Showing posts with label South African Anarchist Bookfair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South African Anarchist Bookfair. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

The 2013 Cape Town Anarchist Bookfair and After-party!


Our friends at Bolo'bolo - anarchist infoshop and vegan café, with the help of many other fine folk, are putting together an Anarchist Bookfair and After-party. This will be on Saturday, December 7, and located at Wesley St and Milton Rd, Observatory, Cape Town from 10am-7pm, and then at bolo'bolo (76 Lower Main Road, Observatory, 7925 Cape Town) till late.

*** NB: Check http://www.anarchistbookfair.co.za/ for full info ***

CALLOUT:

You are called to vote by many parties.

Feel disgruntled by them? Think their promises are empty? Wondering what you can do to really make a change? Come find out more about daily revolutionary action at the 2013 Cape Town Anarchist Bookfair!

We won’t be promising anything except good books, interesting talks and conversations, amazing vegan food, a chill-space, a Really Really Free Market (where you get to donate if you want and take whatever you need) and a rowdy after-party (at the bolo'bolo infoshop around the corner).

Interested yet? If not, think about this for a moment: is it really so unimaginable that you should be able to have a real say in what your community should look like and how you want to live your life? Are you tired that you and the people you love are forced into dead-end soul-eroding jobs just to pay the bills (if they're lucky), living month to month and sapped of the energy to live the life you feel sure should be possible for all of us? That you aren’t allowed the time to understand yourself and what you want from life – this one, beautiful, crazy, scary, wondrous life you get to live for a period of time you have no control over? Are you concerned that the planet is speedily being destroyed by people seeking profit over the well-being of the environment?

If any of this resonates with you, come join us at the bookfair. You’ll get to take part in discussions and think collectively about new ways in which we can live in a way that allows us to be free without impinging on the freedom of others and is environmentally sustainable.

Come on, take off those horrible disciplinary restraints of ‘how you should act and be’ and allow yourself a day of being the person you dreamed of being when you were a child climbing trees and hanging upside down, looking at the world from another angle.

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WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Stalls selling radical books, zines, clothing, vegan food, coffees, drinks and more.

• Lots of talks, workshops and open conversations.

• A Really Really Free Market.

• Food Not Bombs.

• A radical art exhibition.

• An after-party at bolo'bolo with All These Wasted Nuts, Cami ScoundrelMonday Morning JusticeMorning PagesSoundz of the South and friends...

• Lots of fellow anarchists, activists, radicals and deviants :-)

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DETAILS:

• No entrance fee

• Open from 10am-7pm (and then at bolo'bolo till late)

• View full info at http://www.anarchistbookfair.co.za/ or contact us at us@anarchistbookfair.co.za if you'd like to book a stall, do a talk, suggest a conversation, exhibit or find out more.

• The venue is the Theatre Arts Collective building, old Wesleyan Church, cnr of Wesley and Milton in Obs.

• OUR VALUES
The bookfair has a policy against authoritarian, oppressive, racist, sexist, queer-phobic, ableist, speciesist and other disrespectful behavior that works against collective liberation for all communities. Leave the prejudice, intolerance and domination at home! Actually, get rid of it altogether!

• ACCESSIBILITY
The venue does not have dedicated wheelchair access but there are very few steps and all areas are accessible via one of the two main entrances. If you're concerned about this, drop us a mail and we'll send you some photos of the venue.

• CHILDREN AND OTHER ANIMALS
The venue will be child friendly and there will be some entertainment available for younger anarchists, although there will not be a dedicated single area. The venue would prefer if people did not bring companion animals of other species along, but we encourage you to use your discretion in this regard.

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Love and anarchy,
The bookfair organising collective

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

2012 Cape Town Anarchist Bookfair

 
If, for just a moment, you watched or read in horror about the killing of the Marikana miners earlier this year and wondered how on earth it could be that this happened in our country or anywhere or in the first place at all; if you, even for just a second, questioned what this means about power-relations, economic distribution and political structures, or even had no such framed thinking but simply found yourself appalled by this reality so close to your doorstep; if you felt powerless or confused by the images playing out in front of you, then the Anarchist Bookfair is for you.

Anarchy, anarchism, anarchist, synonyms and near alternatives are often discarded or regarded with great scepticism by many people. But all anarchists really stand for and desire is a free and just world for all. Isn’t that what most of us want?

It is in this spirit that we invite you to join us on 8 December 2012 for the second Annual South African Anarchist Bookfair at the Theatre Arts Collective on the corner of Wesley Street and Milton Road in Observatory, Cape Town.
Books will be aplenty. People will talk. (Not at you, but in conversation with you, to find solutions together.) Concepts will fly. A party shall be had! Come learn more about anarchism, its philosophy, its proud history of resistance and its visions for a sustainable, free and equal future. There will be a wide range of radical literature, music, movies, talks, yu-ummie vegan food and more. Doors open at 10am and close at 7pm, followed by an after-party in true anarchist style at the Armchair Backpackers & Pub around the corner from the bookfair.

As someone once said: “if you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone is thinking.”

Why not take your mind on the trip and find some novel thoughts with which to occupy it?


*** WHAT TO EXPECT ***
- loads of awesome books on anarchism and related subjects
- talks and workshops
- facilitated conversations on themes you suggest
- films throughout the day
- a Really Really Free Market
- an after-party with an eclectic mix of local musos
- naked insurrection in the streets


*** DETAILS ***
8 December
9am-7pm
Theatre Arts Collective (cnr Wesley Str. and Milton Rd., Observatory, Cape Town)
After-party at the Armchair Backpackers and Pub from 7pm


*** OUR VALUES ***
The bookfair has a policy against authoritarian, oppressive, racist, sexist, queer-phobic, ableist, speciesist and other disrespectful behavior that works against collective liberation for all communities. Leave the prejudice, intolerance and domination at home! Actually, get rid of it altogether!


*** KID FRIENDLY! ***
This space is kid friendly (music to parents’ ears!). We will have some delicious kid-liked food, face-painting, games and assorted activities, including supervision so that you can browse and stuff.


*** MORE INFO ***
For more information visit our website: www.anarchistbookfair.co.za or find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CTAnarchistBook

You can also email us at us@anarchistbookfair.co.za if you'd like to get involved in any way.

To view a map: http://maps.google.co.za/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode&q=wesley+and+milton+observatory&aq&sll=-33.915538%2C18.656059&sspn=1.985215%2C4.22699&ie=UTF8&hq&hnear=Milton+Rd%2C+Cape+Town%2C+Western+Cape+7925&t=m&z=14&ll=-33.937443%2C18.466316


Peace, love and anarchy,
The organisers of the 2012 Cape Town Anarchist Bookfair