Queer Books

Need some inspiration and/or dedicated writing time for your current WIP? Grab your laptop or notebook and join us at Simply show up at Laie Bookstore (we'll be upstairs). Feel free to jump into working on your own writing project immediately, or wait until the quiet time starting at 5:30. at 5 pm for a bit of writer chat, before diving into an hour and a half of focused writing time. At 7, we head to a nearby bar to discuss how it all went.

**Una tragicomèdia apocalíptica al més estil de Jordi Oriol.** El present ha imposat un ultimàtum a la humanitat, si de veritat vol tenir futur. Mentre un gabinet científic convocat d'urgència dissenya un pla per respondre a la desintegració de la matèria que permet la vida humana, dos germans s'enfronten a la pèrdua del llenguatge que pateix el seu pare, amb la convicció que tot allò que deixa d'anomenar-se, deixa d'existir. Una història de números, explicada amb lletres. Terrenal, però amb el cap als núvols. Autoria i direcció: **Jordi Oriol** Intèrprets: **Joan Carreras** **Mia Esteve** **Carme Milán** **Carles Pedragosa** **Lara Segur** Idioma: Català Durada: 1h 30m. Preus i enllaços a venda d'entrades: 7,00€(+ gestió) TR3SC Plus: https://www.tresc.cat/f/84694/l-ultim-atom/ Web Teatre Goya: https://tickets.oneboxtds.com/teatregoya/select/2588487?viewCode=Vista_Principal NOTES IMPORTANTS: * Cada participant gestiona la compra de la seva entrada. * Només ha d'indicar RSVP = "Sí" qui ja hagi adquirit o reservat la seva entrada. Si us plau, no us apunteu si no la teniu, perquè altrament ens complica determinar el quòrum real. * Us recordem que aquest grup no té cap interès comercial, és una simple trobada d'aficionats, apassionats, addictes i bojos pel teatre. * En acabada la funció, anirem a buscar un bar per fer-hi un mos o un beure i comentar l'obra.

**🌅 SUNDAY SUNSET Paddle Surf Experience – Start Your Erasmus Journey Right! 🏄‍♂️** Are you new to Barcelona and looking for an unforgettable adventure? There’s no better way to start your day than watching the sunrise while floating on the sea! 🌊☀️ Join us for a Paddle Surf session in Barceloneta, where you’ll enjoy breathtaking views, meet other international students, and experience Barcelona like never before! 📍 Event Details: 📅 Date: Check our [https://www.instagram.com/exchangestudentlife_bcn/](https://www.instagram.com/exchangestudentlife_bcn/) ⏰ Time: 6:00 AM (yes, it’s early, but totally worth it!) 📍 Location: JOIN THE WHATSAPP GROUP TO STAY UPDATED : [https://www.instagram.com/exchangestudentlife_bcn/](https://www.instagram.com/exchangestudentlife_bcn/) (link in bio) 🎟️ Price & Booking: 💰 Price: €20 (includes board, instructor & stunning sunrise experience) 💳 Booking: Pay €5 in advance to secure your spot, and €15 upon arrival 📲 Show the QR Code (found in the Tickets section of your account on our website) 🔹 Limited Spots Available – Max 50 People! 💙 Exclusive Discount: Erasmus Membership Card holders get €5 OFF! Don’t miss out on this unique experience! Let’s paddle together and create unforgettable memories! 🌊✨ Follow us on Instagram for updates! 🚀🎿 [https://www.instagram.com/channel/AbZou-JlBK2qW4UH/](https://www.instagram.com/channel/AbZou-JlBK2qW4UH/)

