Constellation is just two days away! We’re looking forward to seeing you.
You’ll find the packed schedule for the bookfair and festival, including locations, over here. Paper schedules will be available at the welcome table in CÉDA beginning at 10am.
For a list of projects and distros that have reserved tables at the bookfair, go here.
If you’re pulling together a last-minute event for this weekend, you can still post it to the calendar by using this form.
We have planned the bookfair around a model of self-organization that reduces the special role allotted to organizers and acknowledges the agency and responsibility of all participants towards the space. To this end, we draw your attention to the forum for unscheduled events that will take place across several locations on Saturday. Poetry reading? Skillshare? The incendiary conversation you’re desperate to start with anarchists beyond your immediate circles? All bookfair-goers are welcome to make use of this format as they see fit.
On the logistical side of things, we will be asking participants to sign up for one task (like a short shift at the welcome table or in the kitchen) to help things run smoothly without a formal “volunteer” corps.
On the topic of experimenting with the ways in which we gather, if you don’t need your phone, we encourage you to leave it at home. Yes, because it is a listening device and we would prefer fewer of those; also because we believe that we deepen the quality of our face-to-face presence with one another when not constantly distracted by Signal groupchats or scrolling Instagram out of habit. We would like to resist the normalization of the ubiquity of smartphones among anarchists.
Lastly, thank you to CKUT for airing our ad. Listen to 90.3 FM between now and Sunday to hear it!
See you soon! 🏴