Halifax Anarchist Bookfair

04/29/2026

Announcing the 9th Annual Halifax Anarchist Bookfair Saturday September 12th 2026
Rain Date: Sunday September 13th 2026
Location TBA

In every corner of the globe, in every culture, in every language, across time and place, there have been freedom-seeking peoples. They have been labelled fugitives, rebels, revolutionaries, abolitionists and anarchists. Like them, we seek to build social and political projects that speak to the needs of our communities, that weave our joy, grief and resistance into a basket that can hold enough for all to share. History does not remember well people like us, because we build homes and communities that feed each other, care for the land and are a threat to power. Those who seek to rule us build pyramids, cathedrals, skyscrapers, prisons and AI data centers in their vain quests for immortality & domination.

In our quest for autonomy, we recognize that there is no end point to the practice of building and rebuilding, because we know that as soon as one puts trust in a leader and elevates that leader above people - oppression is seeded. We are not capitalists, though we live in a world brutalized by capitalism, colonialism, and Victorian sensibilities of cis-heteropatriarchy. We are not communists,though we live under the oppression of state-nationalism, we dream of communal futures free of authoritarianism, and organize within unions. We are anarchists, even if that word can’t fully describe our diversity. We know that curiosity, solidarity, love, internationalism, mutual aid, and direct action is how we build the world we desire and deserve, even if it doesn’t come quickly.

If you think you or someone you know might be an anarchist, come on down to the Halifax Anarchist Book Fair!

On Saturday, September 12th, 2026 we invite you to join us for Kjipuktuk/Halifax’s 9th Annual Anarchist Bookfair to convene, scheme & dream a liberated world together. All ages are welcome to cultivate curiosity, solidarity & mutual aid through sharing books, zines, art, music, discussion, and skills.

WORKSHOP APPLICATION
https://cryptpad.fr/form/ #/2/form/view/jecwfqRJqzF6zTlR75NIdGmLY4qQCtDM4AzrIZhKLAY/

TABLE APPLICATION
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04/28/2026

Announcing the 9th Annual Halifax Anarchist Bookfair Saturday September 12th 2026
Rain Date: Sunday September 13th 2026
Location TBA

In every corner of the globe, in every culture, in every language, across time and place, there have been freedom-seeking peoples. They have been labelled fugitives, rebels, revolutionaries, abolitionists and anarchists. Like them, we seek to build social and political projects that speak to the needs of our communities, that weave our joy, grief and resistance into a basket that can hold enough for all to share. History does not remember well people like us, because we build homes and communities that feed each other, care for the land and are a threat to power. Those who seek to rule us build pyramids, cathedrals, skyscrapers, prisons and AI data centers in their vain quests for immortality & domination.

In our quest for autonomy, we recognize that there is no end point to the practice of building and rebuilding, because we know that as soon as one puts trust in a leader and elevates that leader above people - oppression is seeded. We are not capitalists, though we live in a world brutalized by capitalism, colonialism, and Victorian sensibilities of cis-heteropatriarchy. We are not communists,though we live under the oppression of state-nationalism, we dream of communal futures free of authoritarianism, and organize within unions. We are anarchists, even if that word can’t fully describe our diversity. We know that curiosity, solidarity, love, internationalism, mutual aid, and direct action is how we build the world we desire and deserve, even if it doesn’t come quickly.

If you think you or someone you know might be an anarchist, come on down to the Halifax Anarchist Book Fair!

On Saturday, September 12th, 2026 we invite you to join us for Kjipuktuk/Halifax’s 9th Annual Anarchist Bookfair to convene, scheme & dream a liberated world together. All ages are welcome to cultivate curiosity, solidarity & mutual aid through sharing books, zines, art, music, discussion, and skills.

We are specifically looking for workshop proposals and content around the theme Autonomy Beyond Borders. Some potential topics include:
– Autonomous & anarchist movements in the Global South
– International solidarity
– Antifascist resistance in North America/Turtle Island
– Migrant mutual aid and solidarity / anti-border struggles
– Critiques of AI and the techno-fascist project
– Critiques of nationalism, campism, Communism
– What sets anarchism apart from electoral politics of the left
– Indigenous solidarity & sovereignty

WORKSHOP APPLICATION
https://cryptpad.fr/form/ #/2/form/view/jecwfqRJqzF6zTlR75NIdGmLY4qQCtDM4AzrIZhKLAY/

TABLE APPLICATION
https://cryptpad.fr/form/ #/2/form/view/+aYOQh1iuIZy3KUyCffrjoFJK3Cjc2rmOWfY3qLmIh4/

08/28/2025

Workshops are here! Here is the schedule of thoughtful people who want to discuss with you the topics that colour their brains.

