Exhibition of Life Drawings by regular artists of SketchPad Drawing
SketchPad, run by artist Lisa Brown, has been going now for 19 years, offering life drawing sessions for local artists and beginners, at The Prince Regent Pub in Herne Hill.
Each week, skilled models devise a variety of interesting poses to inspire the group.
The exhibited paintings and drawings are from sketches and poses lasting 2 to 10 minutes.
Presented in cooperation with the Friends of Carnegie Library and the Lambeth Library Service.
Meet John Cromer – ‘one of the most original comic creations in recent fiction’ (Guardian) – and discover one of the great overlooked adventures in literature.
‘Thank god for John Cromer and his creator Adam Mars-Jones, one of the funniest, most self-aware characters in English fiction, whose minute observations on everything from constipation to lust are a source of unexpected delight.’ - Linda Grant
Join author and critic and novelist Adam Mars-Jones and the Friends of Carnegie Library to discuss Adam’s writing, including just published Caret the third-volume in a trilogy (following Pilcrow and Cedilla).
Admission is free
Please reserve a place with Eventbrite (this will assist with planning).
This event will be livestreamed from the Carnegie Library facebook page and will be available to view for about 30 days.
Organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library in cooperation with the Lambeth Library Service.
Join Louise to discuss her poetry collection From There to Here, published by indie press Dithering Chaps
Louise Walker taught English for 35 years where she enjoyed sharing her life-long passion for poetry, while snatching moments for her own writing. Over the last few years, her work has been published in many journals and recognised by awards. Born on Merseyside, she is proud to be a Londoner and has lived in Herne Hill for 29 years.
From There to Here is her poetry collection exploring, with painful honesty, how a sibling relationship is shattered when her brother dies suddenly in his twenties but also celebrating unexpected joys in living life after loss.
The Friends of Carnegie Library are delighted to host this evening with Louise Walker, in cooperation with the Lambeth Library Service.
8 April - Tuesday Evening, 7pm at the library (6:30 for tea & cake)
40 years devouring self-help products and searching for answers to life's struggles, Georgia Holleranen encountered nothing but disappointment, frustration and despair!
Until...she suddenly discovered herself to be a pretty capable and confident person!
Why was she so bulletproof? How did she get to be so calm, resilient, resourceful and level-headed? - Even in crisis. Was it age? Wisdom? Luck?
How can we make the best of our time on this planet, without letting ourselves get in the way?
With her background in the arts, education, neuro-linguistic programming, cognitive hypnotherapy....
The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need summarises the best she has learned...so far.
AND...
Georgia has set up a free online course for anyone who wants to explore Parts Theory and master the triangle of Knowledge, Process & EMOTION.
She Comedies, she Writes novels, she PhDs, she Voiceovers, she Presents, she Blogs, she Acts, She's turning into her mother....
Daughters of the Nile follows the lives of three women from the Bin-Khalid family. These women are no strangers to adversity, but they must learn from the past and relearn shame and shamelessness to radically change their futures.
The novel was winner of the Unbound Firsts award and covers several generations of women from 1940 to the early 21st century in a variety of settings, with themes including feminism, queerness, revolution and Islamic sisterhood.
Author and comedian Zahra Barri will be with us at The Carnegie Library on 11 March, Tuesday evening, to discuss her award winning novel Daughters of the Nile.
Organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library in cooperation with the Lambeth Library Service.
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