Events
Modern Day Slavery Museum
Posted August 23, 2010 by k_c_ in Campaigns
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers have created a touring exhibit called the Modern Day Slavery Museum. It toured the last few weeks around the Northeast of the USA, stopping in NYC.
Tonight: Sam Sebren, Art Lesson #1
Posted August 21, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Installation: Sam Sebren, Art Lesson #1
"The anthropomorphic shopping bunny has become a zombie, numb to any goal of existence other than to shop & consume. Viewers will be dwarfed by a billboard size graphic as they are invited to sit, connect the dots & color w/ crayons in the interactive "Art Lesson #1". What are the priorities of our 21st century, corporate-controlled, advertising-blitzed world? Where is the emphasis being placed as we raise children in this world where nature is seen as a commodity or even an inconvenience?"
—Sam Sebren, 2010
John Davis Gallery
362 1/2 Warren Street
Hudson, New York 12534
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY AUGUST 21, 6 - 8 pm
Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 10:00 till 5:30 p.m.
Justseeds Presents Bird Brains at The Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY
Posted August 19, 2010 by k_c_ in Art exhibits/shows
Justseeds Print Exhibit opens Friday August 20 6pm
Birds, birds, birds. From the extinct passenger pigeon to the mysterious crow to the avian flu, birds hold a unique place in our urban imaginary. Justseeds artists depict animals in many of our designs. Birds can represent liberation, autonomy, mutual aid, and cooperation, as well as vermin, predatory behavior, extinction, and ecological collapse. Bird Brains, a collection of handmade prints from the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, takes on this versatile metaphor.
The Knitting Factory Front Bar Gallery 361 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY
Secret Pockets Release Party
Posted August 18, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
My year-long Pittsburgh residency with Encyclopedia Destructica culminates this Friday with the release of SECRET POCKETS, a collaborative, interactive artist's book. We're throwing a release party at Space, where you can take another gander at Paper Politics
-THE FLYING DESTRUCTICATE: SECRET POCKETS RELEASE
Friday August 20th 6:00-9:00
Space 812 Liberty Ave, Downtown Pittsburgh
This book also features work by a slew of amazing artistic lifeforms:
Caldwell Linker, Bec Young, Ally Reeves, Shaun Slifer, Leslie Stem, Sarah Evans, Jude Vachon, Jen Cooney, Vincent Klopfenstein, Meredith Stern, Hannah Thompson, Mary Mack Tremonte and Heidi Tucker!!!!
This will be a Party to End All Parties! Not only will you be able to have and hold finished, immaculate copies of the new FLYING DESTRUCTICATE, but you will be entertained, thrilled, flabergasted by the performances of:
-DJ'S AMOR SECRETO (latino lover beatz) & D.H. (sappho sister)
-POP THROUGH THE AGES, WIZARDS OF SOUND
-A PHOTOBOOTH BY CALDWELL
-TAMALES MADE BY HEIDI & CALEB
-FREE EAST END BEER
-PLUS: peep PAPER POLITICS: AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF SOCIALLY ENGAGED PRINTMAKING, on view @ SPACE from August 13-October 23.
Encyclopedia Destructica can't do this without your help! Grab your friends, fiends, and family and come to Encyclopedia Destructica Studios, 156 41st street, Lawrenceville Wednesday August 18th around 7PM! See our studio space! Learn how to bind books! Consume alcoholic and/or caffeinated beverages! Have meaningful and life-changing conversations!
The Big She-Bang V
Posted August 11, 2010 by molly_fair in Events
I'm really happy to be a part of the Big-She Bang this year in NY! Come check out the amazing art, music, and workshops!
organized by For The Birds Collective
Saturday, August 14th
11AM to 10pm
at Church of the Messiah,
29 Russell Street (Lower Level)
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
The Big She-Bang is an all-day event of workshops, panel discussions, visual art, and music by and for women-identified artists & community members. The Big She-Bang strives to cultivate a space for women to share creative endeavors, exchange ideas, and provide support in a safe and open-minded environment. It is a multimedia event that serves as a platform for women artists and activists. This year’s She-Bang festival will include workshops and panel discussions, live musical performances, an all-day art show and tabling by various feminist organizations from New York. The event is always all ages, and everyone is welcome.
We are asking for a $6 to $10 sliding scale donation, although no will be turned away.
For The Birds is a collective of New York women whose main intent is fostering the creative empowerment of women, as well as the dissemination of feminist projects: art, music, information, and scholarly work. A large part of this feminist info-sharing occurs in the form of a distro and a label imprint. In our distro, we carry writing, art, and music by feminists and women-identified folks. On our label imprint, we continue to publish similar work.
"We Agree: A Crisis In Common" Opening!
Posted August 5, 2010 by roger_peet in Art exhibits/shows
Portland! Come out tomorrow evening, Thursday August 5th, to the SEA Change Gallery, downtown in the Everett Station Lofts, for the Opening of "We Agree: A Crisis in Common". Two giant blockprints about the impact of the natural gas industry on both sides of the Pacific: One made by the Portland-based members of Justseeds, and the other by renowned Indonesian printmaking cooperative Taring Padi! The prints are huge and dense and awesome, and the gallery is packed to the rafters with other work by Roger Peet, Alec "Icky" Dunn, Pete Yahnke, and members of Taring Padi. For more information on the project, navigate here
SEA Change Gallery
625 NW Everett Street
Gallery #110
Portland, OR
Opening at 5pm, refreshments will be available to those with quick feet and swift lifting elbows!
Justseeds Exhibit Opens Aug 6 at Marketplace, Albany, NY
Posted August 4, 2010 by k_c_ in Justseeds & Member Projects
Justseeds members Kevin Caplicki & Molly Fair, with friend Jesse Goldstein, will be creating a multi-disciplinary installation incorporating the recently completed Resourced portfolio.
They will fill the gallery with large scale wall-paintings, 3-D sculpture, and video projection. Molly Fair & Jesse Goldstein will treat you to some Dimock "Lemonade" where one can taste the benefits of Hydro-fracking for Natural Gas.
Opening is August 6, 2010
Greenbush Tape & Label Building
Marketplace Gallery
40 Broadway
Albany, NY
Firebrands Book Release Party: Friday in Brooklyn!
Posted July 22, 2010 by molly_fair in Events
We're having a book release for our new book Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas!
Come hang out, enjoy some refreshments, and see illustrations from the book on display!
Friday, July 23
7:30-10:00 PM
BOOK THUG NATION, Used Bookstore/Community Space
100 N3rd St Between Berry St and Wythe Ave Williamsbug, Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, NY
Curated by the Justseeds Artists' Collective, Firebrands is full of peoples' history, and dangerous information. These beautifully illustrated mini-poster pages showcase radicals, dissidents, folk singers, and rabble-rousers, from Emma Goldman to Tupac, Pablo Neruda to Fred Hampton. As say editors Shaun Slifer and Bec Young in the introduction, the book "is especially made for anyone who has sat, trembling with frustration and disappointment in history class, or reading a text book heavily edited of anything interesting or useful. It's for all our ancestors, especially for the ones left out of or misrepresented in said textbook, because they were too brown, too female, too poor, too queer, too uneducated, too disabled, or because they felt or thought too much." This is a real people's history, a book packed with dynamite, desire, and, above all, courage.
Out of the Closet & Into the Street Opens
Posted July 1, 2010 by jmacphee in Posters & Prints
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics presents:
Out of the Closet & Into the Street: Posters of LGBTQ Struggles & Celebrations
July 3 – September 26, 2010
Opening Reception: July 3, 5-8 pm
ONE Archives Gallery & Museum
626 N. Robertson Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Despite decades of affirmation and positive role models engendered by the LGBTQ liberation movements, discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation continues. Hospitals still refuse to allow lesbians and gays to be with their sick or dying partners by restricting visitation to “family” only. Same-sex couples are denied equal inheritance rights, pensions and health-care benefits, and lesbian and gay parents are often denied custody of their children. Violent attacks and homicides against members of the LGBTQ community continue and recent legal gains are tentative and subject to reversal—Californian’s right to marriage equality was taken away; open lesbians and gays continue to be excluded from the military; and as recently as February 2010, the Governor of Virginia signed an executive order deliberately removing gays and lesbians as a protected class in state-wide hiring procedures.
Heading to Maui for an Artist in Residence
Posted June 30, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez
Attention Maui Residents! I will be in Maui in less than two weeks for an artist in residency at the Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center. My task is to engage Maui-based nonprofit organizations to develop a case study about how artists can collaborate with non-arts community groups to develop messages around social justice on a local scale. I will be hosting a wide range of hands-on activities, including a teen intensive workshops focusing on printmaking and street graphics. All prospective students under the age of 18 are eligible for financial aid to help offset the cost of tuition. The Hui is a place that has been visited by some of my favorite artists, such as Swoon, Enrique Chagoya, and Artemio Rodriguez.
If you are in Maui, pls come check out some of the events! Sign up now!
Come see Justseeds at the USSF!
Posted June 23, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Events
We have been having a ball out here in Detroit! Twelve Justseeders are participating in the USSF - conducting workshops, running the live silkscreen table, selling posters, and building alliances. Please make sure to come check out some of the new work by the collective, particularly our new print portfolio, RESOURCED (which you can buy at the USSF for a deal!) and new book, Firebrands. GET ALL THE DETAILS by clicking here.
Just Seeds at our table in Cobo Hall!
New World from Below Collaborative Book Party
Posted June 17, 2010 by jmacphee in Books & Zines
If you live in Detroit (or are visiting for the US Social Forum) come out and help us celebrate our new book Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas, my not quite as new book Paper Politics, as well as other recent radical publishing with AK Press, Autonomedia, the Institute for Anarchist Studies, Microcosm Publishing, Team Colors Collective, PM Press, author Jordan Flaherty and artist Seth Tobocman, and many others.
Friday, June 25, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
New World from Below Convergence Center
Located at the Spirit of Hope Church, 1519 Martin Luther King Dr., Detroit, MI 48208, at the corner of MLK and Trumbull.
Justseeds at AMC/USSF
Posted June 17, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
Half of Justseeds members and half of the prints and posters in the store are in Detroit for the Allied Media Conference (June 18-20) and US Social Forum (June 22-26). Come visit our tables, chat us up, take a hand at the Mobile Silkscreen Unit, see beautiful prints in person, and take home some rad art and books!
If you are trying to order online, some items may appear out of stock because they are out on loan for tabling...please be patient and try back after June 28th.
Hope to see ya in the D!
Spectres of Liberty gets wet, moves indoors
Posted June 5, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects
So the giant public art project I've been working on for a month with Spectres of Liberty is finally happening today, and there's practically going to be a monsoon in Syracuse tonight! So we're moving the whole operation indoors, and it is still going to be awesome. Details:
Great Central Depot in the Open City
Saturday, June 5, 2010
8:00pm - 10:00pm
XL Project Space
307 S. Clinton St, Syracuse NY
OAXACA. SUPPORT FOR THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN COPALA: A call to mobilize in support of the resistance of the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala next June 8
Posted June 4, 2010 by santi in Indigenous Resistance
OAXACA. SUPPORT FOR THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN COPALA
A call to mobilize in support of the resistance of the Autonomous
Municipality of San Juan Copala next June 8
The Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala has been under siege for
the last 6 months. Armed paramilitaries continue to block roads and
refuse to allow people to come and go freely. As a result of their
actions, there is no electricity, drinking water, or medical attention
in Copala. The children can’t go to school because there are no
teachers. Paramilitaries shoot at townspeople daily, resulting in the
deaths of at least 21 people between last November and May.
BP Take Back Your Oil
Posted May 27, 2010 by k_c_ in Environment
My pal Jonah threw this together a few weeks ago. Its scary and a shame that there is STILL oil leaking into the gulf. It appears ever more clear, "we" are our own undoing.
Code Pink and the Freedom Glory Project are holding a flash protest in NYC, tomorrow.
May 28, 2010
6-6:15pm,
at the BP Station
21 Houston St
NYC, NY
CPH Show in Quebec City
Posted May 22, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Our friend Fred at La Page Noire, the anarchist infoshop in Québec City, has hung a Celebrate People's History Poster exhibition at a local bar. Here's some photos.
Spectres of Liberty May 17-June 5 in Syracuse
Posted May 19, 2010 by dara_g in Justseeds & Member Projects
We (Olivia Robinson, Josh MacPhee, Joanna Spitzner, & Dara Greenwald) are doing a multi-faceted public art project in Syracuse, NY to engage ideas coming out of the cities' abolitionist past to current social conditions. Please forward this to people in the area.
The project has several components:
1. a storefront gallery workshop which is open every day from 12-6, (XL Project Space, 307 S. Clinton Street)
2. public discussions with local organizers and artists (see schedule below)
3. an outdoor multi-media installation on June 5th (at Lipe Sculpture Park)
PUBLIC PROGRAMS (all events are free & refreshments are served)
Pictures of our opening night event, Open Access, Open Art
more:
Born In A Cent CD Design and CD release
Posted May 18, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects
Awhile back I got an email out of the blue from the band Born In A Cent, a NY-based political punk band with folk overtones. They were putting out their new record, and asked me to do the cover. So I did! It was a fun project, and the CD is about to come out, at the end of this month. Below is the info about the CD release show, and also images of the cover design.
Born In A Cent
CD Release Show
Bushwick Music Studios, 55 Waterbury St., Brooklyn (L train to Montrose)
May 29, 2010
with Huasipungo, The Last Internationale, Wild Babies, and more TBA!
The Black Dot Museum of Political Art
Posted May 14, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
This just in:
The Black Dot Museum of Political Art
David Lester and Jean Smith of the rock duo Mecca Normal co-curate a month-long, group art exhibit at Northern: The Olympia All Ages Project titled The Black Dot Museum: Political Artists From Vancouver—art by David Lester, Jean Smith, Brian Roche and Gord Hill.
Exhibition:
Saturday, May 1 - Friday, May 28, 2010
Northern: The Olympia All Ages Project
321 4th Ave, Olympia, WA
Gallery Hours: most Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment gallery@NorthernOlympia.org
The Black Dot Museum of Political Art functions online with touring exhibits focused on political art and music.
The Black Dot Museum of Political Art on FaceBook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Black-Dot-Museum/10150141919340195
Northern Gallery
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Northern-Olympia-All-Ages-Project/119818901101
RAZA! CULTURA, POLITICA Y TRADICION
Posted May 12, 2010 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
RAZA! CULTURA, POLITICA Y TRADICION
¡RAZA! CULTURA, POLÍTICA Y TRADICIÓN
May 15 Reception begins @ 7pm-11pm
$5 Suggested Donation
Featuring:
Carlos Francisco Jackson
Jesús Barraza
Malaquías Montoya
Melanie Cervantes
Xico González
Celebrate People's History in New Zealand!
Posted May 11, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects
Jared Davidson, designer of the Red Feds people's history poster and engine of the Garage Collective and Beyond Resistance has organized a Celebrate People's History poster show in New Zealand! Check it out:
Justseeds and Beyond Resistance are proud to present 'Celebrate People's History', an exhibition of over 50 international posters documenting radical moments in history.Since 1998 the Celebrate People's History Project has produced an amazing array of political posters by different artists from around the world, each highlighting a historical example of social struggle. Here in New Zealand for the first time is the complete series, celebrating important acts of resistance by both individuals and collective movements who have fought tirelessly for social justice. From the Spanish Revolution to feminist labour organisers, indigenous movements to environmental sustainability, protests against racism to the Korean Peasant's League — Celebrate People's History canvases global movements in collaboration with a global network of artists.
GLAMARCHY
Posted May 7, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
This month's Operation Sappho has a queer self-defense, safety, and fabulousness bent, in response to our dear friend Veruca La Piranha getting gaybashed after a gay 80's danceparty I DJ-ed last weekend, and the amazing community response to the attack: within 9 hours, 200 people mobilized for a protest in front of the bar where the attack began. Queers and allies say: NO MORE!
Come out to Operation Sappho to create a vibrant safe space and connect to other queers to learn about new self-defense projects we are taking on.
monthly queer-lez gay danceparty
queer it up glitzburgh!
To Print for the Revolution
Posted May 6, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
To Print for the Revolution: Celebrating Five Years of Eberhardt Press
Throughout the month of May print and design work from Eberhardt Press will be displayed at the Red and Black Café, a worker-owned vegan café in Southeast Portland, Oregon. Posters, propaganda, books, zines and other printed materials—which enliven and educate—will be exhibited. Additionally, copies of Eberhardt Press titles will be available for sale. To view the exhibit, donate and purchase titles please visit during the Café’s open hours—9am to 11pm, 7days a week.
The exhibit will run throughout the month of May. The Red and Black Cafe is at 400 SE 12 Ave @ Oak St. Portland
Mexican Revolutionary Art for the 21st Century
Posted May 3, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
For the month of May, the Lucy Parsons Center in Boston is holding a Mexico film series and print sale: Mexican Revolutionary Art for the 21st Century
Beautiful, politically themed woodblock prints from the ASARO artist
collective from Oaxaca, Mexico, will be for sale at the Lucy Parsons Center for the month of May. ASARO (La Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca /
the Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca), is a collective of young Mexican artists responding to Mexico’s current political turmoil. ASARO’s remarkable woodblock prints continue Mexico’s long tradition of popular revolutionary art.
All proceeds of the sale of the prints will go to the ASARO collective in Oaxaca.
Wednesday May 5, 6:30pm
Boston Premier of the Zapatista film Corazón del Tiempo/ Heart of Time (2008) film shows at 7:15
Art Opening (with food & wine with donation) at 6:30
Tear Down the Walls
Posted May 2, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I just got this announcement for a prison activist event, and it's illustrated with a banner I made back in 1999 or 2000! Wild! If you're in the Bay Area, check this event out:
Tear Down the Walls
an evening of music and performance benefiting The Prison Activist Resource Center
Uptown Body and Fender
401 26th Street, Oakland, CA (between Broadway/Telegraph)
Saturday, May 8, 7pm - midnight
$10-1k suggested donation
Featuring: Angela Davis, Lisa Marie Alatorre of Critical Resistance, and Jack Bryson
Performances by: Citizen Marty Payne of the Caribbean Allstars, Elana Dykewomon—spoken word, Raks Africa—belly dancing, Mbele—cuban folklore ensemble, Sassy Crew!, Medea Sirkas—Synchronized Strutters, Drag King Sensations: Momma’s Boyz, O Zone and J~milli~on, Erica Benton—singer/songwriter, and dancing with DJ Ponyboy
Kyle Goen Closing Party
Posted May 1, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Kyle Goen, an artist in the Paper Politics book and show, has a closing party coming up on May 4th in NYC for his exhibition, The Voice That Arms Itself To Be Heard. Details below:
Wallpaper Show & Zine Release
Posted April 28, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
THE ZINE CIRCLE
a winter project of jen cooney, mary mack & tree:::we got together biweekly with a rotating group of woman-identified peeps to make stuff, eat snacks, and keep the winter blues at bay. lovingly printed in full color with hand-silkscreened covers
Providence Talk & Screening April 27 & 28
Posted April 26, 2010 by dara_g in Events
I will be in Providence, RI this week doing a talk on Tuesday (April 27, 6:30pm
Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, RISD Museum, 20 North Main Street) and Paige Sarlin and I have organized a screening (Wednesday April 28, 2010, 9:30 PM, Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street) which Josh MacPhee designed the poster for. More info on our screening below. Also event invite HERE.
Bristol IWW May Day Party
Posted April 26, 2010 by k_c_ in Events
Our comrades in Bristol are having a party this May Day. We met some of these folks during their trip to NYC for their Bristol Radical History Project presentations, good blokes! And check out their good taste in art!
Earthday is Everyday Bike Ride & Justseeds Eco-Art Show
Posted April 21, 2010 by k_c_ in Justseeds & Member Projects
Earth day bike ride starting 7pm from Union Square Park South. Dress in green with respect for the planet! Festive musical ride will end at a 8pm, BBQ and dance party at Time’s Up Brooklyn space and East River Bar at 97 South 6th Street, Williamsburg. Bring food to share.
Thursday, April 22, 2010 7pm BIKE RIDE Meet at Union Square Park South, Manhattan. 8pm AFTER-PARTY Just Seeds Eco Art Show & BBQ
The Justseeds Collective will also be exhibiting members prints of an ecological & environmental nature following the Times Up Earth Day bicycle ride. Included in the exhibit will be previews of the upcoming Justseeds portfolio Resourced.
Resourced is a portfolio of handmade posters designed by over 30 different artists, including Chris Stain, Gaia, Armsrock, Design Action Collective, and many Justseeds Members. Justseeds is an artists’ owned and operated cooperative that is dedicated to producing socially engaged artworks. Prints and projects can be viewed at Justseeds.org
Go to Times Up for more information on the ride.
Christopher Cardinale Book Release Party
Posted April 21, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Our close friend Christopher Cardinale has been working for more than two years on his first graphic novel, and it is finally done and being released! Info below, please come celebrate!
Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush
Christopher Cardinale and Luis Alberto Urrea
Book Release Party
Wed., April 28TH, 7:30PM
Word Bookstore
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
126 Franklin St. at the corner of Milton St.
(Two blocks from the Greenpoint Ave. stop on the G train)
Videofreex Screening Tonight
Posted April 19, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Videofreex
Curated by Dara Greenwald
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 7:30pm
Light Industry, 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
Light Industry presents a survey of work by seminal guerrilla television outfit Videofreex, featuring a number of newly restored tapes. The screening will be introduced by Dara Greenwald, who assisted with the acquisition and preservation of this collection by Video Data Bank.
Justseeds at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair
Posted April 16, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Molly, Erik, and I will be at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair today, April 17th!!!
Please come out and say hi and check it out. Here is the poster I designed for the bookfair, and I believe there will be posters and t-shirt versions of it available tomorrow!
Printervention // Opening in Chicago
Posted April 16, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
Following the success of last years' Version Festival program: the Bridgeport WPA pilot project, we have asked artists from around the country to create works that raise awareness of social and political issues of our day. Printervention debuts April 16, 2010 at the The Chicago Tourism Center Gallery and continues through Version Festival to include workshops, a mobile silkscreen cart, a window display at The Whistler and more. For more information and a complete schedule of events and participants please visit www.printervention.org
Several Justseeds Artists are in this show! Leftover prints from this exhibition will travel to the US Social Forum in Detroit June 21-26.
World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Posted April 16, 2010 by k_c_ in Events
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World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Cochabamba, Bolivia
April 19-22, 2010
From the Guardian.co.uk:
...presidents, politicians, intellectuals, scientists and Hollywood stars will join more than 15,000 indigenous people and thousands of grass roots groups from more than 100 countries to debate climate change in one of the world's poorest nations.The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth which opens next week in the small Bolivian town of Cochabamba, will have no direct bearing on the UN climate talks being conducted by 192 governments. But Bolivian President Evo Morales says it will give a voice to the poorest people of the world and encourage governments to be far more ambitious following the failure of the Copenhagen summit.
Thu April 22nd Graphic Artshow - Scratchboards by Antonio Valverde - Mexico City
Posted April 15, 2010 by santi in Art exhibits/shows
GRAPHIC ARTSHOW OPENING
Scratchboards by Antonio Valverde
Thurdsay April 22nd
7pm
Doug Minkler Retrospective!
Posted April 14, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I've been so behind on email this almost slipped by. If you are in the Bay Area, GO SEE THIS SHOW! Doug Minkler is one of the most prolific yet under-appreciated poster artists working in the US today:
Chris Stain Skateboard Piece
Posted April 14, 2010 by k_c_ in Art & Politics
Celebrating and Collaborating: The Graphic Work of Justseeds
Posted April 12, 2010 by dylan_miner in Justseeds & Member Projects
"Celebrating and Collaborating: The Graphic Work of Justseeds"
April 05 - April 23 | LookOut! Gallery
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI
Reception: 5-7pm, April 16
Gallery Talk: 7pm, April 16
Workshop: 8pm, April 16
Justseeds is Moving!
Posted April 7, 2010 by roger_peet in In the News
Hey Justseeds enthusiasts! Breaking news! Justseeds will be moving our headquarters from Portland to Pittsburgh in May. Justseedsers Mary and Shaun will be driving a well-laden U-Haul across the country, leaving behind our beloved Portland basement in the neighbourhood that smells like cookies to a much larger base of operations in the other City of Bridges. We're all excited about the move, and hopefully we'll be able to generate a photo essay or two for the blog, as well as candid shots of the flat files, dehumidifier, and piles of cardboard tubes in scenic locations across the wide continental center. Keep your eyes on this space for further updates....
Oaxaca Now: Young Radical Printmakers
Posted April 1, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Mexico in Chicago 2010
Oaxaca Now: Young Radical Printmakers
April 9-May 17, 2010
Marwen's Alumni Gallery will feature brand new woodcut prints and videos from the Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca (ASARO). In keeping with the collective's visually polemic tone, the new prints and video add breadth and depth to this traveling conversation on art, activism, and politics in Oaxaca today.
Oaxaca Now: Young Radical Printmakers is co-curated by Arielle Bielak and Professor Kevin McCloskey.
Please join us for the opening night celebration:
Friday, April 9, 2010
5-7 PM
Marwen, 833 North Orleans Street, Chicago, IL
Women of Color HERstory Events
Posted March 12, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
Please join dynamic women of color activists, experts, innovators, artists and entrepreneurs at the "Kinks, Locks & Twist: Environmental and Reproductive Justice Conference 2010."
The third year of Kinks, Locks and Twists will be bigger and better than ever and we hope you will join us for this groundbreaking opportunity to achieve Human Rights for women of color in the Greater Pittsburgh Region at the intersection of two powerful social change movements.
Power Up girls will be attending the conference and assisting with live silkscreen printing in the afternoon. Saturday evening, celebrate Women of HERstory month and New Voices Pittsburgh's 6-Year Anniversary, with a celebration featuring music, art, performances and more...Justseeds artist Mary Tremonte joins others in exhibiting work in the silent auction.
for a full calendar of HERstory events and more information, look HERE
15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
Posted March 10, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Justseeds will be tabling again at the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair, March 13-14th. A number of us will also be doing a panel at the book fair on Sunday, see the schedule for more info. Come by and say "Hi!" and pick up some awesome books and art!:
15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 10am – 6pm
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 11am – 5pm
San Francisco County Fair Building
Golden Gate Park, 9th Ave and Lincoln Way
For more information call 415.431-8355 or visit www.sfbookfair.wordpress.com
the Missoula Oblongata in Brooklyn tonight
Posted March 3, 2010 by kristine_virsis in Events
Tonight the Missoula Oblongata will be performing their new play, The Moon, The Raccoon, The Hot Air Balloon (an hour long play set at the worlds fair with magic and palindromes!), along with an acoustic set by Laura Stevenson and the Cans.
Wednesday, March 3rd.
8:00pm
Dominic, Borth, And Angie's apartment
102 Ryerson st. #2
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$6 Suggested Donation.
Defiant Proclamations
Posted March 1, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I'm involved in a number of Bay Area events coming up in mid-March, loosely in connection with the SF Anarchist Bookfair. Russell Howze, author of Stencil Nation and purveyor of HappyFeetTravels.org, is putting together a one night political poster exhibition at Cell Space which promises to be interesting. The Interference Archive (what Dara and I have named our increasingly unwieldy collection of posters, prints, books, ephemera, etc...) is contributing work, as are a number of other cool folks with interesting materials to share. Check it out:
Defiant Proclamations
Radical Posters from the 1960s to the Present
For decades, Bay Area walls have been pasted with bold art and pertinent messages about the politics, practices, and abuses of contemporary mainstream culture and its co-opted voices. Also speaking outside the frameworks of organized labor and left movements, individual artists and collectives have shouted defiant proclamations with ink and paper. Today, political graphics have reached a broad audience via many media sources, hopefully creating a new wave of radical art as well as a redefinition of visual art and it’s usual commodified structures. With a strong history in the Bay Area, this one night only exhibit will feature works old and new, giving a glimpse of the broad range of opinions and styles that have papered walls across the area.
Thursday, March 11 (one night only!)
7 pm to midnight
FREE!
CELLspace Gallery
2050 Bryant St., San Francisco, CA 94110
ART WORK events in Pittsburgh
Posted February 24, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Justseeds & Member Projects
ART WORK
A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics
Through Feb. 28, 2010 at the Miller Gallery.
Events This Week:::
Feb. 25, Thurs.
8-9:30pm: Discussion led by Marc Fischer (Temporary Services) around issues raised in Art Work: A National Conversation about Art, Labor, and Economics. Food available.
@ The Waffle Shop, 125 S. Highland Ave. at Baum, E. Liberty
Art Against Empire
Posted February 23, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
This just in (from Evil Monito, check it HERE):
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
3/10 to 4/18/10
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) is proud to present Art Against Empire—Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II, curated by Carol A. Wells from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG). Featuring works by Josh MacPhee, Corita Kent, Jay Belloli, Cedomic Kostovic, Stephen Kroninger, and more.
Art Against Empire uses the power of posters to document 60 years of opposition to U.S. interventions into the domestic affairs of sovereign nations. Political, economic and military interventions, many of them covert, have repeatedly resulted in unacceptable deaths and misery for millions. These posters show hopes and dreams, and the pain of dreams destroyed.
WW3 #40 Release Party!
Posted February 20, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
World War 3 Illustrated has just release issue #40 (and is now 30 years old!). Justseeds artists Colin Matthes and Erik Ruin are in the new issue, and WW3 is having a release party in NYC next week, Feb. 26. See info below:
Paper Politics Event in NYC Tonight!
Posted February 17, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
February 17, 2010
7pm
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen St., Manhattan
F train to 2nd Ave.
A large number of the artists in Paper Politics will be convening on Bluestockings tonight for a freewheeling conversation of politics, printmaking and posters. Come join us and here about what local political printmakers are doing, why, and what they think their work is accomplishing.
Monday night talk in Chicago on the Artists' Union and the American Artists' Congress
Posted February 14, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Events
If your in Chicago, stop by Gallery 400 at UIC this Monday, February 15th. I am giving a talk from 6:00pm-8:00pm based on the essay that I wrote for the Art Work publication by Temporary Services.
Chris Stain at work
Posted February 11, 2010 by k_c_ in Film & Video
Chris Stain paints Flowers for January's Take 5ive event. Music by Cory Hillis.
Here's Chris' newest print in the Justseeds store.
You can see a bunch of other new prints Chris has available on his BigCartel store.
Slideshow/Discussion this Wednesday @ AS220 in Providence
Posted February 6, 2010 by shaun in People's History!
If you're in Providence, Rhode Island this week, please come by AS220 on Wednesday the 10th and participate in the discussion and slideshow I'm putting on! It's free to the public and starts at 6pm at the AS220 performance space on Empire Street:
"I Brake For Historical Markers"
6-8:30pm, Wednesday, February 10
Pittsburgh-based artist Shaun Slifer will present a slideshow and discussion of problematic and progressive historical monuments and plaques with an eye towards remembering the often-buried stories of struggles for social justice. Slifer will discuss the Howling Mob Society's 2007 guerilla historical marker series commemorating the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
Signs of Change in Portland, OR!
Posted February 2, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Dara and I just finished installing our exhibition Signs of Change in Portland, OR at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). We're doing an artist's talk/walk through tomorrow, Wed. Feb 3th, at 12:30 (see HERE), and the opening is Thursday, Feb 4th, from 6-9pm (see HERE). If you are in the Pacific Northwest, please come check it out!
Justseeds show in DC
Posted January 29, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects
I just got some photos of the Justeeds (and friends) exhibition at the Hillyer Art Space in DC, and notice that the closing party is TONIGHT! A closing party for the Justseeds show and a fundraiser for Mountain Justice organizing at Hillyer Art Space from 7-11, Friday Feb. 29th.
"Join us for an evening of multimedia resistance featuring Appalachian Old Time music with "Here's to the Long Haul" and a screening of the film "Mountain Top Removal".
Also Featuring:
*A new limited edition screen print by DECOY
*New photo works by Emma Cassidy and Chris Eichler
*Anti-Mountain Top Removal artwork and design by RVLTN
$5 admission, FREE for those attending Funk the Warming! Proceeds will benefit Mountain Justice and Hillyer Art Space's local art programming. Look HERE.
What is a Trade: Donald Fels and Signboard Painters of South India
Posted January 28, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Vanessa Renwick sent along info about this interesting looking show up in Portland right now:
What is a Trade: Donald Fels and Signboard Painters of South India
Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR
January 21 to March 14
gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11am to 4pm
Jim Finn at MoMA
Posted January 18, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
One of my favorite filmmakers Jim Finn is a having a screening at MoMA on Feb. 1st. Jim's films are an amazing, crazy mash ups of communism, sci-fi, wacky humor, and oddball performances, and well worth seeing. MoMA is showing his most recent feature, The Juche Idea, plus a number of shorts. A short clip from The Juche Idea can be seen on Jim's website HERE.
