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This month in our new gallery space we're delighted to present The Eerie Weasel and Other Mysteries by Christopher Josiffe and Sarah Sparkes. These two artists met in the haunted library of Senate House. Both have gone on to make work inspired by the library's archive of psychical researcher Harry Price, including Sparkes' series 101 Ghost Stories and Josiffe's award-winning book Gef! The Strange Tale of a Talking Mongoose.
It's Halloween, and we're celebrating by partying all day and long into the night...
During the day, we're doing KIDS and FAMILIES events, including storytelling from Aaron Oliver (see below), Halloween Games and we encourage you to come in your best spooky costumes!
From 7pm, we'll have a bar for one of our legendary Bookshop Parties! There'll be chat, music and maybe even some costumes!
Come join us and celebrate the ghoulish season!
As part of our Halloween celebrations and following a barnstorming (soup-stirring!) performance here last summer as part of Haringey Arts Festival, we're thrilled to welcome back the wonderful Aaron Oliver for an hour of spooky storytelling and activities to set young imaginations sparkling. Tickets £5, book ahead via the button below!
Join author Farrah Riaz for a reading from her book, a fun activity, a little dance and then a book signing!
Based on debut author Farrah Riaz's own childhood experiences comes The Twirly Wiggly Dance, a relatable story about dancing to your own beat set against the celebratory backdrop of a South-Asian Muslim wedding, bursting with colourful illustrations by Navya Raju. Perfect for entertaining young twirlers and wigglers!
Little Intisar has a BIG job at her Auntie Mahira's wedding: she's going to dance in the group performance! As she practises, she realizes there is one dance move that she just can't do-no matter how hard she twirls and wiggles. Intisar worries she'll ruin the whole routine, and disappoint Auntie Mahira.
Can Intisar's family of movers and groovers show her that being herself is far more fun than being perfect? Extra pages at the back of the book with non-fiction information about all the events of a Muslim wedding, make this is a perfect book to read and talk about together.
An evening of spoken word poetry and stories. It's an open mic event so you can just come along and perform your work or just chill and be an audience member.
There are 15 performer slots with up to 10mins each performer.
Tickets are priced £2 (Performer) and £4 (audience).
The Spooky Special will have a BAR.
A FULL CAST performance of the play DRACULA, with live atmospheric soundtrack by Sam Enthoven. If you've been to any of our Shivers events, or our hugely popular Epic of Gilgamesh performance, you'll have an idea what to expect... a great atmosphere, and a live radio play!
Doors 7pm for a 7.30pm start
We are hosting the All Good Comedy Club. The Comedy Club show-cases of some of the most exciting rising stars of London’s vibrant, contemporary circuit. Come & check out some of London’s emerging comedy talent, while they’re still fresh, eager and cheap. The comedy starts at 7.30pm.
This month in our new gallery space: The Invisible Salon formed with the intention to read each issue of Grant Morrison's groundbreaking comics work The Invisibles exactly twenty-five years on from when it was published. What resulted was an explosion of creativity that included art, films, music, masks, books, rituals and lucid dreaming. Marking the end of this amazing project The Final Unconvention presents a selection of this work, plus more created specifically for this show
To begin this month's show in our new gallery space, members of the shadowy organisation known only as Blank Badge will give a short talk followed by a ritual. Free.
Part of this month's show in our new gallery space. With the recent publication of Alan Moore's Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic - and The Invisible Salon's own latest book The Ritual Missions - it's never been easier to learn about the practice of magic. Tonight members of the shadowy organisation known as Blank Badge - and guests - will hold a short panel discussion on the subject, followed by a chance to meet and mingle with fellow practitioners and anyone curious about what this most ancient of human studies has to teach us. Free.
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.