events
Check out our events, performances and appearances. Looking for our regular groups? You'll find them by clicking the button below.
9 august to 5 september
ART: GHOSTS & SPIRITS II - CATHERINE AND RICHARD
This month in our gallery: paintings by Catherine and Richard.
Catherine: 'What you see here is part of my continuous pursuit in capturing in my art the spirits that visit me constantly.' Richard: 'My only set of conscious criteria has to do with the final version touching something in me, not a pre-formed idea or concept but something pre-verbal.' Free.
thursday 28 AUGUST
VERBAL DISCHARGE - NORTH (Spoken Word)
7pm Doors.
Club Verbal Discharge takes the reins of the All Good Spoken Word night in All Good Bookshop. The finest readings of new writing known universe. Poetry and prose encouraged. Whatever your written thing is.
Expect the usual madness. BYOB bar with drinks flowing till late. Doors 7pm. Curtain at 7:30.
Tickets start from £5 (via another website).
friday 29th August
Storytelling: THE NORSE EDDA with Laurence Ashcroft, Laura Sampson and Sam Enthoven - PART 3
Doors 7pm for 7.30pm start. £10 on the door.
Following the sellout success of last summer’s THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH and then BEOWULF here in February, EPIC STORYTELLING IS BACK – and now we turn our attention to Norse Mythology. Snorri's Prose Edda is a treasury of some of the greatest tales ever told! Over three nights this August join Odin, Thor, Loki and others in the golden halls of Asgard with storytellers Laura Sampson and Laurence Ashcroft, to a live soundtrack by Sam Enthoven.
sunday 31 August
Workshop: BOOKBINDING with Ariel
2pm to 3.30pm, SOLD OUT
This workshop introduces participants to the art of bookbinding through hands-on experience. You’ll learn how to make your own hand-stitched notebook using traditional techniques and beautiful materials. The session will explore how craftsmanship and creativity come together in the process of making something both practical and personal. Suitable for beginners and anyone curious about handmade books, this workshop offers a calm, creative space to slow down and enjoy tactile making. All materials provided.
thursday 4 september
Film: Haringey Community Cinema and Waging Peace present LEILA'S JOURNEY (dir Tom Newman)
7pm Doors
We’re delighted to present the world premiere of the documentary Liela’s Journey, directed by Tom Newman, a resident of Haringey. The screening will be followed by a discussion, facilitated by Waging Peace, with Liela and the director.
This is the first screening of our autumn series on migration ('no one leaves home unless') co-organised with Waging Peace, Haringey Migrant Support Centre and Haringey Welcome. For more, visit our website.
About the film:
Liela’s Journey (dir. Tom Newman), 25 mins
In April 2023, settled UK resident Liela visited her family in Sudan for Eid. During her visit, fighting broke out between the RSF and SAF forces across Sudan, including in Omdurman where her family lives. In Liela’s Journey, Liela talks to the camera, directly and unmediated, revealing her experiences of the war and its impact on women living there. She shares how she escaped to the UK, her fears for family still trapped there and her continual fight to raise awareness of the situation in Sudan.
Produced by the charity Waging Peace, Liela’s Journey is a unique and personal account of the violence in Sudan. It gives scale and human context to the implications of violence on women and a generation of Sudanese men who are given a stark choice: boat or boot. Flee or fight.
Pay what you can for booking (via another website)
friday 5 september
COMEDY CLUB
7pm Doors.
We are hosting a Comedy Club, on the 1st Friday of the month. The Comedy Club
show-cases some of the most exciting rising stars of London’s vibrant, contemporary circuit. Come & check out some of London’s emerging comedy talent, and experienced comics trying out new material!
The line up:
Alex Mason
'great at playing the room, making every show exciting.' (Free Festival)
Leslie Gold
"Leslie's clearly got experienced and savvy comedy chops" (Edinburgh Reviews)
James O'Donoghue
'The kind of angry that blends with whimsy, energy and care that works a treat for the QL audience.'
Jacob Hatton
“Brilliantly British humour” EdFringe Review “Proper gags! Hattons a strong comedy technician” (Chortle)
With compere: Mike Lash
Mike is a comedian and compere known for his work in the UK comedy circuit. He has built a reputation as a warm and engaging host, known for his quick wit.
saturday 6 september
BOOKLAUNCH: The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder by Stephen Cox
7pm Doors.
Come meet critically acclaimed author of 'Our Child of the Stars,' Stephen Cox, at the book launch of his new novel, ' The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder.'
