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The Flying Squirrel Community Space exists to provide a welcoming space that will cultivate and sustain long lasting relationships between artists, activists, and community members in Rochester so that we may work together to create positive social change. More about us. Check out the current Flying Squirrel Member Groups that use the space.

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Ken Russell Film Series for January 2012!

There is a free upcoming Ken Russell Film Festival that you should know about.

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The Rochester Ken Russell Film Festival
- In Memory of Ken Russell, who recently died November 27th, 2011

4 Films on 4 Mondays from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
* Free and open to the Public *
Jan 9 - Women in Love

Lots of great things happening at the Squirrel this weekend!

On Friday, October 14, 7pm: Come watch COINTELPRO 101--a 56-min. documentary about the government program called COINTELPRO. Claude Marks, the director, will be on hand for Q&A. 

On Saturday, October 15, 9AM-Noon: Take Back the Land Rochester is having a PANCAKE and WAFFLE brunch! Come out and support them! Sliding scale donation welcome.

Finally, on Sunday, October 16, from 4PM-6PM: Jessica and Cal will be presenting TRANS 101/Anti-Transphobia Workshop! Many people, including those who run in activist/anti-oppression circles, are largely entirely unaware or only peripherally aware of transgender issues. As a result, many trans* people feel alienated from these communities, even though, logically, it seems we should all be standing together in solidarity to end ALL forms of oppression.


For more events at the Squirrel, check out the calendar! Also, click "read more" to see full descriptions of these events!

David Rovics Live at the Squirrel; Oct 1st 8pm

David Rovics Live!
Saturday, October 1
8 pm
The Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St., Rochester NY

100 Thousand Poets for Change at the Flying Squirrel Community Space!

Read whats going on at this monumental international poetry event! Check out what's happened and what will happen tonight! Read more at Rochester.Indymedia.org or come down to the Flying Squirrel Community Space! 285 Clarissa St.

12:22pm: Happening now at the Flying Squirrel Community Space (285 Clarissa St.). 11AM - 10PM. All poets artists and musicians in the Rochester and WNY region are invited to join this world-wide, creative action for change. In Rochester, we will cook, serve, perform, and share the call for an end to hunger and homelessness in our communities.


12:26PM: Colleen Powderly is currently reading poetry upstairs. Rochester Indymedia is recording the event; it will be put up on our Blip.TV channel at IndyTV.Blip.TV. Rochester Indymedia is also having a fundraising bake sale. Currently we have vegan zucchini bread ($1), Oreo cookie packs ($1), and fair-trade, organic coffee ($.50). Different items will be appearing throughout the day.

Tesla Appreciation and Lo(w) Falls Film Fest!

Tonight! August 13, 2011! Tesla Appreciation Show and Zine Release Party!

Come out and celebrate the life of the famous and mysterious Croatian-born, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla! Snacks, bands, and performance art! Also, pick up a copy of the second edition of "The Unlikely—yet True—Love of Nikola Tesla and Captain Ahab"!
 
Saturday, August 13 · 6:00pm - 10:30pm (doors open at 5:30pm)
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
Rochester, NY

$2 Suggested Donation at the door--all money to benefit the squirrel. No one turned away for lack of funds.

A Tesla Coil will be demonstrated as well!! (See below for more details!)

The 3rd Annual Lo(w) Falls Film Festival!

That's right folks--the third annual Lo(w) Falls Film Festival is right around the corner! Submissions welcomed from local folks making local film shorts over the past year--could be fiction or non-fiction! Everyone wins with the Lo(w) Falls Film Festival! Local talent will be displayed on the wall at the Flying Squirrel Community Space. Pieces shouldn't be longer than 40 minutes. Bring your submissions to the screening--dvd, vhs, or other formats.
 
We just received this trailer of an upcoming submission to the film fest:
"Boots Bonanza: The Gold Hill Hustle"; Link----> http://blip.tv/thesquirrel/trailer-for-boots-bonanza-the-gold-hill-hustle-5464416

Flying Squirrel Arts Festival

Flying Squirrel Arts Festival July 9th 10am-5pm

285 Clarissa st

 

 

First annual Flying Squirrel Arts Festival

Local artists selling handmade drums, jewlery, paintings, zines, hula hoops, baked goods, many other creations. come out!

Calling all artists! Flying Squirrel Arts festival

Calling all artists! July 9th 10am-5pm (running concurrent with Corn Hill arts festival)

On behalf of the Flying Squirrel Community Space, Dawn Zuppelli and I are hosting the Flying Squirrel Arts Festival! We are looking for arts and crafts vendors willing to participate by selling artwork or othercreative creations.

Craft/Zine Fair #1

It's a Dudes and Drones kind of weekend! (and some other great stuff!)

Not sure what to do this weekend? Well, there's plenty going on at the Flying Squirrel! As the title of this blog post suggests, this weekend the Squirrel will host the Contemporary Dude Theory Symposium (free pizza! vegan and nonvegan!) (http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/events/choice/2011/06/LECTURE-Contemporary-Dude-Theory-Symposium-6-5/) as well as an Upstate New York Coalition meeting to ground the drones and end the wars (http://rochester.indymedia.org/newswire/display/27047/index.php). Both of these are happening on Sunday, June 5, from 10am - 4pm.

Also, if neither of those strikes your fancy, then check out Big Fuzzy (the Boston-based acoustic duo -- http://bigfuzzy.bandcamp.com/) on Saturday, June 4th at 7pm. Also on Saturday, there is a Nonviolent Communication Empathy Practice Circle (http://thesquirrel.org/node/581) from 2-5pm. Come out and enjoy!

Indymedia Public Press Room/ Work Day

Saturday, March 5th 12-4pm
Flying Squirrel Infoshop and IMC office
285 Clarissa St

Game Night is Dead, Long Live Games and Cafe!

Game night is over, from now on we're playing games Sunday Afternoon!  Here's the scoop:

This Sunday afternoon: Come to the squirrel to play games, drink free coffee and tea, and enjoy the beautiful February Weather(*)!

Bring a board game, or just come on and play with us. Games and Cafe will be like Game night, but way better. Let's face it, the afternoon is the time to play games, drink coffee, hang out, and lounge.

Hope to see you there!

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