BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//La Biblioteka - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:La Biblioteka X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://labiblioteka.co X-WR-CALDESC:Events for La Biblioteka REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250625T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250625T200000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20250609T061842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250625T104517Z UID:28968-1750874400-1750881600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Simon Mason with Russ Thomas: The Woman Who Laughed DESCRIPTION:At La Biblioteka \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening with acclaimed author Simon Mason\, in conversation with Sheffield’s own Russ Thomas\, as they delve into Simon’s gripping new novel—a haunting crime story set in the aftermath of the 2020 lockdowns. When the bag of a murdered sex worker reappears five years after her disappearance\, old wounds are reopened and new questions arise. With themes of justice\, memory\, and the unseen lives in our cities\, this promises to be a powerful and thought-provoking event. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nIn the first months of 2020\, there was a spate of murders of Black sex workers in northern cities. One of them was Ella Bailey\, last seen talking to a punter in an alley in Sheffield city centre\, and although no trace of her was ever found\, the punter\, Michael Godley\, soon confessed to all three murders. Five years later\, as another sex worker is murdered in the same district\, the bag Ella had been carrying with her reappears\, hanging on the door handles of a café\, and a local vagrant claims to have seen Ella sitting on a bench in a churchyard near the site of the murder. \n\n\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police call in the Finder. So begins a search that takes him back to the strange days of the pandemic\, to talk to those who knew Ella best\, such as her wayward girlfriend ‘Loz’\, abusive boyfriend Caine Poynton-Smith and respectable foster-parents still struggling to come to terms with Ella’s life. How did their intelligent\, strong-willed daughter\, a bright student and national schoolgirl athletics champion\, end up in that alley? \n\n\n\nAs fear grips the city\, our Finder must court danger to discover the truth. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nSimon Mason has pursued parallel careers as a publisher and an author\, whose YA crime novels Running Girl\, Kid Got Shot and Hey\, Sherlock! feature the sixteen-year-old slacker genius Garvie Smith. A former Managing Director of David Fickling Books\, where he worked with many wonderful writers\, including Philip Pullman\, he has also taught at Oxford Brookes University and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Exeter College\, Oxford. \n\n\n\nLocation: URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/simon-mason-with-russ-thomas-the-woman-who-laughed/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/event_simonmason_web.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250615T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250615T160000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20250425T151919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T121757Z UID:26984-1749996000-1750003200@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:A Walk about Studio Electrophonique DESCRIPTION:At La Biblioteka \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a fascinating walking tour through Sheffield city centre celebrating the launch of “Studio Electrophonique” by Jamie Taaylor. This guided journey will take you through the musical landmarks that shaped Sheffield’s influential electronic music scene of the 1980s. \n\n\n\nDiscover the spaces and places that inspired groundbreaking artists like The Human League\, Heaven 17\, Pulp\, and ABC as we explore the city that fostered a unique DIY music culture during a time of industrial decline. \n\n\n\nPerfect for music enthusiasts\, local history buffs\, and anyone interested in Sheffield’s rich cultural heritage! \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nThe amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain’s most beloved bands. \n\n\n\nThe Sheffield space age began in 1961\, when local mechanic Ken Patten won a tape-recording competition by recreating the sound of a rocket launch using a pencil and a bicycle pump. \n\n\n\nIn the decades that followed\, the makeshift home studio he constructed became the launch pad for a group of young musicians who would shape the futuristic sound of 1980s pop. The Human League\, Heaven 17\, Pulp\, ABC and others made their early recordings with Ken\, whose DIY ethic was the perfect fit for a city facing industrial decline but teeming with ideas. \n\n\n\nStudio Electrophonique tells the story of a generation seeking new frontiers in music\, using everything they could lay their hands on – from science fiction novels to glam rock\, Dada art and cheap electronics – to get there. Drawing on original interviews with Jarvis Cocker\, Martyn Ware\, Mark White and others\, it brings to light a world of humour\, charm\, creativity and unfounded yet undaunted self-belief. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nJamie Taylor is a writer and filmmaker from Sheffield. He is the director of The Campaigners and A Film about Studio Electrophonique. \n\n\n\nLocation: URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/a-walk-about-studio-electrophonique/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,Other Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/studioelec.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250311T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250311T203000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20250128T140313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T170116Z UID:26687-1741717800-1741725000@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Adrian Tierney-Jones: A Pub for all Seasons DESCRIPTION:at Leah’s Yard \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicket & Book\n\n\n\nTicket & Voucher\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an intimate evening during Sheffield Beer Week as we welcome celebrated beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones to Leah’s Yard. The author will be reading from his magical new work “A Pub For All Seasons\,” exploring British pub culture through the changing seasons. \n\n\n\nEnjoy drinks from the Hop Hideout bar while soaking in the stories. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nEver since he was old enough to enjoy them\, award-winning journalist and beer-expert Adrian Tierney-Jones has been visiting and drinking in pubs all over the country. \n\n\n\nAs the world opened up post-Covid and we were all finally able to return to our locals\, Adrian’s love for this British institution burned even brighter and he promised himself he would travel around the UK in search of the best pub he could find. The story of one man through the year and his travels to all corners of the country\, A Pub For All Seasons follows Adrian as he visits far-flung corners of the country. From mellow\, gentle pubs in autumn and dim\, cosy spots in winter to bright\, lively bars in spring and wondrous\, buzzing gardens in summer\, Adrian speaks to locals and landlords\, hears unique sounds and stories\, and samples food\, drink and atmosphere. \n\n\n\nHe watches the wild and beautiful similarities\, differences between pubs\, and notices how they all shift\, tonally\, throughout the year. And what started as a simple quest to find a nice place to sit and drink\, ends up revealing to Adrian so much more: the secret to what truly makes the perfect British local across the four seasons. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nAdrian Tierney-Jones is an award-winning journalist and writer on beer\, travel and pubs and was Beer Writer of Year in 2017. He loves nothing better than to wander cities\, towns and the countryside lovingly and visit their pubs and bars. He has contributed to many magazines and newspapers and books include The Seven Moods of Craft Beer and United Kingdom of Beer\, and has also edited three editions of 1001 Beers to Try Before You Die. He is often to be found in front of an audience with a glass telling tales of drinking beer in bars across the world. He lives in Exeter. \n\n\n\nLocation: \n\n\n\nLeah’s Yard\, Cambridge Street\, Sheffield\, S1 4HP \n\n\n\nS1 4HP URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/adrian-tierney-jones/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/atj2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241201T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241201T113000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20241123T135550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241123T165555Z UID:25770-1733050800-1733052600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:DADADA presents Amelia Fletcher & Rob Pursey DESCRIPTION:At La Biblioteka \n\n\n\n\n\n← Back Thank you for your response. ✨\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\nName(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\nEmail(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\nAttending?