All posts by Friends of Carnegie Library

Alan Taylor – The Imagination of Experiences

Author Event

The Friends of Carnegie Library present

Tuesday, 14th December - 7pm to 8:30 pm

Discussing his book...focussing on the question of musical creativity...how musical invention comes about...collaboration and sharing of imagination between musicians...how music communicates meanings....

Join the Friends of Carnegie Library for this fascinating talk and insight into musical creativity.

This is an in-person event, we encourage mask wearing and social distancing. We are also live streaming the event on the Carnegie Library Facebook page

Join author and activist Laura Miles to discuss her book Transgender Resistance- Tuesday, 9 November 7pm

Author Event

Laura Miles is the author of Transgender Resistance: Socialism and the fight for trans liberation and other articles. She is a former lecturer and LGBT rep on the national executive committee of the University and College Union, and is an active socialist and LGBT+ campaigner. She lives in Wakefield with her partner and her dogs.

This event is part of Transgender Awareness Week and is organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library.

The event is in-person in the library and Live streamed on Carnegie Library Facebook

The Louder I Will Sing – Lee Lawrence, 12 October 7pm

Author Event
Lee Lawrence photo by Smoking Monkey

Join Lee to discuss his award-winning biography and the event that changed Brixton forever.

What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who would you turn to? And how long would you fight them for?

On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence's mother Cherry Groce was wrongly shot by police during a raid on her Brixton home. The bullet shattered her spine and she never walked again. In the chaos that followed, 11-year-old Lee watched in horror as the News falsely pronounced his mother dead. In Brixton, already a powder keg because of the deep racism that the community was experiencing, it was the spark needed to trigger two days of rioting that saw buildings brought down by petrol bombs, cars torched, and shops looted.

But for Lee, it was a spark that lit a flame that would burn for the next 30 years as he fought to get the police to recognise their wrongdoing. His life had changed forever.

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Lambeth Libraries and Archives events September 2021

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Library Services from September
Lambeth Libraries are putting in place plans to remove the need for appointments to visit your library. We have kept appointments in place as cases of Covid have been higher in Lambeth than neighbouring boroughs. We are also aware that many of our readers are still very cautious about visiting community settings and appreciate what we have done to keep your library as safe as we can. We hope to remove the need for appointments in early September and we will also be re-introducing many library activities during September and October. Thank you all for your patience during what has been a really difficult time for everyone. We appreciate your support and understanding.

Lambeth Online Services still continue...

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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