Events
Coming Events
Current and Forthcoming Events…
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Over the Sofa March 2023 – Noah Carter
28/02/2023 - 31/03/2023 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Appreciate the everyday
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Art Workshop with Jayne Wallett
03/03/2023 - 07/04/2023 | The Bookshop Shed Improve your skills in our friendly Art Workshop
We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Women Remembered with Joan Taylor
25/03/2023 | St Marys Annexe 'Drawing on fifty years of feminist scholarship...' Times Literary Supplement
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Free Love – Tessa Hadley
27/03/2023 | The Greyhound 'Achingly moving and real' Guardian Reading Group Supper at The Greyhound Monday 27th February... Bookings now open |
Arts
| Over the Sofa March 2023 – Noah Carter
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Appreciate the everyday |
| Art Workshop with Jayne Wallett
Course runs on same day over successive weeks |
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Improve your skills in our friendly Art Workshop We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Books
| Women Remembered with Joan Taylor
One-off event |
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'Drawing on fifty years of feminist scholarship...' Times Literary Supplement
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| Free Love – Tessa Hadley
One-off event |
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'Achingly moving and real' Guardian Reading Group Supper at The Greyhound Monday 27th February... Bookings now open |
Courses
| Art Workshop with Jayne Wallett
Course runs on same day over successive weeks |
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Improve your skills in our friendly Art Workshop We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Past Events
Mar 2023
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Book Launch ‘Grounded’ with James Canton 15/03/2023 | St Marys Annexe "Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures” ROBERT MACFARLANE We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Book Launch ‘The Mandela Brief’ with Thomas Grant 11/03/2023 | St Marys Annexe 'One of the greatest lawyers of our times - a legal titan' Lady Helena Kennedy We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Feb 2023
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Reading Group Heartburn – Norah Ephron 27/02/2023 | The Greyhound 'Comic writing at its finest.' The Times We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Art in the Shed Asian Bookbinding Workshop 25/02/2023 | The Bookshop Shed
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Over the Sofa Eerie Essex – Bethan Briggs-Miller and Ailsa Clarke 18/02/2023 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Scary Story Sharing - with Eerie Essex |
Jan 2023
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Reading Group Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan 30/01/2023 | The Orange Tree Tapas 'One of the best writers in the world today' - Hanif Kureishi We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Book Launch Meet the Authors with Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth 27/01/2023 | Wivenhoe Bookshop Nero - controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars. This is the bloodstained story of one of Rome’s most notorious emperors. We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Book Launch Poetry Reading with Marian de Vooght 21/01/2023 | Wivenhoe Bookshop Shed 'Me my name is Sientje, but when I'm older I'll be Sina, or maybe Sien.' A poetry reading for this year's International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Course Philosophy Breakfast – Jan 2023 14/01/2023 - 11/02/2023 | The Bookshop Shed Part 1: We consider the philosophical trend known as ‘positivism’ together with opposition to that trend. Central issues include: to what does a statement owe its meaning? does knowledge have a foundation? is all knowledge scientific? what can philosophy do for ethics and for society? is there something wrong with metaphysics? We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Over the Sofa Over the Sofa Jan 2023 – Nancy Taplin-Locke 08/01/2023 - 01/02/2023 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Nancy Taplin Locke’s delicate paintings of birds evoke both transience and timelessness... |
Dec 2022
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Bookshop Christmas Opening Hours 23/12/2022 - 03/01/2023 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop |
Nov 2022
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Reading Group The Island of the Missing Trees – Elif Shafak 28/11/2022 | The Black Buoy 'One of the best writers in the world today' - Hanif Kureishi We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Art in the Shed Wivenhoe Art Trail – Art in the Shed 25/11/2022 - 27/11/2022 | The Bookshop Shed Wivenhoe’s artist once again throw open their studio doors to share their creative endeavours. As ever the breadth of creativity is astonishing, with oils, watercolours, ceramics, collage, glass and textiles … something to suit every art lover’s taste. |
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Book Launch Robin Ince’s Bibliomaniac Tour 19/11/2022 | The Nottage Institute Bibliomaniac takes the reader on a journey across Britain as Robin Ince explores his lifelong love of bookshops and books. We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Book Launch 36 Hours – Book Launch with Fiona Mason 11/11/2022 | St Marys Annexe "A powerful work of life writing." Blake Morrison We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Course Art Workshop with Jayne Wallett 11/11/2022 - 16/12/2022 | The Bookshop Shed Improve your skills in our Art Workshop We are sorry but event is now fully booked. We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Over the Sofa Nov 2022 – Lorna Davies and Diana Doone 01/11/2022 - 30/11/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Life studies in pastel, graphite and charcoal |
Oct 2022
