Hi AREA Readers and Friends,
This is an exciting month in Chicago. Check out all the great events and actions below. Over here at AREA we are working hard on the next issue of the magazine, hosting 2 events on the 23rd and 24th (see below) and working towards our annual "Wants and Needs" auction to be held in early Dec. If you have a service or skill you think would appeal to AREA readers that you want to auction off, get in touch at areachicago@gmail.com. Also, despite the economic meltdown, we are still accepting donations to cover the next year of rent at our Logan Square office. We need $1800 more, but have received 19 generous donations ranging from $5-$200, so if you are considering donating - please do it now at http://areachicago.org/donate/

Summary for Oct. 2008 AREA "Another Chicago" Newsletter
01) 09.30 Tue - UIC Students Report Back from the RNC and DNC Protests
02) 10.01 Wed - No Wall-St/Lasalle St. Bail Out Protests
03) 10.01-12 -  Chicago Calling Festival  - Art throughout Chicago
04) 10.01 Wed - Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism at UofC
05) 10.02 Wed - Nance Klehm Wince Marking Workshop - RSVP NOW
06) 10.02 Thu - African American Male Task Force - Town Hall Meeting
07) 10.02 Thu - "1968 in Latin America" Exhibition and Panel Discussion
08) 10.04 Sat - Screening of "American Blackout" on US Elections
09) 10.05 Sun - Sunday Soup/Brunch @ InCubate
10) 10.06 Mon - Release Party and Reading for Journal of Ordinary Thought
11) 10.09 Thu  - Immigration related book release and networking event
12) 10.10 Fri - Tamms Year 10 Rally
13) 10.11 Sat - Report Back from Chicagoans who went to CR10 Prison Abolition Conference
14) 10.11 Sat - Youth Activism Training on Public Speaking
15) 10.11 Sat - Open Sewing Workshop @ Mess Hall
16) 10.11 Sat - Co-op Image Group 5th Anniversary Benefit Party
17) 10.13 Mon - Persian Dance Workshop @ Hull House Museum
18) 10.14 Tue - Art/Activism Panel with Toufic El Rassi, Coya Paz and Dan S. Wang
19) 10.16 Thu - "What is a Movement?" Panel @ SAIC
20) 10.16 Thu - Art/Activism Panel with Aay Preston-Myint, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Sarah Ross, and Zena Sakowski
21) 10.23 Thu - Intergenerational Dialog on Black Arts Movement with Bob and Margo Crawford (AREA Event)
22) 10.24 Fri - AREA/Chicago Underground Library Welcome Reception for APC magazine archive
23) 10.24 Fri - Jacques Ranciere Lecture @ UofC
24) 10.25 Sat - Symposium on Political Art @ MCA
25) 10.25 Sat - Screening of Sicko @ Freedom School
26) 10.27 Mon - Race and US History Discussion @ Hull House
27) 10.28 Tue - "Looking For Democracy" Short Film Fest

Details for Oct. 2008 AREA "Another Chicago" Newsletter

01) 09.30 Tue - UIC Students Report Back from the RNC and DNC Protests
Tuesday, September 30 5-6:30pm
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Residents' Dining Hall 800 S. Halsted 312.413.5353
Free food/drinks!

Join four UIC students in a discussion of their involvement in the recent political conventions. Focusing on the police presence at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, these students will discuss their first-hand experiences and the implications of what they witnessed in the state of American politics. W/ Monica Trinidad, Geoffrey Berkheimer, Kim Kolak, Joel Ebert.

02) 10.01 Wed - No Wall-St/Lasalle St. Bail Out Protests
No Bail-out Actions - Oct 1st - Plan Your Own Response - Take to Lasalle St.
The Wall-Street blank check bail-out, driven by corporate greed, is still moving ahead in Congress, so far without the enforceable
commitments that Jobs with Justice/JwJ and allies have insisted are needed to Save The Economy, Pronto.  Several national groups and economists agree that we can and must push for a better deal for Main Street.

