Civic Media Center

Come on out and support Gainesville Free Store and the Civic Media Center by buying items from the estate of long-time Gainesville peace and justice organizer Jacque Betz, a beloved CMC member and supporter of Gainesville Free Store who passed away in late March.

Antiques and other furniture, electronics, framed prints and other artwork, knick knacks, tools, and a variety of other items will be available.

9AM - 2PM
Saturday, May 30

1832 NE 6th Terrace
Gainesville, FL

WE ARE HIRING!!! Yes that’s right, your fully volunteer run DIY space can hire a community archivist to steward the preservation of our archives! Could that archivist be you? Check out the details and apply before June 12th!

Application link in our bio or you can find the details on our website at www.civicmediacenter.org/jobs

The Civic Media Center will be hosting a volunteer orientation Saturday May 23rd from 11am-2pm!

Come learn about the history of our local community library, archive, & gathering space & how you can help keep it running, open, & sustainable.

Light snacks and refreshments provided.

Some of what will be covered: policies and mission, library staffing, tour of the space, and presentations on the history of the space, current & upcoming projects, our future vision, and political education.

Current volunteers will be showing the ropes of what it takes to collaborate to keep a community library and archive functioning!

Come on out if you’re interested in getting involved !

Accessibility:
The CMC courtyard is cobblestone/brick. There are no steps to enter the main space. The CMC is wheelchair accessible. The front door is 27” wide, the door to the courtyard is 36”, the back door into the CMC is 33”, and the bathroom door is 34”.
The bathroom is single stall and gender neutral, and has a hand rail for the toilet.

Please join us for the next film in our solidarity film series “Taxi Tehran” by Jafar Panahi!

We will be screening on Sunday, April 19th at 3pm at 433 S Main Street.

Pour a cup and light one up for our treasured Ta**us!
The Sun Sign Soirée Series presents…
Tea Time for Ta**us ☕️

Monday, April 20th from
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM @
The Civic Media Center
(433 S Main St)

Bring your favorite stuffie and mug to this grounding gathering of community tea blending tasting, trinket trading, and Tarot reading!
Steep in a soothing sound bath! (By thirdspacesomatics
Cozy up in the craft corner!
Ponder at the puzzling table!

Suggested donation: $10-15, NOTAFLOF
Ta**us get in free!!!

Raising funds for Free Store! GNV FREESTORE
Free Store gathers and redistributes all sorts of goods to our local community. Free Store shows us that scarcity is an illusion!!! We can meet many of our needs—and wants—and reduce waste without spending a cent…except for the cost of the Free Store-age unit rent. That’s a whole lotta cents, every month. We need your help to keep it up!

This event will be inside and outside. The outside has cobblestone brick, there is a lip to enter indoors. Potluck outside! Please wash your hands first and use a utensil to serve since norovirus is going around!
Bathrooms are inside. It is required to wear masks inside.
If you'd like to volunteer or table reach out to
[email protected]

This month’s Gainesville Art Walk at the Civic Media Center features Lily Sage’s Reverence as Resistance: prints, paintings, puppet/mask, drawings, collages, poetry, zines, textiles, performance. As Bread & Puppetteer, they internalized the ethic of generating “cheap political art,” and learned to printmake to illustrate their ethnographic research on shamanism in Mongolia. They take seriously Joseph Campbell’s definition of artists as, “the ones who communicate myth for today” amplifying messages otherwise lost in liminality.

You can catch their work at Artwalk on Friday, April 24th at 8pm and on Thursday April 30th at 7pm for an ephemeral performance!

We’ll be tabling here this Saturday ! Come check out all the amazing zinesters and comic artists ! There’ll also be workshops !!

CMC RENT COVERED!
Thanks to everyone who donated! With your help we were able to raise enough for 2 months rent!
We’ll be sending magnets and bumper stickers out this week. Thank you again for believing in the center, the access of information, and the freedom to organize and assemble!

Keep and eye out on our instagram or website for our upcoming events, workshops, and skillshares.

You can also find us at upcoming tabling events!

Emergency Fundraiser for the Civic Media Center! You can send funds to Venmo: CMC4ever, PayPal: PayPal.me/cmc4ever, or check by mail to 433 S. Main Street. Hey ya’ll,

The CMC currently only has 500$ to make rent this month. We need to raise 1500$ before April 5th to keep our space open and operating.

We know during these uncertain times, it is hard to ask for funds knowing that there are so many people struggling and in need of economic support. We try to limit the barriers of access to the space by offering free and low-cost events.

The CMC is a space where we build up community. We house Books to Prisoners, Food not Bombs, Free Grocery Store, Free Store, Poetry Jam, Industrial Workers of the World, WGOT, and various community events throughout the month.

Our organizers do the best they can to put on events for the community and raise funds in the process, but we practice what we learn and do not push ourselves to the limits that capitalism demands of us. (and you shouldn’t either).

So, we are humbly asking our community, anyone who has done a show at the CMC, checked out a book, come through for a book club, a workshop, or an event, to please send 1$, 5$, or even 10$ to help us keep the space open and alive.

In a time where DIY grassroots spaces are closing left and right, it is crucial to keep a radical space open where people can express themselves openly and access knowledge and conversations that are hard to come by in an openly hostile state.

We have some incredible plans coming up this year to offer our community, but we can’t do that without a space that we get to define.

If you send 10$ or more you can become a member and we’ll send you a bumper sticker or magnet. Send a receipt of donation to [email protected] with your mailing address attached. (If you don’t want to send an address come in person and we can give you merch of your choosing).

Thank you for your time and continued support of the center. If you’d like to get more involved with the center beyond financial support you can plug in at a Volunteer meeting which are held every Wednesday at 7

Celebrate the Aries in your life at the Sun Sign Soirée: An Aries Affair on Saturday, March 28th at 8pm-12am at the Civic Media Center located at 433 S. Main Street. We’ll have piñatas to smash, a crafty corner to make your ram horns, a photo opportunity, and trinkets to trade, With music by ! Aries get in free, bring a friend (or 2)! No one turned away for lack of funds, suggested donation is 10$.

We’ll be raising funds for a comrade who is currently incarcerated!

This event will be inside and outside. The outside has cobblestone brick, there is a lip to enter indoors. Bathrooms are inside. It is required to wear masks inside.
If you’d like to volunteer or table reach out to [email protected]