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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.

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Black Sheep Books is an all-volunteer
workers' collective specializing in radical
and scholarly used books.
5 State Street, Montpelier, VT | (802) 225-8906
Help support our move!

Black Sheep Books has, at long last, found a perfect new location! And we’re hoping we can count on your financial support to help make our September 1 move to 5 State Street possible.

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FLIGHT: The Mythic Journey of a Person Displaced

04/22/08 7:00pm

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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

"FLIGHT" is a overhead-projector-based shadow theater piece depicting the picaresque journey of a displaced person attempting to escape/transcend persecution. The show features scrolling landscapes, intricately cut scenes of shipwrecks, refugee camps, and burning houses, and a hair-raisingly beautiful improvised musical score.

ERIK RUIN is a Michigan-raised, Philly-based printmaker, shadow puppeteer, and occasional editor of various publications, most recently the anthology "Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority" (with Josh MacPhee, AK Press, 2007). Ongoing theatrical work includes "The Nothing Factory," an epic musical shadow theater extravaganza, and various improvisational groupings of overhead projectors and musical instruments. Check out some of his print work at http://www.justseeds.org/artists/erik_ruin/.

KATT HERNANDEZ has collaborated with a magnificently variated sea of musicians, dancers, and others, and performed in a vast slew of subway passages, urban grottos, and troglyditical performance places as well as other experimental and life-making spaces throughout the East Coast metropolises. For more info, see http://www.katthernandez.com.

The show is cheap and/or a pass-the-hat donation, but please do bring your wallets as there will be much cheap art & wonderful records available for sale!

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