LESStival | The Little Anarchist Bookshop
- ArtBomb
- Dec 2, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: Jan 8
Terry Hudson
Saturday 6th December 2025 - Saturday 31st January 2026
Opening Times: 11am-4pm daily (closed every Sunday & Monday)
Workshop Dates: 13th December 2025, 10th January 2026, 24th January 2026 (more info below)
The Little Anarchist Bookshop is a summer festival feature brought to Doncaster… in the winter!
Step off the street and into the woods this winter.
This December and January, artist, poet and horticulturist Terry Hudson, brings the magic of a woodland to Doncaster city-centre through an immersive installation.
Evergreen branches growing from the walls, leaf litter, moss and twigs crunching underfoot - take a breath of heavily oxygenated pine fresh air and listen to the sounds of birdsong overhead.
Something of a breath of fresh air himself, Terry is a champion of the ethical British summer festival, educating communities about woodland preservation through fire circles, wood craft workshops, and in turn, preserving our sanity.
Coffee pot on the boil, Terry will be sharing his personal library of books classics, philosophy and anarchist literature. Come and learn more about the collection, hear more from Terry about his ethical hacktivism, his involvement with Doncaster’s DIY festival scene, and a colourful lifetime lived by the Reuse, Reduce, Recycle mantra.
There are many contradictions about our modern world, and we all want to do our bit, as Terry puts it:
We’ll be reading, chatting, figuring things out, there will be workshops, discussion, readings, poetry and art. Workshops are just that, I am seeking answers, come along and help me out.
A salute to the revolutionary speakeasies, coffee shops and tea rooms, and a time when land ownership, direct relationships to nurturing and creating seemed simple, Anarchist Bookshop will be an evolving site for conversation, learning and itself an evolving art installation.
Over seven cold weeks, Terry will be delivering a range of activities. Expect:
Terry’s personal library of classics, philosophy & anarchist lit
Conversations, workshops, readings & poetry
Ethical festival culture, DIY craft, off-grid know-how
Zine-making, self-publishing, Raspberry Pi basics & more
From 11am-4pm, Terry will be hosting free, drop-in workshops on the following dates:-
Saturday 13th December
Saturday 10th January
Saturday 24th January
Come along and take part in a workshop, or bring your own craft project to enjoy a hot drink in a cosy, creative space.
Workshop Timetable (same timetable for all 3 Saturday workshop sessions):-
12:00 | Zines 101
Create your own zine and learn about the origins of zine (short for "maga-zine") culture, a DIY approach to publication with its roots in dissident and marginalized communities.
14:00 | From Art of Nowhere
Terry invites you to create your own Blackberry Beastie, a nymph-like tree spirit who guides wandering souls, brought to life in this craft workshop using dead blackberry roots salvaged from Doncaster's woodland. All paints and conjuring spells will be provided.
15:00 | Twelve Hundred Watt Weekender Challenge
Terry has made it his mission to host a 4 day off-grid festival using just 300 Watts per day. Come and learn how to save money and energy by powering your own life using just one Lead Acid Leisure battery. Join the challenge!
Preferably let us know if you are coming, on which day and your interests, by emailing
The little Anarchist bookshop is a feature of a festival In English Summer woodland Where the ethos isn’t capital Writing silly rhymes That are always counter cultural Expounding for a society That is fair, honest, and Mutual A tiny little bookcase made from rubbish on the grounds Reading, Raps, Music, Chats or just to hang around A place where revolution isn’t what we wish A place where revolution already exists