On September 30, Congress is scheduled to go home to face constituents, during their election cycle break.  JwJ is counting on YOU to hit the streets on Wednesday, October 1st to make sure Congress serves Main Street before Wall Street.  We will do this Day of Action whether the Wall Street Bail-out bill has passed by then or not!!

Jobs with Justice members know that Congress needs to act strongly (but not in a panic) to address the immediate financial crisis, but we
also need a deeper, long-term restructuring of our economy so it works for everyone.

Our Demands:

• Make the people that got rich while creating the crisis pay for the clean-up
• Restructure the banking system
• Short-term:  public ownership for public assistance (i.e. equity stake
• for public cash)
• Long-term:  re-regulate private finance and expand public and
• community-owned alternatives
• Solve the housing and foreclosure crisis
• Commit to fast-tracking a true recovery plan that addresses jobs,
• infrastructure, pensions, etc.

Local JwJ coalitions are organizing actions across the country.  Find your local JwJ coalition and call or email them to find out what they are planning.  We are gathering information about what coalitions have planned, and will post a list early next week. Plan your own action for October 1st and let us know what you're planning at jwjnational@jwj.org.

Here are some ideas:

• Rally at Congressional offices
• Deliver 'trash for cash' to your federal reserve office
• Picket the banks that are asking for handouts without giving Main
• Street anything in return
• Hold a bake sale, and sell junk food to pay for Wall Street junk bonds
• Conduct a public survey asking working people what they need a bail-out for
• Now that we taxpayers have paid for your local bank, have a party there
• Invite the media to hear from people that need a "Main Street" bail-out

What's At Stake:
Over the past 30 years, conservatives successfully gutted regulation and preached 'smaller government' while millions of Americans lost good jobs and Wall Street and corporate America made record profits. Wall Street invented new, more complicated ways to make money off other people's money. Now that the party's over, Bush & Co. want to plunder the rest of us to pay the bill for Wall Street's greedy rampage. Tell Congress:  Stop the Bail-out; Pass a recovery plan, instead.

03) 10.01-12 -  Chicago Calling Festival  - Art throughout Chicago
The Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF3) takes place October 1-12, 2008, featuring Chicago-based artists collaborating in performances and projects with artists living in other locations -- both here in the U.S. and abroad. These collaborations will be prepared or improvised, and some performances will involve live feeds between Chicago and elsewhere. www.chicagocalling.org

04) 10.01 Wed - Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism at UofC
CORES - The Committee for Open Research on Economy and Society invites you to a talk by
Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism: Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys

Time: Oct 1, 7PM
Location: International House, Assembly Hall, 1414 East 59th st.
The talk will be followed by book signing.

Co-sponsors: Platypus, International House Global,Voices Lecture Program, Center for Gender Studies, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, Students for a Democratic Society

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international and New York Times bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007 The Shock Doctrine is slated to be translated into seventeen languages to date. The six-minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals and a viral phenomenon as well, downloaded over one million times. Klein's previous book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an international bestseller, translated into more than twenty-eight languages, with over a million copies in print. Klein has a regular column at The Nation and The Guardian. In 2004 her reporting from Iraq for Harper's Magazine won the
James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. The same year, she released a feature documentary about Argentina's occupied factories, The Take, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. The film was an official selection of the Venice Biennale and won the best documentary jury prize at the American Film Institute's Film Festival in Los Angeles. Klein is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King's College, Nova Scotia.

05) 10.02 Wed - Nance Klehm Wince Marking Workshop - RSVP NOW
OCTOBER 2nd - thursday - Fermenting Wine Workshop - RSVP TODAY
6-9pm – $70 ($30 deposit due by Monday, 29th)
raw & wild cider, cyser and mead pears, apples crabapples and honey!  what could be more divine? we will be pressing foraged and cultivated fruit and learning some variations on fermenting. You will go home with two bottles of fermenting beverage of your choice. "Nance Klehm" <nettlesting@yahoo.com>,  Send deposit to nance klehm 2446 south sawyer avenue  chicago, il 60623

06) 10.02 Thu - African American Male Task Force - Town Hall Meeting
A gathering to discuss Senate Bill 0776 and the condition of the African American Male: Education, Economic Stability, Health, Criminal Justice, Fatherhood.

