Private Hire Bring your vision to life at East or North London Common Press From launches to parties, we've got you covered. Hire fees and venue specifications Shoreditch (East) Full day hire - 09:00 am - 5:30 pm Half-day hire - 09:00 am - 12:00 pm Evening hire - 6: 30 pm - 2am Late license available for both branches Please fill in the form here to start a conversation about your event in our east London branch. Located by Brick Lane. Capacity : 70 standing | 45 seating (ground floor) Tech: Speakers / PA / café and bar Address: 118 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 6DG Request quote Dalston (North) Please fill in the form here to start a conversation about your event. Located in the intersection of Dalston and Stoke Newington. Capacity : 250 Tech: Speakers / PA / DJ decks / café and Bar Ground floor: 150 standing | 80 seating Basement" 100 standing | 60 seating Address: 97 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 8BX Ideal for book events, open mic, panel discussions, filming, workshops, parties, launch & social gatherings. Includes venue hire + Staffing + Chairs + Tables + AV setup (Excludes VAT and sound technician) Request quote Heading 1 EXTRAS DJ decks £80 - DJ Pioneer XDJ RX - DJ Controller System Rekordbox. F ull specs Bar with staffing - available on request Sound Technician £15 per hour Security £150 for one security staff. Find us online! Instagram Books Instagram Accessibility Information Privacy Policy Visit us! Shoreditch (East) Address 118 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 6DG Open: Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6:30pm Dalston (North) Address 97 Stoke Newington London, N16 8BX Open: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 5 pm Email: Info@commonpressbooks.com Web Design by Alfonzo Sieveking Quick Site Navigation Home Events Private Hire Membership Jobs Shop Online Shop Gift Card Gift Guides Contact Donate

