Happy spring Chicago! A special thanks to everyone who came out for May Day this year and to all the contributors who proposed texts/projects for our Summer07 publication on education. Remember, when we send out a Call For Proposals we need you to send it to your networks so we continue to expand the AREA contributor base and hear more about the important work you are all engaged in - Thanks to those of you who do that. + Please don't forget to register for the important June 21-24 conference Education for Liberation, if you do so by this weekend you'll still get the cheap rate! www.edliberation.org/conference
Summary: Another Chicago #8 May17-June17
1) 05.17 Dance Tonight to Support Chicagoans Going to US Social Forum!
2) 05.17 Lecture: Exhibiting Islamic Art in a Post-9/11 World
3) 05.18 First Annual Social Justice Student Exposition
4) 05.18 From Boston: Institute for Infinitely Small Things Open House @ Mess Hall
5) 05.18 Higher Education in the New Deal Era of the USA
6) 05.18-24 Sacco and Vanzetti Anarchist Documentary @ Facets
7) 05.19 Urban Foraging Walk with Nance Klehm
8) 05.19 Young Women's Leadership in the Civil Right's Mvmt Screening/Discussion
9) 05.19 Graffitecture:Chicago Graffiti Artists Attack Photographic Spaces
10) 05.19 Iraq War Photos @ Vietnam Vet Art Museum
11) 05.19-20 Brief Serious Art Reviews/Critiques Given To Artists for Free
12) 05.21 Labor & Class in Chicago City Council Elections - a presentation
13) 05.23 Lecture about Art, Dirt and Tree Houses @ Gallery400
14) 05.24-28 Eyes Wide Open Iraq War Public Installation/Exhibit @ Grant Park
15) 05.27 American Rev 2 Screening About Chicago New Left Revolutionaries
16) 05.31 Deadline for Proposals to New Local Art Space: "3wallsSOLO"
17) 05.31 I-GO Party @ Metro
18) 05.31-06.03 Lets Talk About Sex Conference w/ SisterSong
19) 06-01-06.07 LUNATIC(a)S Presented by Teatro Luna: Chicago°Øs only All-Latina Theater Company
20) 06.02 and 06.09 Lucky Pierre Performance @ Hideout
21) 06.07 Monthly Meeting of Chicago Tenant Congress - Get Together!
22) 06.15 Congress Hotel Strikers Fourth Anniversary Mass Picket
23) 06.16 Festival of Political Emotion @ Gallery 400
1+ CAAAELII Needs Technology Center Volunteers
2+ FREE Collaborative Bike Repair Clinics Every Saturday
3+ Living Kitchen: New Urban Food Workshops with Nance Klehm - Sign Up!
4+ Do you know members of Chicago New Left 60s/70s groups? Help uncover some history!
5+ Pedagogical Factory at Hyde Park Art Center this Summer: Call for Collaborators!
6+ Register for Education For Liberation Conference This June!
7+ Pathogeographies Events Series Throughout May and June
8+ A new email list-serv for critical/social/activist art practices in Chicago
9+ Call for Participation in Barrio Arts Fest from Inst. of PR Arts and Culture
10+ Bike-In Rooftop Cinema @ Heaven Gallery Every Wed Night @ 8pm
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Details: Another Chicago #8 May-June
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1)==================================================
Event Dates: Thursday May 17th
Funky Buddha Lounge (728 W. Grand)
Help raise money for the United States Social Forum ( http://www.ussf2007.org/). Directions and details on the Funky Buddha are at http://www.funkybuddha.com/
When you get to the door make sure you say "US Social Forum." You will get in for $7 before 11pm and $10 after 11pm. All your entry fee will go towards USSF fundraising efforts. Your money will help get low-income folks down to Atlanta for this historic event.
Chicago groups participating in the USSF process include: Southside Together Organizing for Power, Hip Hop Congress, Coalition to Protect Public Housing, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Southwest Youth Collaborative, Access Living, Blocks Together, Jobs With Justice, Insight Arts, and a growing list of others. It's not too late to get involved!
