It's Your Write
A Celebration of the Self-Published!
Thursday 7 April, 18.00-21.00
Record-breaking numbers attended The Papered Parlour's ethical fashion evening atthe V&A Museum of Childhood on 3 March and now the Parlour girls are back for It's Your Write: A Celebration of the Self-Published!, a mini-festival celebrating a new wave of DIY counter-culture and craftivism. Come and sing, stitch and scribble your way into the political arena with the help of London's creative elite!
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Engage in workshops, join in panel discussions, watch performances, and browse over 20 stalls from independent creators to the beat of a live music backdrop from Noah and The Whale's Indie label The Young and Lost Club, who will bring new bands Planet Earth, Hot Feet and Florian Lunaire.
Nick Hornby's Ministry of Stories will kick off the night with a collaborative writing workshop and The Craftivist Collective and Craft Guerrilla's Zeena Shah will be inviting freedom fighters everywhere to make their own badges and banners. Influential photomontage artist Peter Kennard, will be sharing his work, which includes some of the most enduring subversive photoimages of the last forty years.
Be inspired by folk champion Sam Lee as he sheds light on the rich political history of Romany Gypsy and Traveller music, write that letter you haven't had time for at the aptly named Letter Lounge, have your say on Kate and Will's Big Day with East London Printmakers, and find out how to make a 'zine' worth reading thanks to self-publishing collective, The Alternative Press.
The Papered Parlour will be running a live blogging station on the night and Guardian investigative journalist of the moment Shiv Malik will be discussing the changing nature of protests with founding member of the Stop the War Coalition Chris Nineham, environmental activist and Climate Rush founder Tamsin Omond, the UK's most prominent female activist Lindsey German and the most talked-about activist group of the past year, UK Uncut.
More about the evening
- Create and perform a new protest song with activist and musician Chris TT.
- The Women's Library and Iniva's Stuart Hall Library will discuss their respective zine collections, sharing highlights from their collections, including Riot Grrrl.
- FineCell Work will discuss using craft in prisons.
- Illustrator and designer David Janes will discuss his political portrait series, 650 Gargoyles.
- Cast your ballot and speak your mind with Think Act Vote.
- AND Publishing discuss the wave of book piracy hitting emerging countries and explore text manipulation.
- Interventions from The University for Strategic Optimism and Climate Rush.
- Typewriter artist Keira Rathbone in residence with her vintage typewriter.
- Plus the It's Your Write Book Swap and The World's Largest Quilted Poem courtesy of The Poetry Society.
FREE
Drop-in
Adults
