Benefit Concert for RNC 8 Legal Fund @ Black Dog: Junkyard Empire and Pocket of Resistance

JANUARY 21ST BENEFIT CONCERT FOR RNC 8 LEGAL FUND FEATURING JUNKYARD EMPIRE AND POCKET OF RESISTANCE

On January 21st, there will be a benefit concert for the RNC 8 Legal Fund, featuring Junkyard Empire and Pocket of Resistance. Both bands have shared the stage with the likes of Boots Riley and the Coup, Eyedea, Ill Chemistry, the New Congress, and Los Nativos.

The event marks Junkyard Empire kicking off the inauguration of its show, LOWERTOWN COMMUNE... a regular Wednesday night hootenanny featuring the Junkyard and special guests.

JANUARY 1-31: RNC PHOTO EXHIBIT "LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD"

During the RNC in St. Paul, Junkyard Empire played the Sept 4th "No Peace For the Warmakers" show at the State Capitol, and Pocket of Resistance played the the Block Party in Lowertown.

The premise of the LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD exhibit is to offer a community space where people can leave behind, access, or take home as evidence a wide variety of frozen photographic moments from the Republican National Convention that took place in St. Paul, MN in September 2008.

Both the community-driven concept and hanging technique of the show were inspired in part by the simplicity of the HERE IS NEW YORK exhibit that took place in New York City the aftermath of 9/11.

The HERE IS NEW YORK exhibit was subtitled "A Democracy of Photographs" because anyone and everyone who had taken pictures relating to the tragedy was invited to submit their images to the gallery, to be displayed on the walls alongside the work of top photojournalists and other professional photographers.

Photos taken by children with watch cameras, and by police officers and firefighters on the job with pocket digital cameras, appeared alongside images taken by by New York Times photojournalists. More info at http://hereisnewyork.org

Submissions to the LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD exhibit will be accepted through January 2009 to the exhibit close, and medium-resolution images will be permanently archived on the RNC ’08 Report archive project website at http://rnc08report.org.

The exhibit runs January 3rd-31st, 2009, at the Black Dog Cafe, 308 Prince Street, St. Paul, MN 55101.

20% of photo exhibition sales go to the RNC 8 Legal Fund. Benefit reception on January 21st with Junkyard Empire and Pocket of Resistance.

Please forward this call widely. Submission guidelines and media kit at http://rnc08report.org/archive/618.shtml