2)==================================================
Event date: Thursday May 17th, 2007 6:30 pm @ Smart Museum of Art
Exhibiting the Middle East in a Post-9/11 World
Consider the political and cultural implications of exhibiting Islamic
art in the West during a lecture by Linda Komaroff, Curator of Islamic
Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In conjunction with the exhibition "Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the
David Collection, Copenhagen" on view at the Smart Museum of Art through
May 20, 2007.
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 773-702-0200
3)==================================================
Event Dates: Friday, May 18, 2007, 9:30 - 5:00pm
First Annual Social Justice Student Exposition
UIC Student Center East Rm. 302 750 S. Halsted
Interested in learning what Chicago High School youth have to say
about Gentrification, The Iraq War, School Closings, Pollution,
Hip-Hop and many other social issues?
Join the Chicago Youth Initiating Change (CYIC) as they present their
research projects and lead workshops on social justice issues
9:30-11:30am Registration & Fair
1-4pm Workshops
4-5pm Talent Show
http://www.uic.edu/educ/ceje/
antonmiglietta(at)sbcglobal.net for more details
4)==================================================
Event Dates: Friday, May 18 8pm @ Mess Hall (www.messhall.org)
The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, a performance
research collaborative based in Cambridge, MA, will be hanging out at an open-house at Mess Hall.
http://www.ikatun.com/institute/infinitelysmallthings/
Please stop by to hear about their most recent project in Chicago which was a part of: Pathogeographies: Or, Other People's Baggage - A project/event series organized by Feel Tank Chicago ( http://feeltankchicago.net/)
Please email pathogeographies@uchicago.edu for more information.
5)==================================================
Event Date: May 18, Fri, 3:30 pm, Newberry Library, 60 W Walton
A PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY: HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NEW DEAL
Christopher Loss of University of Virginia discusses role of
higher education in delivering services & programs to citizens
6)==================================================
Event Dates: May 18-24, Fri-Thu, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
FILM: SACCO & VANZETTI
Peter Miller's spellbinding documentary
Info: www.facets.org,
www.willowpondfilms.com/sacco_and_vanzetti.html
7)==================================================
Event Date: Saturday May 19
Urban Forage Walk from 2-4pm.
rain or shine meet on the steps of garfield
park's gold dome at 2pm. (on central park just
south of lake street) we will meet trees and
shrubs as well as aquatic plants that are good
edible and medicinal forages for humans as well
as other creatures. this walk is by donation.
see you there!
8)==================================================
Event Dates: Saturday May 19th @ 2 to 5 p.m.
The Chicago Freedom School and the Jane Addams Hull House Museum Present Young Women's Leadership in the Civil Right's Mvmt Screening/Discussion
Location: Jane Addams Hull House Museum, 800 S. Halsted ®C This location is wheelchair accessible.
Screening: Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders, A film by Joan Sadoff, Dr. Robert Sadoff and Laura J. Lipson
Discussion: Barbara Ransby ®C Ella Baker and SNCC and Young Women°Øs Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement.
THIS IS A YOUTH-FRIENDLY EVENT!!! We invite young people ages 13 and over to attend this screening and discussion. If you are bringing a group, please RSVP to csfs_youth@yahoo.com by May 10th 2007.
