Past Events & Exhibitions
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BEAA Creative Lab: A Second Life - Rehearsed Reading and Networking/Fundraising Evening, 14 Dec 2014
A Second Life is a new Singaporean play by Tan Suet Lee and presented by British East Asian Artist's (BEAA) Creative Lab. All proceeds from ticket sales and donations on the night go to DEC Typhoon Haiyan Appeal. Live Music: Resonance and Mitch Daniels, 14 Dec 2014
Live music session with singer, guitarist and songwriter Radhika a.k.a. Resonance, and jazz/pop musician Mitch Daniels. Platform 65's Poetry Thingy x Stephanie Dogfoot and Jerrold Yam, 4 Dec 2013
Open mic poetry and music session; headliners include Singaporean poets... Sabrina Chap - Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction, 27 Nov 2013
The New York based musician, writer and mental health activist on the second edition of her groundbreaking anthology, "Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction" (Seven Stories Press)... Writing in Conflict: Mikail Eldin, Edward Wilson, Anna Gunin, Panel Chair: Arifa Akbar, 26 Nov 2013
A panel of authors, editors and translators discusses what it means to capture conflict with the written word, and how writing can serve as a form of resistance. The Book Is Dead! [Meet the Publishers Event], 21 Nov 2013
English PEN event with Stephanie Seegmuller (Pushkin Press), Meike Ziervogel (Peirene Press), facilitated by Samantha Schnee, the founder-editor of Words Without Borders, on the future of publishing, and the role of indie publishers Joseph Boyden - The Orenda, 20 Nov 2013
One of Canada’s most critically-acclaimed authors talks about his mesmerizing epic set in the wilds of 17th century North America... Jasper Gibson - The Rum Readings, 14 Nov 2013
Author Jasper Gibson reads from his debut novel, A Bright Moon for Fools The Gentle Author's Magic Lantern Show, 7 Nov 2013
A visual journey of London through time by the Gentle Author The Live Writing Series featuring Sarah Butler, 1 Nov 2013
Author Sarah Butler in residence at W&T as part of the Live Writing Series taking place across London over the autumn. Trikhon Theatre: The Magic Pencil, 20 Oct 2013 (SEA Arts Fest)
Storytelling and activity session for children with Vietnamese theatre troupe, Trikhon Theatre Sue Guiney: A Clash of Innocents, 17 October 2013 (SEA Arts Fest) Reading by author Sue Guiney from her most recent book, The Clash of Innocents, and readings by participants of the Creating Living Places in Prose and Poetry writing workshop. Sue Guiney: Creating Living Places in Prose and Poetry, 13 October 2013 Writing workshop with author and poet Sue Guiney Philip Cornwel-Smith - Very Thai, 9 October 2013 (SEA Arts Fest) Author and photographer Philip Cornwel-Smith presents a visual journey through contemporary Thai folk culture... Chitra Soundar: Folk Tales from Southeast Asia, 6 October 2013 (SEA Arts Fest) Storytelling session with children's author Chitra Soundar 5 Foot Way Southeast Asian Street Food Market, 5 October 2013 W&T does a pop-up at the first 5 Foot Way SEA street food market at Union Street, SE1 Writing Bankside: To the Tate and Back. 28 September 2013
Shaun Levin leads a writing-walking workshop on the changing landscape of Bankside, Tate Modern's permanent collection, and the treasures of the bookshop to create new stories and poems... Acoustic@W&T: Costanza Casullo. 28 September 2013
The classical guitarist returns to W&T to play some self-penned music and classical pieces. Chai with MYH. 27 September 2013
