Second Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair

The Second Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair will take place on Saturday, March 29, 1997, 10am to 6pm, at the San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park by Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way. Admission is free. Speakers will include medical marijuana activist Dennis Peron, spoken word activist and former Dead Kennedy member Jello Biafra, Gay movement founder, activist and theorist Harry Hay, spoken word artist Carol Queen, poet Sparrow 13 Laughingwand, Northern California American Indian Movement activist Carol Standing Elk and novelists Peter Plate, J.G. Eccarius and Jane Doe. Over 50 exhibitors from all over the United States will be selling radical and anti-authoritarian books, records, posters and tee-shirts.

As part of their twentieth anniversary celebration last year, the San Francisco anarchist collective bookstore, Bound Together Books, sponsored a Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. Over 2000 people browsed through more than 40 tables filled with new and used anti-authoritarian books and pamphlets as well as tee-shirts, records and posters. A cafe, an artists exhibit, and a stage with a full rostrum of speakers provided relief when book browsing fatigue set in. Response from both attendees and exhibitors was enthusiastic, with several exhibitors surprised that "People actually came to look at and buy books!"

This years Book Fair will be even larger. Over 50 anarchist book and magazine publishers and distributors will be displaying their wares. In addition, many anarchist and anti-authoritarian groups will have info tables. An auditorium has been reserved for the full schedule of speakers and once again a cafe will be set up to provide food and refreshments. An expanded visual arts exhibit will also be featured. The Golden Gate Park location is perfect for a stroll between book browsing and makes the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair a pleasurable and enlightening day long event.

For more info:

Bound Together Books
1369 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

Contact: Tom Brooker
Day: (415) 552-6355
Evening: (415) 346-4004
Fax: (415) 255-6377

Report on the Second Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair