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
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 9thNew 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.
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/