Come See Us Tomorrow at the Anarchist Bookfair!


April 17, 2010 from 11am-7pm @ Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South in Manhattan [a wheelchair accessible, smoke-free environment with free childcare and food].

FTB is excited to be tabling with our tomorrow at the 4th annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair; a day-long event featuring many modes of anarchist cultural production: books, zines, film, art, and much more.   In addition there will be two days of panels, presentations, workshops, and skillshares on April 17 and 18.

From the website:

“The goal of the book fair is to enable people to connect with one another as well as to provide broader access to the rich and varied field of anarchist ideas and practices. Now is the perfect time to be exploring those ideas and practices and bringing them into play in our communities and the world. . . .a place where the ideas, activism, ethics, creativity and history of the contemporary anarchist movement come together in an exciting weekend of community and collaboration.”

Also on Saturday will be a day-long art event including a music improvisation workshop with Grady Gerbracht and John Loggia, a panel with Denise Carvalho about art collectives, a performance by Inbred Hybrid Collective, Paula Kohatsu of the Brazilian Sisters, a screening of The Yes Men’s latest film, video art by Adriana Varella, drawings by Tom Civil, posters by Josh MacPhee, Reverend Billy, Tassos Sagris and a tactical media workshop hosted by members of IMCollective.

Schedule of workshops and performances in the Judson Gym (see the workshops pagefor details):
11:00 Tactical Media (workshop)
12:30 Paula of the Brazilian Sisters (performance)
1:30 Synchronic Asymmetry: Non-Hierarchical Cooperative Improvisation (workshop)
3:30 Between the Social and the Public: Dialogic Action in Third-Space (panel)
5:30 Reverend Billy (performance)

Stop by our table and say hi!

********The Book Fair has a policy against racist, sexist, queer-phobic, and other disrespectful behavior that works against collective liberation for all communities.

12th Annual Women’s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College!

THE MESSAGE IS IN THE MUSIC is a 2-day event on Friday March 5th and Saturday March 6th at Sarah Lawrence College in the Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Visual Arts Center.  This conference is so exciting because it incorporates a mix of many different feminist narratives and viewpoints, touching on race, sexuality, gender, and culture.  For the Birds partially grew out of a response to the sexism we experienced in the NYC Do It Yourself punk scene, so it will be exciting for us to hear about similar narratives from folks on the front lines of feminism and musical culture.  We are also super excited to see our own Kate Wadkins moderate the panel on Riot Grrrl!  We will be tabling on Saturday March 6th, so check out the schedule below if you are interested!  Map and directions can be found here.

The SCHEDULE:

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