Come and listen to local (and not so local) authors
reading from their work. If you want to take part just
come along with your prose or poems.
Thursday May 27th 8pm. South London Radical History
Group meeting: The launch of Neil Gordon-Orr’s new
pamphlet 'Deptford Fun City’: a ramble through the
history and music of New Cross on Deptford'.
Deptford Fun City includes a cast of punks, pagans,
revolting peasants, gut girls, slaves and slavers,
sound systems, suffragettes, speedway riders, sailors,
dock strikers, deserters, metal bashers, may queens,
pearly kings, ghosts, vampires, Chartists, bread
rioters and anarchist bombers.
Neil will be reading some extracts and also playing
some music mentioned in the text. Expect to hear a bit
of Band of Holy Joy, Carter USM, Alternative TV, This
Heat, Throbbing Gristle (well they did record a live
album in New Cross), Jah Shaka, Test Department and
some of the new wave of local bands such as Art Brut
and The Violets.There will be a surprise free gift…
Admission is free or a donation.
Neil’s pamphlet is available for £2.50 (68 pages) from
Morps Records, in the basement of Moonbow Jakes Cafe,
New Cross Gate, from Use Your Loaf, or by post from
Past Tense Publications, 56a Info Shop, 56a Crampton
Street, London SE17 3AE (cheques payable to
N.Gordon-Orr).
If you want to join the South London Radical History
group mailing list, want more info, or to come and
speak, email us on mudlark@macunlimited.net
Friday May 28th, 7pm onwards. Café.
Friday June 4th, 7pm onwards. Red & Black Club Café.
Friday June 11th, 7pm onwards. Café.
Saturday June 12th, 12.00 – 3.30pm. Booksale.
Secondhand books for sale, or drop in for tea, chat
and sometimes cakes.
Friday June 18th, 7pm onwards. Red & Black Club Café.
Saturday June 19th. 12pm. Games day. Bring down your
board games, etc, the weirder the better, preferably
altered, transformed or improved by hand to increase
the merriment. For adults, kids and small furry
creatures from alpha centauri. Bring food and drink to
share.
Friday June 25th, 7pm onwards. Café.
Wednesday June 30th, 7.30pm. Writers and readers
night. Come and listen to authors reading from their
work, or bring your prose or poems and join in.
Friday July 2nd, 7pm onwards. Café.
Thursday July 8th, 8pm. . South London Radical History
Group meeting: "Deptford Infidels": Terry Liddle
talking about the activities of the Deptford &
Greenwich Secular Society, and their like across South
London, in the 1870s. Including riots in Deptford
Broadway, and amusing incidents concerning christians
on Blackheath… As well as how secularism and
radicalism evolved and involvement of secularists in
social struggles such as the Plumstead Common
anti-enclosure riots.
Admission is free or a donation.
Friday July 9th, 7pm onwards. Café.
Saturday July 10th, 12.00 – 3.30pm. Booksale.
Secondhand books for sale. Also a good time to come
down, hang around, and chat, drink tea, chill out.
Friday July 16th, 7pm onwards. Café.
Friday July 23rd, 7pm onwards. Café.
Wednesday July 28th, 7.30pm. Writers and readers
night. Authors reading from their work, come along
with your prose or poems, or just to listen.
Friday July 30th, 7pm onwards. Café.
APPEAL FOR COOKS: We always need people to volunteer
to cook for upcoming Friday night cafes. If you are up
for cooking or helping out please ring the hotline on
07984 588807.
Use Your Loaf is also available for YOUR projects.
Whether you need a space for a meeting, discussion,
for small scale benefit cafes or (acoustic only)
musical events…The building is reasonably small, but
the ground floor fits up to 50 people, more if you
want separate spaces (upstairs). For a small donation
towards running costs Use Your Loaf could be yours for
the day/night. Wheelchair access is very limited,
unfortunately.
USE YOUR LOAF SOCIAL CENTRE,
227 DEPTFORD HIGH ST, LONDON, SE8.
Email: useyourloaf@btinternet.com
Tel: 07984 588807
How to get there:
Tube: New Cross. Overground: Deptford. DLR: Deptford
Bridge. Buses: 47, 53, 177, 188, 199, 225, 453.