Aid & Abet Booking - February Newsletter - Available Speakers & Workshops

[Jen Angel]

Hi Everyone!

January and February have been busy months, with all sorts of new people joining the Aid & Abet Roster. We are working with several speakers who are actively touring the US and Canada. Click on the links below for all the details, and check all of our upcoming events here. 

Also, Please keep us in the loop! Have you moved? Do you have a new email? Is there someone else we should add to our mailing list? Let us know!

Here's the haps, and remember, it's not too early to book for Fall 09 or Spring 10! 

* Artist Cristy Road has just joined Aid & Abet! watch for updates on her schedule next month! Email Matt for more information.

* Andi Zeisler, co-founder of Bitch Magazine: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture, author of Feminism and Pop Culture (Seal Press 2008), and co-editor of Bitchfest (FSG 2006) has just announced that she will be touring the US and Canada through Spring 2010. Watch the website for updates, or email Jen if you are interested in hosting her unique critique of pop culture.

* Jen Angel, Aid & Abet organizer, co-founder of Clamor Magazine, and author of Becoming the Media will be doing several speaking dates on the East Cast in April talking about the future of independent media. She still has dates open, and you can contact her to arrange a stop in your town. She'll also be visiting Portland and St Louis this spring, and is available through the end of the year. 

* Robert Hillary King of the Angola 3 and author of From The Bottom of the Heap (PM Press 2008), will be speaking in the Northeast US during April - and still has dates available! Contact Justine to host an event with him on the East Coast, or elsewhere later in the spring or fall. 

* Sabrina Chapadjiev, editor of Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction (Seven Stories 2008) will be touring the US and Canada through Spring 2010, including visiting the Northwest in March. Watch the website for updates, or email Matt if you are interested in hosting her.

* Shira Tarrant, author of Men and Feminism (Seal Press 2009), Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power (Routledge 2007), and When Sex Became Gender (Routledge 2006) has just announced she will be touring the US and Canada through Spring 2010, with stops on the East Coast in the works already for Fall 2009. Watch the website for updates, or email Jen if you are interested in hosting her.

* Doyle Canning and Patrick Reinsborough of the smartMeme Strategy and Training Project will be offering their trainings on messaging and campaign strategy for activists through Aid & Abet starting in March! Contact Jen to book them in your town!

And in other news, Aid & Abet doesn't often book musical acts, but we support radical musicians! Our friend Casey Neill and his band the Norway Rats will be touring the West Coast in April, and then Casey will be doing solo dates in New York and on the east coast May 15-30. Email Jen to find out about how to bring him to your town - you won't be disappointed. 

Our lineup for 2009-2010 also includes Derrick Jensen speaking on ecology, Mark Engler on Globalization, and Ben Dangl on Bolivia. View our complete roster here.  It's not to early to start booking events for the fall! Look for new additions to our roster next month! 

Jen Angel, Justine Johnson, and Matt Dineen

Aid & Abet

Jen Angel, Publicist, Aid and Abet 

http://www.aidandabet.org

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Phone: 510-910-5627