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Lambeth Readers and Writers
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DeRay
McKesson
Celeste
Bell
Jenni
Murray
Will
Eaves
Gemma
Weekes
Lilja
Sigurðardóttir Candice
Carty-Williams
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Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival 2019
Welcome to this year’s Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival.
The 2019 festival is here with another month-long programme
of inspirational literary events – we hope you find something to
enjoy. For more information contact your local library or email
readersandwriters@lambeth.gov.uk.
ReadersWritersF #LamLitFest19
Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival
I am delighted to welcome you to
the Lambeth Libraries Readers
and Writers Festival. Since the first
festival some 15 years ago it has 1
become a regular highlight in the
Library calendar and goes from
strength to strength. In 2019 we
have another month of events to
suit all tastes whether you enjoy
reading, writing, discussion or simply
sitting back and listening. This year’s
highlights include award winning
adult and children’s authors, locally
produced drama, poetry to listen to
and engage with and music with a
literary leaning and more… Come
and join us and express yourself!
You’ll be amazed at the fun you Cllr Sonia Winifred, Cabinet
can have in your local library. Member for Equalities and Culture
Front cover image courtesy of Omnibus Press
Main Programme
On The Other Side Of Freedom
with DeRay McKesson
Monday 29 April, 7pm
Brixton Library
Five years
Photo credit Blair Caldwell
ago, DeRay
McKesson quit
his job as a
school teacher,
moved to
Ferguson,
Missouri,
and spent the next 400 days on the
streets as an activist, helping to bring
the Black Lives Matter movement
2 into being. DeRay, in his distinctive
blue vest, became a regular sight
on TV screens and a spokesperson
for a new generation of activists. Born and raised in Baltimore, DeRay
Now, in his first book, McKesson is a leading voice in the Black Lives
lays down the intellectual, pragmatic, Matter Movement, has been named
and political framework for a growing one of the ‘30 Most Important People
liberation movement. on The Internet’ by Time and listed
as one of Foreign Policy magazine’s
Honest, courageous, and imaginative,
100 Global Thinkers. He has 1 million
On The Other Side Of Freedom is a
followers on Twitter (and is one of the
work brimming with hope. McKesson
ten people that Beyoncé follows).
asks us to imagine the best of what
is possible. Honouring the voices DeRay will be in the UK for two days
of a new generation of activists, only. Join him at Brixton Library in
his book is a visionary’s call to take conversation. Limited seats available,
responsibility for imagining, and then so free booking essential on
building the world we want to live in. DeRay McKesson
Staying Well - Lambeth’s Older
Men’s Drama Project
Tuesday 14 May, 7pm. Brixton Library
Friday 17 May, 3.30pm and 7pm
West Norwood Library
Saturday 18 May, 3.30pm
Streatham Library
Lambeth’s Older Men want the public to
Please look after Billy
know enough is enough! Equipped with
Brixton writers’ night
acting boots and emotions, they have
Wednesday 8 May, 7pm
been working with their minds and bodies
Brixton Library
over the last 2 months with local arts
Brixton Locals Peter Lindley practitioner Tony Cealy to explore what
(documentary editor and author) and has helped and what has harmed their
Meredith MacArdle (writer and editor) mental health and wellbeing. We present
will be looking at writing and the here their interactive theatre performance
pitfalls of book publishing. to engage you in reducing stigma and
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The Friends of Brixton Library supporting good mental health.
welcome you to a literary evening @tonycealy #oldermensdrama
with Peter Lindley, reading from
his autobiographical story Please
look after Billy, and Meredith
MacArdle looking at the wider
pitfalls in book production.
For further details contact:
foftlbrixton@gmail.com
A History of Britain in 21 Queer Lives in Print with
Women with Jenni Murray writers Will Eaves and
Monday 13 May, 6.45pm for 7.15pm Jennifer Hodgson
Durning Library Wednesday 15 May, 7pm
Brixton Library
They were
Photo credit Les Wilson
famous queens, Join Will Eaves (Murmur) and Jennifer
unrecognised Hodgson (Ed. of Ann Quin’s The
visionaries, Unmapped Country: Stories and
great artists Fragments) to discuss their recent
and trailblazing books and the writing of queer lives.
politicians. They
Murmur is based on Alan Turing’s
all pushed back boundaries and
experience during the period of his
revolutionised our world.
punishment for gross indecency,
Join journalist, broadcaster and BBC when he quietly submitted himself to
Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour presenter the injection of hormones that effected
Jenni Murray to discuss the history of chemical castration. The cryptanalyst
Britain as you’ve never seen it before, who, at Bletchley, had programmed
4 through the lives of twenty-one women machines to break the German naval
who refused to succumb to the code now applies himself to the
established laws of society, whose lives cipher of his own trance-like visions.
embodied hope and change, and who
In The Unmapped Country Jennifer
still have the power to inspire us today.
