Henningham Family Press

Dalston Brain Trust: 27th Sept 2010

By - David
Posted on September, 21, 2010September, 21, 2010

On the 27th Sept I’ll be delivering the inaugural lecture of the Dalston Brain Trust, a lecture series hosted by the newly reopened St Barnabas Church, Dalston. It is entitled A Method for Approaching Bamboo How the world confronts the artist in the poetry of Basho and WG Sebald The evening begins with a table-tennis

Dear Julie, (Palast part II)

By - David
Posted on August, 24, 2010August, 24, 2010

It’s funny you should mention the Palast der Republik as I pass the former sight of this building every other day. Now being a large green site in the centre of Berlin it has also become a very contentious space as last year the German Parliament agreed funding to rebuild the Schloss/ palace ( destroyed

Carry On Fighting

By - Eddie
Posted on August, 24, 2010August, 29, 2010

I am no stranger to being beaten up. Teenage years in Glenrothes, a Scottish Newtown took care of that. It was the 1970s; flared baggy trousers, Simon shirts, Glam rock and loads of gangs. And although nearly all the boys had long flicky hair it was a time when boys were boys and girls were

Palast der Republik

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on August, 5, 2010August, 5, 2010

I recently came across a postcard of the Palast der Republik* (Palace of the Republic), which was a building in the former East Berlin. The Palast appears on the postcard, under a sunny sky, surrounded by people, streetlamps and trees. The clouds are scattered, the flowers in full bloom. Near the entrance of the building,

Apple Cart Festival cancelled

By - David
Posted on July, 25, 2010July, 25, 2010

For those who hadn’t quite realised, the apple cart festival was cancelled due to problems they were having in the run-up. You should have recieved news of this from them if you bought tickets by now. We’re not scheduled to be in the Victoria Park appendix to the Apple Cart either; more Chip Shop dates

The Neglected Interviews on sale at Artwords

By - David
Posted on July, 2, 2010

‘The Neglected Interviews’ is now on sale in Artwords Bookshop on Broadway Market, which many of you will know as London’s benchmark arts bookshop. So those of you who have been asking where you can see it in the flesh can now get hold of your copy here: 20-22 Broadway Market London E8 4QJ Tel:

Keep Printing and Carry On in Pictures!

By - David
Posted on June, 18, 2010May, 12, 2011

The London Word Festival team have put up loads of wonderful pictures from that seminal evening of entertainment, Keep Printing and Carry On at STK. Darren Hayman, Jo Neary, and Murray Macaulay all in collaboration with the Henningham Family Press. And if that wasn’t enough, Universettee with guest mini-lecturers Sophie Mackay and David Barnes… Pictures

Word Chain

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on June, 17, 2010

If you follow a pencil carefully, from the moment it is created from the wood of a tree that grew by a Czech lake which you once saw through the train window while on your way to Vienna where a waiter then used that pencil to write down your order, to the moment when that

Chip Shop at the BBC Radio Theatre: Pictures

By - David
Posted on May, 28, 2010May, 12, 2011

Chip Shop on stage before broadcast Making preparations with Ian McMillan and the producer Simon Armitage choosing his Chip Shop word; ‘homunculus’

Work in Progress CANCELLATION

By - David
Posted on May, 16, 2010May, 16, 2010

We are having to pull out of the book fair advertised for today, Ping* is on maternity leave now, and I’m going to have to stay with her today instead.