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ABOUT US

Black Sheep Books, a community space and bookstore in Montpelier, Vermont, offers affordable radical and scholarly books, and hosts educational events on cultural and political topics. As an all-volunteer project, we are operated by a five-member collective hand in hand with a group of dedicated volunteers. Our principle focus is to provide access to anti-authoritarian Left ideas in a way that promotes intellectual debate and challenges today’s hegemonic culture.

We see print media and public talks as necessary for the development of critical consciousness and ultimately social change. Such engagement with the transformative power of ideas connects us to each other, helps us to understand our historical context, and guides us in action. This linking of past to present, theory to practice, is a crucial precondition for the emergence of a free and directly democratic society.

By creating this space in public, we strive to contest the depoliticization and alienation rampant under statist and capitalist social relations. We also aim to generate visibility for identities marginalized by normative values and systems of domination through providing community resources and a welcoming space in the context of our rural location.

Together with horizontalist social movements and political projects, bookstores, infoshops, and publishers, Black Sheep Books works toward an egalitarian, ecological, and nonhierarchical society.

Black Sheep Books is an all-volunteer, collectively run project specializing in radical and scholarly used books.
5 State Street, Montpelier, VT | (802) 225-8906

Upcoming Events

Previously....

Monday, October 27 at 7:00 p.m.
at 5 State Street

A Conversation from Vermont's Frontlines

Thursday, October 30 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
at Black Sheep Books, 5 State Street, Montpelier

Join Emma Mulvaney-Stanak for the opening of her photography exhibit featuring color photographs of natural subjects. Images reveal the lines and shapes of various types of plants, flowers, and gardens. Additional photographs will be featured in a slide show during the opening.

Wednesday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m.
at Black Sheep Books, 5 State Street, Montpelier

Tales of Ants and Economics in the Americas

With huge portable murals of collaboratively produced illustrations, a six-foot-tall fabric picture book, and an engaging narrative, the Beehive Collective will take you on an interactive visual tour of the connections between colonization, militarism, and resource extraction in the Americas.

Join the Beehive Collective for a picture lecture to be understood by anyone (not just experts and analysts)!

For more info, see www.beehivecollective.org

Your generous donation is part of what makes Black Sheep Books a wonderful community project. We look forward to sharing our new space with you soon. Once we are settled in, we will be hosting a grand opening celebration, so we can thank you in person.

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Black Sheep Books has, at long last, found a perfect new location! And we’re hoping we can count on your continued financial support to maintain our 5 State Street location.

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Seth Tobocman
book release tour and multimedia presentation

with Eric Blitz (drummer) and Steve Wishnia (guitarist)

Monday, July 21, 2008, at 9:00 pm
4 Langdon Street, Montpelier

Talk by Kim Keyser

Kim is an activist from the nascent anarchist movement in Norway, the so-called "social democratic paradise" in northern Europe. This summer he's touring the United States to try to answer the question, "How can we reflect the future we want, in our present work?" The talk will touch on subjects such as direct democracy, direct action, workers councils, anarchist organizing, and involvement in social movements.

A complementing pamphlet called "The Prefigurative Organization," written specifically for this speaking tour, will be available.

Talk by Natalia Fajardo

In 2000, the peaceful community of Promision in
Colombia fell victim to a war created by social
inequality, and now fueled by U.S tax dollars and drug
money. Displaced by paramilitaries, these farmers
moved to the slums of Medellin. Eight years later,
they are returning to their raided land to start their
lives over. Come learn about their stories, struggles,
and how you can be part of their efforts to reclaim
their dignity.

Free! All welcome!
at the Langdon Street Cafe, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier

Black Sheep Books is happy to announce (and encourages you to attend!):

"FLIGHT": a brand-new shadow theater show with imagery by Erik Ruin, a live score by violinist Katt Hernandez, and the capable puppeteering assistance of Megan Gibes

Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m.
Langdon Street Cafe, 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier
http://www.langdonstreetcafe.com

Discussion on Community-Scale
Agriculture and Government

Sunday, April 20, at 2 p.m.
at the Langdon Street Cafe, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier

info@blacksheepbooks.org | (802) 225-8906 | 5 State Street, Montpelier, VT, 05602