20th EDINBURGH INDEPENDENT RADICAL BOOK FAIR, 26-30.10.16
Wednesday, October 26th
19.00
JAMES KELMAN opens the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair and reads from Dirt Road with live music from the The Dirt Roadsters
21:00
Loud Poets present Rhyme Minister’s Questions
Thursday, October 27th
16.45
ROB SEWELL discusses the latest edition of Leon Trotsky’s Stalin
18.00
SHIRLEY YOUNG and NATHAN GALE launch and discuss She, He, They: Families, Gender and Coping with Transition
19.00
YAKOV M. RABKIN discusses What is Modern Israel?
20.15
TAM DEAN BURN and MEAGHAN DELAHUNT
20:30
ROBIN McALPINE discusses Determination: How Scotland Can Become Independent by 2021
Friday, October 28th
15.00
FILM SCREENING – Every Cook Can Govern: The life, impact & works of C.L.R. James
18.00
Writing Politics: An Event with IRISH PAGES
20.00
CONOR McCARTHY and KIRSTY LUSK discuss James Connolly: Revolutionary and Anti-imperialist
Saturday, October 29th
10.00
12.30
LUKE HARDING discusses Putin’s Polonium Plot
14.00
KAT BANYARD discusses Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality
15.30
IAN COBAIN, author of The History Thieves, and LUKE HARDING, author of A Very Expensive Poison
17.00
OWEN HATHERLEY discusses his latest book, The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde
18.30
CHERRY STYLES launches Gut Flora: A Chapess Zine Collection
19.30
MIKE SMALL and SIMON BARROW facilitate a panel discussion for the launch of Scotland 2021
20.45
Book launch of Aiblins: New Scottish Political Poetry
Sunday, October 30th
10.45
ROBBIE NICOL and KATE RAWLES discuss climate change by Canoe, Sea Kayak and Bike
12.15
EM STRANG launches her poetry collection, Bird-Woman
13.00
STUART COSGROVE discusses Detroit 67 and Young Soul Rebels
14.30
PAUL MacALINDIN, author of Upbeat and JOYCE McMILLAN, author of Theatre in Scotland
16.00
MADELEINE BUNTING in conversation with RICHARD HOLLOWAY
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