Book Launch: Gaza Beneath the Bombs by Sharyn Lock
Saturday 6th February, 9.00pm at Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
All welcome, Arabic food and DJ Madam Muffin
An Afternoon with Anne Lister and friends
Sunday 7th February, 2.30 - 5.15pm at Hebden Bridge Library
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Cracking On: poems on ageing by older women
Friday 12th February 19.00 – 20.30 Hebden Bridge Library
Pamela Coren, Joy Howard, Meg Peacocke and Gina Shaw will read from this anthology which explores all aspects of ageing, from losing parents to confronting the inevitability of our own deaths. Here are poets facing up to life, with a recognition of its transience, absurdities, triumphs and disasters, in the spirit of taking it on the chin.
The book costs £10.00 and is available from The Book Case
An Afternoon with Anne Lister and friends
Sunday 7th February, 2.30 - 5.15pm at Hebden Bridge Library
2pm Children's storytime with Tamsin Walker
Tamsin Walker is a locally-based lesbian author and illustrator whose book Not Ready Yet! came out last year. She is also a mother, teacher and activist who enjoys going camping. She lives locally and 'Not Ready Yet!' is her first book. Her aim is to create images and text that reflect the lives of her family and friends.
2.30pm A Short Film : Anne Lister's Diaries: The Rosetta Stone of 19th Century Lesbianism.
The discovery and publication of Anne Lister's diaries by Helena Whitbread in 1988 challenged previous conceptions about lesbianism in early 19th Century Britain. Anne Lister owned Shibden Hall in Halifax. The presenters, all from Halifax and members of GALYIC (Gay and Lesbian Youth in Calderdale), will provide an intriguing introduction to this fascinating lesbian.
2.45pm Helena Whitbread
Anne Lister was born in 1791 and died in 1840. Her life was adventurous and colourful. Residence at a girl's boarding-school in York at the age of fifteen led to her first love-affair with a fellow-pupil, Eliza Raine. Helena Whitbread will discuss Anne's childhood and her complicated early love-life during her search for the ideal female lover with whom she could share her life.
3.30pm Jill Liddington
In 1832, Anne Lister returned home to Shibden, feeling bitterly betrayed again by another woman's marriage plans. She confided to her diary, 'Here I am, at forty-one, with a heart to seek'. She found Ann Walker, a neighbouring heiress - and in 1834 their union was celebrated with an exchange of rings. Jill Liddington's talk explores this same-sex partnership - 175 years ago.
4.15pm Refreshments and discussion
4.45pm Phil Pagraves on the Gay Liberation Front
Phil Pagraves give a presentation about the Gay Liberation Front in Leeds in the early seventies. He has recently been acquiring documents from that time and re-meeting old members.
5.15pm Finish
Contact Katherine Coussement on 01422 288040 for more info.
We have Anne Lister's I Know My Own Heart on sale at The Book Case as well as Jill Liddington's two books about her, and Tamsin Walker's books is due back in.
