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hi everyone,
there will be a free screening of a documentary about infoshop culture, called Living Room: Space & Place in Infoshop Culture, the film is on a North American Tour right now, with the filmmakers, and they are going to be at Columbia...
APRIL 4, 2006 TUESDAY
5-8pm
screening 5:30
1104 S. Wabash
(right off the Roosevelt red line and handicap accessible)
ROOM: 504
:::::here is a little more info from their website::::::::
info-shops and a space/place-based culture of resistance
We live in a society where public places that people feel like they are an active part of and can use for non-economic purposes are increasingly rare. Public spaces where people can go in order to feel like a part of a community and to participate in creating a transformational culture of resistance to the dominant society are even more rare. One exception to this general scarcity of alternative public spaces is the emergence of Info-shops in urban centers across the United States - and indeed around the world. Info-shops are community spaces that facilitate access to traditionally marginalized information while providing a physical space for people to build creative projects of resistance to current forms of destruction and domination.
We focus on six infoshops in the film: the Lucy Parsons Center in Boston, Breakdown Book Collective & Community Space in Denver, Jane Doe Books in Brooklyn (RIP), the Long Haul Infoshop in Berkeley, The Back to Back Worker-run Cafe in Portland, OR, and the Wooden Shoe in Philadelphia.
more,
www.livingroomdocumentary.org
it's free and educational... yea!
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