Special guest host Yeo Sola discusses his first novel, The Slave and the Book Keeper. Acoustic@W&T: Maggie Casey and Friends. 5 September 2013
Live Irish and Scottish folk music Southwark LGBT Network: Thomas Glave and Dorothea Smartt. 21 August 2013
Hosted by Southwark LGBT Network Awaken Words: Poetry, Performances and Book Swapping. 24 July 2013
Hosted by Southwark Arts Forum as a platform for emerging talent in literary arts Acoustic@W&T: Redford Trio. 20 July 2013
Jazz trio spreads some chill-out grooves at the bookshop Things that Happen in a Bookshop - A Summer Writing Fest at W&T. 18 July 2013 An afternoon of writing residency and an evening of verbal dexterity, organised by Spread the Word in conjunction with Treehouse Press Andrew Whitehead, Zoe Fairbairns, Sarah Wise - London Fictions. 16 July 2013 An exploration of London's past and present through literature Juliet Barnes - The Ghosts of Happy Valley. 10 July 2013 Kenyan author Juliet Barnes revisits the scandals of the colonial expats who made Wanjohi Valley their home through Happy Valley's legacy of surviving memories and ruins Acoustic@W&T: Maggie Casey and Friends. 6 July 2013 Irish and Scottish folk music and singer-songwriters take the 'stage' Meike Ziervogel - Magda. 3 July 2013 Author Meike Ziervogel examines the enigma that was Magda Goebbels... Pete M. Wyer - The Dance Around the Fire. 2 July 2013 An informal celebration to mark the release of The Dance Around The Fire – a chapbook of poems published by San Francisco’s Alternating Current Press... Southwark LGBT Network, AGM 2013. 26 June 2013 The network has made a real difference to individuals and organisations through the small grants scheme... Costanza Casullo and Anjana Vasan - acoustic@w&t. 22 June 2013
Classical guitarist Costanza and blues-country singer-songwriter Anjana perform live Kris and Nina Hollington - Criminal London. 19 June 2013
Author and journalist Kris Hollington and photographer Nina Hollington take guests on a virtual tour of crime sites in the capital from their latest book, Criminal London: A Sightseer's Guide to the Capital of Crime. Amberley Laverick and Leo Schwartz - Spoken Word + Open Mic. 17 June 2013 An evening of music, spoken word, and open mic performances facilitated by Amberley Laverick and Leo Schwartz, hosted by English PEN. Jen Campbell - Close Encounters of the Book(ish) Kind. 12 June 2013
Jen Campbell shares more funny stories from the sequel to her bestselling title Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops Louisa B. Waugh - Meet Me in Gaza. 10 June 2013
Award-winning writer Louisa Waugh paints an intimate picture of Gaza, revealing the pleasures and pains, hopes and frustrations of Gazans going about their daily lives. Poetry Thingy #3 Featuring Fiona Sze-Lorain. 1 June 2013
W&T hosted a Platform65 open mic poetry and music session on 1 June 2013, with special guest, the Paris-based zheng harpist, writer and literary translator, Fiona Sze-Lorrain. James Miller, Gregory Norminton, Toby Litt: Beacons. 22 May 2013
The authors discuss their contribution to Beacons: Stories for our Not too Distant Future... Joseph Hanlon and Teresa Smart: Zimbabwe Takes Back Its Land. 15 May 2013
Dr Joseph Hanlon and Teresa Smart share the findings from their most recent book... Maureen Duffy: Environmental Studies. Wed, 8 May 2013
Maureen Duffy’s latest book is centred on environments – human, insect and animal – some experienced personally, some observed, some imagined... Clare Mulley: The Spy Who Loved. Wed, 24 April 2013
