August 2019 Community Calendar

Hear Men Read Aloud "The Apology"

Sit in circle and a man begins reading aloud, “Dear Evie, ...”

"Love and Revolution"

Join community members for a viewing of Love and Revolution, a testimony of struggles for autonomy in Greece.

"Trouble" Screening

sub.Media offers Trouble, a brand-new monthly show offering an in-depth anarchist analysis of current struggles, tactics, and movement dynamics

Reading, Recycling, and Radicalism! A Kids Summer Series

Our co-op is organizing an event series including read alouds and craft workshops, all of which are focused on exploring local ecology, using natural materials to make art, recycling and upcycling, and gardening.

Autistic Adults United

A monthly adult support group meeting hosted by autistics, for autistics.

Firestorm Volunteer Orientation

Firestorm is launching a Volunteer Program as a way to create opportunities for folks to plug into all the different happenings in and around our co-op.

Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night!

Letters save lives! Join Blue Ridge ABC each month for an evening of solidarity with incarcerated comrades. Celebrate their birthdays by sending words of encouragement and support.

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Original Recovery

A new approach to recovery ideology founded in the truth that there are multiple successful paths to varied, authentic lifestyles.

Fugitives & Rabbits: A Collaborative Literary Tour

Join Southern Fried Karma Press and Dead Rabbits Books on a collaborative literary tour across North Carolina.

Cancelled - Queer Writing Group

*This event will not happen on 9/27/2019 and is cancelled until further notice.*

Have a writing practice or want to start one? Join in the launch of a new collective writing group for LGBTQ folks.

Reading, Recycling, and Radicalism! A Kids Summer Series

Our co-op is organizing an event series including read alouds and craft workshops, all of which are focused on exploring local ecology, using natural materials to make art, recycling and upcycling, and gardening.

Hollow Book-Making Workshop!

Learn how to transform old hardcovers into sneaky storage—because the best secrets are hidden in plain sight.

Reconnect for Resilience

A six-session workshop series designed to teach educators how trauma affects our bodies and minds. Participants will learn tools to help bring emotions back into balance for restoration and re-connection.

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Original Recovery

A new approach to recovery ideology founded in the truth that there are multiple successful paths to varied, authentic lifestyles.

Dean Spade: Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aide For Surviving And Mobilizing

In this webinar, we will look at why mutual aid is an important part of building participatory movements, and what is difficult about mutual aid in the current political climate.

Asheville Animal Rights Reading Group

Devouring books, poems, and other writings related to animals and animal rights. 

Reading, Recycling, and Radicalism! A Kids Summer Series

Our co-op is organizing an event series including read alouds and craft workshops, all of which are focused on exploring local ecology, using natural materials to make art, recycling and upcycling, and gardening.

EDS Support Group

Zebras unite! Talk, listen, and connect with other folks who have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and related disorders. 

Triangle Vegfest

We'll be in Durham with fresh plant-based cookbooks and an assortment of titles on intersectional animal liberation!

Asheville Prison Books Volunteer Orientation

Learn about how to get involved with a local books-to-prisons project!

Reconnect for Resilience

A six-session workshop series designed to teach educators how trauma affects our bodies and minds. Participants will learn tools to help bring emotions back into balance for restoration and re-connection.

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Anarchist Reading Group

In August the group will be discussing Oppose and Propose! by Andrew Cornell.

Original Recovery

A new approach to recovery ideology founded in the truth that there are multiple successful paths to varied, authentic lifestyles.

ASWOP Planning Meeting

Join Asheville Sex Workers Outreach Project in developing their plan to advocate for sex workers in the Asheville area.

Tranzmission Prison Project Packaging Party

An open, monthly volunteer event to help prepare books and zines for mailing to prisons across the United States.

Veganism in Anarchy & Non-violent Direct Action in Social

An open discussion and forum about how the plight of human and non-human animals are connected in the fight for total liberation and freedom from a state of oppression.

Siwar Mayu: A River of Hummingbirds

“Siwar” and “Mayu” in the Quechua language (currently spoken by eight million people in the world) translate into hummingbird and river, respectively.

Appalachian Anti-Racism

An open dialogue conversation with the Appalachian community about immediate and sustainable ways we can be in solidarity with our black and brown family.

Burn Down the American Plantation

The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement is a political movement dedicated to freeing people from bondage and building resistance in the United States.

Anarchism in Puerto Rico

More information on this session TBA. Please check back soon.

Cancelled - Queer Writing Group

*This event will not happen on 9/27/2019 and is cancelled until further notice.*

Have a writing practice or want to start one? Join in the launch of a new collective writing group for LGBTQ folks.

Reading, Recycling, and Radicalism! A Kids Summer Series

Our co-op is organizing an event series including read alouds and craft workshops, all of which are focused on exploring local ecology, using natural materials to make art, recycling and upcycling, and gardening.

Co-ops, Technology & Existential Dread

At a time when capitalist technologies play a pivotal role in dividing, surveilling, and targeting our communities, how can we contest our relationship to tech and develop tools to further our own liberation?

Lucid Passion, Love & Rage

The Atlanta-based underground collective No Lite is bringing dance music back to its rebellious roots by throwing wild parties in abandoned buildings.

No One Will Be Free Until Everyone Is Gay

If you’re interested in history, radical politics, sexual liberation, LGBTQ communities, or underground and outlaw culture, this talk will appeal to you.

Their Stature, Our Blood: History at Hand

Maya L surveys the activism taking place in Chapel Hill to inspire others to use their own landscape to reveal truths about and take action against systems of oppression near them.

Asheville Vegan Runners Monthly Meeting

Old and new vegans and runners meet to inspire and be inspired!

Pan-African Social Ecology

In this community conversation, scholar-activist Modibo Kadalie will reflect upon his nearly six decades of participation in social freedom movements.

Tech Security

This workshop will look at digital security culture w/r/t different threat models: fascists, the state, big data, etc.

The Radical Potential of Kitchen Medicine

In this class we will discuss ways that we can harness the accessibility and affordability of kitchen medicine to keep ourselves and our communities healthy

Nationalisms

No nations, no states? What does it mean for anarchists to confront nationalism in and across localities and contexts?

Perspectives of Anarchists Organizing in Rojava

We hope to have a secure video conference call to be shown on a projector, wherein we can talk about the state of the revolution in Rojava, armed struggle, broad self defense, internationalism, and more.

Building Alternative Worlds

A presentation by Glo Merriweather and ke’ala lopez on divesting and imagining a different world.

Queer & Poly Meetup

Reconnect for Resilience

A six-session workshop series designed to teach educators how trauma affects our bodies and minds. Participants will learn tools to help bring emotions back into balance for restoration and re-connection.

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Original Recovery

A new approach to recovery ideology founded in the truth that there are multiple successful paths to varied, authentic lifestyles.