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  • Subject: [Internationalist Books] EVENTS: Hiring, Poetry, Permaculture
  • Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:56:58 -0400

Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919-942-1740
http://internationalistbooks.org/
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INTERNATIONALIST BOOKS IS HIRING!
Internationalist Books and Community Center is hiring a part-time bookstore manager to start June or July 2006. This is an awesome opportunity to work in a non-hierarchical, flexible, and challenging environment advocating social, environment and economic justice; to meet and work with incredible and inspirational individuals and groups within the community and nation-wide; and to gain valuable experience managing a volunteer-run non-profit collective. The two year position is for 20 hours/week at $10/hour. Women and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Applications (a cover letter and resume) are due by May 19 and may be submitted in person at the store or sent to info AT internationalistbooks.org.

Applicants should be willing to contribute creatively to the ongoing growth of the Internationalist and should be committed to priciples of social justice, cooperation and mutual aid. The Bookstore manager will focus primarily on day-to-day operations such as finances, inventory, and volunteer coordinating and must therefore be an independent and self-motivated worker. Other responsibilities may include fundraising, membership, public relations, and events coordination. General familiarity with computers is a must, knowledge of Quickbooks is a plus.
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*WHAT IS PRISON BOOKS*

The Prison Books Collective is a new prisoner support group forming in
the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area. Like the dozens of other similar groups
around the country, it will provide thousands of free books, at request,
to prisoners throught the southeast. By providing educational,
political and legal resources, we can support people behind bars, show
solidarity with their struggles, and fight against the alienating and
destructive effects of the US prison system.

But we need your help! We currently have a space to work out of, but
are in need of books and money for shipping. We're also going to need
lots of eager volunteers to help package and mail books. If you would
like to help organize or support this great project please go to
www.prisonbooks.info.
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THANK YOU!

Thank you so much to all the artists who donated their work for last week's very successful art auction! Many thanks also to all who came out to bid on all the amazing art and to the organizers! Stay tuned for info on another auction this fall...
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*RESCHEDULED*
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 - AGAINST THE GRAIN: LOCAL FOOD @ IBOOKS, 7pm

This week's Against The Grain event has bee RESCHEDULED. More info to come. Sorry!

AGAINST THE GRAIN: Networking Local Alternatives
Chapel Hill and the surrounding area are filled with organizations,
groups and businesses that are daily enacting ways of living within and
against the current system. Collective bookstores, cooperative living
communities, bio-fuel collectives and experiments in public television,
we are all involved, albeit differently, in projects that attempt to
make the world a better place as we get on with our daily lives and
work. Too often, however, we do so without a recognition about how many
others are out there doing amazing things, we miss out on the potential
learning and growth we could all get from one another if we told our
stories and though together about the possibilities, problems and goals
of our projects�both individually and collectively as part of a larger
movement and community.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 22 - DESERT CITY POETRY SERIES: ROSMARIE WALDROP &
EMMANUAL HOCQUARD @ IBOOKS, 8pm

Who: Rosmarie Waldrop; author of /Blindsight/, /The Lawn of the Excluded Middle/, /Reproduction of Profiles/, /Love Like Pronouns/, and many others; translator of the work of Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan, and Emmanuel Hocquard; editor of Burning Deck Press; left a German circus at eleven to become one of the US's finest living poets.

Who: Emmanuel Hocquard; author of /Theory of Tables/ (translated by Michael Palmer), /Aereas in the Forests of Manhattan/ (translated by Lydia Davis), /A Test of Solitude/ (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop), among others; director of Un Bureau sur l'Atlantique; invites US poets to weeks long retreats in French chateaus to translate poetry, eat, drink wine, and sleep.

Who: Juliette Valéry; author of /Le bolide immobile an centre de l’écran/ and, with Emmanuel Hocquard, /L’année du goujon and Les oranges de Saint-Michel/; translator into French of American poets such as Cole Swensen, Norma Cole, Rosemarie Waldrop, Keith Waldrop, Jackson Mac Low, Robert Creeley, Juliana Spahr, Charles Bernstein, Michael Davidson, and Michael Palmer; teaches at the École Supérieure d’Art et Céramique.

$2 dollar donation is requested to support the readers and series. Questions, comments, concerns? Email rumblek AT bellsouth.net
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APRIL 26 & MAY 3 - MINI FILM SERIES: PERMACULTURE @ IBOOKS, 7pm

For two consecutive Wednesdays Internationalist Books is happy to
present a series of films on the topic of permaculture courtesey of
local resident Greta Lee. Interested in permaculture? Come in and
check out our selection of books & magazines.

April 26 --
'The Global Gardener' with Bill Mollison: Four 30-minute segments on
subtropical, dryland, temperate and urban systems. A classic!

May 3 --
'Farming with Nature': An Austrian couple demonstrates a highly
productive permaculture system on a steep Alpine slope (30 mins).

'The Synergistic Garden': French permaculturist, Emilia Hazelip, shows
organic no-till gardening and explains the basis of true soil health (30
mins).

'Urban Permaculture': Dr. Bill Roley introduces his coastal paradise in
southern California. Also shown is a food forest in Mexico in its early
phases (30 mins).
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MONDAY, MAY 22 -- READING: MICHELLE TEA @ IBOOKS, 7pm

Whoa, a big one. Stay tuned for flowery description...


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***GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN ***
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MAY 18 - 21 -- SOUNDSCAPE MOVEMENT FEST

The 2006 SoundScape Movement Fest (Thursday May 18 to Sunday, May 21st)
will foster the education and art of live music and dance
collaboration. It is a two-track event featuring educational based
workshops highlighting all aspects of production. Workshops range from
improvisation, sound/audio production, video production, grant-writing
and screen printing. The festival will feature nightly performances by
local and touring artists at several diverse venues including the
Nightlight, the Carrboro ArtsCenter, the Local 506, Balanced Movement,
Carolina Fitness, and the Internationalist Bookstore & Community Center.
Our mission is to provide an alternative environment for ground-breaking
provocative, and artistic collaborations.

CONTACT:
Alexis Mastromichalis
208 A. Purefoy Rd.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
info at soundscapefest.org
919.923.7910
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