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The 9th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
Bound Together Anarchist Collective Book Store presents the ninth annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, Saturday, March 13th, 2004 from 10 AM to 6 PM at the San Francisco County Fair Building, Golden Gate Park near Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way
Ninth Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Bound Together Anarchist Collective Book Store presents the ninth annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, Saturday, March 13th, 2004 from 10 AM to 6 PM at the San Francisco County Fair Building, Golden Gate Park near Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way. Admission is free.
Featured speakers this year include famed journalist and author Alexander Cockburn, writer and activist Starhawk, dyke singer and novelist Lynn Breedlove, queer poet and musician Tim’m T. West, Agent Apple of the Biotic Baking Brigade, muralist Susan Greene and authors Sean Sullivan, Jeffery St. Clair, Katya Komisaruk and Sun Frog. For more information call 415.431-8355.
The largest Book Fair of it’s kind in North America returns for it’s ninth year with over 60 vendors, café and an impressive roster of speakers.
About the Book Fair, local publisher Ramsey Kanin said:
"The Anarchist Book Fair is a uniquely San Francisco experience that brings together a diverse range of anti-authoritarian publishers, book dealers and activists from around the world. At this time in US history, it’s vitally important that the voices and views represented at the Book Fair be heard and considered."
The San Francisco workers collective Arizmendi Bakery will be selling food and beverages at the Café. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Bound Together Anarchist Collective Book Store presents the ninth annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, Saturday, March 13th, 2004 from 10 AM to 6 PM at the San Francisco County Fair Building, Golden Gate Park near Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way. Admission is free.
Featured speakers this year include famed journalist and author Alexander Cockburn, writer and activist Starhawk, dyke singer and novelist Lynn Breedlove, queer poet and musician Tim’m T. West, Agent Apple of the Biotic Baking Brigade, muralist Susan Greene and authors Sean Sullivan, Jeffery St. Clair, Katya Komisaruk and Sun Frog. For more information call 415.431-8355.
The largest Book Fair of it’s kind in North America returns for it’s ninth year with over 60 vendors, café and an impressive roster of speakers.
About the Book Fair, local publisher Ramsey Kanin said:
"The Anarchist Book Fair is a uniquely San Francisco experience that brings together a diverse range of anti-authoritarian publishers, book dealers and activists from around the world. At this time in US history, it’s vitally important that the voices and views represented at the Book Fair be heard and considered."
The San Francisco workers collective Arizmendi Bakery will be selling food and beverages at the Café. Everyone is welcome to attend.
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First Bookfair I will not be attending. Used to be a good event...
"impressive roster of speakers"
The roster of speakers is depressing, not impressive.
The roster of speakers is depressing, not impressive.
chairman nessie quoth:
Sometimes they engage in political satire, and turn my very words against me.This is essentially a bourgeois cultural expression, which shall wither away after the revolution.
end quoth chairman nessie
Sometimes they engage in political satire, and turn my very words against me.This is essentially a bourgeois cultural expression, which shall wither away after the revolution.
end quoth chairman nessie
Hey, how come you couldn't get the flower building? Doesn't the shape and architecture of this building tend to cause a mood which makes the forest anarchists lash out, like when a crowd develops in the aisleway? I mean, I personally like the antique basketball arena atmosphere.
hey what do people think of the bookfair?
It is a great scene gathering and I love to see my various friends and comrads from near and from far, but it just seems so ghetto. The anarchist ghetto, so many people looking and being so similar. It is not just the attendees, but the sellers all seemed to be some variance of AK press distribution. There were a few outstanding other tables with diversity of texts, but AK press seems like the Wal Mart of the bookfair. A lot of the other tables, just seemed to have t-shirts, patches, bumper stickers, and music, anarchist cultural merchandizing or lack of original content, who is to say.
It was kind of weird to walk away from the bookfair feeling kind of unempowered, like wow anarchism as a label might really be a barrior to spreading ideas and affecting people outside this cultural ghetto. I know the organizers and their intent has been to make the event a public event, not just for people that already identify as anarchists.
Reviews and analysis welcomed...
It is a great scene gathering and I love to see my various friends and comrads from near and from far, but it just seems so ghetto. The anarchist ghetto, so many people looking and being so similar. It is not just the attendees, but the sellers all seemed to be some variance of AK press distribution. There were a few outstanding other tables with diversity of texts, but AK press seems like the Wal Mart of the bookfair. A lot of the other tables, just seemed to have t-shirts, patches, bumper stickers, and music, anarchist cultural merchandizing or lack of original content, who is to say.
It was kind of weird to walk away from the bookfair feeling kind of unempowered, like wow anarchism as a label might really be a barrior to spreading ideas and affecting people outside this cultural ghetto. I know the organizers and their intent has been to make the event a public event, not just for people that already identify as anarchists.
Reviews and analysis welcomed...
Kind of weird that the poster above disses the bookfair as being an "anarchist ghetto" event. I've been to numerous S.F. anarchist bookfairs in the past and that was the last impression I would take away. I was always impressed with all of the average people that the anarchist bookfair drew, always a more diverse audience than other anarchist events I've been too. As anarchism grows in popularity, we should expect to see more people from all walks of life at our events.
Kudos to the folks who put together the S.F. Anarchist Bookfair. It's one of my favorite events each year, although the last one I attended was in 2002. It's good to see that you are back in the old building. The one I attended in the basketball arena had a bad vibe and there didn't seem to be as many tables.
My only suggestion concerns speakers. I really think that the bookfair could do a better job of featuring anarchist speakers, as opposed to having some of these leftists on the stage. An anarchist bookfair should be about promoting the ideas and words of anarchists. There are many anarchists out there who could turn into good public speakers if they were given an opportunity at our events to speak. I think that sometimes we mimic the bad habits of the left by focusing on "big name" speakers at the expense of promoting our own folks.
In any case, I'm really happy that the book fair is chugging along.
Kudos to the folks who put together the S.F. Anarchist Bookfair. It's one of my favorite events each year, although the last one I attended was in 2002. It's good to see that you are back in the old building. The one I attended in the basketball arena had a bad vibe and there didn't seem to be as many tables.
My only suggestion concerns speakers. I really think that the bookfair could do a better job of featuring anarchist speakers, as opposed to having some of these leftists on the stage. An anarchist bookfair should be about promoting the ideas and words of anarchists. There are many anarchists out there who could turn into good public speakers if they were given an opportunity at our events to speak. I think that sometimes we mimic the bad habits of the left by focusing on "big name" speakers at the expense of promoting our own folks.
In any case, I'm really happy that the book fair is chugging along.
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