Second Home's innovative bookshop Libreria celebrates Night Tube

This Friday, Second Home's innovative bookshop and cultural venue Libreria will be open all night and playing host to free events to celebrate the launch of the Night Tube.

Rohan Silva will be hosting the evening alongside Kate MacTiernan, Artistic Director of the Shuffle Festival, and the Libreria team.

Celebrations include a special night of music, film, whiskey tasting, readings and surprise happenings – all free of charge to the public.

Highlights include:

8pm – Live music from Andy Button and his band
9pm - DJ set
10pm - Spitalfields tales
11pm - Night cap whiskey tasting
12am – Dialogue on drunkenness from best-selling author Mark Forsyth ('The Etymologicon’)
1am – Insomniacs' Philosophy Club
2am – Science writer Aarathi Prasad on "night-time medical cures”
3am – Film screening of Martin Scorsese's classic film 'After Hours’
6am – Bagels and poetry

Libreria is a book shop, printing press, and interdisciplinary community space that merges cutting-edge architecture by Selgas Cano with a fresh enthusiasm for physical bookselling.

From Rohan Silva and Sam Aldenton, the founders of
Second Home, the iconic East London space for entrepreneurs and creative businesses, Libreria blends the best of the digital and analogue worlds. The space operates a no-phone policy, designed to create a sanctuary away from the bombardment of modern life.

Libreria has previously played host to events with Dazed & Confused founder Jefferson Hack, model and entrepreneur Lily Cole, tech entrepreneur Brent Hoberman and the author Jeanette Winterson.