Nowtopia - Calendar

2014

February 9, 2014:  Café Bonobo, Porto Alegre, Brazil

February 11, 2014:  Laboriosa89, Sao Paulo, Brazil

February 13, 2014: Oscar Neimayer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil

2013

November 6, 2013: California Institute of Integral Studies, “Alternative Economies”

November 13, 2013:  Gezi Park, Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey, “Giftival”

2012

February 24, 2012; “Nowtopia: A Utopia do Agora” after Critical Mass in Rendençao Park, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

February 29, 2012: “Massa Critica e a Utopia do Agora” Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, Salão Nobre, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (teaser)

March 17, 2012: “Represent Yourself” Unconference, Noisebridge Hacker Space, San Francisco

June 29, 2012: La Libreria Traficantes de Sueños, Madrid Spain

2010

Vancouver, BC, CANADA

Wednesday, June 16th : 7:00 Gordon House, 1019 Broughton St. Co-sponsored by West End Residents Association

Thursday, June 17th : 7:00 Riddim and Spice, 1945 Commercial Drive Co-sponsored by the Work Less Party and Gateway Sux

Saturday, June 19th : 1:00 Mt. Pleasant Community Centre, #1 Kingsway Co-sponsored by Our Community Bikes and Momentum Magazine

US Social Forum, Detroit, MI June 22-26

Workshops:

Shaping San Francisco
Jun 23 2010 – 1:00pm WSU Old Main: 1133

Nowtopia
Jun 23 2010 – 3:00pm WSU Old Main: 1133

Research for the Revolution: Radical Research Strategies for Movement Building
Fri, 06/25/2010 – 1:00pm – 5:00pm, Cobo Hall: D2-10

Italy

Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, September 22, 8:30

Ciclomundi, The National Bicycle Travel Festival
Siena, September 24, 25 and 26, 2010

Modo Infoshop, Bologna, Sept. 27, 9 pm

Utopia Bookshop, Milano, Sept. 29

Shake Edizioni, Milano, Sept. 30 with Matteo Guarnaccia

University of Milano, Oct. 1, 5-7:30, meeting with precarious researchers collective

Carroponte Festival, Scighera and Arci, Milano, Oct. 2, 7 pm

CSOA il Molino, Lugano, Switzerland, Oct. 3

Ascoli Piceno, Marche, October 5-6

Good Bike Festival, Rome, October 8-10

Brazil

TedxAmazonia, November 6-7, Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil

2009 Tour Dates

Mon., January 12 7 pm, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA

Fri. Jan. 30 3:30-5:30 pm, World Social Forum, Belem, Brazil

Thurs. Feb. 5 1 pm, Google Lunch Klatsch, Los Angeles

Friday Feb. 6 12:30 pm-3, FarmLab, Los Angeles

Friday Feb. 6 7:30 pm, LA Ecovillage

Sat. Feb. 7 10 am-noon BikeTalk internet radio killradio.org

Sat. Feb. 7 7:30 pm BookSoup, West Hollywood

Mon. Feb. 9 “Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way! Art, Activism and Dissent” California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA

Thurs. March 5, 6 pm, SF Public Library: “Evolve 2009–San Francisco:  Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Sun. March 15, 1:30 pm, Anarchist Book Fair, SF County Building

Sat. March 21, 8 pm, Artists Television Access

Thurs., April 2 Arcades project, Cardiff Wales, UK

Fri, Apr. 3, evening, Bristol, St. Werburghs Community Centre

Sat. Apr. 4, 4-5 pm Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Haldon Forest Park, Exeter, followed by dinner in Totnes

Sun. Apr. 5, 3 pm 56a Infoshop, London

Mon. Apr. 6, 7:30 pm Pogo Cafe, North London

Tues. 7th April 5:30pm, MA Activism and Social Change seminar, Leeds, Geography Lecture Theatre, East Building

Wed. Apr. 8, 7 pm, Casa, Initiative Factory Liverpool (replaced with Foundation for Art and Creative Technology interview/conversation)

Thurs. Apr. 9, 6pm-8pm, Manchester, I Bike MCR, MR1 Manchester University Students Union building

Fri. Apr. 10, 7 pm, 1 in 12, Bradford, 21-23 Albion St.

Sat. Apr. 11, 6 pm, Lancaster, England The Dukes Cinema

Sun. Apr. 12, 4:30 pm, Newcastle, England, Star and Shadow Cinema (cancelled due to nice weather!)

