DEADLINE EXTENDED: The deadline for poster submissions for this year’s anarchist bookfair has been extended to NOVEMBER 25 at 5pm (no exceptions). Please send your final poster designs to montrealanarchistbookfair@gmail.com.

The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Collective is seeking a Montreal-based volunteer to do graphic design for the 2012 Anarchist Bookfair.

We are making an open callout for a poster design. The deadline to submit a poster design is NOVEMBER 25, 2011 at 5pm.

If your poster is chosen, you will be the Anarchist Bookfair graphic designer. The Anarchist Bookfair graphic designer will be expected to:

• finalize the design of their colour poster in English and French in communication with the Bookfair Collective;
• transform the poster design into: a) a 11×17 black & white poster in English and French; b) a black & white flyer in English and French; c) a website banner; d) a logo; e) a t-shirt design; f) a Bookfair program cover design;
• work closely with the Bookfair collective to finalize all visual media related to the Bookfair. The Bookfair is organized on the basis of the following principles: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/about/principles
• be available for this process from now until the Bookfair in May, particularly from February to April.

When you submit your design:

• send a colour poster design as a jpg file (300 dpi) to montrealanarchistbookfair@gmail.com BEFORE November 25, 2011 at 5pm;
• write “poster submission” in the subject line;
• also include your name, as well as a contact telephone number and e-mail addresss;
• on your proposed poster itself, please include the following information:

* You can choose to not use this slogan, or to use another slogan, as part of your proposed poster design; the Bookfair collective will decide the final content of the main Bookfair poster.
- We print separate French and English posters; you can submit your design in either language.
- You can also consult previous designs at the following link: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/about/posters
- If you submitted a poster design last year, you can re-submit your design.
- Those poster designs that are not selected for this year’s Bookfair will be displayed at the 2012 Bookfair as part of the Art & Anarchy exhibition on the walls of the Bookfair space.

Thanks for considering submitting a design.
– The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Collective

Workshops, Tables, Art Exhibits, Films, Festival of Anarchy Events:

Read more about how to make a proposal for the upcoming Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 19-20, 2012).

Workshop Proposals

We encourage your workshop proposals for both days of this year’s Bookfair (May 19 or 20, 2012). You can submit workshops that are: i) introductions to anarchism or ii) workshops on other topics related to anarchism that explores an anarchism-themed topic in some depth.

–> For full information about making a workshop proposal, visit: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/callout-for-proposals/workshopproposals <–

The deadline for all workshop proposals is March 1, 2012.

Tabling at the Bookfair

The heart of the Bookfair includes booksellers, distributors, independent presses and political groups from all over Montreal, Quebec, North America, and abroad. There will be Bookfair tabling on TWO days – Saturday, May 19 and Sunday, May 20, 2011, from 10am to 5pm. This year, tabling will take place in TWO spaces that are located across from each other: the Centre d’éducation populaire de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA) at 2515 rue Delisle, and the Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV) at 2450 rue Workman.

–> For full information about requesting table space, visit: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/callout-for-proposals/tablerequest <–

The deadline to request table space is April 1, 2012.

Art Exhibits

Art & Anarchy brings together the creations of dozens of anarchist-inspired artists and organizers. In previous years, exhibitions have included sculptures, paintings, posters, banners, drawings, and other multi-media forms. Art & Anarchy is displayed over the two days of the Montreal Anarchst Bookfair.

–> For full information about making a art proposal, visit: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/callout-for-proposals/artproposals <–

The deadline to make an Art & Anarchy submission is March 1, 2012.

Films

The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair hosts a Film Room, showing films related to anarchism or anarchist-supported struggles.

–> For full information about making a film proposal, visit: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/callout-for-proposals/filmproposals <–

The deadline to make a film proposal is March 1, 2012.

Festival of Anarchy Events

The entire month of May comprises the Festival of Anarchy, with diverse anarchist-themed events occurring at different venues in Montreal. The Bookfair collective compiles a Festival of Anarchy calendar, but we count on you to organize the actual Festival of Anarchy events. Get in touch to reserve a date for your event in May (calendar dates are “first come first served”).

