Halloween Critical Mass bike ride

Bring your costumes to the Halloween Critical Mass bike ride!

On Sunday, October 31st, at 11:00am, we will be congregating at West Bend Public Library before leaving for the ride.

Critical Mass bike rides are slow-paced, family friendly rides. We’ll do a couple mile loop around town before coming back to the library. All are welcome!

Read Full Post »

West Bend’s Really Really Free Market

Read Full Post »

Weekly Critical Mass bike rides

West Bend’s Critical Mass bike rides are starting again!

Please meet us at the West Bend Public Library at 11am on Saturday mornings, where we will start our ride.

The goals of this weekly ride are to raise awareness for bicycle rights, to show a large presence of bicyclists, to encourage others to choose bicycling as a basic mode of transportation, and to have a fun ride!

The Critical Mass ride is  slow-paced and family-friendly, so all are invited and encouraged to ride with us.

See you there!

Read Full Post »

Bake Sale, ‘Free Market, and Alleycat Events

Three upcoming events in West Bend:

Bake Sale/Cook-out for Microcosm Fundraiser.

Saturday, July 10th. 10:30 a.m.

Riverside Park. West Bend, WI.

There will be a big bake sale held to help the folks who are bringing Microcosm Publishing to town raise some cash. Please come out and buy some yummy pastries and support this upcoming event! Also, if you’d like to help out, you could bake something and bring it to the park for us to sell.

Really Really Free Market.

Saturday, July 17th. 11 a.m.

Riverside Park. West Bend, WI.

West Bend’s first Really Really Free Market takes place this July! The ‘Free Market is a day of free rummaging. The idea is that folks will bring things to give and find things to take. This event is meant to be leaderless and relatively organization-free. It’s just a bunch of people in a park enjoying themselves and participating in a gift economy. You’ll find more than just “stuff” at the Really Really Free Market. Expect food, festivities, and workshops as well. Hope to see you there.

Crosstown Alleycat Bike Ride

Sunday, July 18th. Registration at 11 a.m. Ride starts at 11:30 a.m.

Regner Park. West Bend, WI.

There will be a crosstown alleycat this month for those who enjoy riding their bicycles (and riding at fast speeds). This will be a “rapid, self-guided” tour of the West Bend area. Those who make it through the checkpoints and back to the park first will receive prizes. After the ride there will be a vegetarian potluck and open forum at Regner Park. Come prepared to ride!

Read Full Post »

New Collective!

Hey all,

Candlelight Collective is opening up in West Bend this July and has just started to develop a website: candlelightcollective.wordpress.com

Please check it out to find out what’s happening with the collective, how you can help, and what events we will be hosting in the future.

Thanks!

Read Full Post »

Distro @ Blessed Feathers show July 2nd

Hey all, on July 2nd Candlelight Distro will be tabling at a Blessed Feathers show at Imagine Cafe in West Bend. All the information about the show is on the flier above. Hope you can make it out to enjoy the wonderful music and maybe pick up some new literature, cd’s, pins, and patches from the distro!

Read Full Post »

Rummage Sale Fundraiser for Collective Space – May 29th

On Saturday, May 29th we will be having a rummage sale in West Bend, WI to raise money for a future collective space/infoshop that will open here in town.

The Rummage sale will be located on Cabrini Circle off of 7th Ave.  It’s a short little cul-de-sac off of the main road. The sale starts at 8am and will  go on all day.

Candlelight Distro will be tabling at the sale and we’ll be having a big sale on a bunch of miscellaneous books, cd’s, and patches.

If you have anything you would like to donate items for the sale, please contact us at: candlelight-distro@riseup.net. Any donations will be extremely helpful and appreciated. We’d also love for you to stop by the sale and say hi.

Now, about the collective: right now it’s in the process of transitioning from a daydream to a reality. We’ve talked about it a good deal and i think we have a general idea of what we’d like from it. Just recently, we’ve acquired a space and started cleaning it out. The next step is setting it up. To do that we’ll need to obtain lots of different things from friends or maybe thrift stores, if we have to (bookshelves, tables, furniture, books and zines for the lending library, etc.) We need help from the community to make this thing happen. Our plans for the space have been inspired a good deal by the Cream City Collectives out of Milwaukee, WI. Check out their website by clicking on the link over in that column to the right. This means that we want to have free literature, a library, screenprinting and other workshop areas, hangout and event space, etc. If this interests you, let us know and we’ll help you get involved!

