Cream City Collectives

1 year anniversary party

The Cream City Collectives (CCC) are a volunteer-run collective space located at 732 E. Clarke St. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It hosts The Mathilde Anneke Infoshop, the Milwaukee Screenprinting Collective, the CCC Gallery ^[1], and other groups that share the space for meetings and events. It opened its doors with a storefront in October 2006. The infoshop is named after the German radical Mathilde Anneke, one of the Forty-Eighters who founded the first feminist newspaper in the United States in Milwaukee. ^[2] It hosts a lending library which contains thousands of books, primarily non-fiction titles on anti-authoritarian radical politics. There is a growing collection of anarchist and anti-authoritarian books for sale, as well as free literature. Discussions, speaking events, workshops, pot lucks, shows, dance parties, dinners and other events are frequently hosted at the space.

The CCC regularly hosts block parties in the summer. One typically on May 1, also known as the anniversary of Haymarket and called May Day and another often roughly scheduled around the anniversary of the opening of the space. The first May Day block party, in the tradition of the anti-capitalist holiday also featured an organized Really Really Free Market, in which a gift economy is put into practice. People brought things to share and everything was free. The Really Really Free Market as event and social practice was taken up by the Milwaukee Network for Social Change who now distribute free clothing in the winter and host free events in the summer. The block parties are often full of games and mischief. At the end of one there was a water balloon fight that encouraged the entire neighborhood to participate and included 1,500 water balloons. ^[3]

References

1. ^ MKE Online
2. ^ Wisconsin Historical Society
3. ^ Milwaukee Indymedia

External links

• Cream City Collectives' Website
• CCC Gallery

Coordinates: 43°3′56.73″N 87°54′6.49″W / 43.0657583°N 87.9018028°W / 43.0657583; -87.9018028