Thursday, Oct 2 6-8:30pm
University of Ill-Chicago Student Center East 750 S Halsted

07) 10.02 Thu - "1968 in Latin America" Exhibition and Panel Discussion
Thursday, October 2, 5:00-7:00 PM.   Opening Event- 1968 in Latin America Photo Exhibit:

"The Dirty War in Mexico: Militants, Guerrilleros, and Disappeared Political Prisoners"
5:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Exhibit opening with panel discussion and reception.
Panelists:  Hugo Velázquez, Researcher University of Guadalajara, Mexico, Cecilia Hurtado, fotographer and curator of the exhibit and Felipe Ehrenberg, neólogo.

Repression, Protest and Exile-1968 was a momentous year in world history. From Prague to Paris to Mexico, youth over the world rebelled against different forms of authoritarianism, and discovered a political voice of their own in the process. Their goals and strategies were hardly the same, but their shared sense of alienation and profound distrust of authority remain a political legacy of protest and activism in “the global village”. In the fortieth anniversary of the massacre of Tlatelolco, the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at UIC has organized a set of events to reflect on the political heritage of the student movement in Mexico and Latin America, and the creation of a political Diaspora in the United States.
Location: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Residents' Dining Hall, 800 S. Halsted, 312.413.5353

08) 10.04 Sat - Screening of "American Blackout" on US Elections
 Saturday, October 4 - 1 - 3:30 pm - Screening of "American Blackout" followed by discussion about voter disenfranchisement in U.S. elections @ Chicago Freedom School (719 S State St) www.chicagofreedomschool.org

09) 10.05 Sun - Sunday Soup/Brunch @ InCubate
Sunday Soup @ Incubate 2129 N Rockwell
Sunday Oct 5th @ Noon

Sunday Soup Brunch is a monthly meal, hosted at InCUBATE's storefront space. We invite guest chefs to cook simple soups and brunch foods using local ingredients. Soup is the center of the meal because it is nourishing, economical, and easy to prepare in large batches. Other dishes and beverages complement the soup. This delicious, well-rounded brunch meal is served family-style and sold for a modest profit at $10/person. At the end of each month this income is given as a grant to support an artist initiative or community projects. Anyone can apply to receive a grant. Visitors who purchase the meal earn a spot on the grant selection committee. Grant proposals are emailed to Sunday Soup/Brunch patrons and a popular vote determines the grant recipient.

10) 10.06 Mon - Release Party and Reading for Journal of Ordinary Thought
Monday, October 6 – Where Were You:  Defining Our Place in History. Journal of Ordinary Thought/JOT Release Reading, part of the Chicago Book Festival.  Chicago Public Library  Hall Branch (4801 S. Michigan). 5:30- 7:30 p.m. Join us at the release of the latest Journal of Ordinary Thought, published by the Neighborhood  Writing Alliance.  Adult writers from neighborhoods across Chicago will explore how their personal stories connect to historical moments. This issue features a foreword by Salim Muwakkil, cover by Tony Fitzpatrick, and photographs by Forgotten Chicago's Serhii Chrucky. www.jot.org

11) 10.09 Thu  - Immigration related book release and networking event
Thursday, October 9, 6:30-8pm: Book signing and talk with Rinku Sen, publisher of Colorlines magazine and author of The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization. Immediately preceding this event will be a Networking dinner from 5:30-6:30pm for anyone who is doing work around immigration or who is interested in doing this work.

Location: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Residents' Dining Hall, UPSTAIRS,  800 S. Halsted. 312.413.5353

12) 10.10 Fri - Tamms Year 10 Rally
October 10, 2-4pm, roundtable talks with legislators, IL Dept of Corrections, and Tamms Year Ten
Bilandic building, 160 N La Salle St. across from the Thompson Center.
We need a show of force outside these negotiations. Dress Nice. See YearTen.org for updates.