Hodgson edits the unpublished
Event writing by the cult 1960s author
organised with Ann Quin and explores the risks and
the Friends seductions of going over the edge.
of Durning
Library. Light
refreshments
Photo credit John Cairns
are available.
Everyone is
welcome. A
£2 donation
towards
costs is
invited.
Family Business: A Memoir
with Peter Conradi
Monday 20 May, 7pm
Tate South Lambeth Library
Family Business is
a combination of
social, family and
personal history
and the daringly
open and original
autobiography of a
gifted and scrupulous
biographer. In it
he recounts his European Jewish
forebears’ journeys from modest
beginnings to prosperous assimilated
Anglo-Jewish life, his own difficulties
with his sexuality and his discovery
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Weronika Mliczewska: Author around the same time of two
talk and film shorts commitments that have dominated his
Saturday 18 May, 3pm to 4.30pm life: to Buddhism and to writing.
West Norwood Library Peter Conradi has written or reviewed
Weronika Mliczewska is an award for the TLS, New Statesman, FT,
–winning Polish born photographer, Spectator, Independent and Guardian.
filmmaker and cultural anthropologist His BBC appearances have included
specializing in travel documentaries. Radio 3 Nightwaves, Radio 4 Front
She combines her love of travelling Row, Something Understood and
with blogging and writing. In her The Today Programme, and a special
work, promoting countries worldwide, edition of BBC TV’s Omnibus.
Weronika seeks to capture the Admission free, but a
essence of social and spiritual identity. £2 donation is invited
At this event she will take us on a for refreshments.
journey from war-torn Guatemala, Organised by the
forgotten Mexico, illegal gold mines Friends of Tate South
along the Amazon, to the most Lambeth Library.
remote human dwellings in the world.
How Hard Can It Be? Special
Menopause Reading Group
Wednesday 29 May, 7pm
West Norwood Library
Join Lambeth
Library readers,
menopause
researcher Hilary
Baxter and Common Ground
special guests to Friday 31 May, 7pm
discuss Allison Brixton Library
Pearson’s How
Sixteenfeet Productions invite you
Hard Can It Be?
to an evening mapping Brixton’s
In Pearson’s book, the recent past and present through
leading character Kate Reddy tackles memories, experience and place.
the problems of combining a busy Devised by Lambeth Elders and
‘doing it all’ life in a sexist working Brixton Youth Theatre.
6 environment, with the emotional
Please contact info@sixteenfeet.co.uk
load of ageing parents, raising
or 07958 448690 to reserve a ticket.
teenagers and becoming increasing
You can find out more from the website,
frustrated as she also deals with her
http://www.sixteenfeet.co.uk
own menopause. This experience
resonates with many mid-life women
struggling with their own well-being on
top of complex work/life commitments.
`The menopause is a mid-life
experience for all women yet currently
there is no collective preparation,
no agreed list of symptoms, few
remedies, no public discussion and
no visible role models. We will start
the change (!) by discussing this
breakthrough humorous novel and its
wider impact.
Pick up your copy of the book at
West Norwood Library and join us.
Prose, Poetry & Debate: Gemma Weekes: Selected
Queer Writing from Europe Readings and Rituals
Thursday 6 June, 7pm Friday 7 June, 7pm
Brixton Library Clapham Library
With Europe facing political and Writer and
social upheaval, LBGT+ writers artist Gemma
from across the continent gather to Weekes presents
discuss what these trends mean for new interactive
queer people and queer writers and works fusing
writing, and to launch the European poetry, fiction
Literature Network’s magazine, and song in her
The Queer Riveter. characteristically
emotionally-
Author and The Riveter editor, West
charged style.
Camel will be joined by writer and
Polari Literary Salon founder, Paul Touted in The Independent as
Burston, Icelandic crime writer Lilja ‘a name to watch’, Gemma is
Sigurðardóttir, and Polish poet and the critically-acclaimed author of
author, Jacek Dehnel. Love Me, multidisciplinary artist, 7
singer, musicmaker and poet who
Free Booking Queer Writing
has performed nationally and
from Europe
internationally. She has written
for theatre, TV and radio and has
Photo credit Krystna Fitzgerald-Morris
musically scored various dance
projects and short films. Not to
be missed!
