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Black Sheep Books, a community space and bookstore in Montpelier, Vermont, offers affordable radical and scholarly books, and hosts educational events on cultural and political topics. As an all-volunteer project, we are operated by a five-member collective hand in hand with a group of dedicated volunteers. Our principle focus is to provide access to anti-authoritarian Left ideas in a way that promotes intellectual debate and challenges today’s hegemonic culture.

We see print media and public talks as necessary for the development of critical consciousness and ultimately social change. Such engagement with the transformative power of ideas connects us to each other, helps us to understand our historical context, and guides us in action. This linking of past to present, theory to practice, is a crucial precondition for the emergence of a free and directly democratic society.

By creating this space in public, we strive to contest the depoliticization and alienation rampant under statist and capitalist social relations. We also aim to generate visibility for identities marginalized by normative values and systems of domination through providing community resources and a welcoming space in the context of our rural location.

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4 Langdon Street, Montpelier, VT | (802) 225-8906
Art against Authority: A Variety Show

05/29/07 7:00pm

2007-05-29 18:00
2007-05-29 22:00
Etc/GMT-5

A full evening of films, music, and discussion!

Josh MacPhee and Erik Reuland are touring with their new co-edited book Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority (AK Press, 2007). They will discuss the collection and present documentation of creative art actions from around the world (for more info on the book, see www.akpress.org//2007/items/realizingtheimpossibleak).

Dark Dark Dark will play their music to melt your longing heart.

Dara Greenwald will make you laugh and cry with her revolving as well as evolving collection of short videos.

Who we are:

Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator, and activist whose work often revolves around themes of radical politics, public space, and privatization. His first book was Stencil Pirates: A Global Survey of the Street Stencil (Soft Skull Press, 2004). He also organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Series (always available at Black Sheep Books) and is part of Justseeds Visual Resistance Radical Art Cooperative (for more info, see www.justseeds.org).

Erik Reuland (aka Erik Ruin) is a Minneapolis-based, Michigan-raised puppeteer, printmaker, and erratic editor of Trouble in Mind, a zine about the intersection of art, everyday life, and radical politics. He works/has worked with several art collectives, including UpsidedownCulture, Street Art Workers, Prison Poster Project, Barebones Productions, and Justseeds.

Dark Dark Dark is a group of musicians informed by the mountains, plains, seas, and cities in a tradition of exiled wanderers. City Pages of Minneapolis calls it "a gently spooky American folk with eastern European exoticism" (for more info, see www.myspace.com/darkdarkdarkband).

Dara Greenwald makes short videos that capture the interesting and strange sides of life, subculture, and the bizarre inner workings of her brain (for more info, see www.daragreenwald.com).

info@blacksheepbooks.org | (802) 225-8906 | 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier, VT, 05602