An Evening with Jim Finn
Monday, February 1, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2)
Justseeds at Historical Materialism
Posted January 14, 2010 by molly_fair in Events
If you are going to the Historical Materialism conference in NYC this weekend, stop by the Justseeds table and say hi!
Josh MacPhee at RISD this Thursday
Posted January 13, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I'm giving a talk at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) tomorrow night, so if you're in Providence, come say "hello!"
Justseeds, Street Art, and Social Movements
A talk by Josh MacPhee
Office of Student Life Leadership Speaker Series
Tap Room of RISD's Memorial Hall
226 Benefit Street, Providence
Thursday, January 14th
7pm
A Night of Queer Women of Color Performance
Posted January 12, 2010 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
Mark your calendars and come support La RED Xicana Indigena's organizing! This organization is one that I have recently started working with. It should be a great night.
Saturday, January 30, 2010 -8 pm (doors open at 7:30pm)
LA RED XICANA INDÍGENA presents A NIGHT OF QUEER WOMEN OF COLOR PERFORMANCE
Poesía • Teatro • Comedy • Music • Artesanía De Oaxaca • Comida • Books • Posters For Sale!
Also music by:
LAS BOMBERAS DE LA BAHIA | SoliRose
ADELINA ANTHONY, performing “Zen Ranchera” and excerpts from “La Chismosa” (directed by D'Lo)
CHERRÍE MORAGA, reading from new works, including an excerpt from her play,“Who Killed Yolanda Salívar,” with Anthony performing with Moraga
Multicultural Community Center, Martin Luther King Student Union, UC-Berkeley (corner of Bancroft & Telegraph) Suggested donation: $10 - $25 or more.
For more information, contact Elisa Huerta at UC Berkeley Multicultural Center 510-642-6528 or elisahuerta@berkeley.edu
Tax Deductible Donations can be made to:
CNQI (Cetliliztli Nauhcampa Quetxalcoatl in Ixachitlan), earmarked "La Red."
La RED Xicana Indígena, which originated in 1997, is a network of Xicanas Indígenas who are actively involved in political, educational and cultural work that serves to raise indigenous consciousness among our communities and supports the social justice struggles of people of indigenous origins of this continent North and South, especially the human and civil rights campaign of undocumented migrant peoples and their children in the U.S.
All Shook Up: Jef Aerosol
Posted January 10, 2010 by jmacphee in Street Art & Graffiti
For all the street art and stencil fans in Brooklyn, this show seems like one not to miss:
All Shook Up: Jef Aerosol
January 29 - February 21, 2010
Opening Reception - Friday, January 29, 2010, 6-10pm
Ad Hoc Art
43 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, New York 11206
(via subway take the L Train to Morgan Avenue Station)
Ad Hoc Art presents international stencil master Jef Aerosol in New York City for All Shook Up, a stunning show of cultural icons by one of the old school European street stencil artists. The show features brand new stenciled works as well as classic pieces on paper, wood, and found objects. A true originator who helped spark what is now known as “Street Art” when he sprayed his first stencil series across the city of Tours, France one night in 1982. The self-taught Aerosol has continuously rocked the streets with his oversized portraits and helped define a new public art nomenclature with other French artists like Blek Le Rat, Miss Tic, and Speedy Graphito.
Justseeds: Paper Politics for a New Decade
Posted January 8, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects
Opening Tonight!!!!
Justseeds: Paper Politics for a New Decade
Hillyer Art Space at International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Court NW
Washington, DC, 20008
Exhibition Dates: January 8 - January 30
First Friday Reception: Friday, January 8, 2010, 6-9PM
Live music by experimental trio Vodka and Donuts!
Food and refreshments will be served
$5 suggested donation
The Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to collaborate, sell their work online in a central location and support social movements. Utilizing print and poster making techniques to address a variety of social and environmental justice issues, collective mates work together over many miles to create, resist, and bring meaningful artwork to the masses for affordable prices. These artists believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society. Featuring works by Justseeds artists and fellow political printers, including: Santiago Armengod, Jesus Barraza, Graham Boyle, Melanie Cervantes, DC51 Collective, Alec Icky Dunn, Thea Gahr, Sabeth Jackson, Nicolas Lampert, Josh MacPhee, Colin Matthes, Cesar Maxit, Dylan Miner, Roger Peet, Jesse Purcell, Favianna Rodriguez, Erik Ruin, Beth Schaible, Chris Stain, Meredith Stern, SWOON, Mary Tremonte, Kristine Virsis, Pete Yahnke, and Bec Young.
Excerpts from Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
Posted January 8, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects
171 Cedar Arts Center presents a selection from Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.
Houghton Gallery at the 171 Cedar Arts Center
155 & 171 Cedar Street, Corning NY
Jan 8 - Feb 5, 2010
Reception: Friday Jan 8th, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
In conjunction with a celebration to honor Martin Luther King, the exhibition at 171 Cedar Arts Center focuses on the cultures created by during the Civil Rights Movement in America and the fights for freedom that were waged by oppressed people globally. (This exhibition consists of reprinted materials from a small portion of Signs of Change.)
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee and originating from Exit Art in New York City, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.
Printmaking Workshop by Colectivo Cordyceps. Mexico City
Posted January 4, 2010 by santi in Events
Printmaking Workshop.
Friday the 8th through Sunday the 10th of January
5pm to 8pm.
Update on the 5th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk To Remember Cyclists and Pedestrians Lost on NYC Streets
Posted January 2, 2010 by k_c_ in Art & Politics
The (NYC) Street Memorial Project has decided, despite a forecast of very cold and windy tomorrow(Sunday, Jan 3), we are going to go ahead with the memorial ride tomorrow.But we are encouraging people to do what they think they can do given the weather and there will be someone riding each leg of the ride, but we are essentially canceling the Harlem portion of the ride (though the ride leader will be there to ride down with anyone who shows up).
We are especially encouraging people to come to the 3pm Grand Army Plaza meet up, which will be the shortest portion during the warmest part of the day and which will end at a warm spot with warm food and drink.
...spread the word that people should meet us at any of the later meet-ups and remove or cross out the first meet-up and memorial from your blogs, schedules...
Other meetups are:
11am Central Park West and 7th Ave
11:30 Queensboro Bridge, Queens
3:00 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
4:45 Milton and Manhattan Aves, Brooklyn
full schedule is at streetmemorials.org
(redirected from ghostbikes.org, which is down)
Graphic Roots of Revolution
Posted December 19, 2009 by jmacphee in Art & Politics
Favianna is over in Rome right now with the new Yo! What Happened to Peace? show, Graphic Roots of Revolution. There's more info HERE.
Justseeds Print Show and Paper Politics Book Release-NYC
Posted December 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
In case you're not on Facebook(contributing to the demise of flyer and poster promotion) the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is having an art show and book release party for Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today- featuring political prints by over 200 international artists, edited by artist/activist Josh MacPhee. The event will be today 8-11pm
at Book Thug Nation
100 N.3rd St.
Brooklyn, NY
There will be new work by the Justseeds artists on display and for sale, free snacks and drinks.
So come out, wish us a happy solstice, congratulate Josh on another book, meet Icky who's visiting from PDX, buy all your holiday gifts, and check out the Book Thug Nation space so you know where to sell/buy your used books!
FIESTA DE LA SANTÍSIMA VIRGEN DE LAS BARRICADAS
Posted December 17, 2009 by santi in Events
Fiesta de la santisima virgen de las barricadas. 10 years of Subleva®te Colectivo
Dance & Resist!
Posted December 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
DANCE & RESIST!
Art Auction and Dance Party
Friday December 18th
7pm @ Brillobox 4104 Penn Ave
In support of G20 Legal Defense, assisting arrestees in covering their legal fees
Art Auction 7pm-10pm
donating artists to date:
Alberto Almarza, Jen Cooney, Magali Duzant, Deren Guler, Horsie, Rev. Jason Jones, Ben Kehoe, Amos Levy, Caldwell Linkerbelle, Chris Lisowski, Josh MacPhee, Maria Mangano, Teresa Martuccio, Nathan Mould, Jillian Nintze, Jenn Pascoe, Stefan Pilipa, Jae Ruberto, Shaun Slifer, Eric Stern, Hannah Thompson, Mary Tremonte, Heidi Tucker, Heather White, Bec Young.
DANCE PARTY TIME! 10pm-2am
$3 at the door (or more if you can spare it!)
DJs PANDEMIC'S Pete & Spat and 90's NIGHT'S Jenny Jihad & Sean MC
Red Emma's Red & Black Ball
Posted December 15, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
For those in Baltimore and surrounding environs, party with Red Emma's!!:
Celebrate Five Years of Red Emma's at the Red & Black Ball!
December 19, 2009:
7:30PM - 11PM
2640 Saint Paul Street
That's right my fellow mischief-makers: the Red Emma's Red and Black Ball returns again this year on December 19! Join the Red Emma's collective as we celebrate the traditional anarchist gift-giving season with an all-out, over-the-top evening of revelry in your Victorian-era red and black finest! Think Victorian-era dances, parlour games, phrenology, and, of course, spirits to warm your body and soul. Think renaissance festival dress gone anarchist. Think steampunk. Think Alan Moore (V for Vendetta). Live and DJ'd music throughout the evening, as well as performances, games, "etiquette" lessons, phrenology, and more, led by our very own Master of Ceremonies, Ryan Coffman, with the help of a variety of Baltimore favorites! Plus ... freakin' amazing vegan cake. And booze. Pull out that fancy dress you picked up at a thrift store; borrow your brother's tuxedo! Make a mask, or grab one at the door! This is the holiday party you don't want to miss ... come out and celebrate with us!
It all takes place at 2640 Saint Paul Street, December 19, starting at 7:30PM. Tickets are $10-$15 sliding scale, and include food and a free drink. Masks provided for those who need them. Proper attire is NOT required, but isn't it more fun to cobble a costume together? Email info@redemmas.org for more info ... this event is all-ages, and no one turned away for lack of funds.
Justseeds at Handmade Arcade Pittsburgh
Posted December 11, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
(old pic of justseeds & ally reeves at NCOR 2008)
Justseeds Pittsburgh will be at the Handmade Arcade this Saturday December 12th 11am-8pm at the Hunt Armory.
Come do some radical holiday shopping! Or just say hi and snag a sticker & a sip from our thermos.
Go DJ Go! Workshop for Teens
Posted December 10, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
FREE DJ workshop for teens!
Friday December 11th
5:00-7:00pm
Young Men & Women's African Heritage Association
1200 Boyle Street, Northside
For more information, read on...
TONIGHT! Stumptown 10 Year Anniversary Party!
Posted December 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Stumptown Printers Celebrates Ten Years of Ink & Iron!
The Local Shop That Went Worldwide Declares: PRINT'S NOT DEAD!
Stumptown Printers 10th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday, Dec 10th, 8pm
Holocene
1001 se morrison
portland, oregon 97214
Stumptown Printers works primarily with independent musicians and small record labels. This show features Northwest artists who have worked with the shop to craft paper-and-ink complements to their own quirky musical visions: Norfolk & Western, a defiantly unclassifiable crossbreed of spooky folk and sawtoothed indie rock; LAKE, echoey, orchestral pop; Karl Blau, spacey, genre-annihilating singer/songwriter; Ilyas Ahmed, "Free-flowing, mind-bending folk-infused mantras"; Foghorn Duo, heart-wrenchin', whiskey-swillin' Old Time; and DJ Hometapes, selections by the braintrust of the local record label. Catering by Voodoo Doughnuts! Plus printed ephemera giveaways from Stumptown Printers!
Bushwick Print Lab Grand Opening
Posted December 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A long time friend of Justseeds, and former co-director of Ad Hoc Art, Ray Cross has just opened up his new spot, the Bushwick Print Lab!:
Bushwick Print Lab
Grand Opening and Holiday Print Sale Spectacular
Thursday, December 17
6:00 PM to Midnight
1717 Troutman Street #203 - 204
Queens NY, 11385
(3 blocks form the Jefferson L stop and just across the Queens line in Ridgewood)
Bushwick Print Lab, a new community silkscreen space in Bushwick/Ridgewood, is excited to announce our Grand Opening and is hosting an affordable print sale for the holidays. The Bushwick Print Lab is a new rental space dedicated to offering film printing, screen-making, shelf and locker storage, and hourly and monthly shop rentals to artists, printmakers and designers who are seeking a professional and well equip lab to create work in silkscreen on paper and apparel. BPL has affordable rates and will offer classes and production assistance for contemporary artists using the versatile medium of silkscreen. We are dedicated to creating increased accessibility to printmaking for artists of all media and the advancement the art of silkscreen printing.
Daniel McGowen Art Auction
Posted December 9, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our friend Daniel is still locked up in Federal prison, and he needs your help! If you are in NYC, please come out this weekend and buy some art! More info about Daniel can be found HERE.
Art Auction to Benefit Imprisoned New York City Social Justice & Environmental Activist Daniel McGowan
On December 7, 2005, New York City activist Daniel McGowan was among the first people arrested as part of an FBI offensive against environmental activists called "Operation Backfire", which activists have dubbed part of the Green Scare (after the Red Scare of the 40s and 50s). Daniel began serving his seven-year sentence in July 2007. In August 2008, Daniel was moved to the Communication Management Unit (CMU) in Marion, IL, a federal prison unit that bypassed the usual review process and severely restricts inmates' communication with the outside world.
To mark the four-year anniversary of Daniel's arrest, and to highlight the continued repression of activists that the federal government has labeled "terrorists," Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan will be hosting an art show, auction and raffle this December. Proceeds will go to Daniel's commissary account and a number of his favorite environmental and social justice organizations.
WHO: Presented by Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan along with popular street artists; political printmakers; and renowned graphic designers.
WHAT: Art Show and Auction featuring artists such as SWOON; Nikki McClure; Just Seeds Artist Cooperative members such as Josh MacPhee and Kevin Caplicki; BORF and many more.
WHEN: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 1-9pm. Reception: 7-9pm
WHERE: ADC Gallery, 106 West 29th Street, Ground Floor, NYC
Amilcar Cabral!
Posted December 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Tonight the African Diaspora Film Fest in NYC is showing a hard to see documentary about 1960s/70s African revolutionary Amilcar Cabral (which is playing with a doc about Frantz Fanon as well!). It's rare to be able to see any footage of or about Cabral, so this is a rare treat. Cabral's book Return to the Source contains a number of interesting essays exploring the connections between African liberation (particularly in his native Guinea Bissou) and culture. Details about the film and screening are HERE.
(The image is by Beth Gutelius, from Reproduce & Revolt, and as printed on a t-shirt by Liberation Ink, still available HERE.)
activism3cream in Tokyo
Posted December 5, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our friends at Irregular Rhythm Asylum in Tokyo have mounted an art show/installation/social movement archive/hang out space called activism3cream, which based on all the photos (see HERE) is awesome. Hidden in there is some Justseeds work.
ABC no Rio Clothesline Benefit Art Sale
Posted December 3, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
ABC No Rio, the Lower East Side gallery and arts center, is planning another Clothesline Benefit Art Sales to raise money for their Building Fund. The event will take place
December 10-11th
156 Rivington St
LES, NY
ABC No Rio is a center for the arts on the Lower East Side, founded by artists committed to an actively engaged culture and a vision of expanded possibilities for our lives, our neighborhoods, our cities and our society.
They are asking artists who support ABC No Rio to participate by donating work. Work should be no larger than 11" X 17", and limited to two works per artist. All work will be presented on clotheslines strung through No Rio's gallery space, and should be unframed, two-dimensional work.
The Clothesline Benefits prices are set at either $25 or $50, depending on the size and complexity of the work, and to be decided by you.
Work can be delivered on December 8th or 9th, between 7:00 and
9:00pm, or you can mail work to:
Clothesline Benefit ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street New York, NY 10002
Your participation and support is crucial and important to ABC No
Rio. Please freely forward this request to friends and fellow
artists. Announcements and invitations for the Clothesline Benefit
will be sent to all participating artists. Please invite your
friends, colleagues and collaborators!
Howardena Pindell on KARA WALKER - NO / YES / ?
Posted December 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Art & Politics
Philly correspondent Theodore A. Harris just sent this along, an great looking event this weekend in Brooklyn:
Howardena Pindell on KARA WALKER - NO / YES / ?
Sat. December 4th
2-4pm
MoCADA
80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, NY
Professor, artist and activist Howardena Pindell has created a new anthology. Kara Walker-No, Kara Walker-Yes, Kara Walker-? is a collection of essays written by other contemporary artists, educators, writers and poets discussing controversial artist Kara Walker. Whether you agree with Pindell or not, or whether Walker's silhouettes appeal to you or not, this book will certainly begin a
conversation about visual culture in the Black community. The talk features a number of authors and artists including Theodore A. Harris, Ben Jones and Rashida Ishmali.
collage image by Theodore A. Harris.
Filthy Lucre extended
Posted December 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
My friend Sam Sebren has a piece in the Filthy Lucre show at Gallery Aferro in Newark, which has just been extended for a week and now has a closing potluck on December 12th from 4-8pm. Sam will be holding "The Great Zombie Consumer Eradication Project" on that day, painting a giant 15 foot mural with everyone that wants to participate. Check it out HERE!
photo by Merle Becker
Benefit Dinner for CACITA and a Hudson Valley Radio Station
Posted December 2, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Come to a benefit dinner to support the work of a group of folks in the Hudson Valley who are seeking a license for the first Spanish-language community radio station in the region. As well as CACITA (autonomous center for the intercultural creation of appropriate techonologies- Oaxaca, Mexico). Both of these projects are vibrant and vital to the places in which they reside. Details on these groups below.
Saturday December 5, 7:30pm
10 Lefferts Place, BKLYN
Sliding Scale$10-20
There will be food! Delicious pozole and more! Cheap coronas and margaritas! There will also be live music by Nicaraguan guitarist Juan Basilio-Sanchez, as well as some people from the radio station to talk about their project, and a short film on the work that CACITA is doing in Oaxaca.
Sound good? Great, invite your friends and please RSVP.
Saludos!
Escribo para invitarles a una cena deliciosa y beneficial. Recaudemos
fondos para dos projectos: CACITA (El Centro Autonomo para La
Creacion Intercultural de Technologias Apropiadas) y tambien para
apoyar un grupo de gente en el Valle Hudson de Nueva York que esta
pidiendo una licencia para la primera estacion de radio en espanol de
la region. Los dos proyectos estan bien importantes en sus propias
comunidades, y usted puede apoyarlos solo por beber y tomar, que
suerte tiene! Hay mas informacion de los dos proyectos abajo.
WORK PROGRESS: Dill Pickle Club benefit this Thursday Dec 3rd.
Posted December 1, 2009 by pete in Art & Politics
If you are in Portland this Thursday Dec 3rd be sure to stop by this show. Alec Icky Dunn and Pete Yahnke from Justseeds both have some work in this benefit show. Here are the details from the Dill Pickle Club:
Join us at the Eyeful Gallery (NW 6th & Everett) Thursday, December 3 at 6PM, during the First Thursday art walk for the opening of WORK | PROGRESS, an art show, pop up bookshop and event series to benefit the Dill Pickle Club. Cape Perpetua and Niekrasz/ Jenkins Duet (of Why I Must Be Careful) provide live music, while Ninkasi Brewing generously serves libations.
WORK | PROGRESS features 24 socially-engaged artists creating replicated works, including:
Icky A, Brad Adkins, Moe Bowstern, Carye Bye, Bill Daniel, Dyslexxis, Harrell Fletcher, Sarah Gottesdiener, Sam Gould, Anna Gray, MK Guth, Ariana Jacob, Kendra Larson, Ian Lynam, Eric Mast, Justin Scrappers Morrison, Michael Parich, Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Brittany Powell, Khris Soden, Bwana Spoons, Matthew Stadler, Nim Wunnan, Pete Yahnke
Justseeds Gettin' Crafty
Posted November 27, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
justseeds at expozine montreal
mary & buddy at handmade arcade 2006
Justseeds will be reppin the radical themes at a plethora of holiday craft fairs over the next few weeks...come find us, get prints directly from the artists, save on shipping, and meet us! In Pittsburgh at least we'll have some special items you can't get on the Justseeds site, like peace dove t-shirts & squirrel pillows. In Montreal, the sale is at 100-Sided Die, a studio shared by 23 artists / crafters / musicians and weirdos including Jesse Purcell. There will be a huge collection of Justseeds work for sale there as well.
MILWAUKEE
Art Vs. Craft
Saturday November 28th
10am-7pm
Scottish Masonic Rite Center
790 N Van Buren Street
www.artvscraftmke.com
MONTREAL
100 Sided Die Monthly Open House / Art Sale
Saturday November 28th
1:25-6:25pm
5334 de Gaspe 12th floor rm.1202
PITTSBURGH
Handmade Arcade
Saturday December 12th
11am-8pm
Hunt Armory
324 Emerson St., Shadyside
www.handmadearcade.com
PORTLAND
Crafty Wonderland
Sunday December 13th
11am-7pm
at the Oregon Convention Center
777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd, Exhibit Hall D
www.craftywonderland.com
Also if you are in Brooklyn, keep an eye out on Bedford Ave, for our man Kevin C., hawkin prints to the hip & radical at heart
Art vs Craft - Milwaukee
Posted November 24, 2009 by colin_matthes in Events
If in Milwaukee come visit Justseeds at Art vs Craft on Saturday: One stop shopping if your list includes Celebrate peoples history posters, sock monkeys, beer soap, and a hand knit sweater for a small creature.
Milwaukee Zine Fest
Posted November 17, 2009 by colin_matthes in Events
Here are a few images from Milwaukee Zine fest. It was a great success a lot of fun in a great location. Thanks organizers.
A shot of the Polish Falcon beerhall where the zine fest was held, notice the justseeds table in the foreground.
Justseeds Presentation at Black Sheep Books, Montpelier, VT
Posted November 16, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Tonight! I'll be giving a presentation about Justseeds and the Voices From Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex.
Monday, November 16, 7pm
at Black Sheep Books
5 State St
Montpelier, VT
In 2006, Justseeds a radical art distributor transitioned from a project run by its founder to a cooperatively run business and collective committed to creating and distributing socially engaged artwork. Over the last three years Justseeds has produced posters, calendars, print portfolios, exhibits, books, and collective installations tackling numerous contemporary themes and celebrating radical history.Come join member Kevin Caplicki for a presentation on
the trajectory of the artist-owned and run Justseeds
Cooperative and an exhibition of "Voices From Outside:
Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex",
Justseeds portfolio project 2008.
Lucy Parsons Center Anniversary
Posted November 15, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
It's the 40th Anniversary of the Lucy Parsons Center! It's a reunion, an anniversary, a celebration, a party! Please come help us celebrate! Without you we wouldn't have been able to exist for 40 years!
The Lucy Parsons Center (formerly The Red Book Store) is Boston's only independent, non-profit, volunteer-run radical bookstore and community space.
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 7pm 'til midnight
Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Boston
There will be an Open Mic and DJ's: Fast Eddy, DJ Philomina and more. Also some snacks and drinks, (including beer courtesy of Sam Adams). Bring your talents, stories, memorabilia and photos to share. See old faces and meet new friends. This is a free event, open to the public. Donations are welcome and we will also be signing up for monthly donors. For more info, please visit us at 549 Columbus Ave. in Boston's South End or lucyparsons.org
No Business As Usual
Posted November 14, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The University of California students, faculty, and staff are calling for a system wide strike on Nov. 18th. Check it out HERE.
NO BUSINESS AS USUAL: A CALL FOR A SYSTEM-WIDE STRIKEIn solidarity with students, faculty, and staff
In defense of public education in California
We call for a massive, system-wide student and teaching strike beginning November 18th
Justseeds Tabling at Expozine, Montreal
Posted November 13, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds members will be tabling at Expozine 2009, Montreal's Annual Small Press, Comic and Zine Fair
Saturday, November 14 & Sunday, November 15, 2009, from 12-6 p.m. at
5035 St-Dominique
(Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Métro)
Free admission
This incredible event brings together nearly 300 creators of all kinds of printed matter – from books to zines to posters and graphic novels – in both English and French. Over the past seven editions, Expozine has grown to become one of North America's largest small press fairs, attracting thousands of visitors as well as exhibitors from across Canada, the United States and Europe.
Milwaukee Zine Fest - Tomorrow (nov 14)
Posted November 13, 2009 by colin_matthes in Events
Come visit Justseeds at the Milwaukee Zine Fest tomorrow. (Saturday, nov 14 - 11am - 6pm) Also there will be Microcosm Publishing, World War 3 Illustrated, and many others.
We will be at the Polish Falcon Beer Hall / Bowling Alley, one of my favorite places in Milwaukee.
Become the Bike Bloc
Posted November 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Art & Politics
Put the fun between your legs: Become the Bike Bloc
Bristol and Copenhagen Nov – Dec 09
An irresistible new machine of resistance will be launched during the COP15 UN summit protests in Copenhagen. Made from hundreds of old bicycles and thousands of activists' bodies 'Put the fun between your legs: Operation Bike Bloc' is a collaboration between Climate Camp and art activist collective The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
Bristol Radical History Group in NYC Nov 12-15th
Posted November 12, 2009 by k_c_ in Art & Politics
Some old English comrades, a few I met in Mexico over 8 years ago, are in NYC giving some presentations on the Bristol Radical History Group, a project they've been doing since 2006:
The 'History Workshop' movement was founded in 1966 in Ruskin College, Oxford, U.K. by the Marxist academic Raphael Samuel, a champion of 'history from below.' He famously defined this movement as being "the belief that history is or ought to be a collaborative enterprise, one in which the researcher, the archivist, the curator and the teacher, the 'do-it-yourself' enthusiast and the local historian, the family history societies and the individual archaeologist, should all be regarded as equally engaged."In 2006 in the U.K., Bristol Radical History Group was formed with a view opening up some of the hidden history of their home city to public scrutiny, to challenge some commonly held ideas about historical events and approach this history from 'below'. Unlike Samuel's 'History Workshop,' the group actually came 'from below' its genesis being in an expanded sports club rather than in the academy. As a result it has been able to successfully integrate both the formal lecture with street performance, the organic intellectual with the academic and engage the public in the excitement of radical history by the use of different media.
The Internet as Playground and Factory
Posted November 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our NYC readers might be interested in this conference coming up this week:
The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor
Thursday, November 12, through Saturday, November 14, 2009
The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street, New York City
veralistcenter.org | digitallabor.org
This conference confronts the urgent need to interrogate the concepts of labor and value in the digital economy and seeks to inspire proposals for action. There are currently few adequate definitions of labor that fit the complex, hybrid realities of the digital economy. The Internet as Playground and Factory poses a series of questions about the conundrums surrounding labor (and often the labor of love) in relation to our digital present. It is the first in a series of biennial conferences titled The Politics of Digital Media.
365 & Counting
Posted November 8, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
An interesting looking show opening in Los Angeles:
365 & Counting
A group exhibit that examines the 1st year of the Obama Administration.
Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, CA
Artist's Reception: Sat. Nov. 14, 2009, 7-10 p.m.
Avenue 50 Studio asked 15 artists to create artworks that provide insight into the first year of the Obama Administration. Issues of race, class, war, health care, the enrivronment and the economy, plus other global challenges - are explored in this timely exhibition. Given the escalating war in Afghanistan, Vallen painted a glimpse of Obama's Guantánamo - the notorious U.S. military prison at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. The prison holds more than 600 detainees designated as "unlawful enemy combatants"; individuals that in some cases have been held for years without charge, legal representation, or due-process rights. In February of 2009, the Obama administration began a $60 million expansion of the Bagram prison so that it could potentially hold as many as 1,100 suspects.
McClure's Revive in SF
Posted November 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Revive
an exhibition of new works by Nikki McClure
Needles & Pens
3253 16th Street, San Francisco, Ca. 94103
Friday, November 6, 2009, 6:00 - 9:30 PM
On display will be a collection of original paper cuts from the Olympia-based artist's 2010 Calendar and from her latest children's book, "All In A Day."
DISCOrderly Conduct
Posted November 5, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
I am DJing another G20 Legal Fund benefit---this one in a happy hour timeframe...
Those RAVENSTAHLIN posters from DJ Thermos as well as a new BASH BACK print from me will be available for purchase!
DISCOrderly Conduct
G-20 Legal Fund Benefit Dance Party
DJ Mary Mack
DJ Thermos
Thursday, November 5
Shadow Lounge
6-9pm
$5
Live it up, boogie down, support the arrestees!
Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture
Posted November 5, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture
Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces
New York, November 12-21, 2009
Gair Building No 6, 81 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (York Stop on
the F Train)
The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the real estate and financial market, these neoliberal politics and attendant forms of production of space have been subject
to a loss of legitimation. For this reason, not only do the dominance and promises of the privatization model, the free market and private property have to be questioned, but also the conventions of the space-producing professions that follow and materialize these policies.
Books Through Bars Bingo Night
Posted November 4, 2009 by molly_fair in Events
Join Books Through Bars NYC for a night of bingo, beats, and booze so we can
keep sending free books to incarcerated folks! Featuring prizes from
Babeland, BAM, Film Forum, NY Adorned... and many more!
Friday November 6, 2009
8pm
ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St., NYC
All Ages/ 21 to drink// Free to enter, $1 to play
Books Through Bars is a volunteer collective that sends free literature to
incarcerated people.
Freedom Dance Party
Posted November 1, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Freedom Dance Party
Fundraiser for the Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign (SAFC)
Saturday, Nov. 14th, 7pm to 11pm
MartinLuther King, Jr. Labor Center, 1199 SEIU
310 W. 43rd St., btw. 8th & 9th Aves
New York, NY 10036
$20 admission,food & beverages for purchase
From the announcement:
On Saturday, November 14th, we will dance and celebrate at Freedom Dance. This celebration is an opportunity for us as a community to acknowledge our victories and renew our efforts to continue this essential work. We celebrate the liberation and freedom of our sister Assata Shakur, who along with many other Political Prisoners (who still remain behind the walls) set the example of unselfish sacrifice for our beloved people. We also celebrate the sacrifice of those freedom fighters whose spirits were released due to their physical demise. This is a celebration for them all. We will especially honor Sundiata Acoli. Through music and the warm meaningful collective interaction of dance and laughter, we will reaffirm our commitment to their freedom.
Zine Reading at the Library
Posted October 28, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
above: collating artnoose's zine ker-bloom
I am doing a zine reading at the Carnegie Public Library on Thursday October 29th with awesome cohorts Leanne O'Connor (New to Everything zine), Artnoose (Ker-bloom zine) and Hannah Bean (Fat Snakes Are Patient zine). I will hopefully have my one-pager and the other ladies will have new zines to share. There might be treats. There will totes def be a zine-reading open mic without a mic after we read. Come enjoy sweet zine culture!
ZINE READING
Thursday, October 29th
6pm-8pm
Carnegie Library Main Branch (Oakland)
Classroom A
free, all ages
CRUCIAL BEATZ - G20 legal fund benefit
Posted October 16, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
My buddy Deanna & I are starting a new monthly danceparty at Remedy in Pittsburgh. Each month will tend to be a benefit, this kickoff party benefits the G20 Legal Fund, for those arrested during the G20 protests in Pittsburgh last month.
Come out and shake it!
Saturday October 17th
10pm-2am
CRUCIAL BEATZ
a party for everyone
*positive vibes * no haterz *
DJ's DROP THAT * MARY MACK * SPECIAL GUEST DJ BUS CRATES
remedy 5121 butler st 2nd& 3rd floor
no smoking on the dancefloor
$3 (extra donations accepted, no one turned away for lack of fundz)
Filthy Lucre
Posted October 14, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
My friend Sam Sebren is in this show, looks promising:
Filthy Lucre
Curated by Nancy Mahl of Progressive Culture Works
October 24 - December 5, 2009
Opening Reception, with performance, October 24, 7-10 PM
Panel Discussion and Screening: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Gallery Aferro
73 Market St Newark NJ 07102
What is Art Without Money?
Filthy Lucre examines the transformative power of valuation upon art and the people who make it. The artists, performers, and writers participating in the project have investigated the definitions and functions of art as a commodity and queried the practice of artmaking from inside and outside the realm of monetary exchange. The work, from the purely theoretical to the frankly hilarious, is by artists representing a broad spectrum of age, background, education, and commercial success. Particular focus is brought to unsalable art and what becomes of it, the effects of commercial success on artmaking practice, the spiritual function of art, defining the consumer of art, the difference between precious and valuable, the economic element in definitions of high, outsider, and folk art; and the ever-fraught relationship of artist and patron.