Free Booking
Photo credit Alice Teeple
Photo credit Cezary Rucki
Gemma
Weekes
Queenie with Candice
Photo credit Lily Richards
Carty-Williams
Tuesday, 11 June, 7pm
Brixton Library
Join Candice Carty-Williams
to discuss the ‘buzziest
book’ of 2019! Queenie is a
darkly comic and unflinchingly raw depiction
of a young woman trying to navigate her
way in the world, Queenie is about identity,
independence and carving your own path.
For fans of Fleabag and Dear White People,
join us for this year’s big new thing.
Limited places: Booking essential at
Queenie
Arch Garrison in concert
Photo credit Ashley Jones
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plus support
Saturday 15 June, 7.30pm
(doors and bar 7pm)
Clapham Library
Tickets £8
Arch Garrison is the acoustic vehicle
of North Sea Radio Orchestra
mainstays Craig Fortnam and James
Larcombe. The duo veer close to a
kind of baroque chamber-folk located
somewhere between the late-60s
Nick Drake/Donovan-inspired
boom and the softer end of Robyn
Hitchcock’s musical spectrum. But
they never settle on one sonic idea for James Larcombe -
too long. Don’t miss a fantastic night. organ, synth, piano.
Craig Fortnam – guitars, vocals, Tickets
percussion Arch GarrisonDayglo: The Poly
Styrene Story
Image courtesy of Omnibus Press
Wednesday 12 June, 7pm
Brixton Library
Poly Styrene was a singer-
songwriter, an artist, a
free-thinker, a post-modern
style pioneer and a lifelong
spiritual seeker: a true punk
icon. Here, for the first
time, the vibrant jigsaw of
Poly’s inspiring and often
moving story has been
lovingly pieced together
by her daughter, singer-
songwriter Celeste Bell,
and writer/artist Zoë Howe.
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From growing up mixed-race in debilitating mental health issues, the
Brixton in the 1960s, to being book honestly and openly explores
at the forefront of the emerging Poly’s exceptional life, up until her
punk scene with X-Ray Spex in untimely passing in 2011.
the 1970s, to finding faith with
Join Celeste and Zoe in conversation
the Hare Krishna movement, to
for an exceptional night!
balancing single motherhood with
a solo music career and often Free Booking DaygloExhibitions
Polish community portraits by Greetings from Brixton:
Urszula Sołtys and Anna Dawid A photography Exhibition
1 to 31 May (during opening hours) about Brixton
15 to 30 June
Photo credit Douglas Parker
West Norwood Library
Brixton Library
Photo credit Ula Sołtys
Douglas
Parker is an
Ethiopian British
documentary
photographer who graduated from New
York Institute of Photography in London.
Home to Home: community Since 1980 he has been documenting
portraits by two Polish–born Brixton street life and now has one of
photographers. the largest image archives of Brixton.
Urszula Sołtys confronts the Polish Douglas says: “Shooting street
stereotypes and reveals Polish photography is a way for me to better
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people of Britain, whose stories are understand people, society and humanity.
vital part of nation’s history. Anna The purpose of street photography isn’t to
Dawid presents portraits of youngest make good pictures - it is to have a deeper
generation of Poles attending Polish appreciation, understanding, and love for
Rhyme Time session at Streatham humanity. The good street photographer
Tate Library highlighting importance of is the one that loves humanity”.
bilingualism and reading in a mother
tongue language.
Illustrated post-war Polish
community life by Karolina
Photo credit Anna Dawid
Jonc–Buczek
1 to 31 May (during opening hours)
Lambeth Archives, Minet Library
Post-war Polish community life from
South London is presented in an
unique artistic way by local illustrator
Karolina Jonc–Buczek celebrating
Polish Heritage
2019 in LambethEvents for Children
Wildlife in the City Storytime &
Craft with Lucy Reynolds
Tuesday 28 May, 2.30pm
Brixton Library
Join Herne Hill children’s author, Lucy
Reynolds & illustrator Jenna Herman,
for an interactive reading of their new
book Hedgehogs Don’t Live in the
City! Then make your own prickly
creations and learn how you can help
this special little creature.
For All the Stars Across the
Sky with author Karl Newson Hedgehogs Don’t Live in the City! is
Monday 13 May, 1.30pm the much-awaited second title from
Tate South Lambeth Library publishing duo, Doodles & Scribbles,
as a sequel to the ever-popular
Join author Karl Newson for a special
Parrots Don’t Live in the City! 11
reading followed by arts & crafts
activities and healthy snacks buffet. “Hedgehogs are precious and rare
- this book celebrates the wonder
Every evening, when the sun is
of nature, and what we can all do
fading, Luna and her mother play a
together to preserve this incredible
game. They close their eyes, make
species” (Ben Fogle)
a wish, and imagine themselves on
the most incredible of adventures. For ages 3 to 8 years old
A beautiful new bedtime classic,
which celebrates the immeasurable
love between a mummy and baby.
