3rd Belfast Anarchist Bookfair
Jul 20 2009 20:34
The blogspot for the 3rd Blefast Anarchist Bookfair is up at http://belfastanarchistbookfair09.blogspot.com/
If anyone wants to book a stall let us know at justbooks@rocketmail.com
Jul 24 2009 15:29
#2
me too. Hopefully in the future it will be bigger and better than the one in Dublin.
Aug 10 2009 18:43
#3
Looking forward to this. Should be a good weekend!
Aug 20 2009 15:00
#4
Over the weekend of the Belfast Bookfair there's a fest on that is a benefit for the Warzone Centre. Quite a few of us were involved in the old Warzone Centre before it closed in Sept 2003 and are glad to see the project being revived.
A bunch of us will be going to this after the bookfair.
http://thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=74863
Aug 20 2009 15:45
#5
Deezer sent me details:
The 3rd Belfast Anarchist Bookfair will take place at the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday 29th August 2009 with an exhibition of Abel paz's photos from the Spanish revolution and video showings at 9-11 Lombard Street Belfast on Friday 28th and Sunday 30th of August (details below).
Talks/discussions confirmed so far:
Fighting Racism and Fascism 12.00
Women and Equality - workshop co-facilitated with RAG 12.45
Lunch 1.30
Equality and Education 2.00
Taking on the Bosses 2.45
Equality and Northern Ireland 3.30
Freedom and Communism - Equality and Anarchism 4.15
Stalls confirmed so far:
Anarchist Federation
Antifa Belfast
Aufheben
Back to Front magazine
Organise!
Just Books Collective
RAG
Solidarity Federation
Workers Solidarity Movement
"En el que sabe la grandeza de nuestro manana no cabe el pesimismo"
Friday 28th and Sunday 29th August "En el que sabe la grandeza de nuestro manana no cabe el pesimismo - In one who knows the greatness of our tomorrows there is no room for pessimism" video showings and an exhibition of photo's from the late Abel Paz's 'The Spanish Civil War' at 9-11 Lombard Street, Belfast.
Friday 28th 5.00 - 7.30 pm plus showing of the documentary by Lisa Berber and Carol Mazer "...de toda la vida" and Ken Loaches 'Land and Freedom'
Sunday 30th 1.00 - 4.00 pm plus showing of Vicente Aranda's 'Libertarias'
WARZONE BENEFIT FEST 28th-29th August! Pavillion Bar, Ormeau Road, Belfast. Friday & Saturday. Doors 7pm both nights!!
Friday 28th
Gama Bomb
www.myspace.com/gamabomb
Only Fumes and Corpses
www.myspace.com/onlyfumesandcorpses
Neinfenbach
www.myspace.com/neifenbach
Pocket Billiards
www.myspace.com/pocketbilliards
Sorcery
www.myspace.com/sorcerytrash
Momma Slippers
www.myspace.com/mommasslippers
Saturday 29th
Bacchus
www.myspace.com/bacchusband
Carosah
www.myspace.com/carosah
The Lobotomies
www.myspace.com/thelobotomies
Sort it out
dont think they have a myspace
The Dubtones
www.myspace.com/dubtonesireland
Axis Of
www.myspace.com/axisof
Dwell in Sun
www.myspace.com/dwellinsun
Aug 20 2009 21:55
#6
im not going to a punk gig in that shit hole AGAIN
Aug 20 2009 21:59
#7
weeler wrote:
im not going to a punk gig in that shit hole AGAIN
Have you ever been in The Pavillion?
Aug 20 2009 23:28
#8
yeah he has, he played pool in it with us last year
Pavillion is decent Weeler, not even close to being a shithole, quite a nice venue, serious!
According to Deezer 'you can get a good dirty working class pint' there[/working class charicature]
Aug 21 2009 08:27
#9
The Pavillion is just about my favourite bar in Belfast (so that makes it my favourite bar in the world) but the word I used was 'decent' not dirty, for 'dirty' pints try Wetherspoons (ask notch8)
And Gamma Bomb are not punk. Organise! can't avoid going to this fest because a significant proportion of our membership in Belfast are actually in bands that are playing. That and its for a good cause. Oh aye, and some of the bands are actually pretty fuckin good.
Aug 21 2009 11:25
#10
notch8 wrote:
weeler wrote:
im not going to a punk gig in that shit hole AGAINHave you ever been in The Pavillion?
I played pool there and beat EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF ORANGISE! I thought it was that other shit-hole Laverys?
Aug 21 2009 11:26
#11
Deezer wrote:
we are punx and we all play in punk bands and we are out of touch with what young people actually like
Fixed!
Aug 21 2009 16:12
#12
Na the post-bookfair gig 2 yrs ago was Laverys, this year Pavillion 
Aug 23 2009 09:36
#13
This thread gives me nostalgia for going to Belfast back in the day (way back when I was still technically a trot). We drank a bottle of buckfast in the street outside Lavery's and then the WSM gave us a copy of their paper. Good times.
Aug 23 2009 11:15
#14
come to Belfast this year?
Aug 23 2009 13:05
#15
Sorry, I'm busy being infuriated by hippies that weekend.
Aug 23 2009 19:26
#16
Who is farce?
