anarchy

Calavera Oaxaquena, Sat. Nov. 1st + open gallery hours

Submitted by pedalnoise on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 10:53am. anarchy | brunch | show

Start: 11/01/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 11/01/2008 - 11:00pm

Save the date of Saturday, Nov. 1st to join us for "Calavera Oaxaquena: Mensajes de la Lucha Social", 6-11pm. Now this night of incredible Artwork! Banjos! Accordions! Puppets! Documentary Screenings! Clowns! Pan de muerto! and so much more, is only one week away. A million thanks to all of you that helped and supported during the Cafe Calavera benefit event. It was wonderful to see you, share great food and send the show on it's way.

The exhibit is a Bay Area collaboration with Oaxacan artists honoring the dead by using art as the voice of justice. Including the 38-Artist collaborative series ‘Calavera Oaxaquena', community altars, projected documentaries, and great live music. Including artwork from nearly seventy artists in the theme of los muertos and social struggle. Featuring the print and stencil works from three Oaxacan art collectives that formed during the movement of 2006, and the works of many local artists.

SUN OCT 5th -LongHaul Cafe Night Taring Padi radical Indonesian arts collective.

Start: 10/05/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 10/05/2008 - 9:00pm

LongHaul Cafe Night Sunday Oct. 5th at 7pm. Benefit dinner for the radical art activist collective Taring Padi. Homemade Indonesian meal, screening of the documentary Indonesia: Art Activism and Rock n Roll. There will also be a discussion about Indonesian art, politics and social history along with a video conference call with some of the artists in Indonesia. This is a fundraiser and awareness event to help bring members of Taring Padi to the Zapatista organized First Global Festival of Dignified Rage Dec 26-29, 2008 in Mexico City, and in Chiapas Jan 2-4, 2009.

Known as Taring Padi, the group is self-described as an "independent non-profit cultural community based on the concept of people's culture." They arose in 1998 in the midst of major social uprising and political reformation when the corrupt Indonesian dictator President Surharto was forced out of office by a popular people's movement.

Taring Padi Exhibit in Oakland @ RPS First Friday Oct 3rd

Start: 10/03/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 10/03/2008 - 9:00pm

Hello SPAZ Community its been a while since I updated about Taring Padi. I spent a lot of time working with the group and others to try to bring them to the states. We didnt get funding, but with internal funding we were trying to bring Toni Volunteero over and I had booked an entire art and speaking tour. I tried to help as much as I could to get Toni a US Visa but after months of waiting and crossing of fingers he wasnt able to get one. They wouldn't issue him a tourist visa and he couldnt satisfy the paperwork for a work visa which is what they said he needed as an artist even for unpaid work. All of October was booked west coast and a busy east coast route including DC, Philly, Balitmore Radical Bookfair, a few gigs in NYC including being scheduled to speak at a conference in NYC as part of the Signs of Change Exhibition which Taring Padi work is included in, and the month of November touring with Beehive. Most of this was cancelled due to the fact Toni wasn't able to come, but I have kept a few of the west coast events as benefit events to instead bring them to Mexico this winter. We had Taring Padi artwork up at the Portland Grassroots Media Camp, a film screening at Black Rose in Portland, an artshow at FBK house in Seattle, and now a few bay area gigs. including an artshow opening on Friday Oct 3rd RPS Gallery in Oakland, and a cafe night/film screening at Long Haul Sunday Oct 5th.

Also I just started uploading some photos to a photobucket account and want to try to put up a wordpress/blogspot with info and photo.

www.photobucket.com/taringpadi

Below is the flyer and info for the RockPaperScissors artshow:

webflyer-1.jpg RPS Flyer picture by TaringPadi

Portland Grassroots Media Camp

Start: 09/12/2008 - 8:00pm

End: 09/12/2008 - 11:00pm

Portland Grassroots Media Camp Schedule

The 2008 Camp will take place the weekend of September 12th-14th on the Portland Community College Cascade Campus, in the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building. We will also be holding events each evening at community spaces affiliated with the Media Camp.

The Portland Grassroots Media Camp is a weekend of hands-on skill shares, media workshops, presentations, discussions and gatherings aimed to empower people with tools and skills to express themselves. The camp is open to anyone, emphasizing the inclusion of those who are traditionally excluded from media representation, creation and production. Our goal is to create a teaching environment based on a popular education model, where media makers and community organizers can come together to share skills and build connections. We hope that everyone involved will continue collaboration after the Camp, and that many individuals and groups will have been empowered to effectively tell their story in a media environment that is increasingly hostile to independent voices.

For the 2008 Camp we have an amazing lineup of classes and panels covering a wide range of media forms, facilitated by many well known and lesser know local media makers. Mediums covered include; video, audio, computers skills, stenciling, performance art and much more. We have organized these classes into a system of three different tracks; Becoming a Citizen Reporter, Creative Story Telling and Tools for Community Organizers. For a full version of the schedule and program with facilitator bios and class descriptions visit the "Program" section of our website.

