News & Events & Meetings

All events are at Boxcar Books and Community Center, unless otherwise noted.

Please see below for regularly scheduled meetings and events.

Bloomington Writing Project- free non-fiction writing consultation at Boxcar Books

We will be available for writing consultations at Boxcar Books from 3:30 to 6:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Volunteers at the Bloomington Writing Project come from diverse backgrounds, and offer writing consultation on a range of projects. From memoir-writing to application forms, an essay you've been thinking about to a letter to the editor, we're here to help you think through any form of non-fiction writing.

Contact:  http://bloomingtonwritingproject.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 25th at 7pm

Ross Gay- Reading

Ross Gay will read from his new manuscript, Bringing the Shovel Down.

Ross Gay's first book, Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006), was a finalist for the Foreword Magazine poetry book of the year.  His second
book, Bringing the Shovel Down, is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press (Spring 2011).  His poems and essays have appeared
recently in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Sou'wester, Salt Hill Review and River Styx.  He is one of the editors of Q Avenue Books, a
small chapbook press, in addition to being the co-author, with Kimberly Thomas, of several artists' books.  He will be working in gardens this
spring.

Holy Crap, Rollins is Coming to Bloomington!

Monday, April 5th at The Buskirk-Chumley Theater

Henry Rollins: Frequent Flyer Tour at 8pm.  $15.  Spoken word from the political and punk rock icon!

Boxcar is Sponsoring this event along with Spirit of ‘68!   Check-out www.buskirkchumley.org

Tuesday, April 6th at 7pm -- Boxcar presents: The VOID NETWORK and Tasos Sagris author reading of We Are An Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008.

Published by AK PRESS

What causes a city, then a whole country, to explode? How did one neighborhood's outrage over the tragic death of one teenager transform itself into a generalized insurrection against State and capital, paralyzing an entire nation for a month?

This is a book about the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, killed by the police in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens on December 6th, 2008, and of the revolution in the streets that followed, bringing business as usual in Greece to a screeching, burning halt for three marvelous weeks, and putting the fear of history back into the bureaucrats of Fortress Europe and beyond.

We Are an Image From the Future delves into the December insurrection and its aftermath through interviews with those who witnessed and participated in it, alongside the communiqués and texts that circulated through the networks of revolt. It provides the on-the-ground facts needed to understand these historic events, and also dispels the myths activists outside of Greece have constructed around them. What emerges is not just the intensity of the riots, but the stories of organizing and solidarity, the questions of strategy and tactics: a desperately needed examination of the fabric of the Greek movements that made December possible.

"This book is just what Dr. Fucking Anarchy ordered. How to turn insurrection into revolution. The Greek revolt will inspire a generation as Paris '68 did 40 years earlier."
—Ian Bone, class warrior and author of Bash the Rich

"If protest is when I say I disagree, and resistance is when I do something about it, then insurrection is when everyone else is on-board too. So it was in December of 2008, when Greece burned.... We Are an Image from the Future is a quintessential portrait of revolution in action. The coming global insurrection has already begun."
—Ramor Ryan, author of Clandestines

"What the Zapatista uprising of 1994 was to the antiglobalization movement, the Greek uprising of 2008 could be to the demise of capitalism itself."
—CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective

"This dazzling collection is not a book about the great insurrection of 2008-it is a living piece of it that can become a part of us, and through us, it opens the prospect of a universe we might never otherwise have imagined possible. Future historians may well conclude that the Revolution finally began in 2008. If they do, this book will have played a crucial role in that realization."
—David Graeber, author of Direct Action: An Ethnography

Friday, April 9th - 7-9pm

Art Opening

ROCK AND ROLL PROM IS SATURDAY APRIL 17TH AT THE BLUEBIRD- BE THERE!

Internerds, check out the Prom Facebook Event.

Save the date, y'all!
This year's prom theme is 2010: A Space Oddity! So dress to impress.

Featuring covers by (in no particular order):
-Weezer (members of Kentucky Nightmare, Alexander the Great, Knifey Spoonie)
-Guided by Voices (members of Defiance, Ohio and Pink Razors)
-Violent Femmes (members of Gentleman Caller, uvula, Mysteries of Life, Pomeranian Blues Band)
-New Order (members of Turn Pale, Early Day Miners, Intro to Airlift)
-Spaced-out tunes by those dudes who play every year (members of The Coke Dares, Magnolia Electric Co., Fatted Calf String Band, Whippoorwill, among others)

DJ Action Jackson will spin records until you can't dance no more.

Hosted by special guests Justin Goellner (yes, all the way from Chicago, ladies and gentlemen) and Molly LeCount!
Costume contest judged by The Bleeding Heartland Roller Girls, so dress to impress!
21+
$8/person
A far out photo booth will be available for $1 per person per photo session.
As always, a benefit for Boxcar Books and the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project.

Friday April 30th and Saturday May 1st.

Travelling anarchists bring to Bloomington two presentations on Anarchism and Radicalism, just in time for May Day!  ...more details to come!

Monday, May 3rd at 7pm

Elwin Cotman and Dan McCloskey from Pittsburgh Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers' Collective!

Reading and Open Mic Reading for the Community!

Dan is founder of CpA with a new chapbook that is half-comic, half-prose science fiction tale about suicide.

Elwin's chapbook is a collection of speculative stories, most of which deal
with the folklore and social climate of the segregated south. He has
featured at the TerPoets open mic, Artomatic, A Space Inside Reading
Series, the Mock Turtle Reading Series and Babble On (at Dog Eared
Books in San Francisco). Currently, Elwin's a member of the Cyberpunk
Apocalypse writers' collective in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has organized
readings at the Modern Formations art gallery and Kiva Han coffee
shop, with several more slated for the coming months.

The Cyberpunk Apocalypse is a writers' cooperative work & event space, residency program, and publication based out of upper Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh PA.

Weekly Meetings:

The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project now meets at 118 S. Rogers Suite #2
Visit www.pagestoprisoners.org or email mwpp@pagestoprisoners.org
Book and monetary donations should still be dropped off at Boxcar Books.
Mondays: 7-9pm The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project
Thursdays 7-11pm: The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project
Sundays 2-5pm: The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project

The Bloomington Writing Project offers free non-fiction writing consultation for all.  Bring what you're writing to Boxcar between 3:30 and 6:30 Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning February 23rd.  Check us out online at http://bloomingtonwritingproject.blogspot.com/.

Monthly Meetings:

1st Sunday of every month: Get Shit Done Night at Boxcar! Open volunteer time- Come help
out with various projects at the bookstore! Email boxcar@boxcarbooks.org for more
information.

2nd Tuesday of Every Month: Deep Roots Animal Sanctuary Vegan Pot Luck.  www.deeprootssanctuary.org

Boxcar Books provides a free meeting room and access to other resources for community,
activist, literary, and special interest groups. The meeting room is separate from the
retail space and may be utilized before, during, and after normal business hours. Please
get in touch with us to make our meeting space more active! To reserve the meeting space
for your group, please contact events@boxcarbooks.org.

Click HERE for more information about the meeting space.