Archive for October, 2010

The Oregon Hill community blog posted about the Richmond Zine Fest and had pictures of the Wingnut table and the Flying Brick table.

http://www.oregonhill.net/2010/10/17/richmond-zine-festival-yesterday/

WRIR

Several Wingnuts were featured on WRIR today talking about Monroe Park, Food Not Bombs, Veganism, Anarchy, and our happy snappy Anarchist Collective:

http://indymedialive.blogspot.com/

You can listen to the radio show here:

http://drop.io/richmondIM/asset/20101019-2-riml-mp3

Freegans know how to get dirty!

Three members of the Wingnut have been interviewed in an online sex advice column on Nerve.com, entitled “Sex Advice From Freegans.” Drawing from our vast experience digging through the trash for goods and foodstuffs, we dispense invaluable relationship pointers:

http://www.nerve.com/advice/2010/10/15/sex-advice-from-freegans

This is another review of this year’s RVA Zine Fest. At the bottom of the post there is a picture of some of our friends from the Root Force Collective!

http://matt-dembicki.blogspot.com/2010/10/richmond-zine-fest.html

The Richmond Anarchist Black Cross is a prison abolition and political prisoner support group. Anyone interested in either aspect is welcome to come to our regular monthly meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7pm at the Wingnut Anarchist Collective. Meetings feature discussion, planning, and frequently writing letters to prisoners.

The next 2 meetings will be on November 9th and December 14th at 7pm. Hope to see you there!

This past weekend we participated in the 4th monthly Mobile Food Pantry. This is a project that is the joint effort of the WIngnut Anarchist Collective and the Central Virginia Food Bank. Throughout the month before the event, the Wingnut distributes vouchers for free groceries throughout Southern Barton Heights. One voucher per household. Then on the second Saturday of each month, the Food Bank drives out a huge and awesome truck to the parking lot next to the Goal Post Restaurant at 2400 North Avenue- at the intersection of West Graham and North Avenue. The Wingnuts then work with 2 folks from the Food Bank to set up tables full of food. At 1pm the distribution starts. People who have vouchers are given priority, since they are the people that we guaranteed access to the food. The only qualification for the vouchers is living in the Southern Barton Heights area. People who are disabled, elderly, or otherwise unable to come the day of and pickup the food (it is quite heavy) can contact the Wingnut ahead of time to arrange a delivery. We recommend bringing more than one person per voucher to pick up the food on the day, it is usually more than 1 heavy bag worth of groceries. Re-usable bags are also a really great thing to bring with you- paper ones don’t last long with the weight! (more…)

Another review of this year’s Richmond Zine Fest that has a picture of the Wingnut table!

http://panelpatter.blogspot.com/2010/10/richmond-zinefest-2010.html

This Wednesday, October 20th at 7pm, is Craft Night at the WIngnut!

Come work on your projects, start a new project with some of our supplies, or even to play games.

We will also be making pinatas for the Really Really Free Market and the Wingnut Halloween Party. Anyone with pinata making experience is highly encouraged. We are probably going to do paper mache over balloons to make the pinata shells, which we will decorate the following week.

Hope to see you there!

The Wingnut tabled today at the Richmond Zine Fest at the Gay Community Center of Richmond. The event was highly successful. There were many different tablers, including local organizations such as the Flying Brick, RVA Industrial Workers of the World, Food Not Bombs, and James River Earth First.

The Wingnuts also facilitatated two workshops- a security culture workshop and a copwatch workshop. There were also 3 other really well attended workshops at the zine fest this year- zine making for all ages, LIPS (woman’s sexuality zine), and rock camp for girls. It was really nice to see the success of all of the workshops.

We saw people from WRIR as well as RVA Magazine in attendance. The Books on Wheels bus also made an appearance.

There were around 40 different tablers, lamplighter coffee vending food, and a really nice environment complete with a rainbow disco ball. It seemed that a good time was had by many. And there were even enough donations to the Richmond Zine Fest to make a nice start towards the organizing of next year’s RVA zine fest.

Thanks to everyone who came out and supported DIY publishing and zine culture!

The Zine Reading potluck at the Wingnut on Friday October 15th was a huge success. There were around 30 people in attendance and we heard from 7 or 8 different zinesters. 2 out of town zinesters as well as people old and new to Richmond read. Some of the readings were entertaining, some personal, some poetry, some spoken word, and some very political. They represented a good  mix of the types and content of zines. There were many yummy dishes- from vegan muffins to mac n ‘cheese’ to fake bologna sandwhiches.

It was really relaxing and pleasant to share food and stories with so many nice people. The Zine Fest organizers in attendance were really excited about the turnout. We hope this is just the beginning of the development of a supportive and dynamic zine community in Richmond.