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Reading Group Harlem Shuffle – Colston Whitehead 24/10/2022 | The Black Buoy ‘Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked…’ We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Course Philosophical Passages – II 22/10/2022 - 19/11/2022 | The Bookshop Shed Singer on ethics, Sartre on bad faith, Benjamin on art & history, Adorno’s aphorisms, Schopenhauer on life. We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Book Launch Poetry Evening with Sylvia Sellers 21/10/2022 | St Marys Annexe The tide is out, A trickle of water meanders its way to the sea, Weaving through the mud.... We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Art in the Shed HEX SALT BIRD BEE 15/10/2022 | The Bookshop Shed The terse poetry of Carole Webster in a volume illustrated by Jayne Wallett. Saturday 15th October: book launch, tea and sherry. We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Art in the Shed Art in the Shed – ‘Crone’ 15/10/2022 - 20/10/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Exhibition & seminar series... Join Baba Yaga and friends at Wivenhoe Bookshop Shed! |
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Art in the Shed Art in the Shed – ‘Observations’- Twelve Wivenhoe Artists 08/10/2022 - 09/10/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop A very varied, interesting, even surprising, exhibition by local artists |
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Book Launch Book Talk with Jules Pretty 07/10/2022 | St Marys Annexe Sea Sagas of the North interweaves prose chapters and sagas telling of travels across shores, seas and islands. We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Over the Sofa Oct 2022 – Josephine Kingsford and Ros Christian 01/10/2022 - 31/10/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Life studies in pastel, graphite and charcoal |
Sep 2022
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Reading Group Still Life – Sarah Winman 26/09/2022 | The Black Buoy Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship. We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Art in the Shed Wivenhoe Artists 1946 – 1986 – Book Launch 16/09/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Wivenhoe Artists 1946-1986 is a celebration of the artists who lived and worked in Wivenhoe in the post war years |
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Over the Sofa Sept 2022 – James Willis 01/09/2022 - 30/09/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop UK artist interested in trees, spikes, rivers, metaphors and light. |
Aug 2022
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Over the Sofa Will Finn – Second Hand Holiday 01/08/2022 - 31/08/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Grounded by the pandemic, photographer Will Finn journeyed vicariously on Second Hand Holidays |
Jul 2022
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Over the Sofa Jayne Wallett – Blue Dresses 01/07/2022 - 31/07/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Jayne Wallett's 'Blue Dresses' explore European cultural representations of women’s wealth and class through their wardrobe. On display all through July in the Bookshop 'Over The Sofa' gallery space. |
Jun 2022
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Reading Group Sorrow and Bliss – Meg Mason 27/06/2022 | The Black Buoy Everyone tells Martha she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer loved every day by one man... A gift (her mother once said) not everybody gets. So why is everything broken? We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Course Philosophy Breakfast – June/July 18/06/2022 - 16/07/2022 | The Bookshop Shed Part 2: Marx on Commodity Fetishism; Mill on Utilitarianism; Husserl’s Phenomenological Reduction and Baggini’s Freedom Regained... We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Over the Sofa Chris White – Ceramics 01/06/2022 - 30/06/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Christopher White's powerful ceramics explore the exciting interplay between careful craft and the accidental results of Raku firing. On display all through June in the Bookshop 'Over The Sofa' gallery space. |
May 2022
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Reading Group My Mess is a Bit of a Life – Georgia Pritchett 30/05/2022 | The Black Buoy This memoir told in gloriously comic vignettes is an utterly joyful reflection on living (sometimes thriving, sometimes not) with anxiety... We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Book Launch Book Launch with Philippa Hawley 27/05/2022 | St Marys Annexe Frank is 62, a recovering alcoholic who lives in a rented room and works in the Docks. He's a roof over his head and food in his belly but there’s something missing in his life, till a solicitor’s letter arrives and changes everything... We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Over the Sofa Over The Sofa Things Ain’t What They Used To Be 08/05/2022 - 31/05/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop The aurae of thirteen 'proxy dreams' escape over the sofa this month in advance of their official release from Phil Cohen's new time-slippage fantasy 'Things Ain't What They Used To Be'... |
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Course Philosophy Breakfast – May/June 07/05/2022 - 04/06/2022 | The Bookshop Shed Part 1: Plato on Knowledge; Aristotle’s Ethics; Kant’s Aesthetics; Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols... We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Apr 2022
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Reading Group Sell Us the Rope – Stephen May 29/04/2022 | The Black Buoy
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Mar 2022
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Course Philosophical Passages (Part 2) 19/03/2022 - 16/04/2022 | The Bookshop Shed Philosophy Breakfasts 'Philosophical Passages' Part 2: The world as I found it (Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre), World-making (Kant, Goodman, Hacking), Mind & meaning (Wittgenstein), Art and ethics (Weil, Murdoch) and Induction (Hume, Goodman). We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Book Launch Bacon in Moscow 18/03/2022 | The Nottage Institute This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious quest by the young British curator James Birch to mount the ground-breaking 'Francis Bacon' exhibition at the newly furbished Central House of Artists, Moscow in 1988. Join us today for a conversation between author James Birch and Clare Conville, joint director of the book's publishing company CHEERIO. We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Home Page Meet the Author – Jan Williams 12/03/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Join us at the bookshop with storyteller and author Jan Williams who will be reading from her new book 'The Ghost of Pendlesham Priory'. This tale will be enjoyed by adults and children aged over 11. |
