Black Cat Book Fair
@blackcatbookfair.bsky.social
Maine's 1st radical book fair 🐈⬛ 📚 🏴
📍 Belfast, Maine/Wabanakik
🛰️ https://blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/
💌 blackcatbookfair@riseup.net
Stay tuned for 2026!
📍 Belfast, Maine/Wabanakik
🛰️ https://blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/
💌 blackcatbookfair@riseup.net
Stay tuned for 2026!
📣TOMORROW is it! 📣
The first Black Cat Book Fair! 🐈⬛📚 Books, art, print media!! Talks, workshops, author readings!!
Aug 23, 11am to 6pm.
📍First Church Belfast (8 Court Street)
Everything you could need to know at blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org
Masks required indoors. 😷
Tell your friends! 🤩🥳
The first Black Cat Book Fair! 🐈⬛📚 Books, art, print media!! Talks, workshops, author readings!!
Aug 23, 11am to 6pm.
📍First Church Belfast (8 Court Street)
Everything you could need to know at blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org
Masks required indoors. 😷
Tell your friends! 🤩🥳
August 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
📣TOMORROW is it! 📣
The first Black Cat Book Fair! 🐈⬛📚 Books, art, print media!! Talks, workshops, author readings!!
Aug 23, 11am to 6pm.
📍First Church Belfast (8 Court Street)
Everything you could need to know at blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org
Masks required indoors. 😷
Tell your friends! 🤩🥳
The first Black Cat Book Fair! 🐈⬛📚 Books, art, print media!! Talks, workshops, author readings!!
Aug 23, 11am to 6pm.
📍First Church Belfast (8 Court Street)
Everything you could need to know at blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org
Masks required indoors. 😷
Tell your friends! 🤩🥳
UPDATE: MASKS WILL NOW BE REQUIRED AT THE BOOK FAIR. 🐈⬛😷
New data shows a COVID spike. Because we're striving to make this event as accessible as possible as well as safer for ourselves & the wider community, we've changed our mask policy from masks strongly recommended to masks required.
New data shows a COVID spike. Because we're striving to make this event as accessible as possible as well as safer for ourselves & the wider community, we've changed our mask policy from masks strongly recommended to masks required.
August 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
UPDATE: MASKS WILL NOW BE REQUIRED AT THE BOOK FAIR. 🐈⬛😷
New data shows a COVID spike. Because we're striving to make this event as accessible as possible as well as safer for ourselves & the wider community, we've changed our mask policy from masks strongly recommended to masks required.
New data shows a COVID spike. Because we're striving to make this event as accessible as possible as well as safer for ourselves & the wider community, we've changed our mask policy from masks strongly recommended to masks required.
We'll also have Samara Cole Doyon reading in our Children's Space her book NEXT LEVEL: A HYMN IN GRATITUDE FOR NEURODIVERSITY. Bring your little ones by this Saturday, Aug 23 at 11:15. 💫
August 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We'll also have Samara Cole Doyon reading in our Children's Space her book NEXT LEVEL: A HYMN IN GRATITUDE FOR NEURODIVERSITY. Bring your little ones by this Saturday, Aug 23 at 11:15. 💫
We are SUPER GOSH DARN LUCKY (and pinching ourselves!) that these two fierce writers and inspiring movement thinkers, @margaret.bsky.social and Madeline ffitch, will be joining us THIS SATURDAY Aug 23, 4:30-6:00pm, to talk about the anarchist potential of fiction. ✨📣🌲
August 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
We are SUPER GOSH DARN LUCKY (and pinching ourselves!) that these two fierce writers and inspiring movement thinkers, @margaret.bsky.social and Madeline ffitch, will be joining us THIS SATURDAY Aug 23, 4:30-6:00pm, to talk about the anarchist potential of fiction. ✨📣🌲
"We handful of organizers include writers, poets, farmers, booksellers, two kinds of mill workers (woolen and saw), artists, arborists, editors, boatbuilders, activists, musicians and one arts administrator — all avid readers — living in Waldo County." Read us in the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social 🐈⬛📚
August 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"We handful of organizers include writers, poets, farmers, booksellers, two kinds of mill workers (woolen and saw), artists, arborists, editors, boatbuilders, activists, musicians and one arts administrator — all avid readers — living in Waldo County." Read us in the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social 🐈⬛📚
On Sunday, August 24, you can join our sister event, the Moonbat Skillshare, in Swanville, ME. 🦇🛠️
To register and for event location 👉 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
To register and for event location 👉 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
On Sunday, August 24, you can join our sister event, the Moonbat Skillshare, in Swanville, ME. 🦇🛠️
To register and for event location 👉 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
To register and for event location 👉 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
📣 Our 2025 schedule is live!! We'll have talks featuring @hannahmatthews.bsky.social, @margaret.bsky.social, @americanwork47.bsky.social, @bytheseed.bsky.social, @aobrien2024.bsky.social, and more!!
