AREA Chicago ART RESEARCH EDUCATION ACTIVISM

This month the Arts professional organization www.collegeart.org will convene in Chicago and AREA, Threewalls and others are using the occasion to have a meeting with some of the visiting scholars to talk and discuss their approaches to arts, research, activism and education

Tentative Program:
4:00 meet and greet
4:30 Panel I: Dara Greenwald, Liz Mason-Deese, Greg Sholette , Tim Stallmann

Pedagogy of the Periphery is a workshop-style event on the history, practice, and theory of experimental pedagogy inside and outside institutions, in conjunction with AREA Chicago’s issue #9 (Peripheral Vision), the Open Practice Committee, the Emma Goldman Center for the Study and Practice of Creative Anarchosyndicalism, and the Radical Caucus for Art’s Autonomizing Practices panel at the College Art Association meeting. Educators and students discuss pedagogical practices, broadly defined—with their optimism, obstacles, methods, pleasures, and frustrations—with short informal presentations and time for large- and small-group discussion, including questions submitted for discussion in advance by students and flexibility to address current events as needed (such as events in the campus uprisings happening in California, Europe, and elsewhere). This free event allows people not attending the conference to benefit from a sampling of visiting speakers and Chicago teachers. It is not conceived as anti-CAA, but happens alongside the conference to illustrate the fact that some conversations are easier to hold outside the professional machine.

Recommended readings:
From Occupied Berkeley
http://anticapitalprojects.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/necrosocial5.pdf

From AREA Chicago
http://www.areachicago.org/p/issues/peripheral-vision/please-bring-your-cell-phone-art-class/
http://www.areachicago.org/p/issues/6808/educating-68/
http://www.areachicago.org/p/issues/peripheral-vision/relative-freedom/

Questions and discussion:
Students and others are invited to send questions in advance that will be compiled and distributed for discussion in small groups of no more than 8 to be facilitated by the speakers. These might be responses to the readings, burning questions about your education, things you want to discuss. There will be time for discussion of the speakers' presentations, but this allows everyone in the room an opportunity to help set the agenda for discussion.

Send proposed questions (and any requests for information about the event) to youngjkwak@gmail.com. pLease also indicate if you would like to register to participate in a small group discussion. The event is free and open to all but there are limited spaces in discussion groups. Anyone can also start their own small group discussion at the event. 

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WHAT: Arts of Life Annual Awards Show
WHERE: Irish American Heritage Center (4626 N. Knox)
WHEN: February 11 @ 6PM to 9PM
HOW MUCH: $40 at the door, $30 pre-sale
WHAT: A celebration of the past year's achievements of over 20 artists with developmental disabilities.  With music, food, beverages, entertainment, art, and an awards show MCed by comedian Cameron Esposito.  For more info contact Tim Sarrantonio at tsarran @ artsoflife.org

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RX 2010 Fundraiser
The ReBuilding Exchange is celebrating its first full year of successful programs as Chicago’s first non-profit building material reuse center!
When: Friday, February 12, 2010 from 6-10pm
Where: 3335 W. 47th Street, Chicago, IL (Directions). Guests of the event can park in U-Haul parking lot the night of the event, directly West of the ReBuilding Exchange by half a block, and across the street.
What: Silent auction, good food & refreshments, games & prizes and fun!
Who: You! And your friends!  Email or Go to our Facebook event page to invite your friends
How Much: Suggested donation is $25 if you register by January 1st, $30 if you register by February 10th, and $35 at the door. Register now!

Details here: http://delta-institute.org/rebuildingexchange/rxfundraiser2010/index.php

http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit.htm

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Nicolas Lampert lecture on artists unions
Monday, February 15, 6-8 pm
@ Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago
400 S. Peoria St., Chicago
Part of the Temporary Services "ART WORK" Exhibit
http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit.htm

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Date: February 15 (11am-3PM)
Title Host: The Chicago Freedom School and Rise In Solidarity with
Ayiti (RISA) Presents...  A Teach-In: Love for Haiti?
Location: Chicago Freedom School Center for Social Change, 719 S State
St, Suite 3N
Details/Contact: Learn about...
Haiti’s amazing history of resistance, resiliency, and self-determination
the colonial history of deliberate impoverishment, control, debt,
dependency, and neglect in Haiti
the role the U.S. government has played in the underdevelopment of Haiti
the connection between the crises of disasters and social, political,
environmental, and economic issues
11:00 am     Lunch and Discussion
12:15 pm  In Memoriam
12:30 pm     Film Screening (Film TBD)
2:00 pm  Post-film discussion; What can we do?
Guest Facilitator:  Toussaint Losier, PhD Candidate, History,
University of Chicago
This event is open to the public.  $5 suggested donation will go to
the Haitian Congress to Fortify Haiti.  Youth ages 14 – 21 are
encouraged to attend.  RSVP at rsvp@chicagofreedomschool.org or
312.435.1201

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Book Release Party: Beyond The Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics through networked progressive media

Where: Cliff Dwellers, 200 S. Michigan
When: Tuesday, February 16, 2010
What: Book Launch Party!

In less than a decade, a new breed of networked progressive media has engaged millions, harnessing a participatory online environment that hasallowed our voices to influence political campaigns, public debates, and policymaking at unprecedented levels.

Join co-authors and media experts Tracy Van Slyke and Jessica Clark to celebrate the launch of their fresh, energizing new book, “Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics through Networked Progressive Media."

^{PRAISE for "Beyond the Echo Chamber"}

 

^{"Beyond The Echo Chamber tells one of the great untold stories of this decade: the evolution of an entirely new (and newly powerful) progressive media... It's a must-read for media practitioners, consumers, and progressives of all stripes."}

^{Christopher Hayes, Washington Editor of The Nation}

 

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Chances Dances
Monday Feb 22 10pm

**Chances is a dance party which functions to bring together the
varied LGBTIQ communities of Chicago.**

CHANCES IS A SAFE SPACE FOR ALL GENDER EXPRESSIONS!

*CHANCES*
Third Mondays at Subterranean, 10p-2a
2011 W. North Ave., Chicago
Always FREE!
http://www.chancesdances.org

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WHAT: Meet Clifford Garstang, author of In an Uncharted Country
WHERE: 57th Street Books, 1301 East 57th Street
 WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 25, 6 p.m.
DETAILS: Meet the talented Clifford Garstang, and hear about his book
of award-winning short stories, In an Uncharted Country.
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout said of Garstang's
work, "This collection delivers on its title: each story takes us into
an area - emotional and geographic - that we may not have been before.
There is an impressive variety here, and Garstang's ability as a
story-teller is on display each time. These characters are real,
vulnerable, and always, in unique ways, brave."
 http://www.semcoop.com/event/clifford-garstang-uncharted-country

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Friday, February 26 and Saturday, February 27 12-6 pm
FAIR: two-day local maker and publisher fair (with multiple presentations TBA)
Featuring AREA Chicago and others!
@ Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago
400 S. Peoria St., Chicago
Part of the Temporary Services "ART WORK" Exhibit
http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit.htm


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EARLY WARNING: GET INVOLVED!

Chicago Zine Fest - March 12 - 13
Quimby's Bookstore, 1854 W North Ave & Johalla Gallery, 1561 North Milwaukee Ave & Columbia College Conaway Center, 1104 S Wabash Ave
The Chicago Zine Fest will kick off on Friday night with a zine reading at Quimby's Bookstore from 7 - 9pm, and a zine/DIY art show at Johalla Gallery from 7 - 10pm.  Following the art show, Johalla will be host to the Gadabout Film Festival from 10 - 11pm.
The Chicago Zine Fest continues on Saturday from 10am - 5pm at Columbia College's Conaway Center.  Saturday will feature zinesters tabling and presenting workshops on DIY publishing.
The fest is free and open to the public.
http://www.chicagozinefest.org

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Brand new curriculum guide “Something is Wrong: Exploring the Roots of Youth Violence” is available for downloading at the following websites:

Please complete the following short survey before downloading the guide:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QW9N8R7

Project NIA – www.project-nia.org/event_curriculum-guide.html

Chicago Freedom School – www.chicagofreedomschool.org/resources

Teachers for Social Justice – www.teachersforjustice.org

Project NIA, The Chicago Freedom School and Teachers for Social Justice  have partnered along with other volunteers to develop a curriculum guide in order to contribute to the ongoing efforts by young people and their adult allies to analyze the root causes of youth violence and to create local solutions.

Through this curriculum, we want to challenge youth to think about a) the roots of violence in their lives; b) the enforcers and victims of violence; c) the effects of violence on both victims and perpetrators; and d) how violence can ultimately be minimized through systemic changes.

At a time when frustration is running high and many are expressing a sense of powerlessness in the face of pervasive violence, this 350-page curriculum guide is an offering intended to make a positive contribution to the dialogue about violence in the lives of young people. In the words of historian and community activist Barbara Ransby, our goal is to help young people to constructively “channel their righteous rage” towards the actual sources of their oppression.

Look out soon for AREA's new online Radicalendar!

Check out the new comment/sharing functions on our website at http://areachicago.org/

Thanks to everyone who worked with AREA last year

Enjoy This Month's events!

January 2010 Events Summary

• 01) 1-5 Tue - Meeting for Chicagoans about US Social Forum in July 2010
• 02) 1-5 Tue - Ludite Cafe and Dinnerluck - Card Weaving Workshop
  
• 03) 1-9 Sat - Exhibit  "In the Shell of the Old" by Dylan A.T. Miner
• 04) 1-9 Sat - CORE Community Forum on School Violence and Renaissance 2010
• 05) 1-9 Sat - Freestreet Theater presents "To Kill a Teenager: seven sins of the juvenile mind"
  
• 06) 1-13 Wed - Join the New "Capitalism" Reading Group
• 07) 1-16 Sat - First Teachers for Social Justice meeting of 2010
• 08) 1-17 Sun - Public Sq and WBEZ present a Chicago Intergenerational Poetry Event
• 09) 1-18 Mon - Chances Dances Benefit for Transformative Justice/Write To Win
• 10) Artists interested in social justice? - Insight Arts seeks new artists!
  

January Event Details!!

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Another World is Possible. Another US is Necessary. A New Detroit is Underway

Learn about the Social Forum Process and Chicago's Road to Detroit.

January 5th. 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Access Living. 115 w. Chicago Ave.

20,000 changemakers will be gathering in Detroit in June from all different sectors and communities to share vision, strategy, practice, and action.

This information session is for people new to the Social Forum organizing. It will orient Chicagoans to the history of the World Social Forum, the plan for Detroit, and how Chicago can use this as a movement building moment.

Hundreds are getting together to fundraise, coordinate travel, and plan events to support the participation of youth, low-income, people of color, and neighborhood folk from affected communities. Come to the session to see how we can link up and build a Chicago that works for everyone.

Check out the local website at http://roadtodetroit.blogspot.com

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 "In the Shell of the Old" by Dylan A.T. Miner | Print Media and Installation

ARC GALLERY | JANUARY 6-30, 2009
832 W. Superior Street # 204, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: Friday, January 8 from 6:00-09:00pm

ARC Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition In the Shell of the Old by Dylan A.T. Miner. Telling stories of the daily struggles faced by working in the building and dismantling of the rural and industrial Midwest, Dylan A.T. Miner's bold and unique vision valorizes the perseverance that contributes to the small victories of the everyday. Through the medium of politically charged relief prints and installation, Miner viscerally connects our daily concerns with those of the past by compelling us to act toward the building of “another,” possibly better world.

Miner has exhibited widely, including the Institute for American Indian Arts, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, National Museum of Mexican Art, Native American Rights Fund, La Galería de la Raza, Nokomis Center and countless alternative and university galleries, community centers, union halls, and anarchist bookstores. His comics are included in /Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation/ (New Press, 2009) and /Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World /(Verso, 2005). He is an Assistant Professor of Transcultural Studies at Michigan State University and a member of Justseeds. He may be contacted at dylanminer.com

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Date: January 9th, 2009 10 AM-1PM

Event title/host: CORE Community Forum on School Violence and Renaissance 2010

Location: Malcom X College 1900 W. Van Buren

Details/Contact $10 suggested donation, refreshments and childcare available.

coreteachers@gmail.com

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Explore the amplified emotional minefield of becoming adult:
To Kill a Teenager: seven sins of the juvenile mind
directed by Ron Bieganski

January 9 - February 6
Fridays at 7:00 pm
Saturdays at 2:00 pm

1419 W. Blackhawk, Chicago, IL 60642
Pulaski Park 3rd floor
(just east of Ashland between North and Division, near the Blue Line Division stop, street parking available)

Tickets available online at brownpapertickets.
Reservations and info at 773-772-7248

Suggested donation: $15 general, $5 student
For teens and older due to gunplay, razor blood, and misuse of powertools.

Special benefit performance on Jan. 29 to support a tour and collaboration with Makhampon Theater in Chaing Doa, Thailand.  

Everyday teens are the victims and perpetrators of senseless violence and inexplicable behavior.  Free Street Theater untangles some of the psychology leading to such predicaments in a twisted variety show of sins such as emotional driving, suicidal pride, and assuming invincibility. 

Cast: Ashley Echevarria, Olawunmi Faleti, Giovanni Gonzalez, Karina Gonzalez, Ashley Johnson, Mark Poore, Celina Rivera, Petra Samardzija
Playwright:  Free Street Ensemble
Director: Ron Bieganski

"I am not the individual parts that make up my psyche. I am a hellbox of a woman, a girl child, lover loser, lost soul, filling my many empty spaces with vices. "  - To Kill a Teenager

www.freestreet.org/sins.html

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AREA/CPW Capitalism Reading Group

 

In AREA #8 "Everybody's Got Money Issues" the group Chicago Political Workshop developed a critical response to the contents of AREA #8 (http://areachicago.org/p/issues/everybodys-got-money-issues/). They are now inviting friends of AREA to join them in a reading group inspired by that issue of AREA. Please come to this first meeting to get involved and contact them to get the first readings. The theme of the first meeting is about grounding ourselves in the history and context of Chicago.

Meeting 1: Chicago as an Intellectual, Social, and Political Problem

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

7:00pm at Mess Hall

6932 North Glenwood Ave.

Morse CTA Red Line stop 

The readings for this meeting are*:

1. Chicago: A Success Story, The Economist Magazine, March 2006

2. Neo-Bohemia: Art and Neighborhood Development in Chicago, Richard Lloyd

3. Urban Outcasts: Stigma and Division in the Black American Ghetto and the French Urban Periphery, Loïc Wacquant

* PDF texts sent upon request. contact (etriantafillou@yahoo.com)

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January 16  11AM - 1PM
First Teachers for Social Justice meeting of 2010
UIC College of Education
1040 W. Harrison (Harrison & Morgan), Blue Line UIC stop
Discussion/analysis of Renaissance 2010, national significance,  and TSJ's position
Planning actions, projects, events and how to get involved

http://www.teachersforjustice.org/

 

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WORD: Across Generations   

Sunday, January 17
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater 2433 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago

Join The Public Square and Chicago Public Radio for WORD: Across Generations with poets Carloyn Rodgers, John Murillo, and Aja Monet.

 

• Carolyn Rodgers
emerged from the Black Arts movement in Chicago in the 1960s as a "revolutionary poet," creating a distinct and profound black aesthetic.
• John Murillo is an Afro-Chicano poet and playwright, a graduate of New York University’s MFA program, and a recent fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
• Aja Monet is a Cuban-Jamaican poet originally from Brooklyn, now residing in Chicago. At 22 years old, she is currently the youngest Grand Slam Champion of the Lower East side’s legendary Nuyorican Poet’s Café.

Each poet will perform their work and then participate in a post-performance conversation, followed by an Open Mic Showcase.

This event is taking place as part of Chicago Public Radio Presents… The 2^nd Annual Winter Block Party for Chicago’s Hip-Hop Arts. For more about this exciting day,visit Chicago Public Radio's website.  

"The Block Party is a tribute to the working artist of the hip-hop generation in Chicago and an opportunity for the city, traditionally segregated, to see each other across neighborhood and viaduct." - Winter Block Party Artistic Director Kevin Coval. This event is co-presented by The Public Square, Chicago Public Radio.

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A dance party benefit for the Write to Win Collective and TJLP!
Monday January 18, 2010
CHANCES DANCES (at the Subterranean)
2011 W North Ave, Chicago IL
10pm-2am

*Bake sale!
*Raffle!
*Drink specials!
*DJs! (including TJLP's very own Owen Dmc!!)
*Much much more!

This event is 21+
Free admission! (Donations for Write to Win and TJLP accepted inside).

Chances is a dance party which functions to bring together the varied LGBTIQ communities of Chicago. Third Mondays at The Subterranean. Always free. All gender expressions welcome.

www.writetowin.wordpress.com
www.tjlp.org
www.chancesdances.org

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Call For all kinds of artists! no age limit!

Are you and artist with strong beliefs, morals, words? Here is the time to express yourself.
we are looking for Poets, Musicians, Fine Artists, Visual Arts, Film Artists, Dance Artists...and many more, whose work addresses issues of Racial Jusitce, Gender Equality, the Right to Safe & Sane Conditions, Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability.

please send us a message through facebook or you can react someone directly at info@insightartsliberation.org

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Follow up with AREA Chicago at http://areachicago.org/

December Events Summary:

 

There are many, many great events happening this holiday month starting with the exciting RELEASE PARTY for AREA issue 9: Peripheral Vision at the South Side Community Arts Center and then ending with AREA Chicago's 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction!

We look forward to see you checking these out!   

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November 2009 Summary

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01) Fri 10/30 - Sun 11/01 - " Love Does Not Hurt " @ Links Hall

02) Sun 11/01 - AREA issue 9: Peripheral Vision RELEASE PARTY @ South Side Community Arts Center

03) Sun 11/01 - "Envisioning One's Living Conditions" @ Three-Walls

04) Wed 11/04 - 15th Anniversary of Hoop Dreams @ Gene Siskel Film Center

05) Wed 11/04 - "Don't accept the country cuts!" @ Damen + Ogden

06) Wed 11/04 - Artisan Feature - World Finds @ Greenheart Shop

07) Thurs 11/05 - "Optimism and Everyday Life" @ Three-Wall

08) Fri 11/06 - Diversity in Higher Education @ University of Illinois at Chicago

09) Sat 11/07 - "Beyond the Rhetoric" @ La Decima Musaa

10) Sat 11/07 - "The Power of the People" @ University of Chicago

11) Sat 11/07 - 2009 Media Democracy Day @ Grace Place

12) Sun 11/08 - the Neighborhood Writing Alliance @ First United Church

13) Sun 11/08 - "Wine and Time" @ Three-Wall 

14) Sun 11/08 - "Crystal-clear voice" @ First Unitarian Church

15) Mon 11/09 - "Collision Theory" @ Links Hall

16) Tues 11/10 - Volunteer Orientation @ CFS

17) Wed 11/11 -  "Concern America Trunk" Show @  Greenheart Shop

18) Thurs 11/12 - 'War and Peace' Exhibit @ 1530 N. PAULINA

19) Fri 11/13 - Moments of Justice @ Catalyst Ranch

20) Fri 11/13 - Day Laborer Art Exhibition @ Albany Park Workers' Center

21) Fri 11/13 -  Our Own Devices @ Links Hall

22) Sun 11/15 - Females Unite for Action @ Dyett High School

23) Mon 11/16 - On Moving Politics @ University of Chicago

24) Wed 11/18 - Senteamental Moods Tea Tasting @ Greenheart Shop

25) Wed 11/18 - Gentrification & Displacement workshop @ 11 E Adams

26) Thurs 11/19 - "1 2 3 4 5" @  Links Hall

27) Thurs 11/19 - "A Culture of Fear?" @ Community Room

28) Sat 11/21 - Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair @ Orozco School

29) Sat 11/21 - “The Green Ring Circus” @ Chicago Center for Glass Arts

30) Sun 11/22 - "Precious Cargo" @ Mess Hall

31) Tue 11/24 - Faith-Labor-Action Breakfast @ Operating Engineers Local 399

32) Wed 12/02 - "World Shoppe Launch Party!" @ Greenheart Shop 

33) Thur 12/03 - 9th Annual Anniversary Celebration @ National Museum of Mexican Art

34) Fri 12/11 - AREA Chicago 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction @ UE Hall

November Events in Detail

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Date: October 30 - November 1, Fri & Sat at 7pm and Sun at 4pm.

Event/title: love does not hurt 

Location: Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield Ave. | Suite 207 | Chicago | IL | 60657

Details:   In commemoration of Domestic Violence Awareness and Let's Talk Month there will be a community discussion after each performance. Tickets are $20, and proceeds go towards AquaMoon's girls and woman-centered programming.  Buy tickets now! We look forward to seeing you there.

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Date: Sunday November 1, 2-5pm

Event/Title: AREA issue 9: Peripheral Vision RELEASE PARTY

Location: South Side Community Arts Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave. (CTA: Indiana stop on the Green Line)

Details: The release party will be coinciding with the closing party for The Demise of the South Side Community Art Center So there will be lots of great things to see alongside two events which are scheduled: 3:00 Peripheral Feminism: Readings by contributors and 4:00 Performance by Sebastian Alvarez.

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Date: Sunday November 1st  2:00 PM

Event/Title: "Envisioning One's Living Conditions," Tour of Anthony Elm's collections

Location: 119 n. Peoria #2d, Chicago, IL 60607, 312.432.3972 info@three-walls.org

Details: On November 1st, we will lead an excursion to the Artist and Exhibition Ephemera Collection of Anthony Elms, at his home in the Northwest Side. We will meet at threewalls at 2:00 PM. Organized by InCUBATE & Randall Szott.

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Date: Wednesday November 4th

Event/Title:  Kartemquin Films will be celebrating the 15th Anniversary of our iconic documentary, Hoop Dreams.

Location: the Gene Siskel Film Center

Details: 50% off youth tickets.

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Date: Wednesday 4th, 4.00pm

Event/Title: Don't accept the country cuts!

Location: Stroger Hospital, Damen + Ogden

Details: Protest at Stroger Hospital: Don't Accept the County Cuts! Fight for you life!

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Date: Wednesday, November 4th; 5:30-7:30pm

Event/Title: Artisan Feature - World Finds
Location: Greenheart Shop- 1911 W. Division

Details: Chicago-based World Finds works with Fair Trade women artisans in India. Learn more about their work and the beautiful jewelry and sari accessories they make.

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Date: Thursday, November 5th, 7:00 PM

Event/Title: Public Culture lecture: "Optimism and Everyday Life" with Claire Pentecost

Location: 119 n. peoria #2d, Chicago, IL 60607, 312.432.3972 info@three-walls.org

Details:  Claire Pentecost visits the epicenter of a failed paradigm and asks how people generate optimism.

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Date: Friday, November 6th, 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Event/Title: Diversity in Higher Education with Evelynn Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College

Location: University of Illinois at Chicago, Student Center East-Illinois Room B 750 South Halsted Street, Chicago

Details/ Contact: This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by sending an email to Nadia Sulayman at nsulay1@uic.edu. For more information, call 312.996.2441. 

 

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Date: Saturday, November 7th , 7:00pm

Event/title: Beyond the Rhetoric: What everyone needs to know about the current realities of the Israeli Occupation and prospects for a just resolution in Israel/Palestine---A Fundraiser for the Palestine Solidarity Project

Location: La Decima Musa, 1901 S. Loomis

Details: Bekah Wolf, co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Project speaks. 9pm - Celebrate resistance!  Music from Pilsen groups (TBA) and Chicago youth perform hip hop 

 

 

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Date: Saturday, November 7th, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Event/title: Howard Zinn: "The Power of the People" in a conversation with Dave Zirin

Location: University of Chicago, Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street

Details:  Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at www.nodeathpenalty.org. This event is expected to sell out and tickets are available online on a first come, first served basis.

This event is part of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty's national convention, November 7 & 8. "Making the Death Penalty History" will feature former prisoners, family members of prisoners and other anti-death penalty activists from across the country.

www.chicagoprogmedia.org

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Date: Saturday, November 7th, 2009, 1-4-pm

Event/Title: 2009 Media Democracy Day - Chicago

Location: Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn Ave, Chicago, IL

Details: Suggested Donations:$10.00 General admission, $5.00 Student/Senior/Low Income, Or whatever you can afford.  The event will feature concise (5-7 minutes) presentations by key area media activists, media professionals, media-related organizations and academics covering the full spectrum of the reform media map. See: www.chicagoprogmedia.org

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Date: Sunday, November 8th 2009

Event title/host: the Neighborhood Writing Alliance at the Chicago Humanities Festival

Location: First United Church (77 W Washington), 3:30-4:30pm

Details/Contact: Come hear true, original stories about laughter and humor across Chicago, performed by NWA writers – with live music and movement! – under the direction of Glenda Zahra Baker. These are brand-new pieces – haven’t even been submitted to JOT yet! To buy $5 advance tickets, call 312.494.9509 or visit www.chicagohumanities.org and search “Neighborhood Writing Alliance.” If you have questions, contact Mairead at mcase@jot.org or 773.684.2742.

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Date: Sunday, November 8th, 7.00 PM

 

Event/Title:  "Wine and Time" lecture and tasting with David Tamarkin 

Location: 119 n. peoria #2d, Chicago, IL 60607, 312.432.3972 info@three-walls.org

 

Details: Suggested donation of $5. No one turned away. David Tamarkin will lead a seminar on the pleasure of wine; a sensory examination and evaluation of wine for personal appreciation. 