9)==================================================
Event Dates: Saturday, May 19th at 2:00 pm
Front Forty Press: Doug Fogelson, Dan De Los Monteros, David Castillo
Describing their process as one of "blind collaboration," Front Forty
Press recently invited a host of Chicago graffiti artists to work on top
of photographs of architectural interiors and exteriors. The result is a
very handsome, straightforward publication entitled "Graffitecture:
Chicago Graffiti Artists Attack Photographic Spaces." 5811 South Ellis,
Cobb Hall, Room 402. FREE
The Renaissance Society http://www.renaissancesociety.org
10)==================================================
Event Date: May 19, Sat, 1:30 pm, Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, 1801 S Indiana
PHOTO EXHIBIT: A CONCRETE OF IMAGES: BACK FROM IRAQ
Opening reception of photos & paintings by three veterans
of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Info: www.nvvam.org/index.htm
11)==================================================
Event Date: May 19, Sat, and May 20 12-6pm @ 6932 NORTH GLENWOOD AVE
ART CRITIC LORI WAXMAN TO PERFORM AT MESS HALL. BRIEF, SERIOUS REVIEWS GUARANTEED TO ALL
ARTISTS ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS. http://messhall.org
The short review is at once a challenge, an insult, a record, and a piece of
advertising. Its purpose is debatable and arguably quite different for the
various parties involved: the writer gets a tear sheet, a couple of bucks,
and some editorial gratification; the reader, in the best case scenario,
gets a succinct, opinionated description of a body of work they probably did
not see in person; and the artist gets published recognition and an entry
for their bibliography. But think, for a moment, of the artist who has never
been reviewed. Do you need a review to get a show? You need a show to get a
review.
Installed in the storefront of Mess Hall, an experimental culture center in
Rogers Park, Chicago, critic Lori Waxman and receptionist Ron Song will
receive artists in need of reviews between the hours of noon and six p.m. on
Saturday, May 19, and Sunday, May 20. Reviews will be scheduled and written
in twenty minute increments between those hours only. Reviews will be
signed, published, and ready for pick-up within the time frame of the
performance.
Previous installments of the 60 wrd/min art critic have been performed at
the DUMBO Arts Festival 2005 and at P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, both in
New York. Reviews have been excerpted in The Believer magazine.
For more information about the 60 wrd/min art critic, contact lori.waxman@nyu.edu.
12)==================================================
Event Date: May 21, Mon, 5:30 pm, Chicago Labor Education Program
Rice Building Suite 110, 815 W VanBuren
THE POLITICS OF THE WORKING CLASS:
LABOR & THE CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS
Discussants: Jorge Ramirez of Chicago Federation of Labor,
Jerry Morrison of Service Employees International Union-Illinois State
Council
13)==================================================
Event Date: Wed May 23 6pm
Gallery 400 - 400 N Peoria.
People Powered: People Powered talks Dirt
Jamie Topper: The construction of an Illinois House in a Tree
Events are part of Urban Warp/ Weft which is an investigation of the aesthetic imagination of
"re-use", "recycle" and "green", current buzzwords in Chicago art and
politics. Initiators Browder and Keeler have established a blog as part of that research
process. Please visit: http://urbanwarpweft.blogspot.com/
14)==================================================
Event Dates: May 24-28
Eyes Wide Open @ Grant Park (Jackson and Columbus Drive)
An exhibition on the Human Cost of the Iraq War
Organized by American Friends Service Committee
afsc.org/eyes
For more info email epolley@afsc.org
15)==================================================
Event Date--May 27, Sun, 1 pm, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2
Mike Gray & Howard Alk's brilliant 1969 documentary on
the 1968 Democratic Convention protests, a critique of the events
by working class African-Americans in Chicago, & attempts
by the Black Panther Party to organize poor white youths
on the north side
16)==================================================
Event Dates: Thursday May 31
New Local Projects Exhibition Space Looking for Applicants
The ThreeWalls (www. three-walls.org) artist residency program that started about 3 years ago in town has opened a new space called "solo" is intended to offer up exhibition space and resources (up to $500 materials stipend + promo) for Chicago based artists (individuals and groups) to show new art projects.
17)==================================================
Event Dates: Thursday May 31 I-GO Party @ Metro www.igocars.org
18)==================================================
Event Dates: May 31-June 3
Sistersong Presents, "Let's Talk About Sex" 2nd National Conference and 10th Anniversary
Wyndham Hotel, 6810 N. Mannheim Road, Rosemont.
Workshops and plenaries will cover "birth control, senior sexuality, STDs, microbicides, gynecological health and wellness, erotica, militarism, and more, all through a reproductive justice lens." Costs vary ($10, youth to $300, organizations) Early bird registration ends April 30. Learn more and register at www.sistersong.net or call 404-344-9629.
