Friday May 18, 8PM : Get Down for the BNote!
Join us for a dance party fundraiser celebrating the first anniversary of Baltimore’s local currency - the BNote! Dance the night away to an eclectic music mix sure to power-up your body and recharge your spirit, and enjoy refreshments, cupcakes, a raffle, prizes and more! $10 or BN10. Hope to see you there!
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Sunday May 20, 3PM : Community Celebration to honor the life and work of Eric James / JahHannibal Abba-Ra
As many of you know, Red Emma's was deeply moved by the sudden passing of our dear friend and comrade Eric James (JahHannibal Abba-Ra): writer, artist, musician, activist, and gentle spirit, as well as the partner of our collective member, Pat Berry. Please join Red Emma's and the members of R.A.M. for a celebration of Eric's life and work. Let's come together as a collective not to mourn, but to celebrate and remember with a sharing of words, sounds, images, and food. This event is free and open to anyone touched by Eric's life, but donations for his family are encouraged.
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Thursday May 24, 7PM : The Ric Pfeffer lecture: David Harvey
The Ric Pfeffer Lecture commemorates the life and work of Ric Pfeffer, a committed social justice activist and advocate who passed away in 2002. 2640 and Red Emma's have been honored to host several of the most recent Pfeffer lectures.
For this year's Lecture, which will commemorate the tenth anniversary of Ric's passing, David Harvey will be returning to Baltimore. David Harvey, who developed his ideas around the geography of anticapitalism to a large extent during his extended residence in Baltimore, gave the first Pfeffer memorial lecture in 2002, where he spoke about "The New Imperialism." David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and Director of The Center for Place, Culture and Politics. In 1982, while professor at Johns Hopkins, he was one of the founders of the Progressive Action Center. In the same year he published The Limits to Capital. With the publication of this work and 14 more, Harvey developed a Marxian theoretical approach he calls "historical-geographical materialism." Harvey gave the first Pfeffer memorial lecture in 2002, where he spoke about “The New Imperialism.” He is returning 10 years later for the culminating lecture of the series to discuss the dynamics of resistance against the dominance of finance capital as in the Occupy Wall Street Movement. His forthcoming book is Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution.
The Ric Pfeffer Lecture Fund was established in memory of Ric Pfeffer, former Johns Hopkins professor, attorney in the field of worker health and safety, activist in the peace and civil rights movements, and founding member of the Progressive Action Center. The Fund honors his legacy by providing support for radical and progressive lectures that analyze current conditions and promote activism. The event will be free, but donations to the lecture fund—a project of the amazing Research Associates Foundation—are always welcome.
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Friday May 25, 7PM : Indyreader Spring Party: Fundraiser and Celebration for the Launch of our New Website and Release of our New Print Issue, "Occupy the Economy"
Baltimore's Indypendent Reader invites you to our Spring party! We have a lot to celebrate... the launch of our new website, indyreader.org, and the release of our latest print edition, "Occupy the Economy." We hope you celebrate with us and contribute to our fundraising drive, where we hope to raise $10,000 by the end of the summer. We have big dreams for the project . . . purchasing media-making equipment, providing financial support to journalists, printing papers, and more. All of this so that we can continue to bring you social justice-oriented and community-created news. In order to realize our dreams, we need your help. So please join us in celebration at out Spring party. The door fee will be $5. (Of course, we will not say no if you donate more!) Beverages and assorted tasty treats (there will be vegan and gluten-free options!) will be sold. There will also be musical performances, drag performances, burlesque, dance, comedy, and so much more. We look forward to seeing you there!
Baltimore's Indypendent Reader invites you to our Spring party! We have a lot to celebrate... the launch of our new website, indyreader.org, and the release of our latest print edition, "Occupy the Economy."
We hope you celebrate with us and contribute to our fundraisin...g drive, where we hope to raise $10,000 by the end of June. We have big dreams for the project . . . purchasing media-making equipment, providing financial support to journalists, printing papers, and more. All of this so that we can continue to bring you social justice-oriented and community-created news.
In order to realize our dreams, we need your help. So please join us in celebration at out Spring party. The door fee will be $5, sliding scale. (Of course, we will not say no if you donate more!)
Confirmed performers include:
Ryan Harvey
Mark Gunnery
Emmanuel
Kate Lally
and more TBA!
Beer, wine, soda, juice, and assorted tasty treats (there will be vegan and gluten-free options!) will be sold. There will also be musical performances, drag performances, burlesque, dance, comedy, and so much more. We look forward to seeing you there!
Also, after you celebrate with us, please head over to the "Get Yer Bearings... The Sock Hop!" It's a fundraiser for our dear friends: Bearings Bike Project. We definitely plan on partying with them after our event!
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TASTY TREATS UPDATE: While we're very stoked that many of our wonderful friends, that also happen to be fabulous bakers, have committed to donating special treats for the bake sale at this event (thank you friends)- we wanted to particularly announce that the epic Brunies Bakery is donating:
- her UNBELIEVABLE vegan peanut butter blondies
- and her MIND-BLOWING (and we mean MIND-BLOWING) fried and risen vegan donuts!!!!
If you've never had Brunies baked goods- be prepared to have your socks completely knocked off! (And we're not exaggerating.)
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Saturday Jun 16, 10AM : Charm City Craft Mafia's Pile of Craft!
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