"What’s love got to do, got to do with it? What’s love, but a second-hand emotion society constructs to reinforce patriarchal power structures? An inspired evening of readings and literary performance riffing on the visionary bell hooks and her urgent call for co-created spiritual growth in a fucked up world. You don’t have to have read it in advance, but you really should!"
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A event held at Bristol Folk House on Friday 22nd May. The event starts at 19:30.
THIS IS NOT A BOOKCLUB
bell hooks ‘all about love’
Friday 22 May 2026
Bristol Folk House, 40a Park St, Bristol BS1 5JG
For May's chapter of THIS IS NOT A BOOKCLUB, we join bell hooks' quest to understand, 'the meaning of love beyond the realm of fantasy’. Reflecting on bell hooks, ’All About Love' 25 years after its publication, we turn attention to our most intimate source of power in an increasingly narcissistic society.
THIS IS NOT A BOOKCLUB
You don’t have to read anything first
Sit back and let us read to you
In 2026 love appears lost beneath hate and division, just as science starts to deliver a deeper understanding of love’s true power. As we're presented with an evolving maze of interpretations, it feels like a good time to learn, all about love.
TAKE PART!
Would you like to read in the performance?
To tell us you want to use your voice by reading an extract chosen by us.
EMAIL: [email protected]
About THIS IS NOT A BOOKCLUB
You might leave inspired...
THIS IS NOT A BOOKCLUB is a one hour literary performance that weaves extracts from our focus book between aligned, impressionistic or opposing words from every genre - poetry to fiction, science to current affairs.
Following THIS IS NOT A BOOKCLUB’s Bristol Folk House sellout February debut we return to raise more funds for SARSAS to support South West survivors of sexual abuse and violence.
Entry requirements: 16+
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