[Plebian]

Chaos Cabaret Fundraiser for Solidarity Books


An evening of food, poetry, theatre, music and radical flare: all in aid of Solidarity Books, Cork. Come along and show your support for radical books and ideas in our city!

Thursday night, 15th December

From 8 pm to 11.30 om

@ The Spailpin Fanach Pub (Upstairs)
South Main Street
Cork

A small charge on the door (waged/ unwaged) with all proceeds to go in aid of Solidarity Books, Cork.


www.solidaritybooks.org
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/event...ret-fundraiser

[Bride_ofChucky]

More info: http://www.facebook.com/events/137447433034406/

It's a new year! Did you promise yourself you'd get fit? Have more fun? Try something new? Guess what - we can make it all happen!
Take that first step and come to our Skate Clinics, designed to prepare you for tryouts, and get you rolling with you local roller derby league in 2012!

Skate Clinics:

January 15th: http://www.facebook.com/events/114015872049672/

February 5th: http://www.facebook.com/events/155211141251638/

Try outs:
February 12th: http://www.facebook.com/events/206821632734820/

[galwaybabe]

Fling are back in the Republic of Cork tonight....this time in Crane Lane in Cork City. Late gig, starts 11.30 and its free adm!

[NickWray]

Everyone's favourite beat-merchants The Pacifics will be rocking the Old Oak this Tuesday, it's free in and it's going to be absolute mayhem!

[Plebian]

Starting this Thursday, we will be resuming our weekly film screenings at the bookshop. A full programme for the month of February will be up soon.
There is no cover charge for the screenings but donations are, as ever, much appreciated.   
( Beware, post-film discussion might be encouraged! )

* This Thursday January 19th, Solidarity Books will host a screening of Zapatista - a Big Noise film (2001)
Start time is 8pm. Hope to see you there.

Thursday Jan. 19th, 8pm:

Zapatista - a Big Noise film (2001)

Forget the Mayan Calendar / Doomsday scenarios, the real Mayan story to be excited about is the Zapatista one! Zapatista tells the story of the Mayan peasant uprising in Chiapas and includes interviews with Subcomandante Marcos and Noam Chomsky among others, and gives a clear insight into the revolution in Chiapas. A discussion of the film will follow with a local Irish activist who recently spent a year in Chiapas.

http://www.solidaritybooks.org/event...ista-big-noise



* Upcoming Film for next week:

Thursday January 26th, 8pm:

Style Wars (1983)

Style Wars is the legendary hip hop documentary and a timeless film classic, the indispensable record of a golden age of youthful creativity and exploding hip hop subculture. Directed by Tony Silver, Style Wars captures the look and feel of New York’s ramshackle subway system as the graffiti writers’ public playground, battleground and spectacular artistic canvas.



http://www.solidaritybooks.org/event...ght-style-wars

[Plebian]

Delicious Vegan food (..not just for Vegans!), at the Veg Out Cafe

Every Tuesday from 7pm in Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street (across from Fionn Barra’s)

Suggested donation: 5 euro – all welcome!

Fundraiser for Occupy



http://www.solidaritybooks.org/event...-every-Tuesday


https://www.facebook.com/pages/Veg-O...476549?sk=wall

[Plebian]

Join us this Thursday Feb 2nd at Solidarity Books for a screening of 'Z' (details of film below). Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, donations appreciated.

Z (1969) Costa Gavras

Z is a 1969 French language political thriller directed by Costa Gavras, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos. The film presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek politician Grigoris Lambrtakis in 1963. Following the murder, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles. With its satirical view of Greek politics, its dark sense of humor, and its downbeat ending, the film captures the outrage about the military dictatorship that ruled Greece at the time of its making.

trailer:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHB28qfsV2w

http://www.solidaritybooks.org/event...9-costa-gavras

[Plebian]

Join us Thursday, Feb 9th at Solidarity Books for a screening of 'The End of Violence Wim Wenders (1997)' (details of film below).

Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, donations appreciated.

The End of Violence Wim Wenders (1997)


Shot over a three week period in L.A., this rich and complex film concerns issues of alienation, surveillance, technology, media and invisibility. A film producer who has made a fortune from violent movies, has to disappear after a mysterious attempt on his life and is taken in by immigrant Mexican gardeners who enable him to see the dehumanising reality of his old life. Meanwhile a scientist is pressured by the CIA to precide over an Orwellian surveillance system overlooking the city.

trailer: http://www.artistdirect.com/video/th...violence/57738

http://www.solidaritybooks.org/event...nd-of-violence

[superman123]

Hey guys, just found a great website full of up and coming gig's in cork. http://www.corkentertainment.ie/
I found a 2euro discount for cork taxi's on the website. Even found a picture of me and my mates at our xmas party

[Caggles]

A Cocktail of acoustic soulfolk with a hint of jazz emotional melodies ,meaningful lyrics and music to make you feel. Based in Galway Ireland Galway, Ireland · http://www.reverbnation.com/queenelvis



Col an Cal from Big Bag of Sticks with their latest band.

