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March 2 - 23 (4 weeks)

Communiversity Course:  From the (B)lack (A)rts (M)ovement to Hip-Hop

Mondays, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

CFS Center for Social Change, 719 S. State St., Ste. 3N

Fee:  4 sessions, $15 for 21 and over, free for under 21

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Wed. 3/4

Lobby day

Training on how to talk persuasively about Tamms, and in-person lobbying of legislators in Springfield.

7:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

2638 W. Division

(or meet us around 11:00 in front of the House chamber at the capital)

PLEASE RSVP: 773-241-4155

http://www.yearten.org/

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What Would Jane Say?

by Jan Metzger, local author

Wednesday Mar 4 at 7 PM

NNWAC and Wicker Park Committee celebrate Jane Addams and other remarkable women who shaped the arts, culture and public institutions of our city.

Author Jan Metzger brings them to life in her new book, What Would Jane Say? We celebrate Women's History month with a critique of the original 100 year old Burnham Plan.  A discussion to follow includes contemporary planning in Wicker Park Bucktown, community input and the value of arts to community development, education and our quality of life.

Near NorthWest Arts Council

St Paul's Cultural Center

2215 W North Ave

Chicago, IL 60647

Call us with any questions at the email address or phone number listed below.

nnwac@nnwac.org

773.278.7677

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INCITE INSIGHT, AN INSIGHT ARTS BENEFIT

 Tickets are $50 in advance, $30 for students, and $12 for kids. We'll have some refreshments and performances from the incredibly talented Pinoy rock band Bagwis, Kreatia Dance Collective, and Lani Montreal.

 Our special guest for the night is this totally amazing band called FUNKADESI, whose music is a fusion of hip-hop, South Asian, Latin, and West Indian sounds.

 So here's the info:

 WHAT: INCITE INSIGHT, AN INSIGHT ARTS BENEFIT

 WHEN: MARCH 6, 6-10 PM

 WHERE: WILD HARE, 3530 N. CLARK

 SAVE MONEY by purchasing your tickets ahead of time! http://insightartsliberation.org/donate.html. Prices go up at the door!

 If you've ever used the space at Insight Arts for your workshops, rehearsals, events or performances; if you've ever been to a study group, and contemplated what it would be like to have an African-American president before Barack Obama came into power; if you've ever done arts and crafts here or been wowed by an artwork, a performance or a reading, here's your chance to give back...

 Insight Arts funding has been cut drastically as a result of the recession. As we all know, arts funding is the first to go when the going gets tough in government and elsewhere. And so because of this, we're having a big fundraiser that's coming up on MARCH 6 at the WILD HARE in WRIGLEYVILLE.

 We hope to raise a lot of money to be able to continue our youth programming and other arts events we have at the space including the monthly open mics: Queering the Night and Women Out Loud! And the art gallery we have at the Center for New Possibilities on 1505 W. Morse.

 I know times are tough, but if you are still interested to donate whatever amount, do please check out our website at www.insightartsliberation.org. Otherwise, come have fun and dance the night away at INCITE INSIGHT!

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Fri. 3/6

Revolutionary Experiment in Noise: Rock show with Tamms content

9:00 p.m.

2428 N. Western Avenue

FOR MORE INFORMATION: call 773-241-4155

http://www.yearten.org/

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Robert Mapplethorpe: Artist and Activist

Saturday, March 7, 2 to 4 pm

Block Museum of Art

40 Arts Circle Drive

A discussion of Mapplethorpe’s influence on contemporary photography, issues of the body and sexuality, and activism. A reception follows the event.

Participants:

• Sylvia Wolf, director of the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, and curator of the exhibition Polaroids: Mapplethorpe

• Marisa Cardinale, former collections consultant for the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.

• Jeffrey McCune Jr., assistant professor of American studies and women’s studies, University of Maryland

• Catherine Opie, photographer

• Moderated by Lane Relyea, assistant professor of art theory & practice, Northwestern University

A podcast will be available a few weeks after this event. This event is sponsored by the Gender Studies Program, Northwestern University.

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Sunday March 8th

InCUBATE Presents Sunday Soup @ the Orientation Center - 2129 N Rockwell 12pm

Sunday, March 8, 2008

12:00 noon soup brunch served

1:00 pm presentation

at InCUBATE

2129 N Rockwell St,

Chicago, Illinois 60647

adjacent to the historic Congress Theater

http://www.incubate-chicago.org

Sunday Soup Brunch is open to the public

$10/person

Featured presenter:

Daniel Kerr of The Neo-Futurists

http://www.neofuturists.org/

"The Neo-Futurists are a collective of wildly productive writer/director/performers who create:

-Theater that is a fusion of sport, poetry, and living-newspaper.

