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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

Please print and display the flier

Sparrows Nest Presentation for Sumac / Rainbow Archive

NOTE event moved due to the unprecedented scale and depth of the work in processing Sumac’s Rainbow archives. Now scheduled as part of the Sumac Centre’s 25th Anniversary Festival.

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.

The Sparrows Nest 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 publically available and all will be maintained in perpetuity.

Support this project

We need to raise £400 for the next part of our archiving work.

Join us at this event at Sumac Centre.

  1. Exhibition of highlights from the archive
  2. Quiz: 40+ years of radical history
  3. Duplicates from the archive freely available.

If you can, please DONATE via https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/donate/

For details of the 1500 #RainbowArchive items on the public catalogue, (as at July’26), search for “Rainbow Centre” and Rainbow archives detailed listing.

Rainbow Listings 1986 (Sparrows Nest Archive)

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

sparrows

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/

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/

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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