The New Dark Age

26 April 2017 — Housmans

NEWS

3. ‘Voices from the “Jungle” – Stories From The Calais Refugee Camp’
4. INDIE MAG WEEK: ‘Hook Magazine Issue 2 Launch’ with Esme Rose
5. ‘Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on foot’ with Tom Jeffreys
6. ‘Surviving The Future: culture, carnival, and capital in the aftermath of the market economy’ with Shaun Chamberlin
7. ‘Crises in Paris: Racism, fascism, police brutality & terrorism’ with Dr Moustafa Traore
8. Chelsea Manning Release Party
9. An evening with Siana Bangura & Friends
10. ‘From Inside’ with Anthony Howell

11. ‘Threads – From The Refugee Crisis’ with Kate Evans

READING AND DISCUSSION GROUPS

1. London Radical Bookfair 2017 & DIY Cultures 2017

A heads-up about the forthcoming London Radical Bookfair, now in its fifth year. Do save the date! If you are able to distribute flyers or posters, or have access to a mailing in which they can be included, do please get in touch by emailing cristina@housmans.com
https://londonradicalbookfair.wordpress.com
 
Also you’ll find Housmans with a stall down at the always excellent DIY Cultures: a day-long festival of zines, artist books, comics, artist-run spaces, talks, films, animation, poetry, video art, exhibitions, workshops in the spirit of independence, autonomy and alternatives.

https://www.richmix.org.uk/events/exhibitions/diy-cultures-2017

2. New Housmans Feminist Sci-fi Book Club

Genderless societies, anarchist planets, polyamorous aliens, parthenogenesis, feminist militias, reproductive dystopias, cyborg families, and more at the new Housmans Feminist Sci-Fi Book Club! Join us at the bookshop on the first Thursday of every month, 7pm-9pm, starting Thursday June 1st. All genders welcome. Please bring drinks or snacks to share.

For our first three meetings we’ll be reading:

June 1st: Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy

July 6th: Kindred, by Octavia E Butler

August 3rd: The Power, by Naomi Alderman

Book Club books available at 20% discount from Housmans. Any questions email Hannah on scifi@housmans.com

IN-STORE EVENTS

3. PLUTO PRESS TAKEOVER
‘Voices from the “Jungle” – Stories From The Calais Refugee Camp’
Wednesday 26th April, 7pm

An evening of refugee stories and testimonies from the notorious Calais camp.
click here for more info

4. INDIE MAG WEEK: ‘Hook Magazine Issue 2 Launch’ with Esme Rose

Friday 5th May, 7pm – Free entry

Housmans celebrates the end of #IndieMagWeek with the launch of the second issue of independent feminist magazine Hook.
click here for more info

5. ‘Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on foot’ with Tom Jeffreys
Thursday 4^th May 7pm

A pyschogeographic tale of the failures of capitalism, of community, of the city and the suburbs, of architecture and agriculture, and, in the end, of our age-old failure to find our place in the world we live in.
click here for more info

6. ‘Surviving The Future: culture, carnival, and capital in the aftermath of the market economy’ with Shaun Chamberlin
Wednesday 10^th May, 7pm

Shaun Chamberlin introduces the posthumous work of David Fleming, who explored practical ways of repairing and replacing the atrophied social structures on which most human cultures are built, so as to form the basis of a cohesive society that might survive the turbulent times to come.
click here for more info

7. ‘Crises in Paris: Racism, fascism, police brutality & terrorism’ with Dr Moustafa Traore
Saturday 13^th May, 6.30pm, £5 suggested entry

France is going through an intense combination of terrorist attacks, police brutality, the rise of fascism, a state of emergency and a general rise and intensification of racism for African, Arab, Asian and migrant communities. This event seeks to explore these issues just after the French national elections.
click here for more info

8. Peace News present: Chelsea Manning Release Party
Wednesday 17^th May, 7pm, Free Entry

Join us to mark the day the U.S. whistleblower Chelsea Manning walks free from military prison. Speakers from Veterans for Peace to be confirmed. Wine, soft drinks and snacks provided.
click here for more info

9. POET IN RESIDENCE EVENT

‘One Year Anniversary of Elephant’ with Siana Bangura and Special Guests

Thursday 18^th May, 7pm

Poet in Residence Siana Bangura reads from her award winning debut collection of poetry, Elephant, which tackles issues such as black womanhood, gender and racial politics, as well as family, fatherlessness, identity, Black British girlhood, unemployment, gentrification, disenfranchisement, love and loss.  Special guests to be announced.
click here for more info

10. POETRY IN THE VAULTS:  ‘From Inside’ with Anthony Howell
Wednesday 31st May, 7pm

Howell taught in prisons until he was taken off the books for helping inmates write material the authorities deemed inappropriate. This experience informs the poems of From Inside. An incarcerated view and a criminal underworld get contrasted with an “overworld” of privilege and conspiracy. 
click here for more info

11. ‘Threads: From the Refugee Crisis’ with Kate Evans
Wednesday 7th June, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase

Kate Evans, creator of the smash-hit Red Rosa, presents Threads: >From the Refugee Crisis, a heartbreaking, full-colour graphic novel of the refugee.

click here for more info

READING AND DISCUSSION GROUPS

12. The Fuse Book Club – forthcoming titles

Housmans has a monthly book club which usually meets on the second Thursday of the month, starting at 7pm in the shop. Forthcoming titles under discussion are:

Thursday 11th May 
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Blurring the lines between prose, poetry and social criticism, this book by American poet Claudia Rankine explores the politics of race and the imagination in the United States.

Thursday 8th June
Respectable: The Experience of Class by Lynsey Hanley

“In this empathic, wry and passionate exploration of class in Britain today, Lynsey Hanley looks at how people are kept apart, and keep themselves apart – and the costs involved in the journey from ‘there’ to ‘here’.”

If you would like to find out more about the reading group, please email catherine@housmans.com. The Fuse has its own web page with more info here: http://www.housmans.com/fuse.php

13. New Housmans Feminist Sci-fi Book Club

Genderless societies, anarchist planets, polyamorous aliens, parthenogenesis, feminist militias, reproductive dystopias, cyborg families, and more at the new Housmans Feminist Sci-Fi Book Club! Join us at the bookshop on the first Thursday of every month, 7pm-9pm, starting Thursday June 1st. All genders welcome. Please bring drinks or snacks to share.

For our first three meetings we’ll be reading:

June 1st: Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy

July 6th: Kindred, by Octavia E Butler

August 3rd: The Power, by Naomi Alderman

Book Club books available at 20% discount from Housmans. Any questions email Hannah on scifi@housmans.com

14. London Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group

Housmans has a regular Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group, who meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Please try to turn up by 7pm sharp.

On Tuesday 9 May our theme will relate to PACIFISM AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION; the precise topic will be announced shortly.

For more information please visit: http://londonpacifismnonviolence.wordpress.com/

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