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Date: Sunday, November 8th 2009, 3 pm

Event/title: Crystal-clear voice and impeccable technique

Location: First Unitarian Church of Chicago, 5650 S. Woodlawn Avenue

Details: Susan Mohini Kane, soprano. Kristof Van Gryspeer, piano. Suggested donation $15.

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Date: Monday,  November 9th - 7:30 pm

Event/Title: Collision Theory

Location: Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield Ave. | Suite 207 | Chicago | IL | 60657
Details: Featuring Dance Artists, Darrell Jones and Kirstie Simpson and Sound Artists Technical Drawings Tickets $12 / $10 Students

 

 

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Date: Tuesday November 10th, 5:30-8:00PM

Event/title: Volunteer Orientation (Chicago Freedom School)

Location: CFS Center for Social Change, 719 S State St, Suite 3N
Details:  Interested in becoming a volunteer at Chicago Freedom School?  Attend this volunteer orientation.  Dinner will be provided.  RSVP at  volunteer@chicagofreedomschool.org

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Date: Wednesday, November 11th; 5:30-7:30pm (short presentation of their international volunteer opportunities and slide show at 6:30pm)

Event/title: Artisan Feature - Concern America Trunk Show!

Location: Greenheart Shop- 1911 W. Division
Details: Concern America will be in the store selling fair trade crafts from Latin America and Asia. They are a unique nonprofit development and refugee aid organization.

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Date: Thursday, November 12^th and Friday, November 13^th 5:00pm - 9:00pm (both days)

Event/Title: War and Peace Exhibit Opening Receptions and Informal Conversations  at ThinkArt!

Location: 1530 N. PAULINA, Suite F

 

Details:  The War and Peace Exhibit is free and open to the public. To RSVP, or to receive more information, email th!nkartsalon@gmail.com or call 773.252.2294 x305.

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Date: Friday, November 13th 6-10PM 

Event/Title:  Moments of Justice, a benefit for Chicago Freedom School
Location: Catalyst Ranch, 656 W. Randolph, 3rd Floor
Details:  Tickets: $75  (Limited discount tickets available for people under 30 years old) Featuring... A Tribute to the History of Social Change with Live Music from the Kevin Nabors Quartet, Poet Roger Bonair-Agard, Silent Auction. Food, Wine and Good People. Come ready to celebrate the history of grassroots movements and plan new ones.

20)-----------------------------------

Date: Friday, 13 November 5:30 - 8:30PM

Event: Day Laborer Art Exhibition and Open House Hosted by Albany Park day laborers, volunteers, and staff

Location: Albany Park Workers' Center, 3416 W Bryn Mawr Ave.

Details: Benefits and process of hiring a day laborer, Center operations and history, Available services and support for community residents, Worker organization and leadership

21)-----------------------------------

Date: Friday November 13 - 15, 7:00 pm

Event/Title: Innervation Dance Cooperative presents Our Own Devices

Location: Links Hall

Details: Each piece allows the choreographers to use "their own devices" to present unique works of dance creating a well rounded program that covers the emotional spectrum. Tickets $15 / $10 Students and Seniors

22)-----------------------------------

Date: Sunday, November 15^th from 2:30 pm until 4:30 pm

Event/title: Females Unite for Action.

Location:at Dyett High School

Details: LIFE Campaign, a youth-led city-wide campaign fighting for resources and support for Chicago's young peole is hosting a public meeting to address safety in our communities, investment in young people and youth employment.

23)-----------------------------------

 

Date: Monday, November 16th at 5 p.m.

Event/Title: On Moving Politics

Location: University of Chicago campus, Classics 110, 1010 East 59^th Street, Chicago.  Reception to Follow.

 

Details: A Talk by Deborah B. Gould, celebrating the release of her book, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS.

24)-----------------------------------

Date: Wednesday, November 18th; 5:30-7:30pm

Event/Title: Artisan Feature - Senteamental Moods Tea Tasting
Location: Greenheart Shop- 1911 W. Division

Details: Senteamental Moods, a local tea seller, will be in the shop offering samples of their aromatic tea blends.

25)-----------------------------------

Date: Wednesday, November 18^th 5-7pm

Event/Title: Gentrification & Displacement workshop

Location: 11 E Adams, Room 902. We order dinner, so please don’t forget to RSVP:femalesunited@gmail.com, 919-618-0442 or 312-341-9650 x13.

DETAILS: How does it affects women and people of color?

 

26)-----------------------------------

Date: November 19 - 22, 2009

Event/title: Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre Presents 1 2 3 4 5

Location: Links Hall

Details: Tickets $15 online / $20 at the door, ntense physicality and emotion, Grey Noise depicts an environment whose inhabitants are on edge, unpredictable and hard to control.

27)-----------------------------------

Date: Thursday, November 19th 6-7:30pm

Event title/host: Special Café Society conversation on "A Culture of Fear?" in partnership with Chicago Public Radio and featuring Bill Ayers.

Location: Community Room at Chicago Public Radio ---Navy Pier, 848 East Grand Ave.

 Details/Contact: Free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 312.422.5580 x. 232 or sending an email to cak@prairie.org

28)-----------------------------------

Date: Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Event/Title: 9th Annual Chicago-Area Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair

Location: Orozco School, 1940 W. 18th St. ,Chicago, IL 60608 (Pilsen Neigborhood)

29)-----------------------------------

Date: Saturday, November 21st 7:00pm-12am 

Event title/host: “The Green Ring Circus” Co-op Image’s annual fundraiser, Hosted By Chicago Center for the Glass Arts.

Location: Chicago Center For The Glass Arts: 1250 N. Central Park Ave

Details/Contact: Cooperative Image Group, Humboldt Park’s Non-Profit Youth Art Center is having its annual Fundraiser at Chicago Center for Glass Arts! Come out to support innovative arts education and safe spaces for Chicago City Youth!

30)-----------------------------------

Date: Sunday, Nov 22nd 5 - 7pm

Event/Title:Precious Cargo: the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence River

Location:  Mess Hall; 5-7pm Sunday, November 22nd 

Details: a workshop by Paul Lloyd Sargent,In conjunction with the release of AREA magazine’s ninth issue, Peripheral Vision, Precious Cargo: the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence River is an interactive workshop presenting recent research and artwork by multidisciplinary artist Paul Lloyd Sargent. Attendants are encouraged to bring their own maps, nautical charts, and lake/seaway shipping-related ephemera!

31)-----------------------------------

Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009  8:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Event/title: Arise Chicago, Faith-Labor-Action Breakfast

Location: Operating Engineers Local 399, 2260 S. Grove Ave. , Chicago (one-half block west of Canal and one block south of Cermak - ample free parking)

Details: “Training Obama:Lessons for Labor, Congregations, and Communities”   Jerry Kellman -- Keynote Speaker Tickets Individual $75.  Please RSVP by November 16th adam@arisechicago.org   |    773-937-1826 Make checks payable to “Arise Chicago ” 1020 W. Bryn Mawr, Suite 300, Chicago , IL 60660 www.arisechicago.org

32)-----------------------------------

Date: Wednesday, December 2nd; 5.00 - 7:30pm

Event/title: Artisan Feature- World Shoppe Launch Party!

Where: Greenheart Shop- 1911 W. Division

Details: Join us to celebrate the launch of World Shoppe's Fair Trade wholesale business! Megy Karydes will be showcasing her new line of South African jewelry and bags beautifully made by South African Fair Trade artisans.

33)-----------------------------------

Date: Thursday, December 3rd

Event/Title:  9th Annual Anniversary Celebration

Location:  National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 W 19th St.

Details: Celebrate Latino Union's 9th year of community organizing, policy advocacy, and leadership development within Chicagoland's low-income immigrant worker community at the nation's largest Latino arts institution. Tickets $30 - 60 sliding scale. Purchase tickets at www.latinounion.org 

34)-----------------------------------

Date: Friday, 11th December 7-11pm

Event/title: AREA Chicago 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction.

Location: UE Hall - 37 S. Ashland

Details: $10 Donation at the door, $20 Donation for admission and a tote bag. To RVSP or prepay email areachicagointern@gmail.com. ALL proceeds from AREA's Wants and Needs Party will benefit the Spring 2010 issue of AREA.

 

Happy October! There are many great events this month, including 3 AREA events on the 17th, the 27th and Nov 1st is the release party for our next issue. Its also a big month for Chicago in general, as we find out this coming friday if the city wins the 2016 Olympic Bid - a decision which will dramatically change the future of this place.

We look forward to seeing you out and about...

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October 2009 Summary
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01) Tue 9/29 - "Unnatural Causes" Films on health and inequality
02) Thu 10/01 - Heartland Exhibition Opening @ Smart Museum
03) Thu 10/01 - Arts and Activism in St. Louis, Detroit, and Chicago
04) Thu 10/01 - Make Magazine "This Everyday" Release Party
05) Sat 10/03 - Thai artist Pisithpong Siraphisut on artist in residency program
06) Sat 10/03 - "Arts in New Orleans and Chicago" Panel Discussion
07) Sun 10/04 - Secret History of University of Chicago Walking Tour
08) Mon 10/05 - Release Party for the Journal of Ordinary Thought
09) Mon 10/05 and 10/08 - Rogers Park Family Eviction Defense (downtown)
10) Tue 10/06 - "Unnatural Causes" Films on health and inequality
11) Wed 10/07 - Anti-war protest at Watertower
12) Wed 10/07 - Social Justice Fashion @ Greenheart
13) Wed 10/07 - Teaching Artists Career Day
14) Fri 10/09 - Garage Art Gallery Turned Pawn Shop - Opening Party
15) Sat 10/10 - Talk on "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism"
16) Sun 10/11 - Secret History of University of Chicago Walking Tour
17) Sun 10/11 - Urban Foraging in Jackson Park
18) Sun 10/11 - Panel: music, film and activism in New Orleans and Chicago
19) Mon 10/12 - October Peace Party benefits Beyond Media @ Dannys
20) Tue 10/13 - "Unnatural Causes" Films on health and inequality
21) Sat 10/17 - Heartland-AREA Southside Study Day - Bus Tour!
22) Tue 10/20 - Art vs. Craft: Pumpkin Carving!
23) Thu 10/22 - A workshop around the Status of Girls in Illinois report
24) Sat 10/24 - Herbal Soap Workshop
25) Sun 10/25 -  Seedarchive swap n’ store and Harvest Potluck
26) Tue 10/27 - Republic Windows And What is Says About the Economic Crisis
27) Sunday Nov 1st - AREA Chicago #9: Peripheral Vision - Release Party!

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October 2009 Details:
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01)------------------------------
 Event: Unnatural Causes Part 2
 Date: Tuesday September, 29th
 Location: Chicago Freedom School, 719 S State St, Suite 3N
 A 4-part film and discussion series examining socio-economic and racial inequities in
 health.
 6:00-6:30 "When the Bough Breaks" - Can racism become embedded in the body and affect
 birth outcomes?
 6:30-7:00 "Becoming American" -Latino immigrants arrive healthy, so why don?t they stay
 that way?
 7:00-8:00 Intergenerational Discussion- Led by the Illinois Maternal Health Coalition and
 Dr. Linda Rae Murray.
  FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 RSVP: rsvp@chicagofreedomschool.org | 312.435.1201

02)------------------------------
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
 Event title: Opening of the Smart Museum's special exhibition Heartland

Location: Smart Museum, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago

Description; Join co-curator Charles Esche and exhibiting artists for a debate about the benefits and limitations of thinking about contemporary art in relation to geographic regions. The evening also features an in-gallery performance by exhibiting artist Jeremiah Day and a special appearance by members of Whoop Dee Doo. Panel discussion begins at 5:30 PM and takes place across the courtyard from the Smart Museum in the Cochrane-Woods Art Center, room 157. Jeremiah Day performs in the Smart Museum's galleries at 7 pm and Whoop Dee Doo at 7:30 PM. For other weekend events see the Smart Museum's website: http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/heartland/

 Co-sponsored by the Smart Museum of Art and the Open Practice Committee, University of Chicago. For more info: 773-702-0200

The Smart Museum’s Heartland exhibition is a co-sponsor of AREA #9, Peripheral Vision.

03)------------------------------
"Arts and Activism in St. Louis, Detroit, and Chicago"
 Date: Thursday, October 1 (7-9 p.m.)

 Event title/host: Fourth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival

 Location: Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center
 1060 E. 47th St.
 Chicago, IL 60653-3600
 773.285.1633
http://www.blackpearl.org

 Details/Contact: You are invited to attend this "Arts and Activism in St.
 Louis, Detroit, and Chicago" panel discussion, which is part of the "Arts
 and Activism in the Midwest" Series. This panel discussion focuses on the
 arts scenes in these three Midwestern cities, and it is also part of the
 Fourth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. The panelists include James
 McAnally, Amanda Mueller, Andrew James, and Tony Renner in St. Louis;
 Rebecca Mazzei, Emily Linn, Jenenne Whitfield, and Joel Peterson in Detroit;
 and Lindsay Obermeyer, Carol Ng-He, Theaster Gates, Jennifer Karmin, and Dan
 Godston in Chicago. The panelists will be connected over the internet, via
 skype, so the panelists and other participants will be able to see and hear
 each other.

 free and open to the public
312.543.7027, info@chicagocalling.org

04)------------------------------
MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine Issue 8 “This Everyday” Release Party A celebration of the normal, an exaltation of the banal

Thursday, October 1, 7-10pm

Roots & Culture Gallery, 1034 N. Milwaukee, Chicago
Issue 8 This Everyday Release Party
sponsored by Metropolis Coffee, Tullamore Dew Whiskey, and Carolan's Irish Cream
 $10 suggested donation gets ya...

Copy of the newly re-designed MAKE

• Brief readings from contributors including poems from Rob Schlegel, fiction from Robert Duffer, and nonfiction from Brian Anderson and Emil Ferris

• Complimentary Irish coffee drinks from Metropolis Coffee, Carolan’s and Tullamore Dew (beer and non-alcoholic refreshments and snacks on hand too)

• Music from LeRoy Bach and friends including the Marvin Tate, Nat Ward, and Katie Weigman  • Giveaways while they last, including CDs featuring Marvin Tate and poet Marvin Bell’s poem and song collaboration, Metropolis Coffee products, Bloodshot Records ephemera, and more

05)------------------------------
 saturday, october 3rd, 2pm

talk by thai artist Pisithpong Siraphisut (Ong) on building an alternative artist residency program in northern thailand—from the ground up

backstory café, at the experimental station
6100 s. blackstone ave.
www.backstorycafe.com
Tel:773.324.9987

06)------------------------------
"Arts in New Orleans and Chicago" Panel Discussion
 Date: Saturday, October 3 (1:00-2:30 p.m.)

 Event title/host: Fourth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival

 Location: Claudia Cassidy Theater
 Chicago Cultural Center, 2nd floor
 78 E. Washington St.
 Chicago, IL 60605

 Details/Contact: This "Arts in New Orleans and Chicago" Panel Discussion
 involves people in New Orleans and Chicago discussing the arts, curation,
 and the roles of the arts in society. The panelists in New Orleans include
 Diane Grams, Elizabeth Underwood, Chris Rose, Natalie Sciortino-Rinehart,
 and Keith Calhoun. The panelists in Chicago include Barbara Koenen, Alpha
 Bruton, and Annie Heckman, with Dan Godston moderating. The panelists in
 both cities will be connected over the internet, using Skype.

 312.543.7027, info@chicagocalling.org

07)------------------------------
 Date: Sunday, October 4th
 Event title/host: Paul Durica, Pocket Guide to Hell Tours, presents THE
 HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
 Location: starts at the Reynolds Club (E 57th and S University), at 2:00
 (tour lasts about two hours)
 Details/Contact: This free walking tour, led by Paul Durica as Thorstein
 Veblen, will focus on the school's early history, with nods to true crime,
 social justice, and labor history. Lighthearted, critical, and - with luck -
 featuring live music. Plus! Gargoyles, frogs in the bathtub, and Buttons the
 Elevator Operator - for details, email Paul at pgdurica@hotmail.com.

08)------------------------------
 Date: Monday, October 5th
 Event title/host: Release Party for the Journal of Ordinary Thought
 Location: Hall Branch Library (4801 S Michigan)
 Details/Contact: Come celebrate the new Journal of Ordinary Thought, themed
 "Making Our Own Choices." It features an introduction by Alice Kim, photos
 by David Marques, and first-person narratives from Neighborhood Writing
 Alliance workshops in over 12 Chicago neighborhoods. Our largest (and
 brightest orange) issue yet! The event is free and will include sweets,
 fruit, and journals. For info about the party or NWA in general, email
 Mairead at mcase@jot.org. (www.jot.org)

09)------------------------------
Monday 10/5 - 12PM - Federal Plaza (Jackson and Dearborn)
Press conference and delivery of petitions to HUD officials demanding they stop the eviction of the Bledsoe family

Thursday 10/8 - 10AM - Daley Center (Washington and Dearborn)
Bledsoe family Eviction hearing, picket and pack the courtroom!

Northpoint management is attempting to unjustly evict Erica Bledsoe and her 3 nieces and nephews from their apartment at 7721 N Paulina in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. This apartment is the children’s home, and after the tragic loss of their grandmother who lived in the apartment and cared for them, Northpoint is adding insult to injury by seeking to evict the family.

Erica Bledsoe has stepped up to take care of her nieces and nephews and is trying to preserve the children’s home and keep them in the community that they grew up in. She deserves the support of the community and the management company during this trying time. Northpoint, a company that receives substantial taxpayer money, is showing complete disregard for the well being of tenants and families in this building.

10)------------------------------

Event: Unnatural Causes Part 3

 Date: Tuesday October 6th
 Location: Chicago Freedom School, 719 S State St, Suite 3N
 A 4-part film and discussion series examining socio-economic and racial inequities in
 health.
 6:00-6:30 "Bad Sugar" -What are the connections between diabetes, oppression, and
 empowerment in two Native American communities?
 6:30-7:00 "Place Matters" -Why is your street address such a strong predictor of your
 health?
 7:00-8:00 Intergenerational Discussion- Led by a facilitator working in the field of
 health care
  FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 RSVP: rsvp@chicagofreedomschool.org | 312.435.1201

11)------------------------------

GET BACK INTO THE STREETS!
U.S./NATO Out! Bring the Troops Home Now!
End Colonial Occupation in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Haiti . . .
Money for Healthcare, Jobs, Housing, Education, Not for War!

Wed., Oct. 7, 5 pm
Chicago Water Tower
Michigan Ave. at Pearson St.
(One block North of Chicago Ave.)
For directions click here http://www.chicagoanswer.net/
Call 773-463-0311 for more info, to volunteer or to endorse.

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Artisan Feature Evening – Malia Designs
When: Wednesday, October 7th; 4-7pm
Where: Greenheart Shop; 1911 W. Division

Local Chicago business, Malia Designs will be at the Greenheart Shop Wednesday evening Oct. 7th from 4-7pm as part of the Greenheart Shop’s new Artisan Feature series. Malia Designs, started by a former Peace Corps volunteer, sells recycled rice bags and silk purses made by non-profit organizations that employ disadvantaged people in developing countries as well as small family producers. Malia also aims to help victims of human trafficking by donating a portion of profits to local and international non-profit organizations working in this arena. Come and learn more about the incredible people behind these bags.

For more info, contact info@greenheartshop.org

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Teaching Artists Career Day
 October 7th 10:30 – 6pm
 Columbia College Chicago
 Conaway Center, 1104 South Wabash, Ground Floor

 “A teaching artist (artist educator) is a practicing professional artist with the complementary skills and sensibilities of an educator, who engages people in learning experiences in, through, and about the arts.” -- Eric Booth source: http://www.teachingartists.com/whatisaTA.htm

 Highlights include:
 10:30am Keynote: Eric Booth, nationally renowned teaching artist, founder of the Teaching Artist Journal, and author of the recently published The Music Teaching Artist’s Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator.
 12pm Intro Panel: What is a Teaching Artist? How do they work in schools and other community settings
 2pm “Voices from the field – Artists and Youth”: 
 4pm  “Balancing a Teaching Artist Career and Your Art Making Practice”:

 Ongoing:
 12:00 noon to 6PM: Teaching Artists Community and College Resource Fair:  Throughout the day, representatives from Columbia College’s Office of Academic Research, Teaching Artists Journal, the Center for Community Arts Partnerships, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the College Portfolio Center, ShopColumbia, the Office of Alumni Relations, and several Chicago based Community Organizations will be available to discuss what they do and share their experiences of being and working with teaching artists.
 Students can learn about the resources that are available for them, begin to network for possible job options and connect to student organizations that support their interests.

 Community Organizations that employ teaching artists are welcome to send their teaching artists to attend the full day or part of their day.

 Any community organizations that would like to host a table should contact Joanne Vena directly at 312/369-8854 or jvena@colum.edu.

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"Stolen" is part pawn shop/part human-scale curio cabinet with a secret within. The converted 2 car "Garage" space will open it's doors this October and for the christening will be stocked with works and documentation of ideas appropriated or borrowed indefinitely curated by Mike Bancroft. The collection of prosecutable works will be provided by artists: Bridget Bancroft,  Gabrielle Carasquillo, Pearl Dick, Alex Inglizian, Jasemine Kronbeck, Patrick McCarthy, Maria Perkovic, Evan Plummer,  Luis Sanchez Ramirez, Bert Stabler, Jeremy Scidmore, Tommy Stephenson, and many more unwilling to jeopardize their anonymity.

Where:  Garage - 1337 N Maplewood Ave. (Back Yard/alley)

When:
Friday, October 9, 2009 5:00pm - 10:00pm Opening
Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:00pm - 5:00pm

There will also be a dinner performance and private viewing on the 18th of October with limited seating to raise funds for the opening of this new venue seats are limited so RSVP asap to the link above or to manilikecheese@gmail.com.
Friday, October 30, 2009 5:00pm - 10:00pm Closing

15)------------------------------
Slide Presentation/Book Talk on "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918"

Saturday, October 10, 2009, 1:30 - 4:30 PM,

at the Vivian G. Harsch Research Collection of Afro-American History & Literature, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library, 9525 S. Halstead St., Chicago, IL, 60628. See http://www.chipublib.org/events/details/id/29637/
       

Harrison was a trade unionist (Postal Clerks), union organizer (Pullman Porters and Hotel Workers), and a featured staff lecturer of the New York City Board of Education's "Trends of the Times" and "Literary Lights of Yesterday and Today" series in the 1920s. He is increasingly being recognized as one of the outstanding Black intellectual/activists of the early twentieth century.
        The slide presentation/talk is based on the recent Columbia University Press biography  http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-13910-6/hubert-harrison .
   More at http://www.jeffreybperry.net

16)------------------------------
 Date: Sunday, October 11th
 Event title/host: Paul Durica, Pocket Guide to Hell Tours, presents THE
 HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
 Location: starts at the Reynolds Club (E 57th and S University), at 2:00
 (tour lasts about two hours)
 Details/Contact: This free walking tour, led by Paul Durica as Thorstein
 Veblen, will focus on the school's early history, with nods to true crime,
 social justice, and labor history. Lighthearted, critical, and - with luck -
 featuring live music. Plus! Gargoyles, frogs in the bathtub, and Buttons the
 Elevator Operator - for details, email Paul at pgdurica@hotmail.com.

17)------------------------------
public urban forage
 october 11, 3-5pm
 jackson park

 Public URBANFORAGE walks
 Sundays 3-5pm (rain or shine!)
 $10-$20 donation/person (young kids are free!)

 Oct   11 - meet at osaka garden tea house in Jackson Park
 (this is a potluck – please bring something simple and wild to share)
more info: nettlesting@yahoo.com

18)------------------------------
Panel: music, film and activism in New Orleans and Chicago
Date: Sunday, October 11 (3 p.m.)

 Event title/host: Fourth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival

 Location:

 Details/Contact: Columbia College Concert Hall
 1014 S. Michigan Ave.
 Chicago, IL 60605
 312.369.6245

 EVENT: You are invited to attend this Fourth Annual Chicago Calling Arts
 Festival event, which features a panel discussion about music, film, and activism in
 Chicago and New Orleans. It has been more than over four years since
 Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region. Many amazing things have
 happened in New Orleans and elsewhere in the Gulf Coast region since then,
 but challenges still face us in terms of rebuilding. This panel discussion
 will involve people in two locations discussing music, film and activism in
 New Orleans and Chicago. The panelists in New Orleans will include Rene
 Broussard, Luther Gray, Chris Rose, Jonathan Freilich, and Jordan Flaherty.
 The panelists in Chicago will include Stan West, Robin Whatley, George
 Bailey, Arvis Averett, and Ted Hardin. Panelists in New Orleans and Chicago
 will be connected over the internet, using Skype.

 312.543.7027, info@chicagocalling.org

19)------------------------------
October peace party benefits Beyond Media.

DJs Jocelyn Brown, Naomi Walker, Jeff Parker and Josh Abrams.

October 12th 10pm-2.
@ Dannys Tavern 1951 W Dickens Ave Chicago, IL 60614-3934 - (773) 489-6457

20)------------------------------
Event: Unnatural Causes Part 4
 Date: Tuesday October 13th
 Location: Chicago Freedom School, 719 S State St, Suite 3N
 A 4-part film and discussion series examining socio-economic and racial inequities in
 health.
 6:00-6:30 "Collateral Damage" - How do Marshall Islanders pay for globalization and U.S.
 military policy with their health?
 6:30-7:00 "Not Just a Paycheck" - Why do layoffs take such a huge toll in Michigan but
 cause hardly a ripple in Sweden?
 7:00-8:00 Intergenerational Discussion- Led by Jennifer Tani, Community Relations
 Coordinator, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois
  FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 RSVP: rsvp@chicagofreedomschool.org | 312.435.1201

21)------------------------------
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009 12-6 pm

Event title: Heartland-AREA Southside Study Day

Location: Bus leaves from the Smart Museum, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue at noon.