Mon. Apr. 13, 7:30 pm Glasgow, Scotland Mono Cafe

Wed. April 15: 6 pm, Word Press Bookstore; 9 pm, Forest Cafe, Edinburgh, Scotland

Sat. April 18: 3 pm Left Forum, Counter Culture Industries: Capitalist, Anti-capitalist, Non-capitalist New York City

Wed, April 22, Global Politics, Global Social Movements, University of San Francisco

April 28: UC Santa Cruz, 12 noon, Introduction to Community Studies; 4:30 pm, Center for Cultural Studies

Thurs, May 21: Stanford University, Writing the Bicycle class

Tues. May 26: UC Santa Cruz, bicycling politics class

Sept. 18-20 2nd Congreso Nacional de Ciclismo Urbano, Guadalajara, Mexico

Friday, November 6: 1-3 pm Center for the Arts (CFA 112) University at Buffalo, North Campus

Friday, November 6: 7-10 pm, Sugar City, 19 Wadsworth (in Allentown), Buffalo, NY

November 25: 7 pm, Ungdomshuset on Dortheavej 61, Copenhagen, Denmark

November 28: 2 pm, Agitatoria 20: Social Change, Not Climate Change, Humla, Oslo, Norway

December 5: 5 pm, Kafé 44, Stockholm, Sweden

 

2008 Tour Dates

Wed. April 9, 2008 CounterPULSE, San Francisco, 7:30, opening party

Wed., April 16, SmackDab, Magnet, 18th and Collingwood, 8 pm

Wed., April 23, Against The Grain Radio (KPFA) 12 noon

Thurs. April 24, Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, 7:30

Tues. April 29, Penn State University, FreezeThaw group

Wed. April 30 Mudd Puddle Coffee Shop, Frederick, Maryland, 7 pm

Thurs. May 1, Brian McKenzie Infoshop, 7:00 p.m., 1426 9th Street NW WDC 20001

Fri. May 2 Red Emmas’ Books, Baltimore Maryland

Sat. May 3 Bindlestiff Books, Philadelphia, PA

Sun. May 4 Wooden Shoe Books, Philadelphia, PA

Wed., May 7 Columbia Univ. Teachers Coll. Symposium, 12-2 pm

Fri. May 9 Brecht Forum, New York City

Mon. May 12 VoxPop Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY

Wed. May 14 Bluestockings Books, New York City

Thurs. May 15 Food For Thought, Amherst, Massachusetts

Fri. May 16 Symposium Books, Boston, MA

Sat. May 17 Lucy Parsons Center, Boston, MA, 7 pm

Mon. May 19 Symposium Books, Providence, Rhode Island, 6 p.m.

May 22-28 Milan, Italy (Torchiera Cottage May 24)

May 29 Rome, Italy (Flexi Libreria) Intergalactic Critical Mass!)

Thurs., June 5 AK Press warehouse, Oakland, CA 7:30

Mon., June 9 Take Back the Commons Talk 6 pm

Thurs., June 12 City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA 7:30

Sat. June 14 Tsunami Books, Eugene, Oregon, 5 p.m.

Mon. June 16 Powells Books, Hawthorne Street, Portland, Oregon

June 16-19 Towards Carfree Cities Conference, Portland, OR

Fri. June 20 Last Word Books, Olympia Washington

Sun. June 22 Elliott Bay Books, Seattle WA

Mon. June 23 Left Bank Books, Seattle, WA, 7 pm

Thurs June 26 Spartacus Books, Vancouver BC Canada, 7 pm

Sat. June 28 Camas Collective Infoshop, Victoria BC, 5 pm

Sat., Aug 16, 11 a.m. San Francisco Writing For Change Conference

Thurs., Aug 21, 6 pm The Abundance League

Sat., Aug. 23, 7 pm Red Hill Books, Bernal Heights, San Francisco

TORONTO

Thursday, Sept. 4 Chris Carlsson in conversation with Spacing‘s Matt Blackett @ CineCycle A This Is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, AK Press, Critical Mass and EYE WEEKLY.

Friday, September 5 Guest Reader at Dufferin Grove Park. Hosted by Friends of Dufferin Grove Park

Saturday, September 6– Informal meet and greet and eat (snacks & beer) with Toronto’s community of bike bloggers. Hosted by the Toronto Cyclists Union. Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. West

Sunday, September 7 This Ain’t The Rosedale Library

Monday, September 8 Bread and Roses Cafe in Skydragon Community Development Center, Hamilton, Ontario.

Thurs., Sept. 11 Conflux Festival, New York City

Sat., Sept. 13, Highland Park, NJ

Mon., Sept. 15, “Engineering Ethics” and “Intro to Media Studies” classes at Rensallaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Mon., Sept. 15, Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY

Wed., Oct. 1, MFA Seminar  “Public Strategies”, California College of the Arts.

Wed. Nov. 5, Geography Dept. Symposium, San Francisco State University

Tues. Nov. 11, “Frameworks of Art and Urbanism” San Francisco Art Institute

Wed. Dec. 3, “The Contested City” San Francisco Art Institute