BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//La Biblioteka - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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: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:20240813T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240813T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T194615 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:20240814T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240814T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T194615 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:20240928T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240928T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T194615 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:20241116T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241116T110000 DTSTAMP:20260415T194615 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:20241126T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241126T203000 DTSTAMP:20260415T194615 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:20241128T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T194615 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:20241201T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241201T113000 DTSTAMP:20260415T194615 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:20250311T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250311T203000 DTSTAMP:20260415T194615 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:20250615T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250615T160000 DTSTAMP:20260415T194615 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:20250625T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250625T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T194615 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 END:VCALENDAR