A majority of the workshops will take place outside at the Old Library public park on Spring Garden Road. A handful of workshops will take place across the street at the Central Library, in room 301.��Friday, September 5th

5pm-7pm
Glitter Bean Cafe
Halifax Anarchist Black Cross & the History of ABCs in the Anti-Repression Movement
launch event & fundraiser
*masked event

7pm-late
Halifax Commons Skate Park
Kickoff show!
Featuring Art Bouman, Jade Bennet, Shoulder Season, and Strange Life.

Saturday, September 6th

Session One: 11am-12:15pm
Grassroots Prisoner Solidarity in Action with Books Beyond Bars - Reese, Nico, Kit (outside 1)
Anarchism and Evolution - Angus (outside 2)

Session Two: 12:45pm-2pm
De-escalation, escalation and power dynamics (outside 1)
Facilitated Discussion on models for health justice, collective care and movement care projects - Kaleigh (she/they) (outside 2)
Building Radical Communities Through Critical Historiography - Andrew Zonneveld (central library room 301; masks required)

Session 3: 2:30-3:45pm
Repression During Shut Down Canada: presentation & discussion - Trish (they/she) (outside 1)
Faith & Power: Evangelicalism’s Rise in Right-Wing Politics—and the Impact on Anti-Colonial & Anti-Fascist Struggles - Hannah Wood (she/her) (outside 2)
Digitial hygiene and safety - rang0 collective (central library room 301; masks required)

Session Four: 4:15-5:45pm
Confronting Nationalism in 2025 - Ajay Parasram (he/him), Isaac Saney (he/him), El Jones (she/her) (outside 1)

Halifax Anarchist Bookfair Afterparty: 7pm-late
Halifax Commons Skatepark
Raven Storm, Earthtone, Chillier, Natbeast, & Korvidae

08/26/2025

The bookfair is just over a week away! We can’t wait to see you all at the Old Library on Spring Garden Road. Thank you so much to all of the volunteers, tablers, and workshop facilitators who have been busy getting things ready.

With each passing day, our lives are further controlled by power structures that subjugate our bodies and land in service of profit. Our social lives have become confined by tech billionaires who horde our data and manipulate our behaviour to train AI. Our alienation from the natural world has become normalized as it crumbles beneath our feet. As the rearing heads of fascism strobe across the doomscroll, we are reminded that now, as always, is the time for anarchism.

Anarchism is not merely a reaction to fascism or capitalist power structures — it invites us to imagine a world, imagine our lives, free of coercion. When much of the public is being swindled into pro-‘Canadian’ rhetoric & consumerism here on stolen land, we as anarchists remain staunchly opposed to nationalism. We see nationalism as a tool of colonialism and capitalism to keep us from seeing the lies behind their facade. We dedicate our lives not to individual wealth & economic progress but to responsible interdependence, solidarity & self determination. We find meaning in exploring our collective dreams of liberation.

On Saturday, September 6th, 2025 we invite you to join us for Kjipuktuk/Halifax’s 8th Annual Anarchist Bookfair to convene, scheme & dream a liberated world together. All ages are welcome to come cultivate curiosity, solidarity & mutual aid through sharing books, zines, art, music, discussion, and skills.

As our world continues on a disturbing & overwhelming trajectory of extraction, displacement & genocide, with anarchism we can ride this sh*tstorm together with integrity and resolve.

-HABF collective

08/19/2025

🏴✨🌱 Halifax Anarchist Black Cross Launch Event !!

We are thrilled to host this pre-bookfair kickoff event for a new anarchist organization. Come learn about the history of ABC groups internationally and how this group can aid in anti-repression movements in our region.

