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"Imagine Bosch bringing Brexit Britain to life with Pritt Stick, scissors and a year’s worth of tabloid trash. Only Cold War Steve can capture the 2025 zeitgeist with the mundane hellishness it really deserves. He launches this year’s annual into your waking dreams with help from Turner-winning conceptual renegade Jeremey Deller, poet extraordinaire Selena Godden + more. "
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A event held at Strange Brew on Monday 11th November. The event starts at 19:00.
**Seated event - seats are unreserved on a first come first served basis**
An evening celebrating the publication of the Cold War Steve Annual 2025 with very special guests Jeremy Deller, Max Porter, Salena Godden and of course Christopher Spencer aka Cold War Steve all in conversation and reading on the night.
Jeremy Deller will be chatting to Cold War Steve about art, activism, Farage, the online world and more, hosted by Carl Gosling (The Cold War Steve Office). Max Porter will be bringing his infamous 'Would You Rather' question round and reading from his new book All Of This Unreal Time, plus they'll be stunning, uplifting and glorious poetry from the legendary Salena Godden. There will be music, drinks, conversation, readings, book signings, excellent vibes and more in abundance.
‘I love this book! Funny, bleak, stirring. Like wrestling history in a pub carpark’ HARRY HILL
Charting twelve months of pathetic party politics, farcical electioneering, corporate and industrial ecocide, the sickening rise of the far right, and never-ending age of mega-crisis worldwide, the 2025 Annual features all of Cold War Steve’s largest – and most sardonic – artworks plus contributions from Ian Dunt on the election, Jeremy Deller chatting to Cold War Steve, art history with Jools Holland, Nihal Arthanayake on empathy, Dr Rebecca Anne Barr, Salena Godden, Roy and more.
‘Cold War Steve – our modern-day Hogarth – shining his acerbic light on the corruption and ineptitude of those in power’ CAROL VORDERMAN
'A chronicle of our age that manages to keep the flame of satire alive by being both humorously terrifying and terrifyingly humorous' SANJEEV BHASKAR
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
An evening celebrating the publication of the Cold War Steve Annual 2025 with very special guests Jeremy Deller, Max Porter, Salena Godden and of course Christopher Spencer aka Cold War Steve all in conversation and reading on the night.
Jeremy Deller will be chatting to Cold War Steve about art, activism, Farage, the online world and more, hosted by Carl Gosling (The Cold War Steve Office). Max Porter will be bringing his infamous 'Would You Rather' question round and reading from his new book All Of This Unreal Time, plus they'll be stunning, uplifting and glorious poetry from the legendary Salena Godden. There will be music, drinks, conversation, readings, book signings, excellent vibes and more in abundance.
‘I love this book! Funny, bleak, stirring. Like wrestling history in a pub carpark’ HARRY HILL
Charting twelve months of pathetic party politics, farcical electioneering, corporate and industrial ecocide, the sickening rise of the far right, and never-ending age of mega-crisis worldwide, the 2025 Annual features all of Cold War Steve’s largest – and most sardonic – artworks plus contributions from Ian Dunt on the election, Jeremy Deller chatting to Cold War Steve, art history with Jools Holland, Nihal Arthanayake on empathy, Dr Rebecca Anne Barr, Salena Godden, Roy and more.
‘Cold War Steve – our modern-day Hogarth – shining his acerbic light on the corruption and ineptitude of those in power’ CAROL VORDERMAN
'A chronicle of our age that manages to keep the flame of satire alive by being both humorously terrifying and terrifyingly humorous' SANJEEV BHASKAR
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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