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Sumac 25th Anniversary Acoustic Garden Party

Join us to Celebrate 25 Years at the Sumac Centre

All Day : Campaign Stalls

11am : Sunday Brunch

From Noon : Forest Fields Social Club

12-2pm : Sparrows Nest Presentation

2pm – 7pm : Acoustic Garden Party:

Food by Veggies Catering Campaign and other Community Caterers

please note this is a provisional programme – it will change with timings and with errors

❤️ One Mic Stand Poets

2pm: Jesse Perrett (Poet)

2.30: Rachel Joy (Poet)

3pm: Spoken Goat (Poet)

❤️ Yard Sessions

3.30: Last Bus Home

4pm: Paul Carbuncle,

4.30: Jessi Eastfield,

5pm: Klezmer Tanz

5.45: Headliner to be announced

❤️ Campaign Networking

Campaign stalls setting up from 10am for 11am start

  • Ducks Help  Ducks
  • Extinction Rebellion
  • Mammoth Climate Cinema
  • Nottingham Animal Rights / Hunt Sabs /Brinsley Animal Rescue + more
  • Nottingham Green Festival
  • Nottm Greenpeace
  • Notts C.N.D
  • Palestine Solidarity / Young Musicians for Palestine
  • Radical Roots
  • Resolve Notts
  • Skills Exchange ️
  • Sparrows Nest
  • Tiger Community
  • Veggies Catering Campaign / Sumac Community
  • Women Against the Far Right / Anti Fascist
  • Plus  more to be confirmed.

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Sparrows Nest Banner

Sparrows Nest Presentation for Sumac / Rainbow Archive

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.

  1. Exhibition of highlights from the archive
  2. Zine making with duplicates from the archive.
  3. Presentation of the history and work of the Sparrow’s Nest Library
  4. An analysis of the scale and scope of the Rainbow Centre /Sumac Archive
  5. Quiz: 40+ years of radical history
  6. 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/

Rainbow Listings 1986 (Sparrows Nest Archive)

Sparrows Nest Fundraiser for Sumac / Rainbow Archive

The Sumac Centre has its own small library, which people are free to browse when the Centre is open.

The 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.

We also welcome offers of help in helping to keep the Library (& book stall) organised.

Sumac also hosts the Veggies Book Stall, available whenever the Centre is open. Their are books and journals for reference and for sale covering green, human rights, animal issues, anti-war, co-operation and social justice. Some are available via Veggies online store.

We have started a catalogue of books in the library and another of journals and other archives.

We are working with the Sparrows Nest Library. They are adopting our huge wealth of pre-digital campaign resources from the 1980s & 90s. They hope to make our archives publically available, or at least catalogued.

For the Public Catalogue search for “Rainbow Centre” and Rainbow archives detailed listing.

See also “Raiubow Centre” at the Internet Archive 

 

Support this project

We need to raise £400 for the next part of our archiving work. If you can help with a small donation please DONATE via https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/donate/

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/

Rainbow Listings 1986 (Sparrows Nest Archive)

Sumac Library and Bookstall + Rainbow Archive

The Sumac Centre has its own small library, which people are free to browse when the Centre is open.

The 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.

We also welcome offers of help in helping to keep the Library (& book stall) organised.

Sumac also hosts the Veggies Book Stall, available whenever the Centre is open. Their are books and journals for reference and for sale covering green, human rights, animal issues, anti-war, co-operation and social justice. Some are available via Veggies online store.

We have started a catalogue of books in the library and another of journals and other archives.

We are working with the Sparrows Nest Library. They are making available our huge wealth of pre-digital campaign resources from the 1980s & 90s. As at June 2026 they had processed over 1500 items!

For the Public Catalogue search for “Rainbow Centre” and Rainbow archives detailed listing.

See also “Rainbow Centre” at the Internet Archive 

 

Support this project

We need to raise £400 for the next part of our archiving work. If you can help with a small donation please DONATE via https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/donate/

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/

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