Programme Events Past Events Cubitt Community Press Issue #3 Launch Join us at Culpeper Community Garden for the summer launch of the third edition of the Cubitt Community Press Newsletter! Between February and May 2026 Cubitt Community Press worked with locals to create a map of Islington bringing together historic and current day community resources, working from an open call that gathered over 50 sites across the borough. Our map brings together youth centres, cultural spaces, community resources, historic sites of radical action, and locations connected to personal stories, alongside a hand-drawn map of Islington. Memories of the borough’s radical histories sit alongside present-day resources and stories shared by the people who live here now. Hand made and printed by our community in Islington using our the cubitt community risograph printer. ABOUT THE EVENT Join us to learn more about Cubitt’s Community Distribution and resource centre, pick up a copy of our newspaper and get involved in our project. This is a relaxed event where we’ll hear from some of the contributors as well as make merch for our emerging community press, think limited edition stickers, badges and more! We’ll also be setting up a temporary library in the garden with publications on community infrastructure, DIY publishing, and radical local print histories, featuring Emmie, a mobile community library and workshop structure. Light snacks + drinks provided. ABOUT EMMIE “Emmie, The Cubitt Press Kiosk” is a mobile structure collaboratively built by architecture students Emma and Lumie in an attempt to activate public space in London and learn through encounters. Constructed from reclaimed and scrap materials, Emmie moves between sites across the city, carrying books, tools, workshops, and conversations with her. She acts as an ever-evolving platform for self-organised learning, participation, and experimentation outside formal institutions, embodying forms of civic urban agency in a city where third spaces are increasingly scarce. Emmie’s unfinished and adaptable character is central to the project: people are invited to modify, expand, inhabit, and reinterpret the “…” of “Emmie, The …” over time (like Emmie, The Mobile Library for example), making the structure itself a record of shared use, imagination, and urban authorship. More information HERE. ABOUT CUBITT COMMUNITY DISTRIBUTION CENTRE Cubitt is building on Islington’s history of radical publishing with our community press: a place to gather, share stories, record our neighbourhood and support local justice projects. The community distribution centre is a space to amplify stories from our borough across London (and beyond). We are working with print and radio to support local organising, creative resistance, and collective storytelling as tools for radical imagination. FREE FOR ALL TO ATTEND, book a ticket so we know who’s coming! Booking for this event has now closed. Manage Cookie Preferences