19)==================================================
Event Dates: June 1-7
What: LUNATIC(a)S Presented by Teatro Luna: Chicago°Øs only All-Latina Theater Company
Where: Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago, Chicago, IL
When: PREVIEWS: June 1st, 2nd and 3rd 2007
OPENING: Thursday June 7th, 2007
RUNS FROM: June 7th to July 15, 2007.
Thursdays @ 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays @ 8pm, and Sundays @ 3pm,
Who: PERFORMED: by Belinda Cervantes, Maritza Cervantes, Gina Cornejo, Yadira Correa, Miranda Gonzalez, and Suzette Mayobre.
DIRECTED AND DEVELOPED BY: Tanya Saracho
How Much?: PREVIEWS: $10, $7 Students (ID required)
GENERAL: $15, $10 Students (ID required), Groups of 8 or more, $12
For Reservations: Call 773-878-LUNA
For more information visit: www.teatroluna.org
As all Teatro Luna shows, LUNATIC(a)S is performed in English with a sprinkle of Spanish.
20)==================================================
Event Dates: Saturdays June 2 & 9, ALL SHOWS AT 5PM, $10, 21+
luckypierre.org Presents ROCK & ROLL: IMPATIENCE FINAL 2 CHICAGO PERFORMANCES
@ The Hideout 1354 W Wabansia (near Elston)
21)==================================================
Event Dates: June 7:
Monthly meeting of the Community Congress of Tenants. At MTO's offices - 1180 N. Milwaukee Avenue. 6pm-8pm. www.tenants-rights.org
22)==================================================
Event Dates: 6/15 Congress Hotel Strikers Fourth Anniversary Mass Picket
23)==================================================
Event Dates: Festival of Political Emotion
On June 16, the first Saturday of the Pathogeographies exhibition,
Feel Tank will host a Festival of Political Emotion at Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC)
including a chance to participate in George Bush's daily thoughts
about Iraq. The festival embraces a variety of projects with artists
on hand to elicit your participation and measure the emotional
temperature of the body politic. How do you carry your pile of
political feelings? How do you cope with Other People's Baggage? What
is to be felt, and what is to be done? (http://feeltankchicago.net/
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+++++++++ ONGOING EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION ++++++++++++
===================================================================
1+ CAAAELII Needs Technology Volunteers
The Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European, and Latino Immigrants of Illinois has a new public access computer lab @ 4300 N. Hermitage Ave
Interested in volunteering to supervise open lab time or teaching technology classes? Contact Marc Kelley @ 773 248 1019
==================================================
2+ Collaborative Bike Repair Clinics with Chicago Community Bike Project
Every Other Saturday Noon-7pm FREE!
@ West Town Bikes 2418 W. North (in back)
May 12/26 June 9/23 July 14/28
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3+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Living Kitchen: New Urban Food Workshops
If you've never gotten a chance to join local artist-gardner-ecologist Nance Klehm's urban food workshops, you are in for a treat this spring. Klehm has just announced a new series of "Living Kitchen" workshops that will include foraging for food in the urban landscape, cheese-making, pickling, sourdough and medicine. According to Klehm, "Living Kitchen is about direct experience with what is living and growing around us, new tastes, simple food-making processes, and sharing with others." Contact Nance @ nettlesting@yahoo.com for more information
5/27, Sunday, 1-5pm - $70 Raw Cheese
6/16, Saturday 2-4pm by donation**, urbanforage walk, location TBA
6/24, Sunday, 1-5pm - $50 local medicine herbal tinctures/salves/syrups/lozenges and teas
==================================================
4+ Help Uncover Hidden History
Currently looking for veterans of JOIN Community Union, the Young Patriots Organization and Rising Up Angry to interview for a book on community organizing of poor whites during the sixties. Did you belong to one of these groups or work with them? If so, we want your story. Please contact James Tracy at partisanblock@earthlink.net or (415) 260-9496.
