GAS will be hosting a Book Fair on Saturday 2nd March 2019. We have now run out of space and time for additional stalls, discussions/talks and workshops (2nd February 2019).
The idea is for the book fair is to reflect the ethos of GAS, fighting capitalism and other forms of oppression, non-hierarchical organising, and the diversity of the people and organisations who use GAS, but also about things unique to Glasgow.
So far we have stalls from AK Press, Books By Broads, PM Press and the Spirit Of Revolt Archive. We are planning workshops from Herbal Unity (navigating the N.H.S. for people caught up in the immigration system), a printing workshop, and badge making. We are hoping to have a workshop based on the book, 'Advertising Shits In Your Head'.
We want to get away from some of the habitual things you get at anarchist/radical type book fairs that have made them not very diverse in the past. Given recent events at these book fairs we want to stress here at GAS that we don't support transphobia and are explicitly in support of reform to the gender recognition act and of people's right to self identify their gender.
The Facebook event can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/315574305908436/
The idea is for the book fair is to reflect the ethos of GAS, fighting capitalism and other forms of oppression, non-hierarchical organising, and the diversity of the people and organisations who use GAS, but also about things unique to Glasgow.
So far we have stalls from AK Press, Books By Broads, PM Press and the Spirit Of Revolt Archive. We are planning workshops from Herbal Unity (navigating the N.H.S. for people caught up in the immigration system), a printing workshop, and badge making. We are hoping to have a workshop based on the book, 'Advertising Shits In Your Head'.
We want to get away from some of the habitual things you get at anarchist/radical type book fairs that have made them not very diverse in the past. Given recent events at these book fairs we want to stress here at GAS that we don't support transphobia and are explicitly in support of reform to the gender recognition act and of people's right to self identify their gender.
The Facebook event can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/315574305908436/
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-Stalls 11am–5pm
@habeuscoitus A.K. Press Anarchist Federation Aye-Aye Books Books By Broads Chav Solidarity Community Badge Making Couriers Network + IWW Go Vegan Scotland Hex Distro Moral Decay Distro Not Your Fault Radical Transfeminism Zine Shy Radicals Sisters UnCut Spirit of Revolt Archive Stories for Strangers Unity Centre Writers 4 Utopia Zines Zarf Poetry + more to be confirmed. Discussions and Talks 11am-5pm Shy Radicals - 12 noon Go Vegan Scotland - 1pm Sisters UnCut - 2pm Ubuntu Women Shelter 3pm Herbal Unity - 4pm + more to be confirmed. Workshops 11am–5pm Badge Making - 11am Printing - 12 noon Bicycle - 1pm Collective Comic Making - 2pm Singing - 3pm Poetry - 4pm Plus Food Kid's Space Rattle Library |
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@habeuscoitus
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@habeuscoitus is part of Artists Against Prisons (AAP), a non-hierarchical printing collective started in Berlin in 2015. AAP are opposed to all forms of prisons and policing and make artwork with a political focus. The stall will be selling lino prints on the theme of sex worker rights and prison abolition.
https://www.instagram.com/habeuscoitus/ |
Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter
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To the political left Hunter's people are the ignorant and the ill informed, to the victorious right they are the unwashed and discarded waste product of the labouring class. Chav Solidarity is part autobiography, part meditation on trauma, class and identity, part one finger salute into the face of respectability politics, but mostly an articulation of the contradictory heart of Chavvy shit heads across the U.K.
This collection of essay's pick apart the lived experiences of its author. Hunter uses his experiences as child sex worker, teenage crack addict, violent thug and community activist to examine the ways in which our classed experiences shape the ways in which we think and do our politics. https://www.chavsolidarity.com/ |
Community Badge Making
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Create your own pin badge. The ultimate conversation starter. Bring your own materials, or make use of the resurrected Skinny’s and other materials that we’ve collected to make your own wearable masterpieces. Spread the word about your cause or make a present for your pal. The list is endless.
There will also be a Community Badge Making Workshop from 11am - 12 noon: https://www.facebook.com/events/397095147712147/ https://www.instagram.com/communitybadgemaking/ |
Glasgow Couriers Network
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Glasgow Couriers Network is a group of couriers, primarily working for gig-economy companies Deliveroo and Uber Eats, affiliated with and supported by the Industrial Workers of the World.
https://www.facebook.com/couriersScot/ |
Clydeside IWW
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Clydeside IWW is the branch of the Industrial Workers of the World covering Glasgow and the west of Scotland. We are a revolutionary internationalist union, fighting for better conditions today and economic democracy, and the end of capitalism, tomorrow.
https://www.facebook.com/clydesideiww/ |
Go Vegan Scotland
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Go Vegan Scotland volunteers will have a table at the book fair where they will be delighted to chat to anyone interested in finding out more about veganism and animal rights. They will have leaflets, an information folder and books on Vegan Rights in the UK. They're happy to help with any queries at all.
