Anarchism & Fiction: A Mythmakers & Lawbreakers Book Talk
Wednesday 6pm @ SubRosa
A brief and arguably entertaining evening with Margaret Killjoy, editor of Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction, a collection of fourteen original interviews with anarchist authors in the world of fiction (including Alan Moore! Ursula K. Le Guin! Derrick Jensen! Cristy Road! Starhawk! CrimethInc! and more!), published this Fall by our pals at AK Press. Discuss the role of storytelling in the anarchist movement — Learn about novelist assassins, post-colonial african squatters, writers who fought in revolutions and went on to write childrens’ stories! Find out what Tolkien, Camus, Orwell, and Kafka have to say about anarchism! Don’t miss it!
~ TOGETHER WITH ~
Earth First! Roadshow
Wednesday 6pm @ SubRosa
The first annual Earth First! California Roadshow will be traveling through the state this month to build connections between bioregions and different ecological resistance groups, and to promote the upcoming Organizers’ Conference and Winter Rendezvous in Santa Barbara. About a dozen events are scheduled from January 12th to 24th, including stops in Santa Cruz (Jan. 13), Santa Rosa (Jan. 15) and Fresno (Jan. 20), to feature skillshares, music and information about ecology-based resistance to hierarchical power structures.
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Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In Presents
Star Wars Trilogy
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Friday January 15th, 6:00pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave
Downtown Santa Cruz
Please note the early time! Come in costume!
STAR WARS. What more can we say? The three good ones, before George Lucas turned into a corporate droid. Come in costume so you can prove you are the bigger geek than anyone else. Bring your Star Wars action figures for the participatory shadow puppet show.
PLUS fantastic shorts, a shadow puppet show, and a star wars disco dance party.
BRING pillows, blankets, Star Wars action figures, and snacks to share. Donations are greatly appreciated and directly support the project.
SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theater under the stars that springs up in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is helping reclaim public space and transforming our urban environment.
BREAKING NEWS, updated summer schedule, discussion, do-it-yourself, email list, the works at
www.guerilladrivein.org
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Subrosa Open Mic – Thu 8pm – Performance Music Poetry
$3-7 at the door – 703 Pacific Ave Santa Cruz
This Thursday, Ellie hosts SubRosa Open Mic, a taste of old skool Santa Cruz.
Years ago, the long-gone performance art space What Is Art? held down the
north end of Pacific Ave. This might give you a flavor of What Is Art? as well as
something of the SubRosa Open Mic:
http://www.santacruzart.net/2009/10/flashback-what-is-art.html
Now, SubRosa holds down the other end of Pacific. This is one way to
support art in Santa Cruz as well as this all-volunteer radical space.
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December 2, 2009 · 1 Comment
Hey, we like presents too.
Something amazing is happening at SubRosa. New BOOKSHELVES!
Maybe that doesn’t sound so amazing to you, but for those of us who maintain the Anarchist Library it’s really exciting. And more shelves means more room for books. You can help us expand the Anarchist Library by checking out our wishlist over on that corporate book website that shall remain nameless, and then heading out to your local bookstore to buy the books, and bringing them into SubRosa for the library. Or maybe you already have a copy of one of these books sitting around gathering dust. Bring into the Anarchist Library and share it with everyone.
Another way to support the Anarchist Library is to RETURN THE BOOKS YOU HAVE BORROWED in a reasonable time frame. We don’t like to send out lots of emails and make lots of phone calls asking for these books back. But the fact is that we have a lot of great books in the library, and we make those books available to everyone, but the library only works if those books get brought back once in a while. Try not to keep books for more than a month.
Thanks for helping us improve the Anarchist Library! And a very special thanks to the little elves who made the beautiful new bookshelves!
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On Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 7pm, Doug “G” and Rene Buonarroti will speak at SubRosa about the current occupation movement that captured national headlines this month. Protestors at UCSC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis and UC Irvine occupied buildings last week in response to the UC Regents decision to raise tuition by 32%.