Biographer Clare Mulley on Christine Granville, one of Britain’s most daring and highly decorated secret agents of the Second World War. Un(dis)covered Treasures? Writings from a Unique Island. Wed, 17 Apr 2013
Hosted by National Arts Council of Singapore among events organised in conjunction with Singapore's participation at London Book Fair 2013, this session features some of Singapore’s most prominent contemporary authors and poets: Alvin Pang, Colin Cheong, Joshua Ip and publisher Edmund Wee. In The Mirror, A Monster - Marten Weber, 21 Dec 2012
Author reading and book launch hosted by Doghorn Publishing. “..the most versatile voice in modern gay fiction, at once shockingly realistic and wonderfully entertaining.” - Esquire Vanessa Hidary a.k.a. Hebrew Mamita, 19 Dec 2012
In one of her first UK appearances, Vanessa Hidarya.k.a. The Hebrew Mamita, will perform work from her book The Last Kaiser Roll In The Bodega. Expect tales of a nice Jewish girl gone awry, love gone wrong, and a women's search to find her identity and cultural pride in the multi-cultural landscape of her Native New York City... Spoken Word with Amberley Laverick and Leo Schwartz, 12 Dec 2012
An evening to celebrate words. Words that inspire, words that trouble; words that spark reflection, words that charge action... Festive Sounds with Southwark LGBT Network, 5 Dec 2012
Festive session with Christmas and seasonal music from opera singer Andrew Ridal LoNyLa presents A Second Life by Suet-Lee Tan, 2 Dec 2012
A live screening of a reading of British playwright Suet Lee Tan's "A Second Life", directed by Drayton Alexander Hiers, and broadcast live from Singapore as part of LoNyLa's Velocity Lab 2012, an international exchange of play and film scripts. Gender Troubles, 7 Nov 2012
A panel to reflect on experiences and thoughts on gender, identity and sexuality under the gentle steer of Time Out journalist Paul Burston. A Southwark LGBT Network event. The Oil Road with author James Marriott, 1 Nov 2012
James Marriott from Platform talks about the energy industry and BP corporations' effect on lives and landscapes from the Caspian Sea to London Boo! At Bermondsey, Halloween, 27 Oct 2012
Local storyteller Vanessa Woolf and musician Nigel of Bermondsey tell scary ghost stories inspired by Charles Dickens at W&T Rosie Wilby and Liz Bentley: Comedy Double Bill, 24 Oct 2012
Rosie Wilby presented her latest show 'Absolute Love' and Liz Bentley took us on a psychedelic trip into her mind and life via 'AAA Rating: Age, Anxiety and Alzheimers.' Between Us - A Live Reading of Jean Tay's latest play, 21 Oct 2012
A lyrical, humorous and tragic exploration of the bonds that connect us to the ones we love. Directed by Drayton Alexander Hiers and broadcast live from Singapore as part of LoNyLa's Velocity Lab 2012, an international exchange of play and film scripts. Jasia Reichardt: Fifteen Journeys - From Warsaw to London, 19 Oct 2012
Jasia Reichardt spoke of her motivations in publishing her memoir, Fifteen Journeys: Warsaw to London, at W&T on 19 October 2012 through an illustrated talk, featuring images of artwork and texts that most influenced her as a child in prewar Warsaw. Sue Hubbard: Girl in White, 11 Oct 2012
Author Sue Hubbard's launch of her latest book. Girl in White is the extraordinary and moving story of Paula Mendershohn-Becker told from the fictionalised perspective of her daughter Mathilde. Rainbow Tales from the Eastern Front, 5 Sept 2012
Southwark LGBT Network presents Clare B. Dimyon of PRIDE Solidarity 366 Days of Kindness: A Response to the London Riots, 1 - 31 Aug 2012
An exhibition by Bernadette Russell & Other Stories Presents Deborah Levy, Iosi Havilio, Christoph Simon, 23 Aug 2012