–> For full information about reserving a date for the Festival of Anarchy calendar, visit: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/callout-for-proposals/festivalproposal <–

The deadline to submit Festival of Anarchy events, to be included in our public calendar, is April 1, 2012.

Mark your calendars …

MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2012

Two days: Saturday, May 19 & Sunday, May 20
10am-5pm on both days

The Anarchist Bookfair will take place in two buildings across from each other in Parc Vinet:
- Centre d’éducation populaire de la Petite-Bourgogne et de St-Henri (CEDA), 2515 rue Delisle
- Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV), 2450 rue Workman
A short walk from Lionel-Groulx metro.

No gods, no masters, no bosses, no borders.
FREE. Welcome to all!
For anarchists, and people curious about anarchism.

-> Participants from all over Quebec and North America, booksellers and vendors, workshops, films, discussions, kids activities, art exhibits and more!
-> Part of the month-long Festival of Anarchy held throughout May 2012 at venues and locations all over the island of Montreal.
-> During this year’s Bookfair, tabling will take place over two days: May 19-20, between 10am-5pm.
-> NOTE: This year, tabling will take place in the main auditoriums of both our locations: CEDA and the Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (CCGV).
-> Accessibility Policy and Commitment
-> What Happens at the Anarchist Bookfair?
-> Callout for proposals (deadline March 1/April 1, 2012): workshops, tables, art, films, festival events
-> Support the Bookfair

CONTACT INFORMATION:
-> e-mail: info@anarchistbookfair.ca
-> tél: 514-679-5800
-> mail: Salon du livre Anarchiste de Montréal
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Suite 204
Montréal, Québec H3G 1N1

FOR UPDATES:
-> web: www.anarchistbookfair.ca
-> announcements list: https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/salon-annonces

You can also join our facebook page or follow us on twitter:
-> facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SalonduLivreAnarchisteMontrealAnarchistBookfair
-> twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BookfairAnarMTL

[NOTE: This description applies to the 2011 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair.]

The Anarchist Bookfair takes place in two buildings, which are across from each other: i)the CEDA (2515 rue Delisle), an adult education and community center based in Little Burgundy/St-Henri, and ii) the Georges-Vanier Cultural Center across from the CEDA. Both are just a few minutes from Lionel-Groulx métro.

In the main Bookfair auditorium and the adjacent Zine Room, there are over 100 booksellers, zinesters, distributors and groups from all over Montreal, Quebec, North America and beyond, sharing their publications and materials, most of which are hard or impossible to find at mainstream book stores.  Many materials are available for free, and much is published specifically to be available at the Bookfair.

During the weekend, there is a Anarchist Film Room screening alternative films and documentaries, while the walls of the Bookfair venue are covered with the works of anti-authoritarian artists as part of Art & Anarchy. Last year also featured an Autonomous Media and Technology Room.

Free childcare is available at the Bookfair at the Kid Zone; kids and parents are welcome and encouraged to attend!

There are also workshops and presentations throughout the weekend, in English and French. Some are intended as introductions to anarchism for those who are new to anarchy, while others explore an anarchist-themed subject in some depth.

In general, during the Bookfair, don’t hesitate to ask members of the Bookfair collective, or folks who are tabling or presenting, any question or inquiry you have about the ideas and practice of anarchism. The Bookfair collective actively strives to create an accessible event.

The Bookfair site is adjacent to a large park and sports field, and when the weather is nice (May in Montreal is usually quite beautiful), a large part of the Bookfair can be about kicking around a soccer ball or hanging out with friends, and soon-to-be friends.

The entire Bookfair is free, and open to all; however, your donations are encouraged, as each year, after meeting our expenses, the Bookfair aims to support local projects with a financial donation.

Photos from previous Bookfairs, which give you an idea of the atmosphere of during the Bookfair Weekend, are linked HERE.

The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Collective would like to thank everyone who supported the 2011 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair: Cabaret performers, artists, everyone who submitted poster designs, translators, all of our volunteers, everyone who postered and helped publicize the event, the organizers of the Kids Zone, CEDA, the Georges-Vanier Cultural Center and the neighbourhood, CKUT 90.3FM, QPIRG Concordia, the Midnight Kitchen, the Montreal Childcare Collective, and other groups and individuals who shared their resources with us. Special thanks to Siji, Aaron, Benjamin, Alain, Delphine & Emma. THANKS!