For all the stars across the sky, big
and little and
bright. Here’s
a wish from
me to you,
before we say
goodnight…
For Under 5sElmer Day Meet award winning YA author
Saturday 25 May Alex Wheatle
All Lambeth Libraries Thursday 13 June, 10.30am
West Norwood Library
Come and celebrate
30 years of Elmer. New from
the winner of
See your local library for details. the Guardian
Children’s
Pyjamarama Book Award,
This year, in the
Home Girl
week beginning
is the story
the 3rd June,
of Naomi,
libraries will
a teenage
be celebrating
girl growing
Pyjamarama in
up fast in
association with Bookstart. Please
the care
come along with your under 5s to
system. It
join in with storytimes and get your
12
is a wholly modern story which
free book which this year is Car, Car,
sheds a much needed light on what
Truck, Jeep by Katrina Charman and
can be an unsettling life - and the
Nick Sharratt.
consequences that can follow when
children are treated like pawns on a
Empathy Day family chessboard. It is award-winning
Thursday 11 June author Alex Wheatle’s most moving
All Lambeth Libraries and personal novel to date. Meet Alex
at the Library to discuss his writing
Join Lambeth Libraries on Empathy and new novel.
Day. Book Collections, activities and
storytelling for children. Limited places, School Bookings only:
email libraries@lambeth.gov.uk
Schools, book a visit to your local
library on Empathy Day!Summer Reading Challenge
The 2019 Summer Reading Challenge, use the Summer Reading Challenge
inspired by the 50th anniversary of website to keep track of the books
the moon landing, Space Chase will they’ve read, write book reviews, enter
take young readers on an out-of-this- competitions, chat to other readers
world adventure with our super space and much more.
family, The Rockets. The Challenge
touches down in libraries across the This national reading scheme is aimed
UK this summer. Children can sign up at children 4 to 12 years of age. The
to read at least six library books over fun begins on Saturday 13 July and
the school holidays and collect special runs throughout the summer. Contact
rewards along the way. They can your local library for further information.
13Windrush Day 2019 African, Caribbean and
British Roots: Who Do You
On June 22 the UK celebrates
Think You Are?
Saturday 25 May 2pm
Windrush Day to honour the British
Brixton Library
Caribbean community. The day
marks the arrival of the Empire Trailblazing family
Windrush at Tilbury Docks, Essex, historian Paul
bringing workers from Jamaica, Crooks (author of
Trinidad and Tobago and other Ancestors) traced
Caribbean islands as a response to his enslaved
post-war labour shortages in the UK. forebears back
The ship carried 492 passengers - 6 generations
many of them children. to Ami Djaba,
a relative who was living in the Krobo
It marked the dawn of multicultural
Mountain, Ghana. Paul’s acclaimed
Britain. Windrush Day will be
novel and appearance on Who Do You
celebrated with a programme
Think You Are? inspired a generation to
of events that will discuss how
start exploring Black and British ancestry
14 Caribbean men and women built
and gathering information to make their
their lives in Britain and how their
family trees.
contributions to the community have
assisted the development of a more Paul was told that it would be impossible
inclusive society. to trace records of his African ancestors
enslaved on plantations in Jamaica. No
one had tried because such records “did
not exist.” Undeterred, he embarked
on a journey of discovery that led from
suburban North London to Jamaica
and ultimately back to the Gold Coast
of Africa; an effort that has brought
him international recognition for his
breakthroughs in African Caribbean
genealogy research.
Paul will talk interactively about his
journey and how he traced his roots.
Website: www.paulcrooks.info Booking
https://ancestrybl.eventbrite.co.ukExhibition: Harry Jacobs:
Photographer to the Windrush
Generation
June, Weekdays 9am to 6pm
Lambeth Town Hall, 1 Brixton Hill,
London SW2 1RW
Harry Jacobs was the photographer
of choice for Caribbean families
coming to Brixton from the 1950s.
