WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON at REVOLUTION BOOKS…
| VIDEOS OF SOME PREVIOUS STORE EVENTS |
we host over 100 events annually. here are some of them:
An Evening of Conscience for CALIFORNIA PRISON HUNGER STRIKERS and TRAYVON MARTIN featuring Arturo O’Farrill, James Vrettos, Car Dix, Noche Diaz..
Discussion of "Dread Scott: Decision" a piece created by Dread Scott and performed at BAM. Panel includes Mallory Catlett, Lawrence Graham Brown, Roc Belizaire. First of a new series hosted by Andy Zee: "A Culture of Revolt... Revolutionary Art -- Discussions on Creating a Liberating Culture." June 4, 2013
Author reading Tom Wilber on his new book "Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale." May 22, 2013
A Discussion between CORNEL WEST & CARL DIX: "MASS INCARCERATION + SILENCE = GENOCIDE. aCT TO STOP IT NOW" May 20, 2013
RAYMOND LOTTA on NAT TURNER OR THOMAS JEFFERSON?
Slave rebellion or slave master?, May 7, 2013
Film Screening: "After Innocence" with producer Marc Simon, Edwin Grimsley, Andy Zee May 6, 2013
Author reading Pamela Olson on her new book "Fast Times in Palestine" April 28, 2013
Film Screening: "The Loving Story" with director Nancy Buirski April 16, 2013
Film Premiere: "BA Speaks: Revolution--Nothing Less"
A Film of a talk by Bob Avakian screened at AMC Magic Johnson 9 Harlem Theater, March 16, 2013
"The Future of Women Depends On Us!" Talk by Revolution correspondent Sunsara Taylor
“Israel's Murderous Assault on the People in Gaza…And the Need to Oppose These Crimes NOW” Talk by Revolution correspondent Alan Goodman
“WHY A NATURAL DISASTER BECAME A SOCIAL DISASTER” Talk on Hurricane Sandy by RAYMOND LOTTA, November 2012
Author reading “JOHN CAGE” by ROBERT HASKINS, September 2012
Performance of Mike Milligan’s “MERCY KILLERS,” Benefit for Revolution Books, August 2012
Dialogue between JAMES CONE (“The Cross and the Lynching Tree”) and ANTHONY PINN (The End of God-Talk: An African-American Humanist Theology”), moderated by SUNSARA TAYLOR
Performance of Wallace Shawn’s “THE FEVER” by actor DAVID SHAPIRO, Benefit for Revolution Books, July 2012
Political Disobedience vs. Revolution: An Exchange and Debate with Bernard Harcourt and Raymond Lotta, July 2012
Panel on “FOOD AND FADWA” with Jacob Kader, Nancy Vitale, Andromache Chalfant, and ANDY ZEE, joint project with New York Theatre Workshop at Revolution Books June 2012
Panel on “AN ILIAD’ with DENIS O’HARE, LISA PETERSON, KATHLEEN CHALFANT, and ANDY ZEE, joint project with New York Theatre Workshop at Revolution Books, March 2012
Tour of Romare Bearden art exhibition at Nathan Cummings Foundation: DIEDRA HARRIS-KELLEY and Dr. Robert O’Meally
“On the Occasion of the Publication of BAsics: A CELEBRATION OF REVOLUTION AND THE VISION OF NEW WORLD” with DAVID MURRAY, MATTHEW SHIPP, WILLIAM PARKER, HERB BOYD, MAGGIE BROWN, MALUCA., 400 people at Harlem Stage, April 11, 2011
An Evening with JUNOT DIAZ - A benefit for Revolution Books at Community Church with 400 people
WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS A forum with Carl Dix, Bill Quigley (Center for Constitution Rights) and Andy Zee, December 21, 2010
JUSTIN CROCKETT ELZIE, first Marine to come out under “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”— new memoir “PLAYING BY THE RULES” December 16, 2010
URBAN WORD POETRY TEAM – National slam champions seen on HBO’s “Brave New Voices” December 15, 2010
GLEN E. FRIEDMAN, photographer, author “FUCK YOU HEROES” “THE IDEALIST” “RECOGNIZE”
December 14, 2010
CAROL LUI, “ARLENE ON THE SCENE” - December 11, 2010
TED RALL, “The Anti-American Manifesto” - November 18, 2010
CHRIS HEDGES, “THE DEATH OF THE LIBERAL CLASS”
November 8, 2010 Opening Book Release Party, a benefit for Revolution Books
“THE AGE OF OBAMA, PART 2: POLICE TERROR, NO JOBS, INCARCERATION, MIS-EDUCATION: WHAT FUTURE FOR OUR YOUTH?” A dialogue between CORNEL WEST AND CARL DIX
October 29, 2010 Over 700 people at Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall in Harlem.
DAVID HARVEY Paperback release event for“A Companion to Marx's Capital”
September 9, 2010 Over 200 people at PS 41, a benefit for Revolution Books
EMERGENCY FORUM: Gaza Freedom Flotilla Massacre with Alan Goodman, Chris Hedges, Abdeen Jabara, Joel Kovel, Adam Shapiro, Andy Zee
June 1, 2010 – Forum held 2 days after the massacre
RAYMOND LOTTA , “A CAPITALIST OIL SPILL... A SYSTEM NOT FIT TO BE THE CARETAKER OF THE PLANET” May 4, 2010
Ngugi wa Thiong'o Release event for “Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir”
April 15, 2010 – At Judson Church, over 250 people, a benefit for Revolution Books
BEVERLY NAIDUS author of “ARTS FOR CHANGE: Teaching Outside the Frame” with Greg Sholette, Emily Caigan, Magdalena Gomez and ANDY ZEE.
March 22, 2010
A Very Merry Un-Birthday Tap Dance Party in honor of JANE GOLDBERG, featuring Lisa LaTouche, and her group L-Touch Tap Phonics: Joseph Webb, Michela Lerman, Sean Jackson
March 18, 2010
MEMORIAL FOR HOWARD ZINN with Andy Zee, Raymond Lotta, Danny Schechter and other friends
February 6, 2010
SUNSARA TAYLOR: “FROM THE BURKHA TO THE THONG: EVERYTHING MUST, AND CAN, CHANGE” February 23, 2010 – New York University and on April 22, 2010 – Barnard College
Raymond Lotta: “Everything You’ve Been Told About Communism is Wrong, Capitalism is a Failure, Revolution is the Solution” April 8, 2010 – Cantor Film Center, Columbia University and October 26, 2009 – New York University
"THE GUANTANAMO LAWYERS" Attorneys MARK DENBEAU and Yvonne R. Bradley
January 28, 2010
“ ‘AFTER CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN,’ WALLY SHAWN READS FROM HIS ESSAYS AND DISCUSSES HUMAN NATURE WITH A COMMUNIST.” A benefit evening with Wally Shawn and Andy Zee. Available on DVD. January 8, 2010