TAKAAT in Bellingham
Date: October 13th
Time: 7PM
Location: Generator renegade!
Our annual Fall renegade show is here, and this time we’re excited to present the Saharan desert rock band, TAKAAT! Great guitarist, John Swanke, will open the show.
This show will be held at a public outdoor location, which will be announced with an e-mail to ticket holders on the day before the show!
Tickets available via Brown Paper Tickets:
https://takaatbellingham.brownpapertickets.com/
TAKAAT (pronounced tuh-cot), meaning “noise” in the Tuareg language Tamashek, is the trio of Ahmoudou Madassane, Mikey Coltun, and Souleymane Ibrahim, also known as the rhythm section of Mdou Moctar. TAKAAT is sonic chaos, improvisation, freedom of exploration, and the punk styles of bands such as Fugazi and Unwound, all mixed together with the guitar music from the Sahel.
Author Talk with Former Political Prisoner Eric King
Date: October 17th
Time: 7PM
Location: Duck & Cover (2123 New Street Bellingham 98225)
Eric King comes to Bellingham to present his forthcoming book “A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon” (PM Press).
A Clean Hell tells the story of Eric’s decade behind bars: the years of surveillance and retaliation, the years locked in solitary confinement, the reality of being known as a “race traitor,” and the daily acts of resistance that kept him—and others—alive.
More than just a firsthand survival story and exposé, this is a blistering indictment of the carceral state and the sanitized violence it tries to hide.
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