Description: Co-organized by AREA Chicago and the Smart Museum of Art’s Heartland exhibition. Visit far South Side neighborhoods and learn about local industrial history, material culture, and politics. Events include tours, informal presentation and discussion, and a meal. A bus leaves from in front of the Smart Museum on Greenwood at 12pm sharp. Space is limited; reserve your spot by emailing areaeditors@gmail.com. Please use the subject line “Heartland-AREA Southside Study Day.”

SPACE IS LIMITED AND RESERVATION IS REQUIRED: for reservation or information contact areaeditors@gmail.com or Rebecca Zorach at 312-259-4393

22)------------------------------
Art vs. Craft: Pumpkin Carving!
The Orientation Center's monthly arts/crafts evening! Each month features an hour-long hands-on introduction to an art or craft skill, as well as open time to hang out and work on your own projects. Workshop materials as well as supplies for the free-craft time will be provided. There is a $8-$12 sliding scale donation for the workshop materials, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Future workshops will include book making, knitting, and block printing.

Tuesday October 20th
@ 2129 N Rockwell (Just north of Milwaukee Ave)
7-9pm Pumpkin Carving: Learn to make awesome stencils and carve the pumpkin of your dreams. Pumpkins and delicious mulled beverages will be provided
9-10pm Open arts/crafts time. Bring your own projects and materials or get inspired by what's available.

Email Rachel.a.wallis@gmail.com if you're planning on coming, so we have enough supplies.

23)------------------------------
DATE: October 22, 2009
TIME: 2 pm - 4:30 pm
LOCATION: Chicago Freedom School, 719 S. State Street #3N

The Truth About Violence Against Girls:
A workshop around the Status of Girls in Illinois report

In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we invite you to join us to learn more about how girls are experiencing violence in Chicago and Illinois, find out how girls are taking action to end violence, and plan ways that we can work together to reverse these trends.

RSVP REQUIRED!
Please note that space is extremely limited.  To RSVP, please email womenandgirlscan@gmail.com.

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Saturday, Oct 24 - herbal soap making
 learn the ins and outs of making homemade soaps with plants form your
 garden as well as simple kitchen ingredients. Go home with soap and a
 lotion

 10am – 1pm $60 (pre-registration $25 to paypal, deadline OCT 23– location TBA to registrants)
 instructor: Katie Murphy

 Katie combines almost 30 years of kitchen wizardry with her garden
 witchery with great exhuberance. Learn from someone who raises monarch
 caterpillars and bikes Chicago winters!

 more info: nettlesting@yahoo.com
www.spontaneousvegetation.net

25)------------------------------
 seedarchive swap n’ store and harvest potluck
 sunday, october 25, 3pm – 8pm
 2446 south sawyer avenue

 do not come empty handed!
 Bring well-labeled, viable seeds
 and an edible item to share with others!
 time and location to follow!

 more info: nettlesting@yahoo.com

 the seed archive is apublic archive of healthy seeds collected from many places and people

 seeds are alive.

 seeds need to be carefully stored in order to remain healthy and
 assure their germination. the seed archive is particularly interested
 in seed that is for food or medicinals, habitat creating as well as
 soil building. the archive only accepts, stores and loans viable,
 well-identified seeds.

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Revolt on Goose Island
The Chicago Factory Takeover—And What is Says About the Economic Crisis

Tuesday, October 27
The Chicago Cultural Center
The Claudia Cassidy Theater
630 pm

Washington Post reporter Kari Lydersen and lawyer, author, and former Democratic congressional candidate Tom Geoghegan will discuss the historic takeover of Chicago’s Republic Windows & Doors factory—and its implications for the future of organized  labor. Lydersen is the author of a non-fiction account of the takeover, Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis, which NewCity called a “clear and emotionally compelling account.” The evening’s discussion will also consider other actions that were inspired by the Republic action, and ongoing plans to re-open the factory.

Kari Lydersen is a staff writer at the Washington Post. She is the author of Out of the Sea and Into the Fire: Latin American-US Immigration in the Global Age and co-author, with Wafaa Bilal, of Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun, which  was recently named a “Best Book of 2008” by Booklist. For more, click here.

Thomas Geoghegan is a practicing attorney and the author of several books, including See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation and  Which Side Are You On?, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received a special citation from the PEN/Martha Albrand Award judges. Geoghegan contributes  regularly to the American Prospect and lives in Chicago.

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Date: Sunday, November 1, 2009 2-5 pm

Event title: Peripheral Vision Release Party!

Location: South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave. 773-373-1026

Description: Release party for AREA #9, Peripheral Vision and closing party for the SSCAC’s Demise of the South Side Community Art Center.

Performance by Sebastien Alvarez at 4pm.

For more info: areaeditors@gmail.com

     

Please Forward to your people! You never know who knows what!


Thanks to everyone who came out to some of the events last month in conjunction with our "money issues" AREA #8. To continue the fun, there are several events on the geographic periphery of Chicago which we are co-sponsoring this month, leading up to the November release of our 9th issue "Peripheral Vision." They are markey with Astrix below for your reference. Hope to see you around!


Sept 09 Summary:


01) Tue 9/1 - Youth Rally About Budget Cuts

02) Thu 9/3 - South Africa Action and cultural event @ new Greenheart

03) Sun 9/5 - Attend meeting to decide future of New World Resource Center

*04) Mon 9/7 - Labor Day in Pullman

05) Tue 9/8 - Sex Documentary Film Series @ Hull-House Museum

06) Thu 9/10 - Grace Lee Boggs/Jane Addams Birthday Event

07) Thu 9/10 - Chicago Design Educators Forum monthly potluck

08) Fri 9/11 - Exhibit "Visual resistance in feminist health movements, 1969-2009"

09) Fri 9/11 - CORE-The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators - Fundraiser

10) Sat 9/12 - Soundwalk by/around Michael Reese Hospital

11) Sat 9/12 - UE Warehouse Workers for Justice - Dance Party

12) Sun 9/13 - Urbanforaging in Lincoln Park with Nance Klehm

13) Tue 9/15 - Tamms Year Ten/Party on the Right Side of History!

14) Thu 9/17 - cider/cyser/mead making workshop

15) Fri 9/18 - Children of the Incarcerated Legilsative Hearing and Rally

*16) 9/19-9/20 - Tri-State Peripheral Bike Tour - Learn NW Indiana and SW Michigan

17) Sat - 9/19 - "Left Confused: a debate between Marxists and Anarchists"

18) Sat 9/19 - Brew Not Bombs 2

19) Sat 9/19 - ARC 109 Summit on Health Care with Vijay Prishad

20) Sun 9/20 - Hidden History of University of Chicago  - Walking Tour

21) Mon 9/21 - Media and Democracy with Laura Flanders @ Cultural Center

22) Tue 9/22- Sex Documentary Film Series @ Hull-House Museum

23) Wed 9/23 - "Leon Despres: A Celebration of His Life"

24) Thu 9/24 - Rally: One year after the Wall Street Bailout

*25) Sat 9/26 - South Suburban Peace and Justice Conference

*26) Sat 9/26 - Hobofest in Pullman

27) Sun 9/27 - Herbal Beer Making Workshop

!) Oct 1 - Deadling for Fire This Time Fund! Apply Everyone!

!!) Apply for workshop with Artist in Residence Guillermo Gómez Peña




Sept 09 Details:

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Youth-led rally to protest budget cuts and demand more youth investment!
Date: Tuesday, September 1st
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Place: James R. Thompson Center (100 W Randolph St)
Who: Youth from Albany Park Neighborhood Council, Enlace Chicago, Females United for Action, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, MAGIC, Organization of the Northeast & Southwest Organizing Project - YOU!

There will be a live DJ, spoken word & dancing!
 Come for the cause, stay for the fun!

Did you know...
The youth unemployment rate is 9 times higher than the national average!?
People under the age of 18 make up 26% of the population and spend over 170 billion dollars per year!?
The llinois 2010 budget cut scholarship funds by 48.77%, cut mentoring funds by 83.9%, cut delinquency prevention/intervention services by 43.8% & cut homeless youth services by 22.2%!?

 Confirmed to attend are State Senators Mattie Hunter, Kwame Raoul & Iris Martinez and State Representatives Esther Golar, Connie Howard & Marlow Colvin and many more city, state & federal representatives.

If you're coming, please RSVP to Manju at femalesunited@gmail.com or 919-618-0442, so we know what kind of numbers to expect! You can also RSVP on the rally's event page on Facebook. And if you can't make it to the rally, please do listen in at 10am sharp 9/1/09 on Vocalo.org (89.5 FM WBEW)- they'll be doing a live interview with Allie Pates from FUFA and Ira Hatcher from Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization!

And please contact Elianne at Albany Park Neighborhood Council if you've got questions at elianne@apncorganizing.org or 773-583-1387.


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South African Action Evening!
Co-sponsored by the South African consulate and Chicago Fair Trade, we'll be focusing on all things South African at this multi-part event. A delegation of  South African artisans will kick off the evening with crafting demonstrations highlighting traditional beadworking and jewelry making. Following, will be a South African wine tasting with Stellar Organics. While we enjoy the wine, the evening will culminate  with a collective group call-in to Sam's Wine and Binnys asking them to start stocking South African fair trade wines- Remember to bring your cell phone!

When: Thursday, Sept. 3rd

4-5pm: Jewelry and beadwork demonstrations

5-7pm: Stellar Wine Tasting and call-in action to Sam's and Binnys

Where: Greenheart Shop; 1911 W. Division


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PLEASE ATTEND A MEETING TO DECIDE THE FUTURE OF THE NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER
Sunday, Sept. 6th – 2pm
Location TBA

(please RSVP to be updated on meeting location)

New World Resource Center, Chicago’s oldest and only non-partisan left-labor bookstore and meeting space, has been without a home since June, 2008.  This meeting will provide an update on the state of NWRC and what our options are for the future.  Several possible scenarios for the future will be briefly presented followed by discussion and ultimately decision-making on the best path forward for NWRC and Chicago’s left community.

WE NEED INPUT AND IDEAS FROM ALL MEMBERS OF CHICAGO’S LEFT COMMUNITY – BOTH INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS –(INCLUDING ACTIVISTS, LABOR UNIONS & LABOR ADVOCATES, PROGRESSIVES, RADICALS & POLITICAL PARTIES, SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS)

PLEASE RSVP TO rbunting@sbcglobal.net AND  heather.1300@gmail.com SO WE CAN GET A GOOD ATTENDANCE ESTIMATE AND HAVE ROOM TO ACCOMMODATE EVERYONE.


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Labor Day: A Celebration and Rally for American Working Families

September 7, 2009 - 2pm

Chicago’s Pullman State Historic Site

111th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue

Invited Guest of Honor: President Barack Obama

                 Moderator: Radio Host Dick Kay

Program:

·        Music and Food

·        Speakers Celebrating the Achievements of American Working Families -- Commemorate Past and Ongoing Struggles for a Union Wage, the Rights of Citizenship, Healthy Workplaces, Strong Communities, Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Immigrant Rights, and Service Jobs that are Good Jobs.

·        Speakers Rallying for a Better World for American Working Families -- Equal Opportunity for All Men and Women Regardless of Race, Ethnicity, Religion, or Sexual Orientation through the Employee Free Choice Act, Health Care Reform, Education Reform, and “Green Jobs.”

·        Providing Access to Services for American Working Families -- Get Free Advice from Labor Lawyers and Representatives from the Chicago Public Schools , the Chicago Department of Public Health, Labor Unions, Community Organizations, and More.

 

Sponsored by: State of Illinois AFL-CIO, Chicago Federation of Labor, Chicago Building Trades Council, Illinois Labor History Society,  Pullman Business Council, Historic Pullman Foundation, Pullman Civic Organization, Bronzeville/Black Chicagoan Historical Society, Calumet Heritage Partnership, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, the Chicago Center for Working Class Studies, Arise Chicago, Jobs with Justice, A. Philip Randolph Institute, Chicago State University, SEIU, AFSCME Council 31, United Steelworkers, Ironworkers locals 1 & 63, Electrical Workers, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois State Senator Donne Trotter, Illinois State Representatives Connie Howard and Marlow Colvin, and WCPT ProgressiveTalk Radio.

 

Co-Chairs:
Tom Shepherd (773)370-3305

labordaypullman@gmail.com                                 

Larry Spivack   (312) 663-4107   ilhs@prodigy.net

Chicago’s Pullman State Historic Site http://laborday.pullmanevents.info/

111th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue , 60628  


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September 8
SEX+++ Documentary Film Series @ Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted
"Yellow for Hermaphrodites: Mani's Story" (2003)  Join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday for a series of films about positive sexuality and sexual identity. This free documentary series will create a new space to discuss sex, culture, and sexual fun! Each film will be accompanied by delicious snacks and followed by relevant conversation.  YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO RSVP BY PHONE
 TO HULL-HOUSE MUSEUM FOR EACH FILM: 312.413.5353.   FREE


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Date September 10th,5:30-7:00pm
Event title/host Grace Lee Boogs at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Location Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 800 South Halsted Street

Details/Contact This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 312.413. 5353.

Join us in celebrating the birthdays of Jane Addams and our Special Keynote Speaker Grace Lee Boggs.  Grace is an activist, writer, and speaker whose more than sixty years of political involvement encompass the major U.S. social movements of this century:  Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Asian-American, Women's, and Environmental Justice.  Grace will be our Keynote Speaker for the annual Jane Addams Birthday Conversation on Peace and Justice.  Her talk is entitled "Love and {r}evolution."

This event is part of the Jane  Addams Hull-House  Museum’s Birthday Conversation on Peace and Justice and is co-sponsored by The Public Square.


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Thursday, September 10, 6:30-8:30
Chicago Design Educators Forum monthly potluck
at the Rebuilding Exchange - 3335 W. 47th

Come join us for our fourth monthly informal gathering of Chicago Design Educators working with youth. Meet folks from Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Architecture Foundation, After Schools Matters, ACE Mentoring Program, Archi-treasures and more as we discuss our projects and programs and the ways we can improve them. Bringing a dish or drink to pass is encouraged. If you're interested, please get in touch with Charlie Vinz:charles.vinz@gmail.com


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EveryBody! Visual resistance in feminist health movements, 1969-2009
Start Time:  Friday, September 11, 2009 at 5:00pm
Location:     @ I space - 230 W. Superior, 2nd floor Chicago, IL
     3125879976 - ispace@illinois.edu


“Our feelings will lead us to our theory, our theory to our action, our feelings about that action to new theory and then to new action.” -Kathie Sarachild of Redstockings Radical Feminist group, presented at the First National Women’s Liberation Conference, Chicago, November 27, 1968

Every Body! presents work by artists and activists representing historical and visual exchanges around feminist health movements. By combining historical documents from the Women’s Health Movement (WHM) with presentations and performances by artists and activists working towards health care justice in the present day, Every Body! explores how feelings, theories, and actions are shaped into the creation of a place where all bodies are celebrated and health care is a human right. The exhibition begins with the visual culture of the WHM of the late 1960s-70s through posters, ephemera, and literature donated from individuals, groups, and institutions involved in the movement including the Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective and the Federation of Women’s Health Centers. The work of participating artists reflects this movement and its evolution with creative responses to and representations of the issues surrounding the health needs of women, men, and transgendered people. Every Body! is an ongoing conversation taken up and shared over many years is present in the works and projects included in this exhibition.

The exhibit includes original work from the following artists and contributors (alphabetical order):

Heather Ault, CureThis!, Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective, Christa Donner, Suzann Gage, Terri Kapsalis, Suzanne Lacy, Madsen Minax, the Pink Bloque, Favianna Rodriguez, Dewayne Sleightweight, subRosa, Laura Szumowski, Video Data Bank, Sara Welch, Women on Waves, and Faith Wilding.

Curator: Bonnie Fortune

I space is the Chicago gallery of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


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Date: Sepember 11th, 2009
 
Event title/host: Back to School Fundraiser, Hosted By CORE-The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators
 
 Where: Andre’s Sports Bar-1801 W. 87th St.
 When: Friday, September 11th, 2009 from 4-8:00 PM
 Price: $25 at the door/$20 in advance
Raffle Tickets are $2 each or 6 for $10
 
This event was organized to raise funds for CORE to win the May 2010 Chicago Teachers Union Officer Election. There will be dancing, a raffle, and a silent auction.
 
Contact: coreteachers@gmail.com


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SOUNDWALK IN BRONZEVILLE—BY AND AROUND THE MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL CAMPUS
 
CONTACT:  Dan Godston  dgodston@gmail.com   312.543.7027
WHEN: Saturday, September 12, 2009 (10 a.m.-11 a.m.) 

LOCATION:  by and round the Michael Reese Hospital Campus starting the northwest corner of 31st St. and Cottage Grove Dr.
 Chicago, IL 60616

You are invited to join the World Listening Project, during a soundwalk which will happen by and around the Michael Reese Hospital campus on Saturday, September 12. Soundmarks during this soundwalk will include the chainlink fence along the perimeter of the Michael Reese Hospital campus; the wind in the trees in front of the Singer Pavilion; a security guard’s car tires rolling over gravel on the MRH campus; traffic on Lake Shore Drive; demolition and earthmoving equipment being operated at MRH; bikers, pedestrians, and automobile drivers/passengers on the streets by MRH; and trains traveling the north-south tracks (between MRH and LSD). 

This soundwalk will start on the northwest corner of 31st St. and Cottage Grove Dr. We will walk along the fenced-in perimeter of the MRH campus in a clockwise direction, and then we will turn around and return to the soundwalk’s starting point. This soundwalk is free and open to the public; it is being organized by Chad Clark, Jennifer Mosier, Norman Long, Eric Leonardson, and Dan Godston.

Here are several definitions that relate to soundwalks – 1) soundscape: your sonic environment; 2) soundwalk: a walk when you are listening to the sounds in your environment; 3) soundmarks: sounds identified in specific places in a particular soundscape. 

THE WORLD LISTENING PROJECT (WLP) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to understanding the world and its natural environment, societies and cultures through the practices of listening and field recording. WLP maintains and develops a repository of sound recordings and provides access to this information via web-based technologies, workshops, forums, lectures, and festivals. WLP hereby seeks to encourage worldwide opportunities for collaboration, education, curation, research and experimentation across the disciplines of the arts, humanities, and the social and natural sciences. 

http://www.worldlisteningproject.org
http://mwsae.org/
http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html
http://www.gropiuschicago.org


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Date: Saturday September 12th, after 9pm.
 Event title/host: FUNdraiser Dance Party!
 Location: 37S Ashland (and Monroe)

Awesome DANCE PARTY. Bring all your friends.

DJs playing an eclectic mix and your requests.
Cheap alcohol.

 We're helping the Warehouse Workers for Justice with your generous donations at the door ($5-20) and drinks.

Warehouse Workers for Justice is a project of UE, organizers of the Republic Windows factory occupation.

Please forward widely.
Event posted on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124316062093

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URBANFORAGES
3-5pm rain or shine
$10-$20 donation

september 13 lincoln park – meet at nature museum
check: spontaneousvegetation.net for place and costs of classes.

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WHEN: 9/15/09, 7-10 PM
WHAT: Tamms Year Ten/Party on the Right Side of History

WHERE: A New Leaf, 1818 N. Wells

Tamms Year Ten is having a heavenly fundraiser in an astonishing space. We invite each of you to come glow in the glory!
 
Support the efforts to end long-term isolation at Tamms supermax prison simply by attending this wonderful party. Perhaps you have been with us in spirit and have always wanted to help.
 
This is your chance.
 
Join us at A New Leaf, Chicago’s premier event space with an outdoor courtyard and an award-winning multi-level interior of
exposed brick, suspended concrete staircases and modern metalwork throughout.

FEATURING
* fancy food from Wolfgang Puck, Food for Thought, J&L Catering, & the Hearty Boys
* music by LeRoy Bach (formerly of Wilco)
* music by Steve Vasquez (of Blue Eyed Jesus)

* special guest list of the greatest community leaders and elected officials in town
* updates on the Tamms Year Ten campaign
* Wine, Wine and more Wine

RECOMMENDED DONATION: $25 (but don't let the recommended amount keep you away)
Make checks payable to 'Year Ten' yearten.org • tammsyearten@gmail.com • 773-241-4155

Friends, do us a favor and RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/TY10-on-Sept-15

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LIVING KITCHENclasses:

cider/cyser/mead  sept 17 (registration deadline sept 13)
check: spontaneousvegetation.net for place and costs of classes.

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STAND UP FOR CHILDREN OF THE INCARCERATED  AT A RALLY AND LEGISLATIVE HEARING

Friday, September 18, 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM

11:30 AM: Rally and Vigil
Thompson Center Plaza
NW Corner of Clark and Randolph in Chicago

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Legislative Hearing
James R. Thompson Center
100 W. Randolph in Chicago
16th Floor, Senate Hearing Room
 
Across the state of Illinois, more than 90,000 children suffer the consequences of having one or both of their parents incarcerated. These invisible victims of the criminal justice system have committed no crime, yet are left without support, stability, or care due to a parent's misdeed or mistake.
-----Until now----
On Friday September 18, the Youth and Family Committee of the Illinois House of Representatives will hold a legislative hearing regarding the needs of children with incarcerated parents. Thanks to Civic Action Network congregations--in addition to the work of the Community Renewal Society, Catalyst Chicago and the Chicago Reporter--the General Assembly will finally shine a light on so many of our forgotten children.  This is a vital first step to addressing the needs for consideration and protection of children during a parent's arrest, sentencing, time of incarceration, and re-entry.

The time to break the cycle of incarceration and trauma is now.

We need you to stand in solidarity with Illinois' children. Only a large and powerful turnout on the 18th will move our state government to act to protect these children.  leaders and activists from Civic Action Network congregations will be holding a rally and prayer vigil outside of the Thompson Center at 11:30 AM and attending the 12:00 PM hearing.  Please join us for both or either.

COME STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH CHILDREN OF THE INCARCERATED.

You must have I.D. to enter the Thompson Center for the hearing.

Download a flyer to distribute in your congregation, organization, or office.

For more information, contact Alex Wiesendanger, (312) 673-3840, awiesendanger@communityrenewalsociety.org

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Saturday & Sunday, September 19-20
Tri-State Peripheral Bike Tour
Rainbow Beach Chicago to Union Pier, MI

The Tri-State Peripheral Bike Tour is an overnight bike tour from Chicago's south side to join in the "Hoedown For Justice" in Union Pier, MI, with stops along the way to look critically at Chicago's relation to it's region. The trip is approximately 75 miles each way, and we will camp at the farm in Union Pier.  Stops along the way will include US Steel, Marktown, Gary, New Chicago, Hobart, Beverly Shores, and Michigan City, where we will talk with specialists in local histories and economies.

Camping/overnight gear will be transported by vehicle, but participants need to be able to comfortably cover the distance at a moderate pace. Purchase of a ticket to "Hoedown For Justice" will also be required ($25). The tour is limited to approximately 15 people. Please RSVP and address any questions to Charlie Vinz: charles.vinz@gmail.com

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September 19 - 1-4 PM
Left Confused: a debate between Marxists and Anarchists
Hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society and the 4Star Anarchist Collective
Roosevelt University, Gage Gallery - 18 S Michigan Avenue

Join members of the International Socialist Organization, the Platypus Affiliated Society, the 4Star Anarchist Collective and the IWW in an afternoon of dialogue and debate amongst various members of the Left.  Panelists will attempt to clarify what their distinct politics seek to theorize and assert, and to understand what points of agreement exist amongst the Left’s various perspectives and affiliations.  In doing so, we hope our distinctions will not be erased, but rather, more deeply understood.

For more information, visit chicago.platypus1917.org, or contact ashleyweger@gmail.com.

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Brew Not Bombs II
September 19, 5pm-1am
3951 W. Fullerton

The second annual Brew Not Bombs fundraiser bash will feature the return of the People's Choice Home-brew Competition, a vegan pizza cook-off, vegan root beer floats, mircobrew samples, and raffle prizes, with music by This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Defiance Ohio, The Read, Sass Dragons, Al Scorch, and The Rust Belt Ramblers. (Pizza and brew entries still welcome. Contact BNBchicago@gmail.com for details.) $8 donation to benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War and Cob Connection.

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Sept. 19th, 2-5PM, Location TBA

The Fierce Urgency of Now: Health Care and Human Rights for All
Coordinated by ARC109

Why has the debate over health care reform involved partisan politicians, media pundits, corporate interests, and hired agitators rather than the people?  Why has the single payer option been demonized on the right, the media, and even the liberal establishment? How does the broader crisis in health care in this country – clinic closings, epidemics of disease related to inequality and inaccessibility to care, indifference to wellness in our schools, our public services, the military – relate to the unwillingness to address growing economic gaps in our society and the abdication of public authority for the sake of private concerns?   How can the United States learn from other communities about how to deliver care, promote wellness, and affirm the public interest, in order to achieve human rights, here and around the world?

Speakers include Vijay Prashad and a number of local activists working for a just health care system.