Literary evening with the British, Argentinian and Swiss authors recently published by the not-for-profit indie publicher & Other Stories Kindness Revolution with Bernadette Russell, 18 Aug 2012
Do an act of kindness for a stranger and share your story Lives On The Line: Stories from the Frontlines of Conflict-Ridden Landscapes
Wed 25 July 2012. With Maziar Bahari and Ben Rawlence. Poetry Thingy: Poetry Reading + Open-Mic, 28 July 2012
Platform 65 presentation. Featuring soecial guest, Singaporean poet Alvin Pang Bridging The Divide: Israeli and Palestinian Women Resolving Conflict
20 June 2012. With Robi Damelin and Seham Abu Awwad Transpose: Literary Edition, 12 May 2012
With Roz Kaveney, CN Lester, Dr Carmilla, Elaine O'Neill, Lyman Gamberton, Hel Gurney A to Z Exhibition Launch and Public Talk 4 May 2012
Artist Jane Colling presents her series of original screenprints entitled ‘A to Z – An Alphabet’. Artist and poet Sarah Reilly and singer/ songwriter/ writer and artist Peter Blegvad will perform a recitation of Alphabet. afterKLEIST anORATORIO
A Four Second Decay Production. Performers Marcia Farquhar, Ella Finer, Matthew Fink, Ernst Fischer, Joe Hales, Justin Hunt, Robbie Jack, Flora Pitrolo, Maggie Pittard, P. A. Skantze. 17 April 2012 Armagh Gaol: Photo Exhibition by Bronagh Wilson
'Armagh Gaol,' Bronagh Wilson's first exhibition, is a study of the Victorian prison, a grade 'B' listed building situated at the end of the city's historic mall. 15 Mar - 14 Apr, 2012 Unseen Women: Armagh Stories
Public Talk and Short Film Screening featuring Geoff Bell, writer and historian; Elizabeth Woodcraft, Cahal McLaughlin and Jolene Mairs, Prisons Memory Archive; Photographer Bronagh Wilson. Thursday, 15 March 2012 Home And Away: LGBT Londoners
Exhibition of biro portraits by Aliyahgator. With support from Southwark LGBT Network 14 Feb - 11 Mar Speaking Out: Voices Celebrating LGBT History Month. 15 Feb 2012
With Booker-nominated author Paul Bailey, author/aerialist Will Davis, publisher/writer Helen Sandler, filmmaker Campbell X, poet/performer Andra Simons, artist Aliyahgator Holocaust Memorial Day 2012. Tues, 24 Jan 2012
Featuring Talk by Survivor Leslie Kleinman, Exhibition and short film screening of work by artist Gitl Braun, Readings by author Jake Wallis Simons and poet Eve Grubin. _Life Stories Cafe: True Storytelling Event - 'Giving'
With Dorothea Smartt, Shaun Levin, Jacob Sam La-Rose, Naomi Woddis, Olumide Popoola Dec 9, 2011 _Exhibition: Jude Cowan - For The Messengers
Poetry & Mixed Media Art In Response To The News. Nov 1 - Nov 27, 2011 Exhibition: London Stories
Sarah Baxter's London Illuminated and Antonio Olmos' Landscape of Murder. Oct 4 - 30, 2011 Key To The Story: Synopsis Writing With Nii Parkes
Workshop organised by Spread The Word. Wed, 28 Sept 2011 Bermondsey Street Festival
Tai Chi in the square, Music, Readings from Journeys In A Bookshop. 24 Sept 2011 Exhibition: Sawubona Presents Colours of South Africa
Shangaan embroidery from Kaross. Sept 13 - Oct 1, 2011 Double Author Event - Simon Van Booy & Molly Peacock
Simon Van Booy's Everything Beautiful Began After and Molly Peacock's The Paper Garden: Mrs Delany (Begins Her Life's Work) At 72. Aug 4, 2011 Boxed In
Artist Dwora Fried, Poet Charlotte Innes, Performance of 'Out-takes From The American Dream' - by actresses Stephanie Ellyne and Erin Hunter. July 5, 2011 Refuge: Joint exhibition to commemorate Refugee Week 2011
Featuring works by Birgit Muller and Mike Moran, Rhonda Klevansky and SDCAS asylum seeker. June 7 - July 3, 2011 Refuge - Event commemorating Refugee Week 2011
