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Event: Readings About...England

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England Led by writer and editor Amelia Horgan, Readings About… is a new literary event in which writers respond to a theme. In response to Okiki Akinfe’s exhibtion, R9 5AN , this iteration is about England, a place that shows up roughly at the fuzzy borders of London. Readings About…England will bring together readings about and discussions of the politics of place, ‘identity’, how people make place and vice versa, power, class, race, imperialism, and the meaning of ‘England’. Readers: Hettie O’Brien, Lewis Brown, Antonia Lucia Dawes, Sacha Hilhorst, Natasha Samrai and Khalid Azizuddin. This event is free, suggested donation is £3. Booking required. To book please click here. Peer aims to be open and accessible to all. Find further details on how to access our space here. Reader’s bios: Hettie O’Brien Hettie O'Brien is a writer at the Guardian and a regular contributor to the Guardian Long Read. Her first book, The Asset Class: How private equity turned capitalism against itself, is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) and Grand Central (US). Lewis Brown Lewis Brown is an actor, writer and podcaster. He created the conversational podcast Enough About Me interviewing artists, authors, academics and even politicians. (like and follow wherever you get your podcasts).

Thu 18 Jun19:00PEER

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Community

Around £3.

Community Coffee Morning and Curator’s tour of RM9 5AN

RM9 5AN is a new commission and the first solo exhibition in a public art organisation by London-based artist Okiki Akinfe. Comprising a new series of large-scale oil paintings and lightboxes, Akinfe’s exhibition continues her ongoing engagement with identity, memory, class and place. Join us for a community coffee morning at Peer where you can tour the exhibition with Peer’s curators, and meet others living and working in the local area. This event is free, suggested donation is £3. Booking required. To book please click here. Peer aims to be open and accessible to all. Find further details on how to access our space here.

Thu 6 Aug09:30PEER

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Arts & Culture

Around £3.

Peer Ambassadors Take Over: New Writing and Poetry

Join us for an afternoon of new writing and poetry to celebrate the closing of Okiki Akinfe’s exhibition RM9 5AN. Peer Ambassadors is an alternative, participant-led ‘art school’ that works with and supports young people aged 17-25 from underrepresented and working-class backgrounds based in Hackney and Tower Hamlets. Working in collaboration with Shoreditch Library, the 2026 cohort of Peer Ambassadors are spending time with artists, writers and historians to explore creative writing, storytelling and overlooked local histories. For this event, they will host an afternoon of readings, which respond to Akinfe’s exhibition, as well as their own experiences of memory, identity, and place-making. This event is free, with a suggested donation of £3. Booking is required. To reserve your spot please click here. Peer aims to be open and accessible to all. Find further details on how to access our space here.

Sat 8 Aug15:00PEER

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