Come and join us in Stockport on Thursday 2nd May while Nicholas Royle discusses Tell with the author Jonathan Buckley. Sitting somewhere within the peripheries of a murder mystery but without the murder? Tell explores and plays with who we are to everyone else and to ourselves.
Tickets are £5 and include a drink on arrival. Doors from 6.30, event starts at 7.30.
]]>Join us for the next Film Stock on Thursday 28 March, featuring — for the first time ever — a film from the 21st century! Not that you could tell by looking at it. Filmed on a 16mm Bolex handcranked by the director himself, Bait is a modern miracle of British cinema, despite its modest means.
A Cornish fisherman tries to save up to buy a boat. Intimate small town drama foregrounds our developing national crises, from the frustrations of familial strife to battles with AirBnB owners. Mark Jenkin’s microbudget debut may look like an antique, but its prescient messages are more and more important not even 5 years since its release.
Ticket price includes a free drink on arrival! Film starts at 7pm. Doors from 6.
]]>New year, new series of events. Kicked off with the brilliant poet and writer Holly Pester (author of Comic Timing) and neuroscientist, artist and writer Rachel Genn.
On the 29th February, the day that doesn't exist, the conversation was all about The Lodgers, Pester's new novel. Buy signed copies here.
]]>Come and join our exciting musical journey, where we explore sounds, songs and rhythms with real musicianship at its core.
Led by a professional musician, children will be introduced to the amazing world of music through fun songs, games and musical instruments which will inspire, educate and develop the musical ear of even the youngest budding musician.
Back with another one! Join us for the next Film Stock screening, held in our cellar on Thursday 22 February.
Experience one of the foundational films of African cinema, Mandabi [The Money Order] (1968). The first film ever completed entirely in an African language (Wolof), this satirical mix of the absurd and the all-too-real inspired a wave of films across Senegal and beyond. An unemployed man receives an unexpected money order from a relative. Chaos ensues.
From overbearing bureaucracy to manipulative neighbours, Mandabi lays bare the incompatibility of capitalism and humanity. Sembène’s touch, comic and cruel, make what could be as fun as waiting in a doctor’s office into a deeply funny, frustrating, and memorable masterpiece.
Ticket price now includes a free drink on arrival! Film starts at 7pm, doors at 6.
]]>New year, new series of events. Kicked off with the brilliant poet and writer Holly Pester (author of Comic Timing) and neuroscientist, artist and writer Rachel Genn.
Join us in the shop on the 29th February, the day that doesn't exist. For a chat between the two all about Pester's debut novel, The Lodgers.
"The minor dramas of temporary living are prised open and ransacked in Holly Pester’s irreverent reckoning with those who house us. This is a story about what it means to live and love within and outside of family structures. It is also a stunning first novel from a writer already hailed as one of the best poets of her generation." - Granta.
Tickets are £5 and include a free drink on the night. Get yours here.
Doors at 6.30, event starts at 7.30.
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We’re back! Join us for the first screening of Film Stock’s 2024 programme, held in our cellar on Thursday 25 January.
Teorema [Theorem] (1968) is a mystery. Banned on release, this hazy cloud of seductive satire helmed by outspoken Marxist painter, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini gets denser and denser as it permeates the workings of the upper-middle class before turning them inside out.
Each member of a rich family has a life changing encounter with an enigmatic stranger visiting their mansion, causing each to re-evaluate their lives (to put it lightly). At once a subtle existential riddle and a powerful polemic statement, Theorem is a cinematic shockwave whose influence can still be seen to this day.
Ticket price includes a free drink on the night! Get yours here.
Please note, we've moved the film to begin at the slightly earlier time of 7. Doors from 6.
Once again, this has sold out. To get on the reserve list please email info@raremags.co.uk
]]>Part 1 for the chat between him and Christine about making your own clothes and teaching others.
Part 2 for question and answer, fashion as dictatorship, shame and capitalism.
Signed copies of Charlie's book - Bring No Clothes - HERE
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Join us for a Christmas classic! Tickets to come to the Film Stock Community Cinema night on Thursday 7 December, in our cellar.
Film Stock returns with The Shop Around the Corner (1940), the other famous Christmas film starring Jimmy Stewart. Blessed by the magical “Lubitsch touch”, it’s a wonderful enemies-to-lovers rom-com romp to be enjoyed together.
Seats are limited so book now, tickets here.
Ticket options include Standard Admission as well as Donation, for those who would like to donate towards the running of more of these events in the future. We are also offering a number of concession tickets for those on low- or no-income.
Come along and enjoy some social cinema.
]]>Sound like a good evening? Yep, it does.
Tickets here. £10 a pop.
From 7pm at our shop.
]]>Stockport Silver Brass Band will be playing from 5.30pm with the lights switch on at 6pm.
Late night shopping, mince pies, mulled wine, dancing, all the celebration stuff.
Everyone welcome.
]]>Lucy Jones, prolific journalist and author of Matrescence and Losing Eden in conversation with Helen Jukes, author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings.
Signed copies of Matrescence are available on our website.
]]>The sequel! Tickets to come to Film Stock Community Cinema night on Thursday 26 October, in our cellar.
Film Stock presents Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), a wildly experimental document of the Japanese underground and a monumental achievement in queer cinema. Centred around a transgender hostess working in a gay bar, Toshio Matsumoto’s radical exploration of queer culture combines arthouse aesthetics with a punk rock intensity that has to be experienced to be believed.
Seats are limited so book now! Tickets here.
Ticket options include Standard Admission as well as Donation, for those who would like to donate towards the running of more of these events in the future. We are also offering a number of concession tickets for those on low- or no-income.
