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Upcoming Events

October 19th
Punk Out Jazz Off!!!

Every Thursday @ 6:30
Black Rose Collective Meeting

Subscribe to the Black Rose Events email list @ riseup.net.

Opening Hours

    • 11-7 Thursday
    • 11-7 Friday
    • 11-5 Saturday
    • 11-5 Sunday
    • accessibility: There are three steps at the entrance. The toilet is not easily accessible.

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Black Rose Events

Submitted by nerdynerd on Mon, 21/07/2008 - 6:05am.

Black Rose hosts the Black Rose collective meetings every Thursday night at 6:30 pm. Movie nights are the first Sunday of every month, 5 pm in Autumn and Winter and later in Spring and Summer. Check here for upcoming films and other Black Rose events.

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Next Regular Black Rose Film Night

Submitted by nerdynerd on Fri, 03/10/2008 - 11:43pm.

November the 2nd @ 6.30,

Leila Khaled: Hijacker. About the Hijacking of TWA flight 840 in 1969. The destination was Tel Aviv, Israel. A short while after take off Leila Khaled leaves her seat and threatens the crew with hand grenades and enters the cockpit. She takes hold of the microphone;

"Ladies and gentlemen, your attentions please, kindly fasten your seat belts. This is your new Captain speaking. The Che Guevara commando unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine..."

www.leilakhaled.com

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BATTLE IN SEATTLE MOVIE SCREENING

Submitted by nerdynerd on Fri, 03/10/2008 - 11:40pm.

October the 26th @ 6.30
$5 donation

Black Rose will be screening Battle In Seattle. A hollywood version of the intense and inspiring events of 1999 when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meetings in Seattle were shut down by a large cross-section of the american community - families, unions, lawyers, eco-activists, anti-racist groups and anarchists :) protesting the existence of the WTO amidst volleys of rubber bullets and tear gas from riot squad police.

www.battleinseattlemovie.com/

this film is directed, written and produced by Stuart Townsend, the same person who directed The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Aeon Flux and is the voice of Lucky Charms Leprechaun on Robot Chicken.

because of daylight savings, throughout summer movie times at black rose will be at 6:30

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Pop Your Corn its Movie Time Again!

Submitted by nerdynerd on Thu, 25/09/2008 - 11:21am.

Be Kind Rewind - Michael Gondry (2008)

From the director who in 2006 posted a Youtube video of himself solving a rubiks cube with his feet

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16v4r_michel-gondry-solve-rubik-cube-w...

and then in 2007 with his nose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8XedMowDU

Comes the feel good community tale of a small VHS only video store facing foreclosure in a poor community (Pasaic, New Jersey). While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee's friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques.

the coming together of a poor community in the face of class struggle,
big business threats and local government red tape.

its a good laugh and a good cry.

it’ll make you want to go and shoot the movie yourself!

October 5th @ 5pm for $5 (maybe start at 5:30)
pop corn might be provided

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Vegan Bake Off + Tea Party!

Submitted by nerdynerd on Sun, 07/09/2008 - 1:52am.

21st September @ 2pm

Get your aprons ready! Black Rose Collective's next amazingly tasty event involves cooking by YOU! Enter a Cake, Muffin(s), Pie, Dessert or other baked good of your choice for your chance to win a prize.

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Climate Change Discussion

Submitted by nerdynerd on Sun, 07/09/2008 - 1:40am.

Next in our monthly discussions at Black Rose. Post-Climate Camp and the environment. What is happening collectively (locally and globally) what support does this require, how this relates to a revolutionary politic and why that connection -and action- is important.

Saturday 11th October @ 2pm

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Redfern History Double Feature

Submitted by nerdynerd on Sun, 31/08/2008 - 3:57am.