– Your Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Collective 2011: Fred, Helen, Jaggi, Jeanne, Laura Boo, Philippe & Sara.

The proceeds from this year’s Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (2011) will support: i) the DIRA Anarchist Library (Montreal); ii) Anarchist Bookfair Accessibility Fund; iii) G20 Legal Defence Fund; iv) Éditions Écosociété’s defense of two SLAPP suits by Canadian mining companies Barrick Gold and Banro Corporation. More info below:

DIRA ANARCHIST LIBRARY (MONTRÉAL): The DIRA is a space for the promotion of anarchist ideas as well as alternatives to the ideas promoted by the mass media and dominant power. At the DIRA, you can borrow or consult hundreds of books, newspapers, zines, archival materials and more. We function on the basis of a non-hierarchical, equal and anti-authoritarian structure, and we distribute information for free so that it’s accessible to everyone: because ideas are not for sale, they are to be shared! INFO: http://bibliothequedira.wordpress.com/

ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR ACCESSIBILITY FUND: The accessibility fund will help to make the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair accessible in various ways. Last year, the fund supported sign language translation. It has also helped to pay for the cost of two rooms in the Georges-Vanier Cultural Center, a wheelchair-accessible building across from the CEDA that again this year will host a number of workshops. This fund will help the Bookfair collective meet its stated goal of striving towards an accessible event, in diverse ways, including the possibility of moving more activities to accessible spaces in future years.

G20 LEGAL DEFENCE FUND: The G20 Legal Defence Fund in Quebec continues to raise money in support of all people facing charges in relation to the anti-G20 protests in Toronto in June 2010. The Fund considers that all arrests occurred in the context of a legitimate struggle against the capitalist policies of the G20, and that all charges should be dropped immediately. The G20 Legal Defence fund is managed by a group of six local anti-capitalist community organizers who are not facing legal charges themselves, and will ensure that legal funds are properly disbursed. INFO: http://www.clac-montreal.net/en/node/186

ÉDITIONS ÉCOSOCIÉTÉ: Canadian mining firms Barrick Gold and Banro Corporation are suing Montreal-based publisher Écosociété and the three authors of the book Noir Canada : Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique for libel for $11 million. Écosociété asks for all forms of possible support to carry on this David and Goliath struggle. INFO: http://slapp.ecosociete.org/en

MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2012

If you are interested in participating in the organization of next year’s Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, please get in touch. It’s not too early to start planning. 514-679-5800 – info@anarchistbookfair.ca

ANARCHIST CABARET
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 8pm-1am
at L’Alizé, 900 Ontario East
(métro Berri-UQÀM)

An evening of music and performances
A benefit for the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair!

$5 or pay what you can
Wheelchair accessible

Jeunesse Apatride
The Facials
Stéphane Robitaille
Chorale libertaire de Pointe-St-Charles
and more!

ART & ANARCHY 2011
May 21-22, 10am-5pm

Art & Anarchy brings together the creations of anarchist-inspired artists and organizers. This year’s exhibition will include sculptures, paintings, posters, banners, drawings, and other multi-media forms. There will be more than 10 individual presentations during Art & Anarchy.

Art & Anarchy will be displayed over two days at the CEDA, an adult education centre in Montreal’s southwest. The various exhibits of Art & Anarchy can be viewed on the stairwells and the entire 3rd floor, which will be transformed into an exhibition of our collective creativity and resistance. We encourage all Bookfair participants to venture to the 3rd floor and the stairwells to take a look at the different pieces and elements that comprise Art & Anarchy.

Artists and Presentations:

• Beehive Design Collective — original banners and posters
• Antoine Cloutier-Bélisle — mixed media
• Karen Boyles — drawing
  
• Barbara Mendoza Denis — performance
• Sam Ectoplasm — drawings
• Nidal Elkhairy — paper & poster reproductions
  
• Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative — hand-produced prints
  
• Tournesol Plante — paintings
• Ben Stewart-Smith – ink drawing
• Shannon Willmott – acrylic on canvass

Aussi/Also:

• Bookfair Poster(s) 2011
• Poster Retrospective: 11 Years of Bookfair Anarchy in Montreal (2000-2010)

More information below …

Banners & Posters by the Beehive Design Collective

original banners and posters

This year’s Bookfair again features original banners and posters by the Beehive Collective, including “Free Trade Area of the Americas”, “Plan Colombia”, “The True Cost of Coal” as well as recent works and surprises.

