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Permaculture and the Post-Capitalist Economy
A Workshop and Skill-Share with Mighk from Victoria
Thursday, December 10th, 2009, 4pm-7pm
AKA Autonomous Social Centre (75 Queen St.)

Join Mighk for a workshop about permaculture food systems and forest gardens in both urban and rural sites of the pacific northwest bioregion.

There will be a brief introduction to the concept of permaculture, slides of various autonomous spaces, collectives, and forest gardens that are adopting permaculture principles in ways that challenge capitalist and authoritarian relations. Finally, there will be a skillshare, where folks can get their hands dirty and try guerilla grafting… Bring a pocket knife for this segment if you have one!

Mighk lives at the Bullock’s Permaculture Homestead on Orcas Island, Washington. Next year he will help teach the Permaculture Design Course at Linnaea Farm on Cortes Island, BC.  He is a co-founder of the Camas Infoshop in Victoria BC.

Image credit: “Interdependence” by Bec Young, available from JustSeeds.org (http://www.justseeds.org/bec_young/15interdependence.html)

AKA Autonomous Social Centre presents….

RADICAL OPEN MIC NIGHT!
Dec. 5th
8pm-11pm

Come out for an anti-capitalist, anti-state, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, anti-queerphobic, pro-love, pro-community open mic night. Bring stories, poems, spoken word, music and any other forms of knowledge through art you wish to share with or without a mic.

This is a dry, pay what you can event.
All are welcome.

With music from DJs Seditious and Grenadier.

This event will be a presentation of Aric McBay’s new book, What We Leave Behind, and discussion of its insights. WWLB is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. In the book, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and local Kingston activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life—human and nonhuman—will not go on unless we do everything we can to facilitate the most basic process on earth, the root of sustainability: one being’s waste must always become another being’s food.

As part of Olympics Awareness Week, Aric will also make ties between the destruction and colonialism of land in British Columbia and question the notion of ‘Green Olympics’, and sustainability in development in general.

FROM THE DEPTHS (North Carolina) – http://fromthedepths.info

A couple of the survivors of Requiem—not to mention other bands such as Intense Youth, Auryn, Balaclava, Network of Terror, and Catharsis—are in a new band now, From the Depths.

Hearkening back to the days when anarcho-punk was characterized by bands as diverse as Crass, Chumbawumba, and Contropotere, the songs on this album combine d-beat power, slower and faster hardcore, harsh noise, and even a passage from a traditional Italian anarchist folk ballad. This is intense, defiant, dark music, but it is based in compelling melodies; you can scream these songs at the top of your lungs in a riot, but you could also sing them quietly to yourself in jail to maintain your spirits.

joining them will be…

RENEWAL (Peterbough) – Hardcore Punk
http://www.myspace.com/renewaltheband
A new band outta ptbo with members of Shitreign, Crazy Bomber, Like Fucking Fools and the like

DIRTY LICKINS (Kingston) – Folk punk
http://www.myspace.com/dirtylickinskickedyourdad

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This is a benefit show for Resist 2010 and a part of Olympics Awareness Week. More info: http://resist2010.opirgkingston.org

Chaotic Travels Storyslam and Workshop
Thursday, November 19th @ 1pm
AKA Autonomous Social Centre, 75 Queen St

Renowned spoken word artist, anarcho surrealist, and traveler to the stars, Paula Belina touches down in Kingston with an afternoon of sharing stories, skills, and a workshop on the theme of Chaotic Travels. Come out to this pay-what-you-feel event for an excellent afternoon of sharing stories and perspectives gained from the road.

For more information on her current tour and past work, check out Paula’s blog at http://liberatethemarvelous.blogspot.com/