**Storytelling Barcelona en español y catalán — Tema: ¡Vecinos, compis y caseros!** Seguimos nuestro camino por los idiomas locales y, esta vez, el tema será: vecinos, compis y caseros. Quien haya compartido piso aunque sea una vez en la vida tiene historias que contar, eso lo sabemos bien. A veces son divertidas, otras emotivas y otras terribles, pero siempre dejan sin palabras, y nosotros queremos contároslas. Un compi, un vecino o incluso un casero pueden cambiarte los días, hacerte vivir una nueva ciudad, una nueva experiencia o algo que ya conocías, pero con ojos totalmente diferentes. Y, al final, de eso va la vida :) 📍 **Dónde:** Café El Noa Noa, C/Villarroel 71, Eixample 🕢 **Cuándo:** miércoles 10 de Junio. **Hora:** puertas a las 19:00, historias de 19:30 a 21:30 💶 **Entrada gratuita** \| Donaciones bienvenidas ¿Te interesa compartir una historia? Asignamos los turnos por orden de llegada. Por favor, rellena nuestro formulario [aquí](https://forms.gle/SEZFWkNX2gRDRHPd7). No es necesaria ninguna experiencia previa. Solo pedimos que las historias sean reales y personales, que se interpreten en lugar de leerse, y que sean historias (no reflexiones filosóficas, discursos motivacionales ni rutinas de stand-up comedy). **El contador puede escoger el idioma (Castellano o Catalán) para contar su história.** El contenido queda completamente a criterio de quien cuenta la historia, siempre que esté relacionado con el tema del mes y sea respetuoso con la diversidad y las experiencias de todas las personas. El evento se celebrará en el Café El Noa Noa, una librería-café y espacio cultural queer en la Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample. Storytelling Barcelona es un evento completamente gratuito organizado por voluntarios. ¡Todos son bienvenidos a subir al escenario! Ahora también tenemos una lista de correo para mantenerte al día con los eventos. Puedes suscribirte a través [de este enlace](http://eepurl.com/jwaKDg). Para cualquier duda o consulta, escríbenos por mensaje directo en nuestro Instagram **@storytellingbarcelona** o envía un correo a **storytellingbarcelona@gmail.com**. **¡Trae algo de efectivo para contribuir a nuestro jarro de donaciones!** Siempre será un evento gratuito y queremos que todo el mundo pueda asistir, pero tus donaciones ayudan a sostener el esfuerzo creciente y a los voluntarios que hacen posible el evento. También tenemos un podcast para disfrutar historias desde casa llamado What Lingers. ¡Puedes encontrarlo en todas las plataformas de podcast! Todos los enlaces relacionados con Storytelling Barcelona también están disponibles en nuestro linktree:[ ](https://linktr.ee/storytellinglisboa)[https://beacons.ai/storytellingbarcelona](https://beacons.ai/storytellingbarcelona)

La proposta d'aquesta activitat és anar a un assaig de l'obra *“Nascuts lliures”* de la companyia La Conquesta del Pol Sud. L'obra, que aviat serà estrenada al Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (en el marc del Festival Grec), és un projecte escènic de teatre documental que posa al centre el concepte d'educació tractant de respondre la pregunta “Quins reptes afronta l'educació en el món d'avui ?" Activitat gratüita - **NASCUTS LLIURES** Sinopsi A escena, un grup de professionals de l'educació comparteixen les seves preguntes, inquietuds, esperances i pors a través de les seves experiències. Un cant escènic a la idea de transformació dels individus i a la idea d'educació com a creixement. Companya: La Conquesta del Pol Sud Direcció i creació: Carles Fernández Giua Interpretació: Eugènia Arús, Manel Barceló, Irene Bonilla, Aleix Escursell, Ferran Galimany, Laia González Fernández, Micky Jarra.

Award-winning author, Natalia Hooker, will read a selection from her children’s books. Colouring and activities to follow for children 3-8 years old. Readings will be in English, thanks! Books will be on sale in English and Spanish.

Dear all, The book for our next book club meeting for June 11, is **We'll prescribe you a cat** by Syou Ishida (Author), E. Madison Shimoda (Translator). Pages: 304 Published: 2024 I will search for another spot to meet, as it was too loud in Bar Patchwork. I will announce closer to the date where to meet. Have fun reading! Olivia PS: please do not forget there is a 3€ charge for each meeting. Also, please confirm if you cannot attend after your have RSVPed. Thank you!

Join Katie Annice Carr, author of [Moderate Becoming Good Later](https://backstorybookshop.shop/product/moderate-becoming-good-later/), for the launch of [Thundery at Times: Loss, Hope and an Unfinished Kayaking Adventure](https://backstorybookshop.shop/product/thundery-at-times/). Experience captivating readings and stories from this honest, humorous memoir—as seen on BBC Travel Show—tracing her shift from Barcelona motherhood to tackling her late brother Toby's unwritten book and Shipping Forecast kayaking challenge. She confronts grief, identity shifts, and inelegant paddles to uncover resilience, joy in nature and a sense of hope in adversity. Enjoy the storytelling and Q&A.

La colla **Treu la Llengua de l’Armari** de Barcelona us convoca cada dissabte a fer un **vermut LGTBI+**. Es tracta d’una activitat enfocada a la pràctica del català entre **nous parlants**. No és necessari tenir un nivell avançat de català, però sí **interès i motivació**. **Si us plau, confirmeu sempre l’assistència via Meetup. Ens facilita la gestió de l’esdeveniment.** **Per trobar-nos:** Busqueu un grup de persones assegudes a la terrassa o, si no hi som allà, busqueu ben a l'interior del local. *** ### The **Treu la Llengua de l’Armari** group from Barcelona organises an **LGTBI+ vermut gathering every Saturday**, especially aimed at **new speakers of Catalan**. You don’t need to have an advanced level of Catalan, but **interest and motivation are essential**. **Please confirm your attendance via Meetup, as it helps us organise the event.** Come and join us!! **To find us:** Look for a group of people sitting in the terrasse or, if we are not there, look well inside the bar. ***

Aquest Divendres ens trobem els i les **Joves** de Treu la Llengua de l'Armari al bar **La Sala Beckett**, a partir de les 19.00 h, per gaudir d'una tarda agradable tot parlant i practicant el català. Si ets Jove LGBTI+ i vols practicar el teu català, no dubtis a vernir amb nosaltres. T'hi esperem! This Friday, the **Youth** of Treu la Llengua de l'Armari meet up at **La Sala Beckett** bar, starting at 7:00 p.m., to enjoy a pleasant afternoon speaking and practicing Catalan. If you are a Young LGBTI+ person and want to practice your Catalan, don't hesitate to join us. We look forward to seeing you there!