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5+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Pedagogical Factory
Exploring Strategies for an Educated City
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL USA
July 22-September 23, 2007
For updated information visit our site at http://www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
Contact Jim Duignan at factory07@gmail.com
On July 28, AREA and the Neighborhood Writing Alliance/Journal of Ordinary Thought will sponsor a symposium dealing with informal educational practices geared towards adults at the HPAC. (see www.jot.org for more information)
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6+ Announcement/Call For Participation
REGISTER NOW FOR CHEAP REGISTRATION - VISIT THE WEBSITE
Please register to attend Free Minds, Free People online at www.edliberation.org/conference. The conference will take place in Chicago at Little Village/Greater Lawndale High School, 3120 S. Kostner Ave from June 21st to June 24th 2007.
==================================================
7+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Pathogeographies: Or, Other People's Baggage
A project/event series organized by Feel Tank Chicago ( http://feeltankchicago.net/)
How do you carry your pile of political feelings, and how do
you want to encourage others to carry theirs?
Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC), June 15-July 7, 2007
For more information, contact pathogeographies@uchicago.edu
==================================================
8+ Announcement/Call For Participation
A new email list-serv for critical/social/activist art practices in Chicago.
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/gochgo (you can subscribe from going to that link)
Review the Archive online and look for the very first post to better understand the objectives and ideas of the discussion list
==================================================
9+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture (IPRAC) presents 4th annual
"Barrio Art Fest" August 18th - 10am-6pm
at the Humboldt Park Field House
1440 N. Sacramento (Humboldt Boulevard)
BAF07 focuses in bringing attention to the diversity of the arts community in Humboldt Park. BAF07 will consider visual artists, performers, writers, craftmakers, sculptors, ceramicists, sound artists, conceptual artists, experimental, installations, musicians, designers, video/film and more. BAF07 considers submissions by Puerto Rican/Latino artists and/or by any artist whose artwork addresses issues relevant to the Humboldt Park community of Chicago. BAF07 encourages cross disciplinary collaborations with an emphasis in education. BAF07 seeks submissions for art demonstrations and art educational workshops for children, teens and adults. All submissions will be reviewed by a team of community representatives. The selection process is based in presentation, quality, uniqueness, and educational content. BAF07 is a cultural and educational festival that attracts thousands of people interested in a unique cultural experience.
Registration Deadline: June 30th
QUESTIONS? Call: 773-486-8345 or Email: jorgefelix@iprac.org Jorge Felix, program director
==================================================
10+ Announcement/Call For Participation
www.heavengallery.com Presents BIKE-IN CINEMA '07
Every Wednesday starting MAY 9th
Films Begin at 8
1550 N. Milwaukee / Wicker Park
Heaven Gallery on the roof!
Free as always but donations for Heaven are encouraged
Details: Another Chicago #8 May-June
==================================================
1)==================================================
Event Dates: Thursday May 17th
Funky Buddha Lounge (728 W. Grand)
Help raise money for the United States Social Forum ( http://www.ussf2007.org/). Directions and details on the Funky Buddha are at http://www.funkybuddha.com/
When you get to the door make sure you say "US Social Forum." You will get in for $7 before 11pm and $10 after 11pm. All your entry fee will go towards USSF fundraising efforts. Your money will help get low-income folks down to Atlanta for this historic event.
Chicago groups participating in the USSF process include: Southside Together Organizing for Power, Hip Hop Congress, Coalition to Protect Public Housing, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Southwest Youth Collaborative, Access Living, Blocks Together, Jobs With Justice, Insight Arts, and a growing list of others. It's not too late to get involved!
2)==================================================
Event date: Thursday May 17th, 2007 6:30 pm @ Smart Museum of Art
Exhibiting the Middle East in a Post-9/11 World
Consider the political and cultural implications of exhibiting Islamic
art in the West during a lecture by Linda Komaroff, Curator of Islamic
Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In conjunction with the exhibition "Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the
David Collection, Copenhagen" on view at the Smart Museum of Art through
May 20, 2007.