For details on location and speakers, check www.ARC109.org or email info@arc109.org

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 Date: Sunday, September 20th
 Event title/host: Paul Durica, Pocket Guide to Hell Tours, presents
 THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
 Location: starts at the Reynolds Club (E 57th and S University),
 2:00-4:00pm (tour begins at 2:15)
 Details/Contact: This awesome and unstodgy free! walking tour tour
 will focus on the school's early history, with nods to true crime,
 social justice, labor history, good jokes, and weird hats. For more
 details, email Paul at pgdurica@hotmail.com.

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Date September 21, 6:00pm-8:30pm
Media and Democracy with Laura Flanders
@ Chicago Cultural  Center,

This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 312.422.5580.

Join us in celebrating the official launch of the Café Society Do-It-Yourself Toolkit with our special guest Laura Flanders of GRITtv. Flanders, a bestselling author and broadcaster, is also founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.  Flanders will discuss the changing political landscape and the role of media in fostering democracy with Barbara Ransby, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, African-American Studies, and History, and Director of the Gender and Women Studies Program at University of Illinois at Chicago.

Following the presentation, we invite YOU to join the conversation. We’ll break down into small, facilitated discussions – Café Society style -- to share thoughts and reflections on the media and democracy.

Light refreshments will be served.

This event is co-sponsored by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and The Public Square.

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September 22
SEX+++ Documentary Film Series @ Hull-House Museum
 800 S Halsted
"Queens of Heart" (2006) and "All Women Are Equal" (1971)  Join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday for a series of films about positive sexuality and sexual identity. This free documentary series will create a new space to discuss sex, culture, and sexual fun! Each film will be accompanied by delicious snacks and followed by relevant conversation.  YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO RSVP BY PHONE
 TO HULL-HOUSE MUSEUM FOR EACH FILM: 312.413.5353.   F

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September 23
5:30 – 7pm / Reception and Panel Discussion
Leon Despres: A Celebration of His Life
*Meet at Glessner House Museum, 1800 South Prairie Avenue, Chicago


For detailed information check: www.architecture.org - P 312.922.3432


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Thursday, September 24, 12 noon

** Downtown Location -- Stay Tuned for Details **
One year after the Wall Street Bailout,
Put the "Bail-Out Bandits" on trial.

Labor, religious, community and student groups that make up Jobs with Justice coalitions across the country, as part of building the momentum for a new economy that works for everyone, are challenging the corporate criminals and demanding:

Jobs | Housing | Health Care

email chicago@jwj.org


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Come meet suburban comrades!  Generations4peace is a diverse group of residents of south-suburban Chicago who are committed to promoting peace and justice. On September 26, Generations4peace hosts a conference with speakers, film, and discussion about how to get to peace.

 

Saturday, September 26, 10:30am-4pm at the Flossmoor Public Library, 1000 Sterling Ave., Flossmoor, IL.

For more info: http://www.generations4peace.org/

 or contact g4p@generations4peace.org


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Hobo Fest
 
Sat., Sept. 26; 4:30pm-6:30pm - Welcome spaghetti donner at Greenstone Church; 11211 S. St. Lawrence, followed by Grand Hobo Concert in the famous church sanctuary.
 
Saturday night - Complimentary Hobo Camp-out at Pullman State Historic Site (open to all for an urban camping adventure with Mulligan stew, campfire, song & stories)
 
Sunday - Crafts and Barndance/Hoedown at Historic Pullman Stables; 112th & Cottage Grove Ave.

Tom Shepherd 773-370-3305

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LIVING KITCHENclasses:
herbal beers  sept 27 (registration deadline sept 23)
check: spontaneousvegetation.net for place and costs of classes.

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Date: Deadline October 1, 2009
The Fire This Time Fund (FTT) is a four year old, all volunteer organized, independent giving circle that supports small-scale, creative social change projects initiated by local artists, educators and organizers who weave an analysis of racial, economic, social, environmental, or gender justice into their work. We prioritize the channeling of project-based funds to informal groups and individuals working in atypical ways, inside and outside of the non-profit model, without access or ties to extensive institutional support. Average grants are $1,000. Check out our application online at www.firethistimefund.org or by emailing firethistimefund@gmail.com.

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2009 - 2010 WORKSHOP APPLICATION
with
Critical Encounters Artist in Residence Guillermo Gómez Peña/ La Pocha Nostra
 
Presented by:
Center for Teaching Excellence
Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media
Center for Community Arts Partnerships
LGBTQ Office of Culture and Community
National Performance Network

As part of the first Critical Encounters Artist Residency, renowned Mexican-American performance artist Guillermo Gómez Peña and his San Francisco-based “trans-disciplinary arts organization,” La Pocha Nostra, will lead an intensive artist workshop on campus that incorporates and challenges ideas of race, gender, faith, and boundaries. Inspired by the past work of La Pocha Nostra, the project aims to offer participants a dynamic and multiple-stage mentorship opportunity, initiated and developed over several months, and culminating in a public presentation. 

Critical Encounters is a college-wide civic engagement initiative intended to synchronize conversations between the school and the community in an ongoing dialogue around a central, socially and culturally relevant issue each academic year. Fact & Faith explores how we negotiate the tension between the need to believe and the need to know, examining the concept of truth, what shapes it, and how it is expressed.

The workshop will comprise 20 participants, including students from Columbia College and other colleges and universities, joined by practicing artists, educators and community members. The diversity of cultures, ideas, abilities, perspectives, beliefs, and aspirations of participants will inform and shape the collective work. This workshop will explore the ideas of Columbia College Chicago’s Critical Encounters Initiative: Fact & Faith, while building a bridge between the Columbia College community and beyond.

The intensive will take place from October 23 – 30, 2009. The residency culminates in the Chicago debut of La Pocha Nostra’s most recent work “Corpo Illicito” on Friday, October 30, 2009. From December 2009 to March 2010 participants will take part in additional workshops with Roberto Sifuentes, of La Pocha Nostra, and other artists/individuals through a partnership with Links Hall (dates and times to be determined by organizers and participants). On April 15–16, 2010, the workshop attendees will re-convene with La Pocha Nostra to rehearse their final participant-created performance, which will be presented at the 6th Annual Gender Fusions on Saturday, April 17, 2010. 

Students are encouraged to work with their departments to use this opportunity as an independent study.

Applications due by Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5pm

Chosen participants will be notified by October 9, 2009 5pm

To get applications and to ask questions contact:
Dia Penning, Associate Director of Civic Engagement
Center for Teaching Excellence
600 S. Michigan, 8th Floor
dpenning@colum.edu
312.369.3286

Hey everyone
We hope the summer is going great. This is a busy month for AREA. First off on Friday we are participating in the 5th Annual Printers Ball, organized by Poetry Magazine. We hope that you come out on Friday from 5-11pm to Columbia College to pick up tons of locally produced magazines and celebrate local print culture and independent media (details are here http://www.printersball.org/).

Secondly, this month we kick off a huge event series to accompany the 8th issue of AREA that was released last May: "Everbody's Got Money Issues". This series is mostly taking place @ Mess Hall and is organized by our designer and advisor Jerome Grand in collaboration with Mess Hall, and such folks as Public Square, Kristen Cox, Melville House Books, Insight Arts, Backstory Cafe, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, and the Hideout. Please come check out the events and look for a full list of August/September events that make up the whole event series in coming days. See those events marked in red below.

We hope to see you out and about sooner than later.
Much thanks for your support. Thanks to those who came out July 13 for the AREA 4th Birthday. We had a blast celebrating and made $720 towards our next issue through the generous profit-sharing of Danny's Tavern and Joe Proulx's Peace Party.
Thanks!
- your peoples at AREA Chicago

August Events Summary:
01) Sat 8/1: Open Streets - 8 miles of parkways open to pedestrian traffic
02) Sat 8/1: Anti-Street Harassment Summer Camp w/ YWAT
03) Sat 8/1: Intergenerational Poetry Event w/ The Public Sqare
04) Sun 8/2: Fieldtrip to Chi Honey Coop and City Farm
05) 8/3-8/7: Peace Circle Trainings - Register Now!
06) Fri 8/7: Opening Reception for "Palestine revisited" exhibition @ Spoke
07) Sun 8/9: Opening Reception and Readings for exhibit based on AREA Chicago #8 @ Mess Hall
08) 8/13-16: "Rustbelt Revival: A New Economic Stimulus Package" Performances @ Links Hall
09) Sun 8/16: AREA event about using surplus in capitalism @ Mess Hall
10) Thu 8/20: Kite Making workshop @ Orientation Center
11) Fri 8/21: Fundraiser to release PR Political Prisoners @ Sonotheque
12) 8/22-23: Fruit of Zaloom performance @ Links Hall
13) Tue 8/25: "Bars, Business & Benefits" Conversation @ Hideout
14) Thu 8/27: Teach-in on Solidarity Economics @ Insight Arts
15) Fri 8/28: No Games Chicago event about economic impact of 2016 Olympic Bid
16) Sun 8/30: A conversation about how to visually represent capitalism and crisis
17) Starting mid august: New study-group of International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network


August Events Details:
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Open Streets
August 1 830am-2pm

From 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug 1, Open Streets will give friends and families the chance to enjoy the streets the way they want: biking, dancing, playing, walking and more!

The free event combines last year’s two Sunday Parkways event into one huge eight-mile event. Like last year, Open Streets will span from Logan Square to Little Village, passing through Humboldt Park, North Lawndale and Garfield Park along the way.

http://www.activetrans.org/openstreets

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Anti-Street Harassment Summer Camp

DATE: Saturday August 1st
TIME: 11 to 5 p.m.
LOCATION: UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road
MORE: This event is FREE and open to youth and adults.  Registration is REQUIRED.  Rsvp to rpywat@hotmail.com.
Anti-Harassment Summer Camp Program
 
Understanding Street Harassment
11 to 12:30 p.m. -- Street Harassment 101
 
Dealing with Street Harassment
12:45-2:00 p.m. -- How to Launch Your Own Anti-Street Harassment Campaign in your Community.
 
2:15-3:15 p.m. -- Self-Defense Workshop by Impact Chicago
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. -- Design a Citywide Anti-Street Harassment Public Education Campaign (including PSAs, Posters, etc....).
If you are an artist, photographer, videographer, graphic designer, etc... we could use your help on August 1st.
 
Please contact Lillian at 773-759-1634.
 
For more information about YWAT, visit our website at www.youngwomensactionteam.org.

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Word: Across Generations
with Quraysh Ali WordLansana; Adrian Matejka; Angela Jackson; FM Supreme and Kevin Coval

Saturday, August 1
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Perry Mansion Cultural Center in Englewood
7042 South Perry Avenue Chicago

Free. Open to the public.
Reservations are recommended and can be made online, by email at events@prairie.org, or by calling 312.422.5580.

Join us for an afternoon of poetry, conversation, and sunshine as some of the most prolific and profound poets in Chicago come together. Each of the poets will perform their work and participate in a post-performance conversation, moderated by spoken word artist Kevin Coval about the power of words.

Taking place at Englewoods new Perry Mansion Cultural Center, this outdoor program is not to be missed!

More about this event and featured poets

This event is co-sponsored by Perry Mansion Cultural Center, The Monsignor John J. Egan Urban Center at DePaul University,Young Chicago Authors

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Urban Agriculture CRAFT Field Day
Sunday, August 2, 2009 1-4pm
Chicago Honey Co-op and Resource Center's City Farm
Registration required. See below for details.

1:00 pm  Meet at Chicago Honey Co-op for a bee farm tour.
See how the bees supply the honey, candles and body products that the co-op sells.
The bee farm is located approximately at 3740 W. Fillmore St., Chicago. MAP.
(South of Garfield Park. Please plan to arrive before 1pm so we can start on time.)

Re-group at Resource Center's City Farm for a farm tour and chat with Grower, Tim Wilson.
Learn about their urban farm model and growing methods.
The farm is located at 1204 N. Clybourn, Chicago. MAP.

Free to CRAFT Members, $10 for Non-members (payable at door)
Space is limited. Advance registration required.
Please email craft@learngrowconnect.org to reserve your space now.

Learn more and join CRAFT to attend other FREE on-farm workshops and events

If you have any questions, please contact Joanne at CRAFT@learngrowconnect.org or 847-209-3045 (cell phone)

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When: August 3 through 7
M, T, W, TH  8:30-3:30pm
 Friday:  8:30-1:30pm
 Subway lunch will be provided.  Please byo drinks and coffee.

Where:  Orr Academy High School, Room 010 - 730 N. Pulaski Road Chicago, IL 606025
773-534-6500, ext. 29371

What:  Cost is $100.  Registration deadline:  Mailed and postmarked July 28.
Please make checks payable to: Jane Nicholson 720 S. Dearborn St. #504,  Chicago, 60605

Upon completion of 32 hours of training, you will be certified as a Circle Keeper

Peace Circles brings people together to build community based on respect and responsibility.  Peace Circles are being used in many agencies and schools around the country and the world. They provide an opportunity for youth and adults to come together in a productive and supportive way. This process enhances communication skills, teaches new ways to resolve conflicts, improves relationships, and is an effective way to celebrate achievements. The key to developing a peaceful environment is to learn about one another and build trust.

Circle training is interactive.  The training models the practices you will be relying upon on completion of the training.  Come and form the circle; respect, openness, creativity, teamwork, listening, sharing stories, confidentiality, and restorative principles are links in the circle chain. 

Please send your confirmation or any questions to Jane Nicholson nicholsonjane@yahoo.com

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Palestine revisited

 

Tirtza Even and Toby Millman each translate their experiences of personal encounters in Palestine into 3-D animations and cut paper works, spanning moments between 1998 and 2008. Using text that reflects on and questions the coherence and perception of the visual material, incorporating both humor and nuanced prose, each project attempts to address the characteristics and consequences of the ongoing Israeli occupation on life in Palestine. 

August 8 to 22. 

Opening reception Friday August 7^th 6 – 9 pm. @ Spoke: 119 N. Peoria, Unit 3D, Chicago, IL, 60607

 

It would be great to see you there

Spoke: at the intersection of ideas, dialogue and change
www.SpokeChicago.blogspot.com organized by Monica Herrera, Rachel Moore, Heather Mullins, Rana Siegel

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Sunday, August 9 3-6pm 

 

"Everbody's Got (more) Money Issues" Opening of Exhibition and readings/discussion with contributors of AREA#8 

With readings and discussion with contributors to AREA Chicago #8.

Part of AREA Chicago's "Everbody's Got (more) Money Issues" event series, in conjunction with the 8th issue of AREA http://areachicago.org/p/issues/8/
Mess Hall - 6932 North Glenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60626
near the Morse CTA Red Line Train Stop

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Links Hall presents 100% Farm Fresh Corn this August, 13-16 2009.
Chicago, IL – Links Hall presents Rustbelt Revival: A New Economic Stimulus Package Featuring 100% Farm Fresh Corn August 13-16, 2009. These outstanding and intimate theatrical solo-performances are curated by two-time Obie Award-winning artist and playwright Holly Hughes along with Chicago’s own Kestutis Nakas. . . Rustbelt Revival: A New Economic Stimulus Package will be presented at Links Hall, 3435 North Sheffield, Second Floor, Chicago, IL 60657 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 13, 14 and 15, 2009 at 8pm - tickets are $15 adults/$10 students. On Saturday, August 15 there will be a Late Night Cabaret hosted by Holly Hughes at 10:30pm – tickets $10. There will be a student performance for $5 on Sunday, August 16 at 7pm. Proceeds from all tickets sales go to benefit Links Hall’s programming all season long. For more information and to purchase tickets, call 773.281.0824 or visit www.LinksHall.org.

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Sunday, August 16, 1-5pm 

Finding the surplus, turning the surplus into resource, and using the resource—with Readings, Discussions and Food. 

From 1-3pm at Mess Hall: Readings and discussions with Raechel Tiffe, Food Not Bombs, Temporary Services, InCUBATE, and more.

From 3-4pm under the Morse Redline stop: Food Not Bombs serving and readings from the Neighborhood Writing Alliance

From 4-5pm at Mess Hall: Group discussion on Surplus and Resources.

Part of AREA Chicago's "Everbody's Got (more) Money Issues" event series, in conjunction with the 8th issue of AREA http://areachicago.org/p/issues/8/
Mess Hall - 6932 North Glenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60626
near the Morse CTA Red Line Train Stop

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Art vs. Craft: Kite Making!
The Orientation Center's monthly arts/crafts evening! Each month features an hour-long hands-on introduction to an art or craft skill, as well as two hours of open time to hang out and work onyour own projects. Workshop materials as well as supplies for the free-craft time will be provided. There is a $2-$10 sliding scale donation for the workshop materials, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Future workshops will include book making, weaving, and block printing.

Thursday, August 20th
@ 2129 N Rockwell (Just north of Milwaukee Ave)
7-8pm Kite Making
8-10pm Open arts/crafts time. Bring your own projects and materials or
get inspired by what's available.

Email Rachel.a.wallis@gmail.com if you're planning on coming, so we have enough supplies.

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National Boricua Human Rights Network Fundraiser
@ Sonotheque
1444 W. Chicago Avenue
When:     Friday, August 21, 6:00PM    
Phone:     773-469-4671
Come and party with us!  And raise money for the Puerto Rican political prisoners!

National Boricua Human Rights Network is trying to raise $4000 for the campaign to release the Puerto Rican political prisoners.

The night will include a live performance from Salsa Dulce, a latin jazz/bomba/salsa band, refreshments, and the always popular silent auction!

Admission is $20 (21 and older ONLY).  The event will be held at Sonotheque Club at 1444 W. Chicago Ave from 6-9pm.

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Fruit of Zaloom performed by Paul Zaloom

August 22-23 at Links Hall, 3435 North Sheffield, Second Floor, Chicago, IL 60657

Fruit of Zaloom covers a myriad of contemporary subjects, including the “War on Drugs,” gay adoption, moral hypocrisy, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” mandatory minimum sentencing, the Log Cabin Republican Club, police brutality, and last but not least: death! Directed by Randee Trabitz, this triple play places Zaloom, a gay Arab American with both Catholic and Protestant Irish blood, squarely into the middle of the culture wars that continue to be waged across the American landscape. Humor, Zaloom's weapon of choice, is used to disarm and encourage, to melt the pessimism away, and to hurt the face from a cornucopia of amusing fabulousness. Fruit of Zaloom is made possible in part because of collaboration with Science Chicago. Tickets are $15 general admission and $10 for students call 773.281.0824 or visit www.linkshall.org details.

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Part of AREA Chicago's "Everbody's Got (more) Money Issues" event series, in conjunction with the 8th issue of AREA http://areachicago.org/p/issues/8/

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Thursday, August 27, 7-10pm 

at Insight Arts, 1545 W. Morse Avenue

Teach-in and discussion on Solidarity Economies at Insight Arts with Mess Hall. 

Part of AREA Chicago's "Everbody's Got (more) Money Issues" event series, in conjunction with the 8th issue of AREA http://areachicago.org/p/issues/8/
Mess Hall - 6932 North Glenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60626
near the Morse CTA Red Line Train Stop

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Friday, August 28, 6-9pm

No Games Chicago. Community forum: Economic effects of the 2016 olympic bid.

Part of AREA Chicago's "Everbody's Got (more) Money Issues" event series, in conjunction with the 8th issue of AREA http://areachicago.org/p/issues/8/
Mess Hall - 6932 North Glenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60626
near the Morse CTA Red Line Train Stop

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Sunday, August 30, 6-9pm

Visualizing Capitalism: Exhibition closing and collective critique

How do our representations of capitalism help us understand where we’ve been, where we are, and where we want to be? How do we visually represent the dynamics of capitalism and imagine a future beyond it?  Two brief presentations by Rozalinda Borcila and Eric Triantafillou on the relationship between visual language and political imagination, followed by a collective critique of the exhibition and its visual work.

Part of AREA Chicago's "Everbody's Got (more) Money Issues" event series, in conjunction with the 8th issue of AREA http://areachicago.org/p/issues/8/
Mess Hall - 6932 North Glenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60626
near the Morse CTA Red Line Train Stop

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Anti-Zionist Study Group Forming
10 weeks, mid-August to mid-December
dates, times, and location to be determined
organized by Chicago chapter, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network

for more info, syllabus, or to get involved, email: chicagoijan@gmail.com

Happy July people,
There is a bunch of AREA news to go over and then a short and sweet calendar of amazing events happening this month are listed below.

First off, July 1st is the deadline for proposals for the next issue of AREA so please check out the call for participation here:
http://areachicago.org/b/area-news/area-9-call-participation-july-1-deadline/

Secondly, AREA Chicago and Mess Hall are joining together to organize an exhibition and event series that will expand the content of the last issue of "AREA#8 Everybody's got money issues". We will send out announcements of events soon. If you have any questions or would like to be involved, please contact Jerome at grandj[at]gmail[dot]com.

Thirdly, AREA Back Issues are now available for cheap from our friends at Half Letter Press: http://www.halfletterpress.com/store/

Fourthly, this summer we are going to start back up our "Report Back" blog for people to report back about events (like the ones listed below, and the ones you attend). So please let AREA & Report Back know what you've been up to so far this summer! Been to a workshop? Attended a rally? Seen an exhibit? What has gotten you out and about in your community & how do you think it went? We want to know, and so do our readers. Reflection is a necessary task of building our communities and our practices. Stay connected between AREA issues and share your thoughts with others on the Report Back blog!
Just send your review to areachicago.reportback@gmail.com and updates will be posted weekly at
http://reportback.areachicago.org/ and mailed out in the monthly "Another Chicago" newsletter of events!

and FINALLY, This summer AREA turns 4 years old. We've put out 8 issues featuring hundreds of Chicagobased artists and organizers, we've organized nearly a hundred events throughout Chicago, and promoted thousands of projects through our monthly newsletter. Please come dance and celebrate at Danny's Taven (1951 W. Dickens) this Monday July 13th starting at 9pm. Details are below.

Have a good month!

July Events Summary:
01) Mon 06.29 - Iran Lecture @ News and Letters
02) Wed 07.01 - Arcade and Speakeasy @ Orientation Center
03) Fri 07.03 - Paloma Negra Magazine Benefit Party
04) Sat 07.04 - “Salad-Church-Exercise" Exhibition Opening @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
05) Fri 07.10 - Teach-In & Discussion on Pakistan @ Messhall
06) Sun 07.12 - Urban Foraging with Nance Klehm @ Kinzie and Racine
07) Mon 07.13 - AREA Chicago 4th Birthday Party - Come DANCE at Danny's Tavern
08) Tue 07.14 - Sex Documentary Series @ Hull House Museum
09) Tue 07.21 - A Day at Stateville Reading/Play @ Southwest Youth Collab
10) Sat 07.25 - Chicago Community Cinema presents "LAKSHMI & ME"
11) Tue 07.28 - Sex Documentary Series @ Hull House Museum
12) Sat - 08.01 - "Word: Across Generations" @ Perry Mason Cultural Center

July Events Details:

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 News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting:

 Specter of revolution stalks Iran 's theocratic rulers

 Speaker: Gerry Emmett, writer for News & Letters

 Date: Monday June 29
 Time: 6:30 PM
 Place: News & Letters Library
 228 S. Wabash, Room 230 (Note new address)
 Chicago, IL 60604

 Free and open discussion to follow presentation.
 For more information: 312-431-8242; www.newsandletters.org

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Arcade & Speakeasy : Wednesday July 1st : 8 - tap runs dry

 @ the Orientation Center
 2129 N. Rockwell St.
 Chicago, IL 60647

Join us for an evening of cocktails, home-brewed beer, arcade games, live music, and celebrating fourth of july early.

Featuring....

Ted Danyluk's hand-crafted Skee-ball (last seen at King Ludd's Midway Arcade), vintage hand-held pinball machines, "Space: 1999, a bagatelle game," and more.

Four premium craft brews on tap:  Palisades Best Bitter, ESB, Small Beer, and IIPA by Ted Danyluk (www.tedbrews.com)

InCUBATE serving Rhubarb Gin Ricky cocktails.

$4/a drink + bbq food in the back.  Throw a dart, win a discount!

Plus ... Magic show by Nate Sandberg and Live Music by Ryan Hammer.

Come dressed to impress...

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PALOMA NEGRA Benefit Show on Friday July 3rd
Doors and DJ at 7pm
Show starts at 8pm-????
@ the New Weizer Space
3951 W. Fullerton
 
DJ Angela
music that'll make you shake your ass
DJ Doominion
spining the best anarchopunk and goth
Tras De Nada
hardcore anarcho punk and cop conjurers
Tierra De Nadie
epic crust
Cenobytes
Hardcore Stylings
+ more t.b.a
 
books, zines and other goodies will be available.

Paloma Negra is a Pilsen based publication. Our main focus is to shed light on issues affecting our daily lives and the communities we live in; with special emphasis on Pilsen. Our mission is to inform so we can better foster the seeds of change. We are a collective of anarchists and revolutionaries. We offer this publication for free so that it is accessible to all. Because together we can fly, we encourage you to read, enjoy and participate.
Respectfully, The Black Dove Brigade

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SALAD-CHURCH-EXERCISE
An art show about self-improvement through self-denial  
 
Featuring work by:
Michael Bancroft, Noah Berlatsky , Dayton Castleman, CThrough Outfit, Chelsea Culp, Derek  Erdman, Gina Grafos, Jacob C. Hammes, Jaime Lynn Henderson, Hideous Beast, Thaddeus Kellstadt, Paul Mack, Rachel Pollak, Yvie Raij, Oliverio Rodriguez , Christopher Santiago, Dewayne Slightweight, Edra Soto, Bert Stabler, Matthew Steinke, Susannah Kite Strang
 
Curated by Bert Stabler
 
Opening Saturday, July 4, 2009, 2-6 pm at the Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S. Morgan, Chicago.  Massive salad potluck-- come hungry!
 