Aug 24 2009 16:58
#17
Line-up for the fest has shifted slightly, Lobotomies now on the Friday as well, Axis and Carosah pulled out of the Saturday so if anyone knows any bands that would like to play get in touch with www.myspace.com/nuclearwinterfest. Pure Anarchy.
Aug 24 2009 19:43
#18
Anyone else up for this?
http://entertainment.ie/event/Music/Custom-House-Square/2-Many-DJs/2491199.htm
2 Many DJs, Deadmau5, Boysnoize, Mixhell Live Phil Kieran
Aug 24 2009 20:23
#19
i like wee bits of Deadmau5 actually
here, anyone who fancies a game of 5aside on the Friday is welcome to come along, PM me
it's 7-8 and me, Notch, and Mara will be showing our skills, obviously I will be showing the most skillz because I AM THE BEST
you can go to the Abel Paz exhibition before hand and the punk gig afterwards!
serious though, anyone round Belfast who fancies playing and isn't mental, just say 
Aug 25 2009 14:24
#20
Theres five-a-side in Botanic Gardens on the Sunday n' all. I shan't be playing cos football is for the gayz (in other words I'm crap at it)
Aug 25 2009 15:37
#21
fuck that shit that's punk football - ie a bunch of drunk twats running about in DMs kicking a burst ball and falling over
PEC FRIDAY NIGHTZ ARE FOR REAL LADZ
Aug 25 2009 19:52
#22
weeler wrote:
Anyone else up for this?http://entertainment.ie/event/Music/Custom-House-Square/2-Many-DJs/2491199.htm
2 Many DJs, Deadmau5, Boysnoize, Mixhell Live Phil Kieran
It's £29; none of them are THAT good.
Aug 27 2009 10:00
#23
ANARCHY!
Aug 29 2009 08:13
#24
12noon today!
Aug 30 2009 19:56
#25
Thanks to everyone who came along to the bookfair, some interesting discussions and chat and great to see friendly faces.
The 'gender & equality' and 'fighting racism, fighting fascism' talks promoted significant points for discussion that meant they both went way over their alotted time - but in the end that was a good thing and they were important discussions to have
Aug 31 2009 10:13
#26
Agreed Choccy, the discussions this year were well-attended and interesting but on the whole there was less stalls and less people than previous years; one or two more-radical-than-thou types and all-told a little disappointing. While the crap weather may account for some of this, it is interesting to note the hundreds that went to the Warzone Fest.
I was saying to Deezer today that it might be mutually beneficial to merge both these events (Bookfair and Fest) in future, and if we can get the social centre open on time, hopefully that'll be the venue (we're in ongoing negotiations with estate agent still).
www.warzonecolllective.wetpaint.com for latest
Back in the 1980s when Warzone put events on at the Art College in Belfast there were numerous stalls there too and although most people were there for the gig they did take an interest in the literature, and this remains a vital avenue to inform newcomers about anarchism. The gigs were mixed genre and not exclusively punk as well I might add. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
I would also add that there needs to be better advertising of the event in general but otherwise a shout must go out to the organisers and everyone who helped out, or just came along. All said it is vital to keep this event going so it can only be a positive that it still is!
Aug 31 2009 16:48
#27
A big speaker also to pull in the masses and help to build the bookfair's publicity 
The organisers need to move from the idea of having just a bookfair for the sake of it to how can we make it the best and biggest event in the left and wider labour movement in Belfast. The SWP stall outside Tescos on the day would have received more interest!
perhaps this is the first time the AF, WSM and a few others have not sold really anything at a bookfair 
I hate to say it but libcommunity was much more exciting this year than the actual bookfair.
Sep 3 2009 13:44
#28
The SWP stall outside Tescos would have? Oh fuck off Maloney. Both the SWP and SP stalls in town got rained off, the weather was atrocious and the city council have started a policy of covering posters with shitty brown and green paint.
Numbers through who came along for a casual look were certainly down on last year. We were a stall down (Barracka Books has closed since last year). I reckon the bookfair, in its own terms was a success. The meetings were (unlike a recent WSM Belfast Branch dayschool) just as well attended as previous years and worthwhile. The discussions were productive. There are certainly lessons to be learned but I'm not to keen on a 'celebrity' approach and would rather build things slowly and in a sustained manner.
Sales were down, but apparently for some more than others, and to be fair there was nothing on the WSM stall worth buying.
Sep 3 2009 14:05
#29
well, I would expect bookfair meetings to be bigger anyway mate. There would be something wrong if they were not! I was referring to your average trot stall on a good day.
The bookfair is defintely worthwhile but thought previous years was much better in terms of numbers and better advertised. I am well aware of the new council policy, and there are of course other way round it!
Sep 3 2009 14:31
#30
Maloney wrote:
A big speaker also to pull in the masses and help to build the bookfair's publicity
How about a nationalist with dire politics but cool skin?
Quote:
The organisers need to move from the idea of having just a bookfair for the sake of it to how can we make it the best and biggest event in the left and wider labour movement in Belfast.
Depends what you want to have. While it does need to be vastly improved you could have the biggest event by combining it with the punk gigs - big mistake in my opinion or by inviting vegans and nationalists or any number of things. I think the main problem is belfast is a tiny city and with two anarchist groups, one of which was perhaps unofficially agressive towards the bookfair, it can never be the major event the dublin one is.
Excellent, really looking forward to it. Hope to see lots of people there