NYC Anarchist Bookfair Collective & Bronx Anarchist Fair Collective
http://www.bronxanarchistfair.com/
The Bronx Anarchist Fair Saturday, April 4, 2009 from 11:00am - 6:00pm Brook Park 141st Street + Brook Ave.
The Bronx Anarchist Fair is a public event for people in our neighborhoods to learn and share with each other about how to make grassroots change. We come together to celebrate the Bronxâs history of resistance and resilience, and share practical tools for anti-authoritarian organizing and action.
The Bronx Anarchist Fair will include: tables of radical books, and tables for local grassroots groups to outreach; a Really Really Free Market; a series of workshops on how to organize in and reclaim our communities; screenings of radical movies; all-day childcare; and a kickinâ afterparty.
Schedule of Events
The following is a rough schedule of events at the Bronx Anarchist Fair. Each workshop will take place while tabling, childcare activities and the Really Really Free Market continue in the main space. 10am - 11am
Vendor and space setup! 11am - 12pm
The Bronx Anarchist Fair opens! Food will be available and the DJ will start spinning, as childcare activities and the Really Really Free Market kick off. 12pm - 1:45pm
Anarchism and Education This participatory workshop will explore the ways in which anarchist practices can be used in schools, as teachers, as parents, and as self-educators. We will share basic principles behind deschooling and get to the heart of how we can build an truly alternative way of educating ourselves.
Squatting History: Using Memories of Resistance for Current Direct Action Campaigns The Bronx has a long history of radical responses to crisis, eviction, and abandonment. This panel will bring together historians, activists and squatters from several generations to share skills and knowledge from past anti-eviction, occupation, and squatting movements. The goal is to support current campaigns and strategies for direct action growing in the city and across the world in response to the current wave of evictions and abandonment. 2pm - 3:45pm
Hip-Hop Is Our Life, Our Resistance
This interactive workshop reflects upon the importance of hip hop in today's movements. Spirit Child, of Movement in Motion and Mental Notes, will guide us through some hip hop 101 and an autonomous cipher (freestyle session) to highlight hip hop's historical connection with, and ability to inspire and ignite, black and brown liberation movements. 4pm - 5:45pm
Beyond a Police State Society and the state tell us that the police are a necessary force that keep us safe. Do they really? What role do the police actually play in our communities and what are alternatives that create genuinely safe and empowering spaces? The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement will explore these questions and discuss knowing your rights when stopped by the police and some alternatives such as cop watch.
Consensus & Liberation: An Introduction The consensus process is much more than a decision-making tool. It is a creative process that synthesizes the raw materials and ideas each of us brings to group work. It is a radical method through which we can confront power and reject the outmoded hierarchical forms of group work we are used to participating in. This session is an overview of the consensus process and includes a discussion with groups who use consensus as their decision making model. It is open to anyone who desires to communicate more openly and work more creatively with others. Later
Afterparty and beyond!
NYC Anarchy Fest, April 9-12
New York City, a center of anarchist life, culture, struggle, and ideas for 150 years, will host its 3rd annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair, a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide, on April 11, 2009 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. In addition, there will be two days of panels, presentations, workshops, and skillshares on April 11 and 12 to provide further opportunities to learn more and share your own experience and creativity, as well as related art/performance and film festivals. NYC Anarchist Art Festival ---- FREE ---- Thursday, April 9 & Friday, April 10 8-11pm Saturday, April 11 9pm-2am Living Theater 21 Clinton St (near E. Houston St)
NYC Anarchist Film Festival $10 donation Friday, April 10 1pm-1am multiple locations; see http://anarchistbookfair.net/filmfest.html for details
NYC Anarchist Book Fair FREE Saturday, April 11 11am-8pm Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Sq South (at Thompson St)
Workshops & Discussions FREE Saturday, April 11 11am-8pm Sunday, April 12 12-6pm Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Sq South (at Thompson St)
For info about the upcoming 2012 NYC Anarchist Bookfair see: www.anarchistbookfair.net
To contact the NYC Anarchist Book Fair organizing collective to volunteer, submit workshop and tabling applications, make a donation, or get more information, email us at info[at]anarchistbookfair[dot]net
More NYC Anarchist Book Fair archives can be found at www.anarchistbookfair.net/archives
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