Open hours 1-4 pm Saturday July 11, Saturday July 18.  Closing party Saturday July 25, 8-12 pm  (check Facebook for info as it develops)
 
While large-scale organs of control, such as schools, hospitals, and prisons, enforce the social contract through a restriction of choice and a remote delegation of authority, personal or cultural techniques for redirecting and mastering libido, the inner primordial chaos we carry within, can be found in  the options represented by salad, church, and exercise.  The deep loyalty and repulsion aroused in modern hearts by these three everyday pursuits, and their heroic and perverse obsession with denying the desires of the body, is the starting point for the works in  “Salad-Church-Exercise,” fantasies that are channeled into a polymorphous menagerie of audiovisual media.
 
Three classic texts that have instructed the bodies of our ancestors can be found online at these URLs, and will be available in hard copy at  the show.
 

• St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises. http://www.jesuit.org/Spirituality/Spiritual+Exercises/default.aspx 
• John Evelyn, A Discourse on Sallets. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15517/15517-h/15517-h.htm 
• Friedrich Ludwig Jahn: A Treatise on Gymnasticks.

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Friday, July 10, 2009
6:00p-9:00p
Teach-In & Discussion on Pakistan:
Three Poets & A Country: N. M. Rashid, Habib Jalib, Faiz Ahmed Faiz
@ Mess Hall 6932 North Glenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60626. Morse CTA Red Line Train Stop Email: info[at]messhall[dot]org. Tel: 773-465-4033

Even though Pakistan dominates the news cycle as a new front in Obama’s “war on terror,” it remains a country strangely bereft of context – even history. We hear of the radicalization of its population, the march of extremism towards its cities, and the Pakistani military’s campaign against those forces. What remains occluded is any sense of the people of Pakistan, of their own struggles, hopes, and fears.
What we do not hear about is the fact that 30 of the 62 years of Pakistan’s existence have been spent under military dictatorships – & that United States policy has aided and supported those dictators. Nor do we hear about the brave men and women who raised their voices for democracy, for justice, & for equal rights for all, throughout this period. We want to tell you about three such voices. These members of the “Progressive Writers” lit fires of resistance with their poetry and through their deeds.
Join us, as we read a few of their poems, tell you about their lives, and speak about the history of progressive thought in Pakistan.

Presenters: Manan Ahmed, Atiya Khan, Shehla Arif

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Public URBANFORAGE walk
sunday, july 12th  3-5pm (rain or shine!)
$10-$20 donation/person (young kids are free!)

meet at train tracks Kinzie and Racine streets

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Peace Party: AREA Chicago's 4th Birthday Party
DJs: Naomi Walker, Jeff Parker, Jocelyn Brown, and Josh Abrams.
Monday July 13th
9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Danny’s Tavern 1951 W. Dickens
Free Admission

Thanks to Joe Proulx for hosting this and so many other Peace Parties over the years

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July 14
SEX +++ Documentary Film Series @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted
“Filming Desire” (2000) Sex positive documentary film and discussion.  Tasty snacks.  RSVP's STRONGLY RECOMMENDED call 312-413-5353.  NOTE: this film contains explicit sexual footage.  Guest facilitator: Aspasia Bonasera, blogger at La Libertine’s Salon
 More info at http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/Events/sexPositive/sexPositive.html

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 Date Tuesday, July 21, 5:30pm

A Day at Stateville Reading and Inter-generational Conversation
 Location South West Youth Collaborative, Uni Hip Hop Room
 6400 South Kedzie Avenue, Chicago

 Free. Open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 312.422.5580.

A Day at Stateville is a short play detailing a newcomer's first day at Stateville Correctional Facility in Joliet, Illinois. Join us for a special reading of A Day at Stateville and an inter-generational post-show conversation focusing on the needs of the youth and community to interrupt the schools to prison pipeline, take steps towards creating street peace, and to re-think safety and de-criminalize our communities.

 This event is presented in partnership by The Southwest Community Coalition the "Life Transformation through Communication" course at Stateville Correctional Facility, Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern and The Public Square.

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Chicago Community Cinema presents:
LAKSHMI & ME
Saturday, July 25th at 2PM
Chicago Cultural Center
in the Claudia Cassidy Theatre
 In this intimate examination of the relationship between Indian filmmaker Nishtha Jain and her young maid, Lakshmi, Jain holds up a mirror to her own culture and the pervasive caste system that can still determine an individual's fate in life. Set against this backdrop, where servants are habitually treated as social inferiors, the film looks at what can happen when an employer shows empathy, and a silent worker finds her voice.
For a preview, click here: http://www.itvs.org/shows/preview.php?showID=7663

Following the screening, panelists will lead the audience in a discussion about the caste system, the organizing of domestic workers and women's rights in India.
Guests to be announced.

Presented by ITVS, Apna Ghar, South Asia Language and Area Center at U of C, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and WTTW Channel 11.

For more information, Contact: Naomi_Walker@itvs.org
(773) 677-9600

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July 28
SEX +++ Documentary Film Series @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted
"Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography" (2003) + "Bill and Desiree: Love is Timeless" (2008) PORN/EROTICA NIGHT Sex positive documentary films and discussion.  Tasty snacks.  RSVP's STRONGLY RECOMMENDED call 312-413-5353.  NOTE: films contain explicit sexual footage.  Guest facilitator: Serpent Libertine, vlogger at Red Light District: Chicago More info at http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/Events/sexPositive/sexPositive.html

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 Date Saturday, August 1st (afternoon)

 Word: Across Generations with Quraysh Ali Lana; Adrian Majteca, author of Mixology; and FM Supreme

 Location Perry Mansion Cultural Center, 7042 S Perry Ave. Chicago

 Details/Contact Free. Open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 312.422.5580.

Happy Junes peoples!
This is a few days late coming out but we hope its still useful and keeps you informed, inspired and entertained.
Please be sure to join AREA at our office (aka "The Orientation Center") on June 20th for our first ever cheap art sale :"25 works for $25."
Details below, see you then!
-your friends at AREA

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June Summary:

01) 06.01-Sept - Check out "Synesthetic Plan" an installation about Chicago Neighborhoods @ Cult.Center
02) 06.05 Fri - today and Every Friday join Project FOCUS for Community Dinners in Pilsen
03) 06.05 Fri - Temporary Services hosts potluck and presentation in Evanston
04) 06.05/06 Fri/Sat - Logan Square Neighborhood Assoc. Sidewalk Sale
05) 06.06 Sat - Mud Stenciling in support of Tamms Year Ten Campaign in Logan Sq.
06) 06.06 Sat - Panel Discussion on Surveillance at home and abroad in Evanston
07) 06.07 Sun - Dill Pickle Food Coop Summer Kick off @ Log. Sq. Farmers Market
08) 06.07 Sun - Urban Foraging with Nance Klehm in Garfield Park
09) 06.07 Sun - ARC'09 and Tamms Year Ten host BBQ in Humboldt Park
10) 06.07 Sun - Stencil Nation book talk @ Quimbys

11) 06.08 Mon - Hip Hop Approach to Justice @ Hull House Museum
12) 06.09 Tue - Screening of "Boy I Am" as part of sexuality film series @ Hull House Museum
13) 06.12-14 - Platypus International Conference
14) 06.12 Fri - Booktalk with Antonia Darder about Critical Pedagogy in Humboldt Park
15) 06.12 Fri - Opening of the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
16) 06.12-14 - "Community as Intellectual Space" conference @ PRCC
17) 06.13 Sat - 2nd Anniversary of Chicago Freedom School - Party
18) 06.13 Sat - Learn to make Herbal Skin Care workshop in Little Village
19) 06.14 Sun - Qawwali Concert with Faiz Ali Faiz @ Old Town
20) 06.18 Thu - Vigil About Police Killings

21) 06.20 Sat - 25 artworks about Chicago for sale for $25 to benefit AREA Chicago!!! Party!
22) 06.20 Sat - Tincures and Essences Workshop with Nance Klehm
23) 06.20 Sat - Arts of Life Fundraiser
24) 06.20 Sat -  31st People's Parade in Humboldt Park
25) 06.23 Tue - "Art vs Craft" Work night at Orientation Center
26) 06.23 Tue - Film Screening about being on the "Down Low" at Hull House Museum
27) 06.25 Thu - Benefit for Experimental Station (AREA's Fiscal Sponsor!)
28) 06.26-28 -  "Think Galaticon" Radical Leftist Science Fiction Convention @ Roosevelt U
29) Donate to the Young Womens Action Team thrift store
30) Early Warning: July 11th Memorial for Franklin Rosemont
31) Contribute to "Scream at the Economy" project
32) Homebrewers needed for "Brew Not Bombs" event
33) NASCO conference on cooperatives and ecology - propose a session!

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June Details Below:

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The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago: A Multi-Sensory Journey
Through Chicago and Its Neighborhoods (SPC)
Monday, June 1–Wednesday, September 30, 2009
@ Chicago Cultural Center 77 E Randolph at Michigan Ave
 
      2009 is the centenary of the publication of The Plan of Chicago. The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago: A Multi-Sensory Journey Through Chicago and Its Neighborhoods corresponds with the celebration of this historic event. An interactive installation at the Chicago Cultural Center Visitor Information Center (77 E. Randolph Street), The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago is part of the citywide summer tourism initiative, Explore Chicago: Take A Neighborhood Vacation (June 1–September 30). More than 40 artists and organizations have joined in creating this exploration of Chicago through the five senses. Visitors and locals can experience Chicago imagery, sounds, fragrances, flavors and textures captured in miniature neighborhood scenes such as a mapping of the tastes and recipes of Chinatown, and an exploration of East Garfield Park candy. SPC’s participating artists and organizations have designed installation pieces which invite people to interact with the sensory “artifacts” of Chicago in creative and imaginative ways, and to think about synesthetic connections with things that relate to Chicago. The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago is commissioned by the City of Chicago, and it is co-curated by Annie Heckman and Daniel Godston,

This exhibition features AREA Chicago's Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago project

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Fridays 6-9 PM (Every FRIDAY)

Project FOCUS Community Dinners
1618 W. 17th St. Chicago, Il 60608 Apt. 2R
 Community Dinners - an informal space to share food, ideas, conversations, and passions. A regular summer event bringing together artists, writers, social activists, young professionals and students. It's a potluck so bring food or come early and cook with us! Donations from the events will go to cover rent for the Project FOCUS office.
www.projectfocus.org
 RSVP with Daniel Yang - danielyang20@gmail.com

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 Temporary Services reminds you that we are hosting an event to wrap
up our residency at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Please join us.

Friday, June 5, 2009, 6:30 PM:

Open House, Open Talk, Open Potluck

in the Artist in Residence Studio,
1st floor, Kresge Centennial Hall
Northwestern University
1880 Campus Drive, Evanston

Kresge Centennial Hall is on the south end of Northwestern's campus, and is walking distance from the CTA Purple Line as well as the Metra Davis stop and PACE & CTA bus routes.

For a campus map and parking information, check out:
http://www.northwestern.edu/visiting/index.html

Bring food and/or non-alcoholic drinks to share for a Potluck dinner

This event is presented as part of a residency that Temporary Services has been participating in during the Winter and Spring Quarters of 2009 at Northwestern University.

Our residency is supported by The James B. Pick and Rosalyn M. Laudati Fund for Arts Computing, and is organized through the Department of Art Theory and Practice, the Department of Art History, and The Humanities Institute of Northwestern University.

We have been working on a new series of mobile exhibition units called SOCIAL MOBILITY. You'll see some of the stuff we're working on, as well as our older Binder Archives and Audio Relay projects. Please come -- we'd love to catch up with you!


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LSNA SIDEWALK SALE
June 5 & 6, 2009
10 am – 5 pm

Used 3 Speed Cruiser bicycles ($20 - $80 depending on condition),
baby stuff, clothes, accessories
shoes and more! 

To help raise money to meet our general operating expenses, LSNA is selling next-to-new bicycles, shoes, clothes, jewelry, baby clothes, even statuettes, for next-to-nothing! Come by and score some bargains!
 
We are located at 2840 N. Milwaukee Ave. just north of the Kimball, Diversey and Milwaukee intersection.

ph:  773-384-4370
www.lsna.net

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Artist Mud Stenciling Press Demonstration (Tamms Year Ten)
Tamms Year Ten has partnered with local artists for a day of innovative and ecological messaging about Tamms. Come see this demonstration of mud stenciling, and let us know if you want to join us..
WHEN: Saturday, June 6, 10:45 am (media event / mud stencil action)
WHERE: Orientation Center, 2129 N. Rockwell, Chicago IL
(Just north of the intersection of Rockwell and Milwaukee Ave. Adjacent to the Congress Theater.)

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THE STATE OF SURVEILLANCE IN THE SURVEILLANCE STATE:
 CHICAGO AND THE NATION

SATURDAY JUNE 6th, 2009 1-4 P.M.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
 750 N. LAKE SHORE DRIVE, 8TH FLOOR, STUDENT AREA

PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS
Mike German, National Staff Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
TOPIC: FUSION CENTERS (where surveillance data is pooled and shared among police, military, and corporate agencies)
Shahid Buttar, Bill Of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC), Northampton, Mass.
TOPIC: RACIAL PROFILING AND SURVEILLANCE
Sue Udry, Defending Dissent Foundation (DDF), (Washington, D.C
 and former staff director, CCDBR
TOPIC: RESPONDIING TO THE DANGERS OF ABUSIVE SURVEILLANCE
PANEL ON CHICAGO AREA SURVEILLANCE ISSUES
Pat Hill, African American Police League (AAPL), Black People Against Police Torture (BPAPT)
Kevin Vodak, Attorney, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Joy Robinson-Van Gilder, Activist to stop fingerprinting of school children
Students from Senn High School

 The program will conclude with an original Rap number composed and performed by Shahid Buttar.

 This event is co-sponsored by Northwestern Law School, Blum Legal Clinic and Roderick MacArthur Justice Center

 This forum is dedicated to the memory of Judith Krug (1940-2009), Director of American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom

 There is no admission charge, donations will be welcomed. Casual Dress.

 UPDATES will be posted on this page  WWW.CCDBR.ORG.
 For other information call 312-939-0675 (and leave message if necessary)
 
Related
    •     http://www.ccdbr.org

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 Dill Pickle Summer Fun Shindig
Sunday, June 7, 2009
10:00am-3:00pm
Logan Square Farmer's Market
(corner of Milwaukee and Logan)
$10 suggested donation

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June 7

Public URBANFORAGE walks
Sunday 3-5pm (rain or shine!)
$10-$20 donation/person (young kids are free!)
- meet at Gold Dome building entrance at Garfield Park
more info/registration: nettlesting@yahoo.com

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ARC in the PARK !
(In conjunction with Tamms Year Ten)
Sunday, June 7, 3-5pm
Humboldt Park
(Behind the Armory at Kedzie Ave. & North Ave. [map] )

Join the ARC09 Community and Tamms Year Ten for an afternoon in the sun to continue building connections from the summit, share ideas about moving forward, relax, enjoy each others company, and eat! We'll have the music & grills going so bring kites, food & family to enjoy the day amongst friends!

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  Community as Intellectual Space:
 Critical Pedagogy and Community Building 5th Annual Symposium
June 12-14, 2009
La Estancia 2753 W. Division Street
 Paseo Boricua, Chicago, Illinois, USA

 About the Symposium
 The theme of the Fifth Annual Community as Intellectual Space Symposium is Critical Pedagogy: Community Building as Curriculum. We will explore how a wide range of organizations utilize dialectical methods to engage with communities as the curriculum. Come explore with us how collective reflection through dialogue can lead to solidarity and transformation.

 Significance
 As professionals and institutions are engaging with communities to enhance the life chances and well-being of residents, we consider how strength-based approaches such as community-building and critical pedagogy can offer effective and sustainable change - not just locally, but among collaborators as well; and why this matters.

http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CIS2009/index.html

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SATURDAY, JUNE 13
  5- 8 pm Pizza Party at Chicago Freedom School to celebrate their 2nd anniversary
719 S. State St., 3rd Floor

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Happy May Everyone

We really hope you join AREA for a may day party this friday and the release of our 8th issue! Can you believe it - 4 years of AREA Chicago. Also, we really want to encourage everyone to check out the documentary video that was made about our last issue "68/08" by the amazing Laura Klein. Its up online here and features interviews and footage from our release party at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, who supported that issue with a residency for AREA. If you know any institutions who are willing to financially support AREA projects in the future, get in touch!

Enjoy your month and see you in June!

 

************Summary Below************

01) 05.01 Fri - May Day Rally and March @ Union Park (Leaves at 11:30 AM)!

02) 05.01 Fri - Haymarket Memorial @ Haymarket Site w/ Republic Windows Workers

03) 05.01 Fri - AREA Chicago #8 Release Party and May Day Party in Wicker Park 730pm

04) 05.02 Sat - ARC109 Movement Building Conference in Little Village and After Party

05) 05.02 Sat - Fundraiser for Saving Our Sons

06) 05.03 Sun - Tamms Year Ten Planning Meeting @ Backstory Cafe

07) 05.07/08 - "Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back" book readings with Diana Block

08) 05.08 Fri - Visible Cities Exhibition by Aaron Delahanty

09) 05.09 Sat - Labor Notes "Chicago Trouble Makers School" @ Malcolm X College

10) 05.09 Sat - Benefit for YCA, Tamms Year 10 and Logan Square Neighborhood Association @ Hideout

11) 05.10 Sun - Sunday Soup and Brunch with InCUBATE

12) 05.10 Sun - Urban Foraging Walk with Nance Klehm @ Douglas Park

13) 05.11 Mon - Peace Party @ Danny's Tavern for Iraq Book Mobile

14) 05.15 Fri - Benefit for Project Focus @ Q4

15) 05.16 Sat - Class on WEEDS as Foods with Nance Klehm - Register Now

16) 05.16 Sat - DePaul Conference on Palestine

17) 05.17 Sat - Fundraiser for Caucus Of Rank and file Educators (CORE) @ Funky Buddah Lounge

18) 05.20 Wed - How to Make a Sub-Irrigated Planter workshop in Wicker Park

19) 05.21 Thu - Ride of Silence for Fallen Bikers

20) 05.21 Thu - Presentation on "Urban Homesteading in Los Angeles" @ Experimental Station

21) 05.21 Thu - Workshop on Bio-Fuel and Microbrew @ Greenheart

22) 05.23 Sat - Greywater Workshop - Register Now

23) 05.28 Thu - Next Objectivist Poetry Workshop @ Mess Hall

24) 05.29 Fri - Threewalls Costume Party @ The International Museum of Surgical Science

25) 05.30 Sat - Teacher Appreciation Day @ Greenheart

26) 05.30 Sat - Class on WEEDS as Foods with Nance Klehm - Register Now

27) 05.30 Sat - How to Make a Sub-Irrigated Planter

28) 05.30 Sat - Afrobeat Project and Mucca Pazza Play Benefit for Latino Union @ Hideout

 

************Details Below************

 

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Call to Rally and March

WITHOUT LEGALIZATION THERE CAN BE NO EQUAL LABOR RIGHTS!

ATTENTION ALL WORKERS AND STUDENTS!

10am: Rally in Union Park (Ashland and Washington)

11:30am: March to Federal Plaza*

In commemoration of the International Day of the Working Class, this May 1st, march for jobs and the right to unionize for all workers, and the legalization of more than 12 million undocumented immigrant workers in the U.S.

Join us to stand up against the attempts to make immigrants and working families pay for the economic crisis and war. We demand greater and equal access to education, healthcare, affordable housing and jobs for all! We demand an end to raids and deportations!

The March 10th Committee welcomes everybody to march behind our banner: “Without Legalization There Can Be No Equal Labor Rights”. In the spirit of making our march lively and energizing we have gathered a few props that we invite you to look for at Union Park. We’ll have giant puppets from The Backbone Campaign, Korean Drummers from KRCC, a sound truck that will lead the contingent and 1,500 signs with the same slogan as our banner.

How To Donate: To donate for the May Day events, write checks payable to Comite 10 de Marzo, and contact Victor Cortez at http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mizisa@aol.com.

For more info about the march and rally call 312-738-6100.

For a flyer click below...

http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/Mayday09FlyerEnglish.pdf

* Due to talks with the City of Chicago we had to start the march earlier; we must leave promptly at 11:30 am.

 

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Friday, May 1, 4:00PM

Haymarket Monument

Randolph and Des Plaines, Chicago

Labor unions and workers will gather to celebrate the annual reclaiming of May Day at Haymarket Square. This year’s plaque will be dedicated by the AFL-CIO. A national AFL-CIO representative will speak about labor’s fight to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. The President of United Electrical Workers Local 1110 will talk about the local factory occupation of Republic Windows and how they inspired workers all over the world to stand up and save jobs.

The Haymarket Monument is a symbol of International Labor Solidarity and the right of all working people to have a voice in their job, their economy and their government.

Co-sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society

and the Chicago Federation of Labor

 

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AREA Chicago #8 "Everybody's Got Money Issues"

A local reader about money and its relationship to our work and lives

Release Party on Friday May 1st, 2009

7:30pm-11:30pm

@ St Paul¹s Cultural Center*

2215 W North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647 (773.278.7677)

Hosted by NNWAC

*This space is not wheelchair accessible

$5 Donation requested at the door

7:30-9:30pm - DJs Dan & Jay, Readings from Neighborhood Writing Alliance's contributions to AREA #8 and a temporary bazaar of low-cost, fair-trade and fun-filled items (featuring Resistance Coffee, Maya Essence, Mark Shipley, AREA Chicago, JustSeeds, TWINE NFP, and more)

9:30-11:30pm DJs Dan & Jay + Special May Day Premier of the new Reading band (http://readingband.wordpress.com)

Refreshments Available/BYOB Not allowed

In this issue of AREA contributions by/about:

Mark Messing,  Elanor Laskiw, Meghan Strell, Mucca Pazza, Neighborhood Writing Alliance authors, Bert Stabler, Timothy Sarrantonio, B. Loewe, Latino Union, Kari Lydersen, the occupation of Republic Windows, UE, Rachel Wallis, Congress Hotel Strike, Unite HERE, Lauren Cumbia, Labor History, Chicago Political Workshop, Mark Shipley, Erotic Massage, 183 definitions of capitalism, Rodrigo Paredes,Temporary Services, Bail-out Protests, CORE, Dave Marques, Half Letter Press, InCUBATE, Megan Wells, Kammy Lee, Douglas Ward, Kristen Cox, Amber Ginsburg and Lia Rousset, Daniel Tucker, NFP vs For Profit, Florence Johnson ,Sara Black, Robin Hewlett, Backstory Cafe, Elise Zelechowski, Pilsen Alliance, Rebuilding Exchange, Delta Institute, David Wolf, the punk scene and the financial crisis, Lee Ann Norman, Insite Arts, Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, Ajitha Reddy, Activist Nuns, Raechel Tiffe, Food Not Bombs, Sergio Zetina, Mark Saulys, Tamara Smith, Dale Asis, Rebecca Zorach, Southwest Youth Collaborative , San Lucas Workers Center, ARISE Chicago, in memory of Franklin Rosemont, protesting the Milton Friedman Institute, ourmfi.org, Crossroads Fund,  Harishi Patel, Jill Doub, the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Patrick Dunn, Free Street Theater, Subprime Mortages, Damon Rich, history of red-lining in Chicago, NTIC, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Neily Jennings, Solidarity Economies, Ashley Weger, Wade Tillett, Neil Brideau, Larry Shure, Marisa Holmes, Town Hall Talks, Creative Time, Nato Thompson, Ed and Rachael Marszewski, Amanda Guiterrez, Mike Bancroft, Nance Klehm, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Coya Paz, Shannon Stratton, Edra Soto, Deborah Stratman, Dan Peterman, Marianne Fairbanks, Nicole Garneau, Amy Partridge, Sara Black, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa, Salome Chasnoff, Amanda Du, Boone Public School Funding, Sheila O'Donnell, Jeanne Kracher, Marshall Sahlins, Toussaint Losier, Bruce Lincoln, Kara Elliott-Ortega, Lauren Berlant , Yali Amit and more.

areachicago@gmail.com | http://areachicago.org

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Re-Imagining Change: A Movement Summit

    Saturday, May 2

Gather with Activists to Analyze the Political Moment and Shape a Progressive Agenda!

Our goal is build relationships, sharpen our analysis, and promote collaborations and connections across the broad swath of social justice issues and organizations.

Save the date! Please attend and participate in a large gathering of activists in Chicago on the day after the historic May Day march for worker rights. On Saturday May 2, ARC ’09 is convening a "Movement Summit” in Chicago at the Little Village Lawndale High School for Social Justice. ARC ’09 (A Movement Re-Imagining Change) was launched last fall by a group of activists and educators committed to making a stronger and more connected social justice movement. We wrote a ten point “people’s platform” to promote a progressive analysis during the presidential campaign (see People's Platform) and have been convening a series of dialogues and workshops bringing together activists across a range of issues and constituencies. www.ARC109.org

10am - 5:30pm Program

9:30am Doors open for on-site registration.

