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Quiet Revolutions: A Celebration of Radical Bookshops

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Quiet Revolutions

Join us as we host a book fair, discussions and workshops exploring the legacies and futures of radical bookselling.

Radical bookshops, once found in every major town and city, are spaces of possibility and resistance, offering quiet browsing, public discussions and encounters between writers, readers and activists.

Quiet Revolutions will see the Barbican Library host a bookfair with stalls from Britain’s best-known radical bookshops including Housmans, New Beacon Books, Gay’s The Word, Five Leaves and Newham Bookshop along with radical publishers and organisations Verso and Bishopsgate Institute.

Two panel discussions will include addresses and interventions on activism and books from historians and writers such as Sheila Rowbotham and Farrukh Dhondy along with key figures from the radical book world of the 1970s and 80s such as Ken Worpole of Centerprise and Jane Cholmeley of Silver Moon.

Programme details below.

 

Tagged with: Talks & events The Edge of the Centre

Quiet Revolutions is curated by Rosa Schling from On The Record and the Alliance of Radical Booksellers. 

Part of The Edge of the Centre, our series inviting artists and cultural workers working around the periphery of the Barbican to programme events in our spaces.

Partnered with The Alliance of Radical Booksellers & Verso.

Photographs of Centerprise and Sisterwrite (c) Rio Cinema Archive.

Photograph of Lynn Alderson at Sisterwrite, courtesy of Lynn Alderson.

 

 

Quiet Revolutions Programme:

Bookfair: 10am-4pm, Barbican Library

12–2pm - Lino Printing Workshop
Explore how to make a linocut print from start to finish using the history of radical book covers. Led by Gemma Curtis @wildwaterartstore

2-3pm - Talk: Radical Bookshops Present, Barbican Library
Jim MacSweeney (Gay’s the Word)
Vivian Archer (Newham Bookshop)
Nik Górecki (Housmans)
Meera Ghanshamdas (Roundtable Books)
Ray Larman (The Bookish Type)
Ross Bradshaw (Mushroom Books/Five Leaves)

5-6.30pm, Talk: Radical Bookshops Past, Auditorium I
Ken Worpole (Chair)
Sheila Rowbotham (Historian)
Farrukh Dhondy (Writer & Race Today Collective),
Jane Cholmeley (Silver Moon)
Lynn Alderson (Sisterwrite)
Michael La Rose (New Beacon)

Barbican Library

Location
The Barbican Libraries are located on Level 2 within the Barbican. They can be accessed from the main building via stairs or lifts from Level G or via Frobisher Crescent from the highwalks.


Address
Level 2, Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.