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DO YOU HAVE IDEAS FOR CONVERSATIONS, TALKS, PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, WORKSHOPS?
A DESIRE TO CREATE A PUBLIC AROUND AN IDEA THAT ENGAGES OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND OUR NEIGHBORS?
HOW MIGHT BEYOND MUSIC IS THE WEAPON AND REPAIR HELP YOU REALIZE THAT DESIRE? STOP IN AND TALK WITH US.
For sometime I have been contemplating the need for a space both literal and metaphorical that could support the underground music community in Minneapolis. What tools and resources could musicians in a space such as this use cooperatively? What sounds and bonds might form in a space where musicians from diverse backgrounds come together around new sounds and new conversations?
I’ve come to these thoughts from a life long interest in music and and sound itself, but also as a response to what is happening in our community and communities around the world. Could music be the weapon to fight economic and social injustice?
Over the course of the next six months I will be working with Beyond Repair to begin building on these questions: Building equipment, organizing events, and creating dialogue.
If you are interested in participating in this project and these thoughts please contact me or stop by the shop on Saturdays.
Cheers,
Derek Maxwell
derekwinstonmaxwell (at) gmail.com
“Let it come down”
Damn, Louis and the girls have expanded again. Now they’re in cahoots with Manny. God damn! They’re running us out of business!!
Via: Super Madeline
“Now is the winter of your discontent!”
Hey, look who stopped over at Beyond Repair, some of our favorite MRCC friends!! Nic, Sarah, and G!!!
“Friends, friends, friends, friends, friends… there is no union but in affection.”
“A wire heated to blooming glow… and it works!”
Bruce Braun reads Vannevar Bush while testing out the new quadraphonic sound system set up by ‘publicator-in-residence” Derek Maxwell.
Celebrate the discrepancies, reversals, hesitations, after-thoughts, contradictions. They make us human. And within that celebration, change again.
Wed, Jul. 27, 2016 ⁄ 7:00–9:00pm
Poetry Reading: Reset North America to Default Settings
Join us as local poet, and fellow editor of WLPP’s Society Editions, Mary Austin Speaker reads with poets from Monster House Press on tour through the MidWest of N. America.
The line-up includes, thus far:
Wendy Lee Spacek
Richard Wehrenberg, Jr.
Morgan Eldridge
Mary Austin Speaker
Thu, Jul. 28, 2016 ⁄ 7:00–9:00pm
Book Release for Rupture of the Virtual
Please join us to celebrate the release of John Kim’s new book, Rupture of the Virtual. The book release is accompanied by a free interactive version for the digital commons.
Duaba with some new postcards for upcoming Million Artist Movement events!
Our new shop mascot, Glubert.
Make America Shit Again – Trump / Pence 2016
We’ve expanded. Louis has set up a bookmark kiosk outside the shop.
These folks came into the shop today and asked if we had “black lives matter” signs. Stupidly, I was a little confused. I asked, “like, in relation to?” No, they meant signs that read BLACK LIVES MATTER. I said that we didn’t with those words specifically but that I would be happy to make them some on the spot.
As I was laying out the signs they asked, “oh, and do you take cards?” To which I responded, “did you really think I’d charge you for these? This isn’t something that you buy.”
I asked for two things in return:
1.) That I’d print signs for them, but that I’d make extra that they’d give to others.
2.) That they’d pose for this picture so we could let others know that if you find yourself in a similar situation come over to Beyond Repair and we’ll design and print a poster for you right there and then.
We’ve got the tools and we’ll use them.
Where do we find the space to engage this moment? For many people that question is a huge stumbling block. Especially for those new and not accustomed to, or wary of, getting out into the streets. To change the very fabric of society – how we relate and reorder towards kindness and unity – we cannot ask everyones political composure to be the same; objectifying resistance in the same way that power objectifies the repressed.
As if any of us are truly familiar, this week I’ve had a number of friends, unfamiliar with how to engage this moment, express concern as to how to enter the flow. Furthermore, I’ve had friend who live in rural areas, wild areas, (Upstate NY and Alaska) express similar concerns in relation to their perceived distance from what’s going on.
How, when we don’t feel the same proximity to what we are told is the site of struggle, can we effectively find and access involvement? Especially when we want to “live differently?” In either of these scenarios, whether this distance exists societally or environmentally, I’ve told them this: The work is where you’re at.
The most important space is between bodies, which exists anywhere people move and expands infinitely. We need to work where we find ourselves. There is no ideal political space other than our own bodies in parallel. There is no one site of engagement except the space between bodies. That’s almost anywhere you might find yourself. Maybe everywhere if we consider the space between our bodies and the natural landscape.
I have no conclusion to this argument other than political engagement is not a site or a moment in time. It is a lived experience and our lives exist in complex and ever changing shapes and configurations. It is infinite and timeless and that complexity of time, space, and desire is where we should find ourselves most alive and present.
So, if you are feeling like you don’t know how to get involved understand this; the other world that you are sensing may be at hand, may be possible, it begins in relation to you and where you find yourself. Situate your desires to make the world you wish to live in. – Sam
