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“Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality” Presents Artifacts About the Death of Gil Barber

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:37:10 -0800

WHAT: Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality
WHEN: November 10-November 26, 2006. Opening event Friday, November 10th, 6pm-10pm—opening night performers include Enoch the Messenjah, Amaris Howard, Veteran Eye, and Boxcar Bertha
WHERE: A Greensboro Community Space, 217-B West Lewis St (upstairs) near the corner of Eugene and Lee Sts.
www.myspace.com/evidenceartshow

On May 18, 2001 Gilbert Barber, an unarmed 22-year-old African-American man, was killed by Guilford County Sheriff’s Deputy Thomas Gordy. After a five-year struggle on the part of Gil Barber's parents to open a legal investigation into what happened that night, the family’s civil case was recently denied a hearing in the courts. Now they are taking the evidence—including photographs of the death site, autopsy photos, and the video of Thomas Gordy’s deposition--directly to the public.

“Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality” Presents Artifacts About the Death of Gil Barber

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:35:08 -0800

“Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality” Presents Artifacts About the Death of Gil Barber

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:32:30 -0800

“Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality” Presents Artifacts About the Death of Gil Barber

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:32:18 -0800

fun volunteer opportunity 7/4!!

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:24:23 -0700

We need YOU to help out with a creative float in the Progressive
Greensboro contingent of the Greensboro July 4th parade.

Ingredients we need:
4-6 enthusiastic, hammy volunteers who are in to performing
2 Bush masks
2 Bush costumes (suits?) that can get wet

Ingredients we have:
*A giant, beautifully painted rolling target, with intersecting bulls
eyes, each labeled with an oppressive or annoying thing (from
imperialism to bottled water, racism to traffic jams)
*water balloons to give out to the crowd

The 2 Bushes will push the target, and probably get targeted in the

Fire Flies Festival + An Inconvenient Truth

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:01:08 -0700

A friend of mine just saw An Inconvenient Truth (http://an-inconvenient-truth.com) and says that the movie is very good and very accurate, but that his sense in talking to people who've seen it is that audiences are leaving the theater feeling less hopeful and more powerless than they were when they went in. I'm pretty sure that's now what Al Gore intended!

The movie opens in Greensboro at the Carousel on July 1. The Fire Flies Festival begins on July 4 with the parade and runs through Sunday, July 9 and a Really Really Free Market in Lake Daniel Park. A Really Really Free Market is basically a demonstration of an alternate economy based on community and shared resources (A RRFM is held in Carrboro pretty regularly--you can read more about that one at http://www.carrboro.com/reallyreallyfreemarket/) . Last year's RRFM was a big success and brought in a wide diversity of people; we expect an even better turnout this year.

Fire Flies now has a MySpace Profile

Fri, 19 May 2006 11:50:09 -0700

For further information on the Fire Flies Festival, check out our MySpace profile here. It's a great place to check schedule updates and to network with other folks interested in the festival in Greensboro and beyond.

How To Post Events

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:13:00 -0800

With the new influx of users signing up to GCAConline, I thought I might write a little "how-to" on posting events to the gcac events calendar. This will be the first in a series of tutorials on how to tap into the awesome potential of this new open-source dynamic-content website format.

So:

1. Create New Account, if you haven't already done so, by clicking on create new account on the left side of the main page, under the login box.

2. Once your account is activated, log in and change your automatically generated password to something you can remember.

3. Click on "Create Content" on the left side menu.

Greensboro Collective House Featured in New York Times

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:13:29 -0800

Inviting Anarchy Into My Home, an article by the GCAC's Liz Seymour was published in the New York Times on Thursday, March 9th. In it, she writes about her experience in one of Greensboro's collective house's:

"On Aug. 1, 2002, I left behind the comfortably roomy semicircle marked 'married-couple household' on the Census Bureau pie chart and slipped into an inconspicuous wedge labeled 'two or more people, nonfamily.' Having separated from my husband of 28 years the day before, I opened our three-bedroom 1927 Colonial Revival house to a group of men and women less than half my age. Overnight, the home I had lived in for 12 years became a seven-person anarchist collective, run by consensus and fueled by punk music, curse-studded conversation and food scavenged from Dumpsters."

Upcoming Recording Collective Sessions

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:21:09 -0800

The Recording Collective is excited about several definite projects for the month of march, as well as others that are beginning to come together. We just finished recording St. Clare's new EP in the studio and mixing is under way. Tuesday (3/7) we will begin work on Sandy Blocker and Cronus' album of world music. Also later in march, Fist Fight is scheduled to record a full length. The space is starting to feel great, and the recordings are sounding better and better. Stay tuned for announcements about other upcoming projects.

Group Bike Ride!

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:21:51 -0800

Start: Mar 2 2006 - 5:30pm

End: Mar 2 2006 - 7:00pm

Body:

Sorry for posting so late, but I'm a busy busy girl at the moment. I think some of you all-especially students- feel me on this, so in light of being couped up inside for a week of midterms during this BEAUTIFUL weather, Thursday evening would be a great time for a de-stress bike ride to enjoy the warmth. It can be a long or short ride, fast or slow, whatver the people in the group decide based on everyone's capability and what they're feeling at the moment. I just got a book of all of the trails in Greensboro so I was thinking maybe we could hit up one of the greenways (though some are kind of far out to get to).

1001 Robot Drum & More, This Wednesday

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:07:27 -0800

Start: Mar 1 2006 - 7:00pm

End: Mar 1 2006 - 11:59pm

Body:

this is a lateish announcement about a show this wednesday in Greensboro. 1001 is the local act with three other bands traveling.

so, here's who's performing:

1001 this time 'round: mark dixon on percussion, lark davis on knob synth, and jon caison on trumpet.
Shawn Thornton (pure chaos on home built devices, Philly, PA)
Drums Like Machine Guns (noise, Philly, PA)
Rapasaurus Sex (hyper hiphop from outer space - with Zach from Hide and Seek, Winston-Salem, NC)

WHEN: this wednesday (march 1)
WHERE: in the warehouse/laboratory where the 1001 machines are also built... kind of a fun place if we do say so! (directions are at the bottom of this message)
SHOW STARTS: 7:00 PM
$$$?: dough nations accepted for traveling artists
Poop/Pee: there is no plumbing at the lab! however we will provide composting toilet facilities.

Blank Blank album now availible

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:26:53 -0800

Blank Blank's new album, "There Will be Dragon's", is availbile now! The basic tracks for the album were recorded by the GCAC Recording Collective as one of our first projects in the studio. We think it sounds great, and Blank Blank's awesome. You can contact them through myspace to get a copy: (http://myspace.com/blankblankandthewilsonstwarriors).

Recording studio seeks donations

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:14:59 -0800

The GCAC collective recording studio is up and running, and we're looking for any musical or audio equipment donations.

Headphones, microphones, amps, the old dusty guitar amp under the bed, anything.

The purpose of the studio is to provide low-cost recording for area musicians and allow people to learn audio production skills. The recording collective can be contacted by email at collaboratory.studios@gmail.com.

Thanks,
danny

GCAC Website Under Reconstruction

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:13:00 -0800

The GCAC website will be in and out of service for the next few days as we upgrade to a new content management system. The new site will allow people who are involved in GCAC Projects to login to the site as users and create or edit content collaboratively throughout the site.

This content management system is a Drupal-based project, named CivicSpace. CivicSpace is "a free open-source software platform for grassroots organizing and civic activity. It allows individuals and organizations to build online communities that communicate effectively, act collectively, and coordinate coherently with a network of other related organizations and communities."