Arise! Bookstore Announcements - June 4, 2009

Arise! Bookstore Announcements - June 4, 2009

UPCOMING EVENTS

Mark Nowak and "Coal Mountain Elementary"
Thursday, June 4, 7pm

Mark Nowak will read from his new book, Coal Mountain Elementary, as well as speak on his “poetry dialogues” with Ford autoworkers in the United States and South Africa, striking clerical workers (through AFSCME 3800), and Muslim nurses (as featured on NPR’s “Marketplace”).

http://coalmountain.wordpress.com/
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781566892285-0

Nowak is the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House Press, 2004). For the past several years he has been designing and facilitating “poetry dialogues” with Ford autoworkers in the United States and South Africa (through the UAW and NUMSA), striking clerical workers (through AFSCME 3800), Muslim/Somali nurses and healthcare workers (through Rufaidah), and others. Nowak’s writings on new labor poetics have recently appeared in Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke, 2007), American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan, 2007), The Progressive, and elsewhere. A native of Buffalo, New York, he now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota where he is an Associate Professor at the College of St. Catherine.

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The Arise! Summer Series (we're having a fun event each Sunday night + movie after sundown all summer long) kicks off with a bang on Sunday, June 7 with "Seed Sunday" -- two seed-related events:

Visual Resistance: Talk and Slide Show With Erik Ruin of Justseeds
Sunday June 7, 4pm
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative works on and writes about political printmaking, socially engaged street art, and culture related to social movements. Erik Ruin is a Michigan-raised, Philly-based printmaker, shadow-puppeteer, and occasional editor of various publications, most recently the anthology Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (w/ Josh MacPhee, AK Press, 2007). He frequently works collaboratively with other artists or with activist campaigns, and has created imagery for organizations engaged in work ranging from urban farming to housing cooperatives to prisoner advocacy.

Come hear Erik talk about how Justseeds got started and what they’re doing!

And stick around for:

Seed Bomb Workshop (Summer Series event #1)
Sunday June 7, 8pm
Learn how to make seedbombs - hard-packed balls of compost, clay, and seeds, which can be tossed into an area in need of vegetation. Bring organic dry compost, dry clay & organic seeds -- native plants encouraged.
FILM at sundown: Being There - A simple-minded gardener living a sheltered life is suddenly thrust out to discover the world.

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MISCELLANEOUS

Check out our awesome garden next time you visit the store! We are growing tons of vegetables this year, in the hopes of being able to give away lots of free produce. With the hard work of our amazing gardening committee, that goal is becoming reality. Wanna get involved? Email gardening@arisebookstore.org.

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Keep your eyes peeled, our new website will soon be up! We're doing some beta testing on it, but it is almost ready! Yay!
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Arise! Bookstore is a collectively-run independent bookstore in south Minneapolis. 2441 Lyndale Ave. S. Open daily 11am-9pm. www.arisebookstore.org