A radical social center and infoshop based out of so-called Cleveland Heights, OH
This week @ RZH!
🌾 Mon 9/9: Cleveland Anarchist Book Club continues No Spiritual Surrender, by Klee Benally. 6:30-8
🌾 Tues 9/10: Heights LGBTQ+ Community Check In. Families, friends and allies welcome. 7-8:30
🌾 Sun 9/15: Open Hours, crafternoon and free coffee shop. 1-4 pm
Trans Voice Training Circle. 1-3 pm
What’s up what’s up! September calendars are here, check out what’s happening at the Rhizome House this month.
We hope your seasonal transition is getting off to a sweet start, buckle in for some restorative community building time with old friends and new.
Grab physical copies of the calendar at the space to distribute in your community (or DM us and we’ll send you a printable PDF 😘). Find an up to date, text compatible version on our website: https://rhizomehouse.org/event-calendar/ or add our Google Calendar to yours at bit.ly/RZHCal If you too hate this wretched app, consider signing up for our email list and get all the primo s**t delivered directly to your inbox at the very reasonable rate of twice a month: https://rhizomehouse.org/email
Do you want to have your event at the Rhizome? Shoot us an email with a short pitch and some proposed dates at [email protected]
Keep it wavy,
🖤 RZH
Did you buy supplies for an art piece that never happened? A box of stuff sitting around for that DIY project you know you’ll get to? Or even leftovers after you completed a project?
Drop it at Rhizome House this Sunday during open hours or bring it to the Boeing Is Guilty panel event next Saturday! We’ll be having an art build during the event (that’s next Saturday, for eagle eyed viewers at home) and are looking for some materials to make it happen. Thanks!
Please join us for a community conversation about issues affecting LGBTQIA+ Cleveland Heights residents. Tuesday Sep 10, 7-8:30pm. For more info email [email protected] 2174 Lee Rd.
Big week alert ‼️🚨 Check out these upcoming events and the debut of our new cafe style open hours!
We have POWER. Come by around 10 for AC, wifi, and a place to cowork. We have snacks, drinks, and coffee. How much does this cost you ask? Nothing! Unlike Starbucks you don’t have to make any purchases to hang in our space.
Join the Boeing 5 and legal support team members this Saturday, August 10th, for a panel discussion to learn about the ongoing battle against Boeing’s repression, sustained actions for a , and how to deepen our commitments to collective liberation. Check the slides for event details.
Can’t make it and want to support the with their mounting legal fees? Screenshot slide three to access the QR code or type in the link provided for the gofundme page.
Join us Saturday, August 17 for everyone’s favorite thing, an evening of poetry and prose with Nick Rees Gardner, Charles Kell, and Caryl Pagel.
Nick Gardner is a writer, critic, educator, and beer and wine buyer. His books include So Marvelously Far, sonnets on addiction and the Rust Belt; Hurricane Trinity, a climate change novella; and Delinquents, linked short stories. He’s received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He daydreams about long drives through Ohio from his small apartment in Washington, DC.
Charles Kell is the author of Ishmael Mask, (Autumn House Press, 2023.) His first collection, Cage of Lit Glass, (Autumn House Press, 2019) was chosen by Kimiko Hahn for the 2018 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. He is an assistant professor at the Community College of Rhode Island and editor of the Ocean State Review.
Caryl Pagel is the author of three books of poetry including Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press) and an essay collection, Out Of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2). She edits and publishes with the CSU Poetry Center and Rescue Press and teaches at Cleveland State University.
two one seven four Lee Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH
Hey friends!
August Calendars are here! Check out what’s happening this month at The Rhizome House!
We hope you’re surviving the summer heat, voting discourse and ongoing pandemic(s?). It would be cool to not have to deal with them… Get plugged into community to fight and thrive together for a survivable future!
Grab some physical copies at the space to distro in your community (or DM us and we’ll send you a printable PDF
This week @ RZH!
