Readings and Events
Simcha!
Varied programme of speakers on Jewish music and arts, including Mike Gerber on Jazz Jews.
£20 (£15 concessions) including lunch
London Metropolitan Archives, EC1R OHB
Info: lma@london.gov.uk
“Photographs of the Old Jewish East End”
Opened by Bill Fishman (East End Jewish Radicals) etc
Free, no booking required
Bancroft Road Library, E1 4DQ
“How independent businesses survive against the big boys”
Speakers: Ross Bradshaw (Five Leaves), Jane Streeter (The Bookcase in Lowdham)
New Arts Exchange, 39-41 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6BE
Free, including buffet refreshments
Tickets: vc@nde.org.uk, 0115 934 9582 no later than Monday 16th August.
Three Men on the Metro
Andy Croft, Bill Herbert and Paul Summers reading
Arnolfini Theatre, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Jazz Jews with Mike Gerber speaking and Claire Shaw singing
Spiro Ark, London
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Fundraiser for the Children of Shatila return visit
Featuring Ian McMillan, the choir of the Star of the Sea primary school, the North Tyneside Steel Drum Band
Newcastle Royal Grammar School, Jesmond
Info: Children of Shatila Facebook page
John Lucas reading from Things to Say
Kings Lynn Poetry Festival
Info: http://www.lynnlitfests.com/
“Whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not”
Celebrating Alan Sillitoe
Nottingham City Council, Market Square, Nottingham
Speakers include John Harvey, DJ Taylor, Derrick Buttress, Gwen Grant, David Sillitoe and many more
Organised by Five Leaves and other Nottingham organisations
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Launch of John Lucas’ Next Year Will Be Better: a memoir of England in the 1950s and Things to Say (poetry)
Bromley House Library, Angel Row, Nottingham
Free, refreshments, RSVP
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Beeston International Poetry Festival
Unlikely, but true
Info: www.shoestringpress.co.uk
Out of the Shadows: forgotten London writers
Iain Sinclair, Andrew Whitehead, Sarah Wise and Ken Worpole
Discussing some long-lost but captivating novels from London’s past. What do they tell us about the history of the city and maybe our time now - the buildings may have changed but are the people the same?
Writers discussed include Alexander Baron (including King Dido and Rosie Hogarth) and Roland Camberton (Scamp, Rain on the Pavements) published by Five Leaves
In association with Newham Bookshop
Venue: Bishopsgate Institute
Tickets: £7/£5 from 020 7392 9256 or Wegotickets
Info: www.bishopsgate.org.uk
Fundraiser for the Children of Shatila return visit
10 x 10 ten writers and musicians, ten minutes each
Cumberland Arms, Byker
Info: Children of Shatila Facebook page
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
Bernard Kops (The World is a Wedding) reads from his latest collection (from David Paul) but also discusses Kenneth Patchen and, with others, discusses memoirs, biographies and novels and how these effect poetry. The others include occasional Five Leaves anthology contributors Andrew Motion and Elaine Feinstein, also reading over the weekend.
www.thepoetrytrust.org
Hackney Limmud
Five Leaves’ speakers (we hope) and bookstall
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Scottish launch of John Lucas’ Next Year Will Be Better: a memoir of England in the 1950s and Things to Say (poetry)
Scottish Poetry Library (www.spl.org.uk)
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Croak, the King and a Change in the Weather
A performance of Peter Mortimer’s play with the Camp Shatila children.
Theatre Monot, Beirut, Lebanon
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
David Simons on The Liberation of Celia Kahn
The East of Scotland launch of his new novel set in the Glasgow Jewish Community 1914-1923
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society, Marian Oppenheimer Hall
Info: www.ejls.org.uk