September 7th @ 5pm

Lukey's Biased History of Sydney - Kellots Street

first part of an infinite to come series.
in the 1920's and 30's in inner Sydney, some of the most terrifying criminals in Australia waged war with razor & gun & grog.
Including interview with Larry, writer of 'Razor'

“Waterloo”- a 50 minute documentary completed in 1981, is an historical account of the 1970’s battle by residents of this inner Sydney suburb to save the area from slum clearance and redevelopment by public housing authorities.
In the early 70’s the state government initiated a massive scheme to pull down inner city terraces (slums) to build the new public housing estates that the government now wants to redevelop. “Waterloo” sets out to understand the residents fight-back in terms of the history of the suburb itself: The poverty and overcrowding at the turn of the century, and the impractical, idealistic solutions proposed by the planners. It also looks at Waterloo in the context of urban housing struggles in Sydney: the anti-eviction campaigns of the 30’s, the rise of the Resident Action movement in the late 60’s and the alliance it formed with building unions resulting in the now world famous Green Bans.
In the process the film reveals the history of the Housing Commission and the inner city Labor machine, prompting questions about the planning process, community involvement and bureaucratic accountability. How did the Housing Commission, a public housing authority set up by the State Labor Government in the forties, get to the stage of evicting workers to build more public housing?

http://www.tomzubrycki.com/

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AIDEX/APSDE Information + Discussion

Submitted by nerdynerd on Mon, 18/08/2008 - 8:59am.

Film screening & discussion, with footage from the 1991 AIDEX protests:
Sunday August 31
5pm

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A Vegan Debate at Black Rose

Submitted by nerdynerd on Thu, 14/08/2008 - 8:05am.

The Black Rose Collective have some members who eat vegan diets and some who do not, but this debate is not about us!

It's a chance for anyone in the community to come and share their views on the speciesist nature of carnism or the elitist ignorance of veganism, all in reference to revolutionary politics of course! oh yea and to partake in some great vegan food and beer.

2pm Saturday the 23rd of August

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Poetry + Spoken Word

Submitted by nerdynerd on Tue, 22/07/2008 - 1:25pm.

Friday 25 July 6-9pm

Melbourne poet PI OH talks about literature, culture & anarchism in Australia + spoken word + open mike

$5 (or something like) entry @ Black Rose

(a joint presentation from Black Rose & Jura: your two local anarchist infoshops)

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Black Rose Film Night

Submitted by nerdynerd on Tue, 22/07/2008 - 10:12am.

Sunday August 3rd

Office Space
5 pm, $5 Donation Requested
@ Black Rose, Snacks Provided

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Black Rose Film Night

Submitted by nerdynerd on Mon, 21/07/2008 - 6:07am.

Sunday July 6th

Sacco and Vanzetti
5 pm, $5 Donation Requested
@ Black Rose, Snacks Provided

Immigration. Justice. Ethnicity. Politics.

A film by Peter Miller, Sacco and Vanzetti tells the story of two Italian born anarchists executed for a murder in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. Millions of people and unions in the US and around the world protested on their behalf. Still relevant, the voices of Sacco and Vanzetti are read by John Turtorro and Tony Shalhoub with Howard Zinn, Arlo Guthrie, Studs Terkel and others ... (2006)

"A first-rate, engrossing documentary. The parallels with today are chilling and depressing." - Flaunt Magazine

Check out the film's website: http://www.willowpondfilms.com/sacco_and_vanzetti.html

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Black Rose / Jura Books Fundraiser

Submitted by nerdynerd on Mon, 21/07/2008 - 6:06am.

Sunday June 14th

It's on again! The second whenever-we-feel-like-it fundraiser for Sydney's two anarchist infoshops, Black Rose and Jura. Featuring the insurgent sounds of

  • Hee Haw (yep, they're playing again!)
  • Melaleuca Memorial
  • Squid
  • Do Not Resuscitate and (our very own)
  • Voting with Bricks.

All happening at 1pm on Sunday, June 15th in Jura Books (440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham). $5 entry and snacks provided.

Did you miss the show? No worries! Check out this Voting with Bricks Youtube video: To the Wanderers

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Black Rose sits on Aboriginal Land. We would like to Acknowledge the Gadigal people who are the Traditional Custodians of this Land. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present of the Yura Nation and extend that respect to other Aboriginals present.


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