Lighthouse | Radical Book Fair 2024: From Where We Stand

The 2024 Radical Book Fair is taking place on 21st -24th November back at the Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh!

The theme for this year's fair will be From Where We Stand. With a nod to the thirty years of a radical bookshop existing on West Nicolson Street, we'll be celebrating the way histories of resistance, protest and change-making live on in every step we take toward a more just future. Through the four days of the fair, we'll be diving into conversations about community organising, through time and across generations, international solidarity, radical histories and how we draw on them. We'll be exploring possible futures rooted in past struggles.

Sometimes it's not only about making new worlds - it's also about building from the worlds that have wilfully been buried through history, but which we all depend on.

The full program is listed below, or can be viewed as a pdf HERE.

This year's marvelously empowering poster is an original design by the inimitable Lindsay Grime.

Accessibility: All events will be professionally filmed & livestreamed, as well as captioned. The Roxy is wheelchair accessible (including toilets but not the snug downstairs) and we'll have provisions for neurodivergent guests including stims, quiet space and colour-coded lanyards. *MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED AT ALL EVENTS* (Our approach to masks here)

TICKETS: The Radical Book Fair is entirely bookshop run, without outside funding, so any and all support means the world to us. The Fair is FREE to BROWSE Thursday - Sunday and you can drop in whenever we are open, 12-6 on Thursday and 10-6 Friday - Sunday.

Events are £6 or free -we completely understand paying for one event and then getting free spots for others if you're strapped for cash. ALL ticket sales help both to anticipate attendance and to help us pay all our speakers. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!