Beresford Signing at the Small Publishers Fair in LondonSaturday, October 29, 1–4 pmA little celebration of Call and Response hosted by Bookartbookshop—with fizz!
events, 10/05/22
Come celebrate Call and Response with Steve and Bookartbookshop!
The Small Publishers Fair is located at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (tube: Holborn). It runs Friday, October 27–Saturday, October 28, 11 am–7 pm
Above: score by Steve Beresford and image by Christian Marclay from Call and Response
p.s. Truly, there is nothing like Bookartbookshop in London or anyone like Tanya Peixoto whose imagination, generosity and intelligence makes this little corner shop like a trip to a new planet (my last comparison was with a universe—so not to diminish the shop but rather invoke something slightly more precise).
And oh, how I wish I could go back to the Small Publishers Fair this year! I’ve been once, and uninformed American that I am, I felt—as I approached a centuries-old community building with “Ethical Society” over the front doors for the first time—I might encounter a meeting of old biddies tsk-tsking the still unrepaired lamp post down the road. Instead, there was an extraordinary bzzzzing. I later learned that Conway Hall was founded in 1886 as “a haven for the radicals, political and social reformers and freethinkers,” and thus the perfect place to celebrate books made by the renegades. If you’re in London, really, don’t miss going.
—LP
see also
✼ natalie’s upstate weather report:
April 11, 2024 — The spring peepers have thawed (these little frogs freeze in winter) and now, unabashedly randy, they chirp. At first there was one, then two, and now it sounds like thousands. Two days ago, when it was truly spring, their adamantine chorus was almost deafening (we closed the windows to simply think!). Siglio has relocated to a lush, thriving hollow at the furthest most edge of the Berkshires after two years of peripatetics, sans library—which is now unpacked in a less than Benjaminian manner (little time to contemplate—our urgency in getting books on shelves mirrored the peepers need to mate). The first few months of 2024 were almost unendurable, but we’re home, spring is here, and there are books to made. We are singing!
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