Debating Capitalists' Power in the Age of Obama: Strategies for a U.S. Left
Posted October 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
For those in NYC, I got roped into being a "questioner" for this upcoming debate on Thursday (Oct. 15th). I really have no idea what to expect, but it should be interesting:
Left Forum presents "Debating Capitalists' Power in the Age of Obama: Strategies for a U.S. Left."
* Debaters: Cindy Milstein, Stanley Aronowitz, and Tom Hayden.
* Debate questions: posed by a panel including David Harvey (author of Limits to Capital); Maria Svart (union organizer and chair of the NYC local of Democratic Socialists of America); and Josh MacPhee (artist, curator, and part of the political art cooperative Justseeds.org).
* Moderator: Esther Armah (host, WBAI's "Wake Up Call")
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
The Community Church of New York
40 E. 35th St. near Park Ave.
Justseeds at North of Nowhere
Posted October 12, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The Justseeds Prison Portfolio will be on display at this years North of Nowhere Festival in Edmonton, Canada! We'll be sharing the exhibition space with our friends from the Beehive Collective, who will also be on hand discussing their work. Check out all the info at the North of Nowhere Fest website HERE.
CSPG Celebrates 20 Years of Explosive Graphics
Posted October 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
I've always wanted to go to one of these CSPG annual events, but am never in LA at the right time. If you're in LA check this out and let us know how it went!!
CSPG Celebrates 20 Years of Explosive Graphics
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Union Station
800 North Alameda
Downtown L.A.
6:30 PM - Music & Silent Auction
Original art, vintage & contemporary posters
Music: Marcus L. Miller with Freedom Jazz Movement
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Buffet Dinner
On Location Catering
8:00 PM Program & Live Auction
Emcee: Sandra Tsing Loh
Auctioneer: Robert Berman
Elizabeth Catlett Show in Syracuse
Posted October 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Missed the opening, but there's a big Elizabeth Catlett show in Syracuse! If you're in the area:
INTERVIEW: Taylor Stevenson of Red Semilla Roja
Posted September 30, 2009 by icky in Interviews
The Esplanade is a narrow strip of land that lies between the Willamette River and Interstate 5 in Portland (OR). In 2001 the City of Portland remodeled this into a riverfront parkway, with some public art, a partially-floating bike/jog path, and some new boat docks. This area (near rail lines, social services, and with plenty of bridges and overpasses) has also been a long time spot for homeless camps, car campers, train hoppers, and also (of course) skate boarders & graffiti.
I put up a blog posting a couple weeks ago about a public art install, Live Debris, which occurred in this area. It was organized by the group Red Semilla Roja, and one in "a series of international events sharing reuse traditions as a means of reducing stigmas around garbage, poverty and street culture."
I went down late on a Saturday, added some art to the wheat paste wall, sat on a woven-from-garbage hammock, and looked out over the river. I then wandered back down the Esplanade and checked out all the different projects that were part of Live Debris. I was impressed and inspired by the project and interviewed Taylor Stevenson from Red Semilla Roja for the Justseeds blog via email on September 25th, 2009.
(photos taken from Live Debris website)
Dirty Pilot "Year One" Booksigning with Chris Stain & others
Posted September 30, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
DirtyPilot.com “Year One Rewind” Book Signing
Artists signing include Chris “DAZE” Ellis, PaperMonster, Chris Stain and Cern YMI at the Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair.
Dirtypilot.com Year 1 Rewind presents the work of 15 of the artists that Dirtypilot.com has showcased in its monthly online exhibitions during its inaugural year, beginning in May 2007. These works embrace a range of movements from graffiti, street and urban art to pop and and outsider art. Rendered in mediums, from spray paint, oil, acrylic, water color and mixed media, to simple pen and ink, graphic, silkscreen and other transfer methods
Friday Oct. 2nd 2-4pm P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Ave Long Island City, NY SCB ART BOOK COLLECTION – Booth Z-01
Open to the public.
Found this announcement at What You Write
ArtCrank opens Thursday
Posted September 29, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
ArtCrank Portland! A poster party for bicycle people!
ArtCrankPortland is set for Thursday, Oct 1 at the ACE Hotel. This will be opening night for the Oregon Manifest Bike Expo. Admission is free, and all posters are $30.
Also note that $5 from the sale of each poster will be donated to Bikes to Rwanda.
Oct 15th Resistance week
Posted September 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
I blogged a poster a couple days back by Jared Davidson in New Zealand for an exhibition of "Explosive Expression." Below is the info about the actual exhibit/events:
Creative resistance against colonial and state oppression will be celebrated in Wellington with an art exhibition and auction at Thistle Hall Gallery, Cuba Street in Wellington. October 15th Solidarity invites everyone to Explosive Expression.
The opening night of the exhibition on October 13th will be followed by a week of events, which will be an opportunity for discussion and debate about the raids on Te Urewera and communities around Aotearoa, the 'war on terrorism', colonisation and resistance. The auction is also an opportunity for the community to support creative resistance and assistance with funds for people affected by the raids.
Impressions for Change
Posted September 25, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Impressions for Change:
35 Years of Political Posters from Red Sun Press
This anniversary exhibit of posters printed by Red Sun Press highlights progressive activism of the past thirty five years – focusing on peace, justice and a sustainable world.
Jamaica Plain Open Studios
September 26-27, 2009
11 am-6 pm
94 Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA
Reception
Saturday, September 26, 6-8 pm
Justseeds at Baltimore Book Fest
Posted September 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects
Erik Ruin will be representing Justseeds at the Radical Bookfair Pavilion as part of the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend. He'll be there all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so visit him and say Hello!
Radical Bookfair Pavilian
Mount Vernon Place
600 block North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Friday Sept. 25, 12-8pm
Saturday Sept, 26, 12-8pm
Sunday Sept. 27, 12-7pm
it looks like a lot of great stuff is going on in Baltimore over the weekend, organized by the totally awesome Red Emma's crew. Check it out!!!
Other Men: Portraits of Transmen
Posted September 24, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
Ebba has been working on this project for quite a while---they sold cookies at Sappho one month to raise funds to travel and photograph transmen in other cities. A final senior photography show will be displayed at The Space Upstairs, above Construction Junction, at the cross roads of Thomas Blvd. and 214 N. Lexington St in Point Breeze. (Also only a few blocks from The East End Co-op). There will be a door person to help you with where to park, and locating the correct entrance.
It will be open Thursday and Friday, September 24-25, from 6pm-8pm.
Closing reception on Saturday, September 26, from 5pm-8pm, catered by The East End Co-op.
For any questions, directions or comments, please contact ESchmid @ Chatham.edu or 412-735-8888.
Good Mob-Pony Pedro
Posted September 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
My friends Pony Pedro in Berlin have a new show up pulled from a public postr project they recently completed in Johannesburg:
Good Mob
Is freedom part of order, or is obedience the most important virtue of every citizen? Does the mob spontaneously bond together, to demand change for its own purpose? Does change drive society? An intervention and poster project, 'Good Mob' by Pony Pedro (Berlin/Germany) and Artist Proof Studio has explored communication processes in public spaces in Johannesburg (South Africa).
Bus-Factory
3 President Street
Newtown, Johannesburg
South Africa
September 16th-30th, 2009
Bookstock Library Benefit
Posted September 22, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
As a follow-up to the Sustain Our Libraries poster I put up here last week...
BOOKSTOCK
benefit, art auction + dance party
REMEDY 5121 Butler St, Lawrenceville (x 51st Street)
Thursday, September 24th
8:30pm-1:30am
Featuring artwork, homemade wares and services for auction, live silkscreening with D.H.
crazygood lady DJs Mary Mack, Drop That, ja(m) (bo)x
video projections by Blissy
music by Dean Cercone
Renée Alberts waxing poetic
library-themed coloring books, and more!
Sliding Scale admission $5-10 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Beehive Collective in Pittsburgh
Posted September 22, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
this just in:
The Beehive Collective presents their innovative True Cost of Coal graphic—
a visual exploration of Mountaintop Removal Mining and Resistance
TWO Presentations in Pittsburgh:
Tuesday, September 22, 4:30 @ Carnegie Mellon University Quad
Thursday, September 24, Noon @ 3 Rivers Climate Camp, Schenley Park Overlook
A swarm is coming! The Beehive Design Collective, a non-profit, volunteer driven, political arts organization based in eastern Maine, is headed this way. They are out to “cross-pollinate the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that deconstruct complex global stories for use as educational and organizing tools.
Fiesta Beneficio de la Zona Autonoma Makhnovchina
Posted September 22, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Fiesta en Beneficio y de Inaguracion en la "ZONA AUTÓNOMA "MAKHNOVTCHINA"
Nuevo espacio Autonomo en la Ciudad de Mexico.
El proximo Viernes 25 de Septiembre del 2009.
9pm
Habra musica, comida, cerveza y convivencia.
La fiesta sera en la Z.A.M. que se encuentra en:
Calle Xola #181-A, casi esquina con Calz. de Tlalpan
A 2 calles de la estacion del metro Xola y a una calle del la estacion del
Metrobus Xola.
The End or Future of Capitalism
Posted September 21, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
I've been hoping for an event asking this for the last two years! The End or Future of Capitalism. I was particularly unimpressed with the sentiments of the immediate response, "save capitalism", of the participating speakers right after the bank failures, a year ago. It was a moment, I felt, the world could really daydream, but was stifled by the fact there was an metaphoric gun to our head. I am really interested in their perspectives now, unfortunately I'll be outta town.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7.30pm Proshansky Auditorium CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave & 34th StDAVID HARVEY, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography; Author of The Limits to Capital (Verso, 2007) in conversation with
ALEXANDER COCKBURN, Editor of CounterPunch and columnist for The NationModerated by LAURA FLANDERS, GRITtv
Rectl: Cabaret of Creative Resistance
Posted September 21, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
For those looking for something empowering to do during the G20 summit this week in Pittsburgh...
Revolting Enthusiastic Creators for Total Liberation! (RECTL)
A Cabaret of Creative Resistance!
September 24th Thursday 7 pm sharp!
Public Health Auditorium/Pitts Campus-Oakland
On the corner of 5th and Desota, btwn Bouquet and Atwood (with a big sculpture of a man out front with outstretched arms).
Profound Poetics! Political Satire! Uplifiting Affirmations! Serious wit!
Spoken Word! Songs! Dance! Expressions! Motivational Speakers!
RECTL PRESENTS:
—Terry Vanween and Annie Danger!
Coming from a hotbed of RECTL activity in the Bay Area, this the dynamic duo boasts inspirational Advances, high tech pronunciations and more wildly effective metaphors then you can shake a nightstick at! Come prepared for personal growth.
Spectres of Liberty at Conflux
Posted September 18, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Dara Greenwald, Olivia Robinson and I are presenting at the Conflux gathering in NYC this weekend:
Date: Saturday Sept. 19th
Start Time: 10:00am
Location: Einstein Auditorium, Rm. 105
Barney Building, New York University
34 Stuyvesant Street
A multi-media presentation with Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee, and Olivia Robinson about projects that intervene in public amnesia and memory. Followed by discussion.
In this session we will present documentation from several public projects that attempt to make visible histories of struggle that are submerged from public memory. The projects we will present raise important questions about the representation of both history and the present in the urban landscape, how public memories are created, how the control of public spaces reinforces dominant histories and the impact of that on the here and now.
more info HERE.
Live Debris::Street Art Event::Portland (OR)
Posted September 18, 2009 by icky in Events
Live Debris presents installations and interventions about garbage and social inclusion, from Rio de Janeiro and Portland, Oregon.
When: September 19-26, 2009. All day opening event on September 19th (schedule below), works on display until September 26th . Installations will start to be built on September 17th.
Where: Between Burnside and Hawthorne along Portland’s Eastbank Esplanade.
Live Debris 2009 is a series of international events sharing reuse traditions as a means of reducing stigmas around garbage, poverty and street culture. Live Debris has taken place in Beirut, Lebanon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and now Portland, Oregon. Exchanging and comparing world perspectives on garbage and the people who work closely with it, Live Debris explores ways that collaborative reuse can affect how we see garbage and each other. This event is organized by Taylor Cass Stevenson of red semilla roja, with help from Portland City Art, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, Outside In, Chinook Book and Oregon Electric Group.
Opening Schedule- September 19, 2009:
9am Free Breakfast. Bring a mug if you want coffee
12-1pm Trashtastic garbage-related performances
1-2pm Trash Mash-Up Parade
All Day (10am-5pm):
Clothing Exchange- bring used clothes
Sewing Station - transforming old t-shirts into bags, bring t-shirts
Interactive Garbage Weaving -bring clean trash
Public Paste-Up wall- make a contribution with paper
Public Crafting Party - bring a craft project
Link to Live Debris' website
(Pete Yahnke and I are heading down on Saturday- see you there!)
Snippets of Nuart on Brooklyn Street Art
Posted September 11, 2009 by k_c_ in Art exhibits/shows
Theres a handful of flicks of Justseeds members, Chris Stain & Swoon with friends at the Nuart Festival. The following links are from Brooklyn Street Art It begins here, continuing here, Swoon-ing here, growing here, to here with its most current post.
(photo by Logan Hicks)
The Metropolis and Common Life
Posted September 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The Metropolis and Common Life
Michael Hardt and Neil Smith in dialogue on the themes of Commonwealth, Hardt and Negri's newest book.
Thursday, September 17th
7PM (doors at 6PM)
ABRONS ARTS CENTER
Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002
Free and open to all
Signing Afterwards
Commonwealth will be available for purchase (before its official publication date)
Sponsored by THIS IS FOREVER event and discussion series and Bluestockings Bookstore
The Metropolis and Common Life
Posted September 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The Metropolis and Common Life
Michael Hardt and Neil Smith in dialogue on the themes of Commonwealth, Hardt and Negri's newest book.
Thursday, September 17th
7PM (doors at 6PM)
ABRONS ARTS CENTER
Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002
Free and open to all
Signing Afterwards
Commonwealth will be available for purchase (before its official publication date)
Sponsored by THIS IS FOREVER event and discussion series and Bluestockings Bookstore
4th Annual Benefit Book Sale for Daniel McGowan
Posted August 27, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
Sunday August 30th, 2009 [rain date: Sunday September 13th] 11am to 8pm Bedford Avenue at North 6th Street in Brooklyn there will be an all-day book sale to raise money for Daniel McGowan's legal defense and commissary fund. The sale will be held at the Book Thug Nation book tables on Bedford Avenue and North 6th Street in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Along with great books at cheap prices, there will be music, a table with Daniel t-shirts, merchandise and literature, and maybe even some free food!
Community Forum and Press Conference on ICE raids in Rikers Island
Posted August 23, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Join Make the Road New York and The New Sanctuary Coalition NYC on
Tuesday, Aug 25TH for a community forum and press conference and demand an end ICE raids in NYC jails. Learn about the changes that the Dept of Corrections, which oversees Rikers Island jail, agreed to make to help protect the rights of people being held at Rikers Island, and join the campaign to stop ICE from accessing our community at Rikers Island.
Tuesday, August 25th, 10:30am
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
Each year New York City helps Immigration and Customs Enforcement puts an estimated 4,000 New Yorkers into deportation proceedings. That's 4000 New Yorker families that must face the potential loss of a loved one. New York City puts its families in this position by giving ICE full and unfettered access to the Rikers Island Jail facility where ICE agents routinely violate people’s rights in order to determine their immigration status. These are not hardened criminals. More than three quarters of those being held have yet to be convicted and are at Rikers awaiting trial. For those actually serving sentences, the average stay is only 35 days. As the city elections approach, we need to tell our city officials that collaborating with ICE can end up destroying a family.
For more information check out What Having I.C.E. in our Jails does to New Yorkers
First you build The Foundation...
Posted August 18, 2009 by bec_young in Events
Detroit has a hot new hip hop spot known as the 5E Gallery. Started by DJ Sicari to provide a space for young people who are into hip hop and graffiti, the 5E functions as a music venue (with shows that are often free or for donation), art gallery, and cyber cafe. The outside walls are decorated by the work of Sintex, Sest and others; the inside has paintings by Shades and his contemporaries. Every Tuesday night 5E Gallery hosts a show called The Foundation, which highlights the incredible talents of women in hip hop. If you're not in Detroit, this show streams live on Ustream, but you'll miss the b-girls, and more importantly, the awesome vibe. Here's a description of the thinking behind The Foundation: "The social impact of Hip Hop is a cultural revolution which crosses borders, inspires ideas & influences behaviors. Encouraging freedom of expression, healthy competition, independent thought, & positive self-identity, this weekly event as a movement focuses on redefining the vital role of Women in Hip Hop. Our mission is to educate and empower the community through sharing our love of the arts, while inspiring change and growth."
Providence Anarchist Bookfair this Saturday
Posted August 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Justseeds will be tabling at the Providence Anarchist Bookfair this Saturday:
Providence Anarchist Bookfair
Fun! Books! Beer! Dancing! Revolution in the air!
August 15th 1pm to 1am on
Empire Street, Providence, Rhode Island
The annual Providence Anarchist Bookfair is back again this year and we
want you to come on by and enjoy the events, get some books and
participate.
The bookfair is set up during Foo Fest, a giant street festival put on by the local art and community center AS220. This year's festival has a $5 cover and a family friendly focus. Bring the kids!
In the evening local bands will be playing as the festival takes a street party atmosphere, come enjoy the music, the books and comradeship.
The Big She-Bang IV!
Posted August 13, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
The Big She-Bang, organized by For The Birds Collective, is being held on Saturday, August 15th at Judson Memorial Church, located at 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY from 10 AM to midnight.
The Big She-Bang is an all-day event of workshops, panel discussions, visual art, and music by and for women and women-identified artists & community members. The Big She-Bang strives to cultivate a space for women to share creative endeavors, exchange ideas, and provide support in a safe and open-minded environment. It is a multimedia event that serves as a platform for women artists and activists. This year’s She-Bang festival will include workshops and panel discussions, live musical performances, an all-day art show and tabling by various feminist organizations from New York. The event is always all ages, and everyone is welcome.
Throughout the day, there will be an art show exhibiting different mediums of work created by various women in New York City: Demostina, Heather Kelly, Caroline Paquita, Anna Sgherzi, and Kristine Virsis.
Workshops and panel discussions will also be happening throughout the day, covering topics such as: Feminist Urban Mobility (presented by Right Rides, Safe Walk, & Holla Back NYC), Women and Resistance in Prison (presented by Victoria Law), Queer Eye for the DIY (presented by For the Birds Collective, featuring Karen Soskin of Strength In Numbers), Sexual Assault and Accountability workshop (presented by Support New York).
The event will end with performances by: Full of Fancy, Zombie Dogs, Little Lungs, Ina Ina, Kate Ferencz, and Inertia.
Sick release party and reading at Bluestockings
Posted August 10, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
Tuesday, August 11, 7PM at Bluestockings Books, 172 Allen Street in New York City
Release Party & Reading with several contributors from Sick
Sick collects peoples' experiences with physical illness to help establish a collective voice of those impacted by illness within left/DIY communities. The zine is a resource for those who are living with illness as well as those who have not directly experienced illness themselves. Join several contributors for a reading from Sick as well as a discussion on experiences related to illness and the importance of creating networks of support within our communities.
http://sickzine.blogspot.com/
NYC premiere of Empires of Tin
Posted August 9, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
There is a one-night screening of Empires of Tin by Jem Cohen is this Tuesday, August 11th at
IFC CENTER
323 6th Ave
NY, NY
EMPIRES of TIN is a "documentary musical hallucination" on the subject of Empire inspired by the novels of Joseph Roth and the waning of the Habsburg and Bush dynasties. The film features performances by musicians Vic Chesnutt, Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), T. Griffin with Catherine McRae, and members of Silver Mt. Zion
Get tickets here.
Liquefy This
Posted August 7, 2009 by roger_peet in Environment
Here's a slightly out-of-date flier I designed for Portland-area environmental group BARK and their campaign against the proposed Palomar pipeline, part of a massive network of interconnected energy development schemes slated to overrun the estuaries, forests, and farmlands of the Portland/Astoria/Mt.Hood/Columbia River region. It's all part of a plan to bring Liquefied Natural Gas to California via Oregon. Why via Oregon? Well, the politically savvy and comparatively wealthy Californians for whom the gas is intended have resolutely opposed and defeated all the proposed gas terminals on the California coast. Washington's done the same; the only one on the west coast so far is in Baja California. Less money, less power? That's why they're coming to Oregon! Two large LNG terminals are planned for the Oregon coast, one in the mouth of the Columbia near Astoria, and one in Coos Bay. Both will have massive impacts on local areas, requiring astronomical security provisions and ensuring some large measure of environmental destruction. Part of that destruction will be the pipelines that are slated to be laid through the forests of the region; the lush firs, spruce, hemlock and pine that make up the land's green mantle. Hundred foot wide permanent clearcuts? No problem? Tunneling under upwards of forty creeks and rivers? Okay! Destroyed farmlands, annihilated wildlife, industrial accidents? Yessssss! This is a wonderful example of capitalist strategy: there is, as yet, no large corporation involved in the planning of this. It's being executed by a gaggle of suits in a boardroom somewhere, drawing lines on a map and estimating cost-benefit ratios, growth projections, and flow potential. It is the rarefied atmosphere of infrastructural planning, cynically imposed on the land by economic analysts. Liquefied Natural Gas is popular all over (although not everyone is super enthused) and promises to bring us a warm, green, sustainable future where nothing ever goes wrong.
Justseeds at Visionary Arts Festival
Posted August 6, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Art exhibits/shows
Justseeds will be displaying and selling prints at the Visionary Arts Festival this Weekend in Pittsburgh...this looks to be an interesting event! Justseeds friends and collaborators, including Ally Reeves, Ashley Brickman, and Etta Cetera are also creating booths for the event. Come say hello, get a brand new sticker or postcard, and peep some prints in real life.
When: August 7, 8 and 9, 2009, from 12pm to 9pm.
Where: Schenley Plaza, (directly in front of the Cathedral of Learning, in the heart of Oakland.) Pittsburgh, PA
What: The first Pittsburgh Visionary Arts Festival is bringing together more than 70 local visionary artists and art innovators into a single venue. For three full days, these artists will share their work, vision and unique ideas in a friendly outdoors festival setting. The VAF will feature a rich diversity of minds, covering the full spectrum of art mediums: from painting to mixed media, from digital media to sound art, through recycled and self-taught art… and beyond! Experience a slice of Pittsburgh’s greatest visionary art, in a festival that hopes to decorate your soul rather than your living room! Free and open to the public.
Who: Aimee Manion * Alberto J. Almarza * Ally Reeves * Amir Rashid * Ashley Brickman * Bob Ziller * Bill Davis * Bruce Brinker * Christina Martine * Connie Cantorm * Constance Merriman * Curt Sell * Deanna Mance * Elin Lennox * Encyclopedia Destructica * Etta cettera * Gabe Felice * Ian Green * James Gyre * Jay Del Greco * Jesse Riesmeyer * Jonathan Brodsky * Jude Vachon * Juliana Morris * Kyle Ethan Fischer * Laura Gyre * Laura Jean Mclaughin * Lowry Burgess * Mark Traughber * Matt Marino * Mike Budai * Morgan Cahn * Moshe Sherman * Philomena O'Dea * Pat McArdle * Randie snow * Rose Clancy * Ryder Henry * Sebastian Van Gorder * Sherry Rusinack * tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE * Tom Estlack * Troy Blum * Unicorn Mountain * Vanessa German * Robert Wright * Norman Scott * "Butch" Quinn * Jory Albright * Lena Gomane * Kathleen Serri * Dan Melandy * Andy Flannigan * Inez Hess * Mr. Imagination * Esther Phillips * John Graves * Devon Smith* Karl "The Master's Hand" Goodrich * Devia Davis * Marcus Brathwaite * Lori M. Johnston * Shervin Iranshahr * Vinny Corpuscle * Kate Wichmann Sherman * Ian Momyer * John Fox * “Cyberpunk Apocalypse” * Alicia Fronczek * Barbara Dahlberg * Agata Brunt * HiTEC
I get by with a little help from my friends
Posted August 6, 2009 by k_c_ in Justseeds & Member Projects
A few flicks I took the other day while at Ad-Hoc Art with Stain & Armsrock. Come out for Ad-Hoc's last gallery show, yup they're done after this one. Come out and support:
Friday, August 7th, 7-10pm
Ad Hoc Art
49 Bogart St
Brooklyn, NY
Other preview shots over at Vandalog and Brooklyn Street Art.
Vision Project | Institute for American Indian Arts
Posted August 3, 2009 by dylan_miner in Events
For the past four days, I have been at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe participating in the Dialoging Texts Gathering. Alongside fourteen Indigenous curators, critics, and historians, I was invited to participate in an exciting collaborative writing project that continues to expand the dialog about Contemporary Native art in North America. While the project has encountered some serious bumps along the way, the project will hopefully develop into an exciting and important book project. What is apparent, however, is the vast infrastructural differences alotted to contemporary Native artists in the US and Canada, with the US lacking a supportive network for developing fresh and challenging voices.
If nothing else, the Vision Project continued the dialog between aboriginal writers in the US and Canada.
Hoodstock Montreal-North August 8th and 9th, 2009
Posted July 29, 2009 by Jesse_Purcell in Events
Hoodstock is a two-day gathering striving to be the ultimate urban musical event, with an explicit socio-political bent, accompanied by a social forum. This event, not to be missed by folks in Montreal-North and neighbouring areas, seeks to provide space to understand the past, root oneself in the present, and organise for the future.
This festival has been organized in part to mark the one year police shooting of Fredy Villaneuva.
Justice for Fredy!
Pervers/Cité – Montreal’s 3rd Annual “Underside of Pride”
Posted July 28, 2009 by Jesse_Purcell in Events
(Queers Against the singular model of the Gaygoisie- Capitalist White and Male)
This year’s Pervers/Cité – Montreal’s 3rd Annual “Underside of Pride” – will be taking place from August 6 to 16, 2009 throughout the city. The final event of the week will be a Queers Against Israeli Apartheid contingent in the pride parade.
Pervers/Cité is a collaboratively organized summer festival that aims to make links across social justice groups, queer communities, and radical visions of pride. In a climate of corporatized gay agendas and whitewashed homogeneity amongst queers, Pervers/cité strives to provide a critical and accessible schedule of activities, designed to bring back the radical underpinnings to the pride movement.
read on for a full listing of events in French then English
check out Queers against Israeli apartheid in Toronto pride earlier this summer.
Benefit for La Furia de las Calles
Posted July 26, 2009 by icky in Events
Southern Californians take note! There's a benefit in San Diego for the Mexico City infoshop La Furia de las Calles. With a beautiful flier made by our friend Santiago Armengod. here's the info:
Saturday August the 1st
5:00pm
@ Bikes del Pueblo,
2754 Snowdrop St. Azaea Park
City Heights, San Diego, CA.
(619) 283 3109
-Vegan Food
-Live Music
-Movies
-Discussion
Come join us next Saturday at Bikes del Pueblo. We are gonna be throwing a benefit dinner for the La Furia infoshop, publishing house and Community Garden in Mexico City.
Cena Beneficio para El espacio informativo La Furia de las Calles en
Mexico DF.
Sabado 1 de Agosto
5:00pm
-Comida Vegana
-Peliculas
-Musica en Vivo
-Charlas
@ Bikes del Pueblo,
2754 Snowdrop St. Azaea Park
City Heights, San Diego, CA.
(619) 283 3109
Te invitamos el proximo Sabado al espacio Bikes del Pueblo. Estamos organizando una cena en beneficio para el espacio informativo de La Furia, casa editorial, y huerto comunitario en Mexico DF.
Para mas Informacion: http://espora.org/furia/
furia@riseup.net
shit_swimmer@riseup.net
Revolt on Goose Island
Posted July 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
TONIGHT:
Please join us Thursday, July 23rd, as we help launch Revolt on Goose Island, the new book by award-winning Washington Post staffer Kari Lydersen. Lydersen will read from Revolt and discuss how she wrote the book “live” by blogging about events as they unfolded during last year’s worker takeover of Republic Windows and Doors factory. Labor rights activist Danny Postel will moderate and C-Span will record the event.Thursday, July 23rd, 7-9 pm
Stop Smiling Storefront
1371 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Wicker Park, Chicago
WARN - We Are Ready Now! Radio
Posted July 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from fellow-traveler Andalusia:
In less than 10 hours me and a bunch of participatory radio enthusiasts are packing into a van and driving to Detroit for the 11th Annual Media Conference. If you haven't heard of the AMC before it's this amazing dynamic conference where participants have evolved the definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. This year's AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current social justice moment.
We Are Ready Now! Radio will be hosting a live broadcast throughout this weekend including the amazing opening and closing plenaries as well as part of the "The Zapatista's Other Campaign Breaking Down Borders: Live Cross-Border Press Conference with Mexico" Tune in to the webstream right here.
Additionally, throughout the weekend The Prometheus Radio Project along with People's Production House will be hosting a live radio broadcast featuring the voices, beats, and stories of Detroit Summer, Elementz, Project South, Palestine Education Project, Bump, Community News Production Institute, Radio Rootz, Philadelphia Student Union, The Media Mobilizing Project, Making Contact, Free Speech Radio News, Various LPFM stations and more. The station will also air all of the pieces produced by participants in the AMC-FM workshop. The radio schedule will be available here.
Justseeds at the AMC!
Posted July 16, 2009 by bec_young in Events
This weekend I will be selling Justseeds prints, books and postcards at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, and assisting with the Saturday morning stencil and silkscreen workshop by Juan of the Beehive Collective. If you're in Southeast Michigan, you must make it out for this amazing annual conference. As I will be the lone Justseed at the conference this year, please assuage my loneliness by stopping by the Justseeds table and saying hello. Here's a photo from last year.
Tuff Stuff from the Buff
Posted July 14, 2009 by jmacphee in Film & Video
Justseeds fellow traveler Marc Moscato is about to head out on 2 week Northwest bike tour showing a collection of short films and videos by artists in his hometown of Buffalo, NY. Riding along with David Gracon (and organized with Julie Perini), Marc will bring Tough Stuff from the Buff to a dozen theaters, all ages venues and non-traditional spaces throughout the Pacific Northwest this July-August.
Here's the dates:
July 17-18 Anacortes, WA | What the Heck Fest
July 19 Bellingham, WA | TBA
July 20 Vancouver, BC | Pacific Cinematheque
July 21 Vancouver, BC | Spartacus Bookstore
July 22 Nanaimo, BC | Outdoor show at CHLY
July 24 Victoria, BC | Open Space Gallery
July 26 Port Townsend, WA | The Boiler Room
July 27 Langley, WA | private screening
July 28 Seattle, WA | The Vita Warehouse
July 29 Tacoma, WA | private screening
July 30 Olympia, WA | Olympia All Ages Project
July 31 Chehalis, WA | The Matrix
August 2 Portland, OR | The Waypost
According to Marc:
Tough Stuff from the Buff highlights Buffalo’s DIY media arts community, focusing on works that blur the lines between video art, personal documentary and media activism. Representing a diverse group of artists, from accomplished media makers to youth-produced projects, the collection reflects the city’s public spaces, political struggles and its resiliency under late capitalism. Tough Stuff from the Buff acknowledges the origins of this tradition, while focusing on contemporary examples of those persevering against the odds of creating media in a dying rustbelt town. A website (tuffstuffbuff.wordpress.com) will be regularly updated, with photos, video and stories from the road.
Ink & Paper
Posted July 11, 2009 by jmacphee in Art exhibits/shows
Ink & Paper
The Biannual Studio Opening of the Taller Tupac Amaru
Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes & Favianna Rodriguez
July 11 & 12, 2009. 11am-6pm
Radical Political Art | T-Shirts | Books
Printmaking Demos, Raffle, Youth Activities and More!
1505 33rd Ave. Oakland, CA 94601
(accessible via Fruitvale BART)
Join members of the Taller Tupac Amaru, a collective of Xicana/o artists and printmakers, at their biannual Open Studios. They will be showcasing their latest political and fine art prints. Self-guided studio tours will give visitors a unique opportunity to meet the artists and see their work in the place where it was created. This is a family friendly event.
Also The Great Tortilla Conspiracy will be joining us on Sunday at noon.
featuring: Rene Yañez, Rio Yañez, and Jos Sances
MUSIC by DJ Max Champ and DJ Quix
Willoughby Windows
Posted July 9, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
So Chris and I recently took part in the Willoughby Windows project here in Brooklyn. Organized by Ad Hoc Art, the project is one of those strange hybrids between business interests, real estate and art entrepreneurship that rightfully make a lot of people uncomfortable. I'm still up in the air as to how to feel about it, but I'm definitely glad to have been invited to participate and struggle with the issues embedded in this.
