AK Press authors on parade!
It’s shaping up to be a great spring; we’ve got authors out on the road promoting their new books every month from now through the fall … so stay tuned for tour details for Seth Tobocman, Ben Dangl, AK Thompson, Tricia Shapiro, Cindy Milstein, Jeff Coant, Void Network, Team Colors, and more!
In the meantime, our friends in the Pacific Northwest and Ontario have got a great couple of weeks ahead of them: Matt Hern tours the NW next week, and Michael Schmidt, South African co-author of the excellent Black Flame, tours Ontario, with the help of Common Cause. Check out the full schedules below!
And, note: we’re currently looking for funding to bring both Lucien van der Walt (Black Flame) and Raul Zibechi (Dispersing Power) to the US this summer/fall. So please get in contact if you happen to work with an organization or a university that might be willing to cover travel costs for either of these
folks!
Matt Hern in the Pacific Northwest
Starting with his appearance this Sunday (March 14) at the 15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, Matt Hern, author of AK’s new Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, and editor of Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader, takes to the road for a quick tour up the Pacific Coast. If you’re in Portland, Olympia, Seattle, or San Francisco, be sure to come on out and meet Matt!
Sunday, March 14 | Matt Hern in San Francisco
Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, 11:30AM
SF County Fair Building, Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way, at Golden Gate Park
Studio for Urban Projects, 7-9PM
3579 17th Street, San Francisco
Monday, March 15 | Matt Hern in Seattle, WA
Left Bank Books, 7PM
92 Pike Street, Seattle
Tuesday, March 16 | Matt Hern in Olympia, WA
Orca Books, 6PM
509 4th Avenue East, Olympia
Wednesday, March 17 | Matt Hern in Portland, OR
The Red & Black Cafe, 7PM
400 Southeast 12th Avenue, Portland
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Michael Schmidt in Canada
South African journalist Michael Schmidt heads to Canada next week for a week-long tour of Ontario to promote Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, organized by the wonderful folks at Common Cause. Be sure to check out one of Michael’s events if you’re in the area!
Monday, March 15 | Michael Schmidt in Waterloo
Wilfrid Laurier University, 4-6PM
School of Business and Economics, Room 2260
75 University Avenue West
(Sponsored the Communication Studies and Global Studies departments.)
March 16 | Michael Schmidt in London, details tba
March 17 | Michael Schmidt in Hamilton
McMaster University, 12-2pm
MUSC Rooms 311 and 313
1280 Main St. West
Limited seating.
Please RSVP at commoncauseontario@gmail.com
(Sponsored by the LIUNA-Mancinelli Professorship in Global Labour Issues and the School of Labour Studies.)
Sky Dragon Centre, 7-9pm
27 King William Street
Hamilton, ON
Organized by Common Cause Hamilton
commoncausehamilton@gmail.com
March 18 | Michael Schmidt in Montreal, details tba
March 19 | Michael Schmidt in Ottawa
University of Ottawa 3:00pm
Desmarais Building room 3120 (DMS)
(the newer building at ‘Laurier Station’ on the Transitway)
Exile Infoshop 7pm
256 Bank St, 2nd floor
(at the corner of Bank and Cooper)
March 20 | Michael Schmidt in Toronto
University of Toronto, 3-5PM
Bahen Centre, Room 1220
40 St. George Street
(Co-sponsored by the Pan African Solidarity Network and the Work and Labour Studies Programme, York University.)
Keep an eye out for updates at linchpin.ca, or email Common Cause at commoncauseontario@gmail.com.
PLUS! I almost forgot … the folks at Common Cause have made a promotional web video for Michael’s tour, making Black Flame the first book (I think) to have it’s own promo video. How cool is that? Stay tuned for more exciting forays into the world of 21st century technology … and enjoy the video!