13) 10.11 Sat - Report Back from Chicagoans who went to CR10 Prison Abolition Conference
10/11: Chicago CR10 Report Back
Critical Resistance's 10th Anniversary conference is over, but we're not finished!

Imagining a World without Prisons - Healing our Communities

Chicago's Citywide Report Back on CR10 (Critical Resistance 10th Anniversary Event on Prison Abolition)
Called by the Chicago chapter of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) and sponsored by local organizations.

When: Saturday, Oct. 11th, 2008 2:00-4:00pm

Where: St. Martin's Episcopal Church - 5710 W. Midway Park

The tenth-anniversary Critical Resistance conference (CR10) this September marked a major moment in the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). From across the country, many gathered in Oakland to envision a better future without prisons, when we can all live safer and healthier, and be respected as our whole selves. Uniting with many movements, we will continue on the path to creating a world without imprisonment, policing, and other forms of punishment and control.

Join us to hear reports from an array of Chicago-area activists who attended CR10. Come out to share and learn about ways you can get involved and continue to support this work.

For more information or to get involved in planning, contact:
Hannah - 847-309-6006, hwallerstein@gmail.com Toussaint - tlosier@uchicago.edu

Directions:
St. Martin's Episcopal Church is located in the historic Austin neighborhood on the west side of Chicago.

from Chicago Loop:
- Take 290W / Eisenhower Expressway west to Austin Ave.
- Exit northbound on Austin.
- One block north of Lake St., turn right on Midway Park.
- Follow Midway Park to 5710, which ends at a cul-de-sac.

via Public Transportation:
- Take the CTA Green Line El to Central station.
- Walk north on Central Ave. to Lake St.
- Head two blocks West to Waller.
- Walk one block north to Midway Park. St. Martin’s is on the left.

14) 10.11 Sat - Youth Activism Training on Public Speaking
Saturday, October 11 - 12 - 4 pm - Youth Activism Training (for ages 13 - 17)  - Topic:  08 Presidential Elections Leadership Skill:  Public Speaking @ Chicago Freedom School (719 S State St) www.chicagofreedomschool.org

15) 10.11 Sat - Open Sewing Workshop @ Mess Hall
Saturday Oct 11, 12-4 pm, Sewing Rebellion at Mess Hall (free garment production and swap/share) 6932 N GLENWOOD, MESSHALL.ORG

16) 10.11 Sat - Co-op Image Group 5th Anniversary Benefit Party
CO-OP IMAGE GROUP 5 year anniversary at Chicago Hot Glass - Oct. 11th

Join Cooperative Image Group at the Chicago Center for the Glass Arts on October 11th, 2008 to celebrate it's fifth year of operation. From 6pm to 12am the evening will be highly enjoyable featuring glass blowing demonstrations, live music, Dj's, food, cash bar and a raffle. Door tickets are $25, Pre-sale is $20. All proceeds go to benefit Cooperative Image Group and The Chicago Center for the Glass Arts (CCGA). Call (773)252-2808 to order pre-sale tickets. http://www.coopimage.org/ for more info

17) 10.13 Mon - Persian Dance Workshop @ Hull House Museum
Dance Workshop with Namah & Zarbang; Week of October 13th, EXACT TIME TBD.
Co-hosted with the Dance Center at Columbia College.

One of the few bearers of Persian dance outside of Iran where women’s dancing is banned in public, Banafsheh Sayyad and the work of her company NAMAH, aims to express the power of ancient mysticism through a combination of hypnotic trance and directed movement. Sayyad’s dance language traverses culture, weaving together the ethereal beauty of Persian dance with the physically charged and intuitive power of her own contemporary style.
Location: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Residents' Dining Hall, 800 S. Halsted. 312.413.5353

18) 10.14 Tue - Art/Activism Panel with Toufic El Rassi, Coya Paz and Dan S. Wang
"I Shall Create" with artists Toufic El Rassi, Coya Paz & Dan S. Wang
Tuesday, October 14 at 6:00pm
Hyde Park Art  Center
5020 S.  Cornell Ave.