Registration will be conducted during an open house at PCC on Friday the 12th from 4:30-7:30 PM, or if class space permits on the days of the camp itself. Special pre-registration is available to members of social justice or community organizations. Pre-register by contacting us in advance by phone or email. Registration for the camp is by suggested donation, with no one turned away for lack of funds. We suggest a $5 donation, but those who are able are encouraged to give more.

Evening Events: During the open house on Friday from 6-7:30 we will be hosting a caucus on Media Justice, where local media groups are encouraged to come meet and discuss challenges and opportunities in the Portland/Vancouver media landscape. For more information contact the Media Camp.

After registration and the caucus we will move to Liberty Hall for an Opening Night Party from 8-11 PM. The party will include an art show featuring pieces from three different art collectives form around the world; Taring Padi of Indonesia, Collectivo TK from Oaxaca, Mexico and Just Seeds from the US. In conjunction with the showing, representatives for each group will hold a panel on the topic of the intersection of art with social movements. Music will be provided by the Underscore Orchestra and Aircrash2000. Liberty Hall is located at 311 N Ivy St. one block south of Fremont and two blocks west of Vancouver Ave.

On Saturday night beginning at 6 PM the New Born Tribe African community center will be co-hosting an African dinner along with a screening of various grassroots film projects that we previewed at our "Tell It Like It Is" event. We will be showing the following short documentaries.

bleakhaus benefit for the long haul

Submitted by pedalnoise on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 7:50pm. anarchy | show

Start: 08/29/2008 - 9:00pm

the friday the 29th bleakhaus noise show 9pm
we'll be taking donations at thye door and throughout the evening.
most needed are computers (with programs would be nice)
and cash for legal fees and prisoner support.

the show fetures
grey veganaise from ohio . perieum . weldschmertz . dirty centaur
prize hog . droughter . saberteeth

call 415 762 3616 for location of warehouse

benefit for long haul

Submitted by pedalnoise on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 10:58am. anarchy | show

Start: 08/28/2008 - 7:00pm

Thursday, August 28
Show starts at 7pm
benefit for Long Haul

Jessie Williams
myspace. com/thesuburbanrevolt
Colton Saylor
myspace. com/coltonsaylormusic
Andy Herrada
myspace. com/imahobofolkshit

The Long Haul Infoshop was raided by FBI, Alameda County Sheriff and UC Berkeley Police yesterday morning at 10:30am.

They took all of the computers (over a dozen). They broke into all of the offices. They used a crow bar on the fence and doors.

They need computers, money to pay for damages, and support from our friends and community!

www.thelonghaul.org

Long Haul 15th Anniv. party w/ Trash Orchestra

Submitted by pedalnoise on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 2:00pm. anarchy | party

Start: 08/08/2008 - 8:00pm

After berkeley critical mass, there will be a party at the long haul infoshop (www.thelonghaul.org) to celebrate its 15th anniversary! YAY!

The party starts at 8pm and will feature the santa cruz trash orchestra! (http://www.trashorchestra.org)

help fight this eviction

Submitted by real on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 5:45am. anarchy

79 year old Jose Morales-who has been fighting an Ellis eviction for 2
years
now-is scheduled to be evicted by the Sheriff tomorrow, Wednesday, August
6. Jose has no place to go and will be resisting this eviction and asks

help fight this eviction

Submitted by real on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 5:41am. action | anarchy

Start: 08/06/2008 - 2:00am

End: 08/06/2008 - 11:38am

79 year old Jose Morales-who has been fighting an Ellis eviction for 2
years
now-is scheduled to be evicted by the Sheriff tomorrow, Wednesday, August
6. Jose has no place to go and will be resisting this eviction and asks

Shelter: A squatumentary

Submitted by pedalnoise on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 1:03pm. anarchy | screening

Start: 07/22/2008 - 8:00pm

Tuesday, July 22, 2008. 8PM $6
@ Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street, San Francisco

With universally skyrocketing property values, rent and home-ownership have become unaffordable at best and impossible at worst. Thus, people all over the world continue a long tradition of circumventing the expensive price tag and reclaiming this basic human right by squatting. *Shelter: a Squatumentary* is a documentary film that explores the squatting movement in the East Bay from 2004 to 2007. We follow three examples of the struggle for housing in an unaffordable marketplace such as the San Francisco Bay Area. Hellarity House, Banana House, and Power Machine are stories of squatters who have found one tentative solution to the ongoing housing crisis. Directed by Hannah E. Dobbz, 45 min. (2008)

Watch trailer

What Would It Mean to Win? Counter-globalization Videos by Oliver Ressler

Submitted by andandrewrew on Sun, 06/08/2008 - 5:45pm. anarchy | screening

Start: 06/13/2008 - 8:00pm

End: 06/13/2008 - 9:40pm

video illustration

What Would It Mean To Win? - 2008, 40 min.

"What Would It Mean To Win?" was filmed on the blockades at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany in June 2007. In their first collaborative film Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler focus on the current state of the counter-globalisation movement in a project which grows out of both artists' preoccupation with globalisation and its discontents. The film, which combines documentary footage, interviews, and animation sequences, is structured around three questions pertinent to the movement: Who are we? What is our power? What would it mean to win?

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