Midwest Pages to Prisoners Bowl-A-Thon

I am once again participating in the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project’s annual Bowl-A-Thon fundraising event. In this event, pages volunteers bowl and get sponsors to donate fixed amounts or based on their bowling score! Please consider sponsoring me for this event. To sponsor me you can use the online donation form at http://www.terrorware.com/tools/bowlathon (donations will be collected via PayPal), or speak with me in person.

The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project is a project that I have volunteered with for a number of years. Simply put, the project sends free reading materials to people who are in prison or jail. These books are important to the recipients because many don’t have access to prison libraries or can’t afford to order books elsewhere. Books are requested for a variety of reasons ranging from self-education to supplementing institutional education programs to religious study to pleasure reading. In addition to providing a nice service to people, the act of sending books and letters helps to create a dialog or connection between people with very different life experiences and backgrounds. For more information about the project, see the project’s website at pagestoprisoners.org or contact midwestpagestoprisoners@yahoo.com.

The Bowl-A-Thon event is this coming Saturday April 28, but donations can be made until May 5.

Important notes about donating:

  • All pledges above $10 are tax deductible. If you would like your donation to be tax deductible, let me know and I will provide you with a form.
  • There is no minimum pledge and you can help without giving money. If you can’t afford to make a monetary donation, please consider donating books, packing materials, or your volunteer time to the project. Contact midwestpagestoprisoners@yahoo.com for details.
  • You can donate in two ways
    1. Per point. If you pledge 10 cents a point and the person you’re sponsoring has a final score is 76, they will owe $7.60.
    2. Flat rate. You agree to donate a fixed amount independent of the person you sponsor’s score.

Brightback Morning Light, Daniel A.I.U. Belteshazzar-Higgs, Chiara Giovando @ Landlocked Music. 8:30p. $5.

Thursday, April 26th @ 8:30 pm @ Landlocked Music – $5 – All-Ages

The Peacful April Crystal Totem Turr with:
Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)

  • http://www.thebrightblackmorninglight.com/
  • http://www.matadorrecords.com/brightblack/

and…
Daniel A.I.U. Belteshazzar-Higgs (Thrill Jockey, of Lungfish) w/ Chiara Giovando

  • http://www.holymountain.com/danielhiggs.html
  • http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/index.html?id=10236
  • http://www.citypaper.com/bob/story.asp?id=10904

Brightblack Morning Light is a color of the day when the truth of the
universe is faded into a veil of blue sky. These collections of songs
were written by two homeless friends from Alabama while living in
tents in rural Northern California under the sky without walls or
roofs. Their mixed blood holds some American Indian somewhere, but
they have no reservation to live. Yet they make a deliberate attempt
to be indigenous to the Earth nearby, away from city babylons. The
band’s chilled out vibe has been described as everything from
“Spacemen 3 meets Booker T and the MGs” to “Spiritualized raised in a
backwoods Florida swamp by their freaky uncle, Steely Dan.” Bring
crystals.

Daniel AIU Belteshazzar Higgs was the singer for the band Lungfish
and is an absolute modern day shaman. His presence in person and on
stage is absolutely mesmerizing. In another time he would have ruled
the world, or been burned at the stake, or had his own cult. In
Lungfish, his stream of consciousness vocals, add a distinctly
spiritual quality to Lungfish’s droning repetitive caveman krautrock
jams. His newest solo LP, Ancestral Songs (Holy Mountain), is
comprised of apocalyptic tunes, a banjo raag, mellifluous birdsong,
and the sci-fi-sounding duet of a searing Jew’s harp and toy piano.

“Are You of the Body?” brings out the electric tamboura tone and an
accompanying acoustic guitar to melt the spine. A distorted motorik
guitar riff propels Ancestral Songs to a close by focusing on the
consistent tone and vibration that flows throughout the album. New
album out on Thrill Jockey soon…

Chiara Giovando’s musical psyche (voice, violin, electronics) is an
amalgamation of intuition and critical thought. This can be a
tumultuous union, at times leading to rash judgments, at other times
to the detailed expressions of sensed truths. The Baltimore City
Paper named her work the Best Performance Art of 2005, calling her
“excruciatingly tense”. Thurston Moore says, “Chiara astounds with a
fine balance of slow, unfolding sound-dadaistix and palpable energy-
microphone-allure.”

