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Events for January 2009
Tuesday Jan 6, 7PM @ 2640 : B'MORE FOR PALESTINE!
Join us for a night of solidarity through music to raise awareness about Israel's ongoing crimes against Gaza and the people of Palestine. The featured musical acts are:
Son of Nun
Sabreena Da Witch
Ryan Harvey
Koma Agir
Open mic for you to share your thoughts and words. The evening will be MC'd by Dave Zirin. There is a requested $10 donation at the door...if you can, please donate more! We are collecting funds at this event to contribute to the emergency relief efforts in Gaza.
Thursday Jan 8, 8PM @ 2640 : Bread and Puppet Theater presents:A Change In Plans!
Bread and Puppet return to Baltimore, but not with Dirt Cheap Opera! Due to very recent copyright infringement issues related to the origin of the Dirt Cheap Opera, including fragments from the famous Brecht/Weill "Three Penny Opera", these fine folks will present an evening of cabaret and cantastina instead. Come enjoy good music, theater, and company! Donations will help support Bread and Puppet as they deal with the legal tribulations ahead.
Wednesday Jan 14, 7PM @ 2640 : Introduction to Permaculture + Screening of In Grave Danger of Falling Food
Permaculture offers a practical, sustainable design framework to meet basic human needs for water, food, waste recycling, energy, shelter, and social connection without harming the environment. Learn the basics of the permaulture philosophy with Karen Stupski of the Heathcote community as well as a screening of the film In Grave Danger of Falling Food.
Bill Mollinson, Australian designer and author, thinks the greatest threat to our planet is agriculture. He maintains that modern agricultural practices are destroying our soil and water and produce increasingly poisonous food. His alternative is the 'permaculture' concept which turns even the smallest city garden into a fertile eco-system that can provide most of the food for an average family. A campy period piece, In Grave Danger of Falling Food tells the permaculture story with verve and imagination.
Sliding scale $3-$5 - popcorn included!
Friday Jan 16, 7PM @ Red Emma's : Goodnight Bush! Gan Golan speaks at Red Emma's
Goodnight room. Goodnight moon. Goodnight comb. And goodnight ... Bush? Political satirist Gan Golan come to Red Emma's for a multimedia reading of his new book Goodnight Bush, the hilarious bestselling ''children's book" that critics have called "The finest satire of his unfortunate presidency". In addition to reading from the book and sharing a few of his home-made Bush era 'children's toys' he will talk about the need for more comedy in radical politics, the ongoing quest for accountability for the Bush Administration, and what an Obama administration might mean for radical artists and activists. Don't miss this fantastic (and hilarious) kick-off to inauguration weekend!
Thursday Jan 22, 7PM @ Red Emma's : tovio
Tovio was born into an Athapascan Indian village in Alaska, raised partially in rural Kenya, in an 8 story commune in Chicago, at a new age retreat center in BFE Michigan, and in a poisonous factory town close to Flint, Michigan. He has dropped out of college numerous times and has traveled extensively around the world playing shows, performing in circuses and busking. He writes songs about the fallacy of the American Dream, sea life, dinosaurs and other important topics.
He is a resident artist at the Arcos Azules Gallery (http://www.arcosazules.org) in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver and is currently booking a european tour for February 2009. Accordion and tap shoes.
Friday Jan 23, 7PM @ 2640 : Wafaa Bilal presents SHOOT AN IRAQI Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun
Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal has been behind some of the most amazing critical artistic practice addressing the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. When his brother was killed at a U.S. checkpoint in 2005, he responded with "Domestic Tension," an unsettling interactive performance piece: for one month, Bilal lived alone in a prison cell-sized room in the line of fire of a remote-controlled paintball gun and a camera that connected him to internet viewers around the world. Visitors to the gallery and a virtual audience that grew by the thousands could shoot at him 24 hours a day. Bilal's experiences with this exhibit and the theory behind it are chronicled in his new book on City Lights, Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun.
Bilal's subsequent work, "Virtual Jihadi", generated even more acclaim and controversy: remaking an Al-Qaeda remake called "Night of Bush Capturing" of an American video training game, "Quest for Saddam" to express his own perspective on the war and occupation, Bilal's exhibit was censored twice in Troy, NY. Besides a reading from Shoot an Iraqi and a Q&A with Bilal, we'll be screening "Art is Not Terrorism," a short documentary about the "Virtual Jihadi" censorship story.
The event is free, donations welcome.
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