Donate your stuff to the Roberts Street Yard Sale! Shed resident Katie Haegele is writing her zine, White Elephants, about yard saling and her love of all things old and unwanted. She sneaked in a little linguistics lesson on the word nostalgia and related words in other languages, too. To celebrate the launch of her fourth issue she’s having a yard sale!
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Two Call Outs! Resident Event!
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Roberts Street BBQ
The Roberts Street BBQ has been postponed until next week (September 3rd). But it'll be a big one -a celebration of the exciting summer we've had at Roberts Street. It is also a fundraiser so be sure to tell everyone you know. We all love barbeques! Vegetarian options, fresh veggies and popsicles are all available. See you there.
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Make the Wind Blow Zine Launch
A message from our shed residents:
HEY HALIFAX! We are launching our zine & we’d love to come celebrate:
Make the Wind Blow… a zine on music & resistance.
Where? 5684 Roberts Street (Roberts Street Social Centre)
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Resident Workshop
Stage Banter: A Workshop Hosted by current shed resident, Henry Adam Svec Crows Nest, 7:00 pm What does a singer-songwriter do in between songs during a performance? How can such moments be used? What assumptions underlie common approaches to stage banter?
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Free BBQ and backyard party in recognition of Prisoner Justice Day
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Call For Submissions: Her Royal Majesty magazine
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RSSC's Artist-In-Residence Teresa Cheng's SHOWCASE!
Come to a small showcase of Teresa's work, including old, new and ones in progress.
The night will include:
Date: Sunday, August 1st
Time: 8pm
Location: Crow's Nest (2nd Floor), Roberts Streets Social Centre, 5684 Roberts Street
- a reading of a new zine, Feeling Words: A Pocket Zine of Emotions
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Ghost Pine Book Launch, Wednesday, August 4th, 7 PM Eye Level Gallery
Join Jeff Miller for the Halifax launch of his book Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible Publishing) at the Eye Level Gallery (2063 Gottingen St).
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Sappyfest Zine Fair, Saturday July 31
Sappyfest 2010 is a lovely little independent music festival that happens in annually in the small town of Sackville New Brunswick. It will be taking place Friday July 30 until Sunday August 1, in conjunction with the Ok.Quoi?! Arts Festival at Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre.
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In Transitions screening
Wednesday, July 28th, at the Roberts Street Social Centre
"The 'In Transitions...' DVD decsribes the Transition Town movement, which is quickly becoming one of the fastest sustainability movements in the world. Transition Towns aim to raise awareness of sustainable living and build local ecological resilience in the near future.
Marie-Desneiges Stockland concert
Monday, August 2nd, 4 pm, Robert Street Social Centre backyard
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Shout Out Media Tour for girls
July 24 & 25 at the Roberts Street Social Centre
Shout Out! Media is an interdisciplinary group of Toronto graduate students who are working in partnership with the Girls Action Foundation in creating a cross-Canada media literacy and video production workshop series for girls aged 12-17.
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Ice Cream Social and Zine Launch with Maranda Elizabeth, Roberts Street zinemaker-in-residence!
Friday July 16, 5pm. Roberts Street Social Centre, 5684 Roberts Street.
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Photos from the 24-Hour Zine Challenge
A big thank-you to everyone who participated in this year's 24-Hour Zine Challenge! There are some excellent photographs of the event taken by Heather Watts on the Halifax Media Co-op site.
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RSSC Collective Meeting: Wednesday August 11, 7 pm
We are now meeting monthly! The next meeting will be Wednesday, August 11 at 7 pm. Come on out and get involved!
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5th Annual 24-Hour Zine Challenge and 5-Year Birthday Celebration!
Saturday July 10th at 5pm until Sunday July 11th at 5pm = 24 Hour Zine Challenge
Sunday July 11th, 2pm-5pm = Anchor Archive 5-Year Birthday Celebration
All events at the Roberts Street Social Centre – 5684 Roberts Street (off Agricola)
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Natural Dye and Shibori Skillshare
with Shed resident Nancy Anne McPhee
Saturday July 3rd 4:30-7:30
Several dye pots, including Indigo, will be set up for experimentation and experience. Possibly also a yellow and a pink.
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Mental Health and the Concept of Home workshop announced
One of our upcoming shed residents, Maranda Elizabeth will be facilitating a discussion on the concept of home and how our mental health affects where and how we live. Questions to consider might be: Where do you feel the most at home? How do mental health and personal income dictate how you live? Do you ever feel homesick?
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Criminal Queers Workshop, Tuesday July 6
CRIMINAL QUEERS: sex panics, the criminalization of HIV, and strategies for decarceration
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at Roberts Street Social Centre at 5684 Roberts Street
TUESDAY JULY 6th from 7PM to 9PM -- free of charge
-workshop & discussion-
at Roberts Street Social Centre at 5684 Roberts Street
TUESDAY JULY 6th from 7PM to 9PM -- free of charge
This informal and discussion-based workshop seeks to discuss
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Performance of The Custom of Killing Rabbits on Friday, June 18
The Custom of Killing Rabbits
A one-woman show by shed resident Alessandra Naccarato
workshop performance by candlelight
in the garden of Robert St Social Centre
Friday June 18th at dusk | 8 pm | Free
(Rain date Saturday June 19)
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