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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220901T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220901T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220901T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220901T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T003824
CREATED:20220901T114837Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220623T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220623T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T003824
CREATED:20220609T130912Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220618T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220618T223000
DTSTAMP:20260412T003824
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T003824
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T073000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T003824
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SUMMARY:Writing on the Wall
DESCRIPTION:See work from Sheffield Hallam University BA Graphic Design students\, produced in partnership with Writing on the Wall festival. See the final book covers and page spreads for three children’s books\, as well as process work of each. \n\n\n\nThe work showcases a wonderful combination of illustration\, print and digital techniques. \n\n\n\nTo see the full range of work visit us on Thursday 14th April between 10am and 4pm!
URL:https://labiblioteka.co/event/writing-on-the-wall/
LOCATION:La Biblioteka\, Leah's Yard\, Cambridge Street\, Sheffield\, S3 4HP\, United Kingdom
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