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Happy P R I D E 2023! Welcome to our dedicated portal for The Common Press Pride Festival 2023! Here you can see all of the events we have planned throughout the festival, which includes book launches, poetry, amazing panel discussions with some of our favourite authors, parties, workshops, and children's events. You can click on any event to go to its registration page. It's really important to us that our events are as accessible as possible, so we've tried to keep everything low-cost - some are free to attend and almost everything else is pay-what-you-can. The pay-what-you-can tickets have a £4 minimum, but if you would particularly like to attend an event and cannot afford that, please email as at books@commonpress.co.uk and we'll sort it out. All events are marked as ground floor or basement - please note that the basement is not wheelchair accessible. We can't wait to see you at the festival! Thank you so much for your ongoing support, and more than anything else, happy Pride from everyone at The Common Press! 20 June Refuge & Migration ScheduLE: Pride without borders basement / 6.30pm-8pm A panel discussion with some of the most prominent organisations advocating for LGBTQ+ migrant rights. authentic ground floor / 6.30pm-9.30pm A panel disc ussion about food, culture, and marginalisation. 21 June ScheduLE: Book launch: The Pride Atlas, by Maartje hensen basement / 7.30pm-9.30pm Celebrate the publication of this beautiful and wonderfully researched guide for LGBTQ+ travellers! Queer Nightlife: Which way Now? Ground flo or/6.30 pm -9.30pm A range of performers and creatives on the advantages and setbacks of the UK's queer nightlife scene. Travel & Nightlife 22 June Music & POWER ScheduLE: Sounds of Survival basement / 6pm-11 pm One of our favourite music and poetry events returns! Expect a fantastic atmosphere and some beautiful sounds. Documenting the Diaspora: Joy, Art, and the Asian experience Ground flo o r/7.30 pm -9. 30pm A panel discussion with Anna Fux and David KAm, hosted by our very own Kenneth Lam. 23 June Queer culture ScheduLE: Contemporary GAY CULTURE: A PANEL With Michael Handrick, Daniel Harding, Jeremy Atherton Lin and Vaneet Mehta basem ent / 7.3 0pm-9.30p m A panel of fantastic authors on gay and bisexual men's culture in the UK. "Queer": Neurodivergence and LGBTQ+ culture Ground flo or/7.30-9.30 We could all benefit from thinking differently sometimes, and the experts on this panel prove that that's the case with their insightful critiques of the way the world excludes neurodivergent people. 24 June Authors' evening ScheduLE: children's Authors' Evening Ground Floor / 4 p m-6p m Meet your favourite children's book authors and illustrators! This is a child-friendly event, so bring the whole family. Authors' Evening whole site/7pm-10pm The very best queer writers working in the UK today. Some and enjoy a free glass of prosecco and get some books signed! We are very sorry to have had to postpone our planned Authors' Evenings until later in the year due to factors beyond our control. Many of the authors due to attend are taking part in one of our other events, so if you particularly wanted to meet someone just drop us a message at books@glasshouse.london . If they'll be here on another date we'll make sure to get you in. If you had already booked a ticket and made a donation, this will be refunded in full, including any Outsavvy fees. POSTPONED POSTPONED 25 June Family ScheduLE: wellness day w. Tobi Adebajo bas ement / 2 p m-6p m A day of mindfulness and intentional practise, to keep yo ur brain refreshed during Pride season. This is a child-friendly event. Queer Parent ing panel gro und flo or/3pm-5pm A fantastic panel of experts discusses everything you need to know about being part of a queer family. To our disappointment, we have had to cancel the Queer Parenting Panel due to transportation disruption affecting the speakers. We apologise for the inconvenience, and hope there's another event you'd like to attend instead! The Rise of Queer Romance gro und flo or/6.30 pm-8.30pm Hopeless romantics, this one's for you! We explore the surg e in queer romantic writing, with an insiders perspective from four incredible authors. Queer Singles Social g ro und flo or/8.30 pm-10pm Come for the romance authors, stay for romance in general. This is a casual social for anyone hoping to meet more people this Pride. CANCELLED 27 June Poetry & History ScheduLE: Queering the Past b as ement / 6 p m-8p m Queer Historical Fiction has never been as exciting a nd wide-ranging as it is now, and we'll be hearing from three authors who penned some of our favourites. The Comm on Press Poetry Night g ro und flo or/7pm-10pm A whole evening of poetry, in our much-missed former bar - it's open again for the evening, so grab some drinks and listen up. 28 June Class ScheduLE: Economics of queerness Ground FLoor / 6 p m-7.30p m Join Decolonising Economics for the first of three panel conversations with LGBTQ+ community organisers of colour. Here, Queer, and Working class: Juno Roche and Soph Galustian in Conversation gro und flo or/7.30pm-9.30pm A long-time favourite of queer writing in conversation with a remarkable new talent! Mur der, She WRote: Feminist Crime Fiction Basement / 7 p m-9p m Best-selling authors Alice Slater and Rose Wilding are challenging the stereotypes of a genre - we're hugely excited to be pairing them for an evening of conversation. 29 June Gender ScheduLE: Queer BIPOC Masculinities Ground FLoor / 7 p m-8p m A conversation led by award-winning playwright Rikki Beadle-Blair, exploring navigating masculinity as a queer person of colour. Other people's Films presents: Onanism Basement/7pm-10pm A screening programme of short experimental works from the 1900s to today about masturbation, sex and desire. 50 LGBTQI+ WHO CHANGED THE WORLD Ground floor/6pm-7pm A talk and signing by French artist Florent Manelli, hosted by Clare Summerskill. Florent's book is the product of a touring exhibition of LGBTQI+ icons launching at Strawberry Hill House on the 30th. 30 June community ScheduLE: Free Therapy Sessions with Sai Joshi Basement/2pm-6pm We have a limited number of spaces available for people who need someone to talk to - booking opens later this week. t4T: Trans social Gro und FLoor / 6 p m-8p m A very exciting two-part event: first a casual social for trans and non-binary people to meet, make friends, and drink tea, and then a panel discussion featuring Jamie Raines, Nicola Dinan, and Harry Nicholas. Sober Pride Party Ground Floor/8pm-12am A good time, without the alcohol! Drinkers and non-drinkers alike are welcome, but we will only be serving soft drinks. 1 july Pride ScheduLE: Family pride day Ground Floor/11AM -4pm A range of relaxed events and readings for kids - if the Pride Parade seems a bit too busy and noisy for your youngsters, celebrate the day with us instead. Brick LAne Alternative Pride Party Ground Floor/9pm-3am We still haven't quite finished cleaning up from last year! Those of you lucky enough to have attended will know why everyone was talking about it - and if you didn't attend, don't miss out this year!

Our downstairs events space is currently under construction and not available. Our downstairs space room is lightly soundproofed, and as before comes fully equipped - all you need to do is hit the big red 'record' button. We host podcasting sessions on throughout the week , during our opening hours between 11 am - 6 pm Tuesday- Sunday . To book a session, please email books@commonpress.co.uk with your preferred date and time. You must bring a laptop to your booking to collect your files with. Payment for podcasting is made in the bookshop immediately after your session, by credit or debit card. The cost is £30 per hour for up to four people. RAISE YOUR VOICE!