Ad Hoc negotiated a deal with the Metrotech Business Improvement District (BID) in Downtown Brooklyn to temporarily turn a block of abandoned storefront windows into artist installation spaces. The trick is that the storefronts don't just happen to be abandoned. Awhile back the same developers behind the BID kicked everyone out of these buildings and basically leveled the existing community. These business luminaries then ran out of cash, and now are hoping artists will salvage the situation by bringing people back onto the block and keeping the buildings "safe" from vandalism and crime. So us artists aren't actually kicking anyone out, that dirty deed is long since done, we're sort of like mid-fielders, keeping the ball in play until the developers can siphon off enough bailout money to tear out the storefronts and start building another hideous glass tower for rich people.
Today's Daily News article about the windows makes it seem like I'm not the only skeptic. Former tenants and even passerby's argue that the art is no replacement for the former businesses and community. This is the type of tough situation all kinds of people in all kinds of fields find themselves in: inheriting situations and problems we had little role in creating. What to do? Because thousands of people are going to be looking at these installations for the rest of the year I decided to fill my windows with Celebrate People's History posters. Might as well use the space to advertise little known political histories....
But rather than just listen to my issues, definitely check it out yourself. The opening is this Friday, July 10th at 2pm. Here's the info:
Willoughby Windows
86 - 106 Willoughby Street, between Duffield and Bridge Streets
Downtown Brooklyn
July 10, 2-7pm
Willoughby Windows transforms 12 vacant storefronts into a street level gallery that brings art to the community. Over 12 well known artists, all with deep roots in the street art movement, have contributed to this project, many creating site specific works. This network of visual experiences can help redefine how people visiting, working and living in Downtown Brooklyn think about and interact with their environment during a time of transition. Artists include: Ad Hoc Art, John Ahearn, Tom Beale, John Breiner, Cannonball Press, Cycle, Michael De Feo, Ellis G, Gaia, Logan Hicks, Lady Pink, Greg Lamarche, Josh MacPhee, Dennis McNett, Morning Breath, Chris Stain and Werdink.
On display July 10 - Nov 5, 2009.
7/10- CONSPIRING FOR CHANGE: the politics of protest in the post 9-11 world
Posted July 7, 2009 by erik_ruin in Events
If you're in the Philly area this Friday, I'd highly recommend checking out this benefit for a worthy cause- in addition to some inspiring speakers, this will be the first Philly display of the Justseeds portfolio Voices From the Outside.
Wednesday Benefit for Right Rides in NYC
Posted July 6, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Benefit for SafeWalk and RightRides
Featuring:
Lady Bright
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
Old Hat, and
The Eskalators!
There will be music, baked goods (vegan and non), beverages, informational tables, and dancing. More info to come.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 8-12pm Silent Barn 915 Wyckoff L to Halsey or M to Myrtle-Wyckoff
All funds will go towards RightRides' operational costs. SafeWalk is a program of RightRides for Women's Safety that offers anyone a free, safe walk to any destination in northern Brooklyn on Friday nights.
$6-10 sliding scale
Emory Douglas: Black Panther
Posted July 6, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
For those in the NYC area, after 18 months of being open, the new New Museum is finally doing a show worth going to! They're mounting an exhibition of posters and artwork by Emory Douglas, former Black Panther Party Minister of Culture. Most of Douglas' work was originally published as graphics, covers, and centerfold posters in the Black Panther newspaper in the 1970s and early 80s, where he collaged together his drawings, found photographs, and ziptone patterns to create an amazing array of graphics in service to the Black Revolution in the US. For whatever reason (likely cannibalistic), a portion of the art world has recently taken a shine towards Emory, and I'm not going to complain, this promises to be a great opportunity to see a huge collection of difficult to find work from a political graphics master. Here's the details, and a link to more info and more images(!):
Emory Douglas: Black Panther
An Exhibition Curated by Sam Durant
7/22/09 - 10/18/09
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222
DIY Art Show--- Portland
Posted June 27, 2009 by icky in Events
We're having another art show at my house, we did this last year and it was super fun!
This is organized by Thea and will include new work from the Grafic Arts Collective Cordyceps (Thea, Santiago, and Geovanni- all who have work on Justseeds), Pete Yahnke, Justseeds' allies Katie B. & Lydia Crumbley, and me. Please come, everyone is welcome (I'll be there late, I have to work!). --Icky
Sunday June 28th
7:00 PM
5205 NE 19th
Portland OR
Exsposicion Hazlo Tu Mismx de Grafica Radical
Domingo 28 de Junio a las 7:00pm
5205 Calle NE 19th
Portland, OR.
AIR Summer Benefit Party - Seeing Red Poster Show
Posted June 26, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
AIR is having their Annual Summer Benefit Bash this Saturday - and this year there are two exciting shows of political prints on view for the event. Check it out!
Saturday June 27th 4pm-11pm
Artists Image Resource
518 Foreland St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
412.321.8664
info@artistsimageresource.org
A Visual History of the George W. Bush Presidency
a traveling print portfolio of 15 different artists critical take on 15 different moments of the Bush Administration's tenure.
as well as selections from the Seeing Red portfolio printed at Artists Image Resource in 2006. For more information please visit http://www.seeing-red.net/
plus-
the AIR artist submitted t-shirt raffle!!
one of a kind transformed threads on display throughout the AIR gallery.
raffle tickets for $1.
winners pulled at 10:45pm that night
Spoof International Herald
Posted June 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The Yes Men were involved in another spoof paper last week, this one is an edition of the International Herald, and the re-made paper focuses on climate change and the upcoming COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December. You can check out the whole paper and download a PDF of it here.
Think Galactic this weekend!
Posted June 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
I'll be at Think Galactic this weekend in Chicago! I'm looking forward to it, the schedule is packed with cool stuff. I'll be co-running a stenciling workshop, as well as on a panel about the continuing appeal of the apocalypse story in sci-fi/fantasy literature. I'll also be moderating panels on DIY and Climate Change, and having a small Justseeds table.
Here's the info:
Think Galacticon 2009
June 26-28
Roosevelt University
downtown Chicago
A full schedule, registration, directions, etc. can be found here.
NYC Zine Fest '09
Posted June 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Books & Zines
Justseeds will be tabling this weekend at the New York City Zine Fest '09. For a number of years successful zine fests have been held all over the country; they're a place for zine makers to talk shop, people to find the coolest new self-published projects, and an introduction to zines and DIY publishing for the uninitiated. This is the first zine fest in NYC, so if you are in town, come up and take part in the fun.
NYC Zine Fest '09
Brooklyn Lyceum
Sat and Sun June 27 and 28
12 - 7pm
FREE admissionThe mission of the NYC Zine Fest is to circulate and promote self-published, homemade, independent, and small publications called zines. The Fest aims to support and expand the network of creators who self-publish these zines, as well as independent publishers and distributors in and around the NYC metro area.
There will be more than 70 zinemakers, publishers and institutions participating in the Fest, including Printed Matter, World War 3 Illustrated and the Barnard Zine Library. There will be workshops, discussion groups and a screening of zine documentary '$100 & a T-Shirt' - the latter which will run at 5pm both days. As zines gain popularity and clamor, this fest welcomes a wide audience to attend, meet the artists, participate in the free workshops, and buy and learn about zines. There will be food, beer, coffee, and music!
The Fest will also include a raffle with prizes consisting of rare zines, books, gift certificates, art, and more. Raffle donors include Spoonbill & Sugartown, Printed Matter, Melissa Staiger, Picturebox Inc., Opal Massage, Microcosm, 92YTribeca and Trong Nguyen.
For info and programming schedule: http://www.nyczinefest.org
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Cultures
Posted June 22, 2009 by dylan_miner in Events
As part of the 8th Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), the United Nations is hosting an exhibition entitled 'Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Cultures'. It isn't everyday that organizations such as the UN involve the work/ideas of Native people. So when I got an email about the exhibition during UNPFII, I was definitely interested. The curators liked my work and included it in the show.
Getting works to the UN in New York City, was nearly impossible, though. I sent three artworks using FedEx, as they were the curators' suggested carriers. However, FedEx made three unsuccessful delivery attempts and left my stuff sitting in a warehouse somewhere in Queens. When my brother (who lives in Brooklyn) attempted to pick the packages up to hand-deliver them, some knucklehead sent them back to me after the folks told me they'd hold it for me.
In the end, though, the works arrived. Thanks to America Meredith (Tsalagi artist, bike junkie and JustSeeds friend), we have photographic proof that the work was hung for UNPFII.
If visiting NYC, the exhibition hangs until the end of the month in the Main Gallery of the Visitor's Lobby.
My So-Called Bike: Book'Em & Free Ride Benefit
Posted June 18, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Bikes
We are throwing a big ole My So-Called Life-themed party at Free Ride, Pittsburgh's amazing recycle-a-bike shop. All proceeds from the party benefit Free Ride's Youth Mobile Bike Repair program and Book'Em's ongoing postage costs for sending reading material to prisoners.
Organizing crucial benefit danceparties is part of my practice as an artist, DJ, and organizer. Aside from raising much-needed financial support, creating social events like this allow new folks to connect to our ongoing projects, and create much-needed space and time for collective members and volunteers to hang out in a non-work-meeting setting. In collectives, relationships are so important, and sweet hangouts build that! Check out the details (Nutmeg B is Justseeds own Shaun Slifer) Thanks to A.Brick for the silkscreened flyer design.
Another report from Iran
Posted June 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
We're getting so little information about what is going on in Iran, and most of it seems so skewed, these reports from friends inside are amazingly useful at trying to understand what is going on and why:
TEHRAN, June 17, 02h00---Today brought thousands to the streets again, although protesters changed the initial location of the protest because Ahmadinejad supporters were supposed to gather at the same site. Official state television was calling all peoples of all opinions to gather there, which in Islamic Republic code means: go and fight it out; we will provide the armed militias, and you will provide the targets.So the peaceful crowd changed their location, making their way from Vanak Square towards Tajrish, in the north of Tehran. Like each day, the protests are illegal, and people afraid of repercussions, but this has not kept them indoors. The government has announced that it will re-count votes, although what has happened to the votes is a mystery. Many have resigned from the Ministry of Interior and most likely the paper ballots we all hand-wrote have either been trashed or tampered with. In any case, it matters little. This is not about the elections, but about a people being mocked and disgraced over and over again by a fascist regime--YES...FASCIST... (with big capital letters, for all those who think otherwise!).
I took the day off from the rally to rest...and to move across the city to hide my video tapes, get internet access at a friend's house, and to converse and exchange ideas about what has happened and what will happen in the next days, weeks, months, and maybe years. We all think that this is a beginning of the formation of a movement towards major systemic change. The last decade, starting with the student movement of 1999, brought about a demand for a REFERENDUM. Yes or No to Velayat-e-Faqih, supreme and divine law as administered by the chosen Ayatollah. This will come with due time - people want a peaceful, yet determined transition, one that will mean change brought about through a long-term people's struggle. Our only hope is that this movement is not stolen or undermined as the 1906 Constitutional Revolution was, as the coup d'etat in 1953 brought an end to Mossadegh's fight, and as the 1979 Revolution turned from a people's (mainly leftist) revolution to an Islamic one.
More from Iran
Posted June 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Another report:
TEHRAN, June 15, 3h30-
Today, at least 1 million people gathered for a 'silent' march from Revolution Square to Freedom Square. The crowd, which filled the wide avenue, extended further, and at one point it became impossible to move forward. There are no official figures (and those would of course be disputable), but I have never seen a demonstration like this in my life, anywhere!People walked silently, hands raised. We had been warned to stay indoors, as the police have orders to fire live bullets, and this being Iran, we take that for exactly what it means, but people did not listen.
As night fell, and the crowd dispersed, Bassiji militiamen opened fire on the crowd, killing one (his photo is circulating) and many were injured. The city took flames again, but by this point I had come home. In our neighborhood, there were Bassijis stationed with police at the major square north of the house, pushing people and hitting cars with batons, telling people to go home. Again at 9:30 pm, people made their way to the rooftops to cry out, "Allah Akbar" and "Death to Dictatorship". We heard shots that sounded like tear gas pellets (although they are using some strange nerve gas or other chemical agent, not tear gas) but also live fire.
Today, students at Tehran University were in mourning. Many of their peers were arrested last night, and one student was shot dead, when Bassijis raided their dorms and beat them. Today, as the demonstration passed by the University, we saw students protesting from inside and speaking to people through the metal bars. They were locked in.
I won't get into the decisions and talks taking place in the high ranks of the regime, and amongst reformist groups. These people, no matter how much they represent 'change', are problematic political leaders with shady pasts.
Tonight we are only thinking of the dead, from the past and today, and preparing ourselves for more. Something is taking form, and it is only a matter of time before there is a bigger backlash than what we have seen.
Here are the names of the 5 people who have been confirmed dead from yesterday and Saturday's clashes. 2 women and 3 men, all of whom were buried in Behesht Zahra cemetery without their families being notified.
Fatemeh Barati
Kasra Sharafi
Mina Eterami
Kambiz Shoai
Mohsen ImaniWe do not yet know the name of the man shot dead tonight.
Red Lines exhibition
Posted June 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Red Lines
Housing Crisis Learning Center
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY
7 to Shea Stadium
opens Saturday, June 20
Red Lines is a large-scale installation that explores how we finance our living environments, and will remain on view through September 27, 2009. Opening day events include: a 3–5 pm screening and discussion of Primetime: Fighting Back Against Foreclosure, a documentary by Jennifer Fasulo and Manauvaskar Kublall looking at predatory loan practices and their aftermath, and a blow-out 5–7 pm reception. In conjunction with the exhibition, the Queens Museum Panorama of New York City has been used to map the pattern of 2008 foreclosures across the city. Red Lines is curated by Larissa Harris, and is a project of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). More information at
http://www.queensmuseum.org/exhibitions/redlines.htm
Street Styles Indianapolis
Posted June 16, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The folks at PEEL Mag are back to work. This time Holly is launching a Street Styles program in Indianapolis, bringing street art into public schools and community centers to teach youth about art, politics and public space. The Street Styles program was started in San Francisco by the street artist DAVE (Warnke) to much success, and hopefully will work just as well in the midwest...more info on the Street Styles website.
Radical Art and Sports
Posted June 10, 2009 by dylan_miner in Events
Images Courtesy of Lincoln Cushing
'Hasta la Victoria (Deportista) Siempre: Sports Imagery in Revolutionary Cuba.'
Unlike many of my artist and activist friends, I grew up as a jock. My dad was a gym teacher (physical education, sorry) and I was raised playing football/soccer, basketball, and running track. When I became involved in hardcore, I was shocked when a punk friend of mine told me that the politics of sport did not intersect with those of athletics. Who knew that sports and punk were so separate? I guess my ex-friend did not realize that Kevin Seconds was a huge b-ball fan and the 7 Seconds song 'I Hate Sports' was written tongue in cheek. Remember the basketball on the inside of the Drop Acid album?
Artist and activist circles don't fair much better in regards to our position on sports. Notwithstanding the writing of folks such as Dave Zirin and CLR James, very little has been written about the relationship between sports and radicalism. This weekend I will be in Bristol, UK lecturing on Cuban sports posters. Although many of us are familiar with the silkscreened posters from socialist Cuba, little is written about the role of sports images within the larger domain of Cuban poster history. Hopefully the paper I present this weekend, as well as the article and book chapter that will emerge from it, will begin to lay the groundwork for what we know about revolutionary Cuban sports posters.
If you are in Bristol, stop by Burwals at 4:00pm-6:0pm Sunday evening. I will be presenting on 'Hasta la Victoria (Deportista) Siempre: Sports Imagery in Revolutionary Cuba.'
The Visual in Sport
13-14 June 2009
A Two-Day International Conference at Burwalls
University of Bristol, UK
Beats for Barriere Lake
Posted June 9, 2009 by Jesse_Purcell in Events
A night of solidarity for the ongoing struggle of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, featuring groundbreaking native artists SAMIAN, CerAmony and Cheri Maracle.
When : Thursday, June 11, 2009 @ 8 pm
Where : Petit Campus, 57 Prince-Arthur East, Montreal, QC
The concert takes place on June 11th, the first anniversary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apology for the residential schools system – an apology that many survivors in Barriere Lake believe will take on real meaning only when the government changes its policies to ensure just relations with Indigenous peoples.
performances from :
* SAMIAN : celebrated Algonquin hip-hop artist
with members of Nomadic Massive and Sola y las Lolas
Beats for Barriere Lake
SAMIAN is an Algonquin hip-hop artist who is the first to perform in French and Algonquin. Born in the community of Pikogan in Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Samian (Samuel Tremblay) recounts the tales of the youth in his community and the plight and struggles of First Nations. Samian’s music has struck a cord in Quebec society and within the hip-hop community and beyond through collaborations with the celebrated Quebec hip-hop ensemble Loco Locass.
http://www.samian.ca
http://www.nomadicmassive.ca
http://www.myspace.com/solaspace
with :
* CerAmony : Cree eclectic musical duo who hail from the James Bay region of Canada
http://www.myspace.com/ceramony
* Cheri Maracle : Mohawk singer/songwriter from Six Nations with Ojibway singer/songwriter Marc Nadjiwan
http://www.myspace.com/cherimaracle
* screening of Blockade on the 117 by filmmaker Martha Stiegman
Tickets for fundraiser : $10-12 at the door (sliding scale)
Presented by : Barriere Lake Solidarity, CKUT radio, Productions Multi-Monde, Tadamon ! Montreal and the National Campus and Community Radio Conference (NCCRC)
* background information on Barriere Lake
Since the Department of Indian Affairs ousted their Customary Chief and
Council in March 2008 and used the Surete du Quebec to forcibly impose
the authority of a minority community faction, the Barriere Lake
Algonquins have been organizing to roll-back the quiet coup d'etat. They
are campaigning to make the government honour a number of agreements,
including the Trilateral, a internationally praised land co-management
and resource-revenue sharing deal the Algonquins signed with Canada and
Quebec in 1991. It would significantly protect their forests from
clear-cut logging, but it remains unimplemented. They first signed the
agreement after a campaign of logging road blockades, which culminated
in a one-day blockade of highway 117, a crucial economic vein in
Northern Quebec, in 1990. In October, 2008, Barriere Lake once again
blockaded the 117, to force the government to respect their agreements
and their leadership customs. The SQ brutally put down the peaceful action.
info Barriere Lake Solidarity Collective:
http://barrierelakesolidarity.blogspot.com/
Chomsky Event Poster Designed by Josh Macphee & Kevin Caplicki
Posted June 9, 2009 by k_c_ in Posters & Prints
Josh Macphee and Kevin Caplicki collaborated on a 5-color handprinted poster for an upcoming benefit for the Brecht Forum.
The event features Noam Chomsky who will deliver a lecture called Crisis and Hope:Theirs and ours. He'll be introduced by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, and features music by Earthdriver and Mahina Movement
The event will be held
Friday, June 12
7:00 pm
At Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive (Btn 120 & 121 St)
NYC, NY
Sliding scale for talk: $20/$25/$30
Reception with Noam Chomsky (includes reserved seating for the talk): $50/$100/$250/$500
Special Benefit for the Brecht Forum,
Please contribute what you can afford.
The poster, a signed and numbered edition of 60, will be available for sale at the event, and tickets can be purchased through the Brecht Forum website.
I shold also mention that Justseeds will be tabling the event along with others, like our comrades from Bluestockings Bookstore
Benefit for Palabra Radio Network-Friday-NYC
Posted June 8, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Benefit for Palabra Radio Network-International Radio Technical Support Network
For communities in resistance. Palabra Radio is a project coordinated to bring materials, equipment, and expertise to community radio projects in Central & South America, as well as immigrant communities in the USA.
June 12, 2009 7pm 687 Park Ave. #1 Brooklyn, NYC (Between Marcy and Tompkins Aves) Flushing, Line G $5 Minumun Donation
Cardboard Installation
Posted June 5, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
My dear friend and housemate Heidi Tucker has a collaborative cardboard installation opening tonight at Morning Glory Coffeehouse in Pittsburgh...I thought it appropriate to post on here, what with Justseeds' affinity for cardboard, and some Justseeds peeps in the show...check it out, it will be up for the month of June.
June 5, 2009 - 7pm
Heidi Tucker - ART OPENING
at Morning Glory Coffeehouse
1806 Chislett Street, in Morningside
free food + wine
412-450-1050 for info
HEIDI TUCKER painted cardboard installation. come on dahn. will be up throughout the month of June
Cardboard installation floor to ceiling...
with pieces by
Mary Mack, Emilie Bosworth-Clemens, Nathan Mould, Morgan Cahn, Carly, Teresa, Leslie Stem, Gina, Ally Reeves, Caleb Gamble, Ashley Brickman, Niko Gomez, Chris St.Pierre, Aurelia Freidland, Mick, Blair, Gretchen Ann Neidert
Evil Twin will perform at 9pm.
MasterPeaces: High Art for Higher Purpose
Posted June 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics out in Los Angeles:
MasterPeaces:
High Art for Higher Purpose
June 6 - 27, 2009
DaVinci Gallery
Los Angeles City College
855 N. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90029
323.953.4000
Gallery Hours: Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 12 – 4 pm
From Dada to Punk, from anti-war movements to feminism and ecology, high art has been repeatedly incorporated into a visual language that ranges from the iconoclastic to overt protest. MasterPeaces shows how works by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Picasso, Warhol and many others have been parodied, appropriated or altered to make statements about a variety of contemporary issues.
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 6 12 – 4 pm
Symposium: Saturday, June 20, 2009 2-4 pm
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics, students and faculty in the Designing the Political course at Otis College of Art and Design, will discuss the dialogue between the original art and the contemporary protest poster.
Portland Anarchist Bookfair
Posted June 2, 2009 by icky in Events
Portland (Oregon) is having its very own Anarchist Bookfair (our first! that I know of...)
Justseeds will be there, as well as Eberhardt Press, Axiom Collective, Little Black Cart, PM Press, the Multnomah County Library (?!) and many more....
Saturday, June 6, 10am - 6pm
Sunday, June 7, 10am - 4pm
Liberty Hall - 311 N Ivy | Portland, OR
503-516-9220 | axiom.infoshop@gmail.com
The Axiom Collective is hosting the Portland Anarchist Book Fair. This two day event will feature over 20 booksellers, publishers, and zinesters offering a wide range of radical literature and art. There will be a dozen workshops, cheap eats from the Red and Black Cafe, a rad raffle, and more!
This event is FREE to attend, and childcare will be provided!
¡Viva Carton!
Posted June 2, 2009 by molly_fair in Books & Zines
Friday June 5, 2pm-5pm
Sculpture Center
44-19 Purves St. Long Island City, NY
My friend Michael McCanne, a book and printmaker and a founding editor of Lightful Press will be giving a presentation and slide show about the work of Eloisa Cartonera, an art and editorial project based in Buenos Aires, Argentina who he spent four and a half months working with. There will also be a workshop on the methods that are used to create books out of recycled materials with cardboard covers, how to paint them and bind materials into them. You can make a new book, or bring your own zines or art to use.
Background:
In the wake of the 2001/2002 economic collapse two artists, Fernanda Laguna and Javier Barilaro, and a writer, Washington Concurto, initiated Eloisa Cartonera, a cooperative editorial project dedicated to working with Cartoneros (cardboard scavengers) to produce accessible books bound in cardboard. The phenomenon of the cartoneros, who are estimated to number in the tens of thousands, arose as a direct result of the distingration of the Argentine economy under neo-liberal policies of president Carlos Menem and the structural readjustment program of the International Monetary Fund.
Eloisa Cartonera is a part of the multilithic popular response to that crisis, a response that is both creative and based on equal cooperation. The project purchases cardboard directly from Cartoneros at an elevated price and uses it to bind short stories and poetry collections of well know and experimental Latin American writers. The books are stenciled and hand painted in bright colors and then sold for five pesos (equivalent of $1.30). Eloisa produces books in Spanish, English, Portuguese and German and has over one hundred titles.
Since its inception in 2003, Eloisa Cartonera has spawned an organic and independent movement of cartonerias across South and Central America, with workshops in Paraguay, Columbia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and Ecuador. Each cartoneria is autonomous and each country has its own unique social and economic situation but Eloisa has set a model. This phenomenon has spread in which people are organizing alternatives by example–organically and without any structure or over-arching hierarchy. In the vacuum left in Argentina, a new mode of production was synthesized; a production based in reuse, creativity and cooperation.
Bill Daniel/Shaun Slifer quick n' dirty tour...
Posted June 2, 2009 by shaun in Justseeds & Member Projects
Here's the schedule for the tour I'm headed out on with Bill Daniel this week. We'll be showing Bill's film "Who is Bozo Texino?", as well as putting up a couple shows of Bill's work along the way. I'll be opening for his film with a short presentation about a couple of current projects of mine. If you're in any of these spots, drop in!
June 5 -> St. Louis, MO - Cranky Yellow
June 6 -> St. Louis, MO - Black Bear Bakery
June 7-9 -> Dallas, then Austin, then back to Dallas... (that's in Texas, no gigs there)
June 10 -> Shreveport, LA - Danzell House (? house show ?)
June 11-12 -> Little Rock, AK - Chaulk Legends @ Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative (w/ Buz Blurr aka Colossus of Roads) (pictured below)
June 13 -> Nashville, TN - Little Hamilton Collective / Firebrand Infoshop
June 14 -> Knoxville, TN ?
Howling Mob Society at "Class Matters" conference
Posted May 29, 2009 by shaun in Justseeds & Member Projects
The Howling Mob Society will be presenting in Pittsburgh on Thursday, June 4, during the Working Class Studies Association's annual "Class Matters" conference. The conference will take place on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Details from the conference program:
Session C—2:30-3:45 p.m. - Thursday, June 4
Pitt Cathedral of Learning, 2nd Floor, room 252
C3. "Contested Markers: Two Views on Historical Commemoration"
Chair: Joel Woller, History, Carlow University
Howling Mob Society, Independent, “The Howling Mob Society Reclaims the Historical Marker”
Kenneth C. Wolensky, Penn State University and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
“Preserving and Interpreting Industrial and Working Class History Sites”
Richard Porton/Arena in NYC
Posted May 28, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Richard Porton, editor of the recently published Arena: On Anarchist Cinema, will be presenting in New York City on Friday. Anarchist cinema is a difficult idea, but Porton will unravel this history - from film collectives formed in the early twentieth century to contemporary video activism. Join Porton for discussion and showing of movies made by anarchist or having anarchist impetus. Porton is also the author of the great book Film and the Anarchist Imagination.
Friday, May 29th @ 7pm
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington
Arena can be found in our store here.
Tonight: Susan Greene in SF
Posted May 27, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Talk Tonight!
Art & Politics: Susan Greene
Susan Greene is a public artist, activist, educator and clinical psychologist. Her practice straddles a range of cultural arenas, focusing on borders, migrations, decolonization and memory. Greene is one of four Jewish American women artists who in 1989 founded the ongoing “Break the Silence Mural Project” in solidarity with Palestine.
Wednesday May 27, 7:30 pm
CounterPULSE
1310 Mission at 9th, San Francisco
Free!
Dispatch from LaLaLand: Zoobomb Bike Rack Opening: Portland
Posted May 25, 2009 by icky in Events
Zoobombing is a recent local tradition where people take little-kids bikes on the light rail under the West Hills in Portland. They get off in the station in the tunnel, take the elevator up the hill, and then ride a nice, fairly depopulated, stretch of road past the zoo through Washington Park and into downtown Portland. It's a weird local spectacle, pissing off cops and drivers, but somehow gathering support of other people in power so that it hasn't been outright criminalized. One issue that became a sore spot is that the zoobombers leave all the kids bikes (like 20 of them) locked up to a single bike rack across the street from Powell's books downtown.
Be Well! Benefit
Posted May 21, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
This Saturday there is a benefit for Be Well!: Healthcare Options for the Uninsured, a guide, online and in print to free and cheap healthcare in Pittsburgh. I did the cover artwork and will also be DJ-ing. It looks like a well-rounded evening of music and such a good cause!
Take care of ourselves!!!
Be Well! Benefit
Saturday May 23rd
7pm-2am
Brillobox
David Vachon
Slim Forsythe
Weird Paul medically-themed song video
Marvin Dioxide
Jon Brodsky
DJ's Mary Mack & Edgar Um
$5 at door
We'll have lil Be Well! mini booklets to pass out as well as medically-themed coloring books.
Leonard Crowdog speaking, Portland
Posted May 20, 2009 by icky in Events
This just in over the wire:
"Leonard Crowdog is a legend. He served as spiritual advisor to the American Indian Movement (AIM) and played a pivotal role at Wounded Knee during its 71-day siege in 1973. He will be speaking in defense of American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, next Wednesday, May 20 at 7PM, at the Native American Student and Community Center at Portland State University (on the corner of SW Broadway and Jackson Streets)."
The event is free.
Poster by Paul Davis, 1977
Leave Home group show at Death by Audio, Brooklyn
Posted May 15, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
May 15
LEAVE HOME Group Show.
Original works and collaborative installation by ladies in Punk Rock:
Cristy C. Road (Croadcore Illustration/Writing/etc, The Homewreckers), Lauren Denitzio (The Measure, Red and Black Eye), Tamara Waite-Santibanez (No Guts No Glory, Zombie Dogs) & Kate Wadkins (Cheeky, For the Birds). LEAVE HOME Binds varying linear structures with the sparkling connections between our souls and our soil.
Home is dissected. As Brooklyn slowly transgresses into a development landmine, we hold on to the purity of bricks, concrete, our soil, our urban breeding ground, and the spurts of nature which trickle inbetween. Our identities, and our connections to our home, vary as much as our artistic renderings; but in the end converge into a collective act of visual chaos.
And MUSIC By LITTLE LUNGS, LAURA STEVENSON + MORE TBA
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
Posted May 14, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This weekend Jesse, Erik, Kevin and Josh will be tabling at:
MONTREAL'S 10th ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
Saturday, MAY 16, 10am to 6pm
CEDA, 2515 rue Delisle
(near the Lionel-Groulx metro)
-> Part of the month-long Festival of Anarchy (May 2009).
-> Followed by a full day of Anarchist Presentations and Workshops (May 17, 2009).
-> Bring your kids! Kids activities and free childcare on-site.
-> For anarchists, allies, and those who are interested or curious about anarchism.
-> Free! Welcome to all!
[The main space is wheelchair accessible. For more information or to inquire about other accessibility needs, see our accessibility policy: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/en/node/6 or contact the collective.]
No gods, no masters; no bosses, no borders!
Curious about anarchism? Come check us out!
Demilitarized U
Posted May 12, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
This arrived in the inbox from Aaron Hughes. This series of events taking place in Chicago looks incredibly inspiring and important. Details below.
The intertwining of the military with industry is no longer new to the American experience. In fact it is widely accepted as the way things are. Less considered is the military’s insertion into research, technology, entertainment, education, and the wider American culture. At a point in history when the threat level is constantly orange, what would it mean to demilitarize American culture?
Demilitarized U consists of a series of teach-ins and workshops that endeavors to imagine and investigate what it means to create a demilitarized university; and ask what is a demilitarized physical and psychological space and what are the strategies and tactics needed to achieve demilitarization.
The Demilitarized U. will bring together Iraqis, veterans, community organizers, community leaders, activists, educators, and artists to lead and participate in a series of two-day teach-ins and workshops.
The series is free and open to the wider Chicago community. Please come and contribute to the discussion and production of a Demilitarized University.
Contact the DU with questions: demilitarizedu@gmail.com
click continue for schedule...
Agit-Prop Overload
Posted May 12, 2009 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects
AGIT-PROP OVERLOAD
A month long exhibition of over 100 socially engaged print works by Justseeds radical artists cooperative and the Celebrate Peoples History poster series.
May 5th to May 31st, 2009
Le Cagibi
5490 St. Laurent
Montreal
Events:
May 10th - vernissage 8pm, followed by a dance party
May 16th - print sale at the MTL Anarchist Bookfair (2515 rue Delisle)
May 18th - slide presentation and artist talk by Justseeds' artists Josh MacPhee and Erik Ruin, 7:30pm
brought to you by:
The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
Justseeds
Disappearing
Posted May 10, 2009 by icky in Events
There's a great art show at Reading Frenzy right now, containing images from an upcoming book by Thistle Press. The show is about "attempts to address the marvelous nature of some of the many things that are disappearing from the world', eg- endangered species. Includes work from Justseeds' ally Vanessa Renwick and my favorite local illustrator Carson Ellis. If you're in Portland you should head down and check it (and buy some zines while you're there too).