The Beehive Collective has gained international recognition for its ‘graphics campaigns’ illustrating the interconnections between corporate globalization, poverty, histories of colonization and resistance. The Hive has evolved a unique approach to ‘cross-pollinating the grassroots’ by building campaigns around graphics and using them to engage audiences. The all-volunteer Beehive has its home base in Eastern Maine since. Bees in Toronto are currently designing graphics and workshops focused on the G8/G20 Summits in June 2010. All our work is anti-copyright. Info: www.beehivecollective.org

Office tools (Antoine Cloutier-Bélisle)

mixed media

This work, through the use of fake medical documents, tells the story of different objects used for office work. In breaking with the life trajectory of these objects, it is now possible for them to become the main agents of their artistic existence.

Through a multidisciplinary practice, Antoine Cloutier-Bélisle projects, out of banality, everyday objects and reveals their beauty, their fragility and their humanity. In doing so, he aims to provoke a larger questioning of the ways our society works.

I had that dream you told me about (Karen Boyles)

drawing

The work explores the notion and perpetration of the violence of scale. Embodied in distopic landscapes, consumption, mass production, the relentless exploitation of the natural world, the work expresses the violence of scale and the culture of alienation it engenders.

Karen Boyles is a Montreal-based artist, woodworker and organic grower who is hell-bent on creating art that means something in an apathetic art world.

Barbara signe des autographes (Barbara Mendoza Denis)

performance with card paper made by the artist

A performance within the Art & Anarchy exhibition where I sign autographs in order to question ideas of identity. By questioning my celebrity, I look at the hierarchy that classes individuals.

Barbara Mendoza Denis expresses, through careful works, her revolt and desire to open up horizons and borders. She produces seductive and meaningful pieces in order to bring the spectator to question their own well-being and their position as a social actor.

Cinq œuvres de Sam Ectoplasm

drawings

Sister Bike / I don’t give a fuck / Kool Thing / L’Idole des connes / Shewolf

An illustrator, fashion designer and French zinester, Ectoplasm designs feminine icons in Chinese ink and think pastels. He work, a mix of punk and urban references, questions feminity, its yokes and its paradoxes.

The People Demand … (Nidal Elkhairy)

paper & poster reproductions

This year’s Art & Anarchy exhibition features colour and black&white paper poster reproductions of original artwork by Nidal Elkhairy. Nidal’s artwork touches on themes ranging from Palestinian displacement and resistance, critiques of American imperialism and dictatorial Arab regimes, migrant justice, indigenous solidarity, and more. Throughout the recent Middle East uprising, Nidal produced original images that provided and insightful critiques of current events. His work is rooted deeply in the inherent dignity of human survival and resistance.

Nidal Elkhairy is a Palestinian artist based in Amman, Jordan. He lived and organized in Montreal for four years before moving back to the Middle East in 2006. His art practice is based in disciplines and techniques such as drawing, stencil, illustration, comics and muralism. His work has been featured in art spaces and websites such as Electronic Intifada, in newspapers such as Al Akhbar and Ak Safeer in Lebanon, as well as on a Noam Chomsky book cover. He has participated in group shows such as Artists Against the Israeli Occupation, in both Montreal and Tokyo, as well at Caracas, Toronto, Beirut and Amman. Info: http://nidalelkhairy.blogspot.com/ and http://www.nidal48.net

Resourced (Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative)

hand-produced prints

RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative in 2010. It focuses on resource extraction and climate issues, and includes 26 artist prints. Info: justseeds.org/resourced /

Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 26 artists committed to making print and design work that reflects a radical social and political stance. With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly-minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. We believe in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action. Info: justseeds.org

Peintures par Tournesol Plante

paintings on collage and canvass with mixed mediums and recycled materials

Les impératifs économiques nous mèneront à la guerre / 40 Heures Semaine / Ma ville, mes chairs

Tournesol Plante, a painter but also a sculptor, creates dense and textured canvasses of industrial and urban landscapes, describing a society on the road to consumption, misery and war.

