Hey, Heroes!

Here’s the schedule for Hero Fest 2009! See you there!

1:00 PM Slow Bike Race / Cycles in a Second: Bike Maintenance Workshop
2:00 PM Be Yr Own Reporter
3:00 PM Hero Voice
4:00 PM Radical Thinking
5:00 PM “Brake” it Down: Community Building through Synchronized Bicycling
6:00 PM Kim Dicso + POTLUCK (bring something yummy!)
7:00 PM Steph. Dig It.
8:00 PM Jehova’s Fitness (San Diego, CA)
9:00 PM According to Oscar
10:00 PM Little Miss Sabotage & The Cornflowers
11:00 PM Captain #1 (Athens, GA)
12:00 AM Fractal Farm
1:00 AM Ponchos From Peru

1:00 PM Zine Swap / Zine Workshop + The Really Really Free Market
2:00 PM Sign Language Workshop
3:00 PM No H8 NC / Safer Communities Action Now
4:00 PM Dumpster Knitting
5:00 PM The 6th Annual Invisible Bike Race
6:00 PM ElfOwl (Boone, NC) + POTLUCK (bring something yummy!)
7:00 PM Pink Flag (Durham, NC)
8:00 PM Fever & The Fallin’ Rain
9:00 PM Homemade Handgrenade (Tallahassee, FL)
10:00 PM Politics of Confession
11:00 PM The Caucasians / Food World
12:00 AM Photoclub
1:00 AM Pavlichenko

Be Yr Own Hero Fest 2009 is September 5-6 (Labor Day Weekend). All events and workshops begin at 1pm and music starts at 6pm.

The Soapbox Laundro Lounge
255 North Front Street
Downtown Wilmington

Hey, Heroes!

Click on FORUMS (above and to the right) to share any ideas you have for Hero Fest and/or FUN-raisers for the fest.

Right now there is a benefit show scheduled for May 2 (Saturday) at the Juggling Gypsy. Have some ideas for this event? Share!

There is also a thread for discussing a Dance Party FUN-raiser. Share yr ideas to help make it awesome!

And don’t forget about submissions for Hero Fest. Click here to submit, or help spread the word by printing out this flyer.

Since we can’t meet at the Action Center this month, we’re going to switch things up and meet at:

109 Church St, downtown
Wednesday, April 8th
7:00pm

We’ll mostly be planning for the Hero Fest Fundraiser.

If you have other projects you’d like to get the word out about or have other people get involved with, please come to let us know about your projects.

Don’t forget to check out the forums. This is a great way to let everyone know your thoughts and ideas if you can’t make it to the meeting.

Wednesday, March 11th 2009 at 7:00pm @ the Community Action Center (317 Castle St)

Please attend this meeting if you are interested in Hero Fest happening this year.

We will be using Meetup.com  to discuss things online. I’ll try to cross post things onto the blog, but I think we can have a more lively discussion on Meetup. So check that out if you haven’t already: http://www.meetup.com/seacc-ilm/messages/boards/forum/983350

This Tuesday, November 25th at 630 PM will be Part 1 of the Women’s Alternative Health Class. This class will focus on hormonal balance through PMS and Menopause. more information can be found at www.meetup.com/wilmington-herbalists-meetup-group. Classes are held at the Community Action Center on the corner of Castle and 4th st. there is a 10 dollar recommended donation with barter accepted.

Tuesday, December 2nd at 630 pm will be Part 2 of the Women’s Alternative Health Class. This class will feature guest speakers Kirsten Lovan and Danielle Ackley. Topics will include information about being a doula, alternative pregnancy, and radical menstruation.

The Women’s Alternative Health class is a good introduction class, but also an excellent follow up to the Radical Menstruation class at BYOH fest 08.

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.

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

The 2nd Annual Be Your Own Hero (BYOH) Festival will be taking place at the Soapbox in Wilmington, North Carolina September 27-28th 2008. Submissions for workshops, info sessions, skill shares, and musicians are currently being accepted until August 15th, 2008. Volunteers are also needed to help out on the day(s) of the event and/or to join the BYOH Fest Planning Squad.

Please send workshop submissions to herofest@gmail.com with your name, email, phone, organization/collective (if applicable), proposed workshop title & short description, materials needed, and time needed. All other ideas, volunteer availability, and inquiries may also be sent to herofest@gmail.com. We welcome all subjects and we encourage all people to apply, especially those who do not fit neatly into the status quo!

In 2007, Wilmington NC was home to the first Be Your Own Hero Festival, an all day radical Do It Yourself (DIY) Festival held at the Soapbox Laundro Lounge. The Festival included a Really Really Free Market, potluck, workshops, info sessions and live music. 2007’s workshops included: DIY parenting (a radical concept), Basic Bicycle Repair, Truth in Recruiting / Promoting Peace, Social Activism & the Info-Radical Menstruation, Food Politics, Trans 101: Becoming an ally to transgender people, Unconventional Action: Organizing against the DNC/RNC, and DIY DJ Workshop. Bands included: The Brothels, The Nothing Noise, Gator Country, Prize Winners Collective, NED, and Ghost Mice.

For more information on the Be Your Own Hero Festival and Collective, visit www.beyrownhero.com or contact herofest @ gmail.com.

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Be Your Own Hero Fest Workshop Submission Form

Email to herofest @ gmail.com by August 15th, 2008

NAME:

EMAIL:

PHONE:

ORGANIZATION / COLLECTIVE:

PROPOSED WORKSHOP TITLE:

DESCRIPTION:

MATERIALS NEEDED:

TIME NEEDED: choose from 45 minutes, or 1 hour and 45 minutes