They will also have talk from 1pm-2pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/372060666918707/ https://www.goveganscotland.com/ https://twitter.com/goveganscotland https://www.instagram.com/goveganscotland/ |
Stories for Strangers
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Luke Winter is a writer who aims to share stories which bring strangers together. He writes spontaneous stories on demand in the street for strangers and will be writing stories for strangers from his desk at the Book Fair in amongst the stalls. He publishes independent books and has written in the streets for strangers across Europe and the USA and published three collections of his stories. He lives in Glasgow.
https://www.storiesforstrangers.com/ https://www.instagram.com/petitprance/ https://www.prancepress.com https://www.facebook.com/petitprancestories |
Shy Radicals
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The Shy Radicals stall will sell the Shy Radicals book as well a wide selection of zines about Autism and radical mental health and Other Asias zines:
https://otherasias.webnode.com/shop/ There is also a Shy Radicals talk at the GAS Book Fair at 12 noon: https://www.facebook.com/events/719979628402327/ More information about the book and how to buy it for £9.95 can be found here: https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1917 |
Spirit of Revolt Archive
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Spirit of Revolt Archive, Glasgow based, run by volunteers, dedicated to collecting, preserving multi-media records from Glasgow/Clydeside’s anarchist, libertarian-socialist past and present. Formed August 2011 it has 38 collections and growing. It is now an important resource of working class history. A large amount of its material can be viewed online. Other material can be viewed in the Mitchell Archive reading room.
https://spiritofrevolt.info/ https://www.facebook.com/Spirit-of-Revolt-archive-1884525175113848/ |
Writers 4 Utopia Zine
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Writers 4 Utopia is a transatlantic collective of queer science fiction writers making zines that imagine futures. Since the group started meeting in 2016 in a radical bookshop in Vancouver, they have created three zines that have been distributed internationally: Gaslit, Lit Fuse and Cycles.
https://writers4utopia.wixsite.com/zine/ |
Reading & Writing Trans/Queer Poetry
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Reading & Writing Trans/Queer Poetry
with Callie Gardner, Zarf Poetry 4pm–5pm. This workshop considers the work of contemporary trans and non-binary UK poets, and considers how it can be read in its artistic and political contexts — that is, both for its beauty and the struggles in which it participates. Considering the work of writers such as Nat Raha, Verity Spott, Laurel Uziell, Casper Heinemann, Harry Josephine Giles, Travis Alabanza, and Francesca Lisette, the workshop reads these poets across different formal traditions and considers how their poetry relates to trans & queer liberation. The latter part of the session will be devoted to developing creative responses to the texts. No previous experience read/writing poetry is required! There will also be a stall of Zarf Poetry publications 11am–5pm. Callie Gardner will be reading their poetry at the GAS 3rd Birthday Party in the evening. https://zarfpoetry.tumblr.com/ |
Ubuntu Women Shelter
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Decolonising 'A No Borders Manifesto'
Talk/Discussion at the GAS Book Fair Introductory talk by Dania Thomas of Ubuntu Women Shelter and the Unity Centre, followed by discussion to create a new 'no borders manifesto' that speaks to this new world that is the hostile environment http://www.noborders.org.uk/news/no-borders-manifesto The 'no-borders manifesto' we refer to in our activism is defined by the violence of sustaining state borders, though it is necessary to keep this violence in sight at all times we overlook: a) the sustaining and nurturing resistance to and redefinition of borders in our everyday lives and practical politics, and b) our own complicity in perpetuating violence and exploitation through unconscious acts of everyday racism and gender violence. This talk argues that the 'no borders manifesto' that we uncritically adopt reinforces the colonial erasure of lived experience. We need to rethink our uncritical acceptance of a manifesto sympathetic to but defined outwith the lived experience of migration and asylum. Finally, implicit in our acceptance of a 'no borders manifesto' is a vision of a future world which we must also critically reflect on lest we blindly: a) reinforce the no-borders world of financial capital and b) aspire to the entitlements of citizens of rich former colonial states, both of which are achieved at an immeasurable cost to citizens of former colonised countries and to the planet. info@ubuntu-glasgow.org.uk https://www.ubuntu-glasgow.org.uk https://twitter.com/UbuntuGlasgow https://www.facebook.com/UbuntuWomenShelter/ https://unitycentreglasgow.org/ Bus fares are available for asylum seekers, migrants and refugees to attend this talk/discussion. Ask at the GAS info desk on the day. |
Activist Printmaking Workshop
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Activist Printmaking Workshop 12 noon
Come along for this 1 hour workshop to find out about the GAS printmaking collective. We will be looking at the history of printmaking in activism and you will have a chance to make your own linocut or collagraph print to take home. Maximum 6 people due to space. To sign up please contact Josie at i.am.josie@gmail.com |
Bike Workshop
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Bike Workshop for Under 12s 1pm–2pm
How a bike works. How different parts of a bike work. How a bike runs. Encouraging kids to cycle. How to cycle safely and what safety equipment is needed. Meet in the print room at GAS — some of the workshop will happen in the car park at the back of GAS. This workshop is run by Circle. They run weekly bicycle repair workshops at GAS on Tuesdays from 4pm-7pm free for asylum seekers, migrants and refugees and anyone else who needs repairs done for free. If you can afford it, make a donation for a repair. Circle welcome donations of bicycles. |
Red and Black Song Club
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Red And Black Song Club Workshop 3pm–4pm
There's Power in Song! Join members of the Red and Black Song Club to learn one of the songs they will sing during the evening. There will be the opportunity to discuss the background to the song. No musical experience or knowledge necessary, just enthusiasm! Players of any instrument are more than welcome to bring them along. The Red And Black Song Club will be performing at the GAS 3rd Birthday Party at around 9pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/253093842068961/ |
Vegan People's Kitchen
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Vegan People's Kitchen will be cooking and serving the food during the Book Fair — curried carrot and onion soup with with homemade rolls. Best to be there around lunch time, so as not to miss out.