Free. Reservations recommended. E-mail events@prairie.org or call 312.422.5580.

 Join us this evening to explore the intersection of art and struggle with three provocative Chicago artists: Toufic El Rassi, Coya Paz and Dan S. Wang. In a conversation moderated by Daniel Tucker, editor of AREA Chicago, these artists will discuss their creative work and how we can use the arts to create and imagine a more just world.

We will also celebrate the “Looking for Democracy Postcard Project” on display at Hyde Park Art  Center, featuring burning questions of the day, submitted by community members.

Co-sponsored by The Public Square, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Dropping Knowledge, Egan Urban Center at DePaul University and Hyde Park Art  Center.

19) 10.16 Thu - "What is a Movement?" Panel @ SAIC
The Platypus Affiliated Society presents:
What is a Movement?: A discussion on the meaning and direction of left political "movements" historically and today.

Panelists include:
Chuck Hendricks (UNITE-HERE)
Jorge Mujica (Movimiento 10 de Marzo)
Luis Brennan (Students for a Democratic Society)
Richard Rubin (Platypus)
and a representative from the Pomegranate Health Collective

Thursday, October 16th
7-9pm
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive (main auditorium)

20) 10.16 Thu - Art/Activism Panel with Aay Preston-Myint, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Sarah Ross, and Zena Sakowski
Artists At Work Forum: Artists and Issues that Matter

Making Art, Making Change. A discussion with Aay Preston-Myint, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Sarah Ross, and Zena Sakowski, moderated by Salem Collo-Julin
 
The four Illinois-based artists on this panel can all be described as "artist/activists" -- the en vogue term for creatives whose work often does more than just carry aesthetic weight. However, is that moniker really necessary? When and where do art and activism activity collide? Join us for a lively discussion with four artists whose past and current projects have run the gamut from advocating for prisoners to infiltrating gay pride parades.

Thursday, October 16, 6 - 7:30 pm Chicago Cultural Center, 1st Floor Garland Room 78 E. Washington St. FREE

Presented as part of Chicago Artists Month by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Chicago Cultural Center: 312.744.6630

21) 10.23 Thu - Intergenerational Dialog on Black Arts Movement with Bob and Margo Crawford (AREA Event)
Thursday, October 23, 7:00pm
at the South Side Community Art Center
3831 S. Michigan Ave.

The Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s: An Intergenerational Interview
with
Bob Crawford, photographer
and
Margo Crawford, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts

An intergenerational dialogue between Bob Crawford, a photojournalist who documented many scenes of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago (including the Wall of Respect), and his daughter Margo Crawford, a professor of African-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts and co-editor of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (2006). The discussion will address Black Arts photography, the significance of the Wall of Respect, and current Black Arts scholarship.

Co-sponsored by AREA Chicago and the "Looks Like Freedom" exhibition, DOVA Temporary Gallery (www.looks-like-freedom.com)

22) 10.24 Fri - AREA/Chicago Underground Library Welcome Reception for APC magazine archive
Friday, October 24th 2008 7-9pm
AREA and the Chicago Underground Library Welcome.....
The Alternative Press Center to Chicago!

It is a rare occasion in which two young organizations get to throw a coming out party for a 40 year old organization. But this coming October 24th, that occasion will arrive on the northwest side of Chicago. AREA and CUL are pleased to invite you to a welcome party for the Alternative Press Center, who recently relocated their impressive archive of independent media to Chicago after several decades in Baltimore. We hope that the progressive and radical librarians, academics, students, researchers, and concerned citizens of Chicago will come out for a night of complimentary drinks and snacks to say hello and welcome to APC staff and check out this new amazing local resource.