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 773-702-0200
3)==================================================
Event Dates: Friday, May 18, 2007, 9:30 - 5:00pm
First Annual Social Justice Student Exposition
UIC Student Center East Rm. 302 750 S. Halsted
Interested in learning what Chicago High School youth have to say
about Gentrification, The Iraq War, School Closings, Pollution,
Hip-Hop and many other social issues?
Join the Chicago Youth Initiating Change (CYIC) as they present their
research projects and lead workshops on social justice issues
9:30-11:30am Registration & Fair
1-4pm Workshops
4-5pm Talent Show
http://www.uic.edu/educ/ceje/
antonmiglietta(at)sbcglobal.net for more details
4)==================================================
Event Dates: Friday, May 18 8pm @ Mess Hall (www.messhall.org)
The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, a performance
research collaborative based in Cambridge, MA, will be hanging out at an open-house at Mess Hall.
http://www.ikatun.com/institute/infinitelysmallthings/
Please stop by to hear about their most recent project in Chicago which was a part of: Pathogeographies: Or, Other People's Baggage - A project/event series organized by Feel Tank Chicago ( http://feeltankchicago.net/)
Please email pathogeographies@uchicago.edu for more information.
5)==================================================
Event Date: May 18, Fri, 3:30 pm, Newberry Library, 60 W Walton
A PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY: HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NEW DEAL
Christopher Loss of University of Virginia discusses role of
higher education in delivering services & programs to citizens
6)==================================================
Event Dates: May 18-24, Fri-Thu, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
FILM: SACCO & VANZETTI
Peter Miller's spellbinding documentary
Info: www.facets.org,
www.willowpondfilms.com/sacco_and_vanzetti.html
7)==================================================
Event Date: Saturday May 19
Urban Forage Walk from 2-4pm.
rain or shine meet on the steps of garfield
park's gold dome at 2pm. (on central park just
south of lake street) we will meet trees and
shrubs as well as aquatic plants that are good
edible and medicinal forages for humans as well
as other creatures. this walk is by donation.
see you there!
8)==================================================
Event Dates: Saturday May 19th @ 2 to 5 p.m.
The Chicago Freedom School and the Jane Addams Hull House Museum Present Young Women's Leadership in the Civil Right's Mvmt Screening/Discussion
Location: Jane Addams Hull House Museum, 800 S. Halsted ®C This location is wheelchair accessible.
Screening: Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders, A film by Joan Sadoff, Dr. Robert Sadoff and Laura J. Lipson
Discussion: Barbara Ransby ®C Ella Baker and SNCC and Young Women°Øs Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement.
THIS IS A YOUTH-FRIENDLY EVENT!!! We invite young people ages 13 and over to attend this screening and discussion. If you are bringing a group, please RSVP to csfs_youth@yahoo.com by May 10th 2007.
9)==================================================
Event Dates: Saturday, May 19th at 2:00 pm
Front Forty Press: Doug Fogelson, Dan De Los Monteros, David Castillo
Describing their process as one of "blind collaboration," Front Forty
Press recently invited a host of Chicago graffiti artists to work on top
of photographs of architectural interiors and exteriors. The result is a
very handsome, straightforward publication entitled "Graffitecture:
Chicago Graffiti Artists Attack Photographic Spaces." 5811 South Ellis,
Cobb Hall, Room 402. FREE
The Renaissance Society http://www.renaissancesociety.org
10)==================================================
Event Date: May 19, Sat, 1:30 pm, Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, 1801 S Indiana
PHOTO EXHIBIT: A CONCRETE OF IMAGES: BACK FROM IRAQ
Opening reception of photos & paintings by three veterans
of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Info: www.nvvam.org/index.htm
11)==================================================
Event Date: May 19, Sat, and May 20 12-6pm @ 6932 NORTH GLENWOOD AVE
ART CRITIC LORI WAXMAN TO PERFORM AT MESS HALL. BRIEF, SERIOUS REVIEWS GUARANTEED TO ALL
ARTISTS ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS. http://messhall.org
The short review is at once a challenge, an insult, a record, and a piece of
advertising. Its purpose is debatable and arguably quite different for the
various parties involved: the writer gets a tear sheet, a couple of bucks,
and some editorial gratification; the reader, in the best case scenario,
gets a succinct, opinionated description of a body of work they probably did
not see in person; and the artist gets published recognition and an entry
for their bibliography. But think, for a moment, of the artist who has never
been reviewed. Do you need a review to get a show? You need a show to get a
review.