More program details at: blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/schedule/
Aug 23, 11a-6p 🐈⬛📚
More program details at: blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/schedule/
Aug 23, 11a-6p 🐈⬛📚
August 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
📣 Our 2025 schedule is live!! We'll have talks featuring @hannahmatthews.bsky.social, @margaret.bsky.social, @americanwork47.bsky.social, @bytheseed.bsky.social, @aobrien2024.bsky.social, and more!!
More program details at: blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/schedule/
Aug 23, 11a-6p 🐈⬛📚
More program details at: blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/schedule/
Aug 23, 11a-6p 🐈⬛📚
Shirts are here! We can't get over how good the colors look!
If you pre-ordered, we'll be in touch!
If you didn't, there will be a limited number available at the Black Cat Book Fair on Saturday, Aug 23. 🐈⬛
If you pre-ordered, we'll be in touch!
If you didn't, there will be a limited number available at the Black Cat Book Fair on Saturday, Aug 23. 🐈⬛
August 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Shirts are here! We can't get over how good the colors look!
If you pre-ordered, we'll be in touch!
If you didn't, there will be a limited number available at the Black Cat Book Fair on Saturday, Aug 23. 🐈⬛
If you pre-ordered, we'll be in touch!
If you didn't, there will be a limited number available at the Black Cat Book Fair on Saturday, Aug 23. 🐈⬛
Local blueberries, local bookstore, local Black Cat Book Fair. 🐈⬛📚🫐
Patches $5 at @boxcarbooks.bsky.social in Thorndike and Selkie's Pearl in Belfast. (And maybe if you ask real nice, we might even send you one by mail! 📬)
📣 📆 August 23 (11a-6p) is only a few weeks away!
Patches $5 at @boxcarbooks.bsky.social in Thorndike and Selkie's Pearl in Belfast. (And maybe if you ask real nice, we might even send you one by mail! 📬)
📣 📆 August 23 (11a-6p) is only a few weeks away!
August 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Local blueberries, local bookstore, local Black Cat Book Fair. 🐈⬛📚🫐
Patches $5 at @boxcarbooks.bsky.social in Thorndike and Selkie's Pearl in Belfast. (And maybe if you ask real nice, we might even send you one by mail! 📬)
📣 📆 August 23 (11a-6p) is only a few weeks away!
Patches $5 at @boxcarbooks.bsky.social in Thorndike and Selkie's Pearl in Belfast. (And maybe if you ask real nice, we might even send you one by mail! 📬)
📣 📆 August 23 (11a-6p) is only a few weeks away!
We've a lot to say about why organize the BCBF in our small corner of the world. But it's esp important to us that ideas, money & strategic resources circulate locally.
$$$ raised will go to this & next year's fairs, then shared w/ local orgs Bomazeen Land Trust, Niweskok, & Maine Solidarity Fund.
$$$ raised will go to this & next year's fairs, then shared w/ local orgs Bomazeen Land Trust, Niweskok, & Maine Solidarity Fund.
August 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We've a lot to say about why organize the BCBF in our small corner of the world. But it's esp important to us that ideas, money & strategic resources circulate locally.
$$$ raised will go to this & next year's fairs, then shared w/ local orgs Bomazeen Land Trust, Niweskok, & Maine Solidarity Fund.
$$$ raised will go to this & next year's fairs, then shared w/ local orgs Bomazeen Land Trust, Niweskok, & Maine Solidarity Fund.