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Art in the Shed Burning Down the House – Women of Ambition and Power 12/03/2022 - 19/03/2022 | The Bookshop Shed 'I have always been interested in women as mythical beasts and monsters. Cultural history’s way of dealing with women of power and ambition has been to turn them into a sea monster, a gorgon or a frightening goddess of retribution.' The show is open from 10am to 4pm over the weekend of the 12th/13th and the following Sunday 20th of March, and from 12.30pm on Saturday the 19th. |
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Over the Sofa Dirk Paterson 01/03/2022 - 31/03/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Dirk Paterson's vibrant and emotional paintings are the subject of our 'Over the Sofa' show for March. The story of the Prodigal Son has universal resonance. These paintings seek to provide an inclusive and diverse interpretation of its vital story. |
Feb 2022
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Reading Group I Wanna Be Yours – John Cooper Clarke 28/02/2022 | The Black Buoy Join us in the Black Buoy for a delicious meal and discussion of this month's title. 'I Wanna be Yours' by John Cooper Clarke is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation. |
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Book Launch ‘Wivenhoe’ – A New Novel by Samuel Fisher 11/02/2022 | The Nottage Institute Wivenhoe-born author and bookeller Sam Fisher's extraordinary second novel, 'Wivenhoe' is a tender evocation of a place so familiar to us, with wide skies, the rolling river, and gleaming mud. Yet the time is unfamiliar - an alternate present in a world that is slowly waking up to the fact that it is living through an environmental disaster. |
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Course Philosophical Passages (Part 1) 05/02/2022 - 05/03/2022 | The Bookshop Shed New Philosophy Breakfasts live in the Bookshop Shed from February 2022. A course in two parts each of five weeks, with Dr Nicholas Joll. Part 1: Enlightenment (Kant, Adorno/Horkheimer), Rights (Hohfeld, Weil), Reification (Marx, Lukàcs, Nussbaum), Love (Derrida, Weil), Nature (Mill, Heidegger). We are sorry but online bookings are now closed for this event.
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Over the Sofa Sara Barker 01/02/2022 - 28/02/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop 'My jewellery designs are a direct response to what I see when human objects sit alongside, sometimes clashing, with the natural environment. I seek the textures, shapes and colours created in this meeting point of organic and fabricated...' |
Jan 2022
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Bookshop News Bookshop proprietor Sue Finn one of 22 ‘Bookshop Heroes of 2021’ 20/01/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Wivenhoe Bookshop proprietor Sue Finn was recently named as one of 22 'Bookshop Heroes of 2021'. The Bookseller's Bookshop Heroes is a listing of some of the best individual booksellers in the UK and Ireland, and salutes the inspirational managers, superstar hand-sellers, innovative events gurus and canny buyers who are the heart and soul of British and Irish bookselling. |
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Over the Sofa Lone Quist Edwards 04/01/2022 - 30/01/2022 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop We’re delighted to be showing Lone Quist Edwards’ abstract work during January. She is currently working with acrylic and collage on linen. "My work is generally described as abstract. I am inspired by my Scandinavian background where light and colour play an important role in people’s daily life – especially during the winter months when daylight is short and the landscape bleak. Spontaneity is key to my work, and I love the unpredictability of outcome." |
Dec 2021
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Over the Sofa December ‘7×9’ Annual Retrospective 01/12/2021 - 24/12/2021 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Year’s end once more, and time for our Over the Sofa gallery annual retrospective, the 7″ x 9″ exhibition. As ever the gallery is filled with fabulous work by some of Wivenhoe’s finest artists. Be sure to drop in and feast your eyes on this year’s show. All of the works are on sale, and it’s a marvellous opportunity to find yourself an affordable tiny treasure from a fine artist. |
Oct 2021
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Book Launch Robin Ince – The Importance of Being Interested 23/10/2021 | St Marys Annexe In this erudite and witty book Robin reveals why scientific wonder isn't just for the professionals. Filled with interviews featuring astronauts, comedians, teachers, quantum physicists, neuroscientists and more 'The Importance of Being Interested' explores why many wrongly think of the discipline as distant and difficult. |
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Over the Sofa Margie North 01/10/2021 - 31/10/2021 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop A collection of Margie North's recent oil paintings entitled 'Escape to Landscape' will be showing at the gallery throughout October. "When I was a child I was given a ‘paint by numbers’ kit but I refused to follow the instructions... I have attended several art courses and the people who have influenced me on my journey include the late Jason Bowyer, Francis Bowyer, Belinda King, Nat Young, Daphne Sandham and more recently my mentor, Jayne Wallett. Ten years ago Barbara Pierson gave me the confidence to exhibit." |
Sep 2021
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Over the Sofa Jayne Waters 01/09/2021 - 30/09/2021 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop In 2008 Jayne suffered an accident and was diagnosed with a neurological disability. "Art has become a bit of a life saver for me... I love bold colours and shapes and I am a little obsessed with the sun, the sky and the sea." |
Aug 2021
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Art in the Shed Olivia Browne 03/08/2021 - 29/08/2021 | The Wivenhoe Bookshop Olivia is an artist and educator who has been based in Wivenhoe since 2002. Drawing material from a range of sources her collage practice is intuitive and process-led. With found papers and sometimes her own photographs, she constructs abstract compositions. Recent work references the domestic and everyday. |