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Sun, Mar. 6, 2016 ⁄ 4:00–7:00pm

Beyond Repair… We Think we Might be Open Now

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We’ve been open for two months now and we might just be getting the hang of it. So maybe it’s time to host a “grand opening,” right?
Come and see all the titles that have been published in the last two months. Learn about what’s coming up in the near future. What should one expect from such an occasion?
  • We’ll have new work from Fiona Avocado, our first resident within our 9th Ward Publication Residency Program.
  • A new publication from our head librarian at the South Minneapolis Society Library, Lacey Prpic Hedtke, entitled We Believe in Infinite Intelligence, a pocket guide overview of Spiritualism.
  • The first release from Wooden Leg Print & Press and Uncivilized Books co-imprint on utopianism and utopian histories.
  • The grand re-opening of the South Minneapolis Society Library. Get your library card today! Check out books!
  • $2 off your beer at Eastlake Brewery with a purchase a book, $1 off with a purchase of a booklet.
If you haven’t been down to Beyond Repair, here’s your chance to come and say hello, learn about what our hopes for the project are, and imagine what we can build together with your involvement and support.
So far…
  • We’ve hosted Emory Douglas and will be making a book out of our conversation with sales going to create programming and projects addressing the role and conduct of the 3rd precinct within the neighborhood.

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  • Each Saturday a pop-up portrait studio has materialized through Sean Smuda‘s project What’s Your Beauty and Will You Share it With the World?

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  • The Undercommons Reading Group has begun to meet each Saturday evening around Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s book The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study.

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  • We’ve devised a “Rent Check” editions project with new artists making work based on our actual rent check each month as a means to sustain Beyond Repair and preserve its autonomy. We released the first Rent Check with an edition by Josh MacPhee in February.

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  • Three groups have begun to emerge (public defenders, food access advocates, and health professionals) all engaging the question, in one form or another, “What does a healthy neighborhood look like?”

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  • Oh, and we’ve been making lots and lots of books, with way more to come!

Hope to see you there!

Feb. 20, 2016 · 3:52pm· Resident Weirdo· ∞

Sat, Feb. 13, 2016 ⁄ 2:00–5:00pm

What’s Your Beauty and Will You Share it With the World?

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“Thanks for participating in “What’s Your Beauty and Will You Share it with the World”! I’m hoping you’ll write a few sentences about your object and its beauty. Even better if you include something about the neighborhood, e.g. if you have a special spot of beauty you look forward to walking by, how you’ve seen the neighborhood change, story or rumor…. I ran the Shoebox Gallery on the corner of Chicago and Lake for eleven years and am planning a book about it. Your input would be a great help towards a portrait of the neighborhood!

Sincerely,

Sean Smuda”

Session #3 of , Sean Smuda’s 9th Ward portrait project again will set up shop within Beyond Repair this Saturday, as it will each Saturday for the time being. Join us accompanied by an object you find beautiful. Sean, in time, will be compiling his portraits, and his questions about the changing tenor of Lake St. over the last decade, into a book to be published through Beyond Repair.

Feb. 12, 2016 · 10:58am· Resident Weirdo· ∞

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“Thanks for participating in “What’s Your Beauty and Will You Share it with the World”! I’m hoping you’ll write a few sentences about your object and its beauty. Even better if you include something about the neighborhood, e.g. if you have a special spot of beauty you look forward to walking by, how you’ve seen the neighborhood change, story or rumor…. I ran the Shoebox Gallery on the corner of Chicago and Lake for eleven years and am planning a book about it. Your input would be a great help towards a portrait of the neighborhood!

Sincerely,

Sean Smuda

Feb. 4, 2016 · 6:35pm· Resident Weirdo· ∞

Sat, Jan. 30, 2016 ⁄ 2:00–4:00pm

What’s Your Beauty and Will You Share it With the World?

Sean Smuda Mosaic Commission 2009 "Tianna"
Sean Smuda Mosaic Commission 2009 “Tianna”

You are invited to Beyond Repair in the Midtown Global Market to have your portrait taken and talk about beauty as you see it and its place in our neighborhood.

Along with your beautiful self, bring your favorite painting, drawing, photograph, video, dress, stuffed animal, etc, along with you! In time the accumulated portraits will be made into a book; a document of the Phillips/Powderhorn neighborhoods, its people, and their cherished objects.

An on-going neighborhood portraiture project by the Shoebox Gallery, the results will be made into a book. Participants will be given a free print of their portrait!

Jan. 28, 2016 · 6:47pm· Resident Weirdo· ∞

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