Silent City Distro

Shawn Greenwood: Whiteness, Privilege, and Policing

clover56 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:36:13 +0000

The SGWG Working Group presents a workshop on the systemic aspects of race and class privilege in our community. We will specifically look at the ways neighborhoods and housing policies that privileged white people in the past continue to impact our present. We will engage in hands-on investigations of the ways race, space and place in Ithaca shape people’s life chances and opportunities.

Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/145983762184368/

In the future we plan on offering more community building events in addition to workshops, so please look out for those. We will also be hosting another workshop in February, which we will have more information about on the 27th.

2nd Sundays – Anarchist Film Club

clover56 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:46:51 +0000

2nd Sunday of the Month is Anarchist Film Club presented by Silent City Distro. Location Changes every month. RSVP

Movie & Popcorn provided. Location changes. RSVP to join

Discussion ignited 2nd Sundays 2/12, 3/11, 4/8 and 5/13 at 6pm

Do you have ideas for a movie? Want to volunteer to host a screening? Contact us; info@silentcitydistro.org

North East Anarchist Strategy Assembly

clover56 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:11:59 +0000

Calling all anarchist & anti-authoritarians of all kinds, for a North East Regional Strategy Assembly in Ithaca, NY.

More info, including dates and location, coming soon. To be involved in the early stages of this assembly, contact info@silentcitydistro.org

MORE NEWS! Click below. Anarchist Film Club

Silent City Distro Newsletter

It’s A Riot! Puppet Theatre Dec. 17th & 18th

clover56 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:13:16 +0000

We are proud to sponsor a really amazing new project… It’s A Riot! Puppet Theatre is currently using the distro studio space to create and compose “A Winter Solstice Extravaganza”, a public spectacle performance in celebration of the Solstice. The show will take place at 5pm Sunday December 18th at the Ithaca Farmer’s Market. Visit the following links to learn more about It’s a Riot!

It’s A Riot! Puppet Theatre

A Winter Solstice Extravaganza Facebook Event

Download the Poster! Print & SowPrint & SowDon’t have a printer? Come to the Distro…Print & Sow, Print & Sow!

Immigration…Beyond Media Myths

clover56 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:39:18 +0000

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS will speak (free and open to the public) in I.C.’s Emerson at 7:30pm THIS MONDAY Dec. 5. Topic: “Immigration…Beyond Media Myths.”

Vargas is the founder of DefineAmerican.com, a new campaign that seeks to elevate the conversation around “our broken immigration system.” In a celebrated New York Times Magazine essay in June, the 30-year-old journalist bravely described “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.” The article sparked attacks on his character. Vargas was recently a senior contributing editor at Huffington Post, where he launched its Tech and College sections. Prior to that, he covered tech and video game culture, HIV/AIDS, and the 2008 presidential campaign for the Washington Post, and was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech.

Sponsored by Park Center for Independent Media. More info: http://www.ithaca.edu/rhp/news/21718/

Occupy Everything!

clover56 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:55:08 +0000

I’m currently on tour playing music and bringing a suitcase of zines from Silent City Distro all around, cross pollinating social centers and alternative libraries and infoshops. And…. you guessed it, every place I’ve been on this tour (6 shows down, 12 more to go) is occupied!!! So that’s my story.

Meanwhile, Silent City Distro is still available to those of you in Ithaca, NY and our zine library contains piles of relevant materials. Nothing beats sitting back in our recliner reading activist strategy or a reflective analysis of general assemblies after a long meeting.

Perhaps one of our lovely volunteers will be there to recommend a good read about group process or consensus.

Contact our team; info@silentcitydistro.org

Get involved! Tell us more about yourself and what you can offer; info@silentcitydistro.org

Ithaca Freeskool Fall Social!

clover56 — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:41:17 +0000

Friday, September 23, 7-9pm

Come to Culture Shock to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of the fall session with Ithaca Freeskool!

Check out some music and dancing, kombucha on tap, trivia with prizes, and the release of our brand new calendar. Trust me, you want to see these classes.

Got questions? ithaca_freeskool@riseup.net

Got web? http://ithacafreeskool.wordpress.com/Bring your brain to a party!

Insurgent Theater – September 9th

clover56 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:51:21 +0000

Insurgent Theater is coming to Ithaca to perform at Silent City Distro. There will be a couple opening performing acts TBA.

More info about the show:

“In the belly is where things digest, where they are broken down so their value can be extracted. This is where things are made to rot. If our society is a beast, it’s belly is the prison system. This new work from Insurgent Theatre seeks to manifest imprisonment on stage, overlays it with critical analysis of the system, and follows up with in-depth discussion about abolishing prison in America.”

Created in workshop by Weslie Coleman, Kate Pleuss, and Ben Turk, with assistance from Harmony Bench and Rebecca Riley.

Touring the US in 2011. Raising funds for RedBird Prison Abolition. Supporting prisoners in Ohio.

This show contains nudity, violence and other sad realities of the US prison system.

Contact info:
Ben Turk at 614 704 4669
insurgent.ben@gmail.com
Digital photos, interview and photo opportunities are available upon request.
Presskit (PDF)

http://insurgenttheatre.org/adseg.html

Big Show at Silent City Distro! May 27th

clover56 — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:00:32 +0000

Come out Friday to Silent City Distro for an eventful evening of hip-hop, punk, folk & raging social commentary. It’s a show, and it’s also a kind of House Warming Party for new collaboration as SCD joins forces w/ Ithaca Undeground, Finger Lakes Herbal Network & Ithaca Freeskool, .

May 27th 8:00pm (SHARP!) -11:30am
@ the SCD space on the Commons above Autumn Leaves’ Bookstore. 115 E. MLK (the commons) Ithaca, NY 14850

People w/ Teeth (fierce hip-hop from Rochester/Bklyn) http://www.facebook.com/pages/People-With-Teeth/158094919116

Speak Daggers (sharp melodic punk originals from Ithaca) http://speakdaggers.bandcamp.com/

Prayers for Atheists (providence RI)
http://www.facebook.com/PrayersForAtheists?sk=info

Doug Campbell (alternative folk from Syracuse NY)
http://www.reverbnation.com/dougcampbell

We have a killer lineup–laced w/ poetry and raging social commentary;

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108412075913512

Silent City Distro

clover56 — Sun, 08 May 2011 15:51:29 +0000

Silent City Distro is a creative workspace, zine library, and distribution center in Ithaca, NY.