Hey everyone,
We hope that you join us this weekend as AREA and several other organizations all present at the two day "FAIR: 2 Day Local Maker and Publisher Fair" over at UIC's gallery 400 on the 26th and 27th (details here). We also hope to see you out and some of these great events (most of these events are in the first half of the month so we may send out another calendar for the second half as we get new events in. Dont forget to send your events to us at areachicagocalendar@gmail.com). And remember, if you would like to join the currently running Capitalism reading group, the next meeting is on March 3rd (Details are here). Forward this email to your friends, cause you never know what people know. And visit for our archives http://areachicago.org and to sign up on the mailing list (see the "Another Chicago" section)!
March Event Summary:
01) Thursday, March 4 - Forgotten Chicago Silent Auction
02) March 5-21 - DIRT Festival @ Links Hall (3 weekends of performance about land)
03) Friday, March 5 - Harold Jefferies Drawing Event & "You're Gonna Miss Me" screening
04) Saturday, March 6 - The Free Store last day at Gallery 400 @ UIC
05) Saturday, March 6 - Brian Holmes Lecture @ UIC
06) Sunday, March 7 - ARC Potluck with wide range of local activist leaders
07) Monday, March 8 - International Women’s Day + Revolution@ News&Letters
08) Tuesday, March 9 - US Social Forum Info Session
09) Tuesday, March 9 - Sex Documentary Screening Series @ Hull House
10) Wednesday March 10 - Amy Franceschini lecture on agriculture and art
11) Wednesday March 10 - peace party @ simones for Metro Tenants Org
12) March 12-13 - Chicago Zine Fest
13) Two great shows @ National Museum of Mexican Art
March Event Details:
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Thursday, March 4, 8 pm
Forgotten Chicago Silent Auction & Chicago's 173rd Birthday Bash
Cunneen's Pub, 1424 W Devon, Chicago
http://forgottenchicago.com
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March 5-21
Fri & Sat at 8 pm / Sun at 7pm
post show opening night reception
Tickets $15 ($12 online)
DIRT CHEAP FESTIVAL PASS $25 (good for all performances)
DIRT: LAND/USE
curated by Links Hall Artistic Associate Deke Weaver
featuring Temporary Services, Bonnie Fortune, Daniel Tucker, Mike & Al Fleming, Kevin Hamilton, Audrey Petty, Temporary Travel Office, Jennifer Monson, BD Collier, Karin Hodgin-Jones, Nadia Jassim, Daniel Rudin, Steve May and Ryan Thompson, Jennifer Allen, Nadia Jassim, Steve May, Chris Peck, Marissa Perel, and Zoe Schwartz.
Three weekends of performance, dance, readings and videos about how we shape the land and how the land shapes us.
Details @ http://www.linkshall.org/10-pp-marFest.shtml
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Friday, March 5, 2-6 pm (movie starts at 4 pm)
Harold Jefferies Drawing Event & "You're Gonna Miss Me" screening
part of Art Work exhibition at Gallery 400, UIC
Gallery 400, 400 S Peoria, Chicago
Harold will draw money in exchange for money or other items. Followed by screening of You're Gonna Miss Me, documentary about musician Roky Erickson
http://gallery400.blogspot.com/
http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/
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Saturday, March 6, Noon-8 pm
The Free Store last day at Gallery 400, UIC
Come take everything please.
Gallery 400, 400 S Peoria, Chicago
http://gallery400.blogspot.com/
http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/
http://freestorechicago.org
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Saturday, March 6, 6-8 pm
Reading Room: Half Letter Press presents Brian Holmes discussing his work
at Gallery 400, 400 S Peoria, Chicago
http://gallery400.blogspot.com/
http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/
http://www.halfletterpress.com
http://brianholmes.wordpress.com
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ARC 09 Potluck: Another Chicago is Possible
Sunday, March 7
2-5pm
At Chicago ACTS
1400 W. Hubbard Street
Join a broad group of activists and organizers, including Barbara Ransby, Aaron Hughes, Laurie Jo Reynolds, and Dave Stovall, to discuss recent lessons learned from local struggles, and think about what another Chicago might look like. We are planning and preparing to participate in the US Social Forum this June, and hope that this conversation will help us to think about what Chicago can contribute to the process, and how our communities can work and struggle together.
ARC Potlucks are a chance to take pause and break bread on a regular basis- to check in with each other, to sustain ourselves. To set the table for building relationships and putting together perspectives. We hope you'll be able to join us!
