Publishing in September 2023, That Fire Over There takes fire as a metaphor for ideas around queer attachment, proximity, and personal and collective transformation. It also excavates the history of a real fire which in 1981 destroyed the Hambrough Tavern – a contested site symbolic of provocation and conflict against far-right groups in Southall, west London, where Sahib grew up.
Saturday 17 June, 7pm
Category Is Books
34 Allison Street
Glasgow
Hamishi Farah’s first UK solo exhibition – London UK – is now open at Arcadia Missa until 30 August 2023.
The gallery contains 3 paintings, Roberto Cavalli, Beyoncé, & Whale, and a letter from a London legal firm on behalf of their client seeking to colonise or reappropriate the physical body of Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli.
17 June 2023, 11am-7pm
Presse Books at FormaHQ
140 Great Dover Street
London, SE1 4GW
Our book of the month for June is in fact a series – three experimental works commissioned by Francesco Pedraglio as part of The Time Machine, a 2012 Book Works series. The Time Machine asks us to forget about archives and embrace the confusion of the present, in order to consciously experiment with all our … Continued
25 May–8 July 2023
Lungley Gallery
53 Great Portland Street
London, W1W 7LG
Second floor
Opening 25 May, 1–8pm (artist will be present 5–8pm)
31 May 2023, 9–9.45pm
North Cloisters, Wilkins Building
University College, London
Free, no booking required. More info.
Nina Wakeford will be giving a performance around her book, Our Pink Depot: The Gay Underground FLO-N202-236000000-TRK-MST-00002-SAY-HELLO-WAVE-GOODBYE-KEN-NIE-BPS (Book Works & Art on the Underground, 2019) as part of the Blueprints of Hope: Celebrating LGBTQ+ London show in which she is also an exhibiting artist.
Burley Fisher Books
Thurs June 1, 2023, 6.30–8.30pm
Free but book a place here.
Join us for the launch of Other Reflexes, the debut novel by Diana Georgiou, published by Book Works as part of the Interstices series.
Weirdness SalonSaturday 3 June, 12.30–6pmCorbett Theatre, Hatfields, Loughton, IG10 3RY Free. Book your place here. Hamja Ahsan will be talking about his book, Shy Radicals, (now in its 5th edition) at the Weirdness Salon on 5 June. Join us to discuss weirdness as refuge, weirdness as solidarity, weirdness as a form of life that does … Continued
12–14 May 2023Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TGFree and open to all. Book Works will be back in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall on the weekend of 12–14 May 2023. We’ll be selling a wide range of new and older titles and special editions. We’ll also be joined by Rosa-Johan Uddoh who will be doing a talk … Continued