-Non-illusory, interactive performance that conveys our experiences and ideas as directly and honestly as possible.

-Immediate, unreproducable events at headslappingly affordable prices.

We embrace those unreached or unmoved by conventional theater-inspiring them to thought, feeling, and action."

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Revolutions Conference: March 9-12

www.neiu.edu/~acdevelo/Revolutions.html

2009... 60 years since the Chinese Revolution; 50 since the Cuban Revolution; 30 since the Iranian and Nicaraguan Revolutions; and 20 years since the Velvet Revolution and the “Revolutions of 1989” in the former Soviet Bloc.

What are the legacies of these revolutions? What lessons have we learned — or perhaps failed to learn — from them? What is revolution, and does it have a future? If so, how will revolutions yet to come resemble those of the past? Or is the era of revolution, , as some have argued, over? If it is, what form(s) will social transformation take in the years ahead?

These are just some of the questions that historians and sociologists, political scientists and political activists from across the globe will explore and debate at The Past and Future(s) of Revolutions: A Global Exploration, a major four-day conference March 9-12 (Monday-Thursday)

at Northeastern Illinois University. It is free and open to the public.

LOCATION

Student Union Building | Northeastern Illinois University | 5500 N. St. Louis Ave.

(Use campus entrance located at 3701 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.)

SPEAKERS

SCHEDULE

EVENING KEYNOTE PANELS [7:00 p.m. Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday]

CO-SPONSORS: The Nation | Critical Inquiry | In These Times | The Common Review | Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture

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The goal of Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) is to erase the GIS digital divide by providing access to geographic information technologies among traditionally marginalized citizens, in order to enable better participation in planning and policy tasks.  Over the last decade, PPGIS initiatives have been undertaken across the world.  Within the United States, PPGIS initiatives have enabled inner-city community organizations to use GIS in their organizing and planning tasks.  In this lecture, Dr. Ghose will explore the often complex and contradictory process of participation and spatial knowledge production among inner-city community organizations in Milwaukee.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Loyola University Chicago, Mundelein Auditorium
1020 W. Sheridan Rd. (6400 north; NE corner of Sheridan & Kenmore) Chicago, IL
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=50830414062&ref=nf

Dr Vandana Shiva, winner of the 1993 alternative Nobel Peace prize (the right Livelihood Award), is a dynamic, provocative thinker and commentator on the environment, women's issues, and international affairs. She's the author of numerous books, including Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace, and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. Dr. Shiva is a founding board member of the International Forum on Globalization and the founder of Navdanya International, a science and policy research center based
in India.

Sponsored by the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership and the Women's Studies and Gender Studies Program of Loyola University, as part of the Women’s History Month Keynote and Baum Speaker Series.

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Dates:  March 12 – April 30 (8 weeks)

Communiversity Course  The Life and Death of the West Side Community – A Community Theatre Project

Time:  Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Place:  Franklin Park Fieldhouse, 4320 W. 15th St.

Fee:  8 sessions, $25 for 21 and over, free for under 21

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March 13, 2009, 05:30 PM

Annual Crossroads Fund Benefit.

Chicago Cultural Center, GAR Hall 77 E. Randolph, Chicago, Illinois

Get tickets and more information. http://crossroadsfund.org/2009Benefit.html

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Saturday March 14th Noon

Antiwar Rally

Marshall Boulevard & Cermak Road

(2 blocks from the "California" stop on the Pink Line "el")

http://chicagomassaction.org/

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Jack Cave and Gary Gonzalez, UNDER THE RADAR Chicago fashion designers, will reveal their collection "EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW."  

Drag Queen Bake Sale, ROBOT LOUNGE, and a Memory Photo Booth are part of the fun.  All of the proceeds to the show will be donated to the Jane Addams Hull-House Kitchen and Farm.  Please click here to buy tickets- $75.00 and $25.00 for students.

Friday, March 13 6:30pm

Gallery 1028 - 1028 N. Hooker Street, Chicago, IL

"Redefining and respecting what was and using it as a foundation to create a cool luxurious contemporary style" is how Cave describes the inspiration behind this collection. The amazing clothes to be featured are created out of vintage clothes, recycled and embellished with new styles. Our theme for the evening is EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW, underscoring that the historic issues we discuss and examine at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum-such as women's rights, immigrants' rights, fair labor, free speech and juvenile justice-are more relevant today than ever before.  

About the Hull-House Kitchen:

The kitchen at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum serves as a public forum, a museum exhibit, a learning center and a laboratory. The Hull-House kitchen will act as a bridge for linking history with analytical and forward thinking about critical food issues that face our society today and innovative community practices and action. 

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Saturday, March 14

Youth Activism Training:  Gender and Hip Hop

12 - 4 pm

CFS Center for social Change, 719 S. STate St., Ste 3N

Open to youth ages 14 - 21; Free

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BLACK WOMEN and HIV/AIDS.

Crown Center Auditorium

Tuesday March 17, 2008

7:30 pm

"Marilyn McBride, AIDS Advocate, Lobbyist, Case Manager and Public Speaker will be speaking on the HIV/AIDS epidemic among Black Women in America. Additionally, Katrina Holmes, prevention program manager of HIV services at Access Community Health Center, will be discussing the methods used to create awareness about AIDS amongst black women and services provided in the black community."

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Thursday, 19 March 2009, 5:30 PM reception, 6 PM lecture

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Dates:  March 21 – May 9 (8 weeks)

Communiversity Course:  Resistance through the Arts Then and Now: Moments of Change in the U.S. Prison System

Time:  Saturdays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Place:  Center for New Possibilities, 1505 W. Morse Rd.

Fee:  8 sessions, $25 for 21 and over, free for under 21

www.chicagofreedomschool.org

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March 23 2009

Tariq Ali -  'The Road to Gaza: US Policies and Israel'

Venue to be Confirmed, 7pm

Contact zafar@eastwest.edu.

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Dates: March 23 – May 8

Communiversity Course:  The History of Gangs in Chicago

Place: online (two in-person sessions on dates to be announced)

Fee:  8 sessions, FREE for all ages

Check out the introductory video here: http://web.me.com/huk730/Site/Movie.html.

www.chicagofreedomschool.org

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24 March, 2009

 Loyola University, Chicago

Tariq Ali -

Lecture 'Dissent and Diversity in Islam'

Galvin Auditorium -6339 N Sheridan Rd, 7pm

Contact Marcia Hermansen, Director, Islamic World Studies Program

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Tuesday, March 24

Film and Discussion:  "Young, Jewish and Left"

6 - 8:30 pm

CFS Center for Social Change, 719 S. State St., STe. 3N

www.chicagofreedomschool.org

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Thursday, March 26

Adultism Training

6 - 7:30 pm

CFS Center for Social Change, 719 S. State St., STe. 3N

free for youth ages 14 - 20; $5 for 21 and over

 www.chicagofreedomschool.org

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TEMPORARY LAUGHTER : A FUNDRAISER FOR THE SAN LUCAS WORKERS CENTER

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Call for Summer Instructors!

Applications accepted until Friday, April 17, 2009

The Chicago Freedom School is seeking Instructors who will design and lead 14-hour courses for youth ages 14 - 16 enrolled in the 2009 Freedom Fellowship Summer Institute. Instructors can be activists, teachers, community members, and/or professionals interested in working with young people.  Instructors will design creative and engaging courses that emphasize the real life experience of young people as well as their achievements, identity, and collective status in the world. People of color, young people, people with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ community are strongly encouraged to apply.

Each course must speak to one of the four following areas:

1. Leadership Development (The toolbox of a leader)

2. Current Issues/Socio-Political Consciousness  (The BIG picture)

3. Movement-building Strategies (What it takes to build a movement)

4. Research and Documentation  (How research relates to action)

All summer courses will be taught with a popular education approach.  CFS defines popular education courses as those designed to raise the consciousness of the youth participants and allow them to become more aware of how their own personal experiences are connected to larger social issues. Participants are empowered to act to effect change on the problems that affect them. It empowers participants and acknowledges that the community is the source of knowledge. This approach should influence class structure, reading materials, activities and projects. Within this context, we encourage nontraditional and experimental ways of teaching, and are willing to consider different possibilities.  

The deadline for proposals is Friday, April 17, 2009.  For more information about the Freedom Fellowship and how to apply, please click HERE for our job posting on Idealist.org or download the description from our website:  www.chicagofreedomschool.org.

We look forward to hearing from you!  Please feel free to forward this announcement widely.

Chicago Freedom School

CFS is an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, age, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, HIV serostatus, disability, or marital status.

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Version>09 Festival

Call for proposals: http://www.lumpen.com/V9/program.html

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Finding Our Roots: 3rd Annual Anarchist Conference

This year's theme is SPACE

Call for proposals here http://mayfirst.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/call-for-workshop-proposals-2/