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International Women’s Day, Revolution, and Karl Marx’s Concept of the Man/Woman Relationship
DATE: Monday, March 8, 2010
International Women’s Day
TIME: 6:30 PM
PLACE: News & Letters Library
228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
Speaker: Terry Moon, women’s liberation activist and writer, “Woman as Reason” columnist for News & Letters
Today women face a world mired in wars and conflict from Congo to Afghanistan where they often face an unspeakable brutality. Yet what the dialectics of revolution reveal is that they never stop fighting for their freedom. That reality can be summed up in one word--Iran.
Whereas women on the ground never stop fighting for liberation, has theory matched their Reason? Many don’t see women’s struggle as part of Marxism, but as something that must be added on, or worse, women are told that they must wait until after revolution for freedom.
arise@newsandletters.org www.newsandletters.org
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Tuesday, March 9th
6pm - 8pm
US Social Forum Info Session
Join Chicago's Road to Detroit!
Access Living 115 Chicago Avenue
http://ussf2010.org/
http://roadtodetroit.blogspot.com/
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March 9
SEX+++ Documentary Film Series
Hull-House Museum, 800 S Halsted
Join us every 2nd Tuesday at 7pm for a new film on positive sexuality. This month: The Sacred Prostitute. This documentary takes us into the world of the ancient and modern sacred sexuality teacher/healer/ceremonialist, a world where sexual energy is a catalyst in the spiritual quest — a world where “sexual” and “spiritual” are intrinsically the same.
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The Revolution will Be Cultivated
Amy Franceschini
Mar 10, 2010, 6 pm
Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610
www.free-soil.org and http://www.futurefarmers.com/
Seating is limited. Please RSVP to rsvp@grahamfoundation.org.
Accessibility: Please call 312.787.4071 to make arrangements.
http://www.grahamfoundation.org/madlener/previouslectures.asp
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peace party @ simones
a benefit for the metropolitan tenants organization
Wednesday, March 10th 8pm-2am
@ Simone's Bar 960 W 18th St.
For 25 years the Metropolitan Tenant's Organizations has been fighting
for safe and affordable housing by empowering tenants to organize
against slumlords and by operating a tenants rights hotline to help
inform Chicago tenants on their rights. Come support the cause and
welcome mto into the neighborhood as we have recently relocated to
Pilsen after years on the northside.
Featuring live Jazz by Doug Rosenberg
DJ's Naomi Walker and Dave Marques + more!
5 dollar suggested donation plus 25% of sales to benefit mto!
www.tenants-rights.org
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Chicago Zine Fest
March 12-13
The Chicago Zine Fest is an independent event creating an outlet for small press and independent publishers to showcase their work. Our goal is to make DIY zine-making accessible, highlight the talents of self-published artists, and give independent artists a chance to interact, and swap skills through tabling, lectures, and workshops.
The Chicago Zine Fest will be comprised of a night of zine festivities, followed by a day of exhibiting!
Friday - Zine Reading at Quimby's Bookstore, 7pm
Zine-related Art Opening and meet and greet at Johalla Projects*, 7-10:30pm
Showing of the Gadabout Film Festival at Johalla Projects*, 10:30pm
Saturday - A day of zine exhibiting at the Conaway Student Center, Columbia College, 10am - 5pm
http://www.chicagozinefest.org
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Now @ National Museum of Mexican Art
www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org
1852 West 19th Street
Chicago, IL 60608-2706
(312) 738-1503
Rastros y Cronicas Since 1993, more then 500 women have been killed in Ciudad Juárez in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. For some time now, Mexican and Mexican American artists have been sensitive to the subject of Women of Juarez and have worked on diverse projects to share their perspective on this disturbing situation. The thought provoking pieces throughout the exhibition serve as a chronicle of the struggles of Mexican women and the grievous deaths in Ciudad Juárez. By generating awareness, the artwork supports the cause of the victims’ families who search for justice and truth. The artists of Rastros y Crónicas compel the viewer to comprehend and sympathize with what the victims endured and what the living continue to face. In this way, our generation and future generations will not forget or ignore the loss of life in Ciudad Juárez. (Exhibits runs through July 4, 2010)
Translating Revolution: U.S. Artists Interpret Mexican Murals This unique exhibition examines the influence of Mexican muralists on U.S. visual culture and the subsequent re-invention of the mural movement in the U.S. Artists from east to west gleaned inspiration from the Mexican mural in numerous ways. Some of the artists visited Mexico for months, while others stayed a lifetime and became Mexican citizens. (Opening Reception February 12; exhibit runs through August 1, 2010)