(required)\n Yes! \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n Send RSVPSubmitting form\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n\n\n\n\n\nDADADA returns with beloved Oxford indie-pop pioneers Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey of legendary pop band Heavenly. They will perform songs from their duo project The Catenary Wires at our bookshop for a rare and intimate Sunday morning performance. Amelia and Rob have been influential figures in the indie-pop scene from their debut band Talulah Gosh\, they went on to form Heavenly who have crafted some of the most perfectly formed guitar pop of the past three decades led by Amelia’s distinctive vocals. Amelia and Rob went on to take part in many other musical projects including Tender Trap and\, most recently Swansea Sound. Get ready for a magical collision of jangle and genius under the bookshop lights. \n\n\n\nThis will be an incredibly intimate\, acoustic all-ages gig. \n\n\n\nAppropriately\, coffee and bakery treats from Meersbrook’s finest bakery I Said Bread will be available to perk you up! \n\n\n\nLocation: \n\n\n\nS1 4HP URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/dadada-presents-amelia-fletcher-rob-pursey/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T210000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20241123T145700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241123T155850Z UID:25782-1732820400-1732827600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Intermezzo: Sheffield Feminist Book Club DESCRIPTION:At La Biblioteka \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets (via eventbrite)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome join us for our next book club meeting at La Biblioteka on 28 November at 7pm where we will be discussing Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Grab a bite to eat or drink\, settle in\, and get ready for some lively discussions with fellow book lovers. \n\n\n\nWhether you’ve read the book cover to cover or just want to listen in\, all are welcome to join the conversation (disclaimer: spoilers will be discussed!). Let’s dive into the themes\, characters\, and everything in between. Don’t miss out on this chance to connect with like-minded individuals and explore feminist literature together. See you there! \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nAside from the fact that they are brothers\, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. \n\n\n\nPeter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful\, competent\, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death\, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love\, Sylvia\, and Naomi\, a college student for whom life is one long joke. \n\n\n\nIvan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward\, a loner\, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now\, in the early weeks of his bereavement\, Ivan meets Margaret\, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past\, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. \n\n\n\nFor two grieving brothers and the people they love\, this is a new interlude—a period of desire\, despair\, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nSally Rooney is a writer who has been dubbed “the first great millennial novelist” after publishing several well-received novels that highlight issues of class inequality\, intimacy\, art\, and politics in the 21st century. Her best-known novel is Normal People (2018)\, which she adapted into a popular television miniseries in 2020. \n\n\n\nTicket prices: \n\n\n\nTickets for this event are £13. If you cannot afford them then just drop us an email at: sheffieldfembookclub@gmail.com and we’ll see what we can do. \n\n\n\nRefund policy: \n\n\n\nWe are over the moon that our events are becoming so popular\, so because of that we have made are operating a no refund policy. We are more than happy for you to use your ticket for a future book club\, or to give your ticket to a fellow book club member\, but as of 2024 – we will no longer giving refunds. Apologies in advance! \n\n\n\nThe Feminist Book Club House Rules: \n\n\n\nWe welcome feminists from all walks of life and backgrounds\, and this group is open to everyone – we want this to be a fully inclusive space;You don’t need to be an ‘expert feminist’ (whatever that means) to be involved – we want to read books that everyone can enjoy\, and that cater to people’s different experiences and understandings of feminism;This is primarily a social space\, for meeting and getting to know like-minded people – so while feminism can be a heavy topic\, we hope to keep this more on the fun side;This is a judgement free zone – don’t belittle or undermine other members\, or those who don’t have the same ideas as you. Don’t shut down other people’s views and be respectful; \n\n\n\nIf you feel like anyone goes against any of these values\, let us know! \n\n\n\nLocation: \n\n\n\nS1 4HP URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/intermezzo-sheffield-feminist-book-club/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241126T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241126T203000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20241108T203245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241123T155836Z UID:25525-1732647600-1732653000@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Jemima Foxtrot with Suzannah Evans: Treasure\, Green DESCRIPTION:At La Biblioteka \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTreasure & RSVP\n\n\n\nGreen & RSVP\n\n\n\n\n← Back Thank you for your response. ✨\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\nName(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\nEmail(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n Send RSVPSubmitting form\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for the Sheffield Launch of Jemima Foxtrot’s Treasure\, supported by Sheffield poet Suzannah Evans with a reading from her new pamphlet Green. \n\n\n\nJemima Foxtrot’s Treasure is a shining work of alchemy and liberation\, exploring power dynamics\, sex work\, desire\, and female friendship with a fresh and playful perspective. Foxtrot investigates shimmering sexualities\, the economies of desire\, the theft of childhood and pathways towards reclaiming it. Her language is lush: intimate\, intricate\, full of fertile earth’s possibility. The poems of Treasure live up to its name: showing us where the gold is—the joy—how to feed it into the soil of our lives. \n\n\n\n“Foxtrot is a savvy\, sometimes savage\, sensualist; her poetic speakers alert to injustice\, but alive to pleasure in every way that counts. These are superbly tactile poems\, full of wit\, vigour and feminist jouissance.” — Fran Lock \n\n\n\nSuzannah Evans’ new pamphlet introduces us to Green\, half human\, half angry nature spirit. Green serves as a stunt double for our rage and complicity in nature’s destruction\, showing us nature’s delights so we may mourn their loss more deeply. \n\n\n\nLocation: \n\n\n\nLa Biblioteka\, Leah’s Yard\, Cambridge Street\, Sheffield\, S1 4HP \n\n\n\nS1 4HP URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/jemima-foxtrot-with-suzannah-evans-treasure-green/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241116T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241116T110000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20241108T220800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T220800Z UID:25536-1731753000-1731754800@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:DADADA Zine presents Pete Dale (solo\, live) DESCRIPTION:At La Biblioteka \n\n\n\n\n\n← Back Thank you for your response. ✨\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n Name(required)\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n Email(required)\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAttending?(required)\n Yes\, with bells on… \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n Send RSVPSubmitting form\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re incredibly excited to be hosting DADADA Zine\, which will present a pre-matinee solo performance by Pete Dale\, of Milky Wimpshake and Knitting Circle fame\, fresh from playing Hallamshire House the night before. \n\n\n\nThis will be an incredibly intimate\, acoustic all-ages gig. \n\n\n\nAppropriately\, coffee and bakery treats from Meersbrook’s finest bakery I Said Bread will be available to perk you up! \n\n\n\nAbout the performer/author: \n\n\n\nPete Dale studied at Sunderland Polytechnic 1989-92. On graduating\, he played in several indie/punk underground bands (Pussycat Trash\, Red Monkey\, Milky Wimpshake) and set up the cult DIY label/distributor Slampt which ran very successfully between 1992 and 2000. Taking up school teaching in 2001\, Pete completed an MA in Music (2005) and then a PhD at Newcastle (2010) whilst simultaneously working as a teacher. He took an early career fellowship at Oxford Brookes in 2012\, subsequently becoming Senior Lecturer in Music at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013 (2013-21). He is currently Lecturer in Music Education at University of York. His monographs include Anyone Can Do It: Tradition\, Empowerment and the Punk Underground (Ashgate\, 2012)\, Popular Music and the Politics of Novelty (Bloomsbury\, 2016) and Engaging Students with Music Education: DJ Decks\, Urban Music and Child-centred Learning (2017). A forthcoming monograph on the evolution of indie as a genre across the 1980s is currently near completion. Pete is associate editor of the Punk & Post–Punk journal and a founding member of the Punk Scholars Network. \n\n\n\nLocation: \n\n\n\nLa Biblioteka URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/dadada-zine-presents-pete-dale-solo-live/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240928T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240928T200000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20240920T140639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T202503Z UID:24537-1727546400-1727553600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Book Launch - Linda Stewart-Pitts: The World Student Games\, Sheffield 1991 DESCRIPTION:at La Biblioteka\, Leah’s Yard \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a nostalgic journey back to the 1991 World Student Games in Sheffield. \n\n\n\nLinda Pitts’ new photobook\, The World Student Games Sheffield 1991\, by Cafe Royal Books offers a captivating glimpse into this historic sporting event. Rediscover the athletes\, the locations\, and the lasting impact the games – which came at a time of huge potential for the city\, and their own way\, transformative – had on the city\, at a time of renewed optimism and potential. \n\n\n\nWe invite you to join us at Leah’s Yard for a special event celebrating the launch of this fascinating publication. \n\n\n\nThis and a selection of Cafe Royal Books will be available to buy and get signed on the night. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nThe Spirit of ‘91 \n\n\n\nAround the turn of the millennium I landed my first job\, at Don Valley Stadium\, working as a gym assistant and general dogsbody for Sheffield International Venues\, a council-run enterprise set up in 1988 ahead of the World Student Games. To save money I would walk two and a half miles from our terrace house in Firth Park\, over Jenkin Hill near the Brendan Ingle boxing gym\, and through Attercliffe\, the old Industrial area\, to get to work. I remember the ominous cries and thuds of heavy machinery\, that always seemed both loud and distant\, and echoed through a landscape that had seen better days. Then I’d enter this huge underused sporting facility in the middle of it all\, which held its own echoes\, though I loved the job and the building\, which I thought of as a giant playground. The rubber floors looked like Lego\, the support columns and beams were exposed in childish colours\, and there was hardly anything to do\, so I spent most of my time daydreaming\, or racing around the cavernous interior and outdoor race track in a golf buggy pretending to complete various chores. \n\n\n\nI couldn’t have put it into words then\, but what all this amounts to is my coming of age at a time when Sheffield felt haunted by various\, multilayered failed visions; of growing up in the wreckage of futures that never arrived. The modernism championed by John L Womersley\, the postwar city planner who reimagined Sheffield after the Blitz\, had by the end of the century largely fallen into decrepitude\, left covered in graffiti or hidden behind late 80s postmodern cladding – brutalist buildings tarted up with primary colours and cheap ornamental gestures. Even during the New Labour boom time\, Meadowhall Shopping Centre\, erected on the grounds of an old steel works in 1990\, was reminiscent of The Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining\, riddled with the ghosts of what came before\, or what might have been. Now\, those attempts at covering up the industrial decline are fading too; Don Valley stadium is no more\, Meadowhall is a shadow of its former self\, and any infrastructure in those once vibrant 80s hues looks ghostly and weather worn. \n\n\n\nBut these images taken by my Mum\, Linda\, when she worked as a volunteer for the World Student Games\, take me back to a moment of optimism. We’d just returned from a brief and utterly bonkers stint living in Japan at the height of its bubble economy in 1990\, the year in which Nelson Mandela was released from prison\, Germany was reunified\, and the UK grew closer to Europe than ever before\, set to join the EEC by 1992. Sheffield’s hosting of the games was controversial even at the time (the huge debt accrued only paid off this year)\, but part of an attempt to reimagine a city – whose industrial heritage had been decimated during Thatcher’s reign – as a city of sport and leisure. I was there with my Mum as a child\, and remember the buzzing international atmosphere around the student village\, housed in a now demolished section of the brutalist Hyde Park Flats. For my family\, having just returned from affluent Tokyo\, seeing the world come to Sheffield was a welcome reminder of something bigger than our struggling hometown\, and signalled a future of global connectedness. Yet it still amazes me\, as I look at these photos\, that they were taken on the same camera my parents used to take images of the neon-lit futurism in Japan only a year earlier\, and calls to mind the words of Cyberpunk novelist William Gibson; “the future is already here\, it’s just not very evenly distributed”. 1991 was the year Gibson wrote his novel “The Difference Engine\,” which explores this very idea. What is left\, then\, is a reminder that the relationship between working class communities and globalisation has always been complex and often ambivalent. \n\n\n\nJohny Pitts\, 2024 \n\n\n\nAbout the photographer: \n\n\n\nLinda Stewart-Pitts met her husband\, an American soul singer\, at Peter Stringfellow’s Mojo Club in Sheffield. Together\, they raised three children. In her 50s\, Linda returned to education\, earning a BTEC National Diploma in Travel and Tourism\, a Degree in Recreation and Tourism Management\, a PGCE in Teaching\, and a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. She retired at 60 as a Civil Servant and is also a member of British Mensa. Her background\, passion for travel\, and qualifications led her to volunteer for the World Student Games\, and as they say\, the rest is history. \n\n\n\nLocation: \n\n\n\nS1 4HP URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/linda-pitts-the-world-student-games-sheffield-1991-book-launch/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CRB_2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240814T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240814T210000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20240812T090543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240812T090547Z UID:23799-1723662000-1723669200@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Sheffield Feminist Book Club: August author special with Caroline Magennis DESCRIPTION:August’s author event \n\n\n\nJoin us for our latest author event\, where we’ll sit down with Caroline Magennis\, to discuss her fantastic book Harpy: A Childfree Manifesto on Wednesday 14 August\, 7-9:00 pm at La Biblioteka\, Sheffield. \n\n\n\nBits to remember: \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all and you’ll get an opportunity to ask Caroline questions\, get your book signed and meet plenty of other book lovers! \n\n\n\nDate – Wednesday 14 August \n\n\n\nTime – 7-9:00pm \n\n\n\nVenue – La Biblioteka\, 61 Eyre Lane\, Sheffield\, S1 3GF \n\n\n\nAbout the book:Each generation has more childfree women than the one before. For many\, it is an active decision made for a wide range of reasons.Despite this growing trend\, we continue to live in a society where women are often judged for deciding to remain child-free – for not conforming to narrow expectations. For being a Harpy. \n\n\n\nIn this timely and thoughtful book\, Caroline Magennis looks beyond the often-divisive conversation around women who choose to be childfree and offers an alternative message of hope and celebration.With humour and intelligence\, she explores why motherhood isn’t right for everybody and how any woman – whether a parent or childfree – can live a full life\, while also reminding the reader that your freedoms and the right to autonomy should never be taken for granted. \n\n\n\nAbout Caroline Magennis: \n\n\n\nCaroline Magennis is an academic and writer based in Manchester. Her writing has appeared in The Independent\, Prospect Magazine and The Irish Times. Her book\, Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles\, has been named the joint winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize 2022. \n\n\n\nTicket prices: \n\n\n\nTickets for this event are £13. If you cannot afford them then just drop us an email at: sheffieldfembookclub@gmail.com and we’ll see what we can do. \n\n\n\nRefund policy: \n\n\n\nWe are over the moon that our events are becoming so popular\, so because of that we have made are operating a no refund policy. We are more than happy for you to use your ticket for a future book club\, or to give your ticket to a fellow book club member\, but as of 2024 – we will no longer giving refunds. Apologies in advance! \n\n\n\nSheffield Feminist Book Club House Rules: \n\n\n\nWe welcome feminists from all walks of life and backgrounds\, and this group is open to everyone – we want this to be a fully inclusive space; \n\n\n\nYou don’t need to be an ‘expert feminist’ (whatever that means) to be involved – we want to read books that everyone can enjoy\, and that cater to people’s different experiences and understandings of feminism; \n\n\n\nThis is primarily a social space\, for meeting and getting to know like-minded people – so while feminism can be a heavy topic\, we hope to keep this more on the fun side; \n\n\n\nThis is a judgement free zone – don’t belittle or undermine other members\, or those who don’t have the same ideas as you. Don’t shut down other people’s views and be respectful; \n\n\n\nIf you feel like anyone goes against any of these values\, let us know! URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/sheffield-feminist-book-club-august-author-special-with-caroline-magennis/ LOCATION:La Biblioteka\, Leah's Yard\, Cambridge Street\, Sheffield\, S3 4HP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:book club,Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sfbc-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240813T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240813T210000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20240812T092125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240812T092129Z UID:23802-1723573800-1723582800@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:And Other Stories Summer Party DESCRIPTION:🎉On Tuesday\, 13 August\, the annual summer celebration of And Other Stories arrives at La Biblioteka\, welcoming writers Andrzej Tichý and Tim Etchells. Tichý will read from his acclaimed debut collection of stories\, Purity\, translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley\, which And Other Stories just published. Etchells will also be reading from new work. \n\n\n\nCopies of Tichý’s and Etchell’s work\, including Tichý’s International Booker longlisted novel\, Wretchedness\, and Endland\, Etchell’s brutal\, comical series of cautionary tales\, will be on sale. \n\n\n\nA paid bar will be provided! \n\n\n\nWe cannot wait to celebrate with you! URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/and-other-stories-summer-party/ CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Event-socials-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T200000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20240526T104044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240617T155212Z UID:23008-1718735400-1718740800@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Claire Carroll with Daisy Hildyard: The Unreliable Nature Writer DESCRIPTION:At La Biblioteka \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us during Indie Bookshop Week at La Biblioteka as we delve into the complex relationships between humans and nature in the face of shifting climates and other global