22/04/2023
Reading Groups with Elliot Gibbons: Southend’s Twilight Worlds & Towards a Gay Communism by Mario Mieli
Join us for a series of reading groups as part of Pluto Press’ The Reading Room project. TOMA and are collaborating on these over the coming year.
From May 2023, will host three reading groups that will look at the publication Southend’s Twilight Worlds // that he edited on local q***r history and Towards a Gay Communism by Mario Mieli. Meili’s book was first published in Italian in 1977 and is considered one of the earliest books of q***r theory, although it was not seen as q***r theory during the time. Over the course of these sessions, you will collectively consider LGBTQIA+ culture and theory by drawing connections between these two books.
Elliot Gibbons is a curator and writer based in Essex.
*�* ALL EVENTS WILL BE BSL INTERPRETED **
All events are free to attend but booking is advised and we ask that you can commit to all three groups to ensure continuity *
GET FREE TICKETS VIA EVENTBRITE LINK IN BIO
The dates are…
Thurs May 11th from 6.30-8.30pm
Weds 14th June from 6.30-8.30pm
Thurs July 13th from 6.30-8.30pm
All sessions will take place at The Old waterworks, North Road, Southend-on-Sea, SS0 7AB
You will be sent readings in advance of each session once you have signed up. If you can’t make the event please return your ticket as soon as you can so someone else can attend.
*�* ALL EVENTS WILL BE BSL INTERPRETED **
Reading groups are not suitable for children under 16 years of age.
The Reading Room is a new collaborative project where people can read, learn, listen, and share ideas. Through linking up with other spaces across the country, Pluto Press and the have created libraries stocked with thought provoking books, where reading groups and opportunities to meet authors are being established, providing resources and activities that hope to catalyse creativity, collaboration and conversation.