London's intersectional queer bookshop cafe, bar and community hub. LGBTQ+ Books, events and third space. The Common Press | London's queer intersectional Bookshop café, bar & Community Hub. Est. 2021 We are more than a bookshop. The Common Press is a not-for-profit queer community venue that means many things to many people. As London's first consciously queer intersectional bookshop, we provide a sanctuary and third space for LGBTQIA+ literature, arts, culture, and community, creating space for queers to gather, connect, and belong, both during the day and into the night. We stand up for what we believe in. Our shelves hold more than 7,000 books exploring trans-inclusive feminism, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, climate justice, wellbeing, and self-care. Alongside our bookshop, we host programme of events that bring our community together to learn, organise, celebrate, and imagine new possibilities. we are growing our community across London. Visit us in Shoreditch or Dalston. Upcoming Events! If you'd like to see our upcoming events in a calendar format, you can click here . We also post monthly summaries of upcoming events to our instagram! See All EVENTS Join our Membership From £5 per Month Learn More we are more than a bookshop. A radical, independent space that stands up for what we believe in. The Common Press is one of London's best independent bookshops that champions books by queer, underrepresented authors, voices and those from the Global majority. Across both venues we host a diverse range of events including book clubs, live music, wellbeing sessions, workshops, family-friendly events, and club nights. Whether you're looking for the latest novels by your favourite gay, lesbian, queer, trans, and non-binary authors; seminal works of Black history; fourth-wave feminist theory; or that niche book on disability activism, we either have it or know how to get it fast. It's not just novels and theory, we also stock poetry, plays, graphic novels, and a great collection of books for children and young adults. And if, after all that browsing, you're feeling a bit tired, we make a pretty great coffee, cuppa and drinks as you ease into the evening & nightlife culture. Proudly Black, Queer & Trans owned Book of the Month Become a member

The Common Press Privacy Policy Our contact details Name: The Common Press CIC Address: 118 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 6DG E-mail: books@commonpress.co.uk The type of personal information we collect We currently collect and process the following information: Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details) How we get the personal information and why we have it Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons: To contact a member of our team To arrange an event with us To arrange a consultation for our book subscriptions We use the information that you have given us in order to contact you about your enquiry, and to fulfil book subscriptions. We will not share your information with third parties without your permission. Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are: (a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us through the contact page on this website. (b) We have a legitimate interest. How we store your personal information Your information is securely stored. We keep all information for two years from your last point of contact. We will then dispose your information. Your data protection rights Under data protection law, you have rights including: Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances. You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us via books@commonpress.co.uk to make a request. How to complain If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us, either by writing to us at: The Common Press 118 Bethnal Green Road London E2 6DG Or by using the contact form on this website. You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data. The ICO’s address: Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF Helpline number: 0303 123 1113 ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk This policy is effective from the 23rd of May 2022.

Attend diverse range of events from book events, poetry, live performances, community events and club nights. EVENTS Book launches, live music, poetry nights, club nights, performances, drag queen story time, wellbeing events, pretty much anything you can think of is happening here! We hope to see you at one of our events soon! See All Events

Announcement Save The Common Press Dear Supporters of The Common Press, The Common Press is becoming a CIC (Community Interest Company), and we need your help to make this happen! Without the support of our community, we risk closing down completely. After three years of collaborating with our current investors, we are parting ways. This leaves us completely unfunded and in need of community support to help us transition to the next stage of our journey as a CIC. The Common Press is a vital intersectional bookshop and events space for the queer community in London, providing an essential third space that doesn’t focus solely on alcohol. Led by BIPOC, trans, non-binary folks, and queer women, we prioritise queer authors, Queer Black & POC writers, non-binary and trans voices, underrepresented creatives, and young LGBTQI+ people. We have been ranked as one of London’s top 10 independent bookshops by The Bookseller for featuring titles on trans-inclusive feminism, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, ecopolitics, and self-care. To keep our space alive, we are launching a crowd funder in the next few weeks. n the meantime, If you want to support us as an investor, media partner, volunteer, or by pledging early. Please fill out the interest form HERE. Long live queer spaces With love and pride, The Common Press Team 💛 INTEREST FORM

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The Common Press Bookshop and Cafe London's finest queer intersectional bookshop. The Common Press is a lot of things to a lot of people. As London's first consciously intersectional bookshop, we champion titles by authors from a huge range of marginalised backgrounds – whether you're looking for the latest novels by your favourite gay, lesbian, queer, trans, and non-binary authors; seminal works of Black history; fourth-wave feminist theory; or that niche book on disability activism, we've either got it or know how to get it fast. And it's not just novels and theory - we also stock poetry, plays, graphic novels, and a great collection of books for children and young adults. And if, after all that browsing, you're feeling a bit tired, we do a pretty great coffee as well. SHOP NOW Coming soon! Annual Subscriptions If you'd like to support The Common Press in our efforts to make marginalised voices louder, whilst also giving yourself (or someone you love) an amazing gift that lasts all year, consider one of our annual subscriptions. Twelve carefully curated books, chosen especially for you, gift-wrapped and delivered to your door - one a month, all year. LEARN MORE

Thu, 12 Sept | The Common Press The Slow Grind presents The Dreaming Room Grounded in deep listening The Dreaming room is a space for reflection, discourse and contemplation. Expect songs, audio bites and readings around themes of colonialism, futurity, ecologies of care and our relationship with our bodies, greater communities and the natural world. RSVP Time & Location 12 Sept 2024, 19:00 – 21:00 The Common Press, 118 Bethnal Grn Rd, London E2 6DG, UK RSVP Share this event