Meeting scheduled for tomorrow night at 7 pm.
From the Flying Brick blog:
An interest meeting will be held for a monthly radical theory reading/discussion group using self education and non-authoritarian learning practices at The Flying Brick Tuesday, August 14 at 7PM. We will talk about structural ideas and give out a welcome packet. Our first topic will (tentatively) be oppression and education. If you have any questions please e-mail Phil at cunninghampd at vcu.edu, thanks!
From the Flying Brick blog:
Day: Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Time: 7pmWant to learn more about Wayside, the Commons and all the wonderful ways you can support and become involved? Come out to our first ever Ice Cream Social Fundraiser! We are bringing in the first day of summer with a fun-filled evening of music-sharing, spoken word, and any other creative ways of expression. All are welcome and donations will be accepted.
Want to donate ahead of time? Check out the link below: http://www.waysidecenter.org/donate.php
Wayside Commons Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/events/252544244849499/
The Flying Brick Library hosts a fundraiser for the next Richmond Zine Festival on Tuesday around 8 pm.
From Facebook event page:
Join us for a night of short documentaries and snacks!
There will be small bags of popcorn and cupcakes made with care by Becca (one of our newest Richmond Zine Fest organizers and creator of the food zine “‘A Monsterous Appetite for Cake”).
At dusk, we’ll view Grrlyshow by Kara Herold, All Night, All Day, and Occupy America by Mark Strandquist .
This is a fundraiser for Richmond Zine Fest 2012. All funds will go toward the cost of a venue and other fees involved with planning and publicizing a non-profit event for independent, alternative publishing. Thank you for supporting Richmond Zine Fest!
Oregon Hill’s FLying Brick Library has a listing of dates and events surrounding this year’s May Day rally in Monroe Park.
The Flying Brick table at this past Saturday’s Richmond Zine Festival–
From the FaceBook event page:
We are having a book drive before October first and then selling said books on the first. It’s so easy. This is what you do. You bring books over during open hours. Mondays 9am to 4pm. Thursdays 4pm to 9pm. Or you can drop it off the day before. ANY type of book. We will sell it all. The proceeds will go directly into, you guessed it!, getting more books! PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!!!
Time
Saturday, October 1 · 8:00am – 2:00pm
Location
The Flying Brick Library
506 S. Pine street
From Facebook event page:
War and revolution in the Middle East have recently shadowed their neighbors to the west, but the denizens of the Balkans are in the midst of a new wave of their own struggles. As its people continue to suffocate between the brutalities of global capitalism and murderous power-plays of regional demagogues, anarchists and others struggle to build a new world on top of the old. Join author Shon Meckfessel, just back from the Balkans’ own Arab Spring, in a reading and spirited discussion Tuesday September 20 at 7pm at The Flying Brick Library.
The Flying Brick Field Trip!:
On Sunday August 28th, meet at the Flying Brick Library, 506 S. Pine St in Oregon Hill for a trip to Washington DC to visit the Museum of the American Indian, as well as the National Museum of Natural History to see the RACE: Are We So Different?,exhibit, developed by the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, It is the first national exhibition to tell the stories of race from the biological, cultural, and historical points of view. Combining these perspectives offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the United States.
Folks will need to bring money for food, metro fair, and gas. If you can’t afford this, there is a chance that the Library can sponsor a few people.
Contact theflyingbrick@riseup.net to RSVP (for carpool info) or to ask about funding. If this field trip goes well, there could be a trip to Harper’s Ferry in the future!
Also,
On Monday, August 29, from 7 to 10 pm, the Flying Brick is hosting a couple members of Crimethinc on tour for their latest book, Work. This is from the website, crimethinc.com:
After so much technological progress, why do we have to work more than ever before? How is it that the harder we work, the poorer we end up compared to our bosses? When the economy crashes, why do people focus on protecting their jobs when no one likes working in the first place? Can capitalism survive another century of crises?
Our newest book, entitled Work, addresses these questions and a great many more. To answer them, we had to revisit our previous analysis of employment and develop a more nuanced understanding of the economy. We spent months studying obscure history and comparing notes about how we experience exploitation in our daily lives, slowly hammering out a grand unified theory of contemporary capitalism.
All Flying Brick events are sober unless otherwise noted. Please no booze. Hope to see you there :)
This Thursday at 8:30 pm, the Flying Brick Library shows the film From The Back of the Room.
Many people have the impression that the Riot Grrrl movement in the mid-90s was the end-all, be-all of female involvement in DIY punk. This is definitely not the case! Plenty of amazing ladies prior to this era paved the way for it, and plenty of amazing ladies continue to help keep DIY together today. This documentary chronicles the past 30 years of female involvement in DIY punk, and has interviews with over 30 women from across the country, ages 17 to 40. Race, gender, sexuality, motherhood, class, and activism are all addressed in this film, giving a more complete picture of how these women participate in the DIY community, and how it affects their daily lives.
Please join us for these wonderful films!
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The Flying Brick holds sober events, unless otherwise noted. So please, no booze.
RVANews.com has an article this week on special libraries around town. It includes a profile on Oregon Hill’s Flying Brick Library:
Stats:
Free
Circulating
All about radical topics
Find the library online
Find the library in person: 506 S. Pine St.
Allison Self, one of the Flying Brick volunteers and someone who has lived in the library house, chatted with me when I went to visit the collection. A cozy green flowered couch graces one corner of the room, there are shelves all the way up to the ceiling on multiple walls, and the collection of over one thousand zines is displayed in one corner. “I like all of it…the zines are my favorites when it comes down to it,” Allison said after hemming and hawing over what her favorite item in the collection might be, adding, “We also have a really good collection of books on women’s health.”To my query about what makes the Flying Brick library stand out (aside from its name), Allison explained that the books are “more radical leftist.” The library has been around in various forms for quite some time, originating with the General Strike Collective.