This year, given our collective bandwidth and also limitations of the space, we are only hosting two workshops. All workshops will be held outside. 12:00-1:30pm Transformative & Restorative Justice- A Conversation from Lived Experience. Hear from formerly incarcerated people and advocates about broken approaches to crime and punishment, combating violence of the carceral state, and…
The 2023 Bookfair is less than a month away! Here’s a list of our confirmed vendors as of September 27: A.B.O. Comix – https://www.abocomix.com/ AK Press – https://www.akpress.org/ Bay Area IWW – https://www.iww.org Bay TANC – https://baytanc.com/ Black Blossoms at the End of the World Bound Together Books – https://boundtogether.org/ Brown Recluse Zine Distro –…
Accessibility Information <—– abled people should read this too. The Book Fair Committee is committed to improving accessibility at the event each year. For the 2023 Anarchist bookfair we will offer: Majority outside vendors and workshops held outside. 10-11:30 a.m.: KN95 or N95 masks are required indoors and out. After 11:30am: masking strongly recommended. Free…
Please support the Book Fair! We are committed to keeping this event free and accessible, and like many groups we have been impacted by the pandemic. We are a volunteer-led organization and need help this year covering basic expenses this year. Please make a donation today at https://bayareaanarchistbookfair.com/support/
11am Apenas 500 años: Witnessing Tierra Insumisa and Zapatista Planetary Bridges By Members of Xicana Tiahui Podcast (part of Chicanx World Making and Futurities Project) 12:30pm Mutual Aid in LA: Two Femmes Discuss the Politics of Race, Gender and Disability in Mutual Aid Organizing Presented by Ndindi Kitonga, who is also a founding member of…
Since the 2020 Book Fair was cancelled, we have been working behind the scenes to consider options for bringing back the event in the spring or fall of 2020! We’ll keep you posted as things develop. In the mean time, during this time of political turmoil, we encourage you to look to the community of…
Even though the Book Fair isn’t happening this weekend, the folks with ROAR are still putting out some great content on their new podcast. Episode one: COVID-19, Hierarchical Power, and the Distribution of Death – The Black Experience is available now. Check it out and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts: http://www.roar-conference.com/podcast.html We will announce…
Dear friends, On behalf of the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair and the Revolutionary Organizing Against Racism Conference, we sadly must announce the postponement of our joint event that was to take place on April 25, 2020. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in the Bay Area and the growing number of cases,…
! ROAR/ABF SCHEDULE 2020 ! *This schedule is subject to change and will be updated closer to the event* ROOM A: Temescal Arts Center, 511 48th Street 10-1130: Anti-Fascism in the 1980s 12-130: Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community 2-330: Rojava: A Historical Overview of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle 4-530…
WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FOR 2020. Session proposals for the Book Fair are due November 1, 2019. You can submit your proposal here. And please help us circulate the call below. Thanks! The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is an annual event that brings together people interested and engaged in radical work to…
