Aye-Aye Books closed after GSA fire
Donation protected
The recent fire at Glasgow School of Art and the O2 ABC is a disaster in so many ways. Four years of restoration work has come to nothing and an iconic building could be lost. An equally historic venue is also facing an uncertain future. Some local residents still can’t get into their homes, businesses are closed, education is disrupted.
For us it means we can’t open the bookshop, or even get into it. The CCA is within the fire exclusion zone and no one knows when that might change.
Aye-Aye Books has been around for ten years, selling books by and for artists and anyone interested in contemporary thought, culture and politics. We got start-up grant from the (then) Scottish Arts Council, but since then we’ve been entirely without public funding. Our existence has always been precarious, and the help and support of CCA has allowed us to continue.
We have books and zines by loads of artists, they frequently come into the shop with their wares and we generally have a ‘yes’ policy. We’d like to go on offering that service. We’d like to continue selling art magazines, books of critical theory, experimental fiction, poetry, anarchist pamphlets, diverse children’s books and the occasional audio cassette.
But right now we can’t trade, maybe for a few weeks, maybe for months. It would be great to have a bookshop and a business to come back to, we have heard that some people really like us being here, which is why we’re asking for your help.
We have no income, but we have continuing costs – books that we cannot sell that we still have to pay for, magazines we can neither return nor sell, books we’ve published that we can’t distribute, loans that need repaid, wages that need paid.
If you can help that would be amazing.
Martin Vincent
Aye-Aye Books
For us it means we can’t open the bookshop, or even get into it. The CCA is within the fire exclusion zone and no one knows when that might change.
Aye-Aye Books has been around for ten years, selling books by and for artists and anyone interested in contemporary thought, culture and politics. We got start-up grant from the (then) Scottish Arts Council, but since then we’ve been entirely without public funding. Our existence has always been precarious, and the help and support of CCA has allowed us to continue.
We have books and zines by loads of artists, they frequently come into the shop with their wares and we generally have a ‘yes’ policy. We’d like to go on offering that service. We’d like to continue selling art magazines, books of critical theory, experimental fiction, poetry, anarchist pamphlets, diverse children’s books and the occasional audio cassette.
But right now we can’t trade, maybe for a few weeks, maybe for months. It would be great to have a bookshop and a business to come back to, we have heard that some people really like us being here, which is why we’re asking for your help.
We have no income, but we have continuing costs – books that we cannot sell that we still have to pay for, magazines we can neither return nor sell, books we’ve published that we can’t distribute, loans that need repaid, wages that need paid.
If you can help that would be amazing.
Martin Vincent
Aye-Aye Books
Organizer
Martin Vincent
Organizer
Scotland