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Calendar of Events - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
7:00 pm
 - 8:45 pm
Bike documentary: Return of the Scorcher (and more!)
Skull Alley, 1017 E. broadway

(A fundraiser for the Bike Bike Southeast! conference coming March 19-21). This half-hour documentary looks at bike culture and bike lifestyles around the world, touching on romance, rebellion, early feminism, and spirituality.

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Friday, March 12, 2010
7:00 pm
 - 10:00 pm
Mevel and the Movement
1101 So. 2nd St.

The circuit is gonna throw you some sound... be around... $5

Saturday, March 13, 2010
4:00 pm
 - 10:00 pm
BRYCC Big Love Appreciation Dinner
First Unitarian Church

4pm Meet and Greet local non-profits and volunteer groups 5pm Silent Auction Begins 6pm Dinner and Entertainment

6:00 pm
 - 9:00 pm
Earthsave Vegetarian/Vegan Potluck with Tom Fitzgerald
German-Paristown Neighborhood Center, 1094 E. Kentucky St. (next to St. Therese Catholic Church.)

Vegetarian/vegan) Bring your own placesetting = $2, else $3. And $8 with no food or placesetting. No one turned away. These potlucks are open to the public. 7PM Presentation by Tom Fitzgerald, JD on KY Legislative issues dealing with environment/ecology (http://www.kyrc.org) 8PM DVD of food/enviro/ethics and some karaoke/guitar picking and general frolicking around

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6:00 pm
 - 10:00 pm
Valley Hill General Store: Sustainable Building Potluck
Valley Hill General Store, 65 Valley Hill Road Springfield, Ky 40069

We will share ideas, look at books, and play with the modeling clay. This is the perfect time to bring pictures, sketches, stories, books, or anything else you have that has inspired a project that you would like to start.

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7:00 pm
 - 11:30 pm
Goth Night
Brycc House Community Center 1101 South 2nd Street

join the DJ's here at the house...

Sunday, March 14, 2010
3:00 pm
 - 5:00 pm
Open Studio
Brycc House 1101 South 2nd St.
4:00 pm
 - 6:00 pm
Poetry Reading & Book Signing with Martha Greenwald, Author of Other Prohibited Items
Carmichael's Bookstore -- 2720 Frankfort Avenue

Sunday, March 14th at 4 PM, we are pleased to host a reading by Martha Greenwald from her debut book of poems, Other Prohibited Items. Greenwald teaches creative writing at the University of Louisville. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

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5:30 pm
 - 7:00 pm
Board of Directors Meeting
Brycc House 1101 South 2nd St.

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7:00 pm
 - 10:00 pm
Tentative Concert: Sabrina
Brycc House Community Center

This show may happen... contact organized.crime.booking@gmail.com

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
6:00 pm Sustainable City Series: Sustainable University
Glassworks, 815 W Market Street

Take a look at the critical role universities play in regional sustainability. Free, but limited seating. RSVP now!

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
7:00 pm
 - 10:00 pm
Hollywood Lies, Under Red Skies and Small Talk
Brycc House Community Center 1101 South 2nd Street

Hollywood Lies is Rock-n-Roll from Boston MA

Friday, March 19, 2010
  thru Sunday, March 21, 2010
Bike!Bike! Southeast
The Brick House, 1101 South Second St.,
Workshops relating to welding, bike repair and maintenance, yoga, bicyclists nutrition, safe spaces, and more. http://bikebikesoutheast.wordpress.com/(more)
Saturday, March 20, 2010
4:00 pm
 - 6:00 pm
Carmichael's Hosts Event for the MS Society
Carmichael's Bookstore -- 2720 Frankfort Avenue

Saturday, March 20th at 4 PM Carmichael's will host an event with the MS Society for Cami Walker's book The 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life.

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7:00 pm
 - 10:00 pm
The Right Now Band... Bloomington
Brycc House Community Center 1101 South 2nd Street


..this is a tentative booking from Bloomington...

Sunday, March 21, 2010
3:00 pm
 - 5:00 pm
Open Studio
Brycc House 1101 South 2nd St.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
7:00 pm
 - 9:00 pm
Reading & Book Signing with Sarabh Addison Allen, Author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Carmichael's Bookstore -- 2720 Frankfort Avenue

Wednesday, March 24th at 7 PM, we welcome book club favorite Sarah Addison Allen for a reading from her newest novel, The Girl Who Chased the Moon.

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Friday, March 26, 2010
7:00 pm
 - 9:00 pm
Reading & Discussion of the book My Times in Black & White
Carmichael's Bookstore -- 2720 Frankfort Avenue

Friday, March 26th at 7 PM, writer Robin Stone, wife of New York Times editor Gerald Boyd will discuss her late husband's book My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times.

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Saturday, March 27, 2010
8:00 am
 - 12:00 pm
Citywide Community Cleanup

Brightside/UPS Community-Wide Cleanup. Register early and get tshirts and cleaning supplies.

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4:00 pm
 - 6:00 pm
The Great Louisville Tornado of 1890
Carmichael's Bookstore -- 2720 Frankfort Avenue

On March 27th, 1890 a devastating storm moved over the Ohio River Valley, spawning dozens of tornadoes.

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7:00 pm
 - 11:30 pm
Goth Night
Brycc House Community Center 1101 South 2nd Street
8:00 pm From Slavery to Freedom: An evening of Negro spirituals, contemporary gospel songs, and spoken word
Bomhard Theater, Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, 501 W. Main St.

Cotter Homes Theater Group presents: Actor and recording artist TC Carson (Kyle Barker of the hit television show Living Single) hosts an evening of Negro Spirituals and contemporary gospels in "From Slavery to Freedom". $22.50

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Monday, March 29, 2010
6:30 pm
 - 8:00 pm
Trolley Hop Talk... Textile Terrains
Brycc House 1101 South 2nd St.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
7:00 pm
 - 10:00 pm
Jason Ajemian & the HighLife
Brycc House Community Center 1101 South 2nd Street

Freakadelic... the band is from NYC & CHICAGO

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
7:00 pm
 - 9:00 pm
Discussion & Book Signing with Lynn Reardon, Author of Beyond the Homestretch
Carmichael's Bookstore -- 2720 Frankfort Avenue

Please join us on Wednesday, March 31st at 7 PM as author Lynn Reardon tells the story of her transformation from office drone to racehorse whisperer.

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Saturday, April 10, 2010
8:30 am
 - 1:00 pm
Central Park Improvement Day
Central Park

Calling on neighbors and people who think that our Central Park is a special place: Come out and help us do some grounds keeping.

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Noize Collective
Help book, plan, organize, and run our all-ages concerts!
Freewheel Bike Workshop
Help put people on bikes. We make and repair bicycles and show others how to do so. Join us Thursday Nights 7-9pm
Library Collective
Organize and restock our lending library.
Garden Collective
Join our community to learn more about composting, seasonal cultivation, nutrition while making our urban greenspaces a place to enjoy!
Green Collective
Working for a sustainable world.
Art Activities
KYWAC Arts Workshop and Open Studio.
DIY Building Committee
Join us this summer in repairing and restoring our humble abode.
Radio Collective
Rattle the airwaves with wxbh.org! Sign up for station training and weekly shows broadcast live in Southeast Jefferson County...

Check out some of our groups and collectives:

Radio

WXBH Radio

We meet at 1 p.m. this Saturday, March 6, at Rainbow Blossom Food Store (upstairs meeting room), Gardiner Lane Shopping Center. Join us and help build a DIY community radio station for Southeast Jefferson County!

Louisville_Music

Music in and of Louisville

Place for musicians and music lovers to post tube video and links to music.

Garden

Garden Collective

The Brickhouse Garden Collective would like to start meeting up again at least twice a month starting in March. Please post to our forum with a day and time that would be best for us to do so. Thanks, --Christina

What is the Brick House?

  • a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering self-reliance, individual expression, and a "do-it-yourself" attitude.
  • an umbrella organization that sustains and nurtures a number of autonomous DIY groups dedicated to creative, educational, and charitable purposes.
  • owner of the Brick House DIY Community Center, a free space located in the very center of Louisville, which serves as an office, meeting space, and event venue and which houses a library on civic and social subjects.

    Our building is not in the best of shape, but we own it and hope to keep it as a dedicated free space forever. Join us and help us fix it up, establish some ongoing income to pay off the mortgage, and make something great happen here in Louisville!
  • an experiment in social organization. We are trying to evolve an organizational system that is both open and effective. We're still working on it. It's an idea worth hanging on to.

Who is the Brick House?

You are if you participate in any of our activities (including this web site)!

We're all in this together: We believe in autonomy and individual expression and we oppose hierarchy and oppression (of the strong over the weak and of the forceful over the rational).

We work to avoid the human tendency to let the organization (or any of our groups) be dominated by a clique. And we try to integrate this "egalitarianism" with a recognition of the proper role for leadership and initiative. Finding the balance is key. We're working on it. It's a challenge. (You do like challenges, don't you?)

  • Our groups are autonomous.
  • Week-to-week operations of the larger organization are addressed at periodic assembly meetings, open to all and where each group should send at least one representative. (Assemblies are usually held on the first Sunday, but check the calendar to confirm both time and location.)
  • Responsibility for longer range viability of the organization lies with the corporate board of directors.
  • Currently we have nine out of a possible fifteen members on the board. Moreover these same people tend to be the ones who show up for assembly. Yes, we are in danger of devolving into a clique, and none of us want that.

We invite you to be a part of the Brick House. And if you are already an active member, consider applying to be a board member.

How can I get involved with the Brick House?

Start by registering on this web site, joining some groups that interest you, and interacting ... or trying to. (Activity varies from week to week.) For good measure, join our email discussion list.

We're a pretty freewheeling bunch with not a lot of structure, so unfortunately you won't get a warm response from a welcoming committee. That doesn't mean we are being stand-offish, just that ... well ... that there's nobody actually in charge. We could use a few good leaders, so if you like our ideals and welcome a challenge, don't wait for an invitation; just start showing up and figure out how you can be productive. Persist. We need you. Louisville needs something like what we are or will soon become. Help make it happen.

Adopt a room, or a project, or a mop and broom. (We could use a few focused people with skills in administration, accounting, fund-raising, law, green architecture and building technology, publicity, maintainance, computers, Linux, web and email administration, et cetera etc.)

A good time to show up is early Sunday evening. We hold our monthly assembly on the first Sunday of each month. Our monthly board meeting is on the second Sunday. And on the third and fourth Sundays we hold special assemblies/committee meetings on outreach and finance/fund-raising. Check our calendar for the exact times and to confirm the location. (We often move to Old Louisville Coffee House or another nearby venue if the building is too hot or cold.)

If you believe in DIY self-reliance, there's a place at the Brick House for you!

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