VPK will also be helping to serve the coffee and tea. Vegan food will be available again at the gig between 7pm and 8pm. Donations for food are welcome, but it will be free for anyone who needs it to be. The Glasgow Vegan People's Kitchen is a non-profit, volunteer-led community group based in Glasgow, Scotland. Their aim is to provide healthy and delicious vegan food at affordable prices. Their current set up involves serving three daring courses on the second Friday of each month at the Glasgow Autonomous Space. https://www.facebook.com/VPKglasgow/ https://www.instagram.com/veganpeopleskitchen/ |
Children's Activities
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Children's activities at the GAS Book Fair 11am–5pm
There will be a kid's space with the badge making stall and the Story for Strangers desk nearby. There's also a badge making workshop and a bike workshop for under 12s. Aye-Aye Books will be selling children's books also nearby. Badge making workshop event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/397095147712147/ Bicycle workshop: https://www.facebook.com/events/560812504396434/ |
books by broads will sell books written by women from around the world. A while ago I challenged myself to read only books by female authors, which I then reviewed on my blog:
https://booksbybroads.wordpress.com/
I'm excited to share some of the authors I've discovered with fellow bibliophiles at GAS. Look out for Nawal el Saadawi, Emma Goldman, Marguerite Abouet and Imtiaz Dharker.
https://booksbybroads.wordpress.com/
I'm excited to share some of the authors I've discovered with fellow bibliophiles at GAS. Look out for Nawal el Saadawi, Emma Goldman, Marguerite Abouet and Imtiaz Dharker.
Sisters UnCut/Ubuntu Women Shelter Panel Discussion 2pm-3pm
Sisters Uncut are calling time on Scotland's systemic carceral oppression of survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. 98% of long-term women prisoners in Scotland have experienced multiple forms of sexual and/or gendered abuse. Survivors of domestic abuse become trapped in vicious cycle of victimisation and criminalisation due to the severe lack of adequate specialist services for survivors. Survivors should not be institutionalised. We need support to rebuild our lives.
Ubuntu Women Shelter will be talking on the related subject of detention centres.
https://www.facebook.com/sistersuncutedinburgh/
https://www.facebook.com/UbuntuWomenShelter/
Bus fares will be available for any asylum seekers, migrants or refugees wanting to attend this discussion. Ask at the GAS Info stall on the day.
Sisters Uncut are calling time on Scotland's systemic carceral oppression of survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. 98% of long-term women prisoners in Scotland have experienced multiple forms of sexual and/or gendered abuse. Survivors of domestic abuse become trapped in vicious cycle of victimisation and criminalisation due to the severe lack of adequate specialist services for survivors. Survivors should not be institutionalised. We need support to rebuild our lives.
Ubuntu Women Shelter will be talking on the related subject of detention centres.
https://www.facebook.com/sistersuncutedinburgh/
https://www.facebook.com/UbuntuWomenShelter/
Bus fares will be available for any asylum seekers, migrants or refugees wanting to attend this discussion. Ask at the GAS Info stall on the day.
These cool stickers and more will be available at the Sisters UnCut info stall 11am-5pm.
Resisting barriers in the NHS – members of Docs not Cops and Herbal Unity will open a discussion at 4pm on access to state health care, particularly for people in the asylum system. We know that access to GPs can be difficult for anyone without ID or an address – what are the other problematic areas of healthcare?
Bus fares are available for asylum seekers, migrants and refugees to attend this workshop. Ask at the GAS info desk on the day.
Bus fares are available for asylum seekers, migrants and refugees to attend this workshop. Ask at the GAS info desk on the day.