Sunday October 26th
12:00 noon
Greenfield Lake Park (near the skatepark and playground)

Cooking for Food Not Bombs is this Saturday. Time and location to be announce. Please join our email list to receive updates.  

Check out the October issue of the Southeast Performer!

The Be Yr Own HeroMovement, a very loosely organized group of young

self-proclaimed anarchists (yes, that’s right), are helping to breath new life into a socio-political school of thought that they say has been lead astray from it’s true meaning over the many years. Focusing on virtues of self-reliance, pro-charity, and anti-big business, the group held its Be Yr Own Hero Festival at The Soapbox this year on September 26-27. Bands with a similar DIY aesthetic helped entertain the crowds, while workshop sessions were held and free food was served. The group still holds its “Really, Really Free Market” at Greenfield

Lake, the last Sunday of every month, starting sometime around noon.

Be Your Own Hero Fest got Encore’s Editor’s Pick in this weeks edition! This is going to be such a great weekend.

Be sure to also check out Friday’s Critical Mass and We Fest Fridays‘ music on all floors of the Soapbox. OMG - can you handle all of this awesomeness?

My heroes tend to people that I know or that are reasonably touchable. This has become more and more true since high school when I got into punk rock and radical activism. I was fortunate enough to experience Wilmington when amazing bands would tour through here and play at places like the Mad Monk, Jamin’s house, my apartment at 4th street and other random houses and short-lived local bars.

The culture that I was immersed in was one where kids were selling handmade zines, self-screened t-shirts or patches, and self-produced records. A majority of the shows were booked by punks, for punks. And the bands would talk in between their songs about a variety social issues. It was a community of people who were actively participating in making and shaping their own culture.

My social consciousness was already hyper-sensitive, and my desire for street-level art and politics was high. At the time I didn’t hang out with bands like Fugazi, 7 Seconds, Milemarker, Orchid, or From Ashes Rise, but they were all close enough to spit on and their passion even closer.

It may be a mix of my being enamored by creative people and living in a small town that has brought me close to a few of my heroes who are in the two bands playing this Thursday at The Whiskey. It may have been the bonding that comes with time spent in sociology classrooms full of unaware fellow students who chose that college because they wanted to be “close to the beach,” or from not being popular enough to eat lunch on the forum with the ‘cool’ kids, or from standing across the crowd at a show being over the pretension but still playing into it.

But it was most likely the time we spent crafting a critique of consumer culture for a DIY performance arts collective, and when we were roommates for a summer sharing dreams of veggie cars with endless possibilities, and when we were insisting on being political when it seemed to be the least popular approach in town.

So now I’m looking forward to going to a show where those ideals are integral to the performance. There will be handmade merch, thoughtful lyrics and possibly an invite to an upcoming activist event. Does that sound like what you’re looking for? Then check out Bellafea and Doly Toro Thursday night at The Whiskey (1 S Front St, Wilmington, North Carolina 28401). Awesomeness starts at 9 pm with high fives to follow.

feel free to post this flyer ALL OVER THE INTERNET!!

A sketch of the guy involved with the attack on a 24 year old girl on 3rd and Market St was released. Here is the sketch. Please keep a look out for him!

Race: Black
Height: 5′7″ - 5′9″
Weight: 185-195 lbs
Hair: Dark
Eyes: Dark
Age: 29 - 34
Build: Stocky
Complexion: Medium Brown

We talked about the BYOH Fest, ideas for workshops, Bicycle Recycery Outreach and Drop offs, Upcoming Events, Radical Mental Health Collective, MORE social gatherings so we can all meet and hang out with each other, Critical Mass and more! Read on for details!

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Monthly Be Yr Own Hero Meeting is tomorrow, August 13th at 7:00pm at the Community Action Center on the corner of 4th and Castle St (where Out Wilmington used to be)

Please come with ideas and bring friends!

email: herofest@gmail.com for more info

Aaron Lawrence, a second-degree black belt in shoshin ryu karate, is offering a free self-defense class from 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 14 at Port City Gymnastics.

The class is open to anyone 14 or older. Lawrence, a part-time karate instructor, said the class will include good safety habits as well as tactics for fending off an attack.

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posted from the Star News