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Left Bank Events Calendar-linkNikki McClure: reading and signingFriday, June 11th at 7:30 PM Nikki McClure of Olympia, Washington is known for her painstakingly intricate and beautiful paper cuts. Armed with an X-acto knife, she cuts out her images from a single sheet of paper and creates a bold language that translates the complex poetry of motherhood, nature, and activism into a simple and endearing picture. For more info and samples of her artwork visit http://nikkimcclure.com/ Democracy as Totalitarianism: Peter Gelderloos Speaks at Left BankWednesday, April 7th at 7:30 PM How Non-Violence Protects the State, Consensus, and the newly published Anarchy Works–will be speaking at Left Bank Books on Democracy as Totalitarianism. Peter will analyze democracy as a creation of the elite and an evolution from obviously authoritarian forms of governance that allows for greater control of people’s beliefs and lives. We will explore the anarchist proposition that all government–including democracy–is authoritarian and a force for domination and thought-control. Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies In Blue @ LEFT BANKThursday, April 15th, 2010, at 7:30PM
Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power In America, as well as the recently published, American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, will be at Left Bank Books on Thursday, April 15th, to talk about police brutality, the psychology of authoritarianism, and how we can fight back! Our Enemies In Blue is already an essential text on the subject, and his new title investigating American methods of torture sheds important light on an ongoing struggle against state repression. Mark your calendars, come join us, and bring all your friends. Left Bank needs your support! Free Event! Donations appreciated. Make/Shift Multimedia Event @ LEFT BANKSaturday, April 3rd, 2010, at 7:30PM
Makeshift Reclamation: New Feminist Art and Activism is a multimedia event showcasing how contemporary feminists are resisting and creating alternatives to not only gender-based oppression but also a collapsing economic system, climate crisis, and more. Featuring live readings, performances, and video works by artists and activists including Jessica Hoffmann, coeditor/copublisher of the independent, transnational, antiracist feminist magazine make/shift; Hilary Goldberg, whose new project, recLAmation, is a Super 8 experimental documentary/narrative film in which queer superheroes navigate a future beyond capitalism; Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who works with Critical Resistance, Broken Beautiful Press, UBUNTU!, and make/shift; radical-queer author and instigator, and make/shift contributor, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore; video artist, scholar, and make/shift contributor Jessica Lawless; and others TBA. IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT. Free event! Donations appreciated. Microcosm Tour 2010! @ LEFT BANKFriday, April 2rd, 2010, at 7:30PM
They've got some of the raddest 'zines in your collection, and this Friday, they'll be in Seattle to answer any questions you may have about their project, as well as showcase a couple awesome performances in our humble little bookshop. There will be a COOKING SHOW & FREE VEGAN SNACKS w/ Josh Ploeg, author of In Search of the Lost Taste! There will be a DIY FILMSCREENING OF "IF IT AIN'T CHEAP IT AIN'T PUNK" with Microcosm founder Joe Biel!! There will be a TOURING MUSEUM SHOWCASING THE SECRET HISTORY OF FOOD & ESPIONAGE!!! Free event! Donations appreciated. Greek Anarchists from Void Network Speak about December 2008 RevoltsAt 7:30 PM on Friday, March 26th: Anarchists (and contributors to the new book, We Are an Image from the Future) from the VOID Network from Athens, Greece will join a US anarchist to discuss the world-famous riots that shook Greece in December 2008 (which were a response to the police killing of a teenager in the "ungovernable" district of Exarchia). This is a rare opportunity to hear about a major historical event directly from the participants! The speakers will also delve into the broader context of popular revolt and state counterinsurgency in Greece, Catalunya (Spain), and the UK, exploring how social contexts that support or discourage revolt are created in a contest between the state and grassroots social struggles. Read more about the Greek uprising and anarchist movementAuthor Matt Hern at Left Bank Books!!Tonight, March 15th, at 7:30 PM
If you’ve got the time, head down to your favorite anarchist bookshop of horrors tomorrow, 3/15, to hear Matt Hern talk about his newest book, Common Ground In A Liquid City: Essays In Defense of an Urban Future. Matt lives up in Vancouver, B.C., and is super-rad. He’s the author of the amazing Everywhere All The Time: A New Deschooling Reader, and the founder of the Purple Thistle Center up in Vancouver. Besides being on the forefront of the deschooling movement and having radical politics, he’s also a professor at UBC, teaching about urban sustainability and city design. Come hang with us tomorrow to talk about the scariness of corporate control, the promise of grassroots organizing, and the way to bring funky back. Also, Left Bank needs your love, so come hang out with us anyways. It’s going to be SO GOOD. 7:30PM @ LEFT BANK BOOKS 92 Pike St. (1st & Pike, next to the flower shop!) Be there! Margaret Killjoy, editor of Mythmakers and Lawbreakers, talking at Left Bank on Anarchists and FictionFriday, January 29th at 7 PM