crises. We are thrilled to host debut author Claire Carroll in conversation with renowned author Daisy Hildyard for a compelling discussion that promises to challenge and inspire\, in celebration of the publication of Claire’s debut collection\, The Unreliable Nature Writer\, \n\n\n\nThis event promises to be a thought-provoking dialogue on the intersection of literature\, climate change\, and our ongoing connection to the natural world. Whether you’re an avid reader\, an environmental enthusiast\, or someone concerned about the future of our planet\, this conversation will offer valuable insights and spark meaningful discussions. \n\n\n\nJoin us at the bar from 6.30 pm for a prompt start at 6.45 pm \n\n\n\nAll books will be available to buy and sign on the night. \n\n\n\nAbout the books: \n\n\n\nThe Unreliable Nature Writer is the eagerly-awaited debut collection of exhilarating\, macabre and dreamy short stories from Claire Carroll. Shortlisted for The White Review Prize and winner of the Short Fiction Wild Writing Prize\, Carroll portrays an unsettlingly hot\, vaguely familiar world of humans facing the strain of intimate and global anxieties – trying to live alongside new technologies\, failing environments and unknowable natural crises. Delightful to read and unsettling to imagine\, these are haunting stories about love\, loss\, strangely exposing housing applications and cows. \n\n\n\nEmergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on Earth. Stuck at home alone under lockdown\, a woman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a kestrel hunting\, helps a farmer with a renegade bull\, and plays out with her best friend\, Clare. Around her in the village\, her neighbours are arguing\, keeping secrets\, caring for one another\, trying to hold down jobs. In the woods and quarry there are foxcubs fighting\, plants competing for space\, ageing machines\, and a three-legged deer who likes cake. These local phenomena interconnect and spread out from China to Nicaragua as pesticides circulate\, money flows around the planet\, and bodies feel the force of distant power. A story of remote violence and a work of praise for a persistently lively world\, brilliantly written\, surprising\, evocative and unsettling\, Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency reinvents the pastoral novel for the climate change era. \n\n\n\nAbout the authors: \n\n\n\nClaire Carroll lives in Somerset\, UK\, and writes experimental fiction about the intersection of nature\, technology\, and desire. She is also a PhD researcher at Bath Spa and Exeter Universities\, where she explores how experimental writing – particularly short stories and prose-poetry – can reimagine how humans relate to the natural and non-human world. \n\n\n\nClaire’s short stories and poetry have been published by journals including Gutter Magazine\, perverse\, Lunate Journal\, The Oxonian Review\, and Short Fiction Journal. In 2021\, her short story My Brain is Boiling with Ideas was shortlisted for The White Review’s Short Story Prize\, and her short story Cephalopod was the recipient of the Essex University & Short Fiction Journal Wild Writing Prize. Both pieces are taken from The Unreliable Nature Writer\, Claire’s collection of linked short stories that examines the interconnection of climate anxiety\, surviving late capitalism and dealing with personal loss. \n\n\n\nDaisy Hildyard’s first novel\, Hunters in the Snow\, received the Somerset Maugham Award and a ‘5 under 35’ honorarium at the USA National Book Awards. Her essay The Second Body\, a brilliantly lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth\, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017. She lives with her family in North Yorkshire\, where she was born. \n\n\n\nLocation: \n\n\n\nHideaway / La Biblioteka URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/claire-carroll-with-daisy-hildyard-the-unreliable-nature-writer/ CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Untitled-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240531T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240531T200000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20240526T095858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240526T185249Z UID:23002-1717182000-1717185600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Kris Butler: Drink Maps in Victorian Britain DESCRIPTION:At The Crow Inn\, S3 7BS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n“This is the story of drink maps\, and it’s probably not what you think” \n\n\n\nJoin us at The Crow Inn – owners of Sheffield’s last remaining Victorian Drink Map – to hear Kris Butler\, and a fascinating exploration of the history of alcohol in Victorian Britain via the ‘drink maps’ that were produced by the temperance movement to promote sobriety. \n\n\n\nIt’s not about pub crawls or plotted ale trails. Instead\, these are maps with an agenda that was adamantly hostile to drinking alcohol\, made by an organized faction known as the Temperance Movement. The logic at the time of the maps’ creation went as follows: if people are shown how many places there are to buy alcohol\, they will be so appalled that they will join the effort to end drinking. In hindsight\, this logic is obviously flawed. \n\n\n\nJoin us before the talk to enjoy a tap takeover from Attercliffe’s best brewery\, St Mars of the Desert – friends of Kris’ from the States – who’ll be bringing four new brews. \n\n\n\nVery limited capacity on this – book your free ticket now. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nWhat is a ‘drink map’? It may sound like a pub guide\, yet it actually refers to a type of late nineteenth-century British map designed specifically to shock and shame people into drinking less.  \n\n\n\nThis book explores how drink maps of particular cities were published in an attempt to fight increasingly rampant alcohol consumption\, from Liverpool\, Manchester and Sheffield to Oxford\, London and Norwich. Featuring red symbols to indicate where alcohol was sold\, these special street maps were posted prominently in public places\, submitted as evidence\, sent to Members of Parliament and published in newspapers to show just how inebriated a neighbourhood could be. They promoted the message that having fewer places to buy alcohol was the answer to reducing widespread crime\, poverty and sickness. And they worked – at first. After consulting a drink map in one town\, judges decided to close half the licensed shops because even then no one had to walk more than two minutes to buy a beer. \n\n\n\nIllustrated with original maps\, advertisements and temperance propaganda\, the story of their brief history is told amidst a tangle of licensing laws\, rogue magistrates\, irate brewers\, ardent temperance organizers and accounts of the complex role alcohol played across all levels of Victorian society. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nKris Butler is a lawyer\, past president of the Boston Map Society and currently serves on the board of the Washington Map Society. She is also an award-winning home brewer and a contributor to MAP: Exploring the World (Phaidon). She has given numerous talks about drink maps\, including at the International Conference on the History of Cartography in Amsterdam and at Harvard University in the US. \n\n\n\n‘A brilliant\, intoxicating book about the alliance of maps and the temperance movement in Victorian England. Butler has produced a powerful and beautifully illustrated account of the power of maps and the scale of addiction in nineteenth-century England\, and in the process has identified a whole new cartographic genre.’ – Professor Jerry Brotton \n\n\n\nLocation: \n\n\n\nThe Crow Inn URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/kris-butler-drink-maps-in-victorian-britain/ CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Untitled-1-1.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="La Biblioteka":MAILTO:shop@labiblioteka.co END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240522T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240522T210000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20240515T150710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T150714Z UID:22708-1716404400-1716411600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:The Island of Missing Trees - Sheffield Feminist Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting in-person book club! \n\n\n\nGet ready to dive into an evening discussing ‘The Island of Missing Trees‘ by Elif Shafak\, share your thoughts on the book\, and connect with likeminded individuals! \n\n\n\nWhether you’re an avid reader or just starting your literary journey\, this event is perfect for everyone. Immerse yourself in lively discussions\, discover new genres\, and expand your reading horizons.Don’t miss out on this opportunity to meet like-minded book enthusiasts and explore the fascinating world of literature. Mark your calendars and come join us for May’s Book Club! \n\n\n\nAbout the book:It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers\, from opposite sides of a divided land\, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas\, who is Greek and Christian\, and Defne\, who is Turkish and Muslim\, can meet\, in secret\, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic\, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town\, the best music\, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget\, even if for just a few hours\, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows. \n\n\n\nIn the centre of the tavern\, growing through a cavity in the roof\, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed\, happy meetings\, their silent\, surreptitious departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out\, when the capital is reduced to rubble\, when the teenagers vanish and break apart. \n\n\n\nDecades later in north London\, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers\, she seeks to untangle years of secrets\, separation and silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus Carica growing in the back garden of their home. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Island of Missing Trees1974\, on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers\, from opposite sides of a divided land\, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas\, who is Greek and Christian\, and Defne\, who is Turkish and Muslim\, can meet\, in secret\, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic\, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town\, the best music\, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget\, even if for just a few hours\, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows. In ‘The Island of Missing Trees’\, prizewinning author Elif Shafak brings us a rich\, magical tale of belonging and identity\, love and trauma\, memory and amnesia\, human-induced destruction of nature\, and\, finally\, renewal. \n£9.99\n\n\nShop now URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/the-island-of-missing-trees-sheffield-feminist-book-club/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240221T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240221T200000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20240219T092332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T173824Z UID:21241-1708538400-1708545600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Politics and Organisation After the Protest Decade DESCRIPTION:Politics and Organisation After the Protest Decade: Vincent Bevins and Rodrigo Nunes in Conversation \n\n\n\nLOCATION: Lecture Theatre 6 (lower ground floor)\, The Diamond\, 32 Leavygreave Rd\, Sheffield S3 7RDWHEN: 6pm\, Wednesday 21 February 2024 (with drinks reception from 7.30-8.30pm)From 2010 to 2020\, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. But we are not living in a world that is more just and democratic as a result. How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for? This is the question that Vincent Bevins\, acclaimed journalist and author of The Jakarta Method\, sets out to answer in his new book\, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (Headline\, 2023). Bevins will be joined by Rodrigo Nunes\, an academic and political theorist\, who will discuss his own role in events in Brazil in this period\, and his subsequent books addressing political organisation and contemporary Brazilian politics: Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization (Verso\, 2021) and Do Transe à Vertigem: Ensaios sobre Bolsonarismo e um Mundo em Transição (Ubu\, 2022; forthcoming with Verso\, 2025\, under the title The View from Brazil).Bevins and Nunes will be in conversation with Molly Avery\, Lecturer in the History of the Americas at the University of Sheffield and there will also be the opportunity for questions from the audience. The event will be followed by a drinks reception during which local bookshop La Biblioteka will be selling copies of both books.This event is co-sponsored by the History Department and the University of Sheffield History Society. URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/politics-and-organisation-after-the-protest-decade/ CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Event-socials-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231129T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231129T203000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20231119T223825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231119T223828Z UID:19623-1701282600-1701289800@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time DESCRIPTION:This is a story about one young woman coming of age\, and about the place and time that shaped her: Sheffield in the 1970s and 80s. \n\n\n\nAbout the scorching summer of 1976 – the last Catherine Taylor would spend with both her parents in their home in Sheffield. About the Yorkshire Ripper\, the serial killer whose haunting presence in Catherine’s childhood was matched only by the aching absence of her own father. About a country thrown into disarray by the nuclear threat and the Miners’ Strike\, just as Catherine’s adolescent body was invaded by a debilitating illness. About 1989’s ‘Second Summer of Love’\, a time of sexual awakening for Catherine\, and the unforeseen consequences that followed it. \n\n\n\nCopies of The Stirrings will be available to buy and have signed at the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe stirringsCatherine Taylor’s account of growing up in northern England in the 1970s and 80s shines a light on the particular history of a time and place – that ‘strange country of the North’ as George Orwell famously called it. Against this backdrop\, and of music\, the miners’ strike\, fears of nuclear war\, and economic downturn – all of which become a character of sorts in her writing\, Catherine Taylor creates a series of very personal essays on subjects traditionally seen as taboo: parental estrangement\, abortion\, chronic illness\, and how an obsession with the serial killer who stalked Yorkshire throughout her childhood became the inspiration for early feminism – all shot through with poetry\, risk-taking and humour. \n£16.99\n\n\nShop now URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/the-stirrings-a-memoir-in-northern-time/ LOCATION:Carpenter Room\, Central Library\, Surrey Street\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire\, S1 1XZ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Event-socials-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T230000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20231119T230559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231119T231754Z UID:19633-1699554600-1699570800@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Sports Banger: Lifestyles of the poor\, rich and famous’ Book Tour DESCRIPTION:We’re honoured to be supporting the Sheffield leg of @sportsbanger ‘Lifestyles of the poor\, rich and famous’ book tour\, on the 9th of Nov. \n\n\n\nThe book tells the story of the brand’s evolution from a bootlegging operation back in 2013\, to an internationally renowned DIY fashion powerhouse and record label. \n\n\n\nDaniel Dylan Wray will host a talk with the man behind Sports Banger\, Jonny Banger. We’ve also invited some of Sheffield’s finest DJs to play the afters. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nThe first Sports Banger retrospective\, published to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the anarchic\, genre-bending cult fashion house. \n\n\n\nSports Banger is a genre-defying\, boundary-breaking fashion collective run by Jonny Banger\, who interrogates British pop culture\, fashion\, class and politics through the subversion and (mis)appropriation of branding. Sports Banger: Lifestyles of the Poor\, Rich and Famous tells the story of the first ten years of the irreverent brand\, from its foundation in 2013 to the present day. It charts the rise of the brand from an underground bootlegging operation to an all-inclusive\, internationally recognized DIY fashion house\, record label and socially conscious satirist in the mould of a modern-day Hogarth. \n\n\n\nIn a layout created by the Sports Banger studio\, the book’s images reflect the anarchic story: photographs of studio ephemera\, couture pieces\, community projects\, protests and fashion shows feature alongside one-off pieces produced for Skepta\, 2 Chainz\, Samantha Morton\, David Hoyle and more. The book contains a full t-shirt archive of iconic Sports Banger bootleg t-shirts. Reappropriated Nike\, NHS and Adidas logos rub shoulders with images of defaced government letters\, raves\, food banks and official collaborations with Tommy Hilfiger and Slazenger. The book is an of-our-times hybrid of political comment\, DIY fashion and proud class consciousness. Essays featured come from influential figures from the worlds of fashion\, art and music\, including Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller\, writer and curator Anastasiia Fedorova\, and fashion writer and curator Nathalie Khan as well as voices of the general public and reviews from Vogue\, Dazed and the V&A. URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/sports-banger-tour/ LOCATION:Mondo Club\, 7 Smithfield\, Sheffield\, S3 7AR\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Event-socials-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231107T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231107T210000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20231020T115455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231021T192410Z UID:18603-1699381800-1699390800@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:A to Z of TDR - Launch Party with The Designers Republic™ and Ian Anderson DESCRIPTION:The Designers Republic™ bring it home! Join us to celebrate three decades of trail-blazing Sheffield graphic design studio with their new monograph ‘A to Z of The Designers Republic™’; the first book to tell the whole story of this hugely influential design agency. \n\n\n\nIan Anderson (founder of The Designers Republic⁠™) will be in conversation with Craig Oldham (designer\, educator\, Office of Craig Oldham). In addition the studio will be launching a new print (TBC) as well as launching the book and signing copies. \n\n\n\nThis is going to be a big one\, upstairs at The Hideaway\, and everyone is invited! A limited number of signed copies of the book will be available to purchase on the night\, you can pre-order the book now to secure your copy (worldwide* shipping available). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nLed by founder and born rebel\, Ian Anderson\, The Designers Republic⁠™ has shaped graphic communication over the past thirty years through rule-defying music work\, provocative self-initiated projects and a fierce commitment to conceptual thinking over style. Anderson explores the studio’s output\, and its influence on a generation of graphic designers. \n\n\n\nAZTDRTM spans over three decades of work – from the studio’s earliest designs for the FON label in the mid-1980s and sleeves for Age of Chance\, Chakk and Cabaret Voltaire\, right up to its recent projects for The Cinematic Orchestra\, Led Bib and the Gulbenkian Foundation. Alongside classic self-initiated TDRTM projects\, the 512-page book features an A to Z of everything from campaigns for Evolution Print\, Coca-Cola and Nike\, through to the studio’s celebrated designs for video games such as Wipeout and Formula Fusion. \n\n\n\nThe book includes 250 different album and single covers; 140 prints\, posters and flyers; over 130 images of TDRTM print-based and editorial projects; 23 DR Angryman variants; five Coke bottles; four badges; one Swatch watch; a T-shirt\, a mug and much\, much more. \n\n\n\nSpanning over three decades of work – from the studio’s earliest designs for the FON label in the mid-1980s and sleeves for Age of Chance\, Chakk and Cabaret Voltaire\, right up to its recent projects for The Cinematic Orchestra\, Led Bib and the Gulbenkian Foundation  – the book is a stunning design work in itself\, featuring a Fluorescent yellow cover with foiled type\, three special colour wrap\, CMYK + one special colour throughout. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA to Z of The Designers Republic£65.00\n\n\nShop now URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/a-to-z-of-tdr-launch-party-with-the-designers-republic-and-ian-anderson/ LOCATION:Hideaway\, 61 Eyre Lane\, Sheffield\, S1 3GF\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/5506502666656702703.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T213000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20230926T114933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T130055Z UID:17702-1697050800-1697059800@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Brian Bilston DESCRIPTION:Brian Bilston has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate; with over 200\,000 followers on social media\, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community. \n\n\n\nHis first collection of poetry\, You Took the Last Bus Home\, was published by Unbound. Diary of a Somebody (Picador) was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the McKitterick Prize. Alexa\, What Is There To Know About Love?\, his last collection\, was described by one reviewer as ‘the funniest collection of humorous verse I have seen in a long time’. \n\n\n\nHis poem ‘Refugees’ was set to music by Mark-Anthony Turnage for his 2019 song cycle of the same name\, and Fifty Ways to Score a Goal\, a collection of poems about football for children\, was published in 2021. \n\n\n\nDays Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems is his latest book and is out now in hardback\, a brilliant collection of poems that will take the blues out of Monday\, flatten the Wednesday hump and amplify that Friday feeling\, from January throughto December. URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/brian-bilston/ LOCATION:The Leadmill\, 6 Leadmill Rd\, Sheffield\, S1 4SE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Event-socials-1-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T203000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20230920T135650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230921T173304Z UID:17453-1696962600-1696969800@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Now Then - A Biography of Yorkshire by Rick Broadbent DESCRIPTION:Rick Broadbent\, an award-winning author and exiled Yorkshireman\, goes in search of the soul of England’s biggest county and produces an all-encompassing portrait of a place that has been victimised and stereotyped since the days of Williams the Conqueror. Incorporating social history\, memoir\, reportage and author interviews\, Now Then paints a picture of what it means to be from Yorkshire – both now and back then. \n\n\n\nThe evening will be a talk followed by a Q&A session and then a book signing.   \n\n\n\nWritten from the perspective of an exiled Yorkshireman this bestselling\, award-winning author returns to his native county to discover and reveal its soul. We all know the tropes – Geoffrey Boycott incarnate\, ferret-leggers and folk singers gambolling about Ilkley Moor without appropriate headgear – but why is Yorkshire God’s Own County? Exiled Yorkshireman Rick Broadbent sets out to find out whether Yorkshireness is something that can be summed up and whether it even matters in a shrinking world. Along the way he meets rock stars\, ramblers and rhubarb growers as he searches for answers and a decent cup of tea. \n\n\n\nNow Then is a biographical mosaic of a place that has been victimised and stereotyped since the days of William the Conqueror. Incorporating social history\, memoir and author interviews\, Now Then is not a hagiography. Broadbent visits the scenes of industrial neglect and forgotten tragedy\, as well as examining the truth about well-known Yorkshire figures and institutions. \n\n\n\nFeaturing Kes\, the Sheffield Outrages and the most controversial poem ever written\, as well as a heroic dog\, a lost albatross and a stuffed crocodile\, Now Then is an affectionate but unsparing look at a county\, its inhabitants and their flinty vowels. This is a funny\, wise and searching account of a place that claims to have given the world its first football club and England its last witch-burning. It does include cobbles\, trumpets and stiff-necked\, wilful obstinacy\, but it is also about ordinary Yorkshire and its extraordinary lives. \n\n\nRegister on Eventbrite URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/now-then-a-biography-of-yorkshire-by-rick-broadbent/ LOCATION:La Biblioteka\, Leah's Yard\, Cambridge Street\, Sheffield\, S3 4HP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Event-socials-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230701T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230701T200000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20230621T121417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230621T141930Z UID:14858-1688236200-1688241600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:The Dolphin by Susan Clegg DESCRIPTION:‘He knew that this was as close to the sea as he could ever get.’ \n\n\n\nJoin us at La Biblioteka as we welcome local author Susan Clegg and feminist publisher Linen Press to celebrate the publication of The Dolphin. \n\n\n\nIn 1937 Larry Lambert has a vision of a magnificent pub built on frozen fields ‘like a grassy sea’. It is an echo of a single\, failed\, gay encounter in a fishing boat\, and in its construction he invests his energy and his thwarted dreams. He calls it The Dolphin. \n\n\n\nAnd so unfolds a moving exploration of the constraining expectations of society on three generations of one family. For Larry\, there is the cruel impossibility of being gay in 1930s Britain and his ensuing loveless marriage with the embittered Rosemary. For his daughter\, Joanie\, there is the crushing weight of duty and respectability during the post-war years. Only granddaughter Lottie pulls free and finds the freedom her grandfather and mother were denied. \n\n\n\nLarry’s decision to build The Dolphin sparks events that play out over decades\, tearing one generation apart while bringing another back together. \n\n\n\nWith artfully simple prose\, Susan Clegg invites you to look beyond the surface. Insightful\, understated and finely observed. \n\n\n\nSee more about the book\, and pre-order a signed & dedicated copy\, click here:https://labiblioteka.co/product/the-dolphin/ URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/the-dolphin-by-susan-clegg/ LOCATION:La Biblioteka\, Leah's Yard\, Cambridge Street\, Sheffield\, S3 4HP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Event-socials-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="La Biblioteka":MAILTO:shop@labiblioteka.co END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230624T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230624T180000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20230619T074659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230621T114528Z UID:14751-1687608000-1687629600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Hello\, Bookstore DESCRIPTION:Join us and our bookselling colleagues from across the city – Juno Books\, Rhyme & Reason\, Space Centre – for a mini book fair in the Showroom Cinema Cafe\, in celebration of their Special Screening of Hello\, Bookstore (2022) dir. A. B. Yax\, during this year’s Indie Bookshop Week. \n\n\n\nThe screening will be accompanied by a special Q&A with the star of the film Matthew Tannenbaum and director\, A.B. Zax. \n\n\n\nPlease note the book fair is open to the public and free to attend\, but you must purchase tickets to the screening directly from the Showroom Box Office. Please call or tap the button below. URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/hello-bookstore/ LOCATION:Showroom Cinema\, 15 Paternoster Row\, Sheffield\, S1 2BX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Other Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hellobookstore.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230603T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230603T180000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20230520T103850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230520T103854Z UID:14275-1685808000-1685815200@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Discovering Machine Knitting by Kandy Diamond DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Kandy Diamond and her knitting machine for a live demo and hands-on mini-workshop to launch her new book Discovering Machine Knitting (The Crowood Press Ltd). \n\n\n\nCome and try out machine knitting for yourself\, and make yourself a knitted bookmark to take home! \n\n\n\nThis is the ultimate guide to machine knitting. This book has been designed to help you demystify machine knitting. Perfect for beginners\, it starts with how the machine works and how stitches are formed\, all the way through to shaping garment panels to your desired size and fit. \n\n\n\nEach chapter focuses on different skills that build throughout the book\, with lots of projects so you can put the skills into practice and make some knits for yourself. Designer Profiles at the end of each chapter showcase the work of professional machine knitters to provide context\, inspiration and celebrate the huge potential for creativity in machine knitting. From troubleshooting and looking after the machine to using more advanced techniques such as intarsia and shaping\, this book will help you fall in love with your knitting machine. \n\n\n\nIf you work through the step-by-step instructions and projects in this book\, by the end