About the book:
Extravagant medium Mrs Ashton and her lover, blunt working-class Mrs Bradshaw, run a spiritualist scam. Mrs Ashton secretly reads minds.
Believing that Mrs Ashton is genuine, grieving Lady Violet craves the truth behind her mother’s untimely death. But Lady Violet’s powerful husband Sir Charles hates spiritualists. Has he killed before?
Uncovering this MP’s wicked crimes will put all three women in terrible danger…
“With the perfect mix of meticulous research, emotional depth and a rollicking good story besides, Stephen Cox delivers surprises to the very end”
Eris Young, fiction editor Shoreline of Infinity
8 september to 3 october
ART: UNEASY - MARK STAFFORD, DAVID HINE, WAYNE SNOOZE
This month in our gallery: graphic works by Mark Stafford, David Hine and Wayne Snooze.
An exhibition of discomforting original graphic works by the artist and writer team responsible for books The Bad Bad Place, Lip Hook, and The Man Who Laughs. UNEASY is a celebration of the labour intensive business of ink on paper and graphite on board. A reminder of the messy process of summoning these things into the world.
Mark Stafford will be exhibiting a selection of art seen and unseen from works in progress and work in print. David Hine will be showing, for the first time, his tortuously rendered reactions to the incoming storm of the artificially intelligent created in blood, sweat, caffeine and carbon. Wayne Snooze is local and interesting and decidedly less twisted than Mark or Dave, but you can't have everything.
UNEASY is all about the difficult and deranged and darky amusing. The uneconomic process of the overly rendered. The torture of innocent art materials. Why on earth are we doing this to ourselves? It's not easy...
Free.
friday 12 september
Storytelling: MISERY AND APPLES with Diana Redgrave
Doors 7pm for 7.30pm start. £10.
Through stories and music we encounter death in many guises. What then will remain when all is said and done? Blending autobiography and folktale, with live music, Diana Redgrave explores our relationship with death. Do we fight it, trick it, run from it or accept it? Could an apple a day keep death at bay?
Age recommendation - adult.
Diana Redgrave is a storyteller and music-maker based in Kent and London. She tells stories to adults and children and has performed solo storytelling shows for children and families around the country and at the Edinburgh Festival.
saturday 20 september
ART PARTY: UNEASY - MARK STAFFORD AND DAVID HINE
7pm. Free.
Join artists Mark Stafford and David Hine and guests for the celebration of their new show in our gallery space.
saturday 27 september
BOOK LAUNCH: SOMETHING TO TAKE OFF THE EDGE by Errol McGlashan
7pm.
We celebrate the publication of Something To Take Off The Edge with a performance by the man himself, Errol McGlashan. Book included in the entry price. If you ask nicely Errol might even sign it for you.
Tickets cost £12.99 which includes a copy of the book.
Friday 10 OCT
BOOKLAUNCH:Revolution in Carcassone with author Elaine Graham-Leigh
Hosted by Haringey Counterfire 7pm. Free.
About the book: In August 1303, the people of the southern French town of Carcassonne rose up in revolt. Their rebellion against King and Inquisition saw the prison stormed, many of the town elite driven out and their houses sacked, and the inquisitors humiliated. For eighteen months, Carcassonne was a town where the French royal writ did not run.
Reconstructed from the contemporary accounts, the revolt emerges as an important incident in medieval class struggle. It was also the apogee of the fight by the people of Languedoc against the northern French invaders of the Albigensian crusade and the persecutions they brought with them.
Combining political analysis with original research, this book reveals the hidden story of a significant medieval rebellion and its importance for our understanding of oppression and resistance today.
About the author: Elaine Graham-Leigh is an activist and writer of history, politics and fiction. She is the author of The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade, (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005), A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change, (London: Zero Books, 2015), Marx and the Climate Crisis, (London: Counterfire, 2020), The Caduca, (Canterbury: The Conrad Press, 2021) and Revolution in Carcassonne: The Story of a Fourteenth-Century Rebellion, (London: Whalebone Press, 2025). She is a founding member of Counterfire.
BACK SOON!
Retro Gaming Night
7pm
Do you like retro video games? So do we!
On the back of our board games afternoon, we realised there's a few of us who love the classic days of gaming. So we'll bring some classic consoles and games, and feel very free to bring your own.
Whether you want to play, show and tell, or just have some drinks and chat about classic video games, come join us!
At the very least, we'll have a PlayStation Classic, an N64 and a Japanese DreamCast up and running, along with anything you want to bring.
This is a free event, but if you'd be up for donating a fiver to the shop, that'd be lovely.