Little Village Lawndale High School for Social Justice

3120 S. Kostner, Chicago, IL

$10-50 Donation requested, sliding scale, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Register Now by clicking here: Online Registration

Please join activists from Chicago and across the country as we grapple with ways to address the many crises we face, and most importantly, to promote solutions. To view more details about this Summit, the pre-dinners, afterset, or May 2nd weekend happenings, please visit:

If you have questions or would like to get involved with the summit, please contact info@arc109.org. www.ARC109.org

 

WHERE: Tonik, 7247 W. Roosevelt (2 blocks west of Harlem)

WHEN: Saturday, May 2, 2009

TIME: 4:00-7:00 p.m.

http://yearten.org/

 

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"Tamms Year Ten" Organizing Meeting. We will be working on canvassing, outreach, writing letters to prisoners and preparing future projects/events for the campaign.

WHERE: Backstory Cafe, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave. (inside the Experimental Station)

WHEN: Sunday, May 3, 2009

TIME: 2:00-5:00 p.m.

http://yearten.org/

 

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ARM THE SPIRIT** BOOK EVENTS - CHICAGO

 

THURSDAY, MAY 7, 7:30 PM

WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST - 5233 N. CLARK ST.

 

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 6:30 PM

EL QUIXOTE BOOK STORE - 2546 W. DIVISION ST.

READING, DISCUSSION, SIGNING

For more information and other reading event dates see www.armthespirit.com

ARM THE SPIRIT: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back

NOW AVAILABLE FROM AK PRESS

To order go to www.akpress.org

 

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Visible Cities Gallery Opening - May 8th

Finestra Art Space is pleased to present Visible City by Chicago-based artist Aaron Delehanty, May 1 through May 31, 2009. There will be an opening reception Friday May 8, 5:00 – 9:00 pm.  Curated by Caro d'Offay, this is Aaron's first solo exhibition in Chicago, it is also the premier of Visible City, an ongoing project by the artist that incorporates a range of paintings, experimental mapmaking, sound pieces, a website, artist-books and sculptures that build a mythos of an unknown urban place.  Visible City acts as a mirror to the edge of current and contemporary ideas of city building and urban planning, but is oddly mythic and contradictory.  

The title for the exhibit comes from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, in which the main character describes Venice in 55 different ways in a futile attempt to dictate a fulfilling description of a city.  Calvino's book only scratches the surface of what an existing city can inspire and affect in the imagination.  Aaron Delehanty's Visible City is an interdisciplinary attempt to describe a place that does not exist but could be believed to exist. His is a city where the workings of the earth and the workings of man are symbiotic, where social order and the order of nature are complimentary.  The place his work describes is not necessarily a city of the future, however is an image of an urban center that is spurred from the contemporary wish for a smarter form of living.  It is as if man worked from a clean slate and built a city overnight without the conditions of some of our nastier habits.

Finestra Art Space is located in the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 516 in Chicago, immediately off the human operated elevator.

 

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Saturday, May 9

9 am to 4:30 pm

2009 Chicago Troublemakers School: Learn ways to fight back during the

tough times

Malcolm X College

1900 W. Van Buren

Workshop themes include:

   * Bargaining in tough times

   * Assertive grievance handling

   * Public sector fight backs

   * Defending and organizing immigrant workers

   * Changing your union from within

   * Innovative organizing strategies

Go to www.labornotes.org/chicago to register online, or call 313-842-6262.

 

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3-WAY BIG BENEFIT 2009

an eclectic musical showcase celebrating social change in Chicago

Saturday, May 9 at the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia

  4 pm  - 1 am,  $12 cover.

emceed by Avery R. Young ("true soul poet")

• Pillars & Tongues (“improvised psych-folk gospel-blues”) 4 pm

• Allá (“latin psych pop”) 5 pm

• Afri Caribe (“bomba y plena”) 6 pm

• Roommate ("moody psych-tinged avant-pop") 7 pm

• Judson Claiborne (“twangy, soulful, countrified folk-pop”) 8 pm

• Spires That In The Sunset Rise (“avant-rock/psych-folk”)  9 pm

• Baby Alright (“all-star Chicago funk”) 10 pm

• Followed by Hideout Dance Party with DJ Itch13! resident DJ For Young Chicago Authors' Wordplay

BENEFITTING:

YOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS www.youngchicagoauthors.org

LOGAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION http://www.lsna.net

TAMMS YEAR TEN COALITION http://yearten.org

 

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May 10

12pm-2pm

Sunday Soup and Brunch with InCUBATE artist-in-residence from Canada - Michael Coolidge

2129 N Rockwell

http://www.incubate-chicago.org/sundaysoup

 

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MAY 10

PUBLIC URBANFORAGE walk

3-5pm (rain or shine!)

meet at Douglas Park Field House entrance

$10-$20 donation/person (young kids are free!)

nettlesting@yahoo.com

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May 11 9pm

Peace Party Fundraiser for Iraq Book Mobile

@ Dannys Tavern

1951 W Dickens Ave Chicago, IL 60614 - (773) 670-9495

 

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Come Raise Your FOCUS at Quennect 4 on Friday, May 15th for a Project FOCUS multi-media art exhibition & night of Reggae, Hip Hop, African Dance, Live Art & Spoken Word! 

The purpose of this event is to celebrate community through music, arts, and dance and to support development work in Lyantonde, Uganda. Visit our website to hear a short audio clip on development at Prince Primary School.

Check the flyer & the links below for more deets! If you cannot attend the event, but would like to invest in Project FOCUS by purchasing a ticket anyways, please visit our online store by Clicking Here. You can also purchase your tickets prior to the event here.

Featuring:

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MAY 16

SPRING & SUMMER TONICS

WEEDS as Foods. WEEDS as Medicine in-depth foraging series

9am – 1pm

2446 south sawyer avenue

$65 (register by May 13 nettlesting@yahoo.com)

This hands-on workshop will include making and tasting hot and cold infusions, roasted root coffees, herbal energetics, drying and storing herbs. Price includes a light meal, tastings and handouts. 

‘WEEDS as Foods. WEEDS as Medicine.’

A Series of in-depth URBANFORAGE classes 

In this series we will meet and learn from 25+ common weeds as well as many local trees and wild perennials. We will cover techniques that include: elixirs, infusions, decoctions, energetics, pickling, pestos, pates, dips, spreads, salves, tinctures, infused oils, flower essences, drying, vinegars and wine. 

PRICING:

$65/single class

$60/class if 3 or more taken

$275 for entire series ($55/class) 

class price includes: light meal, tastings and handouts 

- Registration is required before each class without exception.

- Classes are intentionally kept small to facilitate learning. Maximum/class=10 participants.

- All classes held at 2446 South Sawyer Avenue – Little Village, Chicago.

 

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Sat., May 16th, 4pm

The Struggle for Palestine: What does the Future Hold? with Gilbert Achcar & Moshé Machover.

DePaul University, Schmitt Academic Building (SAC) Rm 161 2320 N. Kenmore

• Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon and is currently Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He is author of Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror, The Clash of Barbarisms and Perilous Power with Noam Chomsky. He is also a frequent contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique.

• Moshé Machover was born in Tel-Aviv, studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and currently teaches in the Philosophy Department at King's College London. As a long-time campaigner against Zionism, he coauthored the classic essay, "The Class Character of Israel" with Akiva Orr and cofounded the radical left Matzpen (Israeli Socialist Organization) group in 1962.

Sponsors: DePaul Universi! ty International Studies Program, International Socialist Organization, Solidarity. Co-Sponsors: Chicago Jewish Voices for Peace, Chicago Socialist Party, Open University of the Left, Students for Justice in Palestine–DePaul

Contact chicago_socialists@yahoo.com or chicago@solidarity-us.org for more information.

 

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May 16th, 2009
 5:30 PM

 Fundraiser for the Caucus Of Rank and file Educators (CORE)- a member driven caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union
 A night of comedy with Hannibal Burress and Alex Orozco

 Funky Buddha Lounge - 728 w. Grand

  $25 at the door/$20 in advance

 Contact:
Coreteachers@gmail.com

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MAY 20

How to Make a Sub-Irrigated Planter (SIP) Heidi Hough, Bruce Fields & Erik Knutzen

6-8pm $50

Wicker Park close to Blue Line

Register with: nettlesting@yahoo.com 

Join Chicago’s Green Roof Growers and LA’s Homegrown Evolution for a fun class on how to make a sub-irrigated planter (SIP) out of two buckets. As a bonus, meet Homegrown Evolution blogger and author Erik Knutzen, who will be co-teaching the class and signing copies of his book The Urban Homestead. 

Bring some gloves and learn how to make and plant your own SIP. Leave with everything you need for a summer of fresh heirloom tomatoes–all you add is about 6 hours of good sun per day in your yard, balcony, or roof and enough water to keep the reservoir full. No weeding, no mulching, no worries. 

You’ll go home with:

–Plant-ready two-bucket sub-irrigated planter (SIP).

–Enough potting mix, organic fertilizer, and powdered lime to plant your tomato.

–An organic heirloom tomato plant, from the Green Roof Growers seed-starting group

–Comprehensive understanding of how SIPs work and how to plant yours once you get home. 

View one, do one, teach one! 

Heidi Hough, writer and editor, is a lifelong in-the-ground organic gardener who one year found her growing area in full shade. Sub-irrigated planters (SIPs) made it possible for her to continue growing extraordinary amounts of fresh organic produce on her roof. She’s committed to sharing the knowledge of how to grow your own food anywhere you have sun–back porch, balcony, roof–or even the vacant lot next door. 

Erik Knutzen, along with his wife Kelly Coyne is the co-author of The Urban Homestead, a hands-on guide that covers everything from growing food, raising chickens to navigating city streets on a bicycle. Erik writes about urban sustainability issues for magazines and blogs at www.homegrownevolution.com

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May 20

Ride of Silence

http://www.rideofsilence.org/chicago/

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MAY 21

HOMESTEADING 101 with Erik Knutzen

7-9pm $7-10 (sliding scale)

Experimental Station 6100 South Blackstone, Chicago

Register with: nettlesting@yahoo.com 

Erik will lead an informal presentation on Urban Homesteading in Los Angeles – focusing on his and his wife’s homegrown systems of adventurous experimentation of chickens, growing, greywater, brewing and more - some successful, some not so much! 

Copies of his book The Urban Homestead will be for sale. 

Erik Knutzen, along with his wife Kelly Coyne is the co-author of The Urban Homestead, a hands-on guide that covers everything from growing food, raising chickens to navigating city streets on a bicycle. Erik writes about urban sustainability issues for magazines and blogs at www.homegrownevolution.com

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Bio-Fuel and Microbrew!

 

Learn how to convert that old junker of a car into a bio-diesel-running green machine! Chicago Biofuels will lead this fun workshop at Greenheart introducing biodiesel, ethanol, waste vegetable oil (WVO), and other petroleum substitutes for your car. And what a better way to wash it all down then with a complementary micro-brew beer tasting by Metropolitan Brewing, a local Chicago brewery.

 

When: Thursday, May 21st; 6-7pm

Where: Greenheart Shop; 746 N. LaSalle

$5 suggested donation. Space is limited RSVP to info@greenheartshop.org or 312-264-1625

 

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MAY 23

Greywater is Liquid Gold! WATER - with Sayre Vickers

2-5pm

$60 includes materials and a light and wholesome snack.

2446 South Sawyer Avenue

Register by email: sayre@sevensapphires.net  

In this workshop, we will learn to harvest and use greywater through simple, reversible plumbing changes and learn techniques to decrease potable water use. Our projects will include ‘unplumbing’ a sink, putting a ‘hippo’ in a flush toilet, and identifying simple ways to streamline water use. You’ll go home with hands-on experience and handouts covering what we did, and the ultimate urban greywater tool - a five gallon bucket. 

Sayre Vickers is a Chicago-based artist, permaculturist, bicyclist, activist, and witch. His varied projects are unified by a mindful honoring of connection and relationship to the Earth, to People, to Place, to Spirit. He finds the city to be a very magical place and considers urban permaculture/sustainability to be a part of his spiritual practice. He’s been exploring water conservation and greywater in an urban setting for the last few years and considers the 5-gallon bucket to be mightier than the sword, at least in relationship to water.

 

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

6:30p-9:00p

Next Objectivist

Poetry Workshop

Mess Hall

6932 North Glenwood Avenue

Chicago, IL 60626

http://www.messhall.org/

 

SEMINAR ONE: The Drama of Anti/Absorption

The Next Objectivist Workshop is the world’s only literary workshop entirely dedicated to the study and practice of objectivist poetry. We are a free, autonomous academy pursuing the techniques of writing poetry from outside the self. Our program of study is largely organized by the participants, so come join us!

Workshops are held on 2nd and 4th Thursdays, beginning at 6:30. Our doors are open to anyone interested in the collective practice of poetry reading, discussing and writing who wishes to join us in our exploration of objectivist techniques.

On any given night our workshop may comprise a mixture of book discussions, group writing exercises, readings and lectures by visiting writers, readings by ourselves, and the production of conferences, journals, manifestos and joyful celebrations.

Broadly conceived, objectivist poetry is verse that organizes itself outside of the subject. Poems that reside in the world as objects, poems written in other voices and through other texts, poems labored over by groups, poems generated by chance or pre-determined procedures, poems that recognize their emplacement within histories larger than those of the “I” held in isolation by traditional lyricism, poems that demand political justice and aesthetic autonomy . . . —the tradition of objectivist technique is a broad and powerful outside to the normative practices of emotional resume writing that dominate the modern poetry industry.

Our first Seminar will focus on the “Drama of Anti/Absorption,” and begin with a group reading and discussion of Charles Bernstein’s long poem, “Artifice of Absorption.” The fields of poetic practice we have on our agenda currently includes names like William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein, the New York Objectivists, Jackson Mac Low and David Antin and Amiri Baraka, the Black Mountain poets and San Francisco Renaissance poets, C. A. Conrad and Caroline Rogers, the “Language” poets and Surrealists, Oulipo and Gnoetry, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Fearing and Kenneth Goldsmith . . . Join us and contribute to our curriculum of study.

 

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Friday, May 29th, You Oughta be in Fangs, written & directed by Death by Design
Threewalls Fundraiser @ International Museum of Surgical Science
Tickets @ http://www.three-walls.org/about/support/

Decadent 1920s party-goers in search of hot-jazz and free-flowing booze, head to a secret speakeasy run by the conjoined Whisper Sisters. Assisted by a team of waxen virgins and undead goons, the Sisters entice their guests with vampish performers, seductive strains and intoxicating elixirs. But watch your step – lest you should shimmy straight into the arms of their Vampire suitors, who slip incognito through the euphoric crowd, adding to their brood.

Join us for our first artist-directed fundraiser, You Oughta Be in Fangs by Death by Design. Featuring hot-jazz by D.J. Coffin Banger, a medicine show by Sanjula Vamana, vampire bites by The Bleeding Heart Bakery, open casket portraits, a secret potion hunt, prohibition era coffin varnish (ie. booze) and much much more.

A one-of-a-kind event, You Oughta Be in Fangs is a prohibition era meets the undead, housed in Chicago’s spectacular The International Museum of Surgical Science. Unlike any event threewalls has ever held, You Oughta Be in Fangs is our first spring fundraiser, a new annual artist designed and directed ‘experience’ where guests become ‘part of the art’.

Death by Design, Co., is a special effects and video-based company established by artists Michelle Maynard and Teena McClelland in May 2005. The Death by Design team constructs film sets and immersive environments at select locations where clients are invited to enter the set and engage in an in-depth conversation with life through their own "Hollywood" death.  Visitors can either watch the action unfold or be part of the story-line, infiltrating the artwork as live (and dead) bodies. You Oughta Be In Fangs is their first ‘party’ environment/installation, where party-goers, immersed in the set, become characters in a speak-easy riddled with the undead.

Take a bite of the visual arts and help support threewalls support artists.

Costumes encouraged!  

7:30-8:30: VIP Preview with appetizers, live entertainment, and open bar.

8:30-11:30: General Admission with dessert, and open bar.

Be reborn this spring as the eternally undead!

 

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Teacher Appreciation Day at Greenheart!

 

The school year's almost over... Students and parents, stop by during the day to pick up end of the school year sustainable gifts for your teachers! Fair Trade makes your gift that much more meaningful. Teachers, come by and treat yourself- all teachers will receive a 20% discount on products in the store for the day as well as free reiki treatments from 3-5pm.

 

When: Saturday, May 30th; 11-6pm

Where: Greenheart Shop; 746 N. LaSalle

Contact Greenheart for more info-info@greenheartshop.org or 312-264-1625 or visit our website at www.greenheartshop.org

 

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MAY 30

WEEDS AS FOODS

‘WEEDS as Foods. WEEDS as Medicine’ in-depth foraging series

2446 South Sawyer Avenue

$65 (register by May 27 nettlesting@yahoo.com)

This hands-on workshop will cover making and tasting pickles, pates, dips, spreads and sprinkles. Price includes a light meal, tastings and handouts. (SEE DETAILS OF SERIES FOR MAY 16^th) 
 

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May 30

How to Make a Sub-Irrigated Planter (SIP) with Heidi Hough & Bruce Fields

1-3pm $50

Wicker Park close to Blue Line

Register with: nettlesting@yahoo.com

(SEE LISTING FOR MAY 20^th!)

 

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Date: Saturday  9 p.m. May 30 (may start at 6 p.m. with kid-friendly musical potluck)    

Event Title/Host:  Benefit for the Latino Union Hosted by the Latino Union and DentalWork Productions

Location: the Hideout

Details/Contact     Chicago Afrobeat Project, Mucca Pazza, DJ Phunk One in the Event of the Spring Season!  

contact  events@latinounion.org or call 312.491.9044

Welcome to Spring
Here is your April events line up. Mark your calendars for the May 1st release of AREA Chicago's eighth issue "Everbody's Got  Money Issues." If you are interested in placing a $10-$20-$40 classified ad in AREA Chicago #8 - the deadline for your submissions is April 1st. Please email areachicago@gmail.com or fill out this form today!

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01) 04.01 Wed - Reflections on Peace and Justice with Dr. Dahlia Wasfi
02) 04.01 Wed - Screening of "The Arab-Israeli Cookbook"
03) 04.02 Thu - Report Back from Solidarity Economy Conference
04) 04.02 Thu - Neighborhood Writing Alliance workshop on "The Environment in the City"
05) 04.02 Thu - Rally to Protest Olympic Bid
06) 04.03 Fri - "Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago" Festival @ Mess Hall
07) 04.04 Sat - Social Justice Carer Fair @ Roosevelt
08) 04.07 Tue - Workshop on Reproductive Rights
09) 04.07 Tue - Teach in on Torture Abroad and in Illinois @ UIC
10) 04.07 Tue - Poet Elizabeth Alexander Lectures @ UIC
11) 04.09 Thu - African Americans for Peace and Justice in Israel and Palestine Open Forum
12) 04.12 Sat - Sunday Soup and Brunch
13) 04.13 Sun - Forum about the State and the Law and Wrongful Convictions
14) 04.15 Tue - Framing Sex Education Discussion and "Speed Dating"
15) 04.17 Thu - National Public Housing Museum Audio/Slide Show Exhibit
16) 04.20 Sun - Gringo Book Release
17) 04.23-May 2 - Version 09 Festival
18) 04.24-26 - Finding Our Roots Conference on the theme of Space @ Roosevelt
19) 04.25 Sat - Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Pipeline Forum
20) 04.25 - Bellydancing to Benefit Women of Juarez Fundraiser
21) 04.25 - DEADLINE for Submissions to Insight Arts exhibit on Intergenerational
22) 04.25 Sat - Earthday event @ new Fair Trade/Eco Store
23) 04.26 - Graywater Systems Design Workshop - Reserve a Space
24) 04.28 - Release Party for new Journal of Ordinary Thought
25) May 1st - Rally and Early Warning for next AREA Chicago #8 Release Party
26) May 2 - ARC109 Conference

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April 1 from 5pm-6pm

Event Title/Host Reflections on Peace and Justice with Dr. Dahlia Wasfi Sponsored by The Pubic Square, Chicago DCA Theater and Theatre Mir.

Location Chicago Cultural Center, GAR Rotunda 2nd Floor, 77 East  Randolph Street

Details/Contact This program is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made online, by email at events@prairie.org, or by calling 312.422.5580.

http://www.prairie.org/events/21448/reflections-peace-and-justice-dr-dahlia-wasfi

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April 1 at 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm)

Event Title/Host Civic Cinema: Encounter Point Film Screening and Discussion. The screening and discussions are part of the special events series for "The Arab-Israeli Cookbook," presented by Theatre Mir in association with Chicago DCA Theater, March 5 - April 5, at Chicago DCA Storefront Theater. In "The Arab-Israeli Cookbook," Arab and Israeli voices come together in the stories of ordinary people living in a rich yet divided world in Israel and the West Bank.  The Encounter Point screening and panel discussion is sponsored by Chicago DCA Theater, Theatre Mir, and The Public Square.
Location Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater 77  East Randolph Street

Details/Contact This program is free and open to the public. For more information, call 312.422.5580.

 http://www.prairie.org/events/21446/encounter-point-film-screening-and-discussion

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Report Back from the Solidarity Economy Conference
Thurs. April 2nd 7pm
@ The Orientation Center 2129 N. Rockwell (behind the Congress Theater)

AREA Chicago invites you to join Kristen Cox (Fire This Time Fund and the Working Group on Extreme Inequality), Neily Jennings (North American Students of Cooperation), and Rachel Wallis (Other Worlds) as they report back from a recent gathering of hundreds of individuals from around the world who are engaged in envisioning new, more just ways of constructing our economy. Learn more about just what the "Solidarity Economy" is, hear about concrete Solidarity Economy projects that are flourishing in thousands of communities, and discover why Chicago should be excited about these new economic initiatives.

This event is party of AREA's irregular Infrastructure lecture series and coincides with the preparation for the next issue of our publication: AREA #8 Everybody's Got Money Issues to be released on May 1st.

For more information contact Rachel.a.wallis@gmail.com

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 Thursday, April 2, 6-8pm
 NWA Special Workshop: The Environment in the City
 DePaul Center (1 E Jackson Blvd, 11th floor, Room 11-013)
 You're invited to a workshop exploring what the environment means in an urban setting, and how we can work together towards greener communities. Co-facilitated by the Neighborhood Writing Alliance, the Field Museum and the University of Chicago's Civic Knowledge Project, the workshop will include film clips and surprise media. FREE and open to the public. Please RSVP to rsoni@jot.org or 773.684.2742. Complimentary bus passes are available to NWA writers.

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RALLY / PROTEST / MARCH
SHUT DOWN THE OLYMPIC BID: Say 'NO' to the Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid!

Thursday, April 2, 2009 = 5pm, Federal Plaza (50 W. Adams)
March at 6pm (time approximate)
 
 The International Olympic Committee will be in town from April 2-8th to evaluate Chicago's potential as a Host City for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Let them know that Chicago 2016 does not speak for the people of Chicago. Let them know that Chicagoans have other priorities. Let them hear your voice.
RALLY. SPEAK OUT. PROTEST. SHUT DOWN THE OLYMPIC BID!
We need Better Hospitals, Housing, Schools, and Trains -- Not Olympic Games. They Play and We Pay. NO GAMES!
 
For more information - email nogameschicago@gmail.com
or call 312-235-2873 ; On the web: nogameschicago.com   Join us on Facebook

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Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago
Mess Hall, 6932 North Glenwood Ave., Chicago, IL 60626
April 4 - April 26 | Tues-Friday 1PM-5PM | Sat-Sun 12-6
http://dillpickleclub.wordpress.com/

The first exhibition focusing on hobohemian culture,  Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia presents photocopies from Chicago's ill-forgotten radical nightclub, The Dill Pickle Club, hobo gatherings, a documentary on "Clap Doctor" Ben Reitman and 1910s-20s ephemera, providing a timely look at the origin of American counterculture and working class art leading up to the Great Depression. Material from the exhibition draws heavily from the archives of the Newberry Library, whose collections chronicle Chicago's legendary Dill Pickle Club (1914-1932). More details at http://dillpickleclub.wordpress.com/
Admission is free and open to everyone.

Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: EVENTS SERIES AT MESS HALL
All events to take place at Mess Hall and are free. B.Y.O.B.

Exhibition Opening
Saturday, April 4, 7PM
Join us for the opening, a screening of the short The More Things Stay the Same, an old-time banjo romp with Damien Fosse and a rousing sing-a-long of I.W.W. and hobo songs.

Who is Bozo Texino? Film Screening
Friday, April 10, 8PM
A chronicle of the search for the source of a ubiquitous and mythic rail graffiti - a simple sketch of a character with an infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, "Bozo Texino" - a drawing seen on railcars for over 80 years. Taking inspiration from the beats, the film functions as both sub-cultural documentary and stylized fable on wanderlust and outsider identity. Screens w/ Ha Ha Ha America, an audaciously provocative skewering of assumptions about China vs. US global supremacy and pride.

Dil Pickle Club
Saturday, April 11, 8PM
Step high, stoop low and leave your dignity outside for a night of poetry, stories, music, art, pornography and conversation. Featuring artist, teacher and performer Theaster Gates; Paul Durica (founder of Pocket Guide to Hell Tours) on Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and The Book of the Damned; and Searah Deysach (owner of the Early2Bed sex shop) offers sex tips and screens independent lesbian pornography, with commentary, for the benefit of sexual well-being. Co-sponsored by Stop Smiling Magazine.