Artists Mike Moran, Birgit Muller, Rhonda Klevansky. Author Kamin Mohammadi. Poem performed by John Constable. June 26, 2011 Life Stories Cafe: True Storytelling Event - 'Recycle'
Dorothea Smartt, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Nigel Young, Kinsi Abdulleh, Jane Trowell June 24, 2011 Jessica Harris & John Garvey
An Afternoon of Music with Irish duo Jessica and John featuring Hugh Murray, 19 June 2011 John Constable: Southwark Mysteries
Book Launch, Talk, Performance: Southwark Mysteries. June 16, 2011 Words Made Flesh
Author Readings: Laurika Bretherton, Rosemary Furber, Rochelle Gosling, Peter Miller, Jennifer Nadel, Susan Oke, Mark Pendry, Rosie Rowel and Colette Swires. May 21, 2011 26 Presents... An Evening of Spoken Words
With Polar Bear, Joshua Idehen, Inua Ellems. Friday, May 13, 2011 Museum of London Book Launch
The Cluniac Priory and Abbey of St. Saviour Bermondsey, Surrey: Excavations 1984-95 Wed, May 11, 2011 Exhibition: The Imaginary Herbarium of Dr James Miranda Barry
Alessandra Pirovano. May 4 - Jun 5, 2011 Beautiful Sentence: Writings from Women in Prison
Leah Thorn, Farah Damji, Laurel Townhead. Wed. Apr 27, 2011 Exhibition: Southwark Speaks: People, Places, Things
Featuring photography by Daniel Quinones. Apr 2 - 30, 2011 Sid Gauld and Elizabeth Tillotson on Music. Southwark Arts Forum Event
Talks & Music Performances. Tues, Apr 19, 2011 Southwark Speaks: People, Places, Things
With Paul Bailey, Southwark Elders, Young Poets. Tues, Apr 12, 2011 London Dreamtime Presents... Shadows and Fog
With Nigel of Bermondsey, John Constable, and Stuart Forester, among others, storytelling by Vanessa Woolf and Jackie Downs, silhouette films by Richard Mansfield. Friday, Apr 8, 2011 Tollington Press Book Launch
The Comedienne by VG Lee (10th Anniversary Edition) & The Full Heritage Experience by Maureen Sandler, Rosie Sandler and Helen Sandler. Apr 7, 2011 Life Stories Cafe: True Storytelling Event - 'Time'
With Dorothea Smartt, Julie Kertesz, Andra Simons, Rob Wray, Reen Pilkington. Mar 25, 2011 Exhibition: Mugabe's Victims: Zimbabwe Today
Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund. Mar 22 - Apr 3, 2011 International Womens Day Event
Naomi Alderman, Sarah Blake, Elif Shafak. Discussion Chaired by Homa Khaleeli Breaking The Silence: International Women's Day. Tues, Mar 15, 2011 Martyn Stanton Harris, Shira Geffen, Rabai al-Madhoun, Ivor Dembina, Shaun Levin
Israel-Palestine: Life In A Conflict Zone. Sun, Mar 6, 2011 Rosie Wilby: Rosie's Pop Diary
An evening of visuals, stand up comedy, storytelling, music. Feb 17, 2011 Holocaust Memorial Day 2011:
Gena Turgel MBE, Mark S. Smith, Leah Thorn, Susan Weinberg Surviving History - The Holocaust Remembered. Tues, Jan 25, 2011 Dickens & Nigel of Bermondsey: W&T Celebrates Christmas
With Nigel of Bermondsey and actors Kim and Carl from Inner Sanctum Theatre Company, 21 Dec 2010 I Think in Pictures, I Write in Pictures
creating art with text and image. Dec 10, 2010 - Jan 9, 2011 with work by Tahera Aziz, Isabelle Chapman, Anna Collin, Kate Griffin, Ruth Harris, Irene Jeffery, Lisa Thompson, Simona Piantieri Life Stories Cafe: True Storytelling - 'Ancestors'
With Dorothea Smartt, Helen Sandler, Cath Kane. 3 Dec 2010 We Are Who We Are: Glimpses of Traveller Life
Exhibition Launch, Public Talk, Film Screening and Performances. Nov 9, 2010 Exhibition: Truth & Lies
Jillian Edelstein. Award-winning images on the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. Sept 14 - Oct 10 |