MP3:
Brightblack Morning Light – Everybody Daylight – http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/brightblack/brightblack_everybody_new.mp3
Daniel A.I.U. Belteshazzar-Higgs – Chosen Bride – http://www.midheaven.com/fi/audio2/ancestralsongs02.mp3

boxcar inventory todo

  • Fix comic book/comic collection/graphic novel report to include books <= $2 (right now they’re showing up in discount nonfiction)
  • In inventory search make form submit when you hit enter key
Published
Categorized as Boxcar

Free skin cancer screenings @ the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic (333 E. Miller Dr.). 5-7pm. Free.

Free skin cancer screenings in May. Please call Karen at 812.353.5669 for more info or to schedule an appointment:

The skin screening clinics are May 8th and 22nd from 5-7 PM at the Volunteers in Medicine building, 333 E. Miller Dr. Appointments are scheduled every 10 minutes, allowing the 2 dermatologists enough time to look at each person thoroughly. The clinics were created with the intention of serving people who are uninsured or underinsured. Please do get the word out to anyone who you feel would benefit from this free service. They can call me Monday through Friday from 8-4:30 PM.

…

We will be offering free sunscreen packets starting in May, available for pick-up from the Olcott Center, 619 W. First Street, Bloomington. These packets are available in large quantity up to 250 if you know of any organizations that would be interested in picking them up from our office and distributing them to our members of our community. They can call me now and place their order.

Uno Moss, Cakes of Light, Quincy Quartz, Halcyonics @ 701 W. Dodds. 8p. free.

Let there be a performance at 701 W. Dodds,
Let many critters be in attendance to experience,

UNO MOSS as they try out some new tunes,

CAKES OF LIGHT as they perform liberation musick (feat. normanoak + auroradoreyalice),

QUINCY QUARTZ as he reveals bermuda triangles

HALCYONICS as they make their way home to brooklyn

Music will be performed in four isolated corners of the house.

You Are All Ways Free!!!!!
Published
Categorized as Lets Go

Rising Tide Roadshow @ Boxcar Books. 7:30p. free.

Rising Tide Roadshow:
confronting the root causes of climate change!

Tuesday, April 17 @ 7:30 PM
Boxcar Books (3rd and Washington)
Free!

From their tour summary (see www.risingtidenorthamerica.org for more information):

This spring, Rising Tide will bring the global struggle for climate justice to the belly of the beast, connecting the dots between the overarching crisis of climate change and the grassroots struggles of communities resisting the fossil fuel industry’s assault on their land and culture. Through partnering with local environmental and climate justice organizations in each region, we seek to amplify the voices of those most affected by climate change and the fossil fuel industry, boosting support for these revolutions on the local level and creating a culture of solidarity across lines of race, class and gender.

Two mutually-beneficial strategies that we will explore on the roadshow are: sparking and supporting local struggles against fossil fuel infrastructure, and building real, sustainable alternatives that foster community and decrease our dependence on the industries and institutions destroying the planet.  The Spring Roadshow will take a popular education approach to organizing and agitating for climate justice, employing music, participatory games and multi-media to foment life-affirming resistance.

Published
Categorized as Lets Go

Screening of the documentary NO! @ First Christian Church (205 E. Kirkwood Avenue). 7p.

Sexual Assault Awareness Month:
Middle Way House Presents
NO!
A documentary by filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Please join us for a screening and discussion of this groundbreaking
documentary that unveils the reality of sexual violence and healing in the
African-American community.

Thursday April 19, 7pm
First Christian Church
205 E. Kirkwood Ave

“‘No!’ is a film that is about more than sensational exposure. ‘No!’ seeks
resolution to a painful crime that has been shrouded in silence for too
long in the Black community.”
Dwight Williams, Executive Producer
Hustle & Flow, and Baby Boy

“Given the level of violence against women in this country, we owe it to
ourselves and to future generations not to turn our backs on this film.
For in ignoring this film we would once again be ignoring the voices of
women.”
Kevin Powell, Activist and Author,
Who’s Gonna Take the Weight: Manhood, Race, and Power in America

Published
Categorized as Lets Go