Events
Pages of Hackney invites you to a series of readings, discussions, debates, screenings, art exhibitions, performances and parties. These events are well-attended so do pop into the shop or pay by PayPal in advance to guarantee a place. We can only hold reserved tickets until 6pm on the night of the event. You can contact us on info@pagesofhackney.co.uk or 02085251452.
Our Annual Winter Warmer with the London Klezmer Quartet
Friday 7th December at 7pm
Tickets £7 – includes mulled wine and mince pies!
The London Klezmer Quartet are back for the fourth year running, playing the celebratory and soulful music of Jewish Eastern Europe.
The London Klezmer Quartet is a dynamic group of performers whose deep understanding of klezmer, the celebratory and soulful music of Eastern European Jews, is reflected in exuberant, passionate and accomplished performances that captivate audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
The group plays traditional and new material guaranteed to move audiences from dancing to tears and back again in moments.
The all-female band was formed in 2009, and was swiftly picked up by some of the UK’s foremost folk & world music promoters – Songlines Magazine, Continental Drifts, and The Magpie’s Nest offered stages for the band’s unique combination of artistry and exuberance. They supported the Amsterdam Klezmer Band in late 2011, and in early 2012 completed a three-week tour in Australia, where they played to packed houses and headlined at the National Folk Festival in Canberra.
Notable performance venues in 2011 included Kings Place, the Green Note, a ‘late’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cecil Sharp House, and the Vortex. Rural touring schemes have also taken the LKQ on board: they have featured on programmes in Dorset (Artsreach) and Hampshire (Hog the Limelight). The band is also proud to be part of the Music in Hospitals roster of artists.
Band members are also in demand on other world music stages, recording & touring with The Indigo Girls (US), Sinead O’Connor (Ireland), Natacha Atlas (Egypt), She’Koyokh (UK), Abdel Ali Slimani (Algeria), and Ahmed Mukhtar (Iraq).
EVENT CANCELLED 28th November at 7pm
Wonderment: A Love Affair with Adventure, Writing, Travel, Philosophy and Family Life – author Nigel Hey talks about his recent book
This event will be held at the bookshop
Tickets £4
Nigel Hey’s sixth book, Wonderment: A Love Affair with Adventure, Writing, Travel, Philosophy, and Family Life, is more than an autobiography about an English-American science writer – it is a trip around the world and around the mind.The heart of this fast-paced story lies in its varied, thoughtful, and sometimes hilarious collection of memoirs about writing, printing, publishing, media, Native Americans, the American mountain states, world travel, and amateur theatre. These are linked with the author’s philosophical thoughts and observations on the trials and triumphs of a family life shared between London and New Mexico.
Hey considers that his life has been both enriched and at times endangered by an apparently insatiable curiosity that has filled his world with adventures of mind and body. In his boyhood his parents take him to a new home, touching off a semi-nomadic five years that eventually take him to the American West, torn between a love of his native Lancashire and the unknowns of future life. Small-town realities in an all-Mormon community teach him the lessons of being an outsider and awake a spirit of independent thought and action. With his university years complete, he heads for his first full time job, in Bermuda, then a second in England. These mark the start of an exhilarating roller-coaster life in which he achieves professional success while fulfilling the responsibilities of parenthood and enduring the heartaches of two failed marriages.
Throughout, he lives the life of a genuinely curious man, exploring the vestiges of colonial Spain that survive in the mountains of the American Southwest, driving a tunnel in the remote mountains of Greece, dancing with native Americans, uncovering the history of high-tech Soviet weapon science, exploring his Yorkshire and Lancashire roots, traveling the world.
The story is laced with scores of real-life anecdotes as Nigel Hey explores his personal philosophy and tackles the biggest question of all – where does he really belong?
Bloody, Nasty People: The Rise of Brtain’s Far Right - author Daniel Trilling talks to Owen Jones about his recent book
8th November at 7pm
This event will be held at ~Sutton House
Tickets £5
The past decade saw the rise of the British National Party, the country’s most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defense League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, ‘enforced multiculturalism’ and benefit ‘scroungers’, these groups have been working overtime to shift the blame for the nation’s ills onto the shoulders of the vulnerable. What does this extremist resurgence say about the state of modern Britain? Daniel will be in conversation with Owen Jones whose book, ‘Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class’ was the no.1 politics book of the year.
Daniel Trilling is the assistant editor of the New Statesman whose journalism can be found here.
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Please note that this event is organised by Pages of Hackney and will be held at Sutton House.
EVENT POSTPONED until February
The Oil Road: Journeys From the Caspian Sea to the City of London – with author, James Marriott
31st October at 7pm – cancelled
Tickets £3
In a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello track the concealed routes along which flows the lifeblood of our economy. The stupendous resource of Azerbaijani crude has long inspired dreams of a world remade. From the revolutionary Futurism of the capital city, Baku, in the 1920s to the unblinking Capitalism of modern London, the drive to control the region’s oil reserves – and hence people and events – has shattered environments and shaped societies.
In The Oil Road, the human scale of village life in the Caucasus Mountains and the plains of Anatolia is suddenly, and sometimes fatally, confronted by the almost ungraspable scale of the oil corporation BP. Pipelines and tanker routes tie the fraying social democracies of Italy, Austria and Germany to the repressive regimes of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. A web of financial and political institutions in London stitches together the lives of metropolis and village.
Building on a decade of study with Platform, Marriott and Minio-Paluello guide us through a previously obscured landscape of energy production and consumption, resistance and profit that has marked Europe for over a century. They blend the empathy of committed travel writing with the precision of investigative journalism in a timely book of compelling urgency.
Family Swap Shop
Monthly, every second
Saturday from 10.30-12.30am
Bring and take children’s items for free!
Next Swap Shop is in September.
