2025 Schedule – NYC Anarchist Book Fair

This year, we will have a trained volunteers at the day care. We will have registration forms, with names, permissions, etc. Toys, food, and lots of art supplies will be available so the kids can have fun while parents participate in workshops and the book fair. The daycare will be located inside a Loisada building with security by Antifa people in an open, well-ventilated space with a bathroom offering excellent facilities for the little ones.

Sunday, Sep 27

Time

Session

Location

4:00pm EDT - 5:00pm EDT

ART FESTIVAL: David Rovics

Performed by: David Rovics

4:00pm EDT - 5:15pm EDT

Charlas y Luchas: Women Publishers and Anarchists

Presented by: Tenda de Livros | Brazil

4:00pm EDT - 5:15pm EDT

Every Minute Mutual Aid (EMMA): The Intersections of Mutual Aid and Autonomous Social Centers | A Participatory Discussion

Presented by: Dane Michael

5:20pm EDT - 7:00pm EDT

Kosmos Law

Presented by: Vlad Afanasiev, Elena Darjania, Luiza Crosman

6:00pm EDT - 7:15pm EDT

Poetry Reading w/ Sasha Banks & Tongo Eisen-Martin

Presented by: Sasha Banks & Tongo Eisen-Martin

7:30pm EDT - 9:00pm EDT

Archive, Mesh & Spore: Speculative Infrastructures for An Abolitionist Future

Presented by: Elae [Lynne DeSilva-Johnson] / The Operating System & Liminal Lab

7:30pm EDT - 8:30pm EDT

ART FESTIVAL: You Play Here

Presented by: Inés Vogelfang

Saturday, Oct 2

Time

Session

Location

12:30pm EDT - 2:00pm EDT

Bike Repair Class

Presented by: MORUS

2:00pm EDT - 3:30pm EDT

Medicinal Herbal Workshop

Presented by: Noreen Kelly

3:30pm EDT - 5:00pm EDT

The ABC's of Squatting

Presented by: MORUS

Sunday, Oct 3

Time

Session

Location

12:00am EDT - 12:01am EDT

Link For All Workshops

11:00am EDT - 11:05am EDT

Jaqueline Aranduhá (Opening)

Presented by: Jaqueline Aranduhá

11:05am EDT - 11:10am EDT

Tongo Eisen-Martin [Poet] (Opening)

Presented by: Tongo Eisen-Martin

11:10am EDT - 12:00pm EDT

Dream of Anarchy and the Anarchy of Dreams: Adventures at the Crossroads of Anarchy and Surrealism

Presented by: Ron Sakolsky

12:00pm EDT - 1:00pm EDT

Autonomous Brigades: The Necessity of Direct Action in the Context of Environmental Destruction

Presented by: Brigada Autonoma Urutau

1:00pm EDT - 1:30pm EDT

Tongo Eisen-Martin [Poet]

Presented by: Tongo Eisen-Martin

1:30pm EDT - 3:00pm EDT

Reclaiming the Urban Commons and Land Back

Presented by: Gil Lopez, Alicia Grullón, Kristina Baines, Lucy Mercado, Rebecca Amato, Cesar Yoc

3:00pm EDT - 4:00pm EDT

Patriarchy: Presented by Jaqueline Aranduhà and Silvia Federici

Presented by: Jaqueline Aranduhá, Silvia Federici

4:00pm EDT - 5:00pm EDT

History and Roots of the Really Really FREE Market (and how you can start one!) + Freedge + Food Not Bombs

Presented by: Really Really Free Market, Judy, Katie, Ryan, Ernst

5:00pm EDT - 6:30pm EDT

Zero Money = Live in Mutual Aid

Presented by: Edgar Cahn + Christine Gray [Time Bank], Tasos Sagris [Anarchist Practises in the self-organized social centers in Greece] , Michael Reagan [Intersectional Class Struggle: Theory and Practice], Robert Ovetz [Workers' Inquiries and Choke Points], Black [AnarkoArtLab]

6:30pm EDT - 7:00pm EDT

Tongo Eisen-Martin [Poet]

Presented by: Tongo Eisen-Martin

7:00pm EDT - 8:00pm EDT

Zine Culture(s) & Anarchist(ic) Culture(s): Intersections of Theory, Practice, & Ethics (A Community Discussion on Connections between Zines & Zine Culture(s), Anarchist Theory & Practice, and Media Production)

