When:
September
28-30, 2012
Fri & Sat: noon-8pm
Sun: noon-7pm
Where:
Mt. Vernon Place,
centered on 600
North Charles St,
Baltimore MD 21201
Radical. DIY. Independent. Taking the left in new directions, one book at a time.
The Radical Bookfair Pavilion, sponsored by Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, brings the best of radical, independent, and DIY publishing for a weekend-long celebration of intellectual fun.
Take a look below at the 2011 schedule. This year's lineup is coming soon!
Stage: Monument Circle East
12PM- 8PM
An all-day celebration of fiercely independent publishing, DIY politics, crudely drawn comics, uncompromising self-expression, and long arm staplers, with zine authors from Baltimore and beyond reading from their works and selling/trading their creations.
Event Details1PM
Part of the Annual Zine Bazaar in the Radical Bookfair Pavilion
Event Details1:30PM
Red Emma's own Spencer Compton presents his self-published pocket provocation exploring radical aesthetics.
Event Details2PM
Baltimorean Ryan Abb will discuss his comic Vain Glory. The latest issue features the adventures of Daze Angel & Belfis!
Event Details2:30PM
Self-published auto-biographical cartoons about coming out.
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Local activist Corey Reidy debuts her new zine series Persolitical at this year's Radical Bookfair. Her first issue explores the dynamic between Feminism and "Beauty"
Event Details3:30PM
Punk-inspired transgender activism through art
Event Details4PM
Local independent journalist, musician, and amateur herbal specialist; his zine details the process through which the repetitive cycle of triggering, reenactment, and acting out is transformed into a healing ritual.
Event Details4:30PM
The contributors to an exciting collaboratively-written zine exploring Asian womyn's bodies to be released at the Zine Bazaar!
Event Details5PM
China has been a long-time staple of the punk, zinester and radical mama communities. She started writing her zine "Future Generation" about the issues she faced as an anarchist single mother. "Don't Leave Your Friends Behind" is a collaborative zine dedicated to airing the stories of parents in the radical community who are shut out once they have children and giving practical advice on how to concretely support kids and caregivers in your community. We'll be the first to hear China read from the latest issue of China's most recently started perzine, "Catbird", to be released for the Zine Bazaar!
Event Details6PM
Doris is the two-decades-old personal zine of the anarchist adventurer, Cindy Crabb. Exploring every aspect of daily life, from cooking and gardening to issues of abuse and rape, Cindy has a way of writing about life that can vibrate the heartstrings of anybody. We are super excited to welcome Cindy on their tour celebrating the release of the Doris Encyclopedia which includes issues 19-27 and other zines and new writings which comes out in August! Don’t miss this!
Event Details12PM
Dan Chodorkoff, co-founder and longtime director of the Institute for Social Ecology, reads from his debut novel chronicling community resistance and the power of historical memory on the Lower East Side.
Event Details1PM
Editor Tomas Moniz and contributors present this new anthology of reflections on radical parenting, drawn from the zines Rad Dad and Daddy Dialectic.
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With Dave Zirin, co-author, The John Carlos Story (Haymarket, 2011) and Thabiti Lewis, Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America (Third World Press, 2010)
Event Details3:30PM
Author Jared Ball, professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State and radical radio columnist, presents a special live edition of his Freemix Radio: The Original Mixtape Radio Show to celebrate the publication of I Mix What I Like, a hard-hitting look, decolonizing look at the music industry, the news media, and emerging models of audio resistance. Jared is joined by special guests and musical performers.
Event Details5PM
Powerful, politically-engaged queer spoken word from rising Baltimore poet Michelle Antoinette Nelson.
Event Details6PM
A panel exploring the intersections of loud music, race, gender, privilege, identity, and solidarity, with: Stephen Duncombe and Max Tremblay, editors of White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race (Verso, 2011) and Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The true story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Harper Perennial, 2010).
Event Details1PM
Join About Face's editors and contributors for a presentation of stories and testimonies of anti-war soldiers, drawn from the Courage to Resist Audio Project.
Event Details2PM
In the wake of the murder of Tyra Trent, the beating of Chrissy Lee Polis, and the failure of the Maryland legislature to approve an anti-discrimination ordinance providing some minimal legal protections to transgendered individuals, this will be a tragically timely panel, providing a space to ask difficult questions and provide critical analysis around issues of trans-identity and the politics of policing. With Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law and Eric Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex.
Event Details3:30PM
A panel examining the legacies and recent histories of the use of police and prisons to infiltrate, marginalize, and brutalize people brave enough to stand up for their beliefs. With Will Potter, Green is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, Susan Rosenberg, An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country and Dominque Stevenson, Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther.
Event Details5PM
A panel discussion on urban social justice with Matt Hern, Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, Jordan Flaherty, Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6 and Marisela Gomez, East Baltimore anti-displacement activist and author of a forthcoming book detailing the fight against the EBDI/JHU land grab.