Doug “G” and Rene Buonarroti are two non-students who were arrested by UC Berkeley police during the occupation of Wheeler Hall. They will be reading a text they have prepared on the revolt and discuss the actions at UC Berkeley. Donations go to cover their legal costs. Please come out!
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Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In and SubRosa Present
Down by Law
Friday November 20th 8pm
at SubRosa (inside if cold and outside if warm)
703 Pacific Ave. (downtown)
Down by Law is a 1986 black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch with Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni.The film centers on the arrest, incarceration, and escape from jail of three men. It discards jailbreak film conventions by focusing on the interaction between the convicts rather than on the mechanics of the escape. A key element in the film is Robby Müller’s slow-moving camerawork, which captures the architecture of New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou to which the cellmates escape.
Plus fabulous subversive shorts!
SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theatre under the stars and inside that springs up unexpectedly in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is to help reclaim public space and break down alienation in this urban environment. www.guerilladrivein.org
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One of the last remaining Open Mics in this allegedly pro-art town, the SubRosa Open Mic is often standing room only. A weekly open mic at Santa Cruz newest community space and anarchist infoshop. An opportunity to connect with friends and showcase the incredible creative talent in our community. Music, poetry, and performance. From the mundane to the jaw-droppingly inspirational.
Donations directly benefit this community-supported space. Signups for performance at 7:30 fill up quickly. Bring your creativity and artistic genius.
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- Wigwams by Russell Brutsche
In November, we welcome the acrylic on canvas work of Russell Brutsche to SubRosa’s walls. Santa Cruz artist Russell Brutsche loves socio-cultural ironies. Works such as those in his recent show “Unlawful Gatherings” make painfully apt juxtapositions that expose the social injustice of our everyday world.
One of his images shows Jesus of Nazareth chasing away very contemporary money changers from the temple, only to be descended upon by a heavily armed SWAT team. Another shows the Nativity taking place in what might be considered a modern-day manger, under the Highway 1 overpass at the San Lorenzo River. Other paintings prominently feature images of treesits, hobo campfires, and trains.
Brutsche has been painting since early childhood, later studying under Eric Oback, Robert Freimark (student of Henri Matisse) and Sam Richardson, graduating with scholarship honors in 1968. He has been in numerous one-person and group shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and in Colorado, Arizona and Japan. Brutsche currently participates each October in Santa Cruz Open Studios, and other shows throughout the year.
“I’ve been impatient with the art world,” said Brutsche. “Artists really have a responsibility to speak out against social injustice. Instead, artists have become small businessmen. I know if I would leave out some of that social commentary, the likelihood would be a lot greater that my work would be hanging over someone’s couch.”
The Art of Russell Brutsche
Opening Reception
Friday November 6th 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
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SubRosa and Guerilla Drive-In Present
Bread and Roses
A benefit for Ped X friends, whose office
was broken into 4 times in 2 months
Friday October 16th at 7:30
in the SubRosa courtyard, 703 Pacific Ave.
$5-$10 donation (no one turned away)
Bread and Roses is a drama about the plight of seemingly invisible office cleaners in contemporary L.A. who often earn as little as $6 a day without benefits.The film opens as Maya, a young Mexican woman, is reuniting with her older sisterRosa in L.A. after a harrowing cross-border journey. Rosa sets her sister up first with a job as a barmaid, which Maya soon quits after getting repeatedly harassed,and then as a janitor. When her boss demands one month’s salary as “commission,”Maya happens upon Sam Shapiro, a muckraking lawyer and union agitator.This film is remarkable for its prescience — it was shown a month after a massive janitor’s strike ground L.A.’s business community to a halt.
BRING blankets, pillows, friends, drink, & snacks to share
This showing is a collaboration between some Guerilla Drive-In folks and some SubRosa folks to show support for our neighbors and friends in a tangible way. While offers of condolences are meaningful, we also want to put active energy into material support as well. Here is a way you can also offer support,so come on out, tell your friends and kick down some cash! The Computer Kitchen was also broken into, and so send them some love as well!
SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theatre under the stars that springs up unexpectedly in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is to help reclaim public space and break down this urban environment. www.guerilladrivein.org
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