Stay tuned for announcements of our full program of speakers, talks, and workshops soon! Be there or be ⬛.
Spread the word 📣🐈⬛📚
Spread the word 📣🐈⬛📚
July 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Stay tuned for announcements of our full program of speakers, talks, and workshops soon! Be there or be ⬛.
Spread the word 📣🐈⬛📚
Spread the word 📣🐈⬛📚
📣 ANNOUNCING the very fab folks you can find at the biggest little rural radical book fair in Maine! 🐈⬛📚 (cont'd)
@radicalemprints.bsky.social @tangledwilderness.bsky.social @isabellarotman.bsky.social
@radicalemprints.bsky.social @tangledwilderness.bsky.social @isabellarotman.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
📣 ANNOUNCING the very fab folks you can find at the biggest little rural radical book fair in Maine! 🐈⬛📚 (cont'd)
@radicalemprints.bsky.social @tangledwilderness.bsky.social @isabellarotman.bsky.social
@radicalemprints.bsky.social @tangledwilderness.bsky.social @isabellarotman.bsky.social
📣 ANNOUNCING the very fab folks you can find at the biggest little rural radical book fair in Maine! 🐈⬛📚
@moonbats.bsky.social @audreygidman.bsky.social @weareoutintheopen.bsky.social @pickwickindpress.bsky.social @pmpress.bsky.social (cont'd)
@moonbats.bsky.social @audreygidman.bsky.social @weareoutintheopen.bsky.social @pickwickindpress.bsky.social @pmpress.bsky.social (cont'd)
July 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
📣 ANNOUNCING the very fab folks you can find at the biggest little rural radical book fair in Maine! 🐈⬛📚
@moonbats.bsky.social @audreygidman.bsky.social @weareoutintheopen.bsky.social @pickwickindpress.bsky.social @pmpress.bsky.social (cont'd)
@moonbats.bsky.social @audreygidman.bsky.social @weareoutintheopen.bsky.social @pickwickindpress.bsky.social @pmpress.bsky.social (cont'd)
📣 ANNOUNCING the very fab folks you can find at the biggest little rural radical book fair in Maine! 🐈⬛📚
@akpress.org @commonnotions.bsky.social @sipunculist.bsky.social @hellohellobooks.bsky.social @llabc24.bsky.social
@akpress.org @commonnotions.bsky.social @sipunculist.bsky.social @hellohellobooks.bsky.social @llabc24.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
📣 ANNOUNCING the very fab folks you can find at the biggest little rural radical book fair in Maine! 🐈⬛📚
@akpress.org @commonnotions.bsky.social @sipunculist.bsky.social @hellohellobooks.bsky.social @llabc24.bsky.social
@akpress.org @commonnotions.bsky.social @sipunculist.bsky.social @hellohellobooks.bsky.social @llabc24.bsky.social
4wks till the first ever
🐈⬛ BLACK CAT BOOK FAIR 🐈⬛
8 Court St, Belfast, ME
August 23, 11-6
We're excited to announce vendors and the speakers program soon! Mark your calendars! 📆📚
Questions? Email in bio!
🐈⬛ BLACK CAT BOOK FAIR 🐈⬛
8 Court St, Belfast, ME
August 23, 11-6
We're excited to announce vendors and the speakers program soon! Mark your calendars! 📆📚
Questions? Email in bio!
July 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
4wks till the first ever
🐈⬛ BLACK CAT BOOK FAIR 🐈⬛
8 Court St, Belfast, ME
August 23, 11-6
We're excited to announce vendors and the speakers program soon! Mark your calendars! 📆📚
Questions? Email in bio!
🐈⬛ BLACK CAT BOOK FAIR 🐈⬛
8 Court St, Belfast, ME
August 23, 11-6
We're excited to announce vendors and the speakers program soon! Mark your calendars! 📆📚
Questions? Email in bio!
