📣📋 VENDOR APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN! 🐈⬛📚
This year has 2 days of tabling, Aug 22 and 23rd. Deadline is May 31. We prioritize publishers & artists emphasizing liberationary, autonomous, community-based politics.
Application and further info at tinyurl.com/BCBFVendors
We're excited to hear from you! 🤓🏴
Black and white poster that reads: BLACK CAT FAIR 2nd annual! (in red font) AUGUST 22-23, 2026 Penobscot Land| Belfast, ME with the BCBF logo of a black cat woodcut, curled up, looking at the viewer.
📣 🗓️ AUGUST 22-23, 2026 is the 2nd annual Black Cat Book Fair, the biggest little rural radical book fair, held on Penobscot Land / Belfast, ME. 🐈⬛📚🏴
We've expanded to 2 days of tabling, with talks on Sat & gathering time on Sun (TBA!) Celebrating print media & the radical imagination. 🐈⬛
PINE TREE ACTIVISM CALENDAR Events for Sunday FEB 15, 2026 Details confirmed 02/15 6:05AM Share/Repost so Mainers know where to #OPPOSE! Pg 1/3 Submit events to: ptactivism@pm.me SUN FEB 15 ----------------- FEB 15, Sun 9-10:00AM (& every Sun) – Gorham Sidewalk at Walgreens, 120 Main St, Gorham ICE OUT OF MAINE – Join us on the sidewalk by Walgreens, across from OTTO's on Main St Gorham, for our weekly protest of ICE and their inhumane treatment of detainees. FEB 15, Sun 12-12:30PM (& every Sun) – Belfast Post Office Square, Franklin & Church Streets, downtown Belfast, Maine TAKE ACTION for PALESTINE! – We gather in solidarity with the Palestinian people and against the complicity of the US. Call for immediate permanent ceasefire; no further US funding or military aid for the Israeli government’s war crimes; demand that humanitarian and life-saving aid in both Gaza and the West Bank be provided. FMI: shorturl.at/44gQq FEB 15, Sun 12-1:00PM (& every Sun) – Ellsworth Union River Bridge downtown, Ellsworth, Maine Weekly Stand Out for Peace – www.mvprights.org/events FEB 15, Sun 12-1:00PM (& every Sun) – Presque Isle Route 1 Bridge (near mall), Presque Isle, Maine LET'S STAND FOR PEACE Rally for Peace – NonViolence – End War Peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of love and understanding. Let's stand for peace. Every Sunday, 12-1PM. FEB 15, Sun 1-2:00PM (& every Sun) – Waterville 1 Kennedy Memorial Dr Bridge (next to CVS), Waterville, Maine STAND UP TO PRESERVE and RESTORE OUR COUNTRY We hold up signs that demand: *Restoration & Preservation of our democracy *Support of Ukraine *Opposition to the Musk/Trump administration We are Mainers. We fix broken things to make them last. Indivisible Mid Maine FMI: indivisiblemidmaine.com/take-action/weekly-events (calendar cont'd in comments) PRO TIP: click ALT in lower right corner for links you can copy/paste. MAINE ICE WATCH HOTLINE: 207-544-9989
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#ORGANIZE #RESIST & #OPPOSE
#NonViolenceIsPower
#EveryEffortCounts
#GetInvolved
pg1/3 – REPOST & SHARE!
#Maine #MEpolitics #AbolishICE
TODAY'S ART SALE for Community Relief Fund for immigration-impacted families! 🎨 2-6p @ The Commons in Belfast.
Art from $2-$500 & delicious treats donated by @belfastcoop.bsky.social , Marsh River Co-Op, Downshift Coffee & Pulling Corks! 🍷☕🧑
Mainers know how to drive away the ICE and snow. ☃️❤️🔥🧊
TODAY!!! ART SALE for Community Relief Fund for immigration-impacted families! 🎨 2-6p @ The Commons in Belfast.
Art from $2-$500 & delicious treats donated by @belfastcoop.bsky.social, Marsh River Co-Op, Downshift Coffee & Pulling Corks! 🍷☕🧑
Mainers know how to drive away the ICE and snow. ☃️❤️🔥🧊
Last call!!! Want to send us art or make food for our fundraiser for ICE-related mutual aid? Get in touch!
The space is ADA accessible and will have air purifiers in place, but with food and drink, masks will not be required. If you have symptoms or had contact with someone who is sick, we ask that you please stay home. 🚫🦠
W the help of many hands, we’re throwing together this rush fundraiser! 🙌🎨
ARTISTS interested in donating art, fill out this form by Feb 9 & bring or mail art to us by Feb 12: forms.gle/py4VgHYNdDFe...