🦖 MON 7/29, 6:30-8: Cleveland Anarchist Reading Group, reading Part II of Mutual Aid by Dean Spade. Link in Story
🦖 FRI 8/2, 7pm: Film Screening, TBA
🦖 SAT 8/3, 12:30-3:30: “Questioning Capitalist Value,” by Michael Heinrich reading group. Links in story
🦖 SUN 8/4, 1-4 pm: Weekly Open Hours and Crafternoon
This week @ RZH!
🦦 Wed 7/24, 5:30-7:30: Alternative Avenues Harm Reduction Support Group, with
🦦 Sat 7/27 5pm: Tie Die Party and Picnic, with NEO IWW
🦦 Sun 7/28, 1-4 pm: Open Hours and Crafternoon—Join us for a T Shirt Transformation Party at the same time.
🦦 Mon 7/29, 6:30-8: Circle A Reading Group does part 2 of Mutual Aid
Hope y’all are staying cool and enjoying the summer heat :)
Add our GCal to your own at bit.ly/RZHCal or join our email list for updates straight to your inbox at https://rhizomehouse.org/email/
Keep an eye out for August calendars this week or next 😉 See ya round the neighborhood!
🖤RZH
July 28, 1pm - 4pm | Bring a T-shirt you are willing to transform! At this hands-on workshop, we’re cutting it into a new one! We can let the cut jersey edges roll or braid. Knot and sew our way into completely new fit! You decide how you want to alter your t-shirt. Additional shirts, a sewing machine, tools, and examples will be provided to inspire. Encouragement, coaching, and expertise will be available as needed.
Suggested $20 donation for workshop materials. All are welcome regardless!
Join local trans community advocate Harley Rubin on the last Tuesday of the month from 7 to 8:30 PM, starting in August, and learn how to write Ohio legislative testimony! While the Ohio General Assembly is on break now, bills will be moving quickly during the “lame duck” period after Election Day.
In this workshop, we will be drafting testimony together to oppose House Bill 245, which would “prohibit adult cabaret performances in locations other than adult cabarets.” HB 245 is a legislative attack on the LGBTQ+ community that aims to criminalize public gender nonconformity. Show up to oppose anti-trans legislation in Ohio!
This week at RZH!
Wednesday 7/10 double feature!
🦖 5:30-7:30: Alternative Avenues Harm Reduction and Peer Support Meeting, with
🦖 7:30-9:30: Defying Displacement, a teach-in and discussion about gentrification and organizing efforts to counter its effects, with and
🦖 Friday 7/12-Sunday 7/14: 20 hour street medic training with SCORCH. Registration for this event is CLOSED at this point, check your emails for more specific dates and times, and if you didn’t make it into this round, watch this space for additional training dates to be announced
🦖 Sunday 7/14 @ 1-4 pm: Weekly open hours and crafternoon. Come hang and see what’s going on at Rhizome
🦖 Monday 7/15 @ 6:30-8:30 pm: Cleveland Anarchist Reading Group is beginning Mutual Aid, by Dean Spade. Part 1, or pgs 1-64. PDF in story
“Anarchism in History and Practice”
anarchist movements past and present, anarchist theories of ecology, revolution, anticolonialism, and social organization
course starts in September, free or donation
sign up at open hours 1-4pm Sunday July 7 or: [email protected]
Celebrate the latest issue of the Cleveland Review of Books! Writers will read and you can snag a copy of the gorgeously weird print edition!
Featured writers include:
Joe Hall
Stephanie Ginese
Connor Bracken
Raechel Anne Jolie
Kyle Keeler
Karen Bailen
July 20th, 7pm at The Rhizome House. Free and open to the public. Masks encouraged!