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GETTING PAID TO CAUSE TROUBLE: CAREERS IN ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

11am to 1 pm Saturday, April 4, at Roosevelt's Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan.  A free lunch is included.

Come meet organizers from local community organizations and unions "walking the walk" and learn about careers in grassroots organizing!

Free and open to the public.   

Please r.s.v.p. to Carrie Breitbach at cbreitba@csu.edu

 

Organizers from  Illinois AFSCME, UNITE HERE!,  UFCW, Communities for an Equitable Olympics (CEO), Center for Community Change and other unions and community groups will be here to talk about jobs and internships available NOW!

 

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Tuesday, April 7, 12-1:30pm
 NWA Special Workshop: RePROductive Choice?
 Jane Addams Hull-House Dining Hall (800 S Halsted)

What does reproductive choice really mean? How is it discussed by the media and in public? Come eat delicious soup and talk about the legality, accessibility, and framing of reproductive rights. This program is a collaboration between the Neighborhood Writing Alliance and Re-Thinking Soup at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. FREE, including soup, and open to the public. Please RSVP to rsoni@jot.org or 773.684.2742.

 

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TORTURE: FROM THE MIDWEST TO THE MIDEAST
A TEACH IN/DISCUSSION OF THE PARALLELS
AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT

Tamms Supermax Prison | Police Torture | Guantanamo Bay

TUESDAY, APRIL 7TH
UIC: 750 S. HALSTED
BURNHAM HALL
Room 305 6:30-9:00pm

Featuring:
*Stephen Eisenman of Tamms Year Ten - Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. He is the author of "The Abu Ghraib Effect," (London and Chicago, 2007), and active with Tamms Year Ten, a group committed to ending long-term solitary confinement in Illinois prisons.

*A Live Call-in from a prisoner and victim of police torture in Chicago

*Darrel Cannon - Former Tamms Prisoner and victim of police torture in Chicago. Cannon and more than 100 suspects were tortured at the hands of Jon Burge and his subordinates. Burge is now facing federal charges.

*Marc Falkoff is law professor at Northern Illinois University, where he teaches courses in criminal law and criminal procedure. Since 2004, he has represented 17 Yemeni prisoners being held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay. He is the compiler and editor of Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak, a best-selling anthology of prisoner poetry.

Brought to you by:
Campaign to End the Death Penalty,
Tamms Year 10,
UIC Socialist Club

 

**There is still time to sign the petition www.juliehamos.org/tamms

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April 7, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Event Title/Host A Lecture with Elizabeth Alexander Co-sponsored by Gender and Women Studies at UIC and The Public Square

Location University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Forum  725 West Roosevelt Road
Details/Contact This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited, please RSVP to gwsinfo@uic.edu. For more information, call 312.413.7629.

http://www.prairie.org/events/21469/lecture-elizabeth-alexander

 

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April 9th
New Chicago-based "African Americans for Peace and Justice in Israel and Palestine" ask you to support a petition protesting the United States' refusal to officially participate in the World Conference Against Racism (Durban II) gathering in Geneva at the end of April. They say: "U.S. MUST PARTICIPATE IN DURBAN II CONFERENCE."

Attend a forum on the topic at Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn, April 9 at 6:00 p.m. with keynote by Civil and human rights lawyer, Stan Willis, who attended the Durban I conference in 2001.

 

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Sunday April 12th

Sunday Soup and Brunch 12pm @ 2129 N Rockwell - Organized by InCUBATE (incubate-chicago.org)

http://www.incubate-chicago.org/sundaysoup

 

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  4 - 6 pm - Monday,  April 13th

The State and the Law
 A Discussion on the Prosecution of Crime With Richard Devine, Locke Bowman and Dean David Yellen

 Where:
 Ceremonial Courtroom - 10th Floor - 25 E. Pearson. Chicago, IL 60611
 Loyola University Chicago School of Law

What causes wrongful convictions?  How widespread is the problem?  Are prosecutors too close to the police?  What is the role of scientific
 evidence?  Please join the Loyola National Lawyers Guild for a candid discussion on criminal prosecution with Richard A. Devine, Locke Bowman and Loyola's own Dean David Yellen.  This discussion will be informative and wide-ranging, addressing some of the most important questions involving the state's decision to take away a person's freedom.

 This event is free and open to the public! For more information, contact NationalLawyersGuild@luc.edu

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 Wednesday, April 15, 6-8pm
 NWA Special Workshop: Who Framed Sex Ed?
 Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Dining Hall (800 S Halsted)
 Come talk about sex: reproductive choice, abstinence-only education, the language that's used, the way it's framed in schools and media, and whatever else is on your mind. The informed, informal discussion will include film clips, response boards, and speed-dating style conversation. It's a collaboration between the Neighborhood Writing Alliance and Re-Thinking Soup at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. FREE and open to the public. Please RSVP to rsoni@jot.org or 773.684.2742

 

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April 17, 2009
 Event Title/Host: National Public Housing Museum Audio/Slide Show Exhibit
 Location: Jane Addams Homes at 1322 W. Taylor
 Details: At the moment, the National Public Housing Museum is the vacant three-story building that was once the Jane Addams
 Homes at 1322 W. Taylor. The exhibit will comprise of four-minute audio slide shows about life in the Chicago Housing Authority. Photographs will be projected on the walls of vacant apartment. Contributing photography by David Shalliol, Jason Reblando, and Bridget Montgomery.
 Contact: Jennifer Mau, jmau@publichousingmuseum.org

 

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April 20, 6:00pm

Event Title/Host Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin  America Book Party and Conversation with Chesa Boudin
Location  Jane Addams  Hull-House Museum, 800 South Halsted Street
Details/Contact This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 312.413.5353.

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April 23-May 2nd Version>09 Festival

throughout the city

details here http://versionfest.org/

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April 24-26 Finding Our Roots - Anarchist Conference about SPACE @ Roosevelt University

Details here http://mayfirst.wordpress.com/

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Date: Saturday, April 25, 5 PM - 7 PM
 Event Title/Host: Restorative Justice/Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Pipeline Forum
 Location: Decima Musa, 1901 S. Loomis St.
 Details/Contact: Panel discussion on restorative justice practices in schools and communities and the schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline, with breakout sessions to talk to panel experts/ Jonah Bondurant - holajonah@hotmail.com 773-816-8201 and Sarah Atlas seatlas@gmail.com
 510.326.8069

 

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 Date Saturday April 25, 2009

 Time 7 pm - 9 pm

 Event Title/Host Bellydance Party to Benefit the Women of Juarez.  Zahara Fusion Dance Troupe is raising money in support of Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa

 Location DePaul Center, 11th Floor, in the DePaul Club.
 1 E. Jackson (corner of Jackson and State)
 Easily accessible by CTA train or bus. Best parking is about 3 blocks away at 653 South State,Chicago, for about $6.

 Details/Contact
 Bellydance troupe Zahara Fusion will dance for you, provide mini-lessons, bellydance games, wonderful food, and surprise performances by guest dancers all for an important cause. In solidarity with Mexican women, we are raising money for Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (May Our Daughter Return Home). $5 - $20, recommended donation, as you are able. No one turned away for inability to pay. To learn more about the women of Juarez and Nuestras Hijas, go to http://www.mujeresdejuarez.org/  To find out about Zahara Fusion, go to http://www.zaharafusion.com.  For more information email mva472@yahoo.com or call 773 592 8803.

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Call for Participants
"Thinking in Time: Cross-Generational Reflections on Change"
Submit your work to the May 2009 exhibition at Insight Arts. The aim of the exhibition is to begin a dialogue of ideas based on participants' writing, drawing, painting, photography, ideas, sound, performance work, etc. We would like to hear a variety of voices-- the only requirement is that your entry reflect your idea of change. Deadline for submissions is April 25, 2009.
 Visit thinkingintime.wordpress.com for more information.

 

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Living La Vida Verde: Living the Green Life for the Chicago Urbanite
April 25
 
Get your green on during Greenheart's day-long workshop series and Earth month celebration Saturday, April 25th. Workshops will be held throughout the day to educate Chicago urbanites on how to live a more sustainable and Earth-friendly lifestyle in the midst of this bustling city.  Don't own a home and not able to install solar panels on your apartment building? No problem, learn what you can do to increase energy efficiency on the cheap in your apartment. Don't have a yard or access to a garden? Learn how you can still eat and cook fresh local foods. Trying to keep your medical expenses down? Learn preventative natural health tips to increase your body's immunity and overall health. Munch on samples throughout the day of sustainably produced foods such as fair trade chocolate, fair trade coffee and tea, fair trade wine, local micro-brewed beer, and other organic foods.
 
The day will culminate in  a conscious dance party around the corner at Avila club featuring DJ C-Dub spinning Greenheart music from the island of Ibiza and other socially progressive beats.  The party also features a theatrical spectacular combining video, live performance, and music in celebration of Earth month.
 
All workshops are free and open to the public at the Greenheart Shop- 746 N. LaSalle from 10am-8pm.
Contact the Greenheart Shop for more info: info@greenheartshop.org or 312-264-1625. Also visit our website at www.greenheartshop.org

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April 26th 2-5pm Greywater workshop - 2446 South Sawyer Avenue - $60

Greywater is Liquid Gold!

Sunday, April 26th from 2pm to 5pm
2446 S. Sawyer, Chicago, IL

In this workshop, we will learn to harvest and use greywater through simple, reversible plumbing changes and learn techniques to decrease potable water use. Our projects will include 'unplumbing' a sink, putting a 'hippo' in a flush toilet, and identifying simple ways to streamline water use. You'll go home with hands-on experience and handouts covering what we did, and the ultimate urban greywater tool - a five gallon bucket.

Cost is $60 per person and includes the above materials and a light and wholesome snack.
- Accessible by the CTA Pink Line and the 52, 21, and 60 Buses

Register by email sayre@sevensapphires.net or phone 773.458.0170
Space is limited so register soon!

Sayre Vickers is a Chicago-based artist, permaculturist, bicyclist, activist, and witch. His varied projects are unified by a mindful honoring of connection and relationship to the Earth, to People, to Place, to Spirit. He finds the city to be a very magical place and considers urban permaculture/sustainability to be a part of his spiritual practice. He's been exploring water conservation and greywater in an urban setting for the last few years and considers the 5-gallon bucket to be mightier than the sword, at least in relationship to water.

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 Tuesday, April 28, 6-8pm
 Release Reading for the Journal of Ordinary Thought
 King Branch Library (3436 S King Drive)
 Come to the release reading celebration for "Ask Me!," the newest Journal of Ordinary Thought. Focused on the importance of asking questions, it featureswriting by adults in over eight Chicago neighborhoods, as well as photography by Justin Goh and an introduction by Kristin Cox. FREE, including treats and a copy of the magazine, and open to the public.
 Questions? Email Mairead at mcase@jot.org.

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May 1st
AM - Rally @ Union Park
PM - AREA #8 Release Party - Location TBA

Everybody's Got Money Issues
to be released May 1st, 2009

in this issue of AREA contributions by/about:
Mark Messing,  Elanor Laskiw, Meghan Strell, Mucca Pazza, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Bert Stabler, Timothy Sarrantonio, B. Loewe, Latino Union, Kari Lydersen, the occupation of Republic Windows, UE, Rachel Wallis, Congress Hotel Strike, Unite HERE, Lauren Cumbia, Labor History, Mark Shipley, Erotic Massage, 183 definitions of capitalism, Temporary Services, Bail-out Protests, CORE, Dave Marques, Half Letter Press, InCUBATE, Kristen Cox, Daniel Tucker, NFP vs For Profit, Sara Black, Robin Hewlett, Backstory Cafe, Elise Zelechowski, Rebuilding Exchange, Delta Institute, David Wolf, the punk scene and the financial crisis, Lee Ann Norman, Insite Arts, Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, Ajitha Reddy, Activist Nuns, Raechel Tiffe, Food Not Bombs, Dale Asis, Rebecca Zorach , Milton Friedman Institute protests, ourmfi.org, Crossroads Fund,  Harishi Patel, Jill Doub, the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Patrick Dunn, Free Street Theater, Subprime Mortages, Damon Rich, history of red-lining in Chicago, NTIC, Neily Jennings, Solidarity Economies, Ashley Weger, Wade Tillet, Larry Shure, Marissa Holmes, Town Hall Talks, Creative Time, Nato Thompson, Ed and Rachael Marszewski, Amanda Guiterrez, Mike Bancroft, Nance Klehm, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Coya Paz, Shannon Stratton, Edra Soto, Deborah Stratman, Dan Peterman, Marianne Fairbanks, Nicole Garneau, Amy Partridge, Sara Black, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa, Salome Chasnoff, Sheila O'Donnell, Jeanne Kracher, and more...

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May 2nd
ARC 109 Conference - Register Now at http://arc109.org/

Hey friends of AREA. Happy March. We are pleased to announce that this month there are no AREA events because we are working hard on editing and preparing for the next issue of our publication: AREA #8 "Everybody's Got Money Issues" which will be released on May Day aka May 1st here in Chicago. This week we are going to be sending out a reader survey related to that issue about your work and how you make money - so please set aside some time to reply. There are tons of great events organized by AREA allies and friends listed below, and there are four really exciting calls for participation for projects you should consider getting involved in this spring/summer. Have a great month and please FWD this newsletter on to your friends and encourage them to sign up to receive future updates at AREAChicago.org

Feb 08 Another Chicago Newsletter

Hello Chicagoans
We hope you are enjoying the impeachment trial and staying warm. Below are some great events that you should check-out next month. Before this month is over, however, there is one important protest/rally which you are all encouraged to go to: Join City-Wide Education Advocates this Wednesday, January 28th at 3:30pm in front of the Chicago Board of Education, 125 South Clark, to protest the Board's vote to close and privatize more Chicago Public Schools (This is important even if you dont have any direct connection to CPS). For more information, AREA has published extensively on this topic: http://areachicago.org/p/tags/CPS/

And one more thing......The space that has been AREA's office for nearly one year now - 2129 N. Rockwell is now the Orientation Center
We share it with Chicago Underground Library, InCUBATE, and maybe... you? If you have an organization in need of regular meeting space, or are a freelancer looking for cheap shared work space, contact us at orientationcenter@gmail.com or visit www.orientationcenter.wordpress.com.

Happy Tuesday!

SUMMARY of Feb 09 Events throughout Chicago:

01) 1/31 Sat - Wars Real Impact: Testimony from veterans, workers, military families, and students
02) 1/31 Sat - Free Screening of "Slingshot Hip-Hop" @ Gage Park High School
03) 1/31 Sat - Tamms Year 10 City Wide Meeting @ The People's Church
04) 2/1 Sun - Readings from AREA Chicago #7 on the legacy of 1968 @ Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago
05) 2/1 Sun - Justseeds Prison Poster Project with Tamms Year Ten @ Mess Hall
06) 2/3 Tue - "Rethinking Soup" food and discussion every single tuesday @ Hull House Museum!
07) 2/3 Tue - Republic Windows Workers Speak at Hull House Museum
08) 2/4 Wed - Opening of "Paper Trail" Exhibit about Chicago's Rainbow Coalition @ Gallery 400
09) 2/5 Thu - Opening of "Congo/Women" Exhibit @ Columbia College
10) 2/8 Sun - Sunday Soup with Dan S. Wang @ 2129 N Rockwell
11) 2/9 Mon - Journal of Ordinary Thought release party @ Mabel Manning Branch Library
12) 2/9 Mon - "Peace Party" to benefit South West Youth Collaborative @ Danny's Tavern
13) 2/10 Tue - Screening of "Sex Positive" @ Hull House Museum
14) 2/11 Wed - "Whiff of Anarchy" Movement Workshop with Darrell Jones @ Hull-House Museum
15) 2/13 Fri - Grand Opening of "Rebuilding Exchange" ecological construction center @ 3335 W 47th St.
16) 2/13 Fri - Conversation with documentary photographer Nina Berman @ Roosevelt
17) 2/13-14-15 - A City Wide Screening/Discussion Tour of "San Francisco 8: The Legacy of Torture"
18) 2/14 Sat - "Torture Breaks My Heart" with Anne E Moore and the Unlympic Games @ No Coast Bookstore
19) 2/15 Sun - Mess Hall Celebrates FIVE Years
20) 2/19 Thu - "Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Power and a World Without Rape" with Jaclyn Friedman @ UIC
21) 2/21 Sat - "Gift Art" Exhibition for Howard Brown Health Center @ Mess Hall
22) 2/24 Tue - Polyamory Documentary Screening @ Hull House Museum
23) "Finding Our Roots" Anarchist Conference #3 Call For Proposals on Theme of "Space"
24) Free Store Chicago looking for new venues and collaborators

DETAILS

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WARS REAL IMPACT:  OUR VOICES
Testimony from veterans, workers, military families, and students

When: 1:00 p.m. Saturday Jan 31
Where: Teamster City Auditorium, 300 S. Ashland (at Van Buren)

Help Send a Vital Message to the New Administration: End the War!

   1. Plan to attend the hearing, bring family, friends, coworkers
   2. Call your Congressman and Sen. Durbin (202-224-2152) today and urge them to attend! See below list.
   3. Pass this along to people you know. Pass out the attached flier.

The Workers' Rights Board of community leaders, clergy & educators will hear first-hand testimony about the devastating results of the Iraq War on the front lines and at home. We will be giving our elected representatives specific demands.

For more info, 312-738-6161 or www.warsrealimpact.org
Organized by: Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Chicago Jobs With Justice, American Friends Service Committee, Chicago Labor for Peace, Prosperity & Justice, Committee for New Priorities, US Labor Against the War

202-225-5880 for more information

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Free Screening of "Slingshot Hip-Hop"
Saturday, January 31, 2009

6:00pm - 8:30pm
Gage Park High School (auditorium)
5600 S. Rockwell st.
This documentary is real. It voices the struggles of young Palestinians through a global hip-hop movement of resistance and solidarity. Just like struggles of inner-city youth in Chicago are connected to communities across the country, this film shows how "the hood" is a global experience

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 February 3, 12-1:30 pm
 Re-Thinking Soup @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
 800 S Halsted
 Join us for free, delicious soup and community conversation.  2/3: Hear from farmer Linda Cockburn, who will discuss her love of heirloom vegetables. Along with her husband Russ, Linda has operated Sunny Farm since 1997, where they grow a majority of their own food and educate the public. 

Rethinking Soup happens every Tuesday at the same time and place! Call 312.413.5353 for more information.

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Victorious Republic Windows Workers Speak at UIC

Jane Addams Hull House, 800 S. Halsted
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009, 6-8pm
Reception to follow.

Chicago Jobs with Justice is proud to join the UIC Graduate Employees Organization in sponsoring this forum, telling the story of the successful occupation at Republic Windows and Doors, and the coalition support that helped win a settlement and led to a plan to reopen the plant. Other coalition sponsors include:UE, SEIU local 73, UIC Center for Urban Economic Development, UIUC Chicago Labor Education Program, Jane Addams Hull House Museum.

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Paper Trail (an archive of Chicago's original Rainbow Coalition)
February 3 - March 7, 2009
Reception: Wednesday, February 4, 5-8pm
@ Gallery 400/UIC  - 400 S Peoria

Paper Trail is an exhibition of historical and contemporary ephemeral material originally produced by disparate communities using remarkably similar forms of rhetoric and graphic styles to visually articulate their collective revolutionary agendas and concerns.

The historical material was created, produced, and distributed in the late 1960s by Chicago's original Rainbow Coalition—an alliance between The Black Panther Party, the Young Lords Organization, Young Patriots, and Rising Up Angry. This material is presented "in conversation" with what can be considered its contemporary counterpart­—visual reproductions of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, language of the newly formed Rainbow Coalition Council of Elders, and publications from other contemporary initiatives in Chicago and beyond that re-engage with the principal of grassroots political organizing and cross-cultural solidarity. The movements share a common idea that despite our dire collective circumstance a spirit of hope and optimism results and acts as a unifying, mobilizing force.

This exhibition is organized by curators Nancy Zastudil and Julia Hamilton, with the support and participation of Kathleen Cleaver, Michael James, Bill Jennings, Cha Cha Jimenez, Jaqueline Lazu, and countless others.

http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit-upcoming.htm

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Congo/Women
Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo
Photographs by: Lynsey Addario, Marcus Bleasdale, Ron Haviv, James Nachtwey
  
February 5 -14
Columbia College Chicago 1006 S. Michigan Avenue
Hours: Tues-Sat, 12pm-6pm *Reception February 5, 5pm-7pm
 
Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo is an international photography exhibition and educational campaign that raises awareness of the widespread sexual violence facing women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The exhibition features powerful life-size photographs that convey the strength and courage of Congolese women. Accompanying essays contextualize the impact of the crisis from a range of perspectives. An advocacy partnership with the Enough Project's Raise Hope for Congo campaign provides tools to demand action and involvement from the global citizenry.
 
For a touring schedule and more information:
congowomen.org | artworksprojects.org | colum.edu/institutewomengender
Tel: 312-369-8829
 
Produced by: Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago, and Art Works Projects. Major funding by:UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund and Humanity United.

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Please join us for the next Sunday Soup Brunch on February 8th (not the first Sunday of the month as usual) with Dan S. Wang. See you soon, soup fans!

Dan S. Wang is an artist and writer who works alone and with groups. In recent years he has exhibited and/or lectured in Portland, San Francisco, Nanjing, Chicago, Baltimore, and Salzburg, Austria. He is the author of the widely disseminated pamphlet Downtime at the Experimental Station. Other writings have appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Art Journal, Art AsiaPacific, WhiteWalls, and many places on-line. He helped to co-found the experimental cultural space Mess Hall, and was educated at Carleton College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Sunday, Jan 8

12:00-2:00 PM
at InCUBATE
2129 N. Rockwell St.

12-1 PM: Sunday Soup Brunch is served, made by InCUBATE & Guest Chefs

1-2 PM: Presentation by Dan Wang

All Soup events are open to the public.
http://www.incubate-chicago.org/sundaysoup

 

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Monday, February 9
Release Reading for the Journal of Ordinary Thought/Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Mabel Manning Branch Library (6 S Hoyne), 5:30-7pm
Come hear Chicago adults read stories they wrote about their own lives and neighborhoods. Plus: snacks and a free copy of the Journal of Ordinary Thought, featuring maps from a People's Atlas of Chicago.
Questions? Contact Mairead at mcase@jot.org.

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Peace Party at Danny's
Monday, February 9, 9pm - 2am
No Cover
Featuring funk/soul by DJs Jeff Parker, Josh Abrams, Naomi Walker, & Joclyn Brown
Drink proceeds to benefit youth media (film, audio, photo, graphics, zine) programs at Southwest Youth Collaborative

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 February 10, 7pm
 SEX POSITIVE +++ Film Series @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
 800 S Halsted
 A free documentary film series for people who like sex.  Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 7pm. Snacks and conversation following the film. Contact Ljunkin@uic.edu for details.  hullhousemuseum.org 
 2/10: “Sex Positive” (2008)  Starting in the 1970s, unflinchingly tracks the progress of gay activist Richard Berkowitz as he went from cocky S&M hustler, to angry AIDS activist, to broken but proud harbinger of a message too volatile, scary and true to be heard.

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 February 11, 12-1:30 pm
Whiff of Anarchy Movement Workshop with Darrell Jones @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum present a free movement workshops as part of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum’s “Arts and Democracy Series.”  Investigating the spark of riot as an energetic improvisation of movement and chaos as a bodily sensation, Darrell Jones’s movement workshop will physically tap into the energy of riot from a multitude of vantage points.  Exercises such as reading the crowd, weight sharing/bearing, physical thresholds, and collisions/consensus through movement, will be used as a way to trigger collective and individual chaos and investigate the spark of riot as an energetic improvisation of moment.  Reservations recommended: call 312.413.5353.

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Grand Opening!
The mission of the ReBuilding Exchange is to divert building materials from the waste stream and make them accessible to the public for reuse, protecting community health, creating jobs and saving resources. We do this through the promotion of sustainable deconstruction practices, by making used build materials available for purchase at low costs, by providing educational resources and by creating programming that builds community and rebuilds Chicago's neighborhoods.
Save the Date! February 13, 2009

The ReBuilding Exchange celebrates its grand opening on Friday, February 13th! Join us for a first glimpse at our deconstructed building inventory, a live and silent auction, live music, food and drinks!

    Friday, February 13th, 6-10pm
    3335 West 47th Street, in Chicago
    Food, drinks, live music, and a live and silent auction
    Tickets must be purchased in advance ($25 suggested donation)

more info @ http://www.delta-institute.org/rebuildingexchange/

The San Francisco 8 (SF8) is a group of Black men who dedicated themselves to working for the protection and improvement of their community. Most of them were members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the 60s and 70s. In January 2007 they were framed and wrongfully charged with a conspiracy alleged to have existed between 1968 and 1973, and the killing of a police officer that occurred in 1971. In 2003 the case was re-opened and the men were subpoenaed to a series of grand juries. In 2005 they asserted their Constitutional right to refuse to testify and were jailed for civil contempt. Upon their release, they founded the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDHR) to publicize the human rights abuses perpetrated by government agents.

www.chicagosf8.com

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Sunday Feb 15th 7pm
Your favorite experimental cultural center MESS HALL is having its 5th Anniversary party http://messhall.org/
('Morse' stop on the Redline )

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Date: Thursday, February 19th at 12:00 Noon
 
Event Title/Host: Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Power and a World Without Rape with Jaclyn Friedman

Co-sponsors: Jane  Addams Hull-House  Museum, The Public Square, and UIC Gender and Women Studies Department

Location: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 South Halsted, Chicago

Details/Contact: Free. Open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 312.422.5580. or by sending an email to events@prairie.org.

