You. Me. World.

A workshop on local and global citizenship

On June 24th from 7:30pm-9:30pm Helyx Chase of HH

productions will be hosting a dialog and workshop to support The Trek

Project. The Trek Project is a project that will follow students from

buildOn as they travel to Nicaragua to construct a school.

The workshop will be a chance to talk about the ways that we see ourselves within the world and also to participate in the mapping project where we will examine the ways that we see ourselves in a global setting.

The Trek Project is a multi-  faceted, multi-media exploration of global identity, and citizenship.
Filmmaker Helyx Chase is embarking on this  project to create a documentary about how we see ourselves within a  global and local community; and how we are accountable/responsible
within both of those communities. They will be traveling to Nicaragua  this summer and following a group of youth from buildOn after school  clubs in the Philadelphia and New York City areas as they build a  school in a remote rural village. Ultimately, the maps and discussion
generated at the workshop will be included in The Trek Project. While  the event is free we are asking for donations to sponsor the trip to Nicaragua and supplies needed while in the country.

Chase is a queer, non-gender identified video maker,  social justice activist and youth worker. They are 19; they were born  in Philadelphia and raised just west of the city in Upper Darby.
Chase, originally Hannah Horwitz, graduated from Upper Darby High  School in 2007, with 2 scholarships for media production. They  started seriously pursuing video when they were 15 and participated in the Scribe Video Center’s Documentary History Project for Youth in
2005. After the project was completed in January of 2006 they were an active member of Upper Darby High School’s broadcast journalism program.

They have produced multiple short pieces both independently and for classes, the most recent of which is a 25-minute documentary about the ways that women are portrayed in the media and how those images effect girls while they are growing up, it is called “Impacting Girls Influencing Lives”. They produce video pieces that promote social justice, queer visibility, youth empowerment, and independent artists. They are heavily influenced by the work of Marlon
Riggs and they possess a strong desire to create dialog about issues that are often not covered by the mainstream.

They blog at HHspeaking.blogspot.com, and can be reached at HHconnects@gmail.com

Friday, June 12th, 8pm
Jeff Mach’s “What Sharp Teeth”

With special opening performance by The Velocitators,
www.myspace.com/velocitators.

“What Sharp Teeth” is a twisted retelling of the “Little Red Riding Hood”
fairytale. It’s a one-man musical, written and performed by Jeff Mach
through story and song. Hear the story of the sweet, innocent girl, the
helpful narrator, and the crocodile. What, you heard the story had a wolf?
What other lies were you told? .A tale of dark humour, pagan gods,
theoretically innocent young girls, and mead.

This show is not recommended for persons under the age of sixteen.

Jeff Mach has been writing and performing songs for over twenty years. He’s
co-founder of the classic North Jersey folk-rock group Running Water. He is
creator and producer of what is possibly the country’s largest, and
certainly most unorthodox, Renaissance Faire: The Wicked Winter Faire, which
is attended yearly by over 2,000 people.

www.WickedFaire.com/wst

Creative Speech: The Golden Thread
June 11th 6pm to 8pm
Cost: sliding scale, $10 to $20

What makes a story a story?  There are many answers to this riddle.  Come
run, walk, step, throw and catch with us to grab the Golden Thread--the
thread that connects us all, connects sound with meaning, leads us through
all the ups and downs of our tale to the happy ending.  We'll also learn
what makes Shakespeare's sonnets such irresistible arguments.

This is an active, movement-based sound workshop.  Actors, teachers, nurses,
lawyers, parents, every profession can benefit from Creative Speech.  It
comes from the work of Rudolf Steiner, originator of Waldorf Schools,
Biodynamic Farming, Camphill Communities and many other activities.

For more information about this and other Creative Speech events in
Philadelphia, go to

www.meetup.com/creativespeech

or call Claire McConnell at 215 747 0433

Periwinkle Pete presents a short group art-show opening monday June 1st at 7pm.  This show features the work of Paul Phillips, Chris Klines, Sid Torchio, Christian Cantiello, Dan Fox, and Melissa aka “Shake’.

