BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211006T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211006T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T000601 CREATED:20210913T161233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T161235Z UID:36554-1633546800-1633552200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice\, with Chris Saltmarsh [online event] DESCRIPTION:Saving the world is not enough; we must build a better one in the process. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Chris Saltmarsh to virtual Housmans to discuss Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice\, a new addition to the brilliant Outspoken series by radical publishers Pluto Press. \n\n\n\nTime is up. The climate crisis is no longer a future to be feared\, but a devastating reality. \n\n\n\nIn this discussion\, Chris will explore how we’ve arrived at this moment and argue that the profoundly political nature of the environmental crisis has been relentlessly downplayed. He will also analyse the failures of NGOs\, the limitations of Extinction Rebellion and Youth Strikes\, the role of trade unions\, and the possibilities of a Green New Deal.  \n\n\n\nReal change in our lifetime means taking power into our own hands. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nChris Saltmarsh is co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal. He has written for a wide range of media including Novara Media\, Tribune\, Jacobin\, the Ecologist\, openDemocracy\, Vice and New Internationalist. \n\n\n\nMore speakers tba \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/burnt-fighting-for-climate-justice-with-chris-saltmarsh-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Burnt-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211013T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211013T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T000601 CREATED:20210922T125101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T152650Z UID:36849-1634151600-1634157000@housmans.com SUMMARY:In and Against the State: Discussion Notes for Socialists\, with Seth Wheeler [online event] DESCRIPTION:Originally published as a pamphlet in 1979 and again by Pluto in 1980\, In and Against the State brought together questions of working-class struggle and state power\, exploring how revolutionary socialists might reconcile working in the public sector with their radical politics. Informed by autonomist political ideas and practices that were central to the protests of 1968\, the book’s authors spoke to a generation of activists wrestling with the question of where to place their energies. \n\n\n\nForty years have passed\, yet the questions it posed are still to be answered. As the eclipse of Corbynism and the onslaught of the global pandemic have demonstrated with brutal clarity\, a renewed socialist strategy is needed more urgently than ever. \n\n\n\nEditor Seth Wheeler will be joining us online to discuss. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nSeth Wheeler has over 20 years of experience within the domestic and international extra-parliamentary left(s). He is the co-editor of Occupy Everything (Minor Compostions\, 2013)\, co-founder of the communist organisation Plan C\, and a founding editor of the online workerist journal Notes From Below. He has contributed to Novara Media among other publications and is completing his PhD at Royal Holloway\, University of London. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nYou will receive the link to the event content in your order confirmation email\, and in a reminder email before the event starts. However\, access to this event is also available via the event page on eventbrite. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of In and Against the State then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free RSVP option for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nFREE RSVP AND TICKETS via EVENTBRITE HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/in-and-against-the-state-discussion-notes-for-socialists-with-seth-wheeler-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/In-and-against-the-state.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T000601 CREATED:20210921T145146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T145149Z UID:34819-1634756400-1634761800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Dystopian Horrors For Survival\, with Alice Sparkly Kat and Don't Tell The Village Elders collective [online event] DESCRIPTION:Join author and astrologer Alice Sparkly Kat and Don’t Tell The Village Elders collective in a Halloween themed workshop about processing dystopia through horror\, poetry\, and spellwork.  \n\n\n\nTogether we’ll explore fear\, grief and transition\, how horror as a genre can act as an ally for processing the dystopian realities we found ourselves in collectively and individually. Be prepared to take part in a writing game\, amateur writers and writers who write for pleasure are welcome.  \n\n\n\nWe hope that this space will give you a place where you are able to grieve and transition in a group setting. Bring your heart\, be ready to write\, and have a functioning keyboard and wifi signal. \n\n\n\nBios:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlice Sparkly Kat is an astrologer. They use astrology to re-chart a history of the subconscious\, redefine the body in the world\, and reimagine history as collective memory. Their astrological work has inhabited MoMA\, Philadelphia Museum of Art\, and The Brooklyn Museum. They’re the author of Postcolonial Astrology.Don’t Tell The Village Elders collective is a network of BPOC practitioners reclaiming our spiritual practices from legacies of colonialism and capitalism. We have a vision for a spirituality and wellness movement centred in deep personal and social change. We come from a variety of backgrounds – including the arts\, activism and occultism and through this network we aim to build a home for those multiplicities and to support each other in discovering more about our connection to divinity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of Postcolonial Astrology then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP AND GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/dystopian-horrors-for-survival-with-alice-sparkly-kat-and-dont-tell-the-village-elders-collective-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Discussion group,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/POSTCO-AST.