If not the show is available online here.
Think Galactic Poster
Posted May 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects
I just finished up the poster for Think Galacticon 2009, a radical political Sci-Fi convention held bi-annually in Chicago. This year it's going to be the weekend of June 26-28 at Roosevelt University. You can find out all about it here.
Anti-Police Brutality Show LA
Posted May 9, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A handful of Justseeds artists (and tons of other good folks) are in this show coming up in LA:
Stop the Armed Forces
An Exhibition of Conscious Art and Music Against Police Brutality
Friday May 15th
8pm - 2am
2323 East Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, 90021
Open Gallery May 16th, Noon - 6pm
Artists include:
Jon-Paul Bail, Brianna Lengel-Bail, Alison Smith, Tim Holgerson, Louis Hennings, Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, Ryan J. Saari, Taarna R. Grimsley, Paul Barron, Favianna Rodriguez, Frank Zio, Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Emory Douglas, Contra, Yem, Ritzy Periwinkle, John Carr, Karen Fiorito, Hit+Run, 2Cents, 2Rabbits, ABCNT, David Kietzman, Josh MacPhee, Mear One, Vyal, and more...
RNC 8 Benefit in Pittsburgh
Posted May 8, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
This saturday evening, two of the folks in the radical marching band that I used to play with have organized a benefit for the RNC 8, who were arrested on conspiracy charges for their work helping to prepare for the protests of the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. These folks are facing serious jail time for some pretty basic organizing work. The case threatens to set a precedent that could hurt all kinds of political organizing efforts. The benefit will feature speakers (who will talk about what happened and the civil liberties issues involved), photos from the RNC, and food and drink.
It will also feature a performance by the Breakway Marching Band, which is somewhat special because our awesome and talented baritone player Charlie is moving out of town two days later. We'll also have a guest sousaphone player - some of you may know Matt Toups, he'll be back in town visiting for a bit and I'm sure he'd love to see some old friends.
Hope to see you all there! Please spread the word.
WHERE: Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue in Shadyside/Oakland.
WHEN: 7-10 PM
7:30 pm - Breakaway Marching Band
8:30 pm - Speakers and discussion
DONATION - pay what you can. All proceeds go to the legal fees of the RNC 8.
Artists Run Chicago
Posted May 8, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A bunch of artist-run spaces and projects multiple Justseeders have connections to are part of this exhibition opening up on Sunday in Chicago:
Artists Run Chicago
May 10 – July 5, 2009, Gallery 1
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
Opening: Sunday, May 10
3-5pm, FREE
Featuring 1/Quarterly, 65GRAND, Alogon, Antena, artLedge, Butchershop, Co-Prosperity Sphere, devening projects + editions, Deluxe Projects, Dogmatic, Fraction Workspace, Fucking Good Art (FGA), Green Lantern, He Said-She Said, HungryMan, joymore, Julius Caesar, Law Office, LiveBox, Margin Gallery, Medicine Cabinet/Second Bedroom Project Space, mini dutch, Modest Contemporary Art Projects, NFA Space, Normal Projects, Old Gold, Polvo, Roots & Culture, Scott Projects, Standard, Suitable, Swimming Pool Projects, Teti, The Suburban, and VONZWECK.
With special contributions by Imperfect Articles, INCUBATE, Mess Hall, Seven Three Split, and ThreeWalls.
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the legacy.
Montreal Anarchist Theatre Festival
Posted May 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Also in the inbox. Justseeds will be at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair which is on May 16th:
MONTREAL’S 4th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST THEATRE FESTIVAL
MAY 13 + 14, 2009, D.B. Clarke Theatre
with NEW YORK’s LEGENDARY ‘THE LIVING THEATRE’
The fourth annual Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (MIATF) proudly presents two nights with New York’s legendary ‘The Living Theatre,’ Wednesday, May 13 + Thursday, May 14, 2009 at Concordia University’s D.B. Clarke Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve West (Metro Guy-Concordia), 7:30pm.
Tickets are $15 at the door or in advance from AT the Montreal anarchist bookstore L’Insoumise, 2033 boul St-Laurent (tel: 514- 313-3489), starting april 15, 2009.
The Living Theatre - North America’s premiere avant-garde theatre project founded in 1947 by two non-violent anarchists, Judith Malina (student of Erwin Piscator) and the late Julian Beck (from the New York School) - will perform a new piece for their two night run called ‘The Beautiful Non-Violent Anarchist Revolution: A combination of Living Theatre Plays.’ The world famous troupe is renowned for their aesthetics emphasizing improvisation and their plays about revolutionary issues. Their work has influenced generations of radical playwrights, actors and artists, and they have won four prestigious Obie awards. They continue to produce and tour anti-war plays from New York. Judith Malina will perform as part of the troupe.
Opening for The Living Theatre May 13th, is Maikan, an Innu giant puppet theatre troupe from the Mali-Utenam reserve near Sept-Iles. For their Montreal debut, they will stage ‘Tshakapesh’ – an enchanting, mythical piece based on an Innu legend addressing contemporary social issues.
Friday-Justseeds at Books Through Bars event!
Posted May 6, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Benefit for NYC's Books Through Bars
Friday May 8th, 8pm
Art & Resistance: Slideshows and Discussion
Seth Tobocman: Author of "Disaster and Resistance: Comics and Landscapes for the 21st Century"
Peter Kuper: "Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz"
Kevin Caplicki & Molly Fair from JUST SEEDS: Creators of the "Prison Portfolio Project"
Vikki Law: Author of "Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women"
Subversive Practices
Posted May 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A couple friends have passed along links to this upcoming show in Stuttgart Germany. It looks extremely interesting:
Subversive Practices:
Art under Conditions of Political Repression
60s–80s / South America / Europe
May 30 – August 2, 2009
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Schlossplatz 2, D – 70173 Stuttgart
Subversive Practices:
From May 30 to August 2, 2009 the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart devotes itself to experimental and conceptual art practices that had become established between the nineteen-sixties and eighties in Europe and South America under the influence of military dictatorships and communist regimes.
The exhibition’s nine sections will be focused on various contexts and strategies of artistic production along with their positioning vis-à-vis political and cultural repression in the GDR, Hungary, Romania, the Soviet Union, Spain, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Peru. Of equal concern here are both the particularities of and the relations between the different temporal and local environments.
(image: Luis Pazos, Transformations of living masses, 1973)
Breaking the Siege:Justice for Atenco
Posted May 3, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Film Screening of Romper el Cerco-"Breaking the Siege" a film by Canal Sies de Julio and Promedios in NYC
May 4, 2009 1:30-4:30pm Martin E. Segal Theatre CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue
"Breaking the Siege" documednts the repression of Atenco's social movement (Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra -FPDT). This is a simultaneous projection on Brasil, México and NY as part of Libertad Y Justicia para Atenco-Campaña Nacional y Internacional(The national and international campain for justice and freedom for political prisioners of Atenco)
a film about the events in Atenco / Mexico 2006San Salvador Atenco, May 2006. A small town in the suburbs of Mexico City. Two months before the presidential elections, a conflict for land and rights escalates between the population of Atenco and the Mexican government. Unbelievable events take place: the police attack a marketplace, the inhabitants block the highways leading to the city, and confrontations between an outraged population and police forces break out. The state of emergency goes on for several days and culminates in the death of a 14 year old boy.
This video analyzes the events in San Salvador Atenco during the first days of May and denounces the violation of the civilian population’s human rights by state and federal police forces. The documentary deconstructs the mass media’s operating methods, which were responsible for creating a climate of fear and an information blockade on the events in San Salvador Atenco, in the midst of an especially delicate situation: the 2006 process of presidential succession in Mexico.
WW3 Illustrated Release Party NYC
Posted April 27, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
World War 3 Illustrated Release Party
Thursday, April 30, 2009 7-9PM
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA)
594 Broadway, Suite 401 (Between Houston and Prince st.)
New York, NY 10012
Come celebrate the release of "Wordless Worlds" issue #39 of World War 3 Illustrated.
Featuring multi-media presentation of art by:
Peter Kuper
Mac McGill
Seth Tobocman
Paula Hewitt Amram
Sabrina Jones
Eric Drooker
Kevin Pyle
Chuck Sperry
Rebecca Migdal
and many others...
with an animated film by Onur Tukel
and live music by Eric Blitz, Steve Wishnia, Andy Laties, Breeze and more!
Subversive Tech & Burma's Struggle for Democracy
Posted April 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Just in:
In Burma/Myanmar, the military junta has ruled since 1962, brutally suppressing human rights and the flow of information. Yet in the fall of 2007, the military found itself challenged by Buddhist clergy and ordinary citizens who used nonviolent actions and 21st century technology to challenge the regime. Although the so-called Saffron Revolution failed to result in regime change, dedicated Burmese activists are continuing to risk their lives to work for change in their country. In a country of 58 million with less than 1% internet and cell phone penetration, how is technology being used to challenge a military regime?
Join us for an evening conversation on this topic, including:
-- A presentation by Digital Democracy on the use of technology inside and along Burma's borders.
-- Footage from the Sept. 2007 Saffron Revolution, where tech such as mobile phones and the internet allowed protesters to coordinate and publicize the largest protests seen in a generation,
-- A Q&A with "Stanley", a Burmese computer programmer and chairperson of the All Burma IT Students Union.
Monday, April 27th, 7:30pm, free
The Change You Want To See Gallery
http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Buddha Cat Press Opening
Posted April 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Karen Fiorito (of Hard Pressed Studio) has new project/studio she's launching in LA called Buddha Cat Press:
House Magic: Squatted Social Centers Exhibition
Posted April 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
There's a giant new show about squated social centers opening at ABC Nno Rio in NYC. If you are in town, check it out. Read through the whole post here, there is a schedule of great looking films and events at the end:
House Magic: Bureau of Foreign Correspondence
exhibition at ABC No Rio
April 21 to May 10, 2009
evening events Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings
Exhibition blog here.
Exhibition events website here.
The social center movement in Europe will be the focus of a project exhibition at the Lower East Side cultural center ABC No Rio during later April and early May. Images and information, videos and discussion will engage the realities of this vital urban movement.
An outgrowth of political squatting, the social center in occupied vacant buildings was a key feature of the Italian Autonomist movement of the 1970s and '80s. Squats on the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1990s borrowed elements of the English and German social center models, including cafes, infoshops (library/bookstores), performance spaces and art galleries. These models also influenced the “infoshops” of the anarchist movement throughout the US. Across Europe, the often short-lived social centers became important organizing foci of the global justice movement during the first decade of the new century.
The House Magic exhibition will be an open structure, a channel for a continuous flow of information from the social centers themselves. Bulletins will be posted, banners will be painted, soup will be served. Video documentaries will be screened, and guests will discuss their experiences with social centers.
The social centers arose out of direct action squatting. In the new century, however, these actions have been less about housing, and more intended to create social, cultural and political space for action in the city.
In many cases, social center squatting is a response to gentrifying development in the city, an instance of "bottom up planning and architecture." The social centers are usually well integrated into the neighborhoods in which they are set up, and provide free space for cultural activities to take place. Many social centers work closely with immigrant groups, organizing, supporting and demonstrating to protect their rights.
From April 21 to May 10, we will be working the theme at ABC No Rio, processing and presenting information about the social center movement. A key node in global justice organizing, squatted social centers have sprung up in cities throughout Europe. They represent a new wave of activism, often highly theorized, with participation by both radical intellectuals and grassroots activists.Increasingly architects, urban planners and artists are joining political activists in this movement.
City from Below documentation
Posted April 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A couple weeks ago Kevin, Erik and I headed down to Baltimore for the City from Below Conference, which was quite awesome. A large and diverse group of really hard working people, trying to build urban democracy from the bottom up. The conference organizers had asked Justseeds to design posters for them, and Erik, Icky and I answered the call. Erik's image is here to the left, and Icky's is here, and mine here. The organizers have been collecting all the video, photo and audio documentation from the conference, and putting it up on their website. You can see a lot of what happened in a great collection of videos here. In addition, there was a very cool companion conference for kids called Kid(z) City, which had a whole parallel track of activities for kids. They also produced an awesome coloring book, with a ton of great taking back the city images. They also included my "Free" image, which got some cool coloring jobs (thanks to Emily for the flic).
Signs of Change Reception Friday
Posted April 22, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
SIGNS OF CHANGE:
SOCIAL MOVEMENT CULTURES 1960s TO NOW
April 5, 2009 - June 5, 2009
Troy Night Out Reception: April 24 5pm - 9pm
at The Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River Street, Troy NY, 518-273-0552
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee as part of Exit Art's Curatorial Incubator, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.
Organized thematically, the exhibition presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for Civil Rights and Black Power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and student and worker revolution in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organization.
Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written, and political and activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. Signs of Change offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.
Sponsored by iEAR Presents! and Humanities@Rensselaer
Here is some more info on the show:
The Miller Gallery
Exit Art
Justseeds at Left Forum NYC
Posted April 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Justseeds (Molly, Kevin and I) will be tabling at the Left Forum in New York City this weekend! In addition, Molly co-organized a panel which I'll be speaking on on Sunday at 3pm, and I will also be moderating a separate panel at 3pm on Saturday. All the details are here:
Left Forum
Sat. April 18 & Sun. April 19
Pace University
One Pace Plaza
New York, NY 10038
(across from City Hall)
Saturday 3pm:
Counter Culture Industries: Capitalist, Anti-capitalist, Non-capitalist
Jesse Goldstein - Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
David Spataro - Geography, CUNY Graduate Center
Brandon Joyce - Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Studies
Stephen Duncombe - Gallatin School, New York University
Chris Carlsson - author, "Nowtopia!"
Tianna Kennedy - artist and curator
Josh MacPhee - author and curator
Sunday 3pm:
Illustrating Resistance: Art, Activism and Popular Education
Molly Fair - member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
Kevin Pyle - artist, illustrator of Prison Town: Paying the Price, for The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
Peter Kuper - artist, editor of World War 3 Illustrated, author of Diario de Oaxaca
Susan Willmarth - artist, illustrator of Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children for the Real Cost of Prisons Comix
Josh MacPhee - artist, member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, editor of Reproduce and Revolt/ Reproduce Y Rebélate
We'll also be tabling all day long both days, so please come and say hi!
Microcosm Tour
Posted April 16, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A bunch of our friends are heading out on the Microcosm tour for the next month. Check them out in your town:
Microcosm Tour 2009
Who's on tour:
Shelley Jackson (Chainbreaker)
John Isaacson (DIY Screenprinting)
Joshua Ploeg/Plague (In Search of the Lost Taste)
Moe Bowstern (Xtra Tuf zine)
Dates:
apr 15 columbus - The Legion of Doom, 7 PM, 1579 Indianola
apr 16 pittsburgh - Carnegie Library, 6 PM
apr 17 Bard College - Root Cellar Infoshop, 7 PM
apr 18 buffalo - Sugar City, 19 Wadsworth St., 2 PM
apr 19 syracuse - Westcott Community Center, 4 PM
apr 20 albany - SUNY college, Humanities building of the Uptown SUNY Campus (rooms 116, 122, and 123), 7:30 PM
apr 21 providence - as220 w/ Screaming Females 10 PM
apr 22 new haven - Elm City Infoshop, 7 PM, 810 State St
apr 23 new york city - Bluestockings, 172 Allen St., 7 PM
apr 24 Brooklyn, NY - Surreal Estate, 15 Thames St., 7 PM
apr 25 philadelphia - Borrowed Time, 6:30 PM, 1202 s 46th street (near kingsessing)
apr 26 baltimore - Atomic Books
apr 27 dc - American University w/ Derrick Jensen
apr 28 richmond - Gallery 5, $3
apr 29 harrisonburg, VA - Clementine, 7 PM, 153 s main st, 22801 / 540.801.8881
apr 30 norfolk, va - Offbase, 2501 Fawn St.
may 1 Durham, NC - Bull City Headquarters, 7 PM
may 2 columbia, sc - help!
may 3 savannah, ga - The Pony Pen, 650 East 36th St, 7 PM, $3-5
may 4 atlanta - Central Library, 11 AM
may 5 knoxville - Birdhouse, 5 PM, 800 N. 4th Ave
may 7 murfeesboro, TN - Linebaugh Public Library, 6 PM, 105 W. Vine St.
may 8 nashville, TN - Firebrand Infoshop, 7 PM, 1318 Little Hamilton Ave
may 9 louisville - Skull Alley, 1017 East Broadway
(BRAWL) Broad's Regional Arm Wrestling League will hold its first 3 matches!
Posted April 14, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
How could you possibly miss this? Picture WWF theatrics meets bad ass women arm wrestlers competing like their lives depended on it!
LAY-DEES! Come put your elbows down and your hands together. Let's get dressed up, crank the volume, and twist some wrists! At BRAWL events, wrestlers like Jackie-O-Nasty and Queen Victorious duke it out to the tune of their own theme songs, and they don't do it alone: each girl brings her posse as back up.
This is beyond sport. This is beyond entertainment. This is brute strength on stage.
Place your bets on the broad of your choice, wager for the babe of your desire, put your wrists up and throw your dough down. Then watch your cash go towards local organizations whose services benefit women and girls.
There is no cover charge at any of the three events BRAWL is hosting this spring:
Friday April 17, 2009
The Black Swan in Tivoli, NY
8pm
(Proceeds from our first event will go to Family of Woodstock Domestic Violence Shelter)
Friday May 1, 2009
The Black Swan in Tivoli, NY
8pm
Friday May 15, 2009
THE BARN at 33 Broadway in Tivoli, NY
8pm
Learn more about our wrestlers, judges, and ref at
http://brawlnewyork.blogspot.com
All proceeds go to Family of Woodstock's Domestic Violence Shelter
http://www.familyofwoodstock.org/
If you are interested in being an arm wrestler in the future, contact hudsonvalleybrawl@gmail.com.
Justseeds Prison Portfolio graphics in Use
Posted April 12, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds & Member Projects
Good to see that some of the graphics from the Justseeds Prison Portfolio project are finding their way onto fliers and the covers of periodicals. The portfolios that were donated to groups organizing against the prison industrial complex each came with a cdr of all the images from the portfolio - plus prison justice related images from Reproduce and Revolt (a book of copy-right free graphics available through Justseeds / co-edited by Josh and Favianna.)
Here are examples of three. If you know of more, send us an email. Additionally, there are a few remaining copies of the portfolio left for sale on our site that help us recover the cost of creating 100 portfolios.
Shaun Slifer at Columbia College Chicago
Posted April 12, 2009 by shaun in Events
I'm spending this week at Columbia College in Chicago as part of the school's Critical Encounters program. The theme this year is "Human|Nature", and I'm going to have my hands full. Monday I'll be working with Joan Giroux's class doing a version of the coyote tracks project and hopefully getting some of them installed in spots around Chicago (which has a burgeoning coyote population). Then I'll be performing a day of back-to-back presentations in Fereshteh Toosi's class, where I'll be wrangling my ideas regarding the ongoing animal-attack videos I've been plugging away at for the last two years. And, later in the week I'm doing a public lecture about some of my recent individual and collective projects, including Justseeds. The public lecture will be this Thursday, April 16 at 6:30 pm in the Hokin Lecture Hall at Columbia (623 S. Wabash, 1st floor). Come by if you're in town!
I've also had some work included in the current exhibit "Loaded: Hunting Culture in America", curated by Audrey Michelle Mast and Ann Wiens at the Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash in Chicago. I have two videos in the exhibition, both fairly new. I've posted one here, which was originally created for the Fugitive Projects' 60 Second Video Project (2009), which I was invited to participate in this winter. The footage is edited down from a pivotal scene in Jean-Jacques Annaud's "The Bear" (1988), which I first saw as a child. Other influences include listening to Sonic Youth while snowed in, camping in the woods, and a bit of that old fear and anxiety regarding "wilderness" that's been the fuel for all my videos lately...
NYC Anarchist Bookfair
Posted April 11, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
The NYC Anarchist bookfair takes place today. Come kick it with us at our Justseeds table in
Judson Memorial
55 Washington Square South
NYC, NY
11am-8pm
Illustrating Resistance: Art and Activism Event in NYC
Posted April 10, 2009 by molly_fair in Justseeds & Member Projects
Come on over to Bluestockings Sunday April 12 at 7pm for a panel co-hosted by Justseeds and PM Press. Slideshows by Kevin Pyle and Seth Tobacman, Justseeds members Kevin Caplicki, Erik Ruin, Molly Fair moderating.
Kevin Pyle, artist, educator, contributer and co-editor of World War 3 Illustrated, author of Blindspot The Real Cost of Prisons Comix, for the Real Cost of Prisons Project, read Josh MacPhee's review on the Justseeds Blog Kevin Pyle's comic Prison Town: Paying the Price tells the story the ways in which the financing and siting of prisons and jails effects the people of rural communities in which prison are built. It also tells the story of the how mass incarceration effects the people of urban communities where the majority of people who are incarcerated come from. Included in the comic book are alternatives to the current system. There are 3 comics in total which explore different aspects of the prison industrial complex and contain stories and statistical information that has been thoroughly researched and documented. As of October 2008, 125,000 copies of the comic books have been printed and more than 100,000 have been sent to families of people who are incarcerated, people who are incarcerated and to organizers and activists throughout the country. The demand for them is constant and the ways in which they are being used is inspiring.Comic books are sent free of charge to organizations who submit a one page email or letter explaining how you will use the comic books in your organizing, community education and outreach work. Book versions of the comic are published by PM Press, and free PDF versions of the comic and flyers are available via the website.
presentation by Kevin Caplicki and Erik Ruin
Justseeds portfolio Voices from the Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex
In honor of Critical Resistance's 10 Year Anniversary, Justseeds created a portfolio of original prints that either critiqued the prison industrial complexor addressed alternatives to incarceration. Twenty one artists from the US, Canada, and Mexico contributed prints. Justseeds donated over 50 portfolios to anti-prison movements groups including Critical Resistance, Books to Prisoners, the TAMMS Year Ten Campaign, The National Public Service Council to Abolish Private Prisons, and numerous other groups. There have already been several exhibitions and the prints have been shared with a discussion group of men at the Oakhill Correctional Facility. We will talk about the process of creating the portfolio, how we hope it will be used for organizing purposes, and what responses have been so far. This will be our first New York presentation of the portfolio. If you can't make it, there will be another on May 8th at ABC NO RIO and the images from the portfolio will soon be available on our website so you can use them in your organizing work!
Seth Tobocman, artist, activist, co-editor and contributer to World War 3 Illustrated, author You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive
Disaster and Resistance: Comics and Landscapes for the 21st Century
Promo From AK Press
In his new book Seth Tobocman he outlines pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century, from post 9-11 New York City to Israel and Palestine, to Iraq and New Orleans. Disaster and Resistance outlines pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century—from post 9-11 New York City, to Israel and Palestine, to Iraq and New Orleans. Fans of Seth's classic works, You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive, and War in the Neighborhood, will see that his punch has not softened as his new work skewers the individuals and institutions reaping havoc across the globe today. In his bold comic style, Seth chronicles events as they happen, musing not on the chaos of instability and fear, but on the struggle against it.
PM Press in NYC
Posted April 10, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
PM Press will be in NYC participating and holding plenty of events. check em out!
The schedule is packed! The weekend of the 11th-12th we are tabling at the New York Anarchist Bookfair and will have a load of panelists. With events at Bluestockings Bookstore and the Brecht Forum throughout the week, and everything culminating at the Left Forum the following weekend with a sprinkiling of outside events...well you can see we will be busy! And we hope to see you around, it's going to be an amazing week indeed.
Stencilada Photos
Posted April 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Jesus and Melanie took Russell Howze's Stencilada event a couple weekends back in San Francisco. Here are a couple photos of the stenciled mural panels painted at the event, and you can see more here. And here.
Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living Newspaper on Haiti
Posted April 8, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living Newspaper on Haiti
Performances and Post-Show Discussions on Haiti, Political Theater, and Global Healthcare
Thursday through Saturday, April 9 – 11; and Wednesday through Friday, April 15 -17
General Admission: $8, Students $6.
All shows at 8 p.m. Post-show discussions April 9, 10, 15, and 16 at 9:30 p.m.
Kresge Little Theater, 48 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
Tickets will be available 45 minutes before showtime at the Kresge Little Theater box office.
For advance tickets: http://dramashop.mit.edu/tickets/
Further ticket information email: ds_tickets@mit.edu
A new puppet, object, and music spectacle about the politics of global healthcare in Haiti premieres at MIT’s Kresge Little Theater for a two-week run from April 9 to 17. "Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living Newspaper on Haiti" looks at the past, present, and future of Haiti in terms of the politics of global healthcare, as refracted through the work of Paul Farmer's Partners in Health organization and its fight against AIDS.
Signs of Change Troy
Posted April 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
I just got back to NYC from installing Signs of Change upstate in Troy. Here's the info for the show (please stop by if you're in the area!), and below are some photos from the install.
Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
Reception: April 24, 2009 5:00-9:00 PM
Exhibition runs from April 5, 2009 - June 5, 2009
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy NY, 518.273.0552,
Sponsored by iEAR Presents! and Humanities at Rensselaer
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee as part of Exit Art's Curatorial Incubator, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements. Organized thematically, the exhibition presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for Civil Rights and Black Power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and student and worker revolution in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organization. Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written, and political and activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. Signs of Change offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.
Resistencia y Solidaridad
Posted April 6, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Deep Dish TV Presents Part Four of DIY Media: Movement Perspectives on Critical Moments
Resistencia y Solidaridad:
El Salvador, Colombia, and the U.S. Solidarity Movement
A Retrospective Film Screening & Discussion
April 7th, 7:00pm
Labowitz Theater of New York University
715 Broadway (at Washington Place),
New York City
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Presented in Collaboration with WBAI's Wake Up Call, and NY CISPES, this special community forum is a retrospective film screening and panel discussion where filmmakers, activists and scholars will get together to discuss the U.S. role in Latin America, and how grassroots, solidarity organizing by U.S. activists has made a difference in resisting those policies. We will specifically examine how video and other popular media forms have been used as a tool of resistance and solidarity.
Recent elections in El Salvador put the FMLN - the former guerilla group and long-time opposition movement - in control of the government after years of right wing domination, supported by Washington. In Colombia, the indigenous and popular Minga of 2008 has sparked a renewed call for broad-based change in a country that for years has been dominated by repressive, militarist leaders. In both these countries, as in other parts of the region, social movement activists have used video technology and other alternative media to promote their calls for change. As part of Deep Dish TV's commitment to using media as a tool for community empowerment, panelists will discuss some of the lessons learned over the last 20 years of resistance and solidarity, and their efforts to resist militarism, corporate globalization and U.S. interventionism in the hemisphere.
STEN at the House of Love & Dissent
Posted April 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our friends at the House of Love & Dissent in Rome are putting on an exciting new show, an evolving installation by street artist Sten (along with comrades Lex and Lucamonte). My Italian is not so good, but it sounds like they'll be covering the space with a growing number of giant wall posters, building an environment focused on images of a woman that has the power to heal the world. The show is called PO-STErN, and initial images look pretty cool.
Edgar Heap of Birds in Michigan
Posted April 3, 2009 by dylan_miner in Events
Beginning this weekend, my friend and amazing Cheyenne/Arapahoe artist Edgar Heap of Birds will be creating a public installation at Michigan State University. As part of his 'Native Hosts' series, Heap of Birds will be placing a dozen signs around the university's campus calling attention to the Indigenous peoples of Michigan.
In addition to his public installation which will be up through the Fall, he will also be creating work with my class, 'Art as Social Justice,' as well as giving two public lectures and working with tribal youth. If around Mid-Michigan, send me an email.
Bronx Anarchist Fair
Posted April 3, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Justseeds will be tabling at the Bronx Anarchist Fair tomorrow, in the Bronx, NYC.
Here's the info:
Saturday April 4th
11am-6pm Brook Park
141st St. and Brook Ave.
Bronx, NY
NYC Anarchist Bookfair poster
Posted April 3, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Josh's poster design for this years NYC Anarchist Bookfair
DAM returns to NYC
Posted April 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
.....The Palestinian hip hop crew DAM is comin back to NYC!...and being
joined by REBEL DIAZ, INVINCIBLE, FINALE, and DJ OJA!
PEP (Palestine Education Project) presents....
HOMELAND HIP HOP: A Benefit Show for the Indigenous Youth Delegation to
Palestine
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Southpaw
125 5th Ave
Park Slope Brooklyn
8pm doors, 9pm show
$12 in advance, $15 at the door
All proceeds will go directly to support the delegation of indigenous
youth, artists, and youth organizers traveling to Palestine this coming
August.
The delegates are coming from the following organizations, check them out
and support their inspiring work!
The Last Days and Show for Paper Boat in Milwaukee
Posted April 2, 2009 by pete in Events
Just heard the news, the great store and gallery Paper Boat Boutique in Milwaukee WI will be closing its doors, if you are in Milwaukee or passing through be sure to stop by and see the last show and pick up some of the amazing hand made work they sell.
here's what the folks there have to say:
Dearest patrons of Paper Boat,As of May 31st Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery will be closing its doors after 4 great years of being open. The current economic climate is the main reason that led us to this very difficult decision.
We really hope you can join us for our last Gallery reception featuring work by Wisconsin artist Micaela O'Herlihy on Gallery Night, April 17th from 7-10pm.
There will also be a closing sale for the month of May to help us reduce our inventory. It will be a great time to pick up those items you've always been meaning to get. Also, don't forget to spend your gift certificates if you have been holding onto one!
We thank you so very much for your support over the past 4 years. Even though the Boat is closing, we are excited to seek out new opportunities and projects. We also want to stress the importance of supporting the remaining small businesses and galleries in Milwaukee. Those spaces are vital to keeping our city and our community unique and enjoyable.
We hope to see all of you during the last couple of months of being open!
Warm regards,
The ladies of the Boat-
Faythe Levine & Kim Kisiolek
Join us for our last show ever!
"Bullies"
New Work by Micaela O'Herlihy
April 17- May 31st, 2009
Opening reception Gallery Night 7-10pm
Contact Information:
414-483-8462
2375 S. Howell Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
Justseeds Exhibit at Sewanee University
Posted March 31, 2009 by shaun in Events
Greg Pond at Sewanee University of the South put on a show at the rural school's art building which included a hefty selection of Justseeds prints this past month. Greg has been on the road with his own projects so we just recently got a couple of photos of the exhibit, which includes a wall of the Celebrate People's History posters.
Art of Protest Exhibit in Berkeley
Posted March 30, 2009 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
Join us for the opening reception of our two-person show in Berkeley this Friday!Friday, April 3rd at the Pueblo Nuevo Gallery in Berkeley, CA. This exhibit will feature some of the most recent work Melanie and Jesus have created in partnership with grassroots organizing efforts on issues such as ending State violence like ICE raids and police brutality, efforts for decolonizing education through access to Ethnic Studies and prints celebrating the ongoing resistance to Neoliberalism by the Zapatistas.
Dignidad Rebelde is a project created by activist-artists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes. It acts as a space for collaboration and artistic skill-sharing that is grounded in a Xicana worldview and is fueled by a collective desire to support grassroots organizing and social justice. Working through a print collective in Oakland, Barraza and Cervantes are committed to producing and distributing screen printed political posters and fostering resurgence in the screen printing medium for social change.
Pueblo Nuevo Gallery
1828 San Pablo Ave. Suite 1 • Berkeley, CA 94702
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 3rd, 6pm-Midnight
Music, Food and Poster sale
Artist Talk and Closing Reception:
Sunday, April 26th, 2-5pm
2009 Indigenous People's Night of Resistance
Posted March 30, 2009 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
UC Berkeley will be hosting its third annual Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance this Thursday, April 2nd from 5:30 to 10:30 pm. For the the third year Jesus Barraza and I will be participating in the event. This year we will be tabling and continuing our support of Indigenous students at Berkeley.
Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance is a night to honor all people who walk with the earth to protect and defend it. Indigenous peoples from Africa, Asia, Native America, and the Pacific Islands are not of the past but continue to live with dignity and continue to hold a great responsibility in sharing the knowledge of our ancestors who resisted colonialism in order for us to be here today. We envision a world without borders and seek to unite all marginalized communities through the intellectual, cultural and spiritual resistance that runs in our veins. Through our music, dance, art and spoken word we will share our experiences in hopes of building a more inclusive world-view within this university and all social systems at large.
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009
Time: 5:30pm - 10:30pm
Location: Pauley Ballroom (MLK Student Center)
Street: corner of Bancroft & Telegraph
City/Town: Berkeley, CA
ALL AGES WELCOME!
THIS IS A COMMUNITY EVENT. ABSOLUTELY NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL. NO COLORS - NO RED OR BLUE.