PURVEYORS OF FOOD OR DRINK interested in participating, email us at blackcatbookfair @ proton.me
Pale blue and hot pink flier, with a faded vintage photo in lavender tones of two white women in 1950s clothing and pillbox hats looking at art, two paintings featuring barns and a grain silo and a sculpture of two dancing figures. The text reads: Black Cat Book Fair Art Sale Fundraiser. Feb 14, 2026, 2-6pm. The Commons 15 Main St Belfast, Maine. To support Community Relief Fund.
BLACK CAT BOOK FAIR ART FUNDRAISER 🐈⬛🎨
Feb 14 2-6p
The Commons
15 Main St Belfast
Nothing's more romantic than mutual aid! 🩷 Bring yr sweeties to raise $ for Community Relief Fund to support ppl impacted by ICE.
Music, food & drink. Come schmooze, buy art & drive the midwinter ICE & cold away. ❤️🔥🧊❤️🔥
Ask one of your folks to send an email to Rosenburg Fund for Children. Their grant application closes Oct 13, and might be able to help provide funding support for your kids.
www.rfc.org/grants
Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
photo of Trump signing a bunch of orders at his desk in the oval office
NLG lawyer Moira Meltzer-Cohen speaks about legal implications of the Trump administrations declarations on "antifa", plus a little chat about mutual aid in Gaza
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09...
Anarchist organizing actually has a history in Maine. The successful 1904 anarchist IWW strike at Marston's Mills in Skowhegan was national news and a model for later IWW textile strikes in MA. The 1912 rallying cry in Lawrence, "Bread & Roses", still seems like a good goal in life to me.
We're at Maine's first radical book fair and I've had to step out to just cry a little. It's so nice to be here with the folks doing the work and making art and being in community and we've made so many glorious connections. It's so invigorating.
All of us book fair organizers are a very happy tired from the fair this weekend.
Thank you to everyone who made the space, volunteers, vendors, speakers, attendees, chefs! The enthusiasm and goodwill was absolutely palpable and we were blown away by the response. ❤️🔥
Until next year! 🐈⬛
Incredibly cool experience to meet @margaret.bsky.social and hear her speak in person! Big thanks to @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social for organizing a wonderful event today.
Piles of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness books and zines spread out on a table
Piles of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness books and zines spread out on a table
Come find us at the @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social !
Setting up today for the super awesome @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in #BelfastMaine. What a blast…a great group of exhibitors and best convos with the attendees!
So pleased to participate in the @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in Belfast, Maine yesterday. Appreciate all the engaged participats in my workshop on workers' inquiry and enjoyed local venders and publishers in attendance. Here is to the next one!
The day after is the MOONBAT SKILLSHARE in Swanville, ME, just outside Belfast. 🛠️🦇
Sunday August 24, 8am-6pm
PRE-REGISTRATION is required.
Sliding scale entry fee.
Catering from Finocchi included and on-site childcare available.
Find more or sign up 👉
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
📣TOMORROW is it! 📣
The first Black Cat Book Fair! 🐈⬛📚 Books, art, print media!! Talks, workshops, author readings!!
Aug 23, 11am to 6pm.
📍First Church Belfast (8 Court Street)
Everything you could need to know at blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org
Masks required indoors. 😷
Tell your friends! 🤩🥳
The increased risk has persuaded us to increase our response. We understand that to require masks may seem controversial, but if participation in our space under these conditions will prove an obstacle, we ask you not to attend.
Some free masks will be available but bring your own if possible. 😷🐈⬛
IMPORTANT UPDATE: New data this week shows a spike in COVID infections. To keep ourselves and the wider community safe, MASKS WILL NOW BE REQUIRED AT THE BOOK FAIR. For ages 7+, indoors in all book fair event spaces, except for kids in the children's area, where childcare volunteers will be masked. We will have some free masks available. Please bring your own if possible. Please do not attend if you are unwilling to respect these agreements.
UPDATE: MASKS WILL NOW BE REQUIRED AT THE BOOK FAIR. 🐈⬛😷
New data shows a COVID spike. Because we're striving to make this event as accessible as possible as well as safer for ourselves & the wider community, we've changed our mask policy from masks strongly recommended to masks required.
We'll also have Samara Cole Doyon reading in our Children's Space her book NEXT LEVEL: A HYMN IN GRATITUDE FOR NEURODIVERSITY. Bring your little ones by this Saturday, Aug 23 at 11:15. 💫
We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute."
Buenaventura Durruti
"It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
We are SUPER GOSH DARN LUCKY (and pinching ourselves!) that these two fierce writers and inspiring movement thinkers, @margaret.bsky.social and Madeline ffitch, will be joining us THIS SATURDAY Aug 23, 4:30-6:00pm, to talk about the anarchist potential of fiction. ✨📣🌲
"We handful of organizers include writers, poets, farmers, booksellers, two kinds of mill workers (woolen and saw), artists, arborists, editors, boatbuilders, activists, musicians and one arts administrator — all avid readers — living in Waldo County." Read us in the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social 🐈⬛📚
