RTP-area local music and culture

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Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919.942.1740
Open 11 AM to 8 PM, Mon-Sat; 12 to 6 PM Sun
www.internationalistbooks.org

IN THIS EMAIL:
1) Skillshare and benefit concert for RNC prisoners!
2) Internationalist tables the NC Pride Festival!
3) more upcoming events at the store!


1) SKILLSHARE AND BENEFIT CONCERT FOR RNC PRISONERS!

Skillshare and Night of Music
Sunday, Sept 21
621 Hillsborough Rd

This Sunday, Sept 21, there will be a day-long event to raise  
awareness and money to aid those who were arrested demonstrating  
against the Republican National Convention at the beginning of this  
month. An outrageous 119 of the hundreds of demonstrators arrested on  
the first day of protests were given felony charges in a clear attempt  
to silence dissent. And in a comic parallel to the repression of the  
anti-war movement of the late 60s, eight people from the public  
organizing group, the RNC Welcoming Committee, had their homes raided,  
were arrested, and are being charged with felony conspiracy to riot.

We will not be silenced. Together, we can fight this repression,  
making space for public protest and organizing.  Email  
loverainsdown AT yahoo.com, or check out www.rnc8.org for more info about  
how to support these activists.

The skillshare will be from 2-7pm; contact alexjordan212003 AT yahoo.com  
to sign up to share a skill.  Music starts at 8 PM, and will include:

Will Ridenhour - West African kora music
Dan Mac - radical folk
Jon Watts - Quaker hip hop
The Eggs - punk from greensboro


2) SAT, 9/27: INTERNATIONALIST TABLES AT THE NC PRIDE FESTIVAL!

Come celebrate LGBTQ pride with Internationalist Books at the 2008 NC  
Pride Festival! The festival, which takes place from 9 AM to 5 PM on  
Saturday, September 27th on Duke University's East Campus in Durham,  
will feature tons of vendors, community groups, performers, and  
thousands of LGBTQ North Carolinians. Internationalist Books will host  
a table all day with a unique selection of radical and progressive  
LGBTQ-themed books as well as magazines, stickers, and more. Hope to  
see you there!

For more information on the NC Pride festival, please visit www.ncpride.org.


3) MORE UPCOMING EVENTS!

All events take place at the Internationalist (405 W. Franklin St.)  
unless otherwise noted.

SUN 9/21, 6 PM: RADICAL MENTAL HEALTH COLLECTIVE MEETING
Join us for the weekly meeting of the Radical Mental Health  
Collective, Sundays at 6pm. This group provides discussion and support  
for people around mental health issues, based on a model developed by  
the Icarus Project (theicarusproject.net). For more information,  
please email rileysparkles AT gmail.com.

FRI, 10/3, 7 PM: ANTI-MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL FILM SCREENING
More information coming soon!

FRI 10/10, 8 PM: CD RELEASE CONCERT: GARY KOONCE AND WILL RIDENOUR
Join us for a night of beautiful music with two exciting local  
musicians! Gary Koonce (http://www.reverbnation.com/gary) is a  
classically trained singer and songwriter currently based in the  
Greensboro area, whose uplifting and melodic guitar tunes place him  
head and shoulders above the standard for acoustic singer-songwriters.  
  He will be performing songs from his self-released full length CD,  
which will be available for sale.  Will Ridenour  
(http://www.myspace.com/zumana) performs traditional songs and  
original compositions on the kora, a 21-stringed West African bridge  
harp.  His musical goal is "to bring the beautiful instrument, the  
music, and the culture behind it to the ears and souls that seek it,  
for whatever reason, learning and growing along the way."  Don't miss  
this riveting evening with two of the area's most innovative acoustic  
musicians!

THURS 10/16, 7:30 PM: "CARBON FREE HOME" AUTHOR READING!
You probably know that energy used in your home produces more  
global-warming pollution than your car, but what can you do to reduce  
your reliance on fossil fuels? Maybe you daydream of starting from  
scratch, building a new, super-efficient, passive-solar, off-grid  
house?but in reality you?ve got a roof (and a mortgage) over your head  
already. How can you turn your existing house into an environmental  
asset? One that simultaneously saves you money on utilities and  
insulates you from the possible shocks of Peak Oil?