MCs (our very own xinaxtli guerilleras): Crissy Gallardo & Alison Dorantes-Garcia
opening prayer by:
Spirit Drum
Performing Live:
Danza In Xochitl In Cuicatl
Gaby Erandi Rico
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Los Poets del Norte
Olmeca
Sistahailstorm
Ise Lyfe
& many more to be announced!!
Speakers representing:
Indigenous Premaculture Project
Indigenous Identity & Muxeres from El Salvador documentary
Vendors:
Dignidad Rebelde
Chiapas Support Committee
Xinaxtli
Huaxtec
Inkza Crafts
Brown Berets
& many more!!
**t-shirts will be available for a small donation to complete the funding of this event, please be generous**
if you'd like to volunteer, please e-mail crissygallardo@berkeley.edu or j.cerritos831@gmail.com
Temporary Services in NYC
Posted March 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
If you're in NYC tomorrow night, roll on down to Bluestockings and check out Brett Bloom discussing the new Temporary Services book Public Phenomena:
Friday, March 27th @ 7PM - Free at Bluestockings Bookstore (172 Allen Street btw Stanton and Rivington)
Reading: Brett Bloom “Public Phenomena”
Temporary Services produces exhibitions, events, projects, and publications. Join Brett Bloom for a reading and discussion of Public Phenomena, a multi-city examination of informal modifications of every day public space and their implications for changing city use.
In addition to Public Phenomena, Brett Bloom will present four booklets in their Temporary Conversations interview series: Kawabata Makoto, Tim Kerr, The Dicks, and the latest: Jean Toche / Guerilla Art Action Group.
Temporary Services is Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. We are based in Illinois and have existed since 1998. We produce exhibitions, events, projects, and publications, making no distinction between art practice and other creative human endeavors.
Temporary Services seeks to create and participate in ethical relationships that are not competitive and are mutually beneficial. We strive towards aesthetic experiences built upon trust and unlimited experimentation.
Up Against the Wall - Berkeley Posters from the 1960s
Posted March 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This show looks like it's going to be great, mark your calendars!:
Up Against the Wall - Berkeley Posters from the 1960s
Exhibition 4/19 through 9/26, 2009
the Berkeley Historical Society
1931 Center St.
Berkeley, California (510) 848-0181
Opening April 19, 3:00-5:00 PM
As 1950s America woke up from the deep chill of McCarthyism and the Cold War, a new genre of popular culture blossomed in the streets of Berkeley during the mid-1960s. Spurred by the success of local rock and counterculture posters, political posters were vibrant public documents that promoted a wide range of social issues. This exhibition documents Berkeley's unique role in the evolution of this medium, and includes examples of works on such diverse issues as gay liberation, people's health care, opposition to the Viet Nam war, support for political prisoners, demand for alternative educational models, and community control of police. The show covers the "long 1960s" (1964-1974) and explores the complex interaction between local activists, artists, publishers, and distributors that made this cultural explosion possible.
Curated by archivist and poster scholar Lincoln Cushing, this exhibition is drawn from a unique private Berkeley collection of over 25,000 political posters assembled by Free Speech Movement activist Michael Rossman.
Due Process: An educational exhibit about the many processes of printmaking
Posted March 25, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our friends at PEEL sent along this announcement for a cool looking show:
Due Process: An educational exhibit about the many processes of printmaking
Curated by: Kevin Orlosky
First Friday Opening Reception April 3rd 7-11pm
Exhibit runs through April 28th
Gallery5
200 West Marshall Street
Richmond, Virginia 23220
Printmaking is one of the most versatile forms of art making. It has been used by artists for thousands of years. It has had tremendous advancements over the years while the traditional techniques are still being used. Artists are usually drawn to its methodology, intimacy, and subtlety. One advantage to printmaking is that prints can be editioned so that multiples of the same image may be sold. Because of this, printmaking has been used in the reproduction market. Unfortunately outside of the fine art and collector world, a reproduction is what is generally thought of when someone mentions the word "print." This is mostly due to the size of the greedy art reproduction industry. "Due Process" aims to end this stigma that has hindered the reputation of fine art prints to the general public. Fine art prints are original artwork that has been produced by the artist's hand. Due Process will showcase not only the end result of the artist's works, but will exhibit and explain the steps, tools and materials involved in each print process.
Artists included in the show: Deberah Chaney, Robert brown, Beth Grabowski, Kevin Haas, Keith Howard, Martha Oatway, Andrea Olson, Kevin Orlosky, Judith O'Rourke, Justin Rice, Deepa Swanson, Dan Weldon, Team8 Press
Reading by Anarcho-surrealist Ron Sakolsky (Portland)
Posted March 24, 2009 by icky in Events
Reading Frenzy Hosts Book Release for Anarcho-surrealist Author Ron Sakolsky
At 7pm on Wednesday, March 25, Reading Frenzy will host a book release event for anarcho-surrealist author Ron Sakolsky's new book Swift Winds, published by Eberhardt Press of Portland.
Sakolsky's new book is a backpocket compendium of subversive texts, marvelous manifestos, mutinous rants, outrageous ideas, utopian dreams, impossible demands and incendiary broadsides strategically aimed at countering the pathos of miserablism with the uncontrollable laughter of the insurgent imagination.
Sakolsky will be at the event to read selections from Swift Winds and will sign copies of the book, his second anthology of essays and poetry.
Sakolsky is a widely-published author whose essays have appeared in an array of dissident publications such as Alternative Press Review, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, Fifth Estate, Green Anarchy, Black Sun, The Oystercatcher, and many others. Swift Winds is Sakolsky's sixth book. His previous books include Creating Anarchy (2005); Surrealist Subversions, which he edited for Autonomedia (2002); Sounding Off: Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, edited with Fred Wei-Han Ho (Autonomedia, 1996); and Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Drop-Out Culture, edited with James Koehline (AK Press, 1993). An active proponent of underground radio broadcasting, Sakolsky also edited Seizing the Airwaves: A Free Radio Handbook with Stephen Dunifer (AK Press, 1998).
Swift Winds features etched illustrations by renowned artist Anais LaRue. The book is being offset printed and bound at the Eberhardt Press print studio in Portland.
Reading Frenzy is located at 921 SW Oak Street. For more information on the event, call 503-347-1048, email info@eberhardtpress.org, or see www.eberhardtpress.org.
Exile Infoshop: Prison Justice Week
Posted March 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
I'm a little late to catch this, as the week is half over, but friends in Ottawa at the Exile Infoshop are hosting a great week of prison activist events, including an exhibition of our Voices from the Outside portfolio.
Prison Justice Week
March 20 to 27, 2009
Exile Infoshop
256 Bank St. (second floor), Ottawa, ON.
reg. hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon-8pm; Sunday noon-5pm
Featuring the Justseeds art exhibit “Voices from Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex” and nightly events!
All Events @ 7PM,
Free, but regrettably not wheelchair accessible
* Friday March 20th - Kick-off Prison Justice Art exhibit w/DJ
* Saturday March 21st - Panel Discussion: From Prisons to Colonialism : Global Apartheid w/ Jaggi Singh, Abdullah Al-Malki, Yavar Hameed (representing Abousfian Abdelrazik). Abdullah Almalki is a Canadian citizen who was detained, interrogated and torture in Syria because of information that could have only originated from Canadian government agencies.Yavar Hameed is a lawyer representing Abousfian Abdelrazik. Mr. Abdelrazik was abducted, illegally detained and held in captivity by Sudanese authorities for approximately two years at the recommendation of CSIS. While in detention, Mr. Abdelrazik was subjected to coercive interrogation and torture by Sudanese officials with direct Canadian involvement. For the past five years, the Canadian government has been illegally blocking Mr. Abdelrazik’s right to return to Canada. Jaggi Singh is a no borders, anti-capitalist, migrant and indigenous solidarity organizer based in Montreal. He is currently active with No One Is Illegal-Montreal, Solidarity Across Borders and other groups.
* Sunday March 22nd - Prisoner Letter Writing and Crafts Night
* Monday March 23rd - Film Night - Life Inside Out, NFB production, a vérité-style documentary that takes us inside the walls of Grand Valley Institution for Women.
* Tuesday March 24th - Panel Discussion: Indigenous People and the Criminal Injustice System featuring: Kim Pate - Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies; Sheila Grantham - Researcher on The Aboriginal Women and Stigma Project
* Wednesday March 25th - Prisoner Letter Writing and Crafts Night
* Thursday March 26th - Speaker Event and Journal for Prisoners on Prisons Issue 17 Release w/ Sophie Harkat, Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee
* Friday March 27th - Fundraiser Costume Dance Party.
Of the Danger of Love, Refusal of Labor, and the Beauty of Autonomy
Posted March 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Of the Danger of Love, Refusal of Labor, and the Beauty of Autonomy
"Proliferating and losing oneself. This was the sense of the collective enterprise that the movement was attempting in Italy at the time." –Franco Berardi
Please join The Change You Want To See Gallery for a conversation with renowned philosopher, media activist and cultural agitator Franco Berardi (aka Bifo) and media theorist MacKenzie Wark, author of Game Theory and A Hacker's Manifesto.
The Change You Want To See Gallery
Monday, March 30th, 7:30pm (free)
84 Havemeyer St, at Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(L to Bedford; G to Metropolitan; J/M/Z to Marcy)
Bifo has been a pivotal figure in Italian social movements for that past 40 years. He co-founded the legendary Radio Alice (1977), the first pirate radio station in Italy, the magazine A/Traverso (1977-81), and Rekombinant (2000), an online network environment that focuses on radical philosophy, urban conflicts, media activism, networking art, knowledge economy, western psychopathology, autonomous universities, and institutions of the common. More recently he produced the autonomous street television network Orfeo TV (2002), which sparked a national network of pirate micro TV stations to counter the media monopoly of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
This event marks the long awaited publication of the first two Bifo’s books in English: Felix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography (Palgrave, 2008); and Ethereal Shadows: Communication and Power in Contemporary Italy (with Marco Jacquemet and Gianfranco Vitali, Autonomedia, 2009).
The evening will be moderated by Marco Deseriis, member of Not An Alternative and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.
Stencilada
Posted March 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Stencil Archive and CELLspace present:
Opening Grill Out
Saturday, March 28
1 to 5 pm
2050 Bryant St.
b/t 18th and 19th Sts.
SF, CA 94110
FREE (one day only, inside if raining)
Food on the grill, bevs in the cooler, music on the boombox, and art on the walls
(some food and beverages will be provided while supplies last)
Featuring eight panels of art by:
Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza
Russell Howze with Hugh D’Andrade
John Koleszar (AZ)
James S.
Crystal Townsend
Scott Williams
Peat Wollaeger (MO)
with special stencils on paper by Tiago DeJerk (OR)
Bring your own cut out stencils to add to the ongoing collection of stencil art at CELLspace (some paint provided)
A New Way Forward-Organizing site to protest bank bailouts
Posted March 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
I came across a website today called A New Way Forward. Its a website set up to encourage folks in the USA to organize demonstrations in their cities on April 11th.
It’s time to stop giving huge handouts to banks and start creating systemic change that helps everyone. We demand a new way forward now.We are sick of bailouts that are enriching bankers without restructuring a broken industry. Join us on April 11, 2009 as we rally for systematic change based in fairness and intelligent economics. Nationalize, Reorganize, Decentralize.
The site looks like a good resource and tool for people who haven't been involved in activists campaigns.
A New Way Forward is made up of national protests that will take place all over the country in major cities on April 11, 2009. This site was set up to help people and groups organize around a progressive approach to economic recovery in a ground up, localized organizing effort. People from all backgrounds will come together to influence national policy and organize their own rallies in their own city on April 11.The site allows anyone to sign up their city for a rally and begin working out the details with other local protesters in designated forums. Though each rally will be executed differently by different groups of people, the website provides a national community that will help draw attention, support and resources to the local efforts.
I am unaware of how long this has been online, yet it will be an experiment in people taking leadership and organizing outside of their previous networks. That also depends on how well this site is distributed, with networks like Facebook, Twitter, and a host of other new trends, it could be interesting.
Solidarity with the People of Palestine-NYC
Posted March 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
I read an article a few days ago on the International Solidarity Movement's website about an old aquaintence of mine, Tristan, who was critically injured on Friday March 13th by Israeli troops during protests against against construction of the annexation wall through the West Bank village of Ni’lin. He was hit in the forehead by a new type of high velocity, extended range teargas projectile, and has been transferred to Tel Hashomer hospital, near Tel Aviv with severe head injuries. A resident from Ni’lin was shot in the leg with live ammunition.
There will be a demonstration in NYC
Friday, March 20, 4-6pm
Solidarity with Tristan Anderson and the People of Palestine
Vigil at the Israeli Consulate
800 2nd Ave (btn 42nd&43rd St)
Please join us in our vigil to show our solidarity with Tristan and the people of Palestine.
Tea: A performance. A discussion. Thoughts from a veteran’s return voyage to Iraq
Posted March 17, 2009 by molly_fair in Events
A friend of a friend, IVAW member Aaron Hughes will be performing in Tea, part of the benefit exhibition 2,191 Days and Counting at Powerhouse Arena for Iraq Veterans Against the War.
March 19, 2009 1-4 PM
Powerhouse Arena 37 Main St. Dumbo Brooklyn, NY
TEA - chai - الشايtea |tē| noun • a hot drink made by infusing the dried, crushed leaves of the tea plant in boiling water.
Tea: A performance. A discussion. Thoughts from a veteran’s return voyage to Iraq
243 detainees left in Guantánamo
243 Styrofoam flowers
Tea is an ongoing dialogue that traverses a variety of landscapes. From the tea sipped on in this instillation, to a quaint coffee shop in the Lower Eastside, to a cage in Guantanamo Bay, to a motor pool in Iraq; tea is not only a favored drink but a shared moment that transcends cultural divides and systems of oppression. That is not meant as a clichéd utopian statement, but as a reminder of a shared humanity that is so often overlooked.
The project consists of three parts the installation, the performance, and an ongoing growing dialog. The installation is composed of all the needed materials to make, sit, enjoy, and commune over strong black tea. The performances consist of a series of monologues/stories shared by activists, Iraqis, veterans, and myself that reflect on the traumas of war. These monologues and the ephemera of the installation are designed to foster and grow the dialogue the third element aspect of the project.
Aaron Hughes served in the Illinois Army National Guard and in 2003 he was involuntarily deployed to Kuwait and Iraq with the belief he would provide humanitarian relief for the Iraqi people. As a truck driver he traveled throughout much of Iraq and quickly came to the realization that he was not providing any type of humanitarian relief, but in stead was contributing to the oppression, destruction, and dehumanization of the Iraqi people. Following a fifteen-month deployment Aaron returned home guilt stricken and committed to end the occupation.
This March Aaron, as a representative for Iraq Veterans Against the War, returned to Iraq in an important step in focusing more attention on the rights and needs of the Iraqi people. Since the U.S. occupation began, Iraqi unions have resisted oppression by organizing for worker rights and the creation of new unions. But under occupation, Iraqi workers have been targeted in an attempt to suppress the population and control Iraq’s natural resources. Independent labor unions are banned; labor leaders have been killed, tortured, beaten, and imprisoned; worker’s wages have been suppressed and their rights have been routinely violated; and union bank accounts have been frozen. Iraqi labor unions and workers have been among the leading non-sectarian forces defending Iraqi sovereignty and democracy by exercising their collective power through strikes to increase wages, resist privatization of Iraq’s oil industry, and stand up to foreign contractors who threaten their livelihoods.
So please sit and have tea with me…
Rhizome Collective/Bikes Across Borders Benefit-Austin, TX
Posted March 13, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Sadly, because of a city of Austin enforced eviction, this weekend will be the last Rhizome Collective event for the forseeable future. Go say goodbye at a joint Rhizome Collective/Bikes Across Borders benefit
Saturday, March 14th, 8pm-2am
Rhizome Collective
300 Allen St.
Austin, TXbands performing include:
THE BLUE HIT
TIL WE'RE BLUE OR DESTROYTIL WE'RE BLUE OR DESTROY
BUSCANDO EL MONTE
WINO VINO
THE BIKE BANDFood by Ararat, Adult Beverages
Bike Art, Slideshow and Video Projections, DJs, dancing and more
$5-500.00
All residents of the Rhizome and it's 10,000sq. ft. of warehouses and gardens will be evicted. also evicted will be Bikes Across Borders, Food Not Bombs, Art and Revolution, KPWR.ORG, and the Inside Books Project.
Rhizome has existed since 2000 on Austin's eastside, has been host to dozens of benefits with thousands of people, and raised 10's of thousands of dollars for non-profits, independent musicians and radical groups in Austin and around the country.
the members of the Rhizome Collective are hoping to eventually raise enough money to make city-enforced repairs and purchase our building in the future. Your participation and donations will help us reach this goal !!!!!
Justseeds at the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair this weekend
Posted March 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Roger and I will be tabling all day Saturday and Sunday at the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair, so if you are in the Bay Area, come on down and say hello. We'll be tabling with the awesome San Francisco Print Collective. Here's the info:
14th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
March 14, 2009 (10am-6pm)
March 15, 2009 (11am-5pm)
SF County Fair Building
Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way
Golden Gate Park
Directions here.
In the main hall about 60 vendors (booksellers, distributors, independent presses and political groups, from the local area, the west coast and North America) will be displaying books, pamphlets, zines, t-shirts and other merchandise and information. Two local worker-owned co-ops will be food and beverage vendors this year: Arizmendi on Sat 3/15, Other Avenues on Sun 3/16.
Speakers: Judith Levine, Bruce Anderson, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Barry Pateman, Michael Flores, Mark Anquoe, Cheb i Sabba, Andrej Grubajic, Victoria Law, Diane DiPrima, Stevphen Shukaitis, Richard Kempton, Jen Angel, James Tracy, Diana Block, Crudo, Cris Carlsson, Summer Brenner, Robert Ovetz, Osha Neumann, Clif Ross, Iain Boal, David Kubrin Josh MacPhee, Fly, Sara Brodzinsky, Bo Brown, Audrey Goodfriend, and many others, including panel discussions, Sex Workers, and Surviving the Economic Meltdown, Defend the RNC 8, plus film screenings & more. Bios, descriptions and additional information posted on the Schedule page.
May ’68 in Paris and the Student Movement in Ljubljana, 1968–1972
Posted March 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
For our far flung friends in Eastern Europe, if you can, a trip out to Ljubljana for this exhibition seems well worth it!:
May ’68 in Paris and the Student Movement in Ljubljana, 1968–1972
Posters, Film, and Photographs
29 January – 22 March 2009
International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC)
Grad Tivoli, Pod turnom 3
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
The protests and strikes by students and workers in Paris and other French cities in May and June of 1968, which challenged the traditional values of society and destabilized the regime of Charles de Gaulle, left an indelible mark on the history of the second half of the twentieth century. The protests, which soon spread across the world, encompassed Yugoslavia as well, including Ljubljana. French artists, some inspired by Guy Debord, acted as a kind of propaganda machine for the uprising. They occupied universities, established people’s studios, became agitators and activists, and exhibited their work on the streets and in factories.
The exhibition will present around eighty posters, loaned by the Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée in La Louvière, Belgium. They were created for the events in Paris, and their image has become synonymous with the urban struggle. The student movement in Ljubljana, from 1968 to 1972, will be documented by a film by Majda Širca, as well as the student newspapers Tribuna and SP (standing for slovensko podzemlje – “the Slovene underground”), leaflets and announcements, and photographs by Tone Stojko, Edi Šelhaus, and Žare Veselič, from the Museum and Galleries of the City of Ljubljana and Slovenia’s National Museum of Contemporary History.
SILENT AUCTION FOR SWIMMING CITIES OF SERENISSIMA: Secret Project Robot
Posted March 12, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
March 14th, 2009
Secret Project Robot - 210 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (at Metropolitan)
March 14th - Benefit Silent Auction 7:30pm - 10pm, Dance Party 9pm - 3am
swimmingcities.org
secretprojectrobot.org
Secret Project Robot will host a silent auction to benefit SWOON's latest nautical art project Swimming Cities of Serenissima. The benefit will take place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on March 14th. The bidding begins at 7:30pm and ends promptly at 10pm. Dancing and Djing by The Paw and Dirty Finger will follow the silent auction. Here is a selection of the participating artists:
SWOON
Blek Le Rat
The London Police
Faile
David Ellis
Maya Hayuk
Monica Canilao
Chris Stain
D*Face
Gaia
Tony Bones
Elbow-Toe
Brad Downey
Martha Cooper
Imminent Disaster
C. Damage
Cyclops
Michelle Handelman
Santiago Mostyn
Mike Houston & Martin Mazzora- Cannonball Press
D-Dock & 5003 of Hobby Horse
Matt Small
Dennis McNett
The Hunker Down To Rise Above Cinema Show (Portland)
Posted March 10, 2009 by icky in Events
The Oregon Department of Kick Ass presents
The Hunker Down To Rise Above Cinema Show
A slew of shorts curated by Vanessa Renwick focusing on folks taking matters into their own hands, be it within bike culture, hobo culture, kitchen culture or just plain ol’ falling in love.
Go to this link for more info on each of the films.
http://www.odoka.org/the_work/hunker_down_to_rise_above/
Friday March 13th 2009 at 7 pm
$5 dollars admission
The Waypost
3120 N Williams Avenue
Portland, Oregon
503-367-3182
Tamms 10 Petition
Posted March 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This is not something we do here on the blog, but I wanted to post this up for the people who have been organizing their asses off fighting a control unit prison in Illinois. Tamms Year Ten is the culmination of years of organizing to fight the torture happening at the Tamms super maximum security prison in southern Illinois. Beginning as a project where artists and family members wrote letters containing poetry to all the prisoners held at Tamms. A good example of how art can start a process that leads to real change, the simple gesture of writing the letters has turned into a full-blown political campaign, with a bill introduced to stop human rights abuses at Tamms.
Please take a minute, click this simple link, and sign the online petition. It's simple, and the more people that click, the more backbone the Representative that introduced the bill might have to follow through! Click here:
Current Tendencies Opening March 12 at the Haggerty Museum of Art
Posted March 9, 2009 by colin_matthes in Justseeds & Member Projects
This Thursday at 5pm is the opening for Current Tendencies at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, WI. I am working on a wall drawing called Winners Circle for the exhibit. So far so good, I am real happy with where it is at, and hope to finish it by tomorrow night. More information is below and you can check out images of the drawing as it progresses here
HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
presents
Current Tendencies: Ten Artists from Wisconsin
March 12 – June 14, 2009
Opening: Thursday, March 12 at 5:00 p.m. at the Haggerty Museum of Art
The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University presents the exhibition Current Tendencies Ten Artists from Wisconsin that features recent work and new installations by contemporary artists from Wisconsin. As these artists work in a variety of media and on disparate themes, each artist or pair of artists will have a dedicated space within the museum for their work. The art in the exhibition will range from paintings, drawings and photographs to mixed media.
Site specific works are being created by Jennifer Angus, Colin Matthes and the duo of Shana McCaw & Brent Budsberg specifically for this exhibition. In addition to these installations, one gallery will be dedicated to the work of the late Peter Bardy, a self-taught artist from Milwaukee who transformed his home into a private world. New work by photographer Sonja Thomsen and paper cuttings by Xiaohong Zhang will be featured in the exhibition along with variety of mixed-media works by Anne Kingsbury and paintings by T.L. Solien and George Williams, Jr.
Programs offered at the Haggerty in conjunction with the exhibition:
The State of Art –
Open forum about the visual arts in Wisconsin Thursday, March 26 7 p.m.
Panelists:
- George Tzougros, Executive Director, Wisconsin Arts Board
- Polly Morris, Director of Development, Marketing & Outreach at the University of
Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, Milwaukee Arts Board member
- Jane Simon, Curator of Exhibitions, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
- Deb Brehmer, arts writer, owner of Portrait Society Gallery and art history instructor at
the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Lunchtime Learning Sonja Thomsen (photography) Wednesday, April 8 11:30 a.m.
Gallery Talk T. L. Solien (painting) Wednesday, April 15 6 p.m.
Gallery Talk Anne Kingsbury (mixed media) Wednesday, April 22 6 p.m.
Gallery Talk George Williams, Jr. (painting) Wednesday, April 22 6 p.m.
Lunchtime Learning Jennifer Angus (installation) Wednesday, April 29 11:30 a.m.
For more information, call 414-288-1669 or visit www.marquette.edu/haggerty
Images of the African Diaspora in New York City Community Murals
Posted March 9, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A great looking exhibit in NYC, with an opening tomorrow night:
Images of the African Diaspora in New York City Community Murals
OPENING RECEPTION
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Harlem Stage @ Aaron Davis Hall/
The City College of New York--Lobby
Convent Avenue at 135th Street
more info in the image below, or click here:
Swimming Cities of Serenissima Benefit
Posted March 5, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
Glowlab Benefit Exhibition for SWOON’s Swimming Cities of Serenissima at Fountain NY
VIP/Press Preview: Thursday March 05; 11am–7pm
General Admission: March 06-08; 11am–7pm
Reception for the Artists: Friday, March 06; 7pm–midnight
Location: Pier 66 at 26th St in Hudson River Park NYC
Admission: Suggested donation of $5 at the door for all-weekend access
Event Link: http://www.glowlab.com/glowlab/swimming-cities-benefit-glowla/
http://www.swimmingcities.org/
Glowlab is pleased to announce it will host benefit exhibition for a nautical art project pioneered by the artist SWOON. Swimming Cities of Serenissima is a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May of 2009. Designed by the visual artist SWOON, the floating sculptures are descendants of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada (Mississippi River, 2006 and 2007).
The benefit will take place in New York City during Armory Show week, March 05-08, as part of Glowlab’s exhibit space at Fountain, the alternative art exhibition known for presenting cutting-edge and independent art galleries. Fountain will be located at Pier 66 at 26th St in Hudson River Park. Participating artists include Swoon, Maya Hayuk, The London Police, Martha Cooper, Monica Canilao, Dennis McNett, Imminent Disaster, Eric White, Tod Seelie, Molly Crabapple, C. Damage, Elbow Toe and many more.
Glowlab Director Christina notes, “We’re thrilled to host this benefit for our long-time collaborator SWOON’s latest project, the Swimming Cities of Serenissima. It’s an ambitious project with an incredible creative spirit that, in the most physical way possible, engages contemporary art in the development of culture and community. I believe it’s critical to support projects like this, especially now, and we’re excited to help launch these beautiful boats in the spring.”
Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance
Posted March 5, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance: An Urban R/evolution
Opening Friday, March 6, 2009
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Degraves St. underpass to Flinders St. Station
Melbourne, Australia
"No, painting is not done to decorate apartments it is an instrument of war".
-Pablo Picasso, 1945.
Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance features the works and collaborations of four contemporary arts-activists. Romantic illusions of freedom fighters aside, serious business meets tongue-in-cheek as survivalism and critical masses meet conscious
consumption, sign language and political awareness in this diverse and eye opening exhibition. . .
Tom Civil
Marc De Jong
Paul J. Kalemba
Van Rudd
till march 27th
Soul'd Roots
Posted March 3, 2009 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
Sisters of Color United for Education & Annie E. Casey Foundation Presents
SOUL'D ROOTS
Food & Media Justice Institute
Promoting Solidarity and Sustainability in Our Communities
March 12 - 15, 2009
Denver, CO
Jesus and I will be participating in this Institute next weekend so if you are in the Denver Area and interested sign up! Click through for contact info and more info.
Artists in the Struggle- Presentation by Melanie Cervantes & Jesus Barraza at UC Berkeley
Posted February 27, 2009 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
Jesus and I have been invited to speak at UC Berkeley working as movement artists, working in collaboration with other community and artist activists as well as working in collaboration with grassroots organizing groups. We are both very excited about having the opportunity to do this presentation and talk as part of a Chicana/o Studies class MeXicana/o Art Thought and (Art)Practice. Jesus is excited about presenting at UC Berkeley because he emerged as a graphic designer/artist-activist during the 1999 twLF (third world Liberation Front) hunger strike and actions. I am particularly excited because my art practice also grew out of my experiences at Cal
Celia Herrera Rodriguez an incredibly talented and sage Xicana artist and bad ass professora encouraged and pushed me to create art even when I was afraid of the process of creating art because it told me so much about myself. Because Celia helped me become more grounded in my worldview my politics became that more clear.She brought in amazing artists to our classes in my eyes were celebrities because of their profund and prolific work. I had the luck of meeting amazing artists like Cherrie Moraga, Juana Alicia, Yolanda Lopez, Emmanuel Montoya and Consuelo Underwood Jimenez in her classes. And now...I am both proud of and humbled by what her mentorship has helped me to achieve and am happy to be invited to her classroom to share my practice and art.
House of Sound
Posted February 25, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from Vanessa Renwick, one of my favorite film makers (with what I believe is an Alec 'Icky' Dunn original on the flyer!):
House of Sound
An installation by Vanessa Renwick
New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny St., Portland, OR
March 7-April 19, 2009
opening Sat. March 7th, 6-9pm
Meredith Stern Print Show Closing Party
Posted February 24, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
If you're in Pittsburgh this week, come to Morning Glory Coffeehouse to get a last look at the beautiful prints and print collages of Meredith Stern. A lot of this work is new, and it is colorful, loving, inspiring! Meredith will be here to play a reunion show with her old band The Accident. Other unusual and crucial live music and DJing, see below. FREE!
CLOSING PARTY! FREE FOOD + DRINK! SWEET JAMZ!
February 25, 2008 - 8pm at:
MORNING GLORY COFFEEHOUSE
1806 Chislett Street in Morningside, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
http://www.moglocoffee.com
live music for the closing party--
The Accident (Meredith + Deanna one-time reunion)
2 DRAGONS BLACK + RED (underage and all the rage)
Etta - solo accapella - yessir
DJ MARY MACK will make your squirrel tail go BUMP!
Tricks of the Eye
Posted February 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
If you're in Providence, or will be over the next month, stop by and check out this exhibit, which includes the Celebrate People's History posters:
Tricks of the Eye: History and Memory in a Shifting Social Landscape
Opening Night, Thursday March 5th , 6-8pm
RISD|Public Engagement, 2nd Floor
CIT Building, 169 Weybosset Street
Providence, RI
March 5 thru April 3, 2009.
RISD|Public Engagement is pleased to sponsor the upcoming exhibit Tricks of the Eye: History and Memory in a Shifting Social Landscape. The exhibition highlights the ways that local and national artists respond to the shifting landscapes that backdrop and underline our society’s actions and intentions. Viewed together, the documentation of these at projects foster a vibrant learning environment for the RISD and Providence communities to develop an expanded horizon of what it means to make socially- and publicly-engaged artwork.
Tricks of the Eye incorporates documentation of past and current projects that invite multiple methods of engagement from the viewer. Documentation strategies include web presentations, printed material, models, as well as ephemera from the original artwork.
Artists and projects in the exhibition include:
220 Glimpses of Utopia (John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department, Los Angeles, CA)
Arctic Listening Post (Jane D. Marsching, Boston, MA)
Armadillo FEMA Trailer Project (Jae Rhim Lee, MIT, Cambridge, MA)
Blue Hammer and ReMEMBERing Wilde (Leon Johnson, Portland, ME)
Celebrate Peoples' History Poster Project (Josh MacPhee, Brooklyn, NY)
Just Fish (Pam Hall, St. John’s, Newfoundland)
Navigating the Space between Home & Exile (Sheryl Mendez, New York City, NY and Iraq)
The NY Times Special Edition (Steve Lambert, New York City, NY)
Meyers Bitter Survey (National Bitter Melon Council, Boston, MA)
Voices and Visions (Holly Ewald, Warwick, RI)
Complementing the exhibition, RISD | Public Engagement has programmed a series of discussions throughout the month of March around emergent and interconnected themes, featuring presentations by exhibition artists, informal panels, and class visits. For updates on the schedule of events, artists’ bios and project descriptions, please visit: www.risdpublicengagement.net
Palestine film events in the metro Detroit area
Posted February 21, 2009 by bec_young in Film & Video
There are some really interesting films regarding Palestine coming up in Southeast Michigan. Tonight will be the second showing of a one-hour film called Once a Wall, a Ripple Remains by Tirtza Even, a University of Michigan professor originally from Jerusalem. I saw the first showing of this film in and was very moved. The film uses still photos Even took while in Palestine in 1998, and uses digital animation to make the images move and interact. Her work seems to play with the idea of the wall as a metaphor, as she undermines our idea of what is real or unreal - people that seem real become cardboard cutouts, or become transparent so that they are only outlines. The host for this event is a fabulous new gallery in Hamtramck, called 2739 Edwin. I also saw a really inspiring show of papercuts about Palestine at the same gallery last Fall, by Detroit area artist Toby Millman.