This will be a masked event.
Friday, September 5th
Glitter Bean Cafe
5896 Spring Garden Road, Halifax

08/17/2025

✨📚🪩 Post bookfair dance party !! 🕺🎶🔊

In the spirit of gathering & growing together we cherish this evening of booty-shaking & wholesome moshing 🏴🏴‍☠️

stacked deejay lineup + big sound system 📢📻
hfx commons skate park ! skate/dance the night away! 🛹🛼
dnb

vi.dae

big big shoutout .and.fungi for the gorgeously vibrant design 🦊🍄‍🟫

08/15/2025

Check our our list of amazing tablers representing community groups and slinging zines, books, art, info and even plants and seeds!

Remember to bring cash for buying goodies!

Here is a list of our tablers featured this year:

AK Press
Amanda 1312
amos.zell
Between the Lines Books
Black Fox Press
Books Beyond Bars
Centre for Especifismo Studies
Chlo's Pages
ck nosun
Dionysos Club
Discordant Designs
Fernwood Publishing
Halifax Anarchist Black Cross
Hex Art
Hyphae
Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks
Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax
Nayazak Art
Nova Scotia Student Strike
NS Grief and Solidarity Quilt For Palestine
On Our Own Authority!
Pluto Press
PM Press
Reading Lists & Book Accessibility with Sammy
Seed & Spark Bookstore Co-op
SUNSCAD Zine Press
the Moxy Fox
Venus Envy
wren & sparrow
Yardstick Nurseries

08/14/2025

The Halifax Anarchist Bookfair is looking for volunteers! Our 8th annual event is coming up Saturday, September 6th (rain date Sept. 7th)

We are an event based on interdependence and collaboration. There are many ways you can support this awesome event, including the following roles:
* postering
* setup/teardown
* childcare
* info table
* transporting tables and chairs
* billeting

Email: [email protected] with the subject line "volunteer" and let us know which positions you'd be interested in signing up for, and what time of day you'd be available!

07/01/2025

Two weeks left to apply to table and to host a workshop at the Halifax Anarchist Bookfair!!

Please circulate these amongst your peers who may be interested in
collaborating on the event this year!

https://halifaxanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org/

With each passing day, our lives are further controlled by power structures that subjugate our bodies and land in service of profit. Our social lives have become confined by tech billionaires who horde our data and manipulate our behaviour to train AI. Our alienation from the natural world has become normalized as it crumbles beneath our feet. As the rearing heads of fascism strobe across the doomscroll, we are reminded that now, as always, is the time for anarchism.

Anarchism is not merely a reaction to fascism or capitalist power structures — it invites us to imagine a world, imagine our lives, free of coercion. When much of the public is being swindled into pro-‘Canadian’ rhetoric & consumerism here on stolen land, we as anarchists remain staunchly opposed to nationalism. We see nationalism as a tool of colonialism and capitalism to keep us from seeing the lies behind their facade. We dedicate our lives not to individual wealth & economic progress but to responsible interdependence, solidarity & self determination. We find meaning in exploring our collective dreams of liberation.

On Saturday, September 6th, 2025 we invite you to join us for Kjipuktuk/Halifax’s 8th Annual Anarchist Bookfair to convene, scheme & dream a liberated world together. All ages are welcome to come cultivate curiosity, solidarity & mutual aid through sharing books, zines, art, music, discussion, and skills.

As our world continues on a disturbing & overwhelming trajectory of extraction, displacement & genocide, with anarchism we can ride this sh*tstorm together with integrity and resolve.

-HABF collective

12/03/2024

We are mere days away from this abundantly creative winter solstice market! This is an awesome opportunity to support local creatives, your favourite all-ages DIY space, and snag some holiday gifts for your loved ones, all in one go! Here are the wonderful tablers whose handsomely masked faces you can expect to see on Sunday:

Ashley Sometimes Beads —>
Black Artist Initiative —>
bloodparadise —>
Sofia Alarcon —> www.sofia-alarcon.com/ ig:
Wren & Sparrow —> .n.sparrow
Brittni Brinn —> brittnibrinn.com /
sabadoesart —>
amanda 1312 —> .3.1.2
Éloïse Brunet —>
Hounds of Vintage —>
Island Obsidian —>
Peepers Keepers —>
mgbee’s art —>
Abstracts (Energy) —>
Dionysos Club
Q***r Creatives Space Artists Collective +Robin Wolfe aka Wolfe Press —> +
Food Against Fascism —>
Hannah Genosko
Steph Rybczyn —>
Seed & Spark Book Co-op ->
Books Beyond Bars —>
Students for the Liberation of Palestine - Kjipuktuk —>