Spirited Anarchy Festival (May 8-11)
The A-Zone will be a major host site for the upcoming “Spirited Anarchy Festival.”
Full details, workshops, participants, book fair, and other schedule info can be found on the Spirited Anarchy website at http://www.festival.a-zone.org
The basic description of the festival, as posted there, is as follows:
“2008 is the birth year of the Spirited Anarchy Festival. It is a celebration of the anarchist and radical community in Manitoba, across “canada” and around the globe. The festival serves as a means for anarchists to come together and; discuss philosophy, tactics, projects, to socialize and have fun, re-energize and dance. Most importantly it is to educate the wider public on what anarchism means to each one of us and to try to dispel myths surrounding anarchism. The festival is organized by a consensus-based collective. To become involved please contact us.”
Most events will be held in Old Market Square, Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House, as well as the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre — including a building-wide fund-raising party on Saturday night (May 10th).
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2008
Mayworks 2008 and the Spirited Anarchy Festival present
Snapshots of Anarchist History:
A Panel on Historical Aspects of Anarchism in a Canadian Context
Travis Tomchuk on “Europe is No Place for an Anarchist: The Network to Aid Italian Anarchists After the Spanish Civil War.”
& Paul Burrows on “Anarchism, Colonialism, & Aboriginal Dispossession in the Canadian West.”
DATE: Thursday, May 8, 2008
START TIME: 6PM
VENUE: Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House (91 Albert St.)
Travis Tomchuk is doing a Ph.D. at Queen’s University on Canadian anarchist history. He has also been known as the anarcho-grindcore vocalist for the legendary G7 band Malefaction (Where There is Power, There is Always Resistance).
Paul Burrows helped found Winnipeg’s Old Market Autonomous Zone, Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House, and the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre. He has written articles on participatory economics, Palestine-Israel, and other issues. He is currently finishing an MA thesis in History at the University of Manitoba with a focus on indigenous history and resistance, treaties, and settler-colonialism.
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2008
“40 Year Anniversary of Paris 1968:” Lecture and Discussion
Presented by Winnipeg New Socialists and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Includes a screening of René Viénet’s 1973 film “Can Dialectics Break Bricks?” (Kung Fu meets the Situationists!!)
START TIME: 8PM (film screening at 9:00PM)
VENUE: Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre (3rd floor, 91 Albert st.)
FRIDAY, May 9th, 2008
12PM – 2PM: Gallery tour of the “Destructive urge, creative urge” art show & discussion with artists – Starts @ A-zone (91 Albert st.), then goes to Platform and Label art galleries.
2PM – 4PM: Derrick Jensen teleconference Q & A @ Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre.
4PM – 5PM: Anarcho-olympics Bike Event (meet at Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse).
5:30PM – 6PM: Clandestine encounter (anarcho-olympics- explanation of clandestine assassins-type game to
be played over course of weekend ). please attend or get the information if you would lke to participate in this game. Meet at Emma Goldman Grassroots Centre (2nd floor, 91 Albert st.)
6PM – 7:30PM: Screening of “5 Ring Circus” (about 2010 olympics in Vancouver) @ Mondragon.
7:30PM – 9PM: Anna Hunter of Anti Poverty Committee Vancouver talks about anti-Olympics 2010 organizing @ Mondragon.
9PM – late: “Rock for Rights Show” with Ian La Rue & The Condor, the 1919 Insurrectionary Orchestra, others TBA – $5 (Ian La Rue) & Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre (91 Albert st.)
SATURDAY, MAY 10th, 2008
10AM – 6pm: Winnipeg Anarchist Bookfair in Old Market Square, in the Exchange District (a stone’s throw from the A-Zone, across from Cinemateque)
11:30AM – 6PM: Entertainment on stage during the bookfair:
- poetry between workshops (colin smith, annhaharte baker, clarseise foster, old man ferguson 11:30-noon, 1:30-2pm, 3:30-4pm, respectively)
2PM – 4PM: Derrick Jensen remote conference – Location TBA
5:30PM – 6PM: Flaming Trollies Anarchist Marching Band (Old Market Square).
10AM – 6PM: Workshops all day long (Places and times TBA, see Spirited Anarchy website for details).
OTHER: Food Not Bombs will be serving food for free all day in Old Market Square.
7PM – 8PM: Manhunt game in downtown- meet at A-zone (91 albert st.)
8PM – late: Autonomous Zone Fund-raiser Party! (91 Albert st. will be opening all of its floors for a building-wide, fund-raising, carnival against capitalism. Expect live music on three different levels, carnival games, costumes and fun. More TBA.
SUNDAY, MAY 11th, 2008
Bring mum to the Mondragon Coffeehouse for brunch on this day that’s all about her. Or leave her at home in the garden and bring your own sweet self.
Noon – whenever – Anarchist Soccer
Anarchists Vs Lesbians deathmatch for subcultural high-ground. Losers will convert to
identity politics of victors. The Spence Action House CHUDS are threatening to bring out their trebuchet and the water balloons. Family fun in the adjacent park.
Location: West Broadway Community Centre (just off Broadway and Young)
2PM – 3PM: Self-Defense Workshop pt II @ West Broadway Community Centre (just south of Broadway and Young)
9PM: Wolseley Obstacle Course: Meet at Cousins Deli (Wolseley and Westminister st.)
10PM – late: Outdoor Firepit, awards/prizes & folk music around the fire (Location TBA)
For full details, workshop info, or updates, see the Spirited Anarchy website.