Presented by: Dane Michael (Artificiality Distro)

Saturday, Feb 19

Time

Session

Location

12:00pm EST - 3:00pm EST

Mutual Aid Fundraiser @ La Plaza Community Garden

Presented by: East Village Mutual Aid

Sunday, Sep 4

Time

Session

Location

4:00pm EDT - 10:00pm EDT

Benefit Punk Show for the Kuñangue Aty Guasu and NYC ABF

Presented by: Kuñangue Aty Guasu and NYC ABF

Performed by: Askeados, Demencia Alkoholika, Brainwashed Youth, M.A.L.A (first show), Mud Moon, Sabotatge Selektha, Sara Kaos

The Living Gallery

1094 Broadway - New York

Saturday, Sep 10

Time

Session

Location

11:30am EDT - 12:30pm EDT

Liberation Music Therapy

Presented by: Mederi Muzik (DeMarisa Steeley, Dorian Wallace)

12:30pm EDT - 1:30pm EDT

Bike Repair class

Presented by: La Plaza Community & Time's Up

2:00pm EDT - 3:00pm EDT

Medicinal Herbal Workshop

Presented by: Noreen Kelly

3:30pm EDT - 4:30pm EDT

The ABC's of Squatting

Presented by: MoRUS

Performed by: Frank Morales, Bill Di Paola

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space

155 Ave C - New York

5:15pm EDT - 6:30pm EDT

Practical Self-defense and Physical Skills Workshop

Presented by: Autonomy Recovery PDX

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space

155 Ave C - New York

Sunday, Sep 11

Time

Session

Location

10:30am EDT - 10:40am EDT

Opening Ceremony: XVI NYC Anarchist Book Fair

Presented by: NYC Anarchist Book Fair

10:40am EDT - 11:50am EDT

Fables and Spells (adrienne maree brown)

Presented by: adrienne maree brown

Performed by: AK Press

11:50am EDT - 1:00pm EDT

How to Organize a Time Bank

Presented by: Time Bank

1:00pm EDT - 1:20pm EDT

Tongo Eisen-Martin

1:30pm EDT - 3:00pm EDT

Art In Times Of Chaos

Presented by: PM Press and Autonomedia

Performed by: N.O. Bonzo and Neala Schleuning

3:00pm EDT - 4:30pm EDT

Sônia Guajajara and Noam Chomsky On Anarchism And the Indigenous Struggle in so-called Brazil

Presented by: Kuñangue Aty Guasu, Sônia Guajajara, Noam Chomsky

4:30pm EDT - 5:30pm EDT

John P. Clark and scott crow On "The Impossible Community"

Presented by: PM Press

Performed by: John P. Clark, scott crow

5:30pm EDT - 7:00pm EDT

Beyond Politics as Usual: New Radicalism and Autonomy

Presented by: AK Press

Performed by: William C. Anderson, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

7:00pm EDT - 8:15pm EDT

Silvia Federici and Raymond Craib On Commoning, Libertarian Exit, and Liberation

Presented by: PM Press

Performed by: Silvia Federici, Raymond Craib

8:15pm EDT - 8:30pm EDT

Closing Ceremony with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Trans Anarcha-Feminism: The New Wave of Anarchist Thinking

Presented by: Sam Schenerman

12:15pm EDT - 1:30pm EDT

What Do We Need Bosses For?

Presented by: Autonomedia with author Pete Dolack

Subsolo [basement]

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space [MoRUS/C-Squat]

155 Avenue C - New York

Mask Optional, Not Accessible - There are 3 steps up to the ground floor and 12 steps down to the backspace including steep, curved stairs

1:15pm EDT - 1:30pm EDT

Poet, Gerald Thomas - Brazil

Performed by: Gerald Thomas

Virtual

1:15pm EDT - 2:15pm EDT

The Anarchist Joy of Dr. Alex Comfort

Presented by: Eric Laursen

1:15pm EDT - 3:00pm EDT

We Need Police for Nothing

Presented by: Anonymous

CIRCLE

1:30pm EDT - 2:30pm EDT

Oral History Skill Share

Presented by: Myriad Archives

GAZEBO

1:45pm EDT - 3:15pm EDT

The Breakup Theory of Anarchism

Presented by: Scott // Shuli Branson

Subsolo [basement]