BLACK CAT BOOK FAIR MERCH preorder to raise funds for the fair in August! Share & help us put on this event! 🐈⬛
Tees are 100% cotton, come in 5 colors & XS-3XL.
Totes are 100% cotton, 15x20x5"
All feature a design by @mossspiglet.bsky.social and are $25.
Order by 7/18 👇 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
Tees are 100% cotton, come in 5 colors & XS-3XL.
Totes are 100% cotton, 15x20x5"
All feature a design by @mossspiglet.bsky.social and are $25.
Order by 7/18 👇 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
July 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
BLACK CAT BOOK FAIR MERCH preorder to raise funds for the fair in August! Share & help us put on this event! 🐈⬛
Tees are 100% cotton, come in 5 colors & XS-3XL.
Totes are 100% cotton, 15x20x5"
All feature a design by @mossspiglet.bsky.social and are $25.
Order by 7/18 👇 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
Tees are 100% cotton, come in 5 colors & XS-3XL.
Totes are 100% cotton, 15x20x5"
All feature a design by @mossspiglet.bsky.social and are $25.
Order by 7/18 👇 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
We've also got Black Cat Book Fair patches for $5, available thanks to the good folks at Selkie's Pearl in downtown Belfast, ME 🐈⬛🧜♀️🐚
July 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We've also got Black Cat Book Fair patches for $5, available thanks to the good folks at Selkie's Pearl in downtown Belfast, ME 🐈⬛🧜♀️🐚
An overview of the full list of raffle prizes available from @mossspiglet.bsky.social, @holeywell.bsky.social, @boxcarbooks.bsky.social, @akpress.org, @amygreensastrology.bsky.social and loads more.
Help us launch this book fair and bring a line up of great speakers, authors & organizers!
Help us launch this book fair and bring a line up of great speakers, authors & organizers!
July 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
An overview of the full list of raffle prizes available from @mossspiglet.bsky.social, @holeywell.bsky.social, @boxcarbooks.bsky.social, @akpress.org, @amygreensastrology.bsky.social and loads more.
Help us launch this book fair and bring a line up of great speakers, authors & organizers!
Help us launch this book fair and bring a line up of great speakers, authors & organizers!
RAFFLE PRIZES - 13 & 14
13 - A couple synastry reading (two charts together)
14 - A birth chart exploration reading
both from @amygreensastrology.bsky.social
13 - A couple synastry reading (two charts together)
14 - A birth chart exploration reading
both from @amygreensastrology.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
RAFFLE PRIZES - 13 & 14
13 - A couple synastry reading (two charts together)
14 - A birth chart exploration reading
both from @amygreensastrology.bsky.social
13 - A couple synastry reading (two charts together)
14 - A birth chart exploration reading
both from @amygreensastrology.bsky.social
RAFFLE PRIZES - 9, 10, 11, 12
9 - A full set of calendar tea towels and two patches by Addie Best Studio
10 - art and a printed t-shirt by Fairy Dog
11 - a $50 gift certificate to @akpress.org
12 - ceramic animals made by Miki Glasser Ceramics
9 - A full set of calendar tea towels and two patches by Addie Best Studio
10 - art and a printed t-shirt by Fairy Dog
11 - a $50 gift certificate to @akpress.org
12 - ceramic animals made by Miki Glasser Ceramics
July 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
RAFFLE PRIZES - 9, 10, 11, 12
9 - A full set of calendar tea towels and two patches by Addie Best Studio
10 - art and a printed t-shirt by Fairy Dog
11 - a $50 gift certificate to @akpress.org
12 - ceramic animals made by Miki Glasser Ceramics
9 - A full set of calendar tea towels and two patches by Addie Best Studio
10 - art and a printed t-shirt by Fairy Dog
11 - a $50 gift certificate to @akpress.org