The A-Space Anarchist Community Space
4722 Baltimore Ave, W. Philly
215-727-0882 leave msg
a-space@defenestrator.org
www.the-aspace.org

plenty of parking for bikes & cars
south side of Baltimore ave
between 47th & 48th on septa #34 green line surface trolley
most events free/we survive on donation
donate

listserv: a-space-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
www.friendster.com/aspace
www.myspace.com/aspacecommunitycenter

PHILLY AGAINST WAR
phillyagainstwar@gmail.com and 609.558.1869

Meeting on Wednesday, June 3
From 6:30 until 8:30 pm
A-SPACE
4722 Baltimore Avenue
West Philly
Philadelphia, PA

The “Trans Altered Books Project,” funded by the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant, offers those who identify as Trans to participate in a nine-week Altered Books Course by Pigeon Arts’ Director, Jesse White.

Do you identify as Trans* and are seeking a creative way to build esteem and strengthen community?

* As in the Leeway Foundation’s definition, “We use the term “trans” in its most inclusive sense, as an umbrella term encompassing: transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, and Two-Spirit people, and more generally, anyone whose gender identity or gender expression is non-conforming and/or different from their birth-assigned gender.”

The Purpose of this Project:

This project, designed for the Trans community of Greater Philadelphia, will offer participants the opportunity to explore self-identity and combat self-stigmatizing labels. The project includes creative writing exercises, focused on positive self-identifying roles. From what is written, participants will construct their stories through the creation of altered books. Each artist will transform an existing book into a new work of art through multiple techniques: painting, drawing, gluing, cutting, folding, layering, collaging, adorning and more! Having doors and drawers that open, inserting mini-books and pockets, and other techniques will help artists to create incredibly distinctive, functional pieces of art.

Healthy and nurturing communities are born from healthy, self-aware and enthusiastic individuals. This project offers trans people the opportunity to safely explore their own self identities and how that relates to the larger communities of trans people, LGBT people and the general community of people living in the Greater Philadelphia area. The goals of this project are to provide a cathartic and healing creative experience that will foster self-esteem, enhance each artist’s creative experience in a positive and lasting way, and to strengthen the group’s sense of community and supports for trans people.

About the Project:

This project is designed for participants to meet once a week, for two hours, for a total of nine weeks. The last session will provide an exhibition opportunity for those participants who wish to share and celebrate their work with friends and family. Artists must commit to participate in the entire session and will be offered the opportunity at no cost, aside from a small registration fee. The details are listed below:

Dates: Saturdays, June 27th - August 29th (No Class on July 4th)
Time: 3:30-5:30pm
Location: The A-Space, 4722 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19143
Registration Fee: $4.00
Travel: There is a free parking lot next door; also accessible by public transportation via the #34 Trolley
Number of Participants: 12-15

About Jesse White:

“I am a member of the LGBT community, and have worked either on a volunteer basis or through employment as an LGBT civil rights activist since 1992. Through my work with Equality Advocates Pennsylvania, I have accompanied trans victims of hate violence to court as a court advocate, have facilitated workshops on anti-trans police misconduct at the 2008 Trans-Health Conference, transgender name changes at Philadelphia FIGHT, LGBT Domestic Violence at Women in Transition, and have designed LGBT anti-violence educational materials (with the help of a student intern) that was distributed to every anti-violence organization in Pennsylvania. Now, as the Director of Pigeon Arts, I work with various communities, including LGBT students, in the instruction of arts techniques and individual creative process. My emphasis in creative instruction is always to 1) create a safe space within which students can take creative risks and 2) to meet each student where they are and help them to achieve personal and creative goals. Many of my LGBT-identified students have expressed the importance of my creative programming to process choices, relationships, and self-care. I am thrilled to be able to facilitate this project and hope that you will consider joining us!”

About the A-Space:

The A-Space, located at 47th Street & Baltimore Avenue, is a collectively run anarchist community center and art gallery. Here, amidst a large and vibrant Transgender community that is often underserved, the A-Space provides a safe, nurturing, and celebratory space for all.

Established in 1991, The A-Space is operated by an all volunteer anarchist collective who share chores,
rotate responsibilities, and make decisions by consensus. The A-Space is home to Philadelphia groups such as Books Through Bars, the Philadelphia Anti-War Forum, Philadelphia Alliance for Labor (Birth) Support, & Philly Jericho Movement . It is also used for lectures, meetings, performances, art showings, films, benefits, cultural events, educational events, & other events that bring people together.

You can learn more about the A-Space by visiting their website at http://www.the-aspace.org

How to Register:

Please go to the REGISTER page and complete the form. Then send a money order for $4.00 to:

Pigeon Arts
C/o Jesse White
3820 Spring Garden St., 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104

We will contact you to confirm your registration.

