{"id":717,"date":"2022-11-13T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/?p=717"},"modified":"2022-11-13T15:09:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T15:09:01","slug":"quiet-revolutions-a-celebration-of-radical-bookshops-sat-26-nov-2022-barbican-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Revolutions: A Celebration of Radical Bookshops, Sat 26 Nov 2022, Barbican Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Join us as we host a book fair, discussions and workshops exploring the legacies and futures of radical bookselling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiet Revolutions <\/em>will see the Barbican Library host a bookfair with stalls from Britain\u2019s best-known radical bookshops including Housmans<\/strong>, New Beacon Books<\/strong>, Gay\u2019s The Word<\/strong>, Five Leaves <\/strong>and Newham Bookshop<\/strong> along with radical publishers and organisations Verso <\/strong>and Bishopsgate Institute<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Programme details below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tagged with:<\/strong>TALKS & EVENTS<\/a>THE EDGE OF THE CENTRE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiet Revolutions <\/em>is curated by Rosa Schling from On The Record<\/a> and the Alliance of Radical Booksellers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of The Edge of the Centre<\/em>, our series inviting artists and cultural workers working around the periphery of the Barbican to programme events in our spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partnered with The Alliance of Radical Booksellers & Verso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photographs of Centerprise and Sisterwrite (c) Rio Cinema Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photograph of Lynn Alderson at Sisterwrite, courtesy of Lynn Alderson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check dates & book<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiet Revolutions Programme:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bookfair: 10am-4pm, Barbican Library<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\u20132pm – Lino Printing Workshop<\/strong>
Explore how to make a linocut print from start to finish using the history of radical book covers. Led by Gemma Curtis @wildwaterartstore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2-3pm – Talk: Radical Bookshops Present, Barbican Library<\/strong>
Jim MacSweeney (Gay\u2019s the Word)
Vivian Archer (Newham Bookshop)
Nik G\u00f3recki (Housmans)
Meera Ghanshamdas (Roundtable Books)
Ray Larman <\/strong>(The Bookish Type)
Ross Bradshaw (Mushroom Books\/Five Leaves)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5-6.30pm, Talk: Radical Bookshops Past, Auditorium I<\/strong>
Ken Worpole (Chair)
Sheila Rowbotham (Historian)
Farrukh Dhondy (Writer & Race Today Collective),
Jane Cholmeley (Silver Moon)
Lynn Alderson (Sisterwrite)
Michael La Rose (New Beacon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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