography not as a tool for fixing territories, but as a speculative and imaginative practice. They’ll read excerpts from The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin (Architectural Association), placing the work of Ursula K. Le Guin in conversation with Madeleine de Scudéry’s Carte de Tendre from her novel Clélie (1654–61), an early and evocative example of sentimental cartography.
Across these invented and reimagined geographies, mapping will be explored as porous, collaborative, and shaped by story, feeling, and relation. Together, maps will be though through as invitations; to wander, to misread, and to redraw.
We invite you to join us in considering how worlds are mapped into being, and how cartography might be reimagined to trace spaces of care, connection, and collective imagination.
All are welcome.

South London Scum presents: THE RESTARTS + ŚMIERĆ (Stockholm) + R.U.B (Melbourne) + HAAVAT
2026-04-18 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
South London Scum presents: Sat 18th April 2026 THE RESTARTS (long-time London punk) https://therestarts.bandcamp.com/ ŚMIERĆ (Polish language dbeat punk from Stockholm, Sweden) https://smierc.bandcamp.com/ R.U.B (Naarm (Melbourne, Aus) based DIY anarcha punks with a hardcore bite) https://rub-punk.bandcamp.com/ HAAVAT (Finnish language hardcore punk from Norwich, featuring members of Deviated Instinct, Viha, Agnosy, Revulsion) https://haavat.bandcamp.com/album/demo-1-2019 @ the New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, London SE14 6AS. 6pm doors, bands on until 11pm. £12 advance tickets // £14 on the door. TICKETS: https://pit.live/events/the-restarts-1

HA! Book Swap
2026-04-19 14:00 | LARC, , E1 1ES
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, titled Squats, Skate Parks and Underpasses. Come chat about how to submit, what the theme means to you and next steps.
Meet us at the LARC, E1 1ES, at 2pm.

Insurgent // Prozpekt // The Burial Code // Paresthesia | Real Life @ New Cross Inn
2026-04-21 18:00 | New Cross Inn, 323 New Cross Rd, SE14 6AS
Real Life Presents
Insurgent
Blastbeat emocore from France
[www.instagram.com/insurgenthxc/
Prozpekt
Heavy NEHC
[www.instagram.com/prozpekt.prz/
The Burial Code
Three Swords Fury
[www.instagram.com/theburialcode/
Paresthesia
Deathcore youth
[www.instagram.com/paresthesiaband/
21st April
£12
Doors 6pm
New Cross Inn
14+, u16s with an adult
https://pit.live/events/insurgent-prozpekt

Black feminist reading group
2026-04-21 18:30 | The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL
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 to reflect and imagine together. There’s no set text, instead we’ll be led by what we bring to this space together.
We invite you to:
– Bring a short piece of your own reflective writing
– Bring an item (a book, photo, or object) that represents your connection to Black Feminism
Our discussion will be centred on some creative reflection activities. We’ll be looking back on what we’ve read together, exploring what Black Feminism means to us, and imagining what this reading group is and could become.
What does the space we create here mean to us? What are we building together?
New members are very welcome. Please fill out the membership form here: https://forms.gle/BeGjijCiB5rU3KQu7
Please sign up via Eventbrite so we can prepare the space. For questions, email nonki@feministlibrary.co.uk
Reminder: This is a closed space for Black and POC folks.

NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES
2026-04-22 19:00 - 20:30 | 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 tells the story of English literary sensation Julia as she finds herself writing a screenplay with legendary nouvelle vague film director Lenica. The hedonism of the Cannes Film Festival, the drug-fueled excitement of Les Bains Douche and the tentative writing of a second novel take Julia on a psychogeographical journey Paris.
Joining Christine in conversation we welcome back to Housmans the living legend Tom Vague, who has recently published a two part book: Getting It Straight in Notting Hill Gate. From the Palaeolithic age to the drug and sex fuelled psychedelia of the 60s and 70s to the glum post-gentfrified catatonia of the 2020s this work project is an exhaustive psychogeographical autoposy on Notting Hill; as well as a proposed revival.
‘Vague presents this almost as the autobiography of Notting Hill with him as the inspired mouthpiece, his own biography mixed with that of the subject. He is the place’ writes Cryptoforestry.
Tom and Christine will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour, followed by a q&a.
As always, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com, and a free ticket will be made available.
If you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or arrange for delivery, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.
Doors Open at 6:45pm, Event Starts 7:00.

DOG SECTION PRESS PRESENTS: FEMINISMS
2026-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | 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 on the subject of feminism. Each piece is illustrated by Cat Sims.
Feminisms features: Ren Aldridge & Janey Starling, Stacey Clare, Abu Leila, Lola Olufemi, Leah Cowan, Emma Heaney, Nazmia Jamal, Sophie K Rosa, Sophie Lewis and Dilar Dirik.
As always, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com, and a free ticket will be made available.
If you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or arrange for delivery, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.
Doors Open at 6:45pm, Event Starts 7:00.