Margaret Killjoy, editor of Mythmakers and Lawbreakers, will be reading and talking at Left Bank Books on Friday, January 29th at 7 PM. From Killjoy's blog: A brief and arguably entertaining evening with Margaret Killjoy, editor of Mythmakers & Lawbreakers. Discuss the role of storytelling in the anarchist movement! Learn about novelist assassins, post-colonial African squatters, writers who fought in revolutions and went on to write childrens’ stories! Find out what Tolkien, Camus, Orwell, and Kafka have to say about anarchism! From AK Press (on the book): The best fiction has always been a little...dangerous. For centuries, authors have used the veil of fiction to cast a critical eye toward the larger society around them: think of Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, Issac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.G. Wells, Mary Shelley, and beyond. And now, for the first time, some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction discuss the endless possibilities of the world of fiction with a specific focus on anarchist politics. In a series of interviews with SteamPunk Magazine founder Margaret Killjoy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Moore, Lewis Shiner, Starhawk, Derrick Jensen, Cristy C. Road, Michael Moorcock, and a variety of other up-and-coming young writers reflect on the ways in which their personal politics have shaped their work. Plus, a fantastic introduction by best-selling sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson! Be there! Author Shon Meckfessel this Saturday (1-23-10) at Left Bank BooksShon Meckfessel, (local) author of Suffled How It Gush: A North American Anarchist in the Balkans will be speaking and reading at Left Bank Books on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 7 PM. Come out and learn about the Balkans and anarchism. “Shon Meckfessel bathes in undercurrent discourses and points us to Balkan dynamics contradicting the nationalist loyalties that distort people’s lives. Rather than making ethnic claims or endorsing any hierarchy, he clarifies existing struggles against states and points toward a region free of domination.” —George Katsiaficas, activist and author of Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life Diana Block, author of Arm the Spirit, at Left Bank BooksPlease join us Thursday, June 25th as Diana Block reads from her recent AK Press title, Arm the Spirit. In June 1985, Diana Block, her two-week-old son, and five companions fled Los Angeles after finding a surveillance device in their car. Facing the possibility of arrest because of her militant activities in the struggle for Puerto Rican independence, Diana spent the next decade living underground: on the run from the FBI, raising two children, and juggling security, solidarity, and motherhood. In a perfect demonstration that the personal is political, Diana's memoir offers insights into efforts to build homegrown clandestine resistance to US imperialism. With emotional depth and a poetic style, the book brings a woman's perspective to a subject typically dominated by heroic, male discourse. It also traces Diana's political development on either side of her period underground, offering a history of the culture and politics of the 1960s and 1970s-especially the decisions that led many to take up arms against the US government—and an analysis of the political terrain of the 1990s, when she resurfaced and tried to reintegrate into a very different world. Diana Block has been an activist for forty years. She has written for political journals and women's magazines, and currently edits The Fire Inside, the newsletter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Chris Carlsson, author of Critical Mass and Nowtopia at Left Bankjoin Left Bank Books and Chris Carlsson touring his new book Nowtopia: how pirate programmers, outlaw bicyclists, and vacant-lot gardeners are inventing the future today! out now from AK Press. Chris was one of the key founders of the mass bicycle phenomenon known as Critical Mass, and author of a 2002 book by the same title. Chris will be reading at Left Bank Monday, June 23, 2008 at 7pm Eric Lyle, aka Iggy Scam at Left Bankauthor of the zine SCAM and his new book out now from Soft Skull Press On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City will be reading at Left Bank Friday, June 27, 2008 at 7pm "227 Pages of squatting the ruins of dot-com San Francisco, putting on illegal punk shows in the streets, shutting down the city with anti-war protests and more ..." SCAM issue #6 out now -- three bucks. Iggy reports from the alleyways of Buenos Aires, rich with street art. Check this page soon for more about Eric Lyle Contact Left Bank Books with questions: josh@leftbankbooks.com | (206) 622-0195 | open seven days - - - - - - - - - Our email address has been restored: leftbank@leftbankbooks.com For a listing of up coming DIY-type events in Seattle try SeattleDIY.com and for teach-ins, protests, etc. try Jean Buskin's Seattle Peace and Justice Events Calendar. -The Left Bank Collective |