How do we build radical movements?

Lessons from the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM) and from
revolutionary activist study groups

Friday June 5th  *  7pm

Happy Birthday Suzy Subways!
The A-Space
4722 Baltimore Ave
south side of Baltimore Ave, between 47th and 48th

On SEPTA, #34 green line surface trolley. plenty of parking for bikes
and cars. http://www.the-aspace.org/

Join local writers/activists Dan Berger and Suzy Subways, with
special guest speaker Kazembe Balagun, for a launch party for issue 8
of Upping the Anti and a discussion of current revolutionary organizing!

SLAM was a multiracial radical organization based in the City
University of New York from 1996 to 2007. A dynamic, creative group
that nurtured women of color leadership, SLAM fought for access to
education and worked with youth to organize against the prison
industrial complex and police brutality.

What can we learn from study groups? Radicals face urgent questions
in this moment marked by both crisis and possibility. Four study
groups on both coasts of the US — Another Politics is Possible (NY),
the Activist Study Circles (SF), the LA Crew, and the New York Study
Group — are engaging issues of leadership, organization, and
politics in the current moment. Their perspectives represent
different, if overlapping, political strands of contemporary
revolutionary organizing.

UPPING THE ANTI: A JOURNAL OF THEORY AND ACTION is a radical journal
published twice a year by a pan-Canadian collective of activists and
organizers dedicated to publishing radical theory and analysis about
struggles against capitalism, imperialism, and all forms of
oppression. Issue 8 features cover illustrations by local artist Erik
Ruin, as well as Suzy’s interviews with five organizers from SLAM and
Dan’s interviews with four revolutionary study groups about
contemporary organizing challenges.

Former SLAM member Kazembe Balagun is a writer, educator and theorist
at the cross-sections of Marxism, anarchism, Black liberation, queer
theory, movement history, and popular culture. Visit http://
www.blackmanwithalibrary.com. Dan Berger is the author of Outlaws of
America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity and
co-editor of Letters from Young Activists as well as a forthcoming
book about social movements in the 1970s. Visit http://
www.danberger.org. Suzy Subways was a member of SLAM and the Love and
Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, and she is now editor of the
Solidarity Project, an internet publication about HIV prevention
justice organizing, at http://www.champnetwork.org/solid.

Copies of Upping the Anti will be available for sale at the event
($5-20 donation).

Check out www.uppingtheanti.org or email uppingtheanti@gmail.com for
more information or to write for future issues.

A Space, Wed June 10, 2009  7-9
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DROP THE CHARGES: FREE THE SAN FRANCISCO 8 is an event to discuss case
updates and watch the short movie, Legacy of Torture, and raise awareness
about who the San Francisco 8 are and the impact of repression on our
movements today.  This is a showing as part of a video blitz in response to
the start of the pretrial of the case on June 8th.
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Eight former Black community activists – Black Panthers and others – were
arrested January 23, 2007 in California, New York, and Florida on charges
related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Similar
charges were thrown out after it was revealed that police used torture to
extract confessions when some of these same men were arrested in New Orleans
in 1973.  Free the SF 8!
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The A-Space November 2007 calendar is now available at http://the-aspace.org/thismonth.pdf

Email us at a-space@defenestrator.org
if you want us to email you a copy. Print copies will be available at the
A-Space, both inside and from our new folder on the outside of the door (thanks
to Lovella from Poems Not Prisons for this great idea!)

There are lots of November dates still available, so contact
us now to plan your winter event! You can email us, or fill out a form on our
website at

http://the-aspace.org/contact
(scroll to see dates)

We hope to return to using our voicemail more effectively
soon, but are currently experiencing some technical difficulties with our phone
system.

We need winter art shows! Contact us if you’d like to hang a
show this winter—or next spring or summer!

Soon we will be kicking off our “40 Friends” Sustainability
Drive. If we get 40 friends to donate 5$ each per month, we will be financially
sustainable and will be able to focus our energy on providing meaningful
programming, and supporting community events. To donate send a check made out
to “4722 Association” with A-Space in the memo line to 4722 Baltimore Ave,
Phila PA 19143 or donate online via paypal or credit card at http://the-aspace.org/Donate

Smaller (and larger) donations also warmly appreciated.

