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An evening of humourous, insightful and occasionally heartbreaking poetry from this year’s festival word of mouth sensation: The Firm. Holding your hand through the hard times.

This fabulous, fun and funky foursome play an eclectic mix of jolly sing-along songs on ukulele, bass and percussion. For one night only they are bringing their ‘Christmas Ukulele Disco’ to Seven Arts. Get your dancing shoes on and your glitter balls a spinning it’s time to ‘Get Down’ with Some Like It Ossett!

A Firm of Poets is a collective of writers and spoken word artists based in West Yorkshire. The ‘Firm’ not only showcase themselves, but have a desire to expose the best of emerging talent from the region and beyond.

Matt Abbott (aka Skint & Demoralised)
Matt Abbott is a punk poet with a remarkable amount of experience for his age. Making his stage début a few weeks before his 18th birthday, he signed a major record deal with Universal at the age of 19 as lyricist in the band Skint & Demoralised.

Ralph Dartford
Ralph studied creative writing at Birkbeck College under the tutelage of late Michael Donaghy where he received a First. He currently works for the Arts Council England where he develops emerging artists across all art forms. Ralph writes narrative poems from the heart. Sometimes funny, sometimes bittersweet, sometimes as sad as a lost dog.

John Darwin
John has been writing and performing his poetry since 2008. He was the founder member and singer/songwriter with Leeds based band Flowers For Agatha in his youth. He is driven by raw emotion, some of his work is confessional and he is influenced strongly by American poets of the 20th century, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and WD Snodgrass.

Geneviève L. Walsh
Geneviève has been resident compére at Spoken Weird since May 2013; organising and running a poetry, spoken word and storytelling event in Halifax on a monthly basis. Having noticed that Halifax didn’t have a regular poetry event, she filled the gap in the market by providing one. (Nevov)… (més)

John Godber headlines an evening of readings and conversation with a trio of highly acclaimed writers who are either from, or influenced by, the North. Followed by Q&A.

John is an internationally renowned dramatist, winning numerous awards for his observational comedies including a Lawrence Olivier Award and seven Los Angeles Critics Circle Awards, as well as two BAFTA’s for his television work. He is the third most performed playwright in the UK behind William Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn, with plays including Bouncers, Teechers, Up ‘n’ Under, April in Paris and September in the Rain.

Helen Cross’ first novel, My Summer of Love, won the Betty Trask Award in 2002 and became a BAFTA Award winning feature film. Peter Sansom is a poet whose books include On the Pennine Way and Everything You’ve Heard is True.

Part of Northern Accent, a new series of literature events across Yorkshire’s Small Venues Network. (Nevov)… (més)

Ray Brown launches his novel, ‘In All Beginnings’. Hosted by Mike McGowan, Ray will read, answer questions, sign books, and possibly tell one stunning joke.

Sex in the Seventies and love in the Eighties
The peace movement and the miners’ strike in Leeds
Pickets…pints and poems… Grosvenor Square… Greenham… Molesworth
Labour Party meetings… Non-violent direct action
Mid-night arrest… phone taps… laughter and tears

In 1984 areas of Britain resembled a police state. Simon and Lindy, ‘lovers against the bomb’, are peace activists drawn into the yearlong miners’ strike. For them it is a time of fear, laughter, homemade wine, and home grown dope. A world of collecting buckets and button badges, peace camps and picket lines, Labour Party meetings and Non Violent Direct Action workshops. It’s a time of constant opposition to the state. And a time of self discovery. Through it all Simon revisits the Seventies, his days of expensive haircuts and fawn safari suits, alcohol and affairs, and his first encounter with Lindy.

Combining acute observation with commentary and social satire, In All Beginnings’ captures the times and ends with an unexpected stylistic shift. (Nevov)… (més)

The South Sioux City Public Library is proud to bring Iowa author, Jane Ver Mulm to the library to promote her book Finding Paradise. Jane lives in Rock Valley. She started her professional career ghostwriting for online companies. Her stories come out of her love of history and her ability to imagine herself in the historical time period of which she writes.

In her novel, Ellen Schmidt finds herself out of step in the world in which she lives. Considered a spinster with the world around her, her only friends were the slaves her family owns. After her father arranges her marriage she must face a series of difficult circumstances at the beginning of the Civil War, setting her on a path that seems to be out of her control. Ellen continues to forge her unique path that can include a paradise of her own. (djleenieman)… (més)

Join Irene Lopez for a discussion of "You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey" on Wednesday, January 12th, at 6:30 p.m. in the Library Cafe.

Check out your books with your library card at the circulation desk. We will discuss the whole book. You will want to read it before the event.

Read-think-discuss-enjoy

Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism. Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black Friend and everyone is, as she puts it, "stark raving normal." But Amber's sister Lacey? She's still living in their home state of Nebraska, and trust us, you'll never believe what happened to Lacey. From racist donut shops to strangers putting their whole hand in her hair, from being mistaken for a prostitute to being mistaken for Harriet Tubman, Lacey is a lightning rod for hilariously ridiculous yet all-too-real anecdotes. She's the perfect mix of polite, beautiful, petite, and Black that apparently makes people think "I can say whatever I want to this woman." And now, Amber and Lacey share these entertainingly horrifying stories through their laugh-out-loud sisterly banter. Painfully relatable or shockingly eye-opening (depending on how often you have personally been followed by security at department stores), this book tackles modern-day racism with the perfect balance of levity and gravity. (djleenieman)… (més)

Contact: Dan Nieman 402-494-7545 dnieman@southsiouxcity.org


Cover to cover Book club meets on the second and fourth Monday of each month at 3:00 p.m. They read both fiction and nonfiction. Whether you are a young adult or a senior adult, the coffee pot is on and you are welcome.

This week we discuss "The Postmistress" by Sarah Blake.

The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States' entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter. (djleenieman)… (més)

13:00-18:45
要申し込み
Zoom + 対面（早稲田大学小野記念講堂　※早稲田大学学内関係者のみ）
講師：吉増 剛造氏（詩人）、Forrest Gander氏（詩人）、和合 亮一氏（詩人）、Jordan Smith氏（城西国際大学准教授）、郷原 佳以氏（東京大学准教授）、小野 正嗣氏（早稲田大学文学学術院教授）
司会・オーガナイザー：堀内 正規氏（早稲田大学文学学術院教授）
使用言語：日本語・英語
参加：学生・教員・一般
参加費：無料 (6dts)… (més)

“The Blair Supremacy” by Lewis Minkin is a rare and outstanding work of scholarship which investigates how manipulation and spin were used under the name of New Labour to strengthen the position of Blair and his allies which inflicted a devastating blow to the internal democracy of the Labour Party and undermined public confidence in British political life.

The findings of this study of Labour’s party management during the Blair years provide a unique resource for activists and members of the public who wish to make sure that the legacy and lessons of New Labour are not wasted.

You are invited to the Leeds launch of “THE BLAIR SUPREMACY” by Lewis Minkin.

with

Lewis Minkin
Author of “The Labour Party Conference”, “The Contentious Alliance”.

Hugo Radice
School of Politics and International Studies, Leeds University

Sarah Perrigo
Former Lecturer in Peace Studies, special interest in human rights and gender politics.

Barry Winter
Independent Labour Publications

Liz Minkin
Former Leeds Labour Councillor

Sheila Banks
Public and Commercial Services Union, former President of Leeds Trades Council.

Michael McGowan
Former Labour MEP for Leeds

Copies of “The Blair Supremacy” will be available at a special reduced price. (Nevov)… (més)