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The Spoken Word – a dying art or a reincarnation in the making?

The Spoken Word – a dying art or a reincarnation in the making?

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Looking for something a little out of the ordinary in London this weekend? You’ve probably been to half the pop ups going, lounged in most of the clandestine speakeasies and bat off Secret Cinema as old news. Where to, then, for a night out far removed from the usual? Open…

Aliens land in Victoria Park Books this Thursday!

Aliens land in Victoria Park Books this Thursday!

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  Award-winning author and illustrator Chris Riddell will be signing copies of his new book Alienography 2: Tips for Tiny Tyrants at Victoria Park Books. The author’s visit is the first in a line of exciting events the bookshop has planned for the run-up to Christmas, which include signings by…

Book Launch; Gifts from the Garden by Debora Robertson

Book Launch; Gifts from the Garden by Debora Robertson

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  Martha Stewart move over, it’s publication day for Stoke Newington resident, writer Debora Robertson’s book  Gifts from the Garden and a talk and demonstration by Debora will be held at Stoke Newington Book Shop this evening (Thursday 20 September). Brimming with ideas from the pretty to the practical, ‘Gifts…

Stoke Newington Literary Festival back for a 3rd year 1 – 3 June

Stoke Newington Literary Festival back for a 3rd year  1 – 3 June

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  Has it been 3 years already? Hard to believe it was the year I started this site and first announced, what is fast becoming a must go to event on the literary calendar. Festival organizers  say this year, The Stoke Newington Literary Festival will be a refreshing alternative to…

Screening and discussion – In the Land of the Free

Screening and discussion – In the Land of the Free

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Angola 3 Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and  Robert King, have spent almost a century between them in solitary confinement in  Angola, the Louisiana State  Penitentiary. Herman and Albert are still held in solitary confinement today  after thirty eight years.  How could this be? In America…In Obama’s America? The film will…

Wanted – A few good writers for the Hackney Anthology

Wanted – A few good writers for the Hackney Anthology

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An anthology of writings from Hackney residents is in the making and will be published in July 2011. The organizers are looking for original and differing perspectives from people who live in the borough, with a focus on airing the voices of those involved in the various subcultures and communities…

Author Jonathan Kemp reads & discusses London Triptych

Author Jonathan Kemp reads & discusses London Triptych

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Stoke Newington resident and first time author Jonathan Kemp, will be reading from his recently published London Triptych, which we reviewed this summer. London Triptych is an intriguing look at the homosexual experience through the prism of male prostitution over the past 100 years. Episodic in structure, it flits between…

Poetry, Hallowen & Half Term at the Bookbox Clapton

Poetry, Hallowen & Half Term at the Bookbox Clapton

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Saturday 23rd October Poetry Performance Workshop for Kids at Chats Palace The Bookbox has teamed up with poetry performance organisation Apples & Snakes and Chats Palace for a half term poetry performance workshop The event will be taking place in the newly re-opened Chats Palace and will offer kids the…

4th Annual WordPower Literary Festival & Bookfair at Centreprise

4th Annual WordPower Literary Festival & Bookfair at Centreprise

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Voices of the Black Diaspora 2010 Europe’s largest Black literature festival and book fair returns on 15th – 17th October and will be hosted by Centerprise Book Store in Dalston. A celebration of Black voices,  come together at Hackneys oldest book-store and Black community and arts centre, bringing together authors,…

The Shoreditch Tales – A reading & discussion by Carolyn Clark

The Shoreditch Tales – A reading & discussion by Carolyn Clark

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The Shoreditch Tales uncover the stories of Shoreditch, Hoxton and Haggerston- their inhabitants and histories. Living memories and historical documents are used to tell the tales of everyday life in Shoreditch from the 1930s to the 1980s. More than forty local people contributed to The Shoreditch Tales and it contains…

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