Special
November Events

Saturday,  Nov 3 7:30pm Poems
Not Prisons welcomes a one woman show by Leah Lakshmi  www.the-aspace.org/pnp_presents

Friday, Nov 9 7pm screening of the documentary Giuliani Time www.the-aspace.org/antifa_films

Saturday, Nov 11 noon Books Through Bars hosts a tree planting in
memory of Barbara Herskovits www.the-aspace.org/booksthroughbars

News & Updates:

• · The Salt of the Earth collective has been doing
  some bangin’ vegan brunches—keep an eye on the calendar to see if there are
  more to come.
• · An amazing group of artists and activists facilitated
  an art event for Love Your Body Day—35 folks came through to check it out, and
  we hope to see more from these folks in the future.
• · Some of our 4722 friends have started a weekly
  luncheonette on Wednesdays—come by and share some food!
• · Philly Jericho switched their meeting time. They
  still come twice a month to organize around political prisoner issues. Their
  meetings are closed but you can learn more about them at http://www.myspace.com/jericho_philadelphia
  or email phillyjericho@riseup.net
  to learn how to get involved
• · Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross Federation now
  meets at the A-Space on the 2^nd Monday of each month. There meetings
  are open so drop in at 7:30pm to learn how you can support US political prisoners
  & POWS or email them at philadelphiaabcf@riseup.net
• · Philadelphia Alliance for Labor Support—that
  awesome group of doulas switched their meeting time to each first Sunday from 2:30-5.
  Learn more about their work at dolphin.upenn.edu/~doulas/
• · A 4722 friend will be hosting a New Mammas
  Support Group on Thursday s in November at 10:30am. Email us with questions and
  we will forward your email on.
• · Mariposa Coop will be doing some cashier
  trainings in our space. Do you know Mariposa? They are practically our
  next-door neighbors. If you love healthy and delicious food you should check
  them out at www.mariposa.coop to learn
  more. We are trying to start a process of posting our flyers and calendars
  there so you can multi-task by buying organic chocolate and catching up on
  local anarchist events at the same time
• · We welcome the local graphic designers from PIRG
  who have a work retreat at A-Space in November
• · In October we hosted the LCA Land Trust general
  meeting. We are a proud member of the LCA and hope to participate in the upcoming
  progressive dinner.
• · We added an art section to our calendar—the current
  show is listed at the top of the days it is showing, and our 2^nd
  page gives info about the show
• · We added a photo gallery to the art section of
  our website where we display some clickable thumbnails of past, current and
  upcoming shows—it is still under construction, but you can get a preview at http://www.the-aspace.org/art
• · A local antifascist group is beginning a film
  series on Friday, Nov 9 at 7pm. This month check out the documentary Giuliani Time. We hope to see them the 2nd Friday of
  each month.
• · Philly Anti-War Forum has a new meeting time!
  Drop by the first Wednesday of each month at 6:30 to help plan educational anti-war
  events
• · Our fabulous volunteer coordinator Danielle
  Stimpson did a gemstone healing benefit to raise money for project “a-space fix
  up fun”. Email us if you want to get on Danielle’s list of volunteers
• · We need to find 3 people or organizations to do
  a monthly cleaning shift—email if you or your group can clean once per month

November Art

Because art is one of
the few means by which prisoners are able to express themselves, and because
artwork so frequently accompanies book requests, in 1999 Books Through Bars
began a prisoner art project.

The Contexts Collection of Artists in Prison
represents some of the realities of prison life, a reality which many of us on
"the outside" rarely see or consider. This selection of the Contexts
Collection is being shown in memory of Barbara Hirshkowitz, curator of the
project and long-time leader in Books Through Bars, who passed away in March.

List of available November dates—plan your
winter event today!

Sunday Day: Nov 25

Sunday Night: Nov 18

Monday Night: Nov 5, 26

Tuesday Night: NONE

Wednesday Night: Nov 21, 28

Thursday Night: NONE

Friday Night: Nov 23, 30

Saturday Day: Nov 10, 24

Saturday Night: Nov 3, 10, 17 & 24

The A-Space Anarchist Community Space

4722 Baltimore Ave, W. Philly

215-727-0882 leave msg

a-space@defenestrator.org

www.the-aspace.org

plenty of parking for bikes
& cars

south side of Baltimore ave

between 47th & 48th on
septa #34 green line surface trolley

most events free/we survive on
donation

donate

listserv: a-space-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

www.friendster.com/aspace

www.myspace.com/aspacecommunitycenter