of it you will be designing and knitting your own garments! URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/discovering-machine-knitting-by-kandy-diamond-2/ LOCATION:La Biblioteka\, Leah's Yard\, Cambridge Street\, Sheffield\, S3 4HP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:class / workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Orange-Multicoloured-Modern-Bright-Festival-Facebook-Ad-4-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221018T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221018T220000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20221001T144002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221001T144659Z UID:9527-1666123200-1666130400@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Readings of Protest. Charged - How the Police Try to Suppress Protest. DESCRIPTION:Come and hear protesters from across four decades give readings of what they fought for and how their protests were policed. \n\n\n\nThe UK government’s efforts to suppress dissent in the pursuit of power have given a green light to police to apply more aggressive tactics in managing crowds and protests. The results have provoked violence and even led to officers breaking the law. \n\n\n\nThe authors of Charged\, Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone reveal that in 1983 a Tory home secretary secretly sanctioned police paramilitary powers\, leading 40 years later to a Police Act which seeks to extinguish any effective protest. \n\n\n\nJoin activists and organisers from Sheffield and beyond who come together to share their experiences fighting for their jobs\, the environment\, education and against racism. Giving us insight into their experiences the activists will connect their own struggle to the policing of protest. \n\n\n\nIncluding activists from: \n\n\n\nWarrington Printers dispute 1983The Great Miners’ strike 1984/5 – Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) / Women against Pit ClosuresThe Rotherham 12 who defended their community against racist thugsEnvironmental and global justice activistStudent activist / Disabled People Against Cuts.Chaired by local activist\, Chris Peace. \n\n\n\nCharged How the Police Try to Suppress Protest by Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone (Verso 2022) \n\n\n\n“Brilliantly readable\, it carries you with it every step of the way. One forgets how frightening authority is and the detail on police behaviour is dreadfully shocking and distressing. It never assumes what you might believe or what you might already know and at the end leaves the reader in no doubt as to what has happened in this country.”– Emma Thompson\, actor and activist \n\n\n\n“Meticulously details violent state suppression in the protection of capital; backed by a propaganda machine. Exposed is the unofficial but permanent government with sharp attention to every detail. This is a story of how justice has been repeatedly stolen in this ruthless war against the right to protest. Read every word because you are holding history in your hands. Our history.”– Lowkey\, rapper and activist \n\n\n\n“When you read Charged\, you will see ours is one of many struggles\, past and present.”– Chris Peace\, Tribune \n\n\n\nBooks will be available on the night URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/readings-of-protest/ LOCATION:La Biblioteka\, Leah's Yard\, Cambridge Street\, Sheffield\, S3 4HP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/221018_charged5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220917T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220917T160000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20220902T140944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220903T080112Z UID:5902-1663426800-1663430400@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Wild Child & Book of Birds with Dara McAnulty DESCRIPTION:On Saturday 17 th September at 2pm – Dara will be in conversation with Liz Ballard\, Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust\, and afterwards signing copies of his books. \n\n\n\nDara and Liz will be talking about his new book A Wild Child’s Book of Birds\, which is illustrated by Barry Falls\, and is a gorgeous guide to birds in the UK which takes the reader through the year.🐦 advice he’d give to children who want to get involved in conservation but don’t knowwhere to start🐦 top tips on encouraging nature to thrive in your garden / window box🐦 which birds to look out for in and around Sheffield in the autumn  🐦 the cross generational appeal of his books – and why bird and nature watching areperfect activities to share with children and grandchildren🐦 Why Dara is passionate about nature and why he wants to encourage families totake notice of the environment and world around them – be it trees\, flora\, fauna orbirds. \n\n\n\nMore about A Wild Child’s Book of Birds: \n\n\n\nJoin brilliant young naturalist Dara McAnulty – author of Wild Child – on a journey through a year in the life of birds. Illustrated in full colour by award-winning artist Barry Falls. \n\n\n\nThis beautiful\, informative book takes you through a year in the life of the birds you will find in Britain and Ireland and is divided into four sensational seasonal sections.Find out what birds do in each season\, learn about birdsong\, beaks\, nests and eggs\, the science of flight\, migration\, what to grow to attract different birds to your garden and what foods to put out on your bird table. \n\n\n\nDiscover different ways of recording what you see and about birds in literature. There are sections on birds of prey and corvids too. URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/wild-child/ LOCATION:La Biblioteka\, Leah's Yard\, Cambridge Street\, Sheffield\, S3 4HP\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/220917_wildchild42.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220901T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220901T210000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20220901T125055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220901T125059Z UID:5860-1662062400-1662066000@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:The Summer Book - Celebrate 50 years with Sophia Jansson DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson\, we are delighted to present a live virtual event with Sophia Jansson\, Tove’s niece\, in conversation with Fleur Sinclair\, owner of Sevenoaks Bookshop on 1 September 2022 at 7 PM. Digital access is included when you buy any of Tove Jansson’s adult works through Bookshop.org or our shop or website. \n\n\n\nWe hope you can join us! \n\n\n\nQuestions? Contact uk.support@bookshop.org URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/the-summer-book-celebrate-50-years-with-sophia-jansson/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/220109_summerbook5.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="La Biblioteka":MAILTO:shop@labiblioteka.co END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220901T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220901T210000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20220901T114837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220901T124443Z UID:5852-1662060600-1662066000@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:India Uniform Nine by Mark Perlstrom DESCRIPTION:Join us and Icon Books as we welcome Mark Perlstrom & Douglas Wight to the bookshop to launch this eye-opening account from inside an ultra-secret Customs unit. \n\n\n\nMark Perlstrom is no stranger to money laundering\, drug smuggling and crooked firms. In the late 1980s he started working for HM Customs and was quickly thrown in the deep end\, joining Operation C-Chase\, an undercover investigation that penetrated Pablo Escobar’s mighty Medellin cartel\, brought down the corrupt BCCI bank and stopped London’s gangs from moving their ill-gotten gains around the capital. As part of the Uniforms – the new\, secret\, anti-money-laundering squad – high-speed car chases\, bugging homes and spying on targets was day-to-day business. \n\n\n\nTold by a true insider and revealing never-before-told-secrets of the industry\, India Uniform Nine lays bare the intense rivalry between crime-fighting organisations and how that leads to corruption\, chaos and some scarcely believable antics in the covert world. And how Mark’s own operation was nearly scuppered by a US Customs bungle. \n\n\n\nSee more about the book\, and pick up a copy\, in the shop or here: https://labiblioteka.co/product/india-uniform-nine/ URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/india-uniform-nine-by-mark-perlstrom/ LOCATION:La Biblioteka\, Leah's Yard\, Cambridge Street\, Sheffield\, S3 4HP\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/220109_indiauniformnine5.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="La Biblioteka":MAILTO:shop@labiblioteka.co END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220623T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220623T193000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20220609T130912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220609T145828Z UID:3134-1656010800-1656012600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:Consumed - Q&A with Aja Barber DESCRIPTION:As part of our Independent Bookshop Week celebrations\, La Biblioteka is delighted to be hosting an online sit-down between Hannah Wilson of My Indie Wardrobe and Aja Barber\, discussing her book Consumed: The need for Collective Change; Colonialism\, Climate Change & Consumerism.  \n\n\n\nFrom the embedded injustice at the heart of the things we buy\, and how and why we passively accept them\, to how we can become an active agent of change through our purchasing power and self-awareness\, Aja’s book positively enforces compassionate individual agency as the root of global systemic change. \n\n\n\nIf you’d like to ask Aja a question\, get in touch via Instagram before or during the live event. \n\n\n\nAbout Consumed: \n\n\n\nAja Barber wants change. In the ‘learning’ first half of the book\, she will expose you to the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the textile industry; one which brokered slavery\, racism and today’s wealth inequality. \n\n\n\nAnd how these oppressive systems have bled into the fashion industry and its lack of diversity and equality. She will also reveal how we spend our money and whose pockets it goes into and whose it doesn’t (clue: the people who do the actual work) and will tell her story of how she came to learn the truth. \n\n\n\nIn the second ‘unlearning’ half of the book\, she will help you to understand the uncomfortable truth behind why you consume the way you do. \n\n\n\nShe asks you to confront the sense of lack you have\, the feeling that you are never quite enough and the reasons why you fill the aching void with consumption rather than compassion. And she makes you challenge this power disparity\, and take back ownership of it. The less you buy into the consumer culture the more power you have. \n\n\n\nConsumed will teach you how to be a citizen\, not a consumer. \n\n\n\nThis event will be recorded and shared across our social platforms after the event\, as far as rights allow. URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/consumed-qa-with-aja-barber/ LOCATION:Instagram Live CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/220609_aja_barber6-3.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="La Biblioteka":MAILTO:shop@labiblioteka.co END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220618T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220618T223000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20220607T133347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220609T145303Z UID:3089-1655582400-1655591400@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay DESCRIPTION:Part historical\, part political but most of all – hugely inspirational. \n\n\n\nAcclaimed British author Lemn Sissay OBE – a BAFTA-nominated\, International prize-winning writer\, poet\, playwright and broadcaster – will keep the audience enthralled with this scoop of an event for Sheffield and Migration Matters Festival. \n\n\n\nHe will share his rollercoaster life story and read powerful extracts from his Sunday Times best-selling memoir\, My Name is Why. \n\n\n\nThe book reflects on his childhood in care\, self-expression and Britishness\, and in doing so\, exploring the institutional care system\, race\, family and the meaning of home. \n\n\n\nThis event will also feature a set by Sarah Orola \n\n\n\nThe Land of Many Waters flows through me. My words transcend boundaries and give voice to a nation. Born in Ireland to parents of Nigerian and Guyanese descent has given me a beautiful yet complex insight into my diverse world.My journey of self-awareness is heavily reflected in my poetry. Scribbling my thoughts on paper and bringing those words alive has helped me explore my afro-caribbean identity to share with others. URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/my-name-is-why-by-lemn-sissay/ LOCATION:Montgomery Theatre\, 27 Surrey Street\, England\, S1 2LGUnited Kingdom (map)\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire\, S1 2LG\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Book Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/220609_lemn_sissay6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T213000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20220523T131149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220523T131159Z UID:2669-1653507000-1653514200@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:The Gamekeeper (screening + intro) DESCRIPTION:Join The Showroom and And Other Stories for an evening celebrating the influential South Yorkshire-born novelist and screenwriter\, Barry Hines\, and the reissue of his masterpiece of nature writing and rural class conflict\, The Gamekeeper. \n\n\n\nBorn into a mining family in a village near Barnsley\, Barry Hines (1939-2016) worked first in a coal mine before going to college\, working as a teacher\, and then becoming a full-time writer of fiction and screenplays for film and television. Hines is best known for A Kestrel for a Knave\, a novel that has never been out of print in Britain and was filmed by Ken Loach as the widely acclaimed Kes. For over forty years he documented working-class lives with a boundless humanity\, deep empathy\, and ultimately\, hope. \n\n\n\nSheffield-based publisher AOS are proud to be reissuing a selection of Hines’ novels over the coming years\, including classics\, lesser-known gems and until-now undiscovered work. This April\, AOS published The Gamekeeper\, Hines’ gripping novel of rural working-class life through the changing seasons\, seen through the eyes of a gamekeeper on a country estate in the North of England. To mark its publication\, join us for a screening of the rarely-seen film adaptation of The Gamekeeperhttps://labiblioteka.co/product/the-gamekeeper/\, adapted by Hines and directed by Ken Loach. There will also be a series of short talks on Barry Hines’ work and legacy from those that he influenced and that knew and worked with him. \n\n\n\nThere will be an introduction before this screening. \n\n\n\nDavid Forrest is Professor of Film and Television and Studies at the University of Sheffield. His most recent book is New Realism: Contemporary British Cinema (2020)\, and with Sue Vice he is the co-author of Barry Hines: Kes\, Threads and Beyond (2017). \n\n\n\nRon Roseis a playwright and scriptwriter\, born in Sheffield and lives in Doncaster. He’s had over 70 plays performed professionally at theatres across the country including two verbatim dramas set in the ’84/’85 Miners’ Strike Never the Same Again and The Enemy Within; the WW2 mining strikes drama Bread and Roses; and the much-performed Ladies Darts drama Double Top. He’s written television scripts for Between the Lines\, The Bill\, Heartbeat\, the political series Love and Reason\, and many others. \n\n\n\nSue Vice is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield where she teaches contemporary literature\, film and Holocaust studies. Her publications include the BFI Modern Film Classics volume on Shoah (2011)\, Textual Deceptions: Literary Hoaxes and False Memoirs in the Contemporary Era (2014)\, the co-edited volume Representing Perpetrators in Holocaust Literature and Film (2013) with Jenni Adams\, and Barry Hines: ‘Kes’\, ‘Threads’ and Beyond\, with David Forrest (2017). Her latest book is Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ Outtakes: Holocaust Rescue and Resistance (2021). \n\n\n\nTickets via https://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/the-gamekeeper-intro URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/the-gamekeeper-screening-intro/ LOCATION:Showroom Cinema\, 15 Paternoster Row\, Sheffield\, S1 2BX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Other Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://labiblioteka.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/220523_the-gamekeeper6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T073000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T210000 DTSTAMP:20260411T225626 CREATED:20220407T140258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T140513Z UID:766-1651131000-1651179600@labiblioteka.co SUMMARY:John Grindrod – Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain DESCRIPTION:John Grindrod – Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain\n\n\n\nWe’re very happy to be welcoming John Grindrod back to Sheffield\, in celebration of his fascinating new book\, Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain. Sheffield’s relatively small features – here today\, gone tomorrow Centre for Popular Music and the drawn-out renovation of Park Hill – might reflect the city’s red wall hegemony against decades of neo-liberalism\, but the rest of the book offers lessons about what may be just around the corner – for better or worse – in South Yorkshire. \n\n\n\nAbout Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain: \n\n\n\nWimpey homes. Millennium monuments. Riverside flats. Wind farms. Spectacular skyscrapers. City centre apartments. Out of town malls. \n\n\n\nThe buildings designed in our lifetimes encapsulate the dreams and aspirations of our culture\, while also revealing the sobering realities. Whether modest or monumental\, they offer a living history of Britain\, a reminder of the forces that have shaped our modern landscape. \n\n\n\nIconicon is an enthralling journey around the Britain we have created since 1980: the horrors and delights\, the triumphs and failures. From space-age tower blocks to suburban business parks\, and from postmodernist exuberance to Passivhaus eco-efficiency\, this is at once a revelatory architectural grand tour and an endlessly witty and engaging piece of social history. \n\n\n\nJohn Grindrod is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain (Old Street\, 2013) and Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt (Sceptre\, 2017)\, which was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. \n\n\n\nWe are planning for this event to take place in the Kommune Events Room with an in-person audience\, as well as a live stream for attendees watching from home. On the night of the event\, our team will be wearing masks and we encourage you to do the same\, unless you are exempt. This will keep things as safe as possible for authors\, audience members and our booksellers. \n\n\n\nIn-person Audience: you can purchase a signed – and if requested\, dedicated – copy of Iconicon OR a £5 Voucher. \n\n\n\nLivestream: you can purchase a signed – and if requested\, dedicated – copy of Iconicon\, OR a £3 Voucher. \n\n\n\nCopies will be available on the night and John will be available to sign your copy too. \n\n\n\nPlease note that vouchers can be used on any item in the bookshop and on our website. Please consider supporting the bookshop by purchasing a book or voucher. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n John Grindrod – Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain\n \n £3.00 – £20.00Price range: £3.00 through £20.00\n \n Quick ViewSelect options URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/john-grindrod-iconicon-a-journey-around-the-landmark-buildings-of-contemporary-britain/ LOCATION:Kommune\, Angel Street\, Sheffield\, S8 9QB\, United Kingdom ORGANIZER;CN="La Biblioteka":MAILTO:shop@labiblioteka.co END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR