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I’m in Ireland for a week, wandering.  See you in June!

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Find out how you can get involved to help HONK! happen again, at our community meeting Thursday, May 28th, 7:00 to 8:30 PM. We’ve reserved the West Branch Library in Davis Square (40 College Ave, Somerville, MA) for the evening, and are hoping you can join us.

HONK! is a community-driven enterprise, and that means we need your help. The local love and support of our festival continues to grow, and we’re certain that with your help, this year’s festival will be the best Davis Square has seen.

Download and distribute the flyer!

We need folks who are available before and during the festival to:

• promote the weekend’s events
• make sure bands get where they’re going
• house musicians
• feed, transport, wrangle, inform, collect donations and so much more!

The festival returns to Davis Square this October 9-11th, and as always, find us at www.honkfest.org for more information and updates.

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Marc, Robbie, and Christina put out their call for submissions to JOAAP’s seventh edition, which will feature selections on:

• Class composition
• Critical inquiries into popular front styled movements today
• Street vending
• Conscientious uses of style, media and branding in movements
• Food-coops
• Examples of building grassroots power and non-traditional alliances
• Time banking economic meltdown and counter models
• Land-use strategies and alternative housing projects
• Crisitunities

Gather up your manifestos , alphabets, radical critiques, how-tos, guides or ideas with expository or theoretical or curatorial text, by May 31st – summarize them into a paragraph, and submit your proposal to editors@joaap.org.

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Unlike climate machines of the past, which enabled humanity to adapt to any climate in the 19th century, creating “climate-independent artificial man,” the Vienna-based art collective monochrom’s Climate Change Training Camp enables you to “train your personal adaptability to the extreme weather conditions of the future, today.”

monochrom has designed climate machines that mimic the climatic changes of the 21st century, into which one can enter – a daunting challenge, indeed. Fortunately, monochrom promises that participation in their workshop yields:

Success in your job and with your choice of sexual partners! . . . [And] precious experience. There’s a lot to endure, let’s get started.

Their next training takes place May 18/19, 2009 in Berlin/Germany
at HAU 2 (Theater Hebbel am Ufer; Hallesches Ufer 32 / 10963 Berlin) as part of “Woher der Wind weht. Szenarien des Klimawandels“

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Performing Economies will bring together a group of Los Angeles based artists and collaborations whose artwork seeks to concretize possible futures in a time of economic ruin and never-ending war.

Poster by Jessica Fleischman, Still-Room.com

All of the artists involved in “Performing Economies” explore various strategies of participation, collaboration and community engagement in order to create alternative economies of activism and intimacy.

The exhibition presents visual artwork by Los Angeles based artists and collaborations, including CamLab (Anna Mayer and Jemima Wyman), Liz Glynn, Marc Herbst, Ahsley Hunt and Taisha Paggett, Elana Mann, and Vincent Ramos.

Accompanying the exhibit will be a series of weekly programs led by Los Angeles-based artists and art collectives that relate to the gallery exhibition. These will include events by ArtSpa, Artists for Social Justice, John Burtle and John Barlog, Dorit Cypis and Foreign Exchanges and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.

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