The Arab American National Museum in Dearborn is hosting a film series called Chronicles of a Refugee. Here is a description from their website: "Chronicles of a Refugee is a six-part documentary series created by Perla Issa, Aseel Mansour and Adam Shapiro looking at the global Palestinian refugee experience over the last 60 years. Filmed in over 15 countries, with more than 250 interviews of Palestinian refugees who have lived in over 25 countries, the series aims to provoke debate concerning strategy and asks: ‘What makes the most sense for a strategy to achieve Palestinian rights as part of a vibrant and viable Palestinian national movement?’" Today at 4 pm, Episode 3 of the series will be shown; Episode 4 will be shown March 11 at 6:30 pm.
Also on Wednesday, March 11 is the debut of the first ever Ann Arbor Palestine Film Fest! According to the organizers: "The Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival showcases films about Palestine and by Palestinian directors. Educating through the screen arts, the film festival amplifies the voice of the Palestinian people as a nation and a diaspora. The film festival is an independent and non-sectarian organization." The festival runs through Saturday, March 14.
'In the Name of Blood Shed': Art, Resistance, and Repression in México
Posted February 20, 2009 by dylan_miner in Events
Alongside historians Jerry García and Benjamin Smith, I have been working on the curation of a small exhibition called 'In the Name of the Blood Shed.' Focusing on photographs, street art, and installation work from Oaxaca, the exhibition includes works by Lapiztola, Zzierra Rrezzia, Edith Morales Sánchez, and Antonio Turok.
If you happen to be in Three Fires Territory any time soon, stop by the show at LookOut! Gallery. Turok and Morales Sánchez will be at the opening, while the members of Lapiztola and Zzierra Rrezzia should be at the closing.
Opening Reception
02 March 2009
6:30-9:00 with a panel at 7:00
Closing Reception
27 March 2009
6:30-9:00 with workshops at 7:00
City from Below poster pt. 2
Posted February 20, 2009 by jmacphee in Posters & Prints
I don't think mine is as cool as Icky's, put here's my City from Below poster. Go to the conference!!!
Activist Print Open Studio at Signs of Change
Posted February 18, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Critical Mass Art
Images from Signs of Change Winter Harvest Reception, January 23, 2009
Join local printmakers and activists at a special Activist Print Open Studio, this Thursday, 5-8pm, at the Signs of Change exhibition at the Miller Gallery in Pittsburgh.
ACTIVIST PRINT OPEN STUDIO >>>
Thursday, Feb. 19, 5-8pm
@ Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh
Free and open to the public
Screenprinting open studio provided by Artists Image Resource + The Andy Warhol Museum. Observe printers in action, roll up your sleeves and print posters promoting local issues, or bring $5 and create a screenprint from images that you provide.
A Moment in Time: Bingham's Black Panthers
Posted February 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
When I was in LA I got over to the California African American Museum to see Howard L. Bingham's photographs of the Black Panther Party. The exhibit is made up of photographs from 1968 and ranges from the many different rallies and conferences to more casual encounters between the members. There are a few images of police repression, during an LA rally, and one of the bullet ridden headquarters in Oakland. Otherwise there is a different perspective, from the one I grew up with, in these photos of the Panthers. Absent were the, expected, "militants" with a guns imagery while portrayals of the organization and support being multi-generational and multi-racial. The Panthers did have their aesthetic and image down. A bunch of folks in black leather jackets with dark shades staring you down is super intimidating. The ability and seriousness of the party is conveyed in many of these images. There were also really incredible & beautiful "caught-in-the_moment" portraits of Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, and Stokely Carmichael. Its some Panther history worth checking out.
In 1968, under the auspices of Life magazine, photographer Howard L. Bingham and journalist Gilbert Moore began a journey to capture the activities of the Black Panther Party. From March through October, from Los Angeles to Oakland, and Berkeley to New York, Bingham's camera immortalized moments in time with Huey P. Newton, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver and his wife, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, David Hilliard, and the many initiates, believers and observers.
October 2, 2008 - May 31, 2009
California African American Museum
600 State Dr.
Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
If you go you can also check out the Black Chrome, Black motorcycle gangs and their customized choppers!
Hobos to Street People
Posted February 15, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Hobos to Street People:
Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present
February 19 - August 15, 2009
The California Historical Society
678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Reception: February 19, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Hobos to Street People is a traveling exhibition organized by the California Exhibition Resources Alliance.
Curated by Art Hazelwood.
Charles Wollenberg advised on historical matters.
Paul Boden advised on contemporary issues.
A preview the exhibition can be seen at the Western Regional Advocacy Project website.
Come Celebrate the Five-Year Anniversary of Mess Hall in Chicago this Sunday
Posted February 13, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
If your in Chicago or close by, come celebrate Mess Hall’s 5-Yr. anniversary this Sunday, Feb. 15th!
Mess Hall is an experimental cultural space. Located in the Roger’s Park in Chicago, Mess Hall is a place for visual culture, creative urbanism, sustainable ecology, food democracy, radical politics, and cultural experimentation. Mess Hall runs on the generosity of those who use it. This allows us to provide everything for free - from food and drinks to workshops and events.
Over the past five years, hundreds of events have taken place from art shows, film screenings, discussions, meetings, potlucks, sewing rebellions, performances, and everything in between.
So join us Sunday, February 15, 2009, 7:00pm to celebrate the past 5 years and make your mark on the space for future events.
What you can expect:
-An exhibit of Mess Hall archives & proposals for our next 5 years.
-The Justseeds Prison Portfolio Project
-Art by Burtonwood and Holmes (http://www.burtonwoodandholmes.com)
-This Is Not A Truck (http://www.blocartiststudios.com/index.html)
-PHOTOBOOTH
-ART SWAP!
-talent share
-piñatas
-kick-ass music with Mess Hall’s own Aay Preston-Myint DJing.
Mess Hall links:
Mess Hall website:
http://www.messhall.org/
(BRAND NEW!) Mess Hall blog:
http://messhallarchive.wordpress.com/
Links to some recent press...
News Star article on Mess Hall
http://chicagojournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=49&SubSectionID=142&ArticleID=7015&TM=50481.14
Loyola Phoenix article on Mess Hall
Mess Hall's Ten-Point Statement:
Flight and Flurry
Posted February 12, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Continuing the travels of art on water, Swoon is hoping to create some crafts and travel into Venice. They need some help so there is a benefit for the project called the Swimming Cities of Serenissima.
Friday, February 13th
Flight and Flurry
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
an evening of songs and aerial performance featuring:
fall harbor
hannah marcus and tianna kennedy
trapeze performances by natalie agee & c. ryder cooley
The Sharpie Show at Grewest Gallery
Posted February 12, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
I'm trying to take in as much LA as I can before I head up to the bay. I made it over to the Crewest Gallery the other day to check out The Sharpie Show. Crewest is a real nice gallery and graffiti "boutique" in downtown LA. The show is packed with some talented sketches while the Mike Giant pieces had the largest impression on me.
The Sharpie Show, an exhibition curated by renown graffiti artist Man One, featuring original pieces created using Sharpies by some of the best known graffiti artists in the country (and beyond). Aside from graffiti artists, work by tattoo artists and known illustrators; Lalo Alcaraz and Overton Loyd will be on display. From stylized hand signatures, to throw ups, piecebooks, stickers, and any other possible object that can be marked upon, this exhibit will demonstrate the level of creativity that can be achieved between an artist and his/her most basic tool - The Sharpie.
The show will be on view until March 1st.
Visit the show at
Crewest
110 Winston St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Or check it out on the Crewest Flickr set
Our City Dreams
Posted February 11, 2009 by k_c_ in Film & Video
For those in NYC there is a documentary film called Our City Dreams, which profiles 5 women artists in NYC. One of which is Justseeds member Swoon.
Filmed over the course of two years, OUR CITY DREAMS is an invitation to visit the creative spaces of five women artists, each of whom possesses her own energy, drive and passion. These women, who span different decades and represent diverse cultures, have one thing in common beyond making art: the city to which they have journeyed and now call home - New York.
You can catch it at the Film Forum
February 4-18, 2009
209 W Houston St
New York, NY 10014
There are Q&A's with Chiara Clemente, the filmmaker, Thursday, February 12, 6:00 show and Tuesday, February 17, 6:00 show.
You can watch the trailer at First Run Features.
Potluck Chat: Erik Ruin
Posted February 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our very own Erik Ruin will be giving a fireside chat in Philly tonight about his work and Justseeds!
Potluck Tonight: Tuesday Feb 10th 2009, 6-8pm EST
basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia
Local Philadelphia artist and puppeteer Erik Ruin will speak about Justseeds Cooperative, a graphic art distributor which he co-founded.
He'll be giving an informal slideshow on the imagery and themes that inform his work as a printmaker/puppeteer/editor. This discussion will touch upon everything from his influences and interests in/from epic theater, the history of radical graphics and direct film to collective work as a member of the Justseeds Radical Artists' Cooperative, Upsidedownculture Collective and Barebones Productions.
Gouge: The Modern Woodcut
Posted February 9, 2009 by k_c_ in Reviews
Chris & I were fortunate enough to go check out an exhibit in LA on Saturday. It was called Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now, at the Hammer Museum. We noticed an ad for it in one of the local weeklies and snipped it hoping to catch it after the install. In a borrowed car we made it over to Westwood, an affluent area of LA, where the Hammer Museum resides, part of UCLA.
Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now examines the woodcut in terms of its diverse forms and uses in the modern era. A thematic survey, it invites parallels between the medium in countries as diverse and geographically distant Mexico, France and Korea. Woodblock printing is, in fact, one of the most common artistic practices throughout the world. Although the motivations of each artist and the circumstances in which the woodcuts were made may differ greatly, the visual character of the gouge cuts is a defining thread among the selected works in this exhibition
There were a handful of really inspiring prints and original woodblocks alongside the pieces. Chris became really stoked when he realized there were some Kathe Kollwitz prints in the show. He is a real big fan of her work, so he studied her self-portrait and the Woman in the Lap of Death, 1921, Woodcut for quite some time.
Along with the German Expressionist work that I enjoyed seeing in person was some Gaughin, Matisse, and Munch pieces that i found really inspiring. I wasn't entirely surprised but excited to see the familiar likeness of Zapata printed on grey paper. I immediately knew it was a print from one of the ASAR-O artists from Oaxaca. The print was made during the APPO uprising yet strangely made it into the Images in the Grain section and not the following room, The Voice of the Activist.
City From Below poster
Posted February 6, 2009 by icky in Events
It feels like all I do lately is work on some (anal) design-y shit on the computer or (anal) letterpress and typesetting in my basement. So it was really fun to sit down and just draw a big goofy image. This is for a conference focused around urban issues in social struggles called the City From Below, held in Baltimore in late March. We'll be posting more about this conference as it comes closer, but for now....
Credit is Alright show opening tonight
Posted February 5, 2009 by colin_matthes in Events
I'm pretty happy right now, today I was swimming in an outdoor pool in Southern Texas. 80 degrees in February, yeah I could get used to this.
I am working on an installation at the University of Texas Pan American. For all of you in Edinburg Texas, the show will open tonight, Thursday, February 5, 6-9pm. I will be talking about the work at 6:30. Here are a few preview picks.
Poster Critique + Discussion of Visual Strategies for Resisting the Prison Industrial Complex
Posted February 5, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Tamms Year Ten and Mess Hall are holding another event related to the Justseeds Prison Portfolio, a poster critique and discussion of aesthetic strategies! I wish I was in Chicago, because this is exactly what I'm into, trying to discuss and suss out how to improve the effectiveness of our visual propaganda. If you are in Chicago, check this out:
Poster Critique + Discussion of Visual Strategies for Resisting the Prison Industrial Complex with Dan S. Wang & Laurie Jo Reynolds
Saturday, February 7 at 6:30pm
Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
Tamms Year Ten is hosting an open discussion of the prints in the Justseeds poster portfolio — each which critiques the "prison industrial complex." Let's talk about which images are effective for you--and use this as a basis for considering the visual and rhetorical strategies in the movement. We want to learn from the decisions made by these artists, and then we want to work with you to consider the very real representational problems we face as a movement!
- How do we depict the experience of long-term isolation? Or communicate the experience of long-term incarceration?
- What visual language will help us to imagine the abolition of prisons? To urge rehabilitation over punishment?
- Can commonly used motifs—fists through prison bars/broken chains/doves/barbed wire/slave ships/prison stripes—still work? Are new metaphors required?
We'll be talking about prison-related issues, but we hope that this event will be of interest to all artist-activists bedeviled and/or charmed by the problem of producing movement art which translates our political passions into visual form, renders visible the (often unacknowledged) problems of the present, and/or serves as an irresistible invitation to join us in our efforts to get free. We also invite you to bring other anti-prison movement ephemera (t-shirts, posters, stickers) for discussion!
http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/19026
Paper Tiger TV Benefit
Posted February 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The awesome old school flyer says it all:
PAPER TIGER BENEFIT DANCE PARTY
Thaw out your dancing paws!!!
Saturday February 7th 7 PM at The Yippie Museum/Cafe
9 Bleecker Street (btn Bowery & Elizabeth), NYC
Sliding scale $5-$10
Photos from “TAMMS YEAR TEN CAMPAIGN / Justseeds Prison Portfolio” exhibition in Chicago
Posted February 2, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Above are photos from an important event that took place at Mess Hall in Chicago on Feb. 1, 2009. The TAMMS YEAR TEN CAMPAIGN organized a show of posters, flyers, letters, poetry, postcards, banners, photos, videos, and ephemera from their multifaceted campaign. Included in the show was the Justseeds Portfolio Project: Voices from Outside - Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex.
The event focused attention on the current campaign against TAMMS (a super max prison in southern Illinois) and urged more people in Illinois and beyond to get involved in speaking out and contacting legislators about the horrid conditions and the methods of psychological torture that take place at TAMMS.
If you are outraged by Guantánamo Bay and encouraged by the Obama Administration’s call to close it down, learn more about TAMMS and speak out against torture in Illinois prisons.
About TAMMS YEAR TEN CAMPAIGN:
In 1998, the first prisoners were transferred from prisons across the state to Tamms CMAX, in Southern Illinois. This new “supermax” prison, designed to keep men in permanent solitary confinement, was intended for short-term incarceration. The IDOC called it a one-year “shock treatment.” Now, ten years later, over one-third of the original prisoners have been there for a decade. They have lived in long-term isolation—no phone calls, no communal activity, no ocntact visits. They only leave the cell to exercise alone in a concrete box 2-5 times per week. They are fed through a slot in the door.
Year Ten is a coalition of prisoners, ex-prisoners, families, artists and other concerned citizens who have come together to protest the misguided and inhumane policies at Tamms C-MAX, and to call for an end to psychological torture. We have initiated a program of cultural, educational and political events to publicize Tamms after ten years of operation.
Up on the Roof Countin' Pigeons
Posted February 2, 2009 by k_c_ in Justseeds & Member Projects
Chris Stain & I are out in Los Angeles this week to build an installation for his solo show at the Carmichael Gallery. If you're around here or know anyone that is interested in hanging out with us on a NYC rooftop tell em to swing by the gallery. Maybe we can shoot the shit and drink 40's on the roof.
Here's the skinny:
A solo exhibition of new work by Chris Stain
Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art is proud to present "Up on the roof countin' pigeons", the first West Coast solo exhibition of work by Baltimore artist Chris Stain. Artwork featured in the exhibition will include stencil, spraypaint and mixed media on metal and found objects.For "Up on the roof countin' pigeons", Chris Stain will transform the gallery into a NYC rooftop scene, complete with pigeon coop and live jazz music. The enigmatic stencil portraits integrated into the large-scale installation pierce the gaze of viewers and offer a unique perspective of contemporary inner city life.
"My work explores the emotional and physical struggle of growing up in an urban environment. Through hand-cut stencils and installations made from found materials I hope to inspire compassion for the often overlooked individuals of society." - Chris Stain
Thursday, February 5th
7.00pm – 10.00pm
Carmichael Gallery
1257 N. La Brea Avenue
W. Hollywood CA 90038
Please RSVP to rsvp@carmichaelgallery.com
Open to the public February 6th – February 26th, 2009
1.00pm – 7.00pm
I hope to tickle your fancy wih some tastes as the install progresses so check back here
or on our Flickr
Paper Trail in Chicago
Posted February 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Just In:
Paper Trail
February 3 - March 7, 2009
Reception: Wednesday, February 4, 5-8pm
Gallery 400
College of Architecture and the Arts
University of Illinois at Chicago
400 S. Peoria Street (MC 034)
Chicago, IL 60607
Paper Trail is an exhibition of historical and contemporary ephemeral material originally produced by disparate communities using remarkably similar forms of rhetoric and graphic styles to visually articulate their collective revolutionary agendas and concerns.
The historical material was created, produced, and distributed in the late 1960s by Chicago's original Rainbow Coalition—an alliance between The Black Panther Party, the Young Lords Organization, Young Patriots, and Rising Up Angry. This material is presented "in conversation" with what can be considered its contemporary counterpart—visual reproductions of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, language of the newly formed Rainbow Coalition Council of Elders, and publications from other contemporary initiatives in Chicago and beyond that re-engage with the principal of grassroots political organizing and cross-cultural solidarity. The movements share a common idea that despite our dire collective circumstance a spirit of hope and optimism results and acts as a unifying, mobilizing force.
This exhibition is organized by curators Nancy Zastudil and Julia Hamilton, with the support and participation of Kathleen Cleaver, Michael James, Bill Jennings, Cha Cha Jimenez, Jaqueline Lazu, and countless others.
Photos from “Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex” exhibition in Madison
Posted February 1, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Above are photos from the “Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex” show that took place on January 30, 2009 at Project Lodge in Madison, Wisconsin. The exhibition was organized by Wisconsin Books to Prisoners (a project of Rainbow Bookstore) and over 70 works of art were on display (including the Justseeds portfolio project, other prison related images from Justseeds artists, art by prisoners, and art by local Madison artists. As well, spoken word artists from the First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community, including Sophia Snow and Alida Carlos Whaley performed and inspired us with their words.
The opening was packed with people from Madison, Milwaukee, and beyond and the organizers did an incredible job in bringing everyone together and using culture as a tool to combat the prison crisis.
The organizers from Wisconsin Books to Prisoners kept the focus of the evening on activism and reminded us that the State Government in Wisconsin bans used books from being mailed to Wisconsin prisoners and urged people to phone the Governor’s office at 608-266-1212; the WI DOC Administrator at 608-240-5104; and the WI DOC secretary at 608-240-5055 to voice their objections.
To learn more:
http://www.rainbowbookstore.org/b2p
To contact one of organizers of the show:
Camy Matthay: maha@chorus.net
Also check out Community Connections -- a volunteer organization that does a myriad of programming and prison/family support work with inmates at the Oakhill Correctional Institution (OCI) in Oregon, WI.
http://communityconnectionswi.org/index.php?option=com_simplefaq&Itemid=62
Upcoming Justseeds show/installation project in Milwaukee
Posted January 31, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds & Member Projects
In late February/early March 2009, upwards of fifteen Justseeds artists will converge in Milwaukee for a week to create a massive floor-to-ceiling installation at the Union Art Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that will combines elements of street art, stencils, sculpture and other mediums.
The installation is titled "Which Side Are You On?" and it will examine the use of walls as physical and mental barriers that create de-facto segregation, whether it is the walls that divide nation states, the streets that separate one side of town from the other, or the barriers that separate humans from the environment. "Which Side Are You On?" challenges these barriers while envisioning a more just and sustainable future.
During the install, we'll post photos on the Justseeds blog of the work in progress.
Upcoming dates:
Monday, March 2nd, 7:00pm, Union Fireside Lounge: talk by Josh MacPhee on the present and past political, social, and aesthetic development of activist printmaking from around the world.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 5pm, Union Art Gallery: stop in the Union Art Gallery for a chance to see the Justseeds installation in progress. During the walk through, meet and talk with the artists involved in the installation.
Thursday, March 5th, 5-8pm, Union Art Gallery: opening reception
Saturday, March 7th, 12:30-3:30, Union Studio Arts and Craft Centre: printmaking workshop with Josh MacPhee. Call the Craft Centre at 414-229-5535 to register.
The exhibition will run from March 5th - April 3rd
UWM Union Art Gallery is located at:
Campus Level, Room W199
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI 53211
414.229.6310
Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri & Sat 12-5pm; Thu 12-7pm
The exhibition "Which Side Are You On" is co-sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society at UWM
Justseeds Portfolio Project Opening & Party to celebrate Tamms Year Ten!
Posted January 29, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Join us this Sunday, February 1 @ 7:00pmin Chicago, at Mess Hall for the Opening of the Justseeds Portfolio Project in Celebration of the Tamms Year Ten Campaign!
In honor of Critical Resistance's 10 Year Anniversary, Justseeds created a limited edition portfolio of original prints that address the prison industrial complex &/or alternatives to incarceration. Twenty artists from the US, Canada & Mexico contributed prints to this portfolio now on exhibit at Mess Hall!
This event is also a celebration of the Tamms Year Ten Campaign! Justseeds donated over 50 portfolios to anti-prison movement groups including Chicago’s own Tamms Year Ten. Come celebrate the successes of the Tamms Year Ten campaign, or come to learn more about the conditions at Tamms super-max prison, the campaign, & how you can get involved! Together we can end torture in Illinois!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
7:00pm-11:00pm
Mess Hall
6932 N Glenwood, Chicago
just across from the Morse stop on the Red Line
(773) 465-4033
Our Flesh of Flames
Posted January 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our Flesh of Flames
Featuring the work of Theodore A. Harris and Amiri Baraka
January 29th-February 26th, 2009
Opening Night reception January 29th 6- PM
@ the Brecht Forum, NYC
The Brecht Forum is proud to exhibit Our Flesh of Flames featuring the collages of Theodore A. Harris and the poetic captions of legendary writer and social activist Amiri Baraka.
Posed against an eerily iridescent orange sky, Harris' collaged landscapes are filled with urban dystopia. Upside down capitols, distorted bank notes pose the reality of a society fettered by the cash nexus. Images of John Coltrane, Muhammed Ali and Paul Robeson are juxtaposed with protest scenes showing the creative and transformative power of African American social movements.
Controversial critic and poet Amiri Baraka provides lyrical assault through his captions with his trademark humor and biting social commentary. First published as in 2008, Our Flesh of Flames is Harris and Baraka's stunning contribution to African American arts and letters
Media Assassin and Brecht Event-NYC
Posted January 25, 2009 by k_c_ in Inspiration
I was just sent an event listing called Biggie, Brooklyn and the World at the Brecht Forum. The title and description are intriguing, and posted below, and what I found immediately inspiring was Harry Allen's blog, Media Assassin. His bio in the email is as follows
Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin, writes about race, politics, and culture for VIBE, The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, and has been doing so for over twenty years.As an expert covering hip-hop culture, he has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, on National Public Radio, MTV, VH-1, CNN, the BBC, and other information channels. Others know him for his long-time association with the seminal band Public Enemy, and for his widely-heard "cameo" on their classic record, "Don't Believe the Hype."
It gave me a few chuckles and a lot more to search thru.
Have Our Weary Feet Come to the Place for Which Our Fathers Sighed?
The Year of Living Sexually is a post about Nonfiction a program on WBAI.
The New Blackface of Fashion is what it appears.
and the first post I saw
Super Zero a link to Marvel's new create your own superhero!
OK, I did mention there is an event at the Brecht Forum, its Wednesday, Jan 28th, read below:
Upcoming show in Madison: ARTISTS AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Posted January 24, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Wisconsin Books to Prisoners a project of Rainbow Bookstore, is sponsoring an exhibit ARTISTS AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. The show will run from Jan 30 – Feb 5th at Project Lodge, 817 E. Johnson in Madison. Opening reception is at 7 pm, Friday Jan 30th.
Over 70 drawings by prisoners that address the use of prisons, policing and punishment as a “solution” to social, political and economic problems will be on display.
The show was inspired by printmakers from the Justseeds Radical Artists’ Cooperative (www.justseeds.org) who created more than 20 posters in 2008 in honor of the 10th anniversary of Critical Resistance, a prison abolitionist movement. Twenty-five posters from Justseeds, which include Wisconsin artists Nicolas Lampert and Colin Matthes will be on display. Other political artists in Wisconsin have also contributed prints to the show.
Spoken word artists from the First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community, including Sophia Snow, Alida Carlos Whaley and others will perform pieces topical to the show. Again, please join us for the opening reception on Friday, January 30th, from 7 pm -10 pm.
Contributions to support the costs of shipping books to prisoners are appreciated. Those unable to attend the show are welcome to send donations to Wisconsin Books to Prisoners/Rainbow Books, 426 W. Gilman St.. Madison, WI 53703. Tax-deductible donations can be made out to our fiscal sponsor "PC Foundation” with "WI Books to
Prisoners" in the memo line.
Since the inception of Wisconsin Books to Prisoners in the fall of 2006, WBTP has sent over 12,000 books to prisoners nationwide. Although Wisconsin Books to Prisoners is still banned by the WI Department of Corrections from sending used books to prisoners in WI, it continues to send books to federal and state prisoners nationwide, including an outreach program for LGTB prisoners.
Wisconsin prisoners deserve the right to read and access to books from book to prisoner projects. Those concerned about the ban should phone the Governor’s office at 608-266-1212; the WI DOC Administrator at 608-240-5104; and the WI DOC secretary at 608-240-5055 to voice their objections.
Contact for the show:
Camy Matthay
maha@chorus.net
City from Below coming-up
Posted January 21, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Some great folks in Baltimore (Red Emmas, Indypendent Reader) and around the country are planning an exciting conference for March 27-29 called City from Below. If you are all interested in urbanism, public space, who controls cities, the right to city, and the future of urban activism, you might want to hitch a ride to Baltimore at the end of March! Check it out here.
Signs of Change Pittsburgh
Posted January 19, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The show Dara Greenwald and I curated is opening in Pittsburgh!!!
SIGNS OF CHANGE
Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
curated by Dara Greenwald + Josh MacPhee
Jan. 23 – March 8, 2009
Programs:
Jan. 23, Fri. 4:30-6pm:
Curators’ Talk: Visualizing Social Movement Cultures
at McConomy Auditorium in University Center, Carnegie Mellon. Sponsored by
the University Lecture Series + School of Art Lecture Series.
6-8pm: Winter Harvest Reception at Miller Gallery at
Carnegie Mellon University. With DJ Baglady. Live screenprinting
provided by Artists Image Resource + the Andy Warhol Museum.
Feb. 12, Thurs. 8pm:
Film Screening: Finally Got The News (League of Revolutionary Black Workers with Newsreel) at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Melwood Screening Room.
Feb. 19, Thurs. 5-8pm:
Activist Print Open Studio at Miller Gallery. Live screenprinting provided by the Warhol + AIR.
Feb. 27, Fri. 5pm:
Critical Mass. View exhibition at Miller Gallery first, ride at 5:30pm from Carnegie Library two blocks West.
About the exhibition:
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.
Signs of Change presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for civil rights and black power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and for radical social transformation in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organizations.
Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written, and political and activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. Signs of Change offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.
Colectivo Cordyceps/Taring Padi in DF
Posted January 19, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Another hot political graphics show in Mexico City, organized by our friends down their. Check it out:
Exposicion de Grafica Radical y de Protesta
Exponen:
COLECTIVO CORDYCEPS con obra grafica radical de denuncia, de Mexico DF.
TARING PADI un colectivo de grafica de protesta, desde Java Central
Indonesia.
Bandas Invitadas:
DE DON SON, grupo de Son Jarocho de Mexico DF.
Lugar:
LA CHINAMPA DE IXTACALCO,
Plaza de San Matias o Jardin Hidalgo #10
Barrio de la Asuncion, Pueblo de Iztacalco
A un costado del Kiosko.
Calzada de la Viga, esq. Avenida Hidalgo.
Peceras
Metro Xola o Metro Iztacalco.
Tel. 5633 2502
Fecha y Hora:
Viernes 23 de Enero 2009, a las 7:30pm
Para mas informacion:
chinampaixtacalco@gmail.com
cordyceps@riseup.net
shit_swimmer@riseup.net
"Izena duen guztia omen da"
http://espora.org/furia/
For A Completely Different Climate
Posted January 18, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Just got this announcement for a new show by Oliver Ressler, who consistently is making interesting work about international social movements. Unfortunately I'm not going to be in Milan by January 30th, but if you are, go see this and let us know how it was!:
FOR A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CLIMATE
An exhibition project by Oliver Ressler
Curated by Marco Scotini
Galleria Artra, Via Burlamacchi 1, 20135 Milan, Italy, artragalleria@tin.it
Till January 30, 2009, Tue to Sat, 15.00-19.00
The exhibition project “For A Completely Different Climate” deals with an emerging social movement that questions and selectively fights the response (or non-response) of states and corporations to climate change. This leftist movement has the potential to mobilize especially in Britain, where in August 2008 a Climate Camp was organized to close the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station east of London. Although the Kingsnorth station will be shut down, the energy corporation E.ON plans to build, at the same location, a new coal-fired power station that will assure profits for the next few decades. This project completely conflicts with the necessary goal of reducing CO2 emissions. Preventing a new coal-fired powerplant in Kingsnorth is of great symbolic value, since a successful resistance could mean the end of other planned projects for coal-fired powerplants elsewhere in Britain.
Some Word Pictures
Posted January 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds Pals Santiago Mostyn and Bill Daniels have an opening(at this moment) at Needles & Pens Gallery in San Francisco.
Expect photographic prints, writings, video, and ephemera of contemporary Americana - Early 90's SF street grafitti, river boats (MIss Rockaway), and imagery of wandering North America on freight trains.
Needles & Pens
3253 16th Street (btwn Guerrero & Dolores)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Santiago was just mentioned at this Woostercollective link.
They mention this collaboration and Santi's recent book All Most Heaven.
Im wicked proud of him and can't wait to see this piece when I'm out in California in the near future.
Gaza Vigil in Pittsburgh
Posted January 16, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March of the Dead- Gaza Vigil in Oakland
PITTSBURGH, PA: On Saturday, January 17, the newly formed Coalition for Peace & Justice in the Middle East (CPJME) will hold a rally and “March of the Dead” to symbolize the one thousand dead Palestinians in Gaza since Israel’s recent attack on the Gaza Strip.
The rally will begin at 3pm on the patio outside of the Pitt Student Union (Fifth Ave and Bigelow Blvd), and will include Muslim, Jewish, and Christian speakers, along with community and student activists from Pitt.
After the rally, activists, dressed in black, will march with white masks and carry coffins to CMU Software Engineering Institute at the corner of Fifth Ave and Craig St. The silent marchers will also carry the placards with the names of Palestinian civilians who were killed during Israel’s recent bombardment of Gaza.
Jan 18th Events in Solidarity with Gaza-NYC
Posted January 16, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
MLK Sunday - Evening of Speeches, Music, Dance, Art, and Resistance for Gaza
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
Multi-event evening:
Hands Off Gaza
5-7pm at Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver St, 4th Floor, NYC
$20
Subway Freedom March to Brooklyn (with music)
leaving Alwan for the Arts(to Williamsburg) at 7:30pm
"I *heart* Gaza" Benefit Hip Hop Concert, Dance, Art Show
Presented by PEP (Palestine/Israel Education Project)
9pm to 4am at
Sugarland
221 N 9th St (bt Driggs Ave & Roebling St)
Admission: $10 (Age 21+ only)
Featuring:
Sabreena Da Witch
Immortal Technique
G.O.D
M1 of Dead Prez
A-Alikes
Rebel Diaz
Remi Kanazi
Tahani Salah
Queen Godis
Khalil al Mustafa
DJs: Johnny Juice (Public Enemy), DJ Oja, K-Salaam
Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry
Posted January 16, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) has a new exhibition opening up at the Blaffer Gallery in the Art Museum of the University of Texas. Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry promises to reveal how oil has been instrumental to the development of the Gulf Coast region, and seems like it could be an extremely useful visual introduction to the development and maintenance of the oil industry in the U.S. The show opens on January 16th, and runs through March 29, 2009.
Milwaukee Art Shows
Posted January 16, 2009 by colin_matthes in Events
Greetings from frigid, frigid, Milwaukee. If you are also enjoying the lets call it brisk, -6 degrees F (-27 with wind chill) temperature in Milwaukee, why not plan to come check out a few art shows this weekend.
Opening Friday (January 16, 5-10pm) at the Armory Gallery is “Western States.” As part of this exhibition I made a new installation titled, “Everything is Fine.” While making it I did some wall drawing, climbed on a fire escape, and repeatedly hit a ceiling fan with a hammer. The show will also feature the work of Aili Schmeltz (Los Angeles), William Hundley (Austin), Colleen Sanders (San Francisco), Gavin Bunner (Los Angeles), and Adrianne Watson (San Francisco).