Emily Brontë's classic novel Wuthering Heights is generally considered a romantic portrayal of undying love. Yet, when first published most readers were appalled by its transgressive nature, "unfeminine" characters and insinuations of taboo topics. In this session we will discuss the historical and social context in which the novel was written and some of those transgressive features that continue to make it a hugely enjoyable and wild ride to read. This session will be led by Aurora. Bring wine/beer/drinks/food/snacks/whatever to share. **Our events fill up very quickly. To avoid missing out on future events, join the WhatsApp group via this link:** [https://tally.so/r/w4G5L5](https://tally.so/r/w4G5L5) Press the buzzer marked Semi sotano 2 to be let in. It's down the stairs, first door on the right. Image: *The Nightmare,* oil painting, Henry Fuseli, 1781.

Join us for our June Book Club gathering where we will come together to discuss [The Queer Principles of Kit Webb](https://catsebastian.com/the-queer-principles-of-kit-webb/) by Cat Sebastian in a safe and welcoming environment. Make new friends who share your passion for books and connect with fellow LGBTQ book enthusiasts.

Join us for our July Book Club gathering where we will come together to discuss [Cemetery Boys](https://www.aiden-thomas.com/cemetery-boys) by Aiden Thomas in a safe and welcoming environment. Make new friends who share your passion for books and connect with fellow LGBTQ book enthusiasts.

**We are expanding our creative programming opportunities with Queer Quills, a quiet writing and sharing space. Queer Quills features some prompts, supplies and friendly faces to help get some inspiration or feedback for your writing. Hope to see you there!**

**Our June novel is: *The Eights* by Joanna Miller** **This month’s novel is set during World War I. It’s a 20th-century historical fiction story about friendship and war, with coming-of-age elements and a slightly haunted tone. The book is 384 pages in print and 10 hours and 9 minutes on audiobook.** Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its one-thousand-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Burning with dreams of equality, four young women move into neighboring rooms in Corridor 8. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne, and Otto—collectively known as The Eights—come from all walks of life, each driven by their own motives, each holding tight to their secrets, and are thrown into an unlikely, unshakable friendship. Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her brother and her fiancé on the battlefield, has arrived in their place. Politically-minded Beatrice, daughter of a famous suffragette, sees Oxford as a chance to make her own way - and some friends her own age. Otto was a nurse during the war but is excited to return to her socialite lifestyle in Oxford where she hopes to find distraction from the memories that haunt her. And finally Marianne, the quiet, clever daughter of a village pastor, who has a shocking secret she must hide from everyone, even her new friends, if she is to succeed. Among the historic spires, and in the long shadow of the Great War, the four women must navigate and support one another in a turbulent world in which misogyny is rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great War don’t always remain dead.

Join us for Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn! Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story-and survive this homecoming.

June is Fantasy month! • The book we will be discussing is The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. (determined by votes from May Book Club. Message me your e-mail if you'd like a free digital copy of the book) • This event will be at the Dublin library (Room 3). Feel free to come whether or not you've started or finished the book. • Small snacks will be provided. You're welcome to bring your own snacks & drinks too! Let me know if you’d like to volunteer to bring snacks or drinks for the group. Please try to update your attendance if anything changes so we have an accurate head count for print outs and snacks :)

Join us as we discuss our June pick: Metal Slinger by Rachel Schneider! Book description: Even though she's not one of them, Brynn has spent her life among the Alaha, training to be a guard and waiting for the chance to attend the annual market hosted by the Kenta–the very same people who exiled her adopted community to a life at sea. Going to the market is a rite of passage eagerly anticipated by all young guards, but Brynn does not anticipate breaking a century-long peace treaty while there. Nor does she plan for the intense encounter with an enemy soldier that now threatens to unwind the fragile coexistence between their people–and everything Brynn once believed about herself to be true. Brynn's loyalty to the Alaha is tested when the truth of her identity is brought to light by this soldier who's taken an oath to bring her back to where she belongs. Narrowly escaping death on the violent high seas, Brynn's connection to the Alaha is further tested when she learns about the world of magic she's been denied. She was once certain of her fate and where she belonged, but the dark, knowing eyes of this stranger have her questioning everything, including her heart. Packed with knife fights and seafaring adventure, METAL SLINGER is the smash-hit start to the romantic fantasy duology, the Fire & Metal series