His portraits with their distinctive
backdrop decorated thousands of
South London mantelpieces. This What does Windrush mean
exhibition of his work documents the to me? Discussion for young
experiences of an entire generation. people
Thursday 20 June, 11am
Free exhibition
Streatham Library
Last year the government announced
Image courtesy of Lambeth Libraries
the creation of a Windrush Day 15
to honour the British Caribbean
community, but for years the
‘Windrush scandal’ had been
developing without comment – a
hostile environment was created to
deny those very people and their
descendants citizenship, work, NHS
care and housing. Windrush was no
longer just ‘history’ – This hosted
discussion is for young people to
voice their views
and consider what
does Windrush
mean to me?
Limited places,
School Bookings
only: email
libraries@lambeth.gov.ukBeyond Windrush: Tracing Black Cultural
African Caribbean Ancestry Archives
Thursday 20 June 7pm Saturday and Sunday
Streatham Library 22/23 June
Black Cultural Archives, Windrush
Sq. Brixton. SW2 1EF
Visit Black Cultural Archives to
celebrate Windrush and the Windrush
generations. Events will take place
over the weekend and beyond,
including an exclusive exhibition
Want to extend your family tree? celebrating the Windrush Generation
Struggling to reach ancestors with original portraits by award-
who lived before the birth of your winning photographer Robert Golden,
grandparents? archive video and audio in digital
format for the first time.
Paul Crooks (author and trailblazing
genealogist with a specialist interest Visit: blackculturalarchives.org
16 in Black history) will reveal his top tips
to get you started. This talk will cover
records specific to African Caribbean
research as well as other materials of
more general interest to the children
of The Windrush Generation. Some
guidance will be given on extending
your research to islands in the
Caribbean.
Climbing your family tree can
strengthen your family relationships as
you preserve memories, stories, and
photos, and learn how to put flesh
back on the bones of your ancestors.
For more about Paul go to
https://paulcrooks.info/. Booking
https://ancestrysl.eventbrite.co.ukScreening of The Stuart
Hall Project with post film
discussion
Saturday 22 June, 3.30pm to
5.30pm
West Norwood Library and
Picturehouse
Ticket Price: £8 per person. Visit
www.www.picturehouses.com, call
0871 902 5747 or book in person
at the Box Office
Join us at the cinema for a screening Winston Nzinga – Windrush
of The Stuart Hall Project followed by storytelling
a talk led by Lambeth libraries, which Sunday 23 June 2.30pm
will explore how Hall’s work has had Brixton Library
a significant impact on our world view
Old time stories come back again.
and the UK’s political landscape.
Come and join in the fun. Play a 17
John Akromfrah’s absorbing and drum, a shaker or bell. Listen and sing
emotionally charged documentary along with Winston Nzinga recounting
tribute looks back on the life and work special Caribbean folk stories with
of Stuart Hall, one of the UK’s leading music and song from the Windrush
cultural theorists. generation. A lively, interactive story-
Weaving between the musical time, where you will hear and be
archaeology of Hall’s favourite entertained by traditional tales.
musician, Miles Davis and the twentieth Ages 5 years and above
century’s defining political moments,
Akomfrah creates an intimate and
engaging portrait of Stuart Hall.Lambeth libraries
Libraries Contact details: Upper Norwood Library
39-41 Westow Hill. SE19 1TJ
Brixton Library
Tel: 020 7926 1063
Brixton Oval SW2 1JQ.
Tel: 020 7926 1058
Waterloo Library
The Oasis Centre, 1 Kennington
Carnegie Library
Road, SE1 7QP.
192 Herne Hill Road SE24 0AG.
Tel: 020 7926 0750
Tel: 020 7926 0750
West Norwood Library
Clapham Library
1-5 Norwood High Street SE27 9JX
Mary Seacole Centre, 91 Clapham
Tel: 020 7926 8092.
High Street, SW4 7DB.
Tel: 020 7926 0717
This information was believed to be
correct at the time it was published,
Durning Library
18 but may be subject to changes and
167 Kennington Lane SE11 4HF.
circumstances outside the control
Tel: 020 7926 8682
of the organisers. For more events
and information visit
Lambeth Archives and
www.lambeth.gov.uk/events.
Minet Library
52 Knatchbull Road, SE5 9QY. Booking: Unless otherwise stated
Tel: 020 7926 0750 please book by phoning the local
library or emailing
Streatham Library libraries@lambeth.gov.uk
63 Streatham High Road SW16 1PN.
Tel: 020 7926 6768
Tate South Lambeth Library
180 South Lambeth Road SW8 1QP
Tel: 020 7926 0705For general enquiries please contact Lambeth Libraries
Email: libraries@lambeth.gov.uk
Phone: 020 7926 0750
Website: lambeth.gov.uk
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