Armoury Gallery is at 1718 N First St 3N3, Milwaukee, WI, 53212
Last Chance! This weekend is also the last chance to see “War Fair: Occupation Games for Citizens and Non-Combatants,” one of my most ambitious installations to date. The show closes along with the rest of the Nohl Fellowship work on January 18, 09. The Nohl Fellows are Gary John Gresl, Mark Klassen and Dan Ollman (Established Artists), Annie Killelea, Faythe Levine, Colin Matthes and Kevin J. Miyazaki (Emerging Artists). You can also see images from the “War Fair” exhibition online.
Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202 Gallery hours are Wednesday & Friday-Sunday, noon to 5 pm and Thursday, noon-8 pm.
Also, If you will be in Texas, stop by the University of Texas-Pan American (Edinburg,TX) to view my solo exhibit “Credit Is Alright” Opening February 5th, 6-9pm.
Delineations Art Opening at Ad-Hoc
Posted January 15, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Also opening at Ad Hoc on Friday January 16th is a drawing show called Delineations, "a collection of drawings and illustrations from a diverse group of international artists." In which I will have a piece hanging!
January 16th-February 15th 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16th, 7-10pm
Ad-Hoc Art
49 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Participating artists include: Alley Cat, John Breiner, Adam William Carnes, Gigi Chen, Fernanda Cohen, Molly Crabapple, Adam Collison, Cycle, Deseo, Bonnie Durham, Ezra Li Eismont, Ewelina Ferruso, EZO, Nate Frizzel, Yoko Furuso, Bob Gibson (TLP), Mark Gibson, GROW, Joshua Hagler, Fred Harper, Peter Herpich, Thomas Herpich, Nevada Hill, Phil Hollenbeck, Mike Houston (Cannonball Press), isuel isuel, Kyung Jeon, Jeremyville, Katie Kaplan, Jane Kim, Hiro Kurata, Rafael Ladesma III, Laura Lee, Tim Hon Hung Lee, Tae Lee, Brian Life, Tommii Lim, Daniel Hyun Lim (Fawn Fruits), David MacDowell, Drew Maillard, Sara Antoinette Martin, Martin Mazorra (Cannonball Pres), MIHA, Melissa Murray, Gilbert Oh, Logik One, Pagan, Nathan Lee Pickett, Lady Pink, Lilly Piri, Anthony Pontius, Devin Powers, Carlos (MARE139) Rodriguez, Dorthy Royle, Martina Secondo Russo, Frank Russo, Allison Sommers, Robert Steel, Kevin Earl Taylor, TheDirtyFabulous, Elisabeth Timpone, TOOFLY, James Turek, Connie Wang, Jaeran Won, Pippi Zornoza plus Mikey & Doyle of the Black Label Bike Club
The Insecurities of Time
Posted January 14, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This just in:
The Insecurities of Time
Know Hope
solo exhibition
January 16th through February 15th 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16th 7pm-10pm
Ad Hoc Art
49 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
For the past 4 years, Know Hope has been showing his work in galleries and exhibitions worldwide, but most of his work has been on the streets, in their natural urban settings. Know Hope deals with the ephemeral aspect of street art not only as a genre in itself, but also as a subject, exploring the need of momentary connections in everyday reality, and the common denominator that is the human struggle.
Know Hope’s recent work has been revolving around the story of an unnamed figure, following it and creating some sort of lifeline through its observations, mishaps and eventually its commentary. The figure is the visual manifestation of the human vulnerability addressed in all the pieces. The use of cardboard makes the content of the pieces physical, underlining the urgency of creating temporary art for the street, and the liability and rough fragility of the struggle.
From the Streets of Brooklyn
Posted January 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Chris Stain, Swoon and I have work in a show that just opened in LA at the Thinkspace. The show is called From the Streets of Brooklyn and is chock full of New York street art types, including friends Imminent Disaster, Gaia, Peripheral Media Projects, Skewville, Abe Lincoln Jr., GRL, Michael De Feo and Dennis McNett.
on view Jan. 9th – Feb. 6th, 2009
thinkspace
4210 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Hoy Comienza Planeta Rock-Santiago, Chile
Posted January 8, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Hoy Jueves 8 de Enero Comienza Planeta Rock este Festival de HipHop que Celebra los 25 años de Nuestro Movimento
Cuatro dias de un Festival en Santiago, Chile
Mira la programa en Planeta Rock
Latin American Festival of Activist Hip Hop: 25 years of Hip Hop in Chile
Some firends in Chile will be streaming audio from the Hip-Hop festival on Saturday, Jan 10th. It will include music, workshops, and other presentations. You can hear it through the links below if you are curious. Its a good way to hear culture being produced well beyond the "borders" of the community that usually reads this blog. (I am making many presumptions and I do look at the the analytics of this site, we get one hit from Chile)
Si estaras fuera de Santiago o te encuentras en otro pais el Sabado 10 de Enero, dia en que se desarrollara la escuela talleres, no te preocupes, porque durante el dia transmitiremos via on-line lo que estara sucediendo, noticias, entrevistas, talleres, musica, conversacion y mucha mas en radio planeta rock.
*Saturday, January 10 of 2009*
Streaming Radio from Santiago of Chile (in spanish)
www.planetarock.cl.tc/
www.radioplanetarock.tk
Queer Rally in Pittsburgh 1/10
Posted January 8, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
photo by heather mull from rally in response to prop 8 on november 15, 2008
When: Saturday, January 10, 2009
Time: 2 PM – 4 PM
Where: Schenley Quad, Oakland (near the libraries – same place as last time)
What: This is a rally, not a march.
Who: Bring your friends, family, kids, grandmas, neighbors, queer and straight alike. Bring your banners and your signs.
Who is Speaking: Emcee Gab Bonesso, Reverend Janet Edwards, Sandra Telep from Pride at Work, LGBTQ ally John McIntire and more. We are looking for speakers who may want to talk about their experiences of discrimination in these areas. Email lance historycat101(at)aol.com if you would like to speak.
Why: Because there are several upcoming moments to get LGBTQ-positive legislation passed on both the County and State levels. This time, we aren't just protesting a negative situation – we are mobilizing to get a positive outcome for everyone.
This is the follow up event to the very successful November "Anti-Prop 8" rally organized in a complete grassroots way, this rally focuses on the national DOMA law which President-Elect Obama promised to repeat AND the upcoming vote by Allegheny County Council to expand civil rights protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations to residents of Allegheny County who are part of the LGBTQ community (sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression). This rally is really for the whole community – from marriage advocates to working class queers who worry about job security and being able to find a decent place to live without being harassed. This is about L-G-B-T and Q. And the entire heterosexual community who benefit from a more just and fair community.
Invasion 68 Prague
Posted January 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Reposted from Brushfire blog:
Invasion 68 Prague, an exhibition of work by photographer Josef Koudelka, opened yesterday at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. The exhibition will run until December 28, 2008.
The exhibition features Koudelka’s singular photographic account of the week after August 21, 1968, when Warsaw Pact tanks led by Alexander Dubcek invaded communist Prague. Both moving and formally compelling, Koudelka’s photographs provide an unparalleled representation of the life and death of that week. New York Times art critic, Roberta Smith writes:
“None of these photographs are less than beautiful; some combination of emotional urgency and Mr. Koudelka’s instinctive artistry makes them so. His restless vigilance created a historic and historical document that is less a series of photographs than a slow-moving film that we absorb one still at a time. He was there, and to an extraordinary and anguishing degree, so are we.” (Full article)
Koudelka’s photographs that week represented a turning point in his life. After their anonymous publication in Western newspapers, Koudelka sought asylum, and eventually emigrated from Prague in 1970. He has worked since then in Western Europe as a highly regarded documentary and landscape photographer. His books include: Gypsies (1975), Exiles (1984), and Chaos (1999). A recent retrospective of his work, Koudelka, was published in 2006.
The exhibition at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center has been co-produced by Magnum Photos, and coincides with a book by the same title published by Aperture. A “Meet The Artist” reception will be held on Tuesday, November, 18 from 6-8PM; Czech Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexandr Vondra and Ambassador of the Czech Republic Petr Kolár will also be present.
The gallery is open from 11-4PM, Tuesday through Sunday.
NYC 4th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk
Posted January 2, 2009 by molly_fair in Events
Sunday Jan 4, 2009
Memorial Rides:
Bronx - 10:45am
Queens - 12:00pm
Brooklyn - 12:45pm
Memorial Walk:
Manhattan - 2:30pm
Convergence:
4pm- Manhattan, Delancey at Allen Street
Gathering of cyclists, pedestrians, families and friends:
5-7pm
St. Marks Church
131 East 10th Street at 2nd Ave.
read on for detailed ride/walk schedule and check ghostbikes.org for updates
More Justseeds in Japan
Posted December 30, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Kei and Ill Commonz have been spreading the Justseeds goods around Tokyo. In November and December they had a couple more events, a report back from their trip to NYC, and an Anti-War and Resistance Fest. Here are a bunch of photos of the events, including CPH posters, Reproduce & Revolt images being silkscreened, video showings, etc...
DEC. 30- Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner
Posted December 26, 2008 by erik_ruin in Events
I'm super-honored to be performing my shadow-show FLIGHT (a slightly edited version) at Great Small Works' Spaghetti Dinner on Dec. 30th, alongside a great lineup of amazing musicians & puppeteers. if you're around NYC, please come, as it will be the last-ever performance of what i consider my best work to date.
Spaghetti Dinner
December 30, 2008, 7:30-10pm
at Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Sq. South NYC
Including...
MICHAEL WINOGRAD'S INFECTION skeleton mambo with a twist!Michael Winograd, Jessica Lurie, Petr Cancura, Jeremy Udden - reeds; Joe Moffet, Frank London - trumpets; Dan Blacksberg - trombone; Patrick Farrell - accordion; Avi Fox-Rosen - guitar; Jorge Roeder - bass; Jon Singer - xylophone, percussion; Jason Nazary, Kenny Wollesen - percussion; Kristin Slipp -voxFLIGHT - a shadow theater piece depicting the journey of a person displaced;
shadows created & performed by Erik Ruin, with assistance from Leslie Rogers & live violin score by Katt HernandezA Great Small Works Chanukah Shadow Puppet Show
Special New Year sonic massages performed by WOLLESONIC
and, Bread & Puppet Theater DIRT CHEAP OPERA, after Bertolt Brecht
Brandon Bauer Exhibition Photos
Posted December 20, 2008 by colin_matthes in Events
Our friend (and contributor to the Justseeds Prison Portfolio project) Brandon Bauer had an exhibition in Milwaukee last month. Here are some photos from the show.
Brandons blog:
http://randomculture.wordpress.com/
End This War
Posted December 19, 2008 by jmacphee in Art & Politics
I just got an announcement for an upcoming show by Philadelphia artist Theodore Harris. I've been a fan of Harris' work for years, he did the cover of the All The Days After book back in the day, and has a couple images in Reproduce & Revolt. I really like the image he sent out with the announcement, "End This War...(after Shirley Chisholm)," which is above. The show is:
War is a Map of Wounds: The Art of Howardena Pindell and Theodore A. Harris
February 2 - March 5, 2009
New Jersey City University
Visual Arts Gallery
Stencil Your Own Fuck You to the War on Terror
Posted December 19, 2008 by icky in Events
SCREEN-PRINT OR STENCIL YOUR PERSONALIZED FUCK YOU TO THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
Come by Friday evening for an event by Chris Arendt and Motorcycle Awesome, a collective of individuals dedicated to artistic expression against the war in Iraq.
Arendt is a former National Guard and Prison Guard at Guantanamo Bay. The collective Motorcycle Awesome aims to create a strong active community of civilians, soldiers, and Iraq Veterans Against the War united through artistic expression.
Screenprinting and artwork will be on display, and each person can leave with a hand-screened T-shirt, FREE, choosing from a couple designs.
Friday, Dec. 19, 6-10pm
IGLOO
325 NW 6th Ave #102
"Though Portland tends to shut down in the snow I hope that you might step out into our winter wonderland tomorrow evening to make your way down to Igloo, at 6pm, for an event my friend Chris Arendt is putting together through his collaborative, Motorcycle Awesome.
While still a guard at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Chris and two other guards started Motorcycle Awesome as an intra-military resistance group. Now back in the real world Chris has re-formed the group as a means to help connect veterans and citizens, and create a site in which both groups can talk and collaboratively create anti-war art together to distribute around the country.
Expect silk-screen, stencils, giant origami bird folding, beer, music, and more. Bring a t-shirt to have screened, and anything else you would like to have emboldened with amazing art work. Along with illustrations by Chris, Pete Yahnke, and Icky of Just Seeds have created work to be reproduced, and Josh Berger and Thomas Bradley of Plazm have created some amazing logo stencils for M.A.
Hope to see you tomorrow!
Sam"
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(Sam's involved with Portland art group Red 76, by the way)
The House of Love and Dissent
Posted December 15, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Favianna, Dara and I are in Rome, preparing for our show at the House of Love and Dissent on Thursday. We're hanging prints, People's History posters, and images from Reproduce & Revolt. It's going to be fun! Here is the poster for the show. Thanks to Erik Ruin for the hands (from the Realizing the Impossible cover).
Special Screening of July War
Posted December 11, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Special Screening of July War
w/ Filmmakers Brandon Jourdan and Francisca Caporali
December 15, 2008 at 8PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
NYC, NY
$5-10 Admission
July War takes a raw and unflinching look at the devastating
first-hand effects of the 2006 Israeli military offensive in Lebanon.
This powerful documentary examines the broader impact of the global
war on terrorism, using the war in Lebanon as a specific case study,
and questions whether it has actually curbed, or perhaps increased,
Islamic militancy. It also reflects on the US and Iranian role in the
war and the failures of current policy in the Middle East by Western
governments and their allies.
AIR Show This Weekend
Posted December 11, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
Artists Image Resource (AIR) this years Staff & Volunteer Show this
Saturday, December 13, 7-11pm
Artists Image Resource
518 Foreland Street
Pittsburgh, PA
412-321-8664
Over 32 artists' current work will be on view ranging from print, sculpture, painting, photography, sound and video installation.
matt cummings * howard booth * andy english * ian short * kerry gaydos * katyana gradler * matt forrest * mary tremonte * hunter blackwell * meredith hertel * allison glancey * jenn pascoe * erin foley * ryan emmett * rachel maran * jamie adams * sabrina adams * josh troy * gene marsh * mike hegedus * carolyn kelly * budai * kristine synowka * amos levy nathan mould * julia kennedy * lizzy devita * tresa varner * bill rodgers * robert beckman * nick fredland * ashley brickman * shaun slifer
DJ Mary Mack, DJ Sean MC and the duo of Hoof & Beek will be spinning music throughout the evening - food and drink will be provided - admission is FREE. This event is not to be missed and we look forward to seeing you!
AIR is a not-for-profit art printmaking studio in Pittsburgh, PA. AIR hosts a very popular Open Studio night on Tuesdays and Thursdays 7-11pm, and Wednesdays for teens 5-9pm, where you can make silkscreen prints at a nominal cost. I have been volunteering there on and off for close to a decade, and do most of my own printing there. (The Winter in America tree on the right, which is four feet tall, was created at AIR by Josh MacPhee & Shaun Slifer) Their facilities are amazing!
Taring Padi show in Mexico City
Posted December 11, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Our friend Santiago is helping put on a show in Mexico City of prints by the Indonesian printmaking collective Taring Padi. Here's the info and flyer. Sorry, Spanish only....
Exposicion del colectivo de grafica radical Taring Padi de Yogyakarta, Java central, Indonesia. LEMBAGA BUDAYA KERAKYATAN TARING PADIOrganización de Cultura Popular "Colmillos de Arroz"
El Colectivo Taring Padi de Yogayakarta, en la isla de Java en Indonesia,
se forma en 1998 en medio del gran levantamiento social que obliga a la
disolución de la dictadura del presidente Suharto. Taring Padi utiliza la expresión artística como una herramienta cultural en un esfuerzo para educar, inspirar y compartir con sus comunidades en Indonesia y las comunidades del mundo de la necesidad de luchar contra la opresión capitalista e imperialista. Su arte se comunica directamente con sus comunidades pero también nos
habla a todxs nosotrxs.
Inauguración: Viernes 19 de Diciembre / 19:00 hrs.
Música en vivo: Xeneque
Proyección de Documental del Colectivo
Clausura: Viernes 26 de Diciembre / 18:00 hrs.
Bandas invitadas: Anti-Master
Proyección de Documental
Lugar: Escuela de Cultura Popular Mártires del 68
5 de Febrero 257 – D
(esq. 5 de Febrero Col. Obrera Metro San Antonio Abad.)
La Furia de las Calles
http://espora.org/furia/
"Izena duen guztia omen da"
Book 'Em Book Sale Dec 13 & 14
Posted December 10, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
Book 'Em, Pittsburgh's books - to - prisoners program, is holding a book sale this weekend. All proceeds directly benefit postage for mailing book packages to prisoners (which runs about $900 / month). Book sale! Sweet treats! Giftwrapping!
Saturday December 13 10:00-2:00
Sunday December 14 3:00-8:00
Thomas Merton Center
5125 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Feel free to visit our weekly book packing sessions on Sundays from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the basement of the Thomas Merton Center, in Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood. There is always great company and conversation, and often music and snacks.
For additional information, contact us at bookem(at)indypgh(dot)org.
(I designed and printed this poster, using a Beehive Collective image from Reproduce and Revolt! Josh MacPhee and Favianna Rodriguez's amazing book of copyright-free radical graphics. Quick-and-dirty and good-looking poster-making!)
Dinner and Storytelling with the Beehive & Photojournalist Allan Cedillo Lissner
Posted December 10, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
The Beehive Collective Presents...Dinner and Storytelling with the Bees and photojournalist Allan Cedillo Lissner with special guest, Tanzanian Investigative Journalist, Evans Rubara.
The Beehive will be presenting parts of their new work, about resistance to a mega-development plan in Latin America. Allan and Evans will present "Someone Else's Treasure" and "A Golden Opportunity?" a photo essay and short film about mining in Tanzania. Friday, Dec 12, 7pm Sixth Street Community Center 638 East 6th Street NYC, NY $10-20sliding scale
Dinner will be a four course meal: appetizers, salad, a couple of main courses, and a choice of desserts. Proceeds from the dinner will go directly to people displaced from the Mtakuja village to pave way for AngloGold Ashanti in Mwanza Region in Tanzania.
Digna Rabia flyer
Posted December 9, 2008 by jmacphee in Posters & Prints
Another flyer making use of Justseeds art, this one for the Digna Rabia events in Oaxaca Mexico, using the EZLN Celebrate People's History Poster!!
"Ice" screening in Portland
Posted December 7, 2008 by icky in Events
The 16mm movie "Ice" is showing this week in Portland. This is a great movie- kind of a science fiction radical how-to of revolution made in 1969 when it seemed, realistically, just around the corner.
If you haven't seen this and you're interested in experimental film or radical history or near future low budget sci-fi (or none of these things) you should come see this... it's fucking great!
ICE by ROBERT KRAMER
[1969, 134 MIN]
December 9&10, 7:30pm
11 N.W. 13th Ave (btn Burnside & Couch)
Portland, OR
$6
Doors open 30 minutes prior to scheduled start time. Elevator access is provided, please come to the door so we can accomodate. City Center parking is available for $7 on 14th street. For access to the space from the 3rd floor enter from the western stairwell
"Born in New York in 1939, Robert Kramer ranks as one of the most original directors of American underground cinema. A committed leftist who emerged radicalized from his studies in philosophy and Western European history at Swarthmore and Stanford, he worked as a reporter in Latin America and organized a community project in a black neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, before founding the Newsreel movement—an underground media collective which made some sixty documentaries and short films about radical political subjects and the antiwar movement between 1967 and 1971. His films constantly work at wearing away the impermeability of documentary and fiction forms, paying special attention to his characters. A pioneering work that blurred the boundaries between fictional and documentary styles, Ice was hailed by filmmaker and Village Voice critic Jonas Mekas as "the most original and most significant American narrative film" of the late sixties. An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife which threatens its security and stages urban guerrilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are rhetorical sequences that explain the philosophy of radical action and serve to restrain the melodrama inherent in the "thriller" genre. " - Harvard Film Archive
Signs of Change Closing Today!
Posted December 6, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Today is the last day to see Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now in NYC!!! Over 1000 posters, flyers, photos, videos, audio and ephemera from social movements around the world. Come by today and check it out if you haven't seen it yet:
Exit Art
475 10th Ave. (10th Ave. & 36th St.)
New York, New York
(the 34th Ave stop on the A/C/E train is only a couple blocks away)
And we're gearing up for the show to travel to Pittsburgh. It opens on January 23rd at the Miller Gallery at Carnagie Mellon University.
(installation photos by Kevin Caplicki)
Bill Daniel Projection / Audio Performance
Posted December 5, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
From Justseeds buddy Bill Daniel, hobo filmmaker. You can still catch his installation "The Great Depression" for another month at Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
"Hello Friends,
I'm writing to you today to tell you about two musical projection performance deallies that I'm organizing at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The first will be this Saturday, Dec 6th, and will feature an improvisional performance by Jim Lingo, Josh Tanzer and Jarret Fate, who will be sonically interacting with the audio from a big reel of 16mm post-industrial found film oddities. The show will transpire in the gallery space where I currently have a photo/video installation up, called The Great Depression.
The other performance will be Jan 10th at the Melwood Screening Room and will feature Centipede Eest performing a live score to a collection of film and video collected from the American Road."
Saturday December 6
Doors at 7:00, performance at 8:00
FREE all ages
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
477 Melwood Ave
412-681-5449
Check out this sweet, though slightly inaccurate, review of The Great Depression in Pittsburgh's City Paper here
A Good Time for the Good Time Bill
Posted December 5, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Support the Good Time Bill and Push for Change in the Federal Prison System!
Dinner, A Movie, (Hoot) and Conversation
Friday, December 5th, 7pm
6th St. Community Center
6th St. btwn Avenues B and C (F/V to 2nd Ave., exit 1st Ave.)
NYC
Three years ago, our dear friend Daniel McGowan was among the first people arrested as part of an FBI offensive against environmental activists and others, now known as the Green Scare. Daniel began serving his seven-year sentence in July 2007. In August 2008, Daniel was moved to the Communications Management Unit in Marion, IL, a facility that bypassed the usual review process and severely restricts inmates' communication with the outside world.
To mark the three-year anniversary of Daniel's arrest, please join us to learn more about Daniel's situation, the Communications Management Units, and our campaign to pass the Federal Prison Work Incentive Act (or "Good Time Bill") - A bill about to be re-introduced to Congress that would reduce the sentences of people in federal prisons by increasing the "good time" credit all federal prisoners receive. This would apply to all federal prisoners except the ones serving life sentences.
2 Justseeds Portfolio Events
Posted December 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
On Friday in Montreal:
Voices from Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex
at Ste-Emilie SkillShare * 3942 Ste. Emilie * metro Place St. Henri
Vernissage Friday December 5th, 7pm-midnight
Exhibit December 5th – 14th inclusive
In connection with the historic Critical Resistance 10th anniversary conference Just Seeds Artists Cooperative has produced a print portfolio project that they are donating to prisoner justice organizations across North America. The portfolio consists of 20 prints, each by a different artist, that all either critique the prison-industrial complex or address alternatives to incarceration.
The vernissage will feature:
* a presentation on prison art
* letter-writing to political prisoners
* Certain Days 2009 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar available for purchase
Presented by the Certain Days collective
& the Ste-Emilie SkillShare – both working groups of QPIRG Concordia
--> how to get to St Emilie Skillshare:
www.mapquest.com/maps/3942+Ste.+Emilie+Montreal+qc
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On Saturday, December 6 in Toronto:
Let Freedom Ring
Calendar launch - book launch - panel discussion - art show
6pm - Panel discussion about prison organizing
9pm - Launch party, with bar, snacks, and local DJs
(art will be up all evening)
$5/$15 with calendar
Whippersnapper Gallery
587A College Street, Toronto, ON
Taller Tupac Amaru Holiday Open Studio
Posted December 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
If you are in the Bay Area, check out our new Justseeds members Taller Tupac Amaru at their Holiday Open Studio this weekend!!!
Taller Tupac Amaru Holiday Open Studios
(Melanie Cervantes, Jesus Barraza, & Favianna Rodriguez)
December 6 & 7, 2008
11 am - 6 pm
Taller Tupac Amaru Art Studio
1505 33rd Ave.
Oakland, CA
ARTE• TAMALES • BEER• LIVE PRINTMAKING DEMOS
Join us in Celebrating our 5 year Anniversary! 2008 has been a busy and exciting year and we would love to celebrate with good food, music, community and great art. Our Taller spent the year supporting grassroots organizing, traveling, teaching, building and participating in various collaborations, exhibitions and artist residencies.
Come check out our new work!
Prints! Radical Art! T-Shirts! Books! Printmaking Demos! Live Art and More!
Portland 3rd Annual Working Class Book Fair
Posted December 4, 2008 by icky in Events
Hey Northwesties! Justseeds will be tabling with a bunch of prints at the 3rd Radical Book Fair at Liberty Hall. I tabled last year and it was really nice, lots of good stuff, nice people.
Liberty Hall is at 311 N. Ivy in Portland,
right off of Vancouver, a block south of Fremont.
Saturday, December 6th, 12-4pm
"Join the Portland IWW, Laughing Horse Books, In Other Words, Tarantula Press, Eberhardt Press, Just Seeds, Malkriad@s, Olin, Red Letter Press, Great Northwest Books, Decentra Collective, Black Rose Collective, and many more for this excellent event! A plethora of books, magazines, and organizing materials will be on sale. The IWW Working Class Book Fair is a Portland tradition that gets better with every year, and is an indispensable opportunity for those interested in social/economic/environmental justice to meet up with like-minded organizations.
Questions? Contact the Portland IWW at 503-231-5488, or, portland.iww (at) gmail.com, for more info."
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Posted December 3, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
If you are in NYC, come out to our big Justseeds show at the Brecht Forum tomorrow night, Thursday Dec 4th! After our event, cruise over to The Change You Want to See in Williamsburg for this video program!:
IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
The Change You Want To See Gallery
Thursday, December 4, 8pm
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn NY 11211
Since its humble beginnings in 1994, subMedia has grown from a small group of determined filmmakers into a grassroots network of socially and politically engaged artists and individuals. subMedia scrutinizes popular culture and media through the production of film, performance art, video, music and zines.Equal parts performance and protest, an attitude of art following action defines subMedia’s productions. From the regularly released and highly produced video blog “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”, to the collaborative documentary Ground Noise & Static, their work injects a radical analysis into the culture in a most entertaining way.
Please join subMedia founder, director and producer Franklin López (aka The Stimulator) as he steps out from behind the talking boxes to tour us through a video montage of his latest works, mixing culture jamming, news, radical commentary, music and action.
Justseeds in Portland City Hall Thursday night
Posted December 3, 2008 by pete in Events
Oddly enough we were asked to partake in a show at city hall that opens this Thursday. It's not everyday that we get invited to hang some political art on the walls of command central so we agreed. The event is in our Mayor-Elect Sam Adams' office. Holiday shoppers come on down, and if you don't catch us here, be sure to come by Liberty Hall this Saturday, we'll be tabling the Portland Radical Book Fair (yep, we're hitting both ends of the spectrum)
Here's the details:
Portland Prints II
City Hall Art Holiday Gift and Art Sale
Thursday December 4th 5-7pm
City Hall 1221 SW 4th
City Hall will have great local print makers including: couture stationary, letterpress & silk screen prints, magazines, and much more! Get hand-crafted art pieces for your loved ones this holiday season! Buy Local!
featuring work by the following:
Print Arts Northwest
Lark Press
Paul A. Lanquist
Encanto Press
Flight 64
Stumptown Printers
PSU's Student Activities Leadership Program
Bitch Magazine
Pinball Publishing
Letterary Press
Just Seeds
Temporary Services Celebrates 10 Years
Posted November 29, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Soon after I moved to Chicago in the late 90's, I decided that I loved life the most when making art, and that's what I wanted to do with as much of my time as possible. The anarchist scene in Chicago was strong, but art was far from central to it. There were some great artists and designers involved in projects like the A-Zone, but no one was really talking much about the role of art and culture in politics, or using it to reach outside of the small political and cultural communities that already existed.
It was in this context that I stumbled upon Temporary Services, and the beginnings of a whole world of alternative art practice in Chicago. I was interested in illustrations, printmaking and street art, forms of art that could easily be given political utility. Temporary Services helped introduce me to another world of political art, one not necessarily based in the production of art objects, but in experiences. Their early projects included creating a bunch of public distribution systems for ideas (signs, newspaper boxes, guerrilla library book placements), as well as having ever changing exhibition spaces which provided a location to launch free "temporary services": from a month of free haircuts, to a reading room, to free breakfast.
Temporary Services always provided a space to ponder the intersections of culture, politics and lived experience, which was a relief after feeling trapped by the often philistine and rote machinations of anarchist politics in Chicago in the early 2000's (meeting, meeting, writing long political text for a flyer no one will read, small protest, meeting, meeting). I didn't always understand all of Temporary Services' projects (turning your gallery into a month long homeless shelter seemed in many ways more cruel than generous), or agree with their theories (I'm in no way convinced that giving things away for free in any way subverts capitalism), but I was always inspired by the productivity and commitment of the collective, which has fluctuated in membership, but has settled for a number of years into a pretty sturdy tripod (Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, Marc Fischer). Each of them brings a unique perspective, history and skill set which makes for a varied and powerful practice that is hinged together with an overlap in interests regarding the nature of generosity, a general rejection of the commercial art world, a thing for collections of all sorts, and a commitment to the idea that art can and should engage, interfere with, and change both people's lives and the world.
That is an extremely long introduction to the fact that Temporary Services is having a 10 year anniversary party this coming Friday in Chicago, and if I could be in Chicago for it, I damn well would be!
TEN YEARS OF TEMPORARY SERVICES
A 10th anniversary celebration & the Chicago book release party for Public
Phenomena
Friday, December 5, 2008, 7:30 PM – 12:00 AM
At the Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan, Chicago
Justseeds at Art vs Craft on Saturday
Posted November 28, 2008 by colin_matthes in Events
Justseeds will be tabling at Art vs Craft in Milwaukee tomorrow. We will have books, zines, and tons of prints. Stop by and say hi.
Ephemeral
Posted November 26, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
My friend Mathew Curran has his first solo stencil show coming up. He's been involved in a number of projects I've organized, including the Paper Politics show and Reproduce & Revolt. Details for the show are on the flyer. Check it out!
Justseeds Print Show at the Brecht Forum
Posted November 24, 2008 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects
JUSTSEEDS
Political Print Show and Art Sale
December 4th, 6-9pm
The Brecht Forum
451 West St, NYC
(the West Side Highway, btw Bank & Bethune Sts.)
Directions
The show will be up from 12/04/08 to 01/23/09
Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of political artists who have banded together to support each other and social movements. We believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.
This exhibition is an opportunity to view and purchase over 50 different handmade prints by more than a dozen artists. All art will be for sale, much of it for $25 and under. Perfect socially conscious holiday gifts for friends and family!
Many Yeses, One No: Confronting Corporate Globalization
Posted November 20, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Short Notice, this one is tomorrow in NYC:
Many Yeses, One No: Confronting Corporate Globalization
A Retrospective Film Screening and Panel Discussion
November 21st, 7pm
Labowitz Theater
715 Broadway, NYC
Free and open to the public.
As the anniversary of the Seattle protests against the WTO approaches,
the world economic system- a system whose logic and shape has been
defined by neoliberal economic theory- is in ruins, and the United
States has elected a new president that many people hope and expect
will bring about "real Change."
What does this mean for a movement that seems to have seen its
heyday, but whose critique of the problem- neoliberalism run amok-
now seems more salient, and more urgently needed, than ever? If we
were to look at the Global Justice Movement, or Alter-Globalization
Movement, as historians, what lessons might we learn from this
history? How can these lessons be applied to the current moment?
Films to be Excerpted:
Breaking the Bank (2000)
Showdown in Seattle (1999)
Fourth World War (2003)
It's A Riot (1989)
The Debt Game (1992)
A Cry for Freedom and Democracy (1994)
Total screening time will be approximately 45 minutes, to be followed
by panelist remarks, and audience Q and A.
The Panel:
Sameer Dosssani, Brooke Lehman, Ritty Lukose, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Rick Rowley,
David Solnit.
Moderated by Stephen Duncombe.