Tuesday evening in the library, 15 March
Gathering from 6.30pm for a meeting from 7 for up to two hours. We will be discussing how to promote the library and future campaigning. All members invited, so please come along.
Category Archives: Events
Join Sue Hubbard this International Women’s Day to discuss her novel Girl in White
Tuesday evening 7pm, 8th of March - in the Carnegie Library or online
Sue Hubbard is a poet, novelist, art critic and lecturer. Girl in White is the fictionalised biography of Expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), who struck out on her own as an artistic pioneer and independent woman in 1930s Germany, a story of struggle for recognition and financial security. Girl in White also tells a parallel tale of Mathilde, her entirely fictional violinist daughter.
Free admission
Livestream on the Carnegie Library facebook page
Listen to Sue Hubbard's poetry
Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and freelance art critic. She has published three novels: Depth of Field (Dewi Lewis), Girl in White (Cinnamon Press), for which she was awarded a major Arts Council Award, and a collection of short stories, Rothko’s Red (Salt). Her latest novel, Rainsongs is published by Duckworth, Mercure de France, Overlook Press, US and Yelin Press, China. Her fourth novel is due from Pushkin Press and Mercure de France in 2023, who are also re-issuing Girl in White.
Her poetry includes: Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon), twenty poems in Oxford Poets 2000 (Carcanet), Ghost Station (Salt), The Idea of Islands (Occasional Press), The Forgetting and Remembering of Air (Salt) and Swimming to Albania (Salmon Poetry, Ireland 2021). The Poetry Society’s only ever Public Art Poet, she was commissioned to create London’s largest public art poem at Waterloo.
As an art critic she has written regularly for The Independent, the New Statesman and many leading art magazines and appeared on BBC Radio and Sky News. Her selected art writings Adventures in Art were published by Damien Hirst’s Other Criteria. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and won many prizes and held numerous residencies.
Spring Fair!
Saturday - 5th March 11 am to 3 pm
The Closer I Get – with Paul Burston
The Friends of Carnegie Library present
Live and in-person in the Carnegie Library - Tuesday, 8 February - 7pm
Join Paul Burston to discuss The Closer I Get.
Paul was a founding editor of Attitude magazine and has written for many publications. He is the founder and host of London’s award-winning LGBT+ literary salon Polari and founder and chair of The Polari First Book Prize for new writing.
His latest novel is a compulsive, disturbingly relevant, twisty and powerful psychological thriller and a searing commentary on the fragility and insincerity of online relationships - danger can lurk just one ‘like’ away….
Admission free - but please register: Eventbrite
Leaves in a Holocaust Wind with author Robert Dawson
Online Event Presented by the Friends of Carnegie Library
Tuesday, 11 January - 7pm
Join author Robert Dawson to discuss his book Leaves in a Holocaust Wind - Looking at the fate of Gypsies and Roma people under the Nazi's.
Booking via Eventbrite
Alan Taylor – The Imagination of Experiences
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