Installed in the storefront of Mess Hall, an experimental culture center in
Rogers Park, Chicago, critic Lori Waxman and receptionist Ron Song will
receive artists in need of reviews between the hours of noon and six p.m. on
Saturday, May 19, and Sunday, May 20. Reviews will be scheduled and written
in twenty minute increments between those hours only. Reviews will be
signed, published, and ready for pick-up within the time frame of the
performance.
Previous installments of the 60 wrd/min art critic have been performed at
the DUMBO Arts Festival 2005 and at P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, both in
New York. Reviews have been excerpted in The Believer magazine.
For more information about the 60 wrd/min art critic, contact lori.waxman@nyu.edu.
12)==================================================
Event Date: May 21, Mon, 5:30 pm, Chicago Labor Education Program
Rice Building Suite 110, 815 W VanBuren
THE POLITICS OF THE WORKING CLASS:
LABOR & THE CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS
Discussants: Jorge Ramirez of Chicago Federation of Labor,
Jerry Morrison of Service Employees International Union-Illinois State
Council
13)==================================================
Event Date: Wed May 23 6pm
Gallery 400 - 400 N Peoria.
People Powered: People Powered talks Dirt
Jamie Topper: The construction of an Illinois House in a Tree
Events are part of Urban Warp/ Weft which is an investigation of the aesthetic imagination of
"re-use", "recycle" and "green", current buzzwords in Chicago art and
politics. Initiators Browder and Keeler have established a blog as part of that research
process. Please visit: http://urbanwarpweft.blogspot.com/
14)==================================================
Event Dates: May 24-28
Eyes Wide Open @ Grant Park (Jackson and Columbus Drive)
An exhibition on the Human Cost of the Iraq War
Organized by American Friends Service Committee
afsc.org/eyes
For more info email epolley@afsc.org
15)==================================================
Event Date--May 27, Sun, 1 pm, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2
Mike Gray & Howard Alk's brilliant 1969 documentary on
the 1968 Democratic Convention protests, a critique of the events
by working class African-Americans in Chicago, & attempts
by the Black Panther Party to organize poor white youths
on the north side
16)==================================================
Event Dates: Thursday May 31
New Local Projects Exhibition Space Looking for Applicants
The ThreeWalls (www. three-walls.org) artist residency program that started about 3 years ago in town has opened a new space called "solo" is intended to offer up exhibition space and resources (up to $500 materials stipend + promo) for Chicago based artists (individuals and groups) to show new art projects.
17)==================================================
Event Dates: Thursday May 31 I-GO Party @ Metro www.igocars.org
18)==================================================
Event Dates: May 31-June 3
Sistersong Presents, "Let's Talk About Sex" 2nd National Conference and 10th Anniversary
Wyndham Hotel, 6810 N. Mannheim Road, Rosemont.
Workshops and plenaries will cover "birth control, senior sexuality, STDs, microbicides, gynecological health and wellness, erotica, militarism, and more, all through a reproductive justice lens." Costs vary ($10, youth to $300, organizations) Early bird registration ends April 30. Learn more and register at www.sistersong.net or call 404-344-9629.
19)==================================================
Event Dates: June 1-7
What: LUNATIC(a)S Presented by Teatro Luna: Chicago°Øs only All-Latina Theater Company
Where: Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago, Chicago, IL
When: PREVIEWS: June 1st, 2nd and 3rd 2007
OPENING: Thursday June 7th, 2007
RUNS FROM: June 7th to July 15, 2007.
Thