[imc-st.louis] CAMP CAFE fundraiser with Nado's Delight, Fireflies, Michael Franklin, and more! 3/20/08, 7pm

[ben]

You are cordially invited to the CAMP CAFE to be held at CAMP, 3026 
Cherokee St. The CAFE is the "Capitalist Art and Food Experience." No 
friends ... we're not really interested in supporting capitalist 
exploitation, but our first winter open has brought on sizable heating 
bills, along with very large, unexpected building expenses running into 
the $thousands.

Featured Performances:
Na-do's Delight, peformances @ 7:30 and 8:30
Fireflies, acro yoga performance troupe
Michael Franklin, spoken word

This fundraiser will support the general CAMP fund, especially for 
keeping us warm during the last stretch of winter and supplies we will 
need to get our garden and other programs started again as spring 
approaches. Look below for what we were up to during the past winter!

This fundraiser will also feature a silent art action, with auction 
proceeds being shared between CAMP and the contributing artists.

We will be serving coffee, tea, homemade kombucha and a number of other 
delicious things for you to nibble on.

So far artist & contributors include: BoiBella, Na-do's Delight, Michael 
Franklin, Fair Ophelia Designs, the Fireflies, Larva-Lou, Ms. Leanne 
Mead, Pete Stein, et al.

More info: email marta at coordinator at stlcamp.org or call at 314.776.1721

http://stlcamp.org/event2008/camp_cafe

Here's what else is coming up @ CAMP:
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Afterschool Program, weekly Tuesday 4:30-6pm @ CAMP.
After a 3-month hiatus, the CAMP Aftesrschool Program returns! Weekly, 
self-empowering projects focused, on art, learning, and computer literacy.

Icarus Project, meetings held @ 7:00 PM, 2nd and 4th Sundays @ CAMP.
Interested in radical mental health? Feeling lost, alone, unsupported or 
crazy in a crazy world? Feeling like you have something to give or 
something you need? Come join with us as we visualize an Icarus 
Project-esque mutual aid group here in Saint Louis. a radical mental 
health project with

Email saintlouis at theicarusproject.net for questions, directions, or 
requestions to change space/time of meetings

Just Seeds Art Cooperative Show, 3/29/08 7pm @ CAMP.
Just Seeds Art Cooperative will be stopping at CAMP during a small 
radical print/zine tour at the end of March along with writer, Artnoose. 
Prints from Just Seeds will be available to look at and to buy. Artnoose 
will do readings from her letter pressed bimonthly zine, Ker-Bloom.

More on this event:
http://www.justseeds.org/
http://stlcamp.org/event2008/just_seeds_art_cooperative_show

Nonviolent Communication Group, 4/1/08 7pm @ CAMP.
1st meeting for a Non Violent Communication (NVC) Group, where we will 
have 2 trained NVC facilitators on hand to help guide discussion.

 From http://www.cnvc.org
"Nonviolent Communication helps connect us with what is alive in 
ourselves and in others moment-to-moment, with what we or others could 
do to make life more wonderful, and with an awareness of what gets in 
the way of natural giving and receiving."

New Confluence Issue, due out very soon!
This issue will focussz on self-healing and alternative approaches for 
nurturing mental health.

Here's what we've been up to during the winter:
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Boxcutter Cabaret, puppet variety show held 3/1/08 @ CAMP.
Over 60 folks came to witness an evening of sundry entertainments, 
presenting by touring performers and puppeteers (with at little help 
from us CAMPers). Fun, baked delights, and hand-operated zaniness filled 
the evening, with all the event's proceeds going to the touring 
performaners.

More on this event and its performers:
http://stlcamp.org/event2007/boxcutter_cabaret_puppet_tour
http://www.myspace.com/rpmpuppetconspiracy

Diversity Awareness Partnership Art Show held 2/16/08 @ CAMP.
The Diversity Awareness Partnership of St. Louis and CAMP are proud to 
work together to present art created by DAP participants. Participants 
in DAP have been visiting with artists and galleries, and they presented 
their art works at CAMP last month.

More on this event:
http://stlcamp.org/event2008/art_show
http://www.dapstl.org/

Bean Dinner Fundraiser held 1/17/08 at Black Bear Bakery.
We served tasty beany goodness to well over 100 folks, raised over $500, 
and screened "The Take", a documentary about a worker-owned collective 
that occupied an auto-parts factory in Argentina.

"May These Changes Make Us Light," a huge collaborative art show 
rehearsed and peformed @ CAMP 12-8-07, then @ Contemporary Art Musem 
12-15-07.

Photos
http://stlcamp.org/v/maythese2007/
http://www.zooomr.com/photos/westbywest/sets/26509/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/harkstone/sets/72157603472794757/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crankyyellow/tags/contemporary/
http://www.loveoramarecords.com/photos-group-15.html

Videos
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=239026...
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/may-these-changes-make-us-light-dec-15...

More info, check out our events calendar:
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http://stlcamp.org/event


-- 
Ben West
westbywest at riseup.net
http://savetheinternet.org