12 - ceramic animals made by Miki Glasser Ceramics
RAFFLE PRIZES - 5, 6, 7, 8
5 - $50 gift card to Belfast Clay Studio
6 - $50 gift card to @boxcarbooks.bsky.social
7 - $100 herbal potions kit from Claire, herbalist and one of the Black Cat organizers
8 - A 60min massage from Sirius Somatics in Damariscotta, ME
5 - $50 gift card to Belfast Clay Studio
6 - $50 gift card to @boxcarbooks.bsky.social
7 - $100 herbal potions kit from Claire, herbalist and one of the Black Cat organizers
8 - A 60min massage from Sirius Somatics in Damariscotta, ME
July 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
RAFFLE PRIZES - 5, 6, 7, 8
5 - $50 gift card to Belfast Clay Studio
6 - $50 gift card to @boxcarbooks.bsky.social
7 - $100 herbal potions kit from Claire, herbalist and one of the Black Cat organizers
8 - A 60min massage from Sirius Somatics in Damariscotta, ME
5 - $50 gift card to Belfast Clay Studio
6 - $50 gift card to @boxcarbooks.bsky.social
7 - $100 herbal potions kit from Claire, herbalist and one of the Black Cat organizers
8 - A 60min massage from Sirius Somatics in Damariscotta, ME
RAFFLE PRIZES - 1, 2, 3, 4
1 - $100 gift card to Cedar Grove Sauna in Montville, ME
2 - $100 gift card for a tattoo from @mossspiglet.bsky.social
3 - Woven textile piece by @holeywell.bsky.social
4 - A massage from Good Earth Structural Body Work in Rockport, ME
1 - $100 gift card to Cedar Grove Sauna in Montville, ME
2 - $100 gift card for a tattoo from @mossspiglet.bsky.social
3 - Woven textile piece by @holeywell.bsky.social
4 - A massage from Good Earth Structural Body Work in Rockport, ME
July 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
RAFFLE PRIZES - 1, 2, 3, 4
1 - $100 gift card to Cedar Grove Sauna in Montville, ME
2 - $100 gift card for a tattoo from @mossspiglet.bsky.social
3 - Woven textile piece by @holeywell.bsky.social
4 - A massage from Good Earth Structural Body Work in Rockport, ME
1 - $100 gift card to Cedar Grove Sauna in Montville, ME
2 - $100 gift card for a tattoo from @mossspiglet.bsky.social
3 - Woven textile piece by @holeywell.bsky.social
4 - A massage from Good Earth Structural Body Work in Rockport, ME
To buy raffle tickets, venmo @boxcarbooks and put the item number(s) you're interested in the memo. Here are some examples of what we mean.
🎟️ Tickets are 1 for $5, 5 for $20.
🎟️ Tickets are 1 for $5, 5 for $20.
July 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
To buy raffle tickets, venmo @boxcarbooks and put the item number(s) you're interested in the memo. Here are some examples of what we mean.
🎟️ Tickets are 1 for $5, 5 for $20.
🎟️ Tickets are 1 for $5, 5 for $20.
FUNDRAISING RAFFLE - We've got 🪄✨️ 13 fabulous prizes to raise money for our upcoming radical bookfair in Belfast, Maine this summer. 🐈⬛📚
🎟️ Tickets are 1 for $5, 5 for $20.
🔍 To enter, venmo @boxcarbooks w/ putting the the corresponding item number in the memo!
The raffle is open until July 21st.
🎟️ Tickets are 1 for $5, 5 for $20.
🔍 To enter, venmo @boxcarbooks w/ putting the the corresponding item number in the memo!
The raffle is open until July 21st.
July 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
FUNDRAISING RAFFLE - We've got 🪄✨️ 13 fabulous prizes to raise money for our upcoming radical bookfair in Belfast, Maine this summer. 🐈⬛📚
🎟️ Tickets are 1 for $5, 5 for $20.
🔍 To enter, venmo @boxcarbooks w/ putting the the corresponding item number in the memo!
The raffle is open until July 21st.
🎟️ Tickets are 1 for $5, 5 for $20.
🔍 To enter, venmo @boxcarbooks w/ putting the the corresponding item number in the memo!
The raffle is open until July 21st.
You coming up to join us at the new radical bookfair in Belfast, Maine this summer? 🐈⬛
June 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
You coming up to join us at the new radical bookfair in Belfast, Maine this summer? 🐈⬛