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The Pharmakon One-Year Anniversary!

Posted on May 28th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Food Not Bombs, Bryce Style's Poetry, Music, Events, The Pharmakon.

This Sunday, June 1st, we will be celebrating ONE WHOLE YEAR OF THE PHARMAKON PERIODICAL! Come on out to Santa Rosa’s Doyle Park from noon to sundown and enjoy a day in the park with Bite the Hand Productions!

It is going to be a great day! Here is the schedule of the musical acts:

• 12:00- Jugbone
• 12:30- Drugstore Chemist
• 1:00- The Semi-Evolved Simians
• 2:00- A soccer game with music by Blue Shift
• 3:00- Erstwhile Medicine Show
• 3:30- Three Mile Island (featuring Bill Wild)
• 4:15- A Mother Like Sun
• 5:15- Goodriddler
• 6:00- Hannah Rose

Bring something to barbeque! We will have food from Food Not Bombs, poetry by Bryce Style, and more! Also, the whole event will be hosted by Timmy Redface and The Skinny Man in their new musical project- The Crooks! We want to fill the park with Pharmakon fans, so bring your friends!

$5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Call 707-326-5274 for details and directions.

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What a Day!

Posted on April 7th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Operation:Venue, Bite the Hand Society, The Underground Free Press, Soundings, Food Not Bombs, Local Businesses and Non-Profits, Music, Events.

Yesterday we had a great event at Bite the Hand Studios to bring attention to The Underground Free Press! It was great! We had three computers set up for people to explore what TUFP is up to, and we had lots of live music. The Semi-Evolved Simians, Bill Wild, Mark Growden, Batman Versus Predator, The Highlands, Hannah Simone, Hanna Manfredi, and Andrew Maurer and more performed! There was also drumming and jamming in the backyard and Food Not Bombs food for everyone!

This was Bite the Hand’s first official “sounding,” and event that pairs local artists wit local activists. Yesterday we were celebrating and exploring the amazing things that The Underground Free Press is doing to strengthen the music scene in Sonoma County. Together with groups like The Underground Free Press, Operation Venue, Lost Lamp, Buildings Building Themselves, and others, we are really beginning to transform out community into something very powerful. This is a really good thing, folks.

Be sure to check out The Underground Free Press here: www.theundergroundfreepress.com

When will our next Sounding event be? What musical acts will perform? What local activist group will be featured? Keep dropping by our website and keep picking up The Pharmakon tp stay informed…

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A Community Quilt Day

Posted on February 25th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Bite the Hand Society, Food Not Bombs, Music, Local Businesses and Non-Profits, Events.

Bite the Hand Productions put on a great event yesterday. Loads of artists and activists came by our studios and created squares for a huge community quilt. Now we have over 20 beautiful squares to put into our grand work of collaborative art! We will have the whole quilt patched together in the next few months, so keep stopping by this website to be there for the unveiling.

Oh, what an event the sewing was! Food Not Bombs was there, Annie the Ghost was there, Lost Lamp was there, Bite the Hand Society was there, and MANY more! We sat by the crackling fire at Bite the Hand Studios and ate and made art to music for about 7 hours straight! The musicians were phenomenal and we have decided to feature each one of them on this web page over the next few weeks. So keep checking us out!

The Sonoma County Quilting Project was a hell of an event, one that would not have been possible without the work of Celeste Turconi, who prepared all of the materials that went into our amazing art. She is a key person in Food Not Bombs, Free Mind Media, Copwatch, and now Bite the Hand Productions. Thank you for all the things you do with your community, Celeste. We at Bite the Hand Productions salute you! Long may the quilt fly!

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The Sonoma County Quilting Project!

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Food Not Bombs, Free Mind Media, Music, Local Businesses and Non-Profits, Events.

Attention! Bite the Hand Productions is holding a very special event on February 24th! We will be bringing artists and activists together to create a GIANT COMMUNITY QUILT that will be displayed all over the county! Everyone will have an opportunity to design a square on the quilt, and Bite the Hand Productions will put the whole piece together!.

We will be at Free Mind Media ALL DAY ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24th! Come on by and make the quilt! While you’re around, check out Free Mind’s wonderful community infospace! Bite the Hand’s Cheap Art Gallery is there, and Food Not Bombs will be serving up grub for everyone!

And there’s going to be MUSIC! Featured artists are Tessa, Erstwhile Medicine Show, Timmy Redface, Kyle Martin and A Mother Like Sun, Gitar, Carlos K, Leila-Anne, and MANY more! The whole line-up will be posted on this web site soon, so keep stopping by…

THE DETAILS: It’s at Free Mind Media (546 Pacific Avc in Santa Rosa); or if it is raining, we’ll be at Bite the Hand Studios (935 Spencer St in Santa Rosa). We’re starting at 11 o’clock and we’ll be going on ALL DAY!!

For more information call 707-326-5274 or e-mail thepharmakon@gmail.com

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Six Month Success!

Posted on November 19th, 2007 by The Captain.
Categories: The Boogie Room and Gardens, Free Mind Media, Food Not Bombs, The Crux, Music, Workshops, Events, Local Businesses and Non-Profits, The Pharmakon.

We had great time during our Six Month Spectacular this past Saturday! We played the music, danced the jig, ate the food, read The Pharmakon, drank the cider, and ate the grub!  Click on an of the images above to zoom in on them (they are pictures of Button Making, The Semi-Evolved Simians in our basement, and Food Not Bombs grub).

Something that was really amazing about this event was the fact that so many local organizations and collectives showed up together.  Here is a list of who represented themselves:

Bite the Hand Productions ran the whole shindig.  We booked the bands, sold The Pharmakon, organized the button making workshop, and the whole thing happened at Bite the Hand Studios.

Food Not Bombs made food for every guest.  No one went hungry and the grub went great with Bite the Hand’s Crux Theatre Bread (baked fresh that day).

Free Mind Media set up in the studio’s “Free Mind Free Nook” and sat happily, slinging information at the guests and discussing issues.

The Boogie Room and Gardens sold cider by candlelight.  They were fundraising for the ol’ B R and G.  Kyle Martin rocked our socks off!

The Pirate Punx and The Lost Boys showed up in astonishing numbers. These guys and girls can teach us a lot about community.

Lots of local groups (We know Brown Bangs and Lost Lamp Recording were in there in spirit!). It got us thinking… let’s co-ordinate our projects more and come together when we put on events! If we work together, we all will excel in our projects because the community will grow stronger and supportive. We can have more successful events like this Six Month Spectacular!

Of course, thanks to everyone who dug deep into their pockets and dished out some cash to Bite the Hand Productions!  We can now afford to print a jumbo-sized issue of The Pharmakon this December! We done good, folks.

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