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211026T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211026T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T000601 CREATED:20210914T122052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T114140Z UID:37083-1635274800-1635280200@housmans.com SUMMARY:The American Way: Stories of Invasion\, with Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah [online event] DESCRIPTION:75 years of US-led invasions\, CIA-sponsored coups\, election interference\, stay-behind networks\, rendition\, and weapons testing… all in the name of Pax America\, the world’s police. \n\n\n\nHousmans is pleased to announce another “History-into-Fiction” event in collaboration with indie publisher Comma Press. \n\n\n\nThe American Way: Stories of Invasion re-examines US foreign policy with stories that explore the human cost of these interventions on foreign soil\, by writers from that soil. For this special online event\, Fariba Nawa and Bina Shah\, two of the anthology’s contributors will be discussing their stories and the events depicted within. \n\n\n\nBy presenting events from indigenous\, grassroots perspectives\, accompanied by afterwords by the historians that consulted on them\, this book attempts to bring some clarity back to the history of US interventions. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nFariba Nawa is an Afghan-American freelance journalist based in Istanbul. She was born and raised in Afghanistan until she was 9\, then fled the Soviet invasion with her family to the U.S. in the 1980s. She authored Afghanistan Inc. (CorpWatch)\, an oft-cited resource in international debates on the effectiveness of reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. She is also author of Opium Nation (Harper Perennial\, 2011)\, a personal account of the drug trade in Afghanistan and its impact on women. She is the host and chief editor of On Spec podcast.  \n\n\n\nBina Shah is a Karachi-based author of five novels and two collections of short stories. Her latest novel\, Before She Sleeps\, was published by Delphinium Books in August 2018. A regular contributor to The New York Times\, Al Jazeera\, The Huffington Post\, and a frequent guest on the BBC\, she has contributed essays and op-eds to Granta\, The Independent\, and The Guardian\, and writes a regular op-ed column for Dawn\, Pakistan’s biggest English-language newspaper. She works on issues of women’s rights and female empowerment in Pakistan and across Muslim countries. In 2020\, she was awarded the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nThere are various tickets available for this event: If you’d like a copy of The American Way then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/the-american-way-stories-of-invasion-with-fariba-nawa-and-bina-shah-online-event/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/american-way-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T000601 CREATED:20211002T131937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211006T123741Z UID:34956-1635361200-1635366600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Green Social Housing: A Virtual Panel on Housing and Sustainability DESCRIPTION:How can we meet a housing crisis while reducing the materials we use? \n\n\n\nHousmans is very pleased to announce a joint event with It’s Freezing in LA!\, the critically acclaimed independent magazine about climate change. \n\n\n\nWe know well that a green future requires a radical transformation to the spaces we live in. From avoiding the use of virgin materials to reducing the energy we use in them\, climate-safe management of homes and houses is a lot more than eye-catching green walls. But how can we hard-wire safe\, affordable and decent homes into this shift? How can we meet a housing crisis while reducing the materials we use? \n\n\n\nIn this new panel we hear from a range of green thinkers and activists about what the climate crisis means for social housing and affordable homes. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nLeila Sackur [Chair] is a freelance writer and member of the editorial team at It’s Freezing in LA. She writes about culture\, cities and politics\, and is currently studying at the UCL Urban Lab. \n\n\n\nTwitter: @leila_sackur \n\n\n\nPronouns: she/her \n\n\n\nJosh Fenton is a freelance writer and essayist based in Birmingham. He was a New Architecture Writer and co-founder of Afterparti Zine\, an architecture-infused collective that explores big ideas about contemporary urban space through the lenses of identity and race. \n\n\n\nTwitter: @JFenton_R \n\n\n\nPronouns: he/him \n\n\n\nFiona MacDonald and Matthew Springett – Matt + Fiona is an organisation that works with young people to understand how their built environment might be improved and empower them to bring that vision to life. http://mattandfiona.org \n\n\n\n@fi_macdonald; @MattFionaBUILD \n\n\n\nAdam Almeida is a researcher with the Centre for Labour and Social Studies. His report ‘Pushed to the Margins’ maps the process of gentrification in London throughout the 2010s\, measuring population churn\, racial demographics\, house prices and health data. His work supports rent controls\, and the ‘right of return’ to all residents living in council estates undergoing regeneration schemes. \n\n\n\n@adammarqalmeida \n\n\n\n Pronouns: he/him \n\n\n\nLuke Murphy – Luke heads IPPR’s Environmental Justice Commission and leads the Energy\, Climate\, Housing and Infrastructure team. Luke has worked for the Labour party as a policy and political adviser for a shadow secretary of state and successive shadow housing ministers leading their work on housing\, also working on local government and devolution. He has worked on policy and advocacy projects for the Living Wage Foundation and a leading housing association. \n\n\n\nLuke Murphy | IPPR \n\n\n\n@lukesmurphy \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT\n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. Ticketholders will also be able to access the event via the eventbrite page. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION\n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the latest issue of It’s Freezing in LA! (issue 8) included in your ticket then choose the IFLA plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free RSVP ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP OR BUY TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT HERE\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/freezing-in-la/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Housmans.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR