Commercial property for lease in the heart of the Exchange District. This eclectic property has one unit available on the 2nd Floor that features 560 square feet, large windows viewing Albert St., and a private washroom. Unit to be painted to suit new occupants. Rent includes heat, water, electricity and internet.
To view please email gro.enoz-anull@A2tinu
3,060 sq. ft. commercial space available for rent from the A-Zone Cooperative. The space is currently equipped with two public washrooms, a small kitchen, walk-in refrigerator, back (loading-dock) entrance, and fire-place. It can be renovated to suit.
Rent is $3,100/mth + GST. Includes water and natural gas. Electricity not included.
Proposals in application for rental are currently being accepted.
Proposals should be no more than 5 pages and provide us with enough information to evaluate the viability of your proposal, including:
Proposals received by January 31 will be considered in early February. We encourage interested parties to contact us first before preparing a full proposal.
thanks for coming out and being part of the 6th annual anarchist shindig here in winnipeg!!!!! thanks to everyone who was part of the Junto fundraiser Talent show Cabaret friday eve Nov. 8 – it was total fun!!!!!!!!! thanks to all the workshop hosts and tablers over the saturday and sunday!!!!!!! thanks to Norman Nawrocki for putting on a good show saturday night!!!!!
http://wpgbookfairdiyfest.com/
to contact organizers and get involved for next year:
ac.tsisernull@tsefyidriafkoobgpw
Junto Local 91 – the little radical lending library upstairs in the A-Zone – hosted its TENTH ANNUAL DINNER AND SPELLING BEE Saturday evening Dec. 1, 2012
Spellmeister Steve Kirk challenged 11 eager spellers, narrowing the field to a spell-off between Buck and Sissy
31 folks enjoyed Lasagna dinner with salad and dessert.
LIVE music by CARLEN JUPITER, CARA LUFT, RAILROAD TY, RICHARD INMAN, and friend – was great!
thanks to all who came and donated, Junto was able to pay up its rent to the A-Zone Co-op
For Pairings and results see here
The tournament sold out!
In the first round, 15 folks who bought a ticket didn’t come, so, round one featured 15 forfeit wins. The missing folks also resulted in a delay on the start time, which had the upside of enabling one late participant to arrive in time to play (although, ironically, he got one of the forfeit wins). There were no upsets (in which the player with a much higher rating doesn’t win) in round 1.
In the second round, we were left with 21 people, so I hopped in in order to allow everyone to have a game (thus serving in the capacity of “house player”). I made sure to give myself zero-point byes for rounds where I wasn’t needed (and it turns out I was only needed for round 2) to minimize the chance of my qualifying for any prizes. Still no upsets in this round. An additional 3 people bowed out at this point thus “re-evening” the number of participants, specifically 18 people left.
By the third round the really strong players were finally starting to face off against each other. There were two upsets: Boron (1953) beat Valentino (2260); and Joshua Huston-Earle (1352) was held to a draw by Joel Reimer (unrated).
In the final round, there was one upset, in which Boron (1953) drew Johnson (2348). It was a particularly intense game in which time trouble featured at the end.
With Boron having scored two out of the tournaments three upsets, and winning the Natural Cycle Works blitz section, he clearly demonstrated being in excellent form. Congrats!
Thanks to everyone who came out!
We’re ready to celebrate one whole year of co-operatively owning the building at 91 Albert!
Junto, the little but radical lending library on the second floor, is sponsoring 2 evenings of fun:
Friday Feb 1, 7pm: FOLK MUSIC NIGHT in Mondragon, with Kayla Luky, Fox and Runner, and Hnausa Railroad Ty. We will ask admission of $7-$10 as Junto is always fundraising to pay its rent to the greater good of the A-Zone Co-op!!! There will be a Junto merch table and a fun talk about the library and the whole Co-op thing.
Saturday Feb 2, 7pm: GAMES NIGHT in Mondragon. Come join a game of your choice. At each table in Mondragon there will be a volunteer host with a different game waiting for players like you to step up and throw down $5 to play (more fundraising for Junto to help it officially join the A-Zone Co-op). Look for Carcassonne, Dutch Blitz, Scrabble, Scribblish, Sorry (fun for kids too), Ticket to Ride, and many more. If you want to host a game contact us at Junto (moc.liamtohnull@19lacolotnuj). There’ll be a fun talk about investment shares (ooooohhhhh!!!), prizes, and probably cake.
ALSO – come back Sunday for a community brunch in Mondragon! 10 am – 3pm – good vegan vittles with coffee or tea for only $12.95….
presented by CKUW and UMFM, the 2012 and 5th annual BookFair would like to acknowledge the support of Arbeiter Ring Publishing, Fernwood Publishing, Kustom Kulture, and the Albert St. Autonomous Zone Co-op!
wanted: PHOTOS! if you can email photos taken at the 2012 bookfair please send them to ac.tsisernull@retsgnuoy
Friday evening Sept 21, 7:30pm “Books that Rocked My World” thanks to the panel co-hosted by Karen of CKUW’s “Mud & Water” and Dave of UMFM’s “Red Waters” and the audience members who participated. here’s the list:
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Wump World by Bill Peet
Debunking 9/11 Myths edited by James Meigs
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandar Solzhenitsyn
The Selling of the President by Joe McGinnis
The Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg
All the President’s Men by Woodward & Bernstein
Buffet World by Donato Mancini
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Decolonizing the Mind by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
Anarchism & Other Essays by Emma Goldman
Valis by Philip K. Dick
Race, Space and the Law by Sherene Razack
Home by Toni Morrison
An Unauthorized History of the RCMP by Browne & Brown
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol Adams
On the Justice of Roosting Chickens by Ward Churchill
Heat by George Monbiot
Anishinabe Syndicated by Jim Northrup
Walking the Rez Road by Jim Northrup
What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
Reasoning Otherwise by Ian McKay
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Art of Not Being Governed by James Scott
Black Flame by Van derWalt & Schmidt
History of Civilization by Will Durant
Caliban & the Witch by Silvia Federici
Desire for Development by Barbar Heron
Under Three Flags by Benedict Anderson
The Many-Headed Hydra by Rediker & Linebaugh
Ritual America by Heimbichner & Parfrey
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Turning the Tide by Noam Chomsky
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Daniel Pirsig
Mishomis by Edward Benton-Banai
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
Killing Hope by William Blum
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
A Peoples’ History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Earth Elder by Alexander Wolfe
Government is Violence by Leo Tolstoy
Surface Detail by Iain Banks
the Trotsky Trilogy by Isaac Deutcher
Racialized Policing by Elizabeth Comack
Indigena Awry by Marie Annharte Baker
Nationalism & Culture by Rudolf Rocker
photo by Kat!
Saturday Sept 22, 11am – 5pm – We took the street! Exhibitors included: AKPress, Briarpatch Magazine, Canadian Dimension magazine, Communist Party of Manitoba, Dark Parlour Magazine, Fernwood Publishing, Flatlander Soap Co., Flora and Farmer, Geez Magazine, the Industrial Workers of the World, Junto Local 91 Radical Lending Library, Kustom Kulture, Molly Mew Productions, Mondragon, Of Course You Can! Distro, Organic Planet, Prairie Struggle Organization, Romulus + Remus, The Night Nurses, Turning the Tide bookstore, Winnipeg New Socialists and War on Music.
photo by Kat!
Saturday workshops: 11 am– “Organizing community gardens”, with Rod – thanks to Rod for offering to do this and our apologies that no one came to participate! lesson learned: no more workshops before noon! “Building solidarity against bosses & landlords”, with Ste-Ste. thanks Ste-Ste!! 1 pm – “Anarchy and Education”, with Heather and Pat. Good turnout! 3 pm – screening of “Our Common Roots” – a film by Glenn Axford in which Chad Cornell of Hollow Reed Holistic shares the therapeutic and energetic qualities of medicinal plants of the forest, field and garden. “Activist Burnout Discussion Circle” with FemRev & Copwatch. Good turnout.
the World Car-Free Day Saturday afternoon Streetfest on Albert Street between the A-Zone and Bannatyne Ave. with the support of Urban Forest and Bodegoes, this event was a giant hit, with music by Süss and friends at 12:30, a presentation by Steve Langston about his Sept 1-17 bicycle tour of Manitoba eating local and freshly harvested foods at 1:30, Billy Cromb at 2:30, and John K. Samson
thanks to Paolo of Urban Eatin’ who built a planter out of pallets all afternoon. it can be seen on the sidewalk across from the A-Zone and it needs someone to fill it with soil and plant some seeds! thanks to Sean for his amazing BIG games of Scrabble and Jenga which we enjoyed. THE STREETFEST WAS A WONDERFUL SUCCESS!!
photo by Kat!
Saturday evening, Sept 22, 5pm in the Urban Forest cafe at 93 Albert St, Jerome Raza talked about the Quebec student movement and combative unionism. Sunday Sept 23, 11am Mondragon Community Brunch sold out!
Sunday BookFair Tables continued Noon-4pm On the street again!!!! -great fun! Sunday workshops: Noon – “hungover Yoga”, with Nikki had to be cancelled because again, no one came… But “intro to circuits” with Graham had fun.
Sunday afternoon Sept 23, 2pm talk by guest author Nik Barry-Shaw about his recent book Paved With Good Intentions: Canada’s NGOs from Idealism to Imperialism, in Mondragon, was very good.
THANKS TO ALL WHO WERE PART OF THE WEEKEND! WE ROCKED IT!!
Time: 10am to 3pm, November 17th, 2012, final intake for entry/registration closes at 9:45am to allow time to generate the pairings.
Place: Rudolf Rocker Cultural Center, 3rd floor, 91 Albert Street
Rounds/Pairing: 4 rounds swiss for main tournament; plus single elimination “power of two” for blitz tournament for sponsor prizes
Round Times: 10am; 11am; 1pm; 2pm {since there’s an increment the round times are approximate}
Time control: 25 minutes per side, 10 second per move increment
Move rules: If you touch a piece, you must move it. If you make an illegal move, you must make a legal move with the same piece if possible. If not possible, the position is reset to the way it was before the illegal move wand you must make a different move.
Entry fee: Cash only please, $30.
Tickets: The event is currently sold out.
Amenities:
– Coffee and cookie compliments of Mondragon Bookstore and Coffeehouse.
– Opportunity at 12pm and 4pm for game analysis using Stockish 2.2.2 (if one of the players writes down the moves)
Refunds: Cancellations are entitled to a 70% refund. Cancellations can be done up to November 16th, 2012.
Prizes: 50% of entry fees returned as prizes. At least 25% of players (more in some cases) will get prize money. As at November 14th, the tournament is full (36 entries). 1st prize of $80, 2nd prize of $65, 3rd prize of $55, 4th prize of $45, 5th prize of $35, 6th prize of $30, and 7th prize of $25. Thanks to sponsorship there are also four guaranteed prizes for a combined U1400&unrated section: 1st $35, 2nd $30, 3rd $25, 4th $20. There will be more prize money as more people join.
Time: starts at 3pm
Rounds/Pairings: up to 3 rounds per track, single elimination, round pairings based on tables (eg, winner from table 1 faces winner from table 2). This tournament will have up to four separate “tracks” so each blitz participant picks which (if any) of the four prize tracks they want to participate in. Each track is limited to at most 8 participants and fills first come first served.
Time control: 5 minutes per side. If game 1 is drawn, switch colours and play 3 minutes per side. If this is also a draw, switch colours again with 2 minutes per side. The side playing black in the final game advances if it is also a draw.
Move rules: King capture is legal and ends the game; Clock-move, not touch-move (your move is committed when you hit the clock)
Tracks:
1) The Demonic Conjuration (section is full): This track plays for two records from the War on Music Record Label
2) Chess Combat for Couriered Confections (section is full): This track plays for a batch of Jonny’s Sticky Buns delivered by a Natural Cycle Courier.
3) The Cabbage Defense: Sowing Strategies, Reaping Victories (section is full): This track plays for a free 45 minute consult session with Urban Eatin’ Gardeners’ Worker Co-operative
4) Blitz Battle for a Better Bike (section is full): This track plays for a $25 gift certificate for purchases at Natural Cycle Cycleworks
it happened Saturday June 23, 2012 and ran from 6pm until 2am
THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL VOLUNTEERS, GUEST MCs, TALENTED PERFORMERS, AND TO MONDRAGON for the space the Fundraiser was a fine success, raising over $1,000 for rent to the A-Zone Co-op.
Start thinking up talent for next year!