events
Check out our events, performances and appearances. Looking for our regular groups? You'll find them by clicking the button below.
1st may to 24th may
ART: FLUX - WILLIAM BASHFORD
This month in our gallery: a celebration of the art of William Bashford.
Will studied Philosophy at Kings College and had just been accepted to study Fine Art at Byam Shaw (Central Saint Martin's College of Arts and Design) when he was diagnosed with leukemia.
This exhibition marks 20 years since Will's death. He was 25.
FLUX is an exploration into a very unique and imaginative mind. His often surreal and psychedelic works explore themes such as impermanence, consciousness and the nature of reality. Free.
Friday 9th MAY
BOOK LAUNCH: Catching the Breeze: A poetry collection by Anna Meryt
Doors 7pm.
Come join us and Anna for the launch of her new poetry collection 'Catching The Breeze.'
These are recent poems, mostly unpublished and often performed at Spoken Word Events. Poems to inspire and make you smile. Anna's Buddhist practice often inspired these poems which contain themes like impermanence, living in the present moment, kindness (metta), climate change, mental health and meditation.
Free entry. Tickets available below.
saturday 17th may
Book Launch: DOCTOR WHO - AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPANION ACTORS by DANA FOX
6.30pm. Free.
Join author Dana Fox and guests to celebrate the launch of his new book!
The Doctor wouldn’t be half the Time Lord they are, without some assistance. But how much do you know about the people who played the companions? This book is the first of its kind. It’s your comprehensive guide to the actors who have played Doctor Who companions over the years.
Inside, you will find biographies of every companion actor who has been in Doctor Who. There are complete chronologies of companion arrivals and departures through the show’s history, enriched with original interviews with some of the cast. As an encyclopaedia, it is packed with dates, details and knowledge, a valuable reference source for any Doctor Who fan.
As a guide, this book also offers a personal perspective on the show and explores what these talented, hard-working professionals brought to the show. The author traces its origins in 1963, through the ensuing decades, and takes you right up to the most recent serials. Doctor Who: An Encyclopaedia of Companion Actors is a testament to the actors and a meticulously-crafted love-letter to the show.
friday 23rd may
Book Launch: IN THE LILY ROOM by ERICA HESKETH
6.30pm. Free.
Part of Feminist Book Fortnight 2025. Join poet Erica Hesketh to celebrate the release of her astounding debut collection, In the Lily Room (Nine Arches Press). Erica will read from the book and be in conversation with storyteller and writer Laura Sampson. Free event!
‘Erica Hesketh asks “What if all the world’s mothers / rose up at once…” Perhaps if we did, our conversations would sound like these poems, which look head-on at the frightening, transformative, love-filled days of early motherhood. Medical misogyny, birth trauma, postnatal depression, joy and boredom – all of this and more are held in place in these lyrical, image-drenched poems as Hesketh expands our ideas and perceptions around what it means to be a mother.’ Kim Moore
‘In poems of great skill, daring and beauty, Hesketh somehow contains the leaky mess of new parenthood. This is for all the mothers – mother of stone, mother of ice, mother of fire, mother of dark. A stunning debut: intelligent, tender and unwaveringly true.’ Clare Pollard
Saturday 24th may
ART: Closing Party for FLUX - WILLIAM BASHFORD
6.30pm. Free.
Join Will Bashford's family and guests for the finale of this month's show in our gallery space.
thursday 29th may
VERBAL DISCHARGE - NORTH (Spoken Word)
7pm Doors.
Club Verbal Discharge takes the reigns at All Good Spoken Word night in All Good Bookshop. The finest readings of new writing known universe. Expect the usual madness. Full bar with keg beer flowing till late. Doors 7pm. Curtain at 7:30.
Tickets start from £5 (via another website).
31st May to 30th june
ART: A SHAPE IN THE FOREST - HELEN MINNS
This month in our gallery: recent works by Helen Minns.
Helen works across painting, drawing and printmaking. These recent works explore the relationship between landscape, memory and abstraction, inspired by daily walks through local nature reserves and urban woodlands, including Nunhead Cemetery and One Tree Hill. Through observation and imagination Helen traces a journey between the natural and the invented world. Shapes and surfaces evolve through layering, improvisation and the quiet unpredictability of mark-making. The forest, in particular, has become a metaphor for the creative process itself - constantly shifting, shaped by the unseen, and alive with hidden energies. These pieces capture something of the state: half-mapped, half-discovered, alive with gesture and texture. Rather than presenting finished landscapes, the work invites viewers into a space of becoming - a reflection of both the seen environment and the inner terrain of memory and imagination. Free.
saturday 31st May
ART LAUNCH: A SHAPE IN THE FOREST - HELEN MINNS
6.30pm. Free.
