Sumac Centre Library covers a range of topics from anarchism, animal rights, political and social theory, race, gender and class, environment and ecology, activism, to journalism and history and more.
Nottingham’s Sparrows Nest Library have adopted our huge wealth of pre-digital campaign resources from the 1980s & 90s. They will be storing our archives safely. Once catalogued many items will publicly available and all will be maintained in perpetuity.
Following an epic scale and depth of the work in processing Sumac’s Rainbow archives this preview is scheduled as part of the Sumac Centre’s 25th Anniversary ‘Gladstonebury’ Festival.
Join us at this event at Sumac Centre.
- Exhibition of highlights from the archive
- Zine making with duplicates from the archive.
- Presentation of the history and work of the Sparrow’s Nest Library
- An analysis of the scale and scope of the Rainbow Centre /Sumac Archive
- Quiz: 40+ years of radical history
- Watch Pat’s Picks on Youtube – a freeform chat about some of the documents found in the archives
For the Public Catalogue search for “Rainbow Centre” and Rainbow archives detailed listing.
We need to raise over £400 for the initial costs of materials to preserve the archive and more for ongoing storage costs.
If you can, please DONATE via https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/donate/
Rainbow Listings 1986 (Sparrows Nest Archive)
More information on the Sumac Library, including it’s Rainbow Centre pre-history, may be seen at https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/library-bookshop/