Guy-André Kieffer (Ben-Stewart-Smith)

ink drawing

Guy-André Kieffer is a chaotic visual representation of the hidden elements of modern production. The ink drawing is named after the French-Canadian journalist who was kidnapped in Côte d’Ivoire while working on a story critical of its government, thought to be a consequence of his investigation of the local cocoa trade.

Ben Stewart-Smith has been doodling and sculpting since he was a wee lad. Check out his website at www.benstewartsmith.com

Informant (Shannon Willmott)

acrylic on canvass

The subject of this painting is surveillance. Imprisonment, house arrest, street protest and support continue in the context of a well funded police state.

Shannon Willmott is an Ottawa based artist. She’ll be in Halifax at the Robert’s Street Social Centre at the end of May for her first ever Art Residency. Come visit her there on June 2nd to see what she’s working on.

Bookfair Poster(s) 2011

This year’s poster and related images are designed by Benjamin Mege. Benjamin is an artist originally from Clermont-Ferrand, France now living and working in Montreal. Benjamin creates using diverse art forms, from graffiti and drawings, to music and video. For more info, consult his website: http://www.stereobnm.net/ Thank you to all artists and designers who submitted poster designs for consideration for this year’s Bookfair. All submitted designs are displayed at the Anarchist Bookfair as part of the Art & Anarchy exhibition.

Poster Retrospective: Eleven Years of Bookfair Anarchy in Montreal (2000-2010)

From black cats to anarchist roses, trees and fists; a presentation of the last 11 years of Montreal Anarchist Bookfair posters.

A project by Christina Xydous and Jaggi Singh; other artists and designers include: Eric Drooker, Kristen Braun, Kandis Friesen and Jesse Purcell.

Throughout the day on SUNDAY, May 22, the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair will host a Film Room, showing both feature and short films related to anarchism or anarchist-supported struggles.

This year’s Film Room includes the Montreal premiere screenings of: “In the Land of the Free” (USA 2010), “Tales from the G20” (Toronto 2011), and “Bastards of Utopia” (Croatian with English subtitles). We will also be showing the feature film “De La Servitude Moderne” (France 2009) as well as short films from Emmanuelle Lippé, Nicolas van Caloen & Juan Pablo Lepore, Andréann Cossette Viau, Micky Morin, Sofi Périard, Hugo Le Bleu-Tadros, Sara Dupéré and others. Full details below.

11am-12pm

De La Servitude Moderne

Jean-François Brient et Victor León Fuentes / 53 min / FR / France / 2009

De la servitude moderne is a book and a 52 minute documentary film which was completely independently produced. The central objective of this film is to update the condition of the modern slavery within the framework of the totalitarian commodity system and to make visible the forms of mystification which conceals this servile condition. This film was made with the sole aim of attacking head-on the dominant system of organizing this world.

12pm-1:30pm:

In the Land of the Free (MONTREAL PREMIERE)

Vadim Jean / 84 min / ENG / 2010

In the Land of the Free tells the shocking and unbelievable story of Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King, three black men from rural Louisiana who were held in solitary confinement in the biggest prison in the U.S., an 18,000-acre former slave plantation known as Angola. Woodfox and Wallace, founding members of the first prison chapter of the Black Panther Party, worked along with King to speak out against the inhumane treatment and racial segregation in the prison. King was released in 2001 after almost thirty years of solitary confinement. Woodfox and Wallace, convicted in the highly contested stabbing death of white prison guard Brent Miller, remain in Angola where they have spent more than thirty-six years in solitary confinement. This documentary tells the ongoing story of the case of these three extraordinary men.

1:30pm-2pm:

Dehors

Emmanuelle Lippé / Full Instinct productions / 28 min / Montréal / FR & ENG / 2010

“Monday morning, I feel like running away. The metro is packed, it’s too hot and this world is beating too fast. Life is underlined but underlived. How long can we take it? Dehors takes us out of everyday life and brings up the ultimate question: How can we live differently?”

