LEVEN STREET PRESS
We are thrilled to have Leven Street Press joining our community space through the month of April. Pop in to browse their publications and free courses!
Leven Street Press is a temporary press based in Pollokshields, Glasgow that distributes writing, visual art & learning resources for self-directed & communal study. To accompany Songs for Work at Generator, the press is installed at Generator where commissioned work and free courses are available. LSP'S first commission are new poems by April Yee & Arji Manuelpillai on limited edition prints and postcards.
April Yee is a writer and translator. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize, the Alpine Fellowship, the Women's Prize Trust's Discoveries program, and the University of East Anglia's David T.K. Wong Fellowship. She serves as a reader for Liminal Transit Review, trustee for SeeBeyondBorders UK, and mentor for University of the Arts London’s Refugee Journalism Project. A Harvard and Tin House alumna, she reported in more than a dozen countries at sites ranging from Chernobyl to Iraqi oil fields.
Arji Manuelpillai is a poet, rapper, performer and education artist based in London. Over the last 15 years he has performed and taught both nationally and internationally with audiences and students from all cultures and walks of life. He is passionate about community arts and connecting people through art, he believes that self-expression can help nurture relationships, improve mental health and increase self esteem and confidence. He was an Arvon/Jerwood Mentee and his first pamphlet Mutton Rolls is available from @outspokenldn
Courses available are:
‘Climate change, imagination and the arts’ is a resource contains an interview with artist and activist Jonathan Baxter, poetry, slides, notes and collected sources that can be used for your own interest or in your work with others. It is rooted in the idea put forward by writer William Smith, that climate change is not a theme or topic for the arts to respond to, but is the global historical condition for all human activity.
‘Our Religion is What We Do’ is centred around the late poet, educator and activist Jack D. Forbes’ work who is best known for his role in establishing one of the first Native American Studies programmes. Forbes work is critical for bringing together the intimately related issues of decolonisation, cognitive justice, social justice and climate change.
‘Women on the Verge of Philosophical Breakdown‘ (Co-convened by Julia Ng, Marina Vishmidt, Alberto Toscano, Svenja Bromberg, Stefan Nowotny) which was a series of seminars that took place in 2017 at the Centre for Philosophy & Critical Thought, Goldsmiths University. With permission from the conveners at the CPCT, we have this course and its resources here available via the links below for you to access. ‘The course is dedicated to women in the history of philosophy, broadly understood, around whom questions of materialism and embodiment have pivoted from antiquity to the near present and explore the challenges and provocations posed by these texts to debates on the union of mind and body, reason and madness, vision and idea, reform and revolution, and the ‘woman question’.’
Contact: Instagram @levenstreetpress