Join artist Helen Minns and guests for the launch of her new show in our gallery space.
Friday 6th JUNE
Comedy Club
Doors 7pm.
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!
Four great acts on the night with the evening hosted by Mike Lash,
Tickets start from £5 (EARLYBIRD) increasing gradually in price online nearer the date.
Tickets on the door on the night £10.
So buy online for cheaper tickets.
saturday 7th june
Storytelling / Launch / Workshop: STORYMAKER with Giles Abbott
11am. A family-friendly event. £5
Learn how to tell amazing stories by creating one live at this special workshop and launch event for Giles Abbott's new book STORYMAKER...
Teachers, parents – become captivating storytellers! Create new stories from solid foundations and the expertise of master storytellers! Road-tested over millennia!
Whether you’re a teacher, parent, guardian or family member, the need to engage with and entertain the youngsters you care for is universal. Modern life makes access to entertainment easy, but what if there was another way – one that truly strengthened the bonds between you? For generations, humanity has practised the art of storytelling – a skill that you too can learn, enabling you to create magical tales that will shape those listening for years to come. Perhaps it’s a group of restless children and you wish you could catch, hold and reward their attention? Perhaps it’s a long journey, or you want to get them off their screens? As you conjure a gripping story from thin air using the methods in this book, you’ll find that face-to-face engagement creates contentment, concentration and connection on your journey together through story.
GILES ABBOTT graduated from Oxford with an English degree and four years later, in 1998, he could not see to read or recognise faces. He has lost 80% vision in a few hours. After a year of serious struggle he encountered traditional storytelling - he didn’t need to see it written! He began learning the art of the storyteller and started working as such. By 2005 he had also qualified as a Voice Teacher (MAVS, CSSD) and in addition to storytelling he now works in drama schools in London and teaches international clients to access their best speaking voice. He is a Voice Artist, recording and even winning Gold Medals for his work. He also creates new storytelling shows from traditional and historical/biographical sources, and for the last twenty years has created a new touring show every two years. He loves all his work!
friday 13th JUNE
Book Launch: MORE NOTHING with Iris Colomb and Guests
7pm. £5.
Poets and performers montenegrofisher, Paul Ingram and Iris Colomb come together for a second celebration of Iris' first full-length collection Nothing Intensifies, recently published by Pamenar Press!
Iris Colomb is a poet, artist, and performer based in London. Her practice explores various relationships between visual and verbal forms of text through projects involving performance, book objects, improvisation and experimental translation. Iris' individual, collaborative, interactive, and durational performance works have been showcased across the UK as well as in German, Austrian, Romanian, Norwegian, French and Chilean events and festivals. Publications include pamphlets I'm Shocked (Bad Betty Press, 2018), just promise you won't write (Gang Press, 2019), Ridiculous Unlikely Attempt (Hesterglock Press, 2023) and Where do you begin in this (Ma Bibliotheque, 2024), as well as magazines and anthologies in the UK, Europe, and beyond. Her first full-length collection Nothing Intensifies is out with Pamenar Press this year. She is involved in a number of ongoing musical projects including text-sound duo [something's happening], meta-punk band Daylightbulb and trios TheThreeFeet and Small Print Drama.
montenegrofisher are Luna Montenegro and Adrian Fisher, poets and artists based in London collaborating in a fluid space of visual, physical and sonic research. Their work investigates ideas of locality and social transformation exploring the boundaries of human and non-human. Their work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, poetry and film festivals, residencies, internet and radio. They have been published by Crater Press, Errant Bodies Berlin, diSONARE Mexico, Poem Atlas, Grapheme, Tripwire US, among other poetry and art journals. www.montenegrofisher.org
Paul Ingram is a poet and writer whose publications include Flat Earth (Contraband Books, 2018), Enemie Anonimous (Beir Bua Press, 2023) Index (Readymade Sound Poetry) (x0, 2023) and Duck (Larynx Press, 2025). He performs as part of the duo Soft Play (with Iris Colomb) and co-organizes the music, poetry and performance event Hard Work (with Ed Shipsey). His essays and reviews have appeared in PN Review, 3:AM Magazine, Tentacular, Dada/ Surrealism and Historical Materialism. He also contributed to the edited collections Critical Theory Today: On the Limits and Relevance of an Intellectual Tradition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture: Invisible Republics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
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.