events

 Join us for a free exhibition celebrating the people, places and support that help families feel welcome, connected and confident across Haringey.

• Learn how breastfeeding can benefit families, communities and the environment.
• Discover how local services, peer supporters, community organisations and businesses are helping families on their infant feeding journey.
• Share your ideas on how we can make Haringey even more welcoming for families. 

Join author Lindsey German for the launch of her latest book.  

Working-class women in the twenty-first century are at breaking point. The demands of family, work and life in neoliberal Britain are making it impossible for most women to see the prospects for liberation that opened up in the 1960s and 1970s. Lindsey German argues that the left is failing to relate to this crisis. She refocuses women’s liberation on the needs and experiences of women from the working class and argues that only a new socialist commitment to ending the oppression of women can address the crisis of women’s lives today.

‘Sharing her lifetime of knowledge, experience and expertise, Lindsey German succeeds in both reminding us of our most urgent priorities and teaching us anew. I thoroughly recommend this cogent and timely intervention.’ Rachel Holmes, biographer of Eleanor Marx and Sylvia Pankhurst

‘Thank goodness for Lindsey German, who is prepared to stand up and ask the needful question – WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR LIBERATION? Every man on the left and beyond should read this timely, urgent and beautifully-written book.’ Louise Raw, author of Striking a Light

Lindsey German has been a socialist and a campaigner for over fifty years. She has written extensively on women, the family, and feminism. Her books Sex, Class and Socialism, Material Girls, and How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women, approach the question of women’s liberation from a range of theoretical and historical angles. She helped co found the Stop the War Coalition in 2001, and has been the convenor of that organisation since then, organising the biggest demonstration in British history against the war in Iraq in 2003, and helping to organise the huge Palestine demonstration against the genocide in Gaza. In addition to this, her campaigning work includes abortion rights, support for strikes over equal pay, opposing restrictive legislation, and combatting racism and Islamophobia.  

This is a Haringey Counterfire event.

Here comes our next movie night! We're massive film fans and screening movies here at the shop was a dream of ours since we started. Our film night has now been running for nearly six months and works a bit like our book clubs: every film is chosen by someone in the group who came to the previous film. Come join us and enjoy a drink or two from our bar while you're here.

Under the terms of our license we're not permitted to reveal in advance the name of any film we screen but we can give some clues...

This month's mystery film is a 15-rated 70s whodunnit, with a great ensemble cast. It was written by a very unlikely duo and was a massive influence on the Knives Out trilogy.

We're getting our Shakespeare on! Come and join other Shakespeare fans - this month, we're going to chat about 'The Winter's Tale'

We're all licensed, so you can also have a glass of wine from our fully stocked bard... I mean bar.

Join author Karin J. Robinson for the launch of her new book.

Thirteen fantastical stories of strong-willed women in worlds that don’t work for them.

* Two women almost have a great first date. Except one of them is dead…
* An aging Helen of Troy gets a message from her sister and makes a fatal choice…
* A little girl rebels against her robot protectors…
* When witchlights appear above Grasmere, Eliza considers a deadly faery bargain…
* Two small-town singers find their fates horribly linked when a legendary wizard makes one of their dreams come true…
* Kat sneaks food to her sailor lover on a quarantined ship. But this is no ordinary plague…
* A Roman slave completes the mosaic that is key to her revenge...
* A woman buys a house that is definitely not haunted. Because that would be crazy…

Ranging from ancient Greece to the distant future, these thought-provoking fantasy and science fiction tales feature women and girls wrestling with the rage and longings that haunt them.

Readers who appreciate the wit, wonder and wildness of T. Kingfisher, Kelly Link and Naomi Novik will find a lot to love in this collection.

"Science fiction, fantasy, mythology, historicals – Karin J. Robinson’s first collection is a treasure chest of ideas and vivid prose; stories of women and girls who are not prepared to settle for anything less than what they want most." Dr Una McCormack, NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning author

"The emotional power of these tales and the characters we meet really swept me along and Robinson is definitely an author to watch out for. I highly recommend this collection!" Runalong the Shelves 

 Join The Grey Zine to make your very own envelope letter zine for a loved one this holiday season. 

With all materials provided from pens to papers, stickers to collage materials - and an expert zine maker on hand - you'll be taught to fold your own envelope zine from a single piece of paper, given gentle guidance where wanted as you fill it with mementos, poetry, letters or art work, and finally end the workshop with a hand made gift, finished with a wax seal.

In the afternoon of the first Sunday of each month from now on we will be holding a relaxed movie screening. Each film will be shown with subtitles, at a lower audio volume than we do at our regular movie night. Attendees can feel free to talk and move around as they wish while the film is showing. And the shop and bar will remain open throughout.

Under the terms of our license we're not permitted to reveal in advance the name of any film we screen - but nearer the time we may reveal some clues...