About this Event
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England
Led by writer and editor Amelia Horgan, Readings About… is a new literary event in which writers respond to a theme. In response to Okiki Akinfe’s exhibtion, R9 5AN , this iteration is about England, a place that shows up roughly at the fuzzy borders of London. Readings About…England will bring together readings about and discussions of the politics of place, ‘identity’, how people make place and vice versa, power, class, race, imperialism, and the meaning of ‘England’.
Readers: Hettie O’Brien, Lewis Brown, Antonia Lucia Dawes, Sacha Hilhorst, Natasha Samrai and Khalid Azizuddin.
This event is free, suggested donation is £3.
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Reader’s bios:
Hettie O’Brien
Hettie O'Brien is a writer at the Guardian and a regular contributor to the Guardian Long Read. Her first book, The Asset Class: How private equity turned capitalism against itself, is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) and Grand Central (US).
Lewis Brown
Lewis Brown is an actor, writer and podcaster. He created the conversational podcast Enough About Me interviewing artists, authors, academics and even politicians. (like and follow wherever you get your podcasts). Alongside this he works with The Museum of Homelessness a radical museum providing advocacy, solidarity and support for the homeless community and education for the general public.
Antonia Lucia Dawes
Antonia Lucia Dawes is a lecturer and writer based at King’s College London. She works on racism, militarism and cultural theory. Her first book Race Talk (2020) is about race and racism in southern Italy. She is also the co-author of England’s Military Heartland (2025), together with Vron Ware, Mitra Pariyar and Alice Cree. This book is the result of a ten-year investigation of the military training area on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, which explores what it means to live next to a military base. It questions how war blurs the boundaries between military and civilian, and what can or cannot be addressed by the use of lethal violence, sanctioned and organised by the state.
Sacha Hilhorst
Sacha is a political ethnographer working on the changing politics of England’s post-industrial towns. She is a Hallsworth post-doctoral fellow at the University of Manchester and a senior research fellow at Common Wealth, the think tank.
Natasha Samrai
Tash is a writer, director, theatre maker, gobshite and occasional poet. She writes because she cares about people and the way that we live.
Khalid Azizuddin
Khalid Azizuddin is a reporter covering climate finance with a focus on EU policy, extreme weather, and human rights issues such as surveillance. Prior to this, he sold tractors, worked in corporate strategy and reviewed music. Khalid is months away from receiving settled status in the UK after many years of flirting with the idea.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Peer Gallery, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London, United Kingdom
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