Anyways, hope to see you all at the rummage sale!

Read Full Post »

Derrick Jensen Q&A in West Bend – May 25th

Environmental activist and author Derrick Jensen will be doing a q&a session with the public via skype-video on May 25, 2010. This event will be held at the University of Wisconsin – Washington County in Room 276 (by the library). It will start at 6pm and go for about two hours. The organizers of this event will be asking for $5-10 dollars donation at the door as this is costing them a good amount of money and they have only made about half of it back so far. Please don’t let that stop you from coming, though. We’re simply trying to fill seats at this point, so if you can’t pay that much you’ll still be let in.

As far as asking Derrick questions goes, many of the organizers have first dibs on asking. This means that they will go first and others will have a chance after them. Please understand that Derrick tends to go pretty deep into the questions asked so it’s possible that time could run out before you have a chance to ask yours. We hope that doesn’t stop you from coming and listening in, anyways.

Thanks to everyone for helping us make this happen and thanks to Derrick for agreeing to do this with us.

See you soon,

R.E.C.A.L.L.

Visit Derrick Jensen’s Website.

Read Full Post »

Calander for May-June

Here’s a R.E.C.A.L.L. (Radical Education for Community Action and Local Liberation) calendar of upcoming-local events for late May and early June:

Here’s the important dates from the calander:

May 18th- R.E.C.A.L.L. group meeting. 5:30 pm. @ the soon-to-be collective space (258 N. Main St., west bend). This Tuesday Wes will be doing a workshop on “Elementary Building Skills”. This will REALLY come in handy as we restore and build at the collective space.

May 20th- Discussion group at Grasshopper Restaurant. Time will be used to  share, refine, and decide on the questions we’re planning on asking Derrick Jensen during the Video Conference (see May 25th) by asking our questions to each other and going through a couple of his books. 5:30 pm. We are hoping this meeting will aid individuals in deciding on a good question to ask Jensen during our Q&A with him.

May 25th- Derrick Jensen Q&A video conference! Derrick Jensen will be “skype-ing” with us and people will have the chance to have their question(s) answered by him. The conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin Washington County on 400 South University Drive. in West Bend. Starts at 6pm and goes till 8pm. Donations highly suggested (it costs $200 in all to do this talk). Please bring a good question to ask of him. If you are unfamiliar with Derrick’s work see: derrickjensen.org or endciv.com.

May 29th- Rummage Sale at Val’s house! On Cabrini Circle. off of 7th Ave. in West Bend. Starts at 8am and will go all day. This is a fundraiser for the soon-to-be opening collective space in downtown West Bend. The book distro will be selling cheap books and zines at the sale. If you have anything you’d like to donate to the sale, it would be really helpful and much appreciated! Please contact us for a place to drop your stuff off. Otherwise, see you at the sale!

June 1st- We sign the lease and get the keys to the collective space!If you are interested in the collectve and would like to help us in making it happen, please get in touch! We could always use help organizing, scavenging, repairing, painting, etc. We are excited to work on this project and make an infoshop/free space in West Bend a reality! After this date there will be non-stop work time at the collective to prepare it for a grand public opening.

We will also be having a R.E.C.A.L.L. group on this date at the collective space. Subject tba. Would you like to do a workshop, give a presentation, have a discussion or take us on a field trip?! Please feel free to contact us and give us your ideas!

you may contact us at: hoodrat-militia@riseup.net

Read Full Post »

May Book Sale!

Howdy all,
Here’s some books on sale for May 2010.
Some friends of the distro are going to be having a big rummage sale at the end of the month in west bend and any of these books not sold here will be brought to the sale where candlelight will have a table.
Thanks!

list:

–“Walmart” edited by Nelson Lichtenstein $10 new

–“This Land is Their Land” by Evaggelos Vallianatos $4 used

–Towards Land, Work & Power: Charting A Path Of Resistance To U.S. -Led Imperialism” by Steve Williams, etc. $10 new

–“In Praise of Barbarians” by Mike Davis $12 new

–“The Log From the Sea of Cortez” by John Steinbeck $2 used

–“The autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters” $4 used

–“Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson (front cover is missing) $2 used

–“The Painted Bird” by Jerzy Kosinski $3 used

–“A Short History of Progress” by Ronald Wright $4 used

Read Full Post »