Events for Adults
 Tuesday 9 April, 7pm
Carnegie Library, SE24 0AG
Booking via Eventbrite
Join author Marlowe Russell to discuss her new novel Bantling. Who are you if you don’t know where you come from? Where do you fit if your past is make-believe?
Event organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library.
 Saturday 13 April, 1pm
Brixton Library, SW2 1JQ
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Join Booker shortlisted US author Percival Everett, discussing his latest novel James, with Caleb Azumah Nelson. A brilliant, moving, harrowing and fearlessly funny reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of and in the voice of the enslaved Jim.
Exhibitions
 Tuesday 2 April to Friday 3 May. Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
In this show, popular boxing collective Champs Within celebrate and illustrate inspirational stories from coaches, amateurs, white collar boxers and fitness enthusiasts. Through photography Unveiling the Champion Within will show the positive interaction between boxing, health, community and creativity. The exhibition will showcase boxing stories through captivating photography by local students and professionals.
Training boxing & photography workshop, Monday 29 April, 1pm to 3pm. Brixton Library.
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Further information: www.champswithin.com
@champswithin
 Showing until Tuesday 30 April. Carnegie Library, SE24 0AG
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
A very personal exhibition of works by local architect and artist Keith Whitworth, paintings in oils and in acrylics of his family and friends, and of local architecture such as Brockwell Hall and, in watercolours, the D&V (aka The Crown & Greyhound) and Dulwich College seen from the allotments (a scene with Sydenham Hills in the background that is 2024 but could be 1924)...as well as landscapes from his childhood in and around Barrow-in-Furness.
 Friday 19 April to Saturday 1 June. Lambeth Archives, SW2 1ET
Exhibition available during Archive opening hours
Behind the Blue Doors is a new photography exhibition by Jim Grover, the award-winning south London social documentary photographer. It reveals the fascinating story of an alms-house in the heart of Brixton, endowed in 1824 by Thomas Bailey, a china and glass merchant, and which continues to offer accommodation, for those in need, 200 years later. The exhibition documents the history of the alms-houses alongside the stories and portraits of many of its residents: a mix including personal possessions that residents have selected highlighting the diversity of their lives, as well as original archive documents extending back over 200 years.
From Our Friends
 Monday 8 April, 6pm to 7pm
Online. Booking via Eventbrite
Children's librarians and teachers are invited to meet Ash Bond the author of the electrifying middle-grade debut Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm in this special pre-publication event as Ash introduces you to the action-packed cosmic world of Peregrine Quinn.
 Saturday 6 April and Sunday 7 April, 11am to 5pm.
The Department Store, 248 Ferndale Rd, London SW9 8FR
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Please join us for an inspiring showcase of carefully selected black businesses this April. This is an indoor, face-to-face event that supports emerging entrepreneurs & new black businesses of African & Caribbean descent with retail opportunities.
Taking place over two days in the heart of Brixton it offers a diverse, quality shopping and cultural experience celebrating producers of the African & Caribbean community. |
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Viva o 25 de Abril de 1974!
 During April, South Lambeth Library, situated in the heart of 'Little Portugal', will host a series of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the fall of the Fascist regime in Portugal in April 1974.
Monday 15 April, 6.30pm
Tate South Lambeth Library. SW8 1QP
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Join us for the launch of the Fall of Fascism in Portugal exhibition.
The exhibition tells the story of Portugal under the fascist dictatorship of Salazar and Caetano, its colonial rule, the poverty that motivated a huge wave of emigration to Europe in the 1960s and 70s, and the colonial wars that eventually provoked the military coup by middle ranking officers on the 25th April 1974. This in turn led to the Revolution of the Carnations, ended the colonial wars and heralded the independence of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe, and East Timor.
The Exhibition is free and will run from 15 April to 19 May. Organised by Migrantes Unidos and Lambeth Libraries.
 Saturday 20 April, 11am
Tate South Lambeth Library. SW8 1QP
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Inspired by the explosion of Street Art following the revolution, this is your chance to get creative and make your own street art for the here and now, led by artist Vicki Long, and based on rare photographs that captured the revolutionary spirit in 1970s Portugal. What do you want to say? Sign up for this workshop to explore your ideas. For all ages. Produced by Modern Culture
 Wednesday 24 April, 6.30pm
Tate South Lambeth Library. SW8 1QP
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What happened on 25th April 1974? What changed for you, or for Portugal or the wider world? Zoltan Biedermann, Professor of Early Modern History at UCL and author of Disconnected Empires, and Susannah Finzi, a playwright and Portuguese translator who was in Lisbon at the time of the revolution, and who has an incredible photographic archive of revolutionary street art (to be shown at the event) will be in conversation.
They will welcome perspectives and questions from the audience, and will also be inviting UK Lusophone residents to help us by recording their memories of the breaking news for a Living History sound archive hosted by the library. Produced by Modern Culture
Events for Children and Young People
 Saturday 30 March, 12pm to 3pm
Tate South Lambeth Library. SW8 1QP
Join the Friends of South Lambeth Library for a fantastic Easter craft day in the library. There will be activities for all ages and an egg-hunt activity for children! Flower making, card making, face-painting and you can decorate an egg for an egg hunt! All welcome.
 Wednesdays, 3 April and 10 April. 2pm to 4pm. Durning Library, SE11 4HF
Get crafty for Easter making your own 'Nest Egg'!. Ages 5 to 9 years
 Credit Photo by RDNE Stock project
Every Wednesday, 5pm to 7pm
Durning Library, SE11 4HF
Catch up on all your learning with qualified trainer at the library. All welcome. For 16 years and above. Book a place with the library on 020 7926 8682
 Every Saturday, 12pm to 2pm
Durning Library, SE11 4HF
20-minute drop-in activities on www.tinkercad.com. Make your own 3D paper-puppet, Print Mindcraft & Lego landscapes, make your own Shakespeare poem-flick-book animation and watch your slow-motion movie on our mini-Lego-cinema-screen. For children age from 5 to 14. |
