Join us for the launch of Queue Up and Dance new book celebrating Quadrant Park, the legendary Bootle club with speakers artist Dave Evans, author and archivist of DIY movements Emma Warren, and DJ Melissa Kains.
Queue Up And Dance features a collection of interviews with a variety of people, from those who went to the club, to the DJs that played there, about their experiences of ‘the Quad’. Together, these highlight the club’s particular social and cultural context, why it was so important to so many, and how its legacy lives on 35 years later.
The book also contains an introduction by writer and researcher Emma Warren, author of Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor, and an afterword by Melissa Kains, the founder of female and non-binary DJ collective Sisu Crew.
Queue Up And Dance is the outcome of a year-long, artist-led project of the same title. It invited those who went to the club in its heyday, and young people living in Bootle today, to collaboratively develop an archive, exhibition, and other creative projects inspired by Quadrant Park and the early DIY culture of rave.
Please note this event takes place at Rough Trade, Hanover Street, Liverpool
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