The Reading Room
The Reading Room is a new collaborative project where people can read, learn, listen, and share ideas. It is being run at The Canopi as part of a project set up by community spaces across Cardiff, Peterborough, Newcastle, Gateshead and Manchester. The network of reading groups is backed up by Pluto Press and the Left Book Club.
The Reading Room provides not just access to the books included within its library collections, but also authors, who bring their insight on a variety of topics β subjects include grassroots organising, creative writing, campaigning, teaching, music and much more.
The reading groups included in this project provide forums to debate local issues that deeply affect peopleβs everyday lives. The Sustainable Studio takes its lead from the communities it partners with, and topics include inequality, the environment, precarious employment, LGBTQIA+ issues, structural racism and much more.
At its core, The Reading Rooms will help people find space to read, discuss and organise a better future. A better world is possible!
The Reading Rooms Cardiff is an opportunity to meet and discuss local problems that we encounter everyday with people who have developed innovative and powerful ways to make change happen through their writings, research and activism.
HOW TO BORROw
You can borrow a maximum of two books at one time.
Please return books within 4 weeks. If you need more time, just drop us an email β weβre happy to extend your loan as long as no one else has reserved it.
Only one person can reserve a book at a time. If a reserved book is due back, weβll email the current borrower and let the next person know when itβs ready.
You can return books any time during The Canopi coffee barβs opening hours (Wednesday to Friday, 10am β 4pm). Just pop them back on the shelf when you're done!
Some members from the Cardiff Reading Room on location in Berlin with friends from Dark Matter Lab.
Learning trip supported by Arts Active Trust with TAITH funding.
MEET SOME OF THE COLLECTIVE