A very special Starlight Elsewhere birthday celebration for beloved host, Joy! Bring yr poems, yr masks, & yr big open hearts! 🖤
Registration is open for next weekends 20hr street medic training with SCORCH (PGH) Suggested donation is on a sliding scale $20-150 with no one turned away for lack of funds. Please be prepared to dedicate all day on Saturday and Sunday to the training (at least 8a-6p) Registration link here! http://tinyurl.com/CLE20HR
July Calendars are here!
This month, we’re looking forward to:
▪️ Launching a new course on The History and Practice of Anarchism
▪️ Book talk and teach-in on fighting gentrification—have you SEEN those condos going in across the street from us 👀
▪️ EVEN MORE poetry with CRB
▪️ 20 Hour Medic Training (whoop whoop for community care infrastructure)
▪️ And all of our usuals! Catch Lucio (on Friday) with the film crew and read more about Rojava and/or climate action with the books crew. Alternative Avenues harm reduction and peer support group will continue to meet every other Wednesday and Starlight Elsewhere is doing their monthly open night on the third Thursday. And as always: catch us EVERY Sunday, 1-4 for our weekly open hours and crafternoon, where in First and Third Sundays, we’re joined by the lovely Trans Voice Circle—come for the crafts and stay for the hot tips on vocal feminization 😘
Read a full version of the text calendar online at https://rhizomehouse.org/event-calendar/ or add us directly to your Google Calendar at bit.ly/RZHCal
See y’all around the neighborhood!
🏴♋️
THIS WEEK @ RZH!
🪴Mon 6/17: CLE Anarchist Reading Group does Öcalan— pages 1-30 of Liberating Life, by Abdullah Öcalan. 6:30-8, dm for PDF :)
🪴 THURS 6/20: Starlight Elsewhere Poetry Open Mic Night. 7-10 pm
🪴SAT 6/22: “Introduction to Marx’s Capital,” by Michael Heinrich Reading Group. Reading chapters 7-9, dm for PDF.
🪴 SUN 6/23: Weekly Open Hours and Crafternoon. 1-4 pm
This week at RZH!
Alternative Avenues with Weds 6/12 at 5:30pm
The Radical History of Social Centers and Anarchism Thurs 6/12 at 6pm
Join Rhizome House collective members to learn about the history of radical social centers and their connection to anarchist working class movements across the globe. We’ll also offer an accessible overview of anarchist history and ideas. If you’ve been intimidated or felt like you didn’t know enough to hang out in radical spaces (first, sorry, we hate that!), this is a great event for you! We’re also hopeful that any curious Cleveland Heights neighbors will feel extra-invited to join us. We want to be there for our local community!
We’re starting to test the waters for hosting shows, are you ready babes?
Poetry and Folk Punk Night, this Saturday at our Cedar-Lee storefront
Featuring:
J.I.B
Nikki Blankenship
Looter
and Parking Lot Bandits
Saturday May 25th from 1-3pm join us and to learn about herbs to hold you together when things fall apart. 🔥🖤
Next Thursday from 6-10pm we will be hosting a gallery benefit for and his family as they fundraise to flee the ongoing Palestinian genocide. We will have links available for his gofundme and opportunities to purchase some prints of his work. The gallery will stay up through our poetry open mic, Starlight Elsewhere, which starts at 7pm. Light refreshments will be provided. We hope you’ll join us!
Pretend this is your first time seeing our May Calendar. Also come visit us, we miss you dearly.
Dang it got dirty in here again 😔 Would you help us clean up 👉👈🥺 Maybe help us move some stuff in the basement? That would be super cool of you 😎 Sat May 11th, 11a-3p come hang 😊
Did you miss our last teach-in on trans healthcare? Are you concerned about the legislative attacks on trans lives in Ohio? Join us next Friday February 23 at 6:30pm for another discussion on HB68 and Governor DeSwine’s Executive Order. Snacks and masks provided, masking strongly encouraged, we hope to see you there!
Join us Saturday 2/17 at 7pm for an evening of text and sound featuring .abyss and $10 door, no one turned away for lack of funds! Hope to see you there!
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