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space [MoRUS/C-Squat]

155 Avenue C - New York

Mask Optional, Not Accessible - There are 3 steps up to the ground floor and 12 steps down to the backspace including steep, curved stairs

2:00pm EDT - 3:00pm EDT

Medicinal Herbal Workshop

Presented by: Noreen Kelly

HERB GARDEN

2:30pm EDT - 3:30pm EDT

Restorative Women's Justice in Rojava

Presented by: Clara // Mala Jin (Women’s House)

2:45pm EDT - 3:45pm EDT

For War, Nothing

Presented by: Fugitive Materials

GAZEBO

3:00pm EDT - 4:00pm EDT

Tips to eat tofu and TVP (textured vegetable protein)

Presented by: Alegria Vegana

KITCHEN

3:15pm EDT - 4:15pm EDT

Pop Gym: Intro to Self-Defense Workshop

Presented by: Pop Gym

CIRCLE

3:30pm EDT - 4:30pm EDT

The ABCs of Squatting

Presented by: Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space // Frank Morales

Subsolo [basement]

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space [MoRUS/C-Squat]

155 Avenue C - New York

Mask Optional, Not Accessible - There are 3 steps up to the ground floor and 12 steps down to the backspace including steep, curved stairs

3:45pm EDT - 4:45pm EDT

Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This Is Just Practice

Presented by: Marisa Holmes

4:45pm EDT - 5:30pm EDT

Relationships are the Playground of Revolution [Stop Cop City]

Presented by: Stop Cop City // The Movement to Defend the Atlanta Forest

CIRCLE

5:00pm EDT - 6:15pm EDT

Rojava - Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Women, Life, Freedom)

Presented by: City Kurds // Emergency Committee for Rojava // American Kurdish Association

Subsolo [basement]

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space [MoRUS/C-Squat]

155 Avenue C - New York

Mask Optional, Not Accessible - There are 3 steps up to the ground floor and 12 steps down to the backspace including steep, curved stairs

5:00pm EDT - 6:15pm EDT

Supporting Our Community Inside

BIPOC Only - QT2S & Sex Worker Centered

Presented by: Mitchyll Mora

5:30pm EDT - 6:15pm EDT

General Assembly [New Justice] - Open to all

Open to All

CIRCLE

5:45pm EDT - 6:10pm EDT

Poet, Tongo Eisen-Martin - San Francisco, CA

Presented by: Poet, Tongo Eisen-Marti

Virtual

6:30pm EDT - 7:30pm EDT

"Collezione di attimi" art exhibition

Presented by: Michele Dalessio

Subsolo [basement]

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space [MoRUS/C-Squat]

155 Avenue C - New York

Mask Optional, Not Accessible - There are 3 steps up to the ground floor and 12 steps down to the backspace including steep, curved stairs

6:30pm EDT - 8:00pm EDT

Sunday, Sep 17

Time

Session

Location

11:00am EDT - 11:45am EDT

Void Network Poetry - Tasos Sagris, Sissy Doutsiou, Yannis Raouzaios - Greece

Presented by: Void Network Poetry // NYCABF

Open to All

Presented by: NYCABF

Virtual

The P.I.T.

411 South 5th Street - Brooklyn

Access: Quick Ramp Setup; Bathroom Not Accessible; Mask Provided, Not Required

Thursday, Sep 19

Time

Session

Location

7:00pm EDT - 9:00pm EDT

¡A Las Barricades!

Performed by: Josh Macphee

The P.I.T.

411 South 5th Street - Brooklyn

Access: Quick Ramp Setup; Bathroom Not Accessible; Mask Provided, Not Required

Friday, Sep 20

Time

Session

Location

5:00pm EDT

Music Festival

Performed by: Donna Allen, FM BL, The Rebel Phaze Quartet (ft. Bashi Rose, Luke Stewart, Warren Trae Crudup III, Ryan Easter), More TBD...

The P.I.T.

411 South 5th Street - Brooklyn

Access: Quick Ramp Setup; Bathroom Not Accessible; Mask Provided, Not Required

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