Jameson present Whiskey & Words
James Sallis author of ‘Drive’ and ‘Driven’ is coming to Brick Lane Bookshop for the first Jameson present Whiskey & Words event.
He’ll be doing a Q&A then reading from his new book ‘Driven’ and will be available to sign copies afterwards. Poet Salena Godden will be hosting the event and there will be live music from Milly Blue.
The event runs from 6.30pm-8.30pm on Monday May 28th.
This event is free, but booking is essential. Please email info@bricklanebookshop.co.uk
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Roger Mills, writer, historian and author of ‘Everything Happens in Cable Street’, is taking a guided walk along Cable Street on Saturday 21st April, from 12pm.
Roger won’t only be talking about the famous battle of 1936 but also the stories of the commemorative mural, radical 1970s schoolteacher Chris Searle, the Basement Writers and ‘To Sir, With Love’ author E. R. Braithwaite. Also discussed are Wilton’s Music Hall and the street’s infamous ‘Red-Light’ years. The talk will end at Wilton’s with the opportunity of having an exclusive look at this east-end gem.
Details available here: Rich Mix
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Brick Lane Bookshop is at Rich Mix saturday 18th Febuary 12-6pm
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Brick Lane Bookshop is participating in the ‘South Asian Reading Campaign’
Find more information here.
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Brick Lane Bookshop is providing a book stall for Total Sin: What makes London Interesting?
A Write Idea Festival event, Thursday 17th November, 7pm at Bethnal Green Library.
Join Paul Willetts, Catharine Arnold and Johnathan Kemp for a panel discussion.
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Join Brick Lane Bookshop to see Michael Rosen, this Saturday 19th November, 2pm at Whitechapel Idea Store.
He is holding a workshop for children aged between 6 and 11 years.
Brick Lane Bookshop have a stall with many of Michael’s books.
Michael Rosen is a poet, scriptwriter, broadcaster and performer and has been writing for children since 1970. He say’s he became a children’s poet by accident – “I thought I was being an ironic adult poet but children’s literature ‘claimed’ me”. He has since become a very well-known poet, for adults as well as children, as well as writing plays. He has worked in television and radio, in programmes from ‘Home Truths’ to ‘Playschool’. Michael Rosen has been involved in one way or another with more than a hundred books. He was Children’s Laureate from 2007 to 2009.
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Brick Lane Bookshop Stall at:
Snapshots: Part 5 at Rich Mix, Saturday 12th November, 12-6pm.
Migration: Just passing through?
Snapshots is a showcase of the flavours, feelings and fashions that make East London the place it is; a smattering of family-friendly, free exhibitions, workshops, performances and film; an arena for diversity, debate and disagreement; an opportunity to look back in time as well as a platform for the young and talented; a market-place, a melting pot, and a meeting-place.
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Brick Lane Bookshop stall.
Snapshots: Part 4 at Rich mix this Saturday, 22nd October, 12- 6pm.
Rich Mix continues Snapshots – a bite-sized festival in 13 parts celebrating East London in its Olympic year – with its fourth installment, Black History Month: Black History…Black Future.
Snapshots Festival continues in October 2011 with a number of special events celebrating Black History and imagining Black Future. With a dedicated exhibition, a theatre show, live music, spoken word, workshops, film, debate, children’s activities and market stalls, delivered by a mixture of international and local contributors, the event promises to provide a “Snapshot” of Black Culture and Community and is open to all.
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In Conversation: Roger Mills and David Rosenberg
at Brick Lane Bookshop, 6.30pm, 20th October.
Phone us on 0207 247 0216, or email: info@bricklanebookshop.co.uk
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A Brick Lane Bookshop stall in the Women’s Library, 19th October at 6.30pm.
What is life like for a bar dancer in Bombay? Many are uneducated, sold by their family and sexually abused once they become ‘of age’. Dancers operate at the top of a skewed moral hierarchy in the sex trade: they do not strip or lap dance, and sex with ‘kustomers’ is frowned upon, undertaken in secret at the dancer’s discretion. It was into this world in 2005 journalist Sonia Faleiro began her five year journey which led to Beautiful Thing, an absorbing book with dancer Leela at its heart: beautiful, sharp, and completely devoid of self-pity.
As Leela led her further into the damaged soul of Bombay, Sonia discovered first-hand how money truly reigned supreme, in an industry where women have become the main currency. As a commodity that can at once rule the hearts of men, and extract their untold riches, they in turn feed the men who will always rule their lives.
But is this only Bombay’s dark secret to hide? Is it even just India’s? Are there parallels and lessons that can be learnt from the centuries of struggle for women’s rights in Britain?
Sonia will be reading from Beautiful Thing and in conversation with journalist, writer and broadcaster Anita Sethi, with an introduction by Surina Narula, President for the Consortium of Street Children’s charities
All proceeds to the Consortium for Street Children.
www.streetchildren.org.uk
Supported by the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC).
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Snapshots at RICH MIX
Rich Mix celebrates London Fashion Week
Fashion & Garment Trade: Rag Trade / Trading Rags
Saturday 24th September 2011, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London
Brick Lane Books presents Lucy Siegle in conversation.
14.30pm, Main Space
Lucy will discuss her new book ‘To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World’.
The book is an expose on the fashion industry, written by the Observer’s ‘Ethical Living’ columnist Lucy Siegle who in her latest book examines the inhumane and environmentally devastating story behind the clothes we so casually buy and wear.
This event is free, but please RSVP if you would like to attend. Email us at: info@bricklanebookshop.co.uk
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On Sunday October 2nd the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street will be commemorated at Wilton’s Music Hall from midday until 10pm.
There will be a whole range of events throughout the day, with music, song & dance, exhibitions and talks. Brick Lane Bookshop will have a bookstall alongside many other campaigning groups, local organisations, food and craft stalls.
For full details of all events marking the anniversary, please visit the Battle of Cable Street website: www.battleofcablestreet.org.uk
At 3pm there will be a Book Launch and Reception with Five Leaves Publishing for local author Roger Mill’s new book Everything Happens in Cable Street; David Rosenberg’s new book Battle for the East End; and re-issues of classic titles The Battle of Cable Street by the Cable Street Group; October Day – Frank Griffin‘s long-forgotten novel with a new introduction by Andy Croft, and Street of Tall People - Alan Gibbon‘s book aimed at 10-13 year olds. This event is free.
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Launch of
‘Stepney from the Outbreak of the First World War to the Festival of Britain 1914-1951: A Profile of a London Borough During the First Half of the 20th Century ‘
by Samantha Bird
At Brick Lane Bookshop, October 6th from 6.30pm.
This book is the first single volume history of Stepney in modern times. It sets out to provide a vivid and yet scholarly portrait of an iconic London borough situated in the heart of the East End. Stepney is an area with very many well known associations and images, from the horrifying murders of ‘Jack the Ripper’ to the soaking up of the heavy bomb damage during the Blitz, from the classical confrontation between Mosley’s fascists and the socialist left at the ‘Battle of Cable Street’, to the dramatic ‘Siege of Sidney Street’ when Liberal Home Secretary Winston Churchill rooted out an anarchist cell. Beyond these dramatic episodes, Stepney witnessed the perennial struggle for subsistence among the many poor, the rise and fall of the great local docks, the immigration of large numbers of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe and elsewhere, the growth of the Labour party and the surprising local ascendancy of the Communists, the desperate drive to improve public housing, the evacuation of a large proportion of its children at the start of World War Two, and much more besides. This is a truly ground-breaking, very readable book that fills a surprising gap in our knowledge and greatly enhances our understanding of London, urban, working-class, inter-ethnic, industrial and British 20th Century history.
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