Preview: Thursday 15 September, 6–8pm
Studio Voltaire
1A Nelsons Row
London SW4 7JR
A new film commission by Huw Lemmey, and co–directed with Onyeka Igwe, opens today at Studio Voltaire until 23 January 2023. Ungentle explores the complicated relationship between British espionage and male homosexuality.
The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis. Positioned behind the camera, each of them directs Coates in a filmed restaging of particular episodes from their lives. Following extensive research and discussion, the five short films challenge cultural stigma through an attempt to … Continued
“As commander-in-chief of the introvert resistance, Hamja is on a never-ending tour to overthrow Extrovert Supremacy. This film is just the beginning.” – Tom Dream
A new film by Tom Dream, inspired by Hamja Ahsan’s book, Shy Radicals, is premiering on Nowness this week.
Our Book of the Month for September, with 30% off all month, is UR…A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning, by Marcus Coates.
23 September 2022, 6.30pm
The Photographers’ Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London, W1F 7LW
Free. More details/RSVP
Join artist Mahmoud Khaled and designer Marwan Kaabour as they discuss their collaboration on the new artist book Fantasies on a Found Phone, Dedicated to the Man Who Lost it, co-published by BookWorks and The Mosaic Rooms to accompany Mahmoud Khaled‘s first UK solo exhibition of the same name.
24 September 2022, 6.30–8pm
Good Press
32 St. Andrews St
Glasgow G1 5PD
Free but RSVP
Good Press + Book Works present an event with Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Sophie Collins to launch two new Book Works publications.
Practice Makes Perfect author Rosa-Johan Uddoh will be appearing alongside an excellent array of artists, performers and activities at the Jupiter Rising festival this weekend (26-28 August) at the Jupiter Artlands outside Edinburgh. The wonderful Lighthouse Books will also be there with a bookshop, and will have copies of Practice Makes Perfect. More information and tickets here.
Wed 7 September 2022, 7pm Whitgift Centre AtriumCroydon, London Join Turf Projects for the premiere of a new artist film by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Cultural Field in the Whitgift Centre Atrium, Croydon on 7 September. Cultural Field is developed by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, directed and produced by Louis Brown and Jos Bitelli (East London Cable) and performed … Continued
Sunday 21 August, 3-5pm
Free & open to all.
Folsom Street Community Center
145 9th Street, Suite 105
San Francisco, CA 94103
Please note masks are required
Dark Room by Phyllis Christopher is coming home to San Francisco with a very special launch at the Folsom Street Community Centre on 21 August! It’s the first and possibly only IRL event with all of the contributors
Our book of the month for August 2022, with 30% off all month, is The Fabricator’s Tale by Katrina Palmer (2014). This meta-narrative is punctuation by short, abstract, and often disturbingly violent stories, featuring nameless characters that expose the repressed tension between the animate and inanimate, the sick malaise of contemporary life, and the cracking … Continued