Thursday, April 19, 2012

Reminder: Benefit for Modern Times at El Rio @ Thu Apr 19 6pm - 9pm (Queer Things)

Benefit for Modern Times at El Rio

40 YEARS of Radical Writing, Rabble Rousers, and Romancing Your Brain
Stories of San Francisco, a party with and for Modern Times Bookstore Collective
Featuring Daphne Gottlieb, Erick Lyle, Chris Carlsson, Julia Serano, Marge Nelson, drink specials, food, surprises, and more TBA!

Thursday April 19th
6pm - 9pm

El Rio
3158 Mission St (@ Precita)
$5-15: proceeds benefit expanded programming and a new teaching/events space at MTBS
21+

We've been moving and shaking since our relocation from Valencia to 24th St. Now that the dust has settled, we want a party, and we want you to join us! Featuring stories of San Francisco by some of our favorite San Franciscans: Daphne Gottlieb, Erick Lyle, Chris Carlsson, Marge Nelson, Julia Serano, and more TBA, with drink specials, prizes, food, and surprises. Proceeds go to the development of a new event/teaching space, expanded programming, and community engagement.

Authors will telling stories of San Francisco from the various decades Modern Times has been engaged in this community (going on 5 decades!!). Come hear about San Francisco history, change, and alliance! We rely on your continued support, and what better way to give than to join the party! We will be selling Modern Times t-shirts, posters, and other memorabilia!

In 1971, Modern Times opened its doors. It was one of the many "movement" bookstores that sprang up in major US cities, in response to the optimism and turmoil of the times, when the war in Vietnam was still raging and young people by the thousands were taking to the streets in protest. Forty years later, we've weathered a few re-locations, endured through Nixon, Ford, the Bushes, Reagan, and some other guys, acted as a conduit for information and legal support for hundreds of arrested protesters, and hosted events, classes, and readings by hundreds of authors, educators, organizers, movers, and shakers. We've been in the streets for -- and welcomed weary customers in from the streets before, during, and after -- the end of the Vietnam war, the White Night Riots, the fall of the Berlin wall, ACT-UP and AIDS protests, the United Farm Workers, waves of feminism, Seattle and the WTO, environmental devastation, protests against the US involvement in over two dozen wars, FTAA & NAFTA resistance, prison abolition, and Occupying/Decolonizing, just to name a few.

Through all of that, we've maintained our position as a progressive resource for the Bay Area and the community bookstore for the Mission. We've done so with a commitment to non-hierarchical, worker-run collective structure and with tremendous pride in the fierce resistance in, endurance of, and support from our community. We want to continue this legacy for (40 more?) years to come! As we move into phase two of life at our 24th Street location, we're eagerly looking forward to big changes in programming, teaching opportunities, the expansion of our role as a community resource, and a new event space. To do so, we rely on support from our friends, lovers, acquaintances, and neighbors. Please join us as we raise a glass (and some dollars) to the future!

When
Thu Apr 19 6pm – 9pm Pacific Time
Calendar
Queer Things
Who
larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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