About APC
The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century, the Alternative Press Index has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world. http://www.altpress.org/

Event Details
Friday, October 24th 2008 7-9pm
2040 N. Milwaukee Ave. on the 2nd floor (Location is not handicap accessible)

Come and drink from 7-8pm and stay for a short talk on the history of the APC and contribute ideas for the new era of their organization after relocating to Chicago.

Further Info:
This event is part of AREA's Infrastructure series about cultural and political resources, networks and institutions. It also coincides with AREA's upcoming issue on the legacy of 1968 due out Dec 6th at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum. areachicago.org

The Chicago Underground Library is at underground-library.org

23) 10.24 Fri - Jacques Ranciere Lecture @ UofC
Friday, October 24, 2008, 4 pm, the University of Chicago
The Pensive Image, by Jacques Ranciere
This lecture is free and open to the public. No reservations necessary. Presented by Critical Inquiry in cooperation with the MCA and the Open Practice Committee/Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago.

One of the most influential philosophers working today, Jacques Ranciere has authored many books on topics ranging from democracy to film to aesthetics. In this keynote address, he will examine the role of images in a democracy and how art and politics are intertwined. Rancière is the 2008 Critical Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.

For more information, call Critical Inquiry at 773.704.8477 or email jww4@uchicago.edu

Part of: Disruptions: the political in art now
Bringing together influential theorists, artists, curators, and educators, this symposium explores the intersections of politics and art in the first decade of the 21st century.

24) 10.25 Sat - Symposium on Political Art @ MCA
Disruptions: the political in art now
Saturday, October 25, 2008, 11 am - 6 pm, MCA Theater220 East Chicago Avenue
Saturday program: $15 / $10 MCA members
Organized by the MCA and the University of Chicago's Open Practice Committee/Department of Visual Arts

Exploring the many ways artists inspire political action and social change, or how art can be socially useful, this day of discussion asks pertinent questions about the intersection for art and politics. How does art function politically? What is activist art? What forms of dissent are possible today, and how do artists manifest political perspectives in their practice? Speakers include artist and educator Doug Ashford; writer and videomaker Gregg Bordowitz; artist Carolina Caycedo; performer, organizer and temporary Services Member Salem Collo-Julin; dramaturge, curator, and writer Eda Cufer; cultural critic Brian Holmes; artist Simon Leung; experimental geographer and artist Trevor Paglen; artist and member of Otabenga Jones and Associates Robert Pruitt; and artist and curator Mark Tribe.

Boxed lunches: A limited number of boxed lunches are available for $10 per lunch with advance ticket sales only (through October 21) and must be ordered at the time of purchase through the Box Office at 312.397.4010. Lunch tickets are issued by the MCA Box Office and distributed with symposium tickets.

For tickets or more information call 312.397.4010. http://www.mcachicago.org/programs/prog_detail.php?id=436&page=td

25) 10.25 Sat - Screening of Sicko @ Freedom School
Saturday, October 25 - 1 - 4 pm - Screening of "Sicko" followed by discussion about health care in the U.S. @ Chicago Freedom School (719 S State St) www.chicagofreedomschool.org

26) 10.27 Mon - Race and US History Discussion @ Hull House
Monday, October 27, 5:30-7pm: Book signing and talk with David Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. An acclaimed scholar of immigration, labor, and race, David will read from his new book, How Race Survived U.S. History: From the American Revolution to the Present.
Location: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Residents' Dining Hall, 800 S. Halsted, 312.413.5353

27) 10.28 Tue - "Looking For Democracy" Short Film Fest
“Looking for Democracy” The Public Square’s First Short Film Contest
Tuesday, October 28 at 6:30pm
Columbia College, Ferguson Hall 600 S.  Michigan Ave.

Free. Reservations recommended. E-mail events@prairie.org or call 312.422.5580.
Congratulations to Grand Prize winners Brandon Hummons and Chris Frills for their short film “Hope in America.” Watch the winning shorts and discuss varied experiences of democracy with the filmmakers.

Co-sponsored by The Public Square, Independent Television Service (ITVS), Kartemquin Films, Independent Feature Project, Columbia College Television Department, and Chicago Access Network Television.