events

This month in our gallery: a selection of mixed media art by local artist Ellis Lewis-Dragstra.

Ellis Lewis-Dragstra is a London based self taught mixed media artist whose art explores themes of race/identity, our connection to nature, language, childhood and the human experience, often through afro surrealist visual storytelling. Using a vibrant mix of traditional and digital mediums (acrylic paint, watercolours, oil pastels, photography, pencil and digital illustration) he bridges the gap between "high" and "low" art to create work that feels accessible while not compromising quality or the subject explored. He wants the viewer to read the images, feel the work, while encouraging them to stretch their own creativity, solve meaningful visual puzzles and see something new with every look. 

From birth Ellis has used art as a personal visual language and lifelong tool for better understanding both the world and the self. His art embraces humour, tragedy and the search for truth, always encouraging the viewer to stay as curious as a child and keep the adult scepticism of any absolutes. 

Join storyteller Aaron Oliver and accompanist Viola Pippin Wood for a new kind of adventure...

Make your choices. Save your home. Are you ruthless enough to survive the post-apocalypse?

With enthralling storytelling and a bone-chilling live soundtrack, What We Must will immerse you in a dark and desperate wasteland of your own creation. The clock is ticking, and working with your fellow survivors, you must decide just how much you're willing to sacrifice to protect the people you love.

We have to get home. Terrible choices lie in our path. We will do what we must.

What We Must is a TTRPG inspired storytelling experience where the audience play the survivors of the post-apocalypse. You have 5 days to get home before everyone dies, and each day brings a new situation and a new choice, it is up to you how ruthless you will be and whether you make it home in time.

This show is created and performed by Aaron Oliver. Aaron is a traditional oral storyteller and theatre maker based in London, his work explores themes of darkness, hope and humanity and he is passionate about blending interactive and immersive theatre with traditional storytelling. Aaron has performed at festivals, theatres, cabarets and museums; including The British Museum, The Museum of the Home and The National Maritime Museum.

The live soundtrack is improvised and performed by Scottish musician Viola Pippin Wood. Viola is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist with a talent for capturing emotion through her music. Outside of scoring for theatre, she performs music solo and with her band The Pypes.

Somehow, we're six. After uncertainty, after opening two weeks before lockdown, after financial peril... this unlikely bookshop and arts space continues to exist. And if you've come to our events, bought our books or volunteered with us, that's all because of you.

So to celebrate, we're throwing a party and more! Starting with the art launch on Friday, we'll have taster sessions of some of our groups throughout Saturday (including knitting, writing, spoken word and music) and seeding in some live readings and performances. 

Then on Saturday evening, we're going to throw a party - please do come and join us and celebrate our continued survival and this amazing space we've all built.

And on Sunday, we'll be running our Repair Cafe, before doing a free screening of local artist Ellie Bradford's web-series Cats of Tottenham.

We're delighted to still be here. And we've got more to come.

Knitting/crochet Group
All levels welcome.
Bring your works in progress or just bring yourself.
Materials:  Some yarn available for practice, but best if you can bring a set of knitting needles or a crochet hook in the size you’d like to use.
I have some to lend you while you are here, but can’t afford to furnish them for you to take away.
But I CAN furnish cookies, and coffee and tea are available at a small price.  So please join us! 

North London writers’ group Bounds Green Book Writers is proud to announce the launch of All Points Imagination, an anthology of short stories. The presentation will be introduced by Krystina Stimokovits.  

A doctor called out to a sick baby, a stranger chatting on a park bench, a warrior preparing to die for her Queen, a young couple falling in love… This anthology presents a range of stories told in diverse styles and voices. Across time and space, these are stories to enthral, amuse and enlighten. We’re calling at all points imagination, so let your imagination fly.

 We are delighted to be able to announce our quarterly music showcase at the 

book shop.

The ALL GOOD WHISTLE TEST is  Intended to showcase the creativity of attendees of our Songwriting Circle & Music Jam, but we will have pros and semi-pros as well. 

There will be a BAR on the night so all children must be accompanied by adults.
 

Join author and storyteller Anna Maria Vilhelmina Hellberg Moberg for an evening of cat tales from around the world as collected in her new book!

Cuddly and cute, fierce and ferocious, cunning and conniving, worshipped and feared – felines appear in many forms in the humble folk tale. The cats in this collection of nearly 60 stories are often heroic, witty and, at times, scheming or downright terrifying. Kitties big and small, from every corner of the world, such as the Kasha from Japan, the Nunda from East Africa, El Hombre Gato from Argentina, Kisa, the Cat from Iceland and many others can be found purring, hissing and prowling through this book’s pages. 

Anna Maria Vilhelmina Hellberg Moberg is a UK-based writer, storyteller, journalist and cat lover, originally from rural western Sweden. She spent over a decade as a travel writer and is the author of thirty books, as well as numerous features for the British and international press. Her works include travel and culinary books focusing on Scandinavia and Latin America, a fairy tale for adults, two collections of short stories, the travel memoir Wayward Wanderings, three books about cats (fiction and creative non-fiction) and two collections of folk tales (Swedish Folk Tales and Feline Folk Tales, The History Press, 2024 & 2026).

As a storyteller, she tells folk and fairy tales, autobiographical and fictitious tales as Vilhelmina/A.M.V. Hellberg Moberg. In the United Kingdom, she’s worked with the Stealing Thunder Festival, Connection with Wonder, the Waterloo Festival, Elephant Tales, the Archive of Personal Stories, Miller’s Way Project and many others. In Sweden, she’s worked with Sagobygden/Land of Legends, local schools and organisations. She writes, gives talks and tells stories in English, Swedish, Norwegian and Spanish.