Reblogged from Josh MacPhee! So many awesome things to do:

Gallery 1199
310 W 43rd Street New York, NY 10036

The show will be open from April 5 to April 30

Open M-F: 9-5

For more information contact Zoeann Murphy: zoeann@wdiny.org

The US labor movement has created some of the most effective political graphics and images in history. However, work and workers, along with the labor movement are often depicted as experiences of the American past: photographs of children in factories in the early 1900s, paintings of historic strikes and Rosie the Riveter. Now the labor movement needs new images of the issues confronting workers today. Graphic Work, curated by Josh MacPhee and Zoeann Murphy is a collection of 40 posters aimed at representing the new fact of labor.

2) New York City Anarchist Bookfair!

Come hang out at the 1st ever NYC anarchist bookfair! I’ll be tabling all day for justseeds, it should be a great event!

Saturday April 14th, 11am-7PM

Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, Manhattan

The 1st Annual, 1st Ever NYC Anarchist Book Fair, will host a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide, on Sat., Apr. 14, 2007 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. The 1st Annual, 1st Ever NYC Anarchist Book Fair will feature over 40 tables as well as an art gallery. Panels, presentations, workshops, and skill shares will provide further opportunities to learn more and share your own experience and creativity.

for more info: http://www.anarchistbookfair.net/index.php?title=Announcement

here’s the poster my friend Kevin And I made for the event:

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3) Realizing the Impossible Book Release!

My new book finally came out! Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority was just released on AK Press and my co-editor Erik Reuland and I are celebrating at Bluestockings Books. The book is a huge sprawling collection of 23 essays on the intersection of art and anarchism and has something for anyone even the slightest bit interested in art and politics.

Book Release Party/Event

Sunday April 15th, 7PM

Bluestockings

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4) Monday April 16th—-Art and Anarchism Roundtable Discussion

What: Roundtable Discussion on Anarchist Aesthetics

When: Monday 04.16.07 @ 7:30

Where: 16Beaver Street, 4th Floor, Manhatten

Who: Free and open to all

Roundtable Discussion with Contributors to Realizing the Impossible.

Erika Biddle, Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee, Cindy Milstein

We would like to start the Roundtable promptly at 7:30, so please come early if possible, and bring your questions.

This event will be a dovetail to the 1st Annual New York Anarchist Bookfair. We are really hoping that this event together people that maybe haven’t been in dialogue yet but should be. And so, this is not a panel discussion in anyway, but an open forum.

For the complete contents of the book please go to

http://www.16beavergroup.org/anarchist/content.jpg

Presenter Bios:

Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator and activist currently living in Troy, NY, usa.  His work often revolves around themes of radical politics, privatization and public space.  His second book Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (AK Press, co-edited with Erik Reuland) was just published. He also organizes the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series and is part of the political art collective www.justseeds.org.

Cindy Milstein is co-organizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference and a board member with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. [ www.anarchiststudies.org] She’s also a

member of the Free Society Collective and Black Sheep Books Collective in Vermont. Her written work appears in periodicals and several recent anthologies, including Globalize Liberation (City Lights),

Confronting Capitalism (Soft Skull), and Only a Beginning (Arsenal Pulp).

Erika Biddle is a founding member of the collective Artists in Dialogue. She can often be found tweaking text  for Autonomedia [ www.autonomedia.org ] and for Perspectives, the biannual journal of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. [ www.anarchiststudies.org] She is also on the board of the IAS. One of these days she’s going to lose her mind, remember how to write, and become a full-time poet.

Dara Greenwald has participated in collaborative and collective cultural production and activism for many years. Participation includes the Pink Bloque, Ladyfest Midwest Chicago, Version>03, Pilot TV Chicago, and other groupings that resist being named. She worked as the distribution manager at the Video Data Bank from 1998-2005, where she distributed independent media and experimental video art and worked on the preservation of the Videofreex collection. She also writes, curates, and makes art. Her videos have screened widely, including at Images Festival(Toronto), New York Underground, Yerba Buena Center (SF), and Ocularis(NY). She is currently studying Electronic Arts at RPI in Troy, NY. [www.daragreenwald.com ]