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DWARF’S ROBERT LLEWELLYN JOINS NEWS FROM NOWHERE IN DISSENT
News
from Nowhere, Liverpool’s unique Radical & Community Bookshop
continues its 40th
Birthday celebrations with a one-off
WeBe40
Radical Bookfair & Spaces of Dissent
Sunday
1st
June
at the
Bluecoat,
School Lane, Liverpool 1
from 11am
to 6pm
There
will be three Spaces of Dissent
throughout the day:
- Poetry as Dissent at 12noon features Steph Pike & Clare Shaw, both powerful and uncompromising wordsmiths, who have audiences laughing, crying, enraged … and often all three.
- Radical Bookselling, Radical Times at 2pm features Ross Bradshaw, radical booktrade historian and Bob Dent, News from Nowhere’s founder, enlightening us on the way in which radical bookshops have interacted with and reflected the politics of the times.
- Fiction as Dissent at 4pm will feature Robert Llewellyn. Robert played Kryten in Red Dwarf and was the presenter of Scrapheap Challenge, but is now also the author of an eco-utopian trilogy, “News from Gardenia” inspired by William Morris’s “News from Nowhere” from which we took our name. In addition we have Desiree Reynolds, a Black British novelist whose stunning debut novel, “Seduce”, will amuse, challenge and delight with its Caribbean setting and wonderful patois language.
We
also have
Subversive Children’s Storytelling sessions
in the Garden at 12.30pm
and 2.30pm
with Andy
Johnson
& Jennifer
Verson.
Along
with
Liverpool
Socialist Singers
at 1.30pm,
Sense
of Sound Singers
at 3.30pm,
Stan
the Harp
and various theatrical interventions, a great day is guaranteed for
all lovers of literature, culture and freedom.
In
addition, the
current Bluecoat display of News
from Nowhere’s archives
continues throughout the day, we will have projections from our Live
Reportage artist Sam
Galbraith,
an interactive Memories
of News from Nowhere
game, and our famous Bolshie
Bargain Bookstall
will tempt the crowds in via the front courtyard.
Expect
special offers, a cornucopia of words and plenty of dissent!
The
whole day is free, but (free) tickets are required from the Bluecoat
for the three Spaces of Dissent sessions.
Mandy
Vere says:
“Central
to Bold Street’s revival and a major tourist attraction with
national and international visitors citing it as a crucial
destination, News from Nowhere is proud to be a space of dissent in
arguably the most dissenting city in the country. We will continue to
assert that there is no glory ever in war, that the 99% should not be
made to pay for the greed of the 1%, and will always stand firmly on
the side of the marginalized and the oppressed, while celebrating the
human and cultural riches of our proud city of immigrants.”
Further
info: Mandy Vere, News from Nowhere Bookshop, 96 Bold St, Liverpool
L1 4HY
0151
708 7270 07732 983477 mandy@newsfromnowhere.org.uk
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