[Owen]

My band SuckerPunch are playing 2 venues this coming weekend. Saturday the 18th, we're in the Marakibo in Mallow, and on Sunday the 19th we're playing The Grafton Bar on Oliver Plunkett Street in Cork.

We play a great mix of Rock and Chart stuff, 4 part Vocal Harmonies and we're getting some pretty good reviews of the gigs we've done. Love to see a few boardsies at the next 2 gigs. If you do come along, say hi - I'll be the guy on Bass!

Check us out here on Facebook and become a fan!

[Plebian]

Cinema Night - Black Power Mixtape 1967-75 Goran Olsson (2011) 8pm Thursday Feb 23rd

Join us Thursday, Feb 23rd at Solidarity Books for a screening of 'Black Power Mixtape 1967-75 Goran Olsson (2011)' (details of film below).

Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, donations appreciated.

Black Power Mixtape 1967-75 Goran Olsson (2011)

Based on footage shot by Swedish journalists in the late 1960s and early '70s to document the Black Power movement, the film weaves scenes of the Harlem, Brooklyn and Oakland streets with interviews of movment leaders Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis and numerous others. Recalling her original interview by Swedish journalist Goran Hugo Olsson, Davis noted he was “the first journalist to interview me from jail. I was asked by him and by everyone else at the time'Why do you advocate violence?' For some reason we were (considered) the ones responsible for all of the violence of that era.”


trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXQxyYllXnM

http://www.solidaritybooks.org/event...kpower-mixtape

[Owen]

Playing with my other band this coming Sunday night in Door 51 on the Grand Parade in Cork. It's actually our Launch as part of the Occasions Event team. It's probably the nicest pub in Cork at the moment, so well worth a drop in.

Transmission - Cork’s newest all male pop and rock style tribute band will be showcasing for the first time this Sunday night in Door 51, Cork city from 9 pm on. This 5-piece all male line up will be performing all your favourite hits from the 60’s, 70’s funk and right up to present day classics. Don't miss your chance to be the first to see Cork's hottest pop and rock band.

http://occasions.ie/bands/transmission.htm

For further information visit occasions.ie

[Plebian]

Join us Thursday, 1st March at Solidarity Books for a screening of "Ethel McDonald: An Anarchist's Story (2006)" (details of film below).

Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, donations appreciated.



"
This drama-documentary tells the story of Ethel MacDonald. A forgotten legend, her story ranks alongside the courage of 'La Pasionaria' and the legendary 'Odette'. Whilst both these women sustained world-wide recognition, our Scots heroine dwindled into obscurity and remains forgotten to this day. Ethel MacDonald's own intimate recollections are presented through a definitive mix of documentary and drama, re-visiting the Killing Fields that were the Spanish Civil War. Supporting commentary spoken by David Hayman paired with expert interviews, including Noam Chomsky, provides background knowledge of 1930's European Politics and a further insight into the young Scot's motives, actions and social situation. The film links her own personal drama to specific archive footage of Barcelona in disarray - an image Ethel MacDonald came to know so well.
"


Copies of the book based upon the research for the screenplay "An Anarchist's Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald" by Chris Dolan, will be available in solidaritybooks.

related links:
http://www.spanishcivilwarfilm.com/thefilm/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_MacDonald
book review:
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php...91118164203665
trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_X5m32jM0

http://www.solidaritybooks.org/event...narchist-story

[Splainc]

Cork rockers Hope Is Noise will launch their third album and celebrate 16 years together with a mini-festival taking place over St. Patrick's weekend in Fred Zeppelin's, Cork.

Taking place over two nights, a dozen or so bands will play the famous Parliament Street venue with Agitate The Gravel, Dott, Stanton's Grave and Hope Is Noise themselves playing the Friday with DJs spinning some records downstairs. Saturday will see (R)evolution of a Sun, Them Martyrs, I'll Eat your Face and Bissect assault the stage with both nights costing a measly €5 per night.

All proceeds from the weekend will go to Ataxia Ireland so huge kudos should go to all bands involved not to mention Tom and the rest of the Fred's staff.

This Used To Be A Laugh - the new album from Hope Is Noise - will be available on the night and is currently streaming exclusively over on the link below.

http://www.thegmanworld.com/2012/02/...oise-this.html