Meant as a guide for renovating existing homes, The Carbon-Free Home  
gives you the hands-on knowledge necessary to kick the fossil-fuel  
habit, with projects small and large listed by skill, time, cost, and  
energy saved. For every aspect of your life currently powered by  
fossil fuels, The Carbon-Free Home offers alternatives you can  
accomplish yourself to get started using renewable and sustainable  
sources of power. Having weaned themselves completely from fossil  
fuels in their conventional 1930s urban house, Rebekah and Stephen  
Hren provide a map for others to do the same. Their book shows first  
how to reduce energy consumption, then to retrofit existing homes to  
obtain all heating, cooling, cooking, refrigeration, hot water, and  
electricity from renewable sources. The Hrens also provide advice on  
renewable methods of transportation and home gardening. These  
practical approaches fit anyone?s budget and can be implemented over  
time to progressively liberate a home from fossil-fuel dependency.

Authors Stephen and Rebekah Hren live in Durham, North Carolina, where  
they are both actively involved with renewable energy, natural  
building, and edible urban gardening. Rebekah works with Honey  
Electric Solar, Inc., as a professional designer/installer of  
photovoltaic systems and domestic solar hot-water systems. Stephen is  
a professional restoration carpenter, focusing on antebellum houses.  
He teaches natural-building classes and workshops at the local  
community college, and in any spare time works with Bountiful  
Backyards, an edible-landscaping cooperative.

TUES 10/21, 7:00 PM: ROLLING THUNDER #6 RELEASE PARTY!
Come see the hot-off-the-press brand new sixth issue of locally  
produced anarchist magazine Rolling Thunder!  Contributors and editors  
involved in the magazine will be on hand to read selections from  
articles, talk about the process of compiling and editing the  
magazine, and discuss the current state of direct action movements in  
the US.  Topics addressed in the new issue include the RNC and DNC  
protests, the eco-defense campaign to stop Interstate 69, and much more!

WED 10/29, 7 PM: JEFFERY BEAM READS FROM "BEAUTIFUL TENDONS:  
UNCOLLECTED QUEER POEMS, 1969-2007"
Renowned poet and Hillsborough resident Jeffery Beam will bring his  
latest collection of riveting, passionate poems to Internationalist  
Books!  The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems 1969-2007  
brings together more than three decades of lyrical, metaphysical Gay  
poetry from native North Carolinian Jeffery Beam. The vast majority of  
these poems are unpublished in any of his previously published books,  
but were originally published in many of the most important gay  
magazines & anthologies of the latter half of the 20th century.

ONGOING EVENTS:

RADICAL MENTAL HEALTH COLLECTIVE
Join us every Sunday at 6 PM for the weekly meeting of the Radical  
Mental Health Collective, Sundays at 6pm. This group provides  
discussion and support for people around mental health issues, based  
on a model developed by the Icarus Project (theicarusproject.net). For  
more information, please email rileysparkles AT gmail.com.

INTERNATIONALIST PRISON BOOKS COLLECTIVE
The Internationalist sponsors a program that sends free books and  
literature to people incarcerated in Mississippi and Alabama.  Since  
2006 the Books to Prisoners collective has mailed educational  
materials to thousands of prisoners, building solidarity with networks  
of activists inside and out of prison agitating for justice and  
alternatives to the prison system, while meeting a direct and urgent  
need.  There are many ways to get involved:

-Come fill requests at the weekly book-wrapping, which takes place  
every Sunday from 1-4 PM at 218 N. Graham St. in Chapel Hill.

-DONATE books by dropping them off at the Internationalist!   
Particularly in demand are dictionaries, thesauruses, African-American  
history, culture, and fiction, self-help, Spanish language,  
GED/education, and more (paperbacks only).

For more information, check out www.prisonbooks.info.

NEW LOCAL SKILLSHARE / FREE SKOOL!

Do you like to make stuff, learn things, and teach others? A local  
Skillshare/DIY/Art Collective, Free Skool, Radical Event Bulletin, and  
Space/Material/Tool Share is being formed.  This is a way for local  
creative types to find each other to make and do stuff together. There  
are a lot of innovative, skilled, and imaginative people in this area.  
Let's pool our knowledge, skills, and resources to exponentialize our  
creative input and output.  So if you want to make masks or soap or  
vegan liqueurs or a rope ladder or a mud oven or collaged formal wear  
or tamales or hula hoops or pretty much anything else, or find others  
to play soccer or practice tai chi with, or host a workshop on blowing  
glass or screen-printing, or organize a potluck or salon, or just put  
out an idea to the community; check this thing out. This is a way to  
get your desires out of your head and into the awareness of lots of  
other like-minded local people. Let's get together for the artistic  
and practical.  This is completely non-commercial and local.  The  
website is http://people.tribe.net/papokha.  (Please email  
papokha AT gmail.com to make postings or with any questions.)




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