Spitalfields Life At The Write Idea Festival
Next Saturday 17th November, Suresh Singh and The Gentle Author are both appearing at the Whitechapel Idea Store as part of the Write Idea Festival 2018 which runs from 16-18th November
Photograph by Patricia Niven
A MODEST LIVING, Memoirs of a Cockney Sikh
In the first London Sikh biography, Suresh Singh tells the candid and sometimes surprising story of his father Joginder, who came to Spitalfields in 1949. He sacrificed a life in the Punjab to work in England and send money home, yet found himself in his element among the mishmash of people who inhabited the streets around Brick Lane.
Born and bred in London, his son Suresh became the first Punjabi punk, playing drums for Spizzenergi and touring with Siouxsie & the Banshees.
Suresh Singh will be in conversation with Stefan Dickers of the Bishopsgate Institute and show photographs from his family collection. This event will have live subtitles.
1pm Saturday 17th November
THE LIFE & TIMES OF MR PUSSY, A Memoir of A Favourite Cat
The Gentle Author will be reading tales of Spitalfields most famous feline.
“I was always disparaging of those who doted over their pets, as if this apparent sentimentality were an indicator of some character flaw. That changed when I bought a cat, just a couple of weeks after the death of my father. “
Filled with sentiment yet never sentimental, The Life and Times of Mr Pussy is a literary hymn to the intimate relationship between humans and animals
7pm Saturday 17th November