2pm-2:20 pm:

IMPA, Usine récupérée, cité culturelle

Nicolas van Caloen & Juan Pablo Lepore / 17 min / Argentine / Spanish, subtitled in French / 2009

This short documentary tells the story of the struggle for the first “recovered” factory in Argentina. In 1998, while the managers of IMPA tried to transform the cooperative into a company in order to shut down the business and keep the money, the workers decided the take over their factory and create a self-managed cooperative. This factory is the starting point of the National Movement of Recovered Companies of Argentina. It’s a powerful example of alternative anti-capitalist self-management. Shot in Argentinan in July and September 2009 during a major mobilization. This short documentary is part of the documentary project Semences in which we share the important work of many horizontal and anti-capitalist social movements in the Americas.

2:20pm-3pm:

Short Films from Télé Sans Frontières

Again this year the Anarchist Bookfair film room will be featuring short films from Télé Sans Frontières, covering diverse subjects and themes from the underground of Montreal.

- Paroles d’un oublié d’Hochelag’ – Andréann Cossette Viau / 8 min / FR / Québec / 2010
Short documentary of the reality lived by a forgotten person of Hochelaga.
- Chienne de vie – 8 min / FR / Québec / 2010
A short documentary about street youth and their dogs.
- THC – Micky Morin / 5 min / FR / Québec / 2009
Highly controversial treatment – Traitement hautement controversé.
- Marre de tout ce trop qui m’engloutit – Sofi Périard / 6 min / FR / Québec / 2009
She smokes and drinks, confined to her bed, waiting for a response, from whatever is submerging and paralyzing her.
- Injection Supervisé – Hugo Le Bleu-Tadros / 8 min / FR / Québec / 2009
A short documentary about supervised injection sites, such as Insite in Vancouver, and the urgency of opening one in Quebec.
- Joyeux festin — Sara Dupéré / 2 min / FR / Québec / 2009
A bloody orgy of spaghetti sauce on a bed of garbage.

3pm-4pm:

Tales from the G20 (MONTREAL PREMIERE)

Open Media Initiative / 55 min / EN / Canada / 2011

In June 2010, leaders from the twenty largest economies met in Toronto with representatives of corporate interests to discuss the policies that would shape the world for everyone else. Exclusion zones, overlapping layers of security fencing and an estimated 25,000 police and military personnel transformed the downtown area into an armed camp. Over 1.3 billion dollars were spent on security measures, more than all previous G8/G20 meetings combined. This documentary traces the overt breakdown in civil liberties that occurred during the Summit, from unmarked vans with snatch squads of plainclothes police to the pre-emptive arrest of activists now facing years in prison for organizing demonstrations. Through street level footage, interviews with organizers and city residents, the filmmakers hear stories from the peoples’ side of the fence and explore the Orwellian tactics that increasingly permeate policing in Western democracies.

4pm-5pm:

Bastards of Utopia (MONTREAL PREMIERE)

Maple Razsa and Pacho Velez / 54 min / Croatian with English subtitles / 2010

Three Croatian activists struggle to change the world. As children, they lived through the violent collapse of Yugoslavia. But now, amid the aftershocks of socialism’s failure, they fight in their own way for a new leftism. In the middle of the struggle, a skeptical American is won over by their cause and even goes to jail with them. The activists, whether clashing with police or squatting in an old factory, risk everything to live their politics. But as the setbacks mount, will they give up the fight? The film, shot during years of fieldwork with a Croatian anarchist collective, applies EnMasseFilm’s unique blend of observation, direct participation and critical reflection to this misunderstood political movement. Its portrayal of activism is both empathetic and unflinching — an engaged, elegant meditation on the struggle to re-imagine leftist politics and the power of a country’s youth.

* UPCOMING EVENTS
Please let us know about any upcoming events where we could announce the Bookfair, flyer and otherwise do promotion.

* DOOR TO DOOR OUTREACH
The Bookfair has taken place in the Little Burgundy/St-Henri neighbourhood for the past 8 years. We are considering doing some door-to-door outreach to encourage local residents to attend the Bookfair in greater numbers. But, we need HELP. Please get in touch if this effort interests you (info@anarchistbookfair.ca)

TO STAY IN TOUCH:
-> e-mail: info@anarchistbookfair.ca

-> post: Montreal’s Anarchist Bookfair
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Suite 204
Montréal, Québec, H3G 1N1