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Sunday, February 22, 2009
3:00p-5:00p
"Connections: Give Art" Opening Reception
Jump-start Art presents
CONNECTIONS: Gifting Art, an exhibit of art donated by the artists to be gifted to recipients from the Howard Area Community Center.

Please join us at a reception , Sunday March 22, 3-5pm.
('Morse' stop on the Redline )

Jump-start Art is a not for profit organization that believes in the power of art. JSA facilitates the gifting of art from artists to individuals, who have not been able to own original art.

By working through established community centers, JSA has gifted over 200 works of art during a three year period.We have placed art in the homes of the residents of The Holland Apartments and the Helmut Jahn designed SRO through Mercy- Lakefront Housing, gifted battered women and children through W.I.N.G.S. and Maine Township Family Services and provided art work to families at the Northwestern Settlement House and Casa Centrale.

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  February 24, 7pm
 SEX POSITIVE +++ Film Series @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
 800 S Halsted
 A free documentary film series for people who like sex.  Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 7pm. Snacks and conversation following the film. Contact Ljunkin@uic.edu for details.  hullhousemuseum.org 
 2/24: “When Two Won’t Do” (2002) Made by a polyamorous filmmaker, this film explores the alternatives — illicit affairs, swinging and polyamory — to a traditional monogamous relationship.

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 3rd Annual Finding Our Roots
 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
 April 24-26 2009, Chicago

 The theme of this year’s conference is SPACE.

Why and how is space important to anarchists, and so often central to our struggles? What do we mean when we talk about “anarchist space”? What different spaces have anarchists created and struggled to keep and maintain; how have these spaces functioned and thrived, or failed to do so? What kinds of anarchist spaces exist currently, and how are they serving anarchist community as well as contributing to larger struggles for liberation and against capitalism? Examples could includeinfoshops, multiuse spaces, housing collectives, squats, farms, gardens, parks, free schools, workers’ collectives, or any other space dedicated to radical purpose and used by anarchists as a focal point or staging ground of struggle.

How are anarchists involved in struggles around space, both within and beyond our community? What kinds of spaces exist (or attempt to) within larger radical spaces: Why, for instance, are queer space, women’s space, or space by and for people of color important; how do these and other marginalized/oppressed groups use space as part of their struggles and organizing?

How does space operate within the social landscape and the machinations of capitalism? How can anarchists support and join poor and disenfranchised peoples’ struggles around space, such as fights against gentrification and displacement?

Potential workshop topics include but are not limited to: Gentrification and anti-gentrification struggles, squatting, community, Europe’s autonomous radical communities and their role in popular uprisings (ie, the recent events in Greece), self-sustainability in urban or rural environments, decolonization and resisting the police state, the relationship of anarchists to anti-imperialist/nationalist struggles for autonomy, Queer space, safe space, space as a human right, the use of autonomous spaces by oppressed groups, “spiritual space” - anarchism and non-hierarchical spirituality, the history and practice of anarchist spaces, problems of unity vs. fragmentation within anarchist space,
collective living, workers’ collectives and non-hierarchical workplaces, reclaiming the commons, democratizing/infiltrating media space, the “infoshop movement,” reclaiming corporate and governmental spaces, “anarchist space” and its intersection with other spaces of resistance.

Proposals should be NO MORE THAN ONE PAGE in length and should include:
Proposal deadline: March 15
Submit proposals to: findingourroots@riseup.net

1.Workshop title
2. Your name and contact info (and those of workshop presenter(s) if this isn't you – though please make sure you have confirmed with all presenters BEFORE you volunteer them)
3.Detailed workshop description, including an explanation of how your workshop fits into the conference theme
4. Questions to be posed/answered in the workshop
5. Main workshop goals
6. Workshop format (Will it be an open discussion? Panel/roundtable? Lecture followed by Q&A?)
7. BRIEF reading list [optional]
8. Any special materials or equipment (ex: audiovisual) you will need

Workshops are one hour and fifteen minutes (75 minutes) long. If you feel you need more time for your workshop, please explain why, and we will consider allotting a longer slot.

schedules of past conferences are here http://mayfirst.wordpress.com/

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The FreeStore is looking for locations to hold Free Stores
details here http://www.freestorechicago.org/

Welcome to the New Year! Enjoy These Events and Look for More Announcements from AREA soon!

Summary

01) 01.01-17 Camp Hope Anti War Actions For Obama in Hyde Park
02) 01.10 Sat - City Wide Public Hearing on School Closings @ Malcolm X College
03) 01.15 Thu - AREA's "Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago" Exhibition in Wicker Park
04) 01.15 Thu - "Experimental Geography" Book Release Party (Featuring AREA) in Wicker Park
05) 01.17 Sat - Inaugural Ball at AV-Aerie
06) 01.19 Mon - Martin Luther King Jr. Day @ CHM
07) 01.26 Mon - Book Release for new book on intersections of art and justice in S. Africa
08) 02.01 Sun - Readings from AREA #7 @ Japanese American Service Committee (Northside) + Details on Festival @ Links Hall Throughout January

Details

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Camp Hope - Countdown to Change
A presence in Hyde Park January 1st-19th (Dr. Martin Luther King Day), 2009
Every day from New Years’ to Dr. Martin Luther King Day (1/1-1/19), whatever winter has in store for us, we will set up at the intersection of E. Hyde Park Blvd. and 5100 S. Drexel Ave to congratulate Senator Obama as our new President-elect and recommit ourselves to progressive actions he promoted on his campaign trail. 

Contact:
Phone: 773-878-3815     Email: contact@camphope2009.org
www.camphope2009.org

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CITY WIDE PUBLIC HEARING on Ren 2010 School Closings
Saturday January 10, 2008 - 10am to 2pm
@ Malcolm X College Cafeteria 2nd floor 1900 W. Van Buren Chicago, Il60612
(parking is available off of Jackson)
The event above has been organized by the Caucus of Rank and File Educators
COREteachers@gmail.com
www.COREteachers.org
With the Board of Education announcing 20 more schools closures for February, 2009 and up to 14 new Turnaround schools, the fate of our public schools hang in the balance.

It's a now or never moment!

Either parents, teachers/psrps, students and community members stand up and demand our educational rights, or the whole district will soon be controlled by private interests that don't care about our needs.

There is a way to stop this. Attend a city-wide public hearing on Saturday, January 10th, at Malcolm X College at 10:00am, and contest the privatization of the system. We have parents, students and teachers scheduled to testify about what has happened to their schools and communities because of Renaissance 2010.

We hope you will attend, invite others, and join us to build a resistance to school privatization and a vision of a truly public, democratically run and adequately funded public education system. 

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January 15 2009 5-8pm 1425 N Damen Ave
NOTES FOR A PEOPLES ATLAS OF CHICAGO

Around the Coyote has collaborated with local arts, education and activism magazine AREA Chicago to bring AREA's Chicago Community Mapping Project: Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago to the Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood. In 2006, AREA Chicago began the Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago project by distributing blank maps throughout the city and asking Chicagoans to record their history, knowledge and impressions on the maps. This project taps into the power of mapping as a way of composing a portrait of Chicago by Chicagoans.

AREA Chicago and Around the Coyote are inviting Wicker Park/Bucktown residents to contribute to this map-making project, and will display the maps in an exhibition at the Wicker Park Fieldhouse (1425 N Damen Ave, Chicago) during January 15-January 18, 2009.

Residents participate as a cartographer by using a blank map to draw, paint, write and create their specialized knowledge of the city in a visual form. These maps will reflect the unique insights and experiences of Wicker Park/Bucktown residents and their depictions of the city as they see it. Blank maps have been sent to neighborhood residences, can be picked up at various local businesses, or downloaded at www.aroundthecoyote.org, and will be returned by December 15 to designated drop-off spots (listed below).
http://www.aroundthecoyote.org/area/

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Thursday January 15th 8-10pm 1371 N. Milwaukee Ave
EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY BOOK RELEASE PARTY
http://www.mhpbooks.com/event.php?id=185

Melville House Publishing will host a presentation and release party for the book Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, edited by Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International, featuring contributions by Chicago-based Artists and Organizers: Ellen Rothenberg, Deborah Stratman, Daniel Tucker and AREA Chicago. The event will be held on on January 15th, 2009, from 8pm-10pm, at STOP SMILING Magazine's Storefront—1371 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL.

Experimental Geography explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide (and possibly make a new field altogether). This lavishly illustrated book features more than a dozen maps; artwork by Francis Alÿs, Alex Villar, and Yin Xiuzhen; and recent projects by The Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Raqs Media Collective, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy.

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Inaugural Ball
Sat January 17th 2009 at AV-Aerie 2000 W Fulton, Chicago
Doors at 8pm, $15 Donations to benefit AV-Aerie; Donation Bar
Come Dressed To The 09's And Ready To Celebrate!
 
We’ll be dancing to the sweet sounds of:
The Joel Patterson Trio
DJ Mr P.C.
DJ Jacob Ross
 
Limited Space Available So Come Early And Stay Late!
RSVP to 312 953 3600

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, January 19, 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
@ Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60614
312.642.4600

Commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Enjoy dramatic readings and musical performances that reflect Dr. King's messages of peace and justice.

Cost: Free admission to the Museum; no reservations required

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Monday, January 26
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Discussion, followed by book signing
A Discussion and Book Signing with South Africa Constitutional Court Justice
Albie Sachs and Dr. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen Managing Editor, David Krut Publishing
celebrating the publication of
ART and JUSTICE: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
 
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 
The Institute is proud to present the Chicago installment of a national book tour celebrating the publication of Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Published by David Krut Publishing, the book pays tribute to the uniquely successful fusion of art and justice in a building that has achieved international acclaim for its warm and democratic quality.
 
The Constitutional Court, the most important new building of South Africa's peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy, is built on the site of a notorious prison that once held Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. The award-winning building glows with extraordinary artwork and draws thousands of visitors to the site every year. Art and architecture are fused in the Court in an inspiring and innovative way, informing visitors that they are in a place where the constitutional principles of human dignity, equality and freedom reign. Ben Law-Viljoen's brilliant photography and Ellen Papciak-Rose's vibrant and intuitive design are combined with incisive texts by the creators of the building in a book of rare visual emotion and imbued with intense respect for human rights.
 
For more information: 312-369-8829 or institutewomengender@colum.edu.

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Sunday, February 1, 3-5pm
Readings and Discussion of AREA #7 with Magazine Contributors
AREA #7: 1968/2008: The Inheritance of Politics and The Politics of Inheritance
http://areachicago.org/p/issues/7/ (all publication content is free online)

@ Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago 4427 North Clark Street
Free, part of the January Festival @ Links Hall (see below)

Readings and discussion with writers in celebration of the latest magazine release of AREA Chicago, a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting, and networking local social, political, and cultural movements.

 
Part of:
LINKS HALL PRESENTS....
When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation)
Writing, Performance, & Video Festival

Curated by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin,
Links Hall Artistic Associates

Featuring local, national, and international writers and artists
January 9 – February 1, 2009
Weekend Performances: Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 7pm
Tickets are $12 ($10 students, seniors, & working artists)
More Info http://www.linkshall.org/09-pp-jan.shtml

Hi AREA Friends and Readers
Here is our monthly calendar. Its cut short at the end of the month because of how crazy things get around that time, but please support all these groups and projects occurring at thebeginning of the month. Thanks to everyone that came to see AREA at the Teachers for Social Justice Fair last weekend, it was a real blast to participate in that event for the 3rd year in a row. And just a little reminder. We have a huge AREA weekend next weekend on December 6th  - check out our release party in the afternoon and then come dance, drink and bid on auction services/skills from AREA contributors at night. Details on both are below. We will send one more end of year check-in and request for donations, but otherwise - see you on Dec 6th and then look forward to seeing the events newsletter again in 2009.

December 08 Events 12.1-12.14 - Summary

01) 12.01 Mon - Exhibition about collecting and archiving at Mess Hall
02) 12.04 Thu - Post-Bush Education Policy Forum at Roosevelt
03) 12.04 Thu - Forum on History of Human Rights Violations in Chicago at UofC
04) 12.05 Fri - Celebrate 10 Years of Art from Temporary Services at CPS
05) 12.05 Fri - Latino Union Fundraiser/Dance at Logan Sq Auditorium
06) 12.05 Fri - Kuumba Lynx Fundraiser at Clarendon Park
07) 12.06 Sat - Write Holiday Cards to Tamms Prisoners
08) 12.06 Sat - AREA #7 Release Party at Hull House Museum
09) 12.06 Sat - AREA "Wants and Needs" Benefit Auction and Dance Party at Grand/Noble
10) 12.07 Sun - Sunday Soup Brunch at InCUBATE
11) 12.09 Tue - Technology/Activism Meetup at Interfaith Youth Core
12) 12.11 Thu - Black Politics & Gay Rights In Chicago at CHM
13) 12.13 Sat - TSJ Hosts Forum on Organizing Priorities After Obama at Decima Musa
14) 12.14 Sun - Film Screening of Video Art Based on Youtube at Nightingale Theatre

December 08 Events 12.1-12.14 - Details

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Collections and Archives as a Creative Practice
Exhibition, screenings, discussion and reception at Mess Hall
Mess Hall
6932 N Glenwood, Chicago
just across from the Morse stop on the Red Line
(773) 465-4033; http://www.messhall.org

Monday, Dec. 1st, 5-9 PM: Formal critique and discussion of the works on view.

Saturday, Dec. 13th, 6-10 PM: Closing reception.

The collecting and/or archiving of objects and information has emerged as a vital creative cultural practice. "Collections and Archives as a Creative Practice" presents the final projects of grad students from this University of Illinois at Chicago seminar that was team taught by Marc Fischer and RandallSzott.

Included are works in a great variety of formats and themes by:

Adam Farcus, Adam Trowbridge, Alejandro Borsani, Andrew Oleksiuk, Erica Moore, Erik Peterson, Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Jesse Mclean, Jose Velazco, Maria Gaspar, Maria Jonsson, Mary Robnett, Michael Sirianni, Nicholas Wylie, Olivia Ciummo, Orson Panetti, Rachael Stine, Rebecca Grady, Ryan Murray, and Yuko Kato.

Among the many subjects of these collections, archives and projects: video store identification labels on old used VHS tapes, concert set lists, artists' stamps that have made it through the mail, documentation of empty Chicago storefronts that are available for lease, a massive trove of KISS concert and TV appearances on VHS, examples of "The End" title screens from a large array of old films, documentation of crushed "Crush" cans, African-American G.I. Joe toys, collected regrets by numerous mail respondents, and dozens of representations ofGeishas.

An extensive free publication will be available at Mess Hall to accompany the exhibition.
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Thursday, December 4, 2008 6:00-8:00 pm
Title:  EDUCATION POLICY PRIORITIES FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT: A PANEL OF EXPERTS AND THEIR "TOP TEN" LISTS

LOCATION: UIC Forum, Event Center (725 W. Roosevelt, Chicago, IL)Confirmed Speakers:

 SPEAKERS:
WILLIAM AYERS, SUMI CHO, CARL GRANT, CAROL LEE, PAULINE LIPMAN, HAKI MADHUBUTI, ERICA MEINERS, Moderator: KEVIN KUMASHIRO,
This event is free and open to the public.  A booksigning by the presenters will immediately follow.

 CONTACT: Please direct inquiries to Zell Williams, Assistant to the
 Chair, UIC Department of Educational Policy Studies, 312-413-2414, zellw@uic.edu.
 Co-sponsors include the Department of Educational Policy Studies, the  Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, the Collaborative for  Equity and Justice in Education, and the Powell Memorial Fund.

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Date: Thursday, December 4th
 Event Title/Host: Human Rights at Home: the United Nations and the Chicago Police Torture cases / University of Chicago Human Rights Workshop and the Workshop on the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies
 Location: 5710 S. Woodlawn Ave, 1st Floor Conference Room
 Details/Contact: The Human Rights Workshop and the Workshop on the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies presents

Human Rights at Home: the United Nations and the Chicago Police Torture cases.

An Event marking the 39th Anniversary of the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP)

A presentation by
Standish Willis, Standish Willis, Ltd  and Joey Mogul, Peoples Law Office

Attorneys representing torture victims of the Chicago Police Department

Thursday, December 4th 6:00-8:00pm

5710 S. Woodlawn Ave - 1st floor Community Lounge

Persons with a disability who believe that they need assistance are requested to call 773-834-0957 in advance.

The Human Rights workshop provides a forum for faculty and graduate students' ongoing research in a variety of disciplines top promote serious discussion of human rights scholarship. Workshops also bring in guest speakers, including prominent human rights activists, theorists, artists, and faculty from other universities. Workshop sessions are offered every quarter and are open to faculty, students, and the public.

For further details contact tlosier@uchicago.edu

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 December 5, 2008, 7:30 PM - 12 AM.
 10 Years of Temporary Services – Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago,

 A party for Temporar y Services' 10th anniversary and the release of our book PublicPhenomena

 Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan St, Chicago

 All Ages! Free Food! TS Ephemera & Slideshow! Surprises! Items for sale from Half Letter Press!

 $5.00 admission ($15.00 gets you a copy of Public Phenomena)

 Performances by:
 The Velcro Lewis Group
 Dead Druglords
 AZ & Snebtor

 Contact: servers@temporaryservices.org

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December 5 at 6:30pm
Latino Union Anniversary Flamenco Concert
 Dec. 5th Celebrate 8 years of Immigrant Worker Organizing
Logan Square Auditorium
2539 N. Kedzie:   

Flamenco Concert and Dinner with world famous performers Vicente "El Griego" Cartucho and guitarist Arturo Martinez from Gazpacho Andalu as well as dancer Marisol Encinias.
 Join us. Email development@latinounion.org to buy your tickets.
$30 - $60 sliding scale. Sponsor tables available for $360.

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The 12th Annual Kuumba Lynx December 5th!    
“Arts Explosion”
@ Clarendon Park in Chicago (4501 N. Clarendon, 2nd flr, 60640)
Tickets are available with Jae at (773)5504229
$50 includes dinner, entertainment, party favors,
 and The 2008 Kuumba Lynx Anthology!
$10 general admission includes entrance, refreshments and entertainment !
http://www.kuumbalynx.org/

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AREA Chicago #7 Magazine Release Event: The Inheritance of Politics and The Politics of Inheritance
December 6th, 2008 1-4pm
at Jane Addams Hull House Museum, 800 S. Halsted Chicago IL

1pm-2pm Public release of new issue of AREA on the theme of the legacy of 1968 in Chicago,

2pm-4pm Performances, Films and Speaking by:
Nicole Garneau's Uprising performance; Lucky Pierre performing songs for 1968/2008 with guest musicians; James Tracy discusses researching the working class Left in Chicago; Eve Ewing on teaching the history of '68 in CPS; clips from Bernadine Mellis' "Struggle Baby" in-progress film on children of the New Left, and more

The magazine has contributions by and about:
The Chicago Seed, Steve Macek, Alyssa Vincent, Bernie Faber, Abe Peck, Chicago Journalism Review, Cosmic Frog, Free Schools, Blackstone Rangers, Julie Glasier, Rising Up Angry, Euan Hague, Chicago Surrealist Group, Joey Pizzolato, The Woodlawn Organization, Carrie Breitbach, Kartemquin Films, Darcy Lydum, Chicago Area Draft Resisters, SDS, A.L. Gray, Amy Martin, Negro Digest/Black World, Chris Brancaccio, Harper Court, Andrea Baer, Conservative Vice Lords, Chicago Artist Boycott, Maggie Taft, JOIN Community Union, Lauren Cumbia, James Tracy, Amy Sonnie, Africobra, Black Arts Movement, Edna Togba, UIC SDS, Earl Silbar, Sylvia Fischer, Charles Nissim-Sabat, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Nelson Peery, Hymie Rochman, Penelope & Franklin Rosemont, Dr. Quentin Young, Aaron Sarver, Rainbow Coalition, Mike James, PLP, April 68 Oral History Project, Sam Barnett, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Monica Barra, Rebecca Zorach, White Privilege Concept, Mike Staudenmeir, Daniel Tucker, Non Profit Industrial Complex, Eric Tang, Eve Ewing, 68 in 08 Elections, Jerome Grand, Rick Perlstein, Daley, BLW, Vietnam, Iraq, Lucky Pierre, Ben Shepard, BLW, Re-enact 68, Bert Stabler, AJ Kane, Mark Tribe, Winter Soldier, Paige Sarlin, Laura Gluckman, Nicole Garneau, Young Lords, Frank Edwards, Sam Greenlee, Judy Hoffman, Tracye Matthews, Kevin Gosztola, Old Left, Eric Triantafillou, Generation X, Dan S. Wang, Theaster Gates, Bob and Margo Crawford, Lincoln Park, Pete Zelchenko, Mark Shipley, Michael Thompson, Cathleen Schandelmeier, Louise Lincoln, Lumpen, and more.

This event is the culmination of a six month long "Project in Residence" at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum organized by AREA Chicago.

Map out directions here.

And then when you are done, please join us two miles away at our auction benefit party......

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Second Annual "Wants and Needs" Auction to Benefit AREA
December 6th, 2008 7-11pm
at CAMPO - 511 N Noble (In a carriage house just behind the Italian restaurant on the NE corner of Grand and Noble). See below for directions. This venue is wheelchair accessible.

Come Party and Support AREA Chicago.
Help us move towards financial sustainability with grassroots fundraising!
At 930pm there will be an emcee for a  Live "Wants-and-Needs" Auction of Skill and Resource Sharing donated by AREA friends, contributors and advisers. Bids for the Service and Skill Sharing Auction will start as low as $5. We can accept cash, check or credit card on site at the party.

Jeff Parker and Charlie Vinz will DJ, Beth Gutelius and Charlie Vinz will emcee. A photobooth by Justin Goh will be available for $5.

Proceeds from AREA's WANTS and NEEDS Party will benefit the spring 2009 issue of AREA, the "Everybody's Got Money Issues" Issue #8.

Offerings for the auction provided by: Jayne Hilleman, Rachel Wallis, Micah Maidenberg, James Tracy, Nance Klehm,  Lorenza Perelli, Mairead Case, Abigail Satinsky, Laurie Palmer, Karen Benita Biegel, Frank Edwards, Robin Hewlett, Sarah Ross, Rebecca Zorach, Bruce E. Wiest, Mark Shipley, Aay Preston-Myint, Bill Ayers, Justin Goh, Jerome Grand , Ryan hollon, and more.

Details
$10 Donation at the Door, $20 Donation for admission and a t-shirt.
To RSVP or prepay for admission, email areachicago@gmail.com
Cost of admission gets you one complimentary drink. All drinks after are for cheap donation prices.
Auction items range in cost from $5 to $100.

To see photos from last year's auction and party click here
To see a listing of last year's auction items click here
If you know you cannot make it and would still like to donate, visit http://areachicago.org/donate/

Directions
The party is at 511 N Noble (In a carriage house just behind the Italian restaurant on the NE corner of Grand and Noble). For a map click here .

• From the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, simply hop on the Halsted #8 Bus going North, then get off at Grand and either walk west to Noble or take the #65 bus going west. You will have enough time between the events to grab some italian food in the Grand/Noble area.
• From north or south, this location is extremely accessibly from the #9 Ashland Bus. Simply get off at Ashland and Grand and walk east on Grand 3 blocks to Noble.
• If you are coming from the Blue Line, simply walk 9 blocks west of the Grand stop on the blue line, or take a #65 westbound bus.
• From the Kennedy Expressway, simply exit at Ogden/Exit 50A, merge onto N Racine, turn right on W Erie, and turn left and N Noble.

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December Sunday Soup Brunch


Sunday, December 7, 2008
12:00 noon soup brunch served/1:00 pm presentation
InCUBATE
2129 N Rockwell St,
Chicago, Illinois 60647
adjacent to the historic Congress Theater
http://www.incubate-chicago.org

featured presenter: lori waxman
"streetwalking in surrealist paris: a lecture on how, why and where the surrealists walked,  with some additional thoughts on the relevance of this history for today's artists."

menu:
white bean, kalamata olive, and kale stew (made by InCUBATE-ors)some salads, bread, etc.Winter fruit galette...the weather outside is frightful but the coffee inside delightful (and hot)let's share in the warmth

a brief bio:
lori waxman is an art critic and historian who teaches part-time at the school of the art institute of chicago. she writes for artforum and modern painters, cooks almost every day, bikes everywhere, and is currently working on a doctoral dissertation about walking as an  aesthetic practice in the 20th century.


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December 9, 2008 6:00 PM
Chicago NetSquared December Meetup
at Interfaith Youth Core
910 W Van Buren St.  
4th floor
Chicago, IL 60607
Monthly social gathering of folks interested in Nonprofits & Technology

We'll revisit the "social media landscape" map produced in the last meeting and by the working group .... we'll have a presentation by Andrew Lehman and we'll map theNPO needs side of the Social Media Landscape.

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Chicago History Museum
"Black Politics & Gay Rights: Urban Governance and Social Movements in Chicago, 1960s–1980s"
Timothy Stewart-Winter, University of Chicago
Thursday, December 11, 6:00 p.m.

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Panel and Discussion with Teachers for Social Justice