Dreams for Lammas: a gala of new local writing
Thursday 1 August 2024, Zoom, 7.00pm - 8.00pm; £3/£2
Some call it Lammas. Some call it Lughnasadh, Lughnasa or Lúnasa. Whatever your culture, in the Northern Hemisphere, early August has traditionally been a time when the start of harvest season is celebrated.
Our third gala of local writing welcomes your poems and short stories that explore this broad theme.
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Borders: Drawing the Line? with Tim Marshall and Philip Seargeant
Monday 9 March 2026, 7.00pm, on Zoom; Free/donations welcome
Tim Marshall, bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, discusses with Philip Seargeant why physical borders are such a live issue in today’s globalised, interconnected world, how communities and states act in relation to one another, and how considering geography might help us understand the rise of populist politics.
Borders, Routes and Roots: Breaking Through the Class Ceiling with Kit de Waal and Dan Taylor
Monday 16 March 2026, 7.00pm, on Zoom; Free/donations welcome
Kit de Waal’s new novel, The Best of Everything, follows Paulette, who migrates from St Kitts to 1970s Birmingham, rebuilding her life through an unlikely found family crossing racial and cultural boundaries. A leading voice for working class writers, Kit joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss the class ceiling in British society, and how to challenge it.
Borders: Looking Beyond Borders with Gracie Mae Bradley and Gunjan Sondhi
Monday 23 March 2026, 7.00pm, on Zoom; Free/donations welcome
Gracie Mae Bradley, civil liberties expert and co-author of Against Borders, talks to the Open University’s Gunjan Sondhi about ways in which we might reshape our current, populism-tarnished world to overcome the barriers that fuel division and disparities.
Borders: The Barriers in our Heads with Abda Khan and Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský
Monday 30 March 2026, 7.00pm, on Zoom; Free/donations welcome
Cultural borders – built from equal measures of human differences and of preconceptions – can be as difficult as physical barriers to cross. In conversation with Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský, writer/lawyer Abda Khan will explore how to dismantle the prejudices and biases that build them.