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.

• 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?

 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?”

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

Hope to see you there!