The Thread: Feb. 2015

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our m i s s i on Thread is just a tool. It’s nothing special, and it can’t do much on its own. But oh boy what it can accomplish when paired up with the right material and a little creativity.

This little project is a humble attempt to explore our city and its peoples. Finding those interesting materials that make up our communities, that creativity which provokes, instigates, and inspires.

We want to tie it all together and see what happens. We want to ask around and see what’s up. If something is happening that people should know about, we want to make sure they do If something isn’t happening that should be, we want to help make it happen We want most of all to hear from you! What are you up to? What are you seeing? What are you doing? What are you thinking? What is life like out there, and how can we all share in it? Help give us a chance to tie it all

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WHAT IS ONE SPRINGFIELD!?

One Springfield exists to defend Springfield’s updated nondiscrimination ordinance against a repeal on the April 2015 ballot.

On October 13, 2014, the Springfield City Council passed a bill to amend the city’s current nondiscrimination ordinance by adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected categories in employment, housing, and public accommodations — protecting LGBT citizens in Springfield from being fired, denied housing, and denied access to public accommodations simply for being gay or transgender.

On November 5th, 2014, an opposition group turned in signatures to attempt to repeal these protections through an April 2015 ballot referendum. (text taken from onespringfield.org ... find our more there folks!)

Register by March 11 // Vote April 7

An Archive of Black History in Springfield Mo. I can’t find a lot of information about Katherine G. Lederer online. She was an English professor at Missouri State University. She passed away in 2005. Almost any google search takes you back to one thing: the Katherine Lederer Ozarks African American History Collection. Prof. Lederer spent what seems to have been a significant portion of her career collecting, preserving, and sharing the hundreds of pieces that make up this collection. She has succeeded in developing an archive of black history for current and future generations to remember and utilize.

The collection is mostly photos, of teachers, musicians, and draftees; restaurateurs, church choirs, and proud families. There are documents also; event programs and posters, certificates of military service and excerpts from newspapers, all from the late 19th century on. The collection is one slice of everyday life after another, and it's full of details about the people and their histories—often small but meaningful, and just the type of spark to lead one on a journey of discovery.

It is this emphasis on common people and events, their lives in Springfield, and the surrounding areas that is so powerful. Major icons of black history are relatively easy to come by, but in real life these sorts of icons (as important and significant as they are/were) are the exception and not the rule. The lives and histories of everyday people are those most like our own, and often those that have most shaped our own day to day lives. Appreciating and understanding that history helps us understand ourselves and the times we live in. And a wonderful resource like this collection shouldn’t be taken for granted.

Lederer’s work is summarized in her book Many Thousands Gone: Springfield’s Lost Black History, and this collection is one step towards restoring and preserving that history.

This collection has been wonderfully digitized by MSU and made available through their website (visits to the physical collection are restricted but possible) and her book is available through the Springfield­Greene County Public Library.

Please browse, and consider the impact just one person can have!

For further reading try “Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed” by Emma Ray, an incredible memoir I discovered through the collection. ­chris.

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2/1 GLO Center First Sunday Potluck (5-6pm @ The Old Glass Place, 521 E. St. Louis St) 2/3 Tuesday Night Game Night (7pm @ Games, Comics, etc...every tuesday) 2/3 Full Moon Bike Ride (6pm @ Two Rivers Mountain bike Park) 2/3 TED Talk Tuesday (6pm @ Library Station...every tuesday) 2/4 Yoga on the Farm (7:30am @ Urban Roots Farm...every wednesday) 2/5 Thursday Night Game Night (7pm @ Metagames Unlimited...every thursday) 2/6 Life Betterment Fair (9am-3pm @ Central Assembly) 2/7 Sitting & Walking Meditation (every saturday 9-1 0:30am @ Dinh Quang Buddhist Temple) 2/7 Free Skool Meeting/Potluck (1 2:30 @ Brentwood Library) 2/8 Springfield Roller Girls Season Opener (1 :30pm @ Remington's // $1 0 adv $1 2 @ door Kidz free) 2/9 City Council Meeting (6:30 @ City Hall...second and fourth monday each month) 2/11 Humanist Group (6:30-8pm @ Unitarian Universalist) 2/1 4 Mardi Gras on C-Street ($1 0 9pm-1 am) 2/1 5 Soup and Social Action (1 2:30 @ Unitartian Universalist) 2/1 5 Yoga (1 :45pm @ Unitarian Universalist)

Open M i c s

WH AT S G OI N G ON ?

7pm @ Big Momma’s...every Monday 9pm @ The Flea...every Monday 9pm @ Martha's Vineyard...every Tuesday 1 0pm @ Dublin's Pass...every Wednesday 2/1 5 Operazzi (5-7pm @ The Creamery/classical music cabaret open mic night.)

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2/4 Teen and Young Adult Writing Group (6:30pm @ The Creamery Arts Center...every wednesday) 2/4 Tribal Dancing and Dumming (8-9pm @ Circle in The Square) 2/6 Moon City Improv (7:30pm @ Big Momma's...every Friday) 2/1 0 Springfield Music Acoustic Jam (6-8pm @ Springfield Music every 2nd and 4th tuesday) 2/1 3 Wild Bob's Musical Book Club: "50 Shades of Grey" (6:30pm @ Lindberg's) 2/1 7 Queen City Ukulele Club (6:30-8pm@ Springfield Music) 2/1 9 Bookmarx Book Club: "This is How You Lose Her" (7pm @ Bookmarx) 2/1 9 MO Poetry Slam (7-1 0pm @ Skinny Improv Theatre...every third thursday) $5 2/21 Mondo Moxie: The Warriors (film) (1 0:30 @ The Moxie) $5 2/27 Raiders of the Lost Ark (8pm @ The Gilloz) $5 2/28 A Raisin in the Sun (1 pm @ The Moxie) $5

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Fi r s t Fr i d ay (2 /6 )

-Zine-Jam (6:30 @ The Creative Foundry) -Dusty Campbell Tarot Card Show + Post-it Art show (7pm @ Arts & Letters) -Art+Design Faculty Exhibition Reception (5:30pm @ Brick City Gallery) -Critical Utopianism for Contemporary Audiences + Fusion Bead Art (6pm @ Park Central Library) -Wonders at Dusk- The Art of Stephanie Cramer (6pm @ Obelisk Home)

ZINEJAM FIRST FRIDAY FEB. 6TH

ZINES COMIX HOMEMADE BOOKS from local artists: Dark Circle Comics, Rasasvada, Jim Davis, and The Thread

6:30 TO 10 PM @ THE CREATIVE FOUNDRY (OFF THE SQUARE DWNTWN)

READ SHARE MAKE INQUIRE

!! SHOWS TO LOOK OUT FOR !!

2/6pokey lafarge + honky suckle @ outland ballroom longweirdword, positive projections, indo childes @ outland 2/7dream girl, kudzu + friends @ outland 2/18 the lowest pair @ patton alley 2/20domino kings @ patton alley 2/24merle haggard @ O'reilly family event center 3/1moon hooch + gigantic @ outland

3/7elvis costello @ the gillioz

4/1neutral milk hotel @ the gillioz

!! LIVE MUSIC IS GOOD FOR YOU !!

Local Zine Review

Tool Lending Library

One Springfield

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