Come along and enjoy some social cinema.
]]>Big one here. THE Charlie Porter is going to be in our shop chatting with THE Salford fashion and image making lecturer Christine Ratcliff. It will be one hell of a conversation.
7pm doors for 7.30ish start. We'll have a bar.
The event is sold out. If you'd like to come, please send us a message to be added to the reserve list.
]]>Our sixth event, Porn: An Oral History.
This sold out event took place at the newly opened Bohemian Arts Club, across the road from our shop on the 28th September 2023.
Part 1 is writer and translator Polly Barton talking to Cultural Program Manager and director of Corridor 8 Lauren Velvick.
Part 2 is a fantastic question and answer session between the two and the intimate audience.
Click on these links for further details of Porn: An Oral History plus Fifty Sounds (Polly's previous book).
]]>Rebecca May Johnson, food writer, co-editor of Vittles and author of Small Fires talks to Holly Eliza Temple, writer for Mold magazine and editor of Filler zine at our shop on 27th September 2023. Signed copies of Small Fires and copies of Filler zine are available here.
]]>What's that noise? Oh yeah, it's the noise of rapturous excitement at yet another great author event in Stockport.
On Friday 13th October we will have Lucy Jones, journalist and author of Matrescence:
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It's a Wednesday evening, you've definitely got nothing on but we've planned a special treat. Rebecca May Johnson, author of Small Fires, is in our shop talking to Holly Eliza Temple, editor and creator of Filler Zine.
Think food, writing, odysseys, tomato sauce and a hell of a lot more.
Small Fires is out in paperback on 1st September, you can pre-order it here.
7pm doors for 7.30 start, there'll be a small bar and you're all very welcome.
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Thursday 28th September, Polly Barton, author of Porn: An Oral History is coming to Stockport. For the book Polly spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages, genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits, emotions and feelings of guilt, embarrassment, disgust and shame, fantasy and desire. She'll be chatting with Lauren Velvick, cultural programme manager for A&H Huddersfield and Director of Corridor 8 magazine.
The event will be held in the Bohemian Arts Club, with a drink on arrival and some special sexy cocktails on the menu.
Limited tickets due to the intimate size of the venue. Buy yours here.
]]>The first ever Film Stock Community Cinema night on Thursday 14th September, in our cellar.
Film Stock presents a screening of Le Bonheur (1965), Agnès Varda's classic drama of the French New Wave. A marriage of stunning visuals and heart wrenching emotion, Varda's withering depiction of the nuclear family has become a key touchstone in the history of feminism on film.
The film will be accompanied with an introduction and we'll have a small bar open.
Seats are limited so book now! Buy tickets here.
Ticket options include Standard Admission as well as Donation, for those who would like to donate towards the running of more of these events in the future. We are also offering a number of concession tickets for those on low or no-income.
Tickets to come to the first ever Film Stock Community Cinema night on Thursday 14th September in our cellar.
Come along and enjoy some social cinema.
]]>We're hugely privileged to have him in our shop and we'd love for you to all come. They'll be a reading and some drawing with Jon. All ages welcome, toddlers and kids (ages 3-10) encouraged.
1 ticket per child please, parents don't need to get a ticket.
2.30pm in the shop. It's free but signing up is encouraged so we can keep an eye on numbers. Sign up here.
]]>The fourth event and podcast in our ever growing collection.
Pat Nevin, footballer, pundit and author of Football And How To Survive It talks to Chris O'Keeffe, journalist and creator of Turnstiles magazine at Rare Mags, Stockport on 13th July 2023.
Signed copies of Pat's book, Football And How To Survive It are here
Copies of Turnstiles Magazine are available here
Thanks to Rob Sawyer for the photo.
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]]>Sabrina Verjee, fell and ultra distance runner and author of Where There's A Hill talks to Victoria Benn, journalist and author of Peak Performance.
Unfortunately the batteries ran out on the recording device, not Sabrina, after 30 minutes so you've missed some questions about nutrition and chafing...
Signed copies of both books are available here:
]]>David Holt from Wax Poetics talks to Dave Haslam, author, Hacienda DJ and all round lovely bloke. Two lovely Dave's chatting about magazines and music.
You can buy Wax Poetics latest issue here and Haslams newest book about Picasso's Paris nightlife here.
]]>Put the 18th may in your diary. Wax Poetics and Dave Haslam will be in conversation, in Stockport, talking about music, magazines and writing.
Wax Poetics have just launched Issue 5 feat. Psychedelic Portland, Lance Ferguson, Caroline Crawford and John Kruth on Pharoah Sanders. Dave Haslam has just published his newest book on Pablo Picasso's Paris Nightlife. Let these worlds collide, on Lower Hillgate, on a Thursday in May.
Free but if you'd like to tell us you're coming, sign up here.
This event is made possible thanks to the Stockport Independent Traders Association.
]]>The event is free but please sign up so we know how much beer to order.
]]>Buy signed copies of the book HERE.
]]>On the 27th April we're hosting Ian Penman and Dr Andrew Moor to chat about Penman's new book 'Fassbinder Thousands Of Mirrors' published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
"Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder".
Ian Penman will be joined by Dr Andrew Moor, Reader in Film Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University.
The event is free and there will be drinks available. If you'd like to order the book for Ian to sign, get it here and select 'local pickup' at checkout.
]]>Next Saturday 26th November the traders on The Underbanks will be celebrating our Festive Lights Switch On from 6pm.
Stockport Silver Brass Band, mulled wine and mince pies from Yellowhammer, late night shopping with all of us lot and SK1 Records providing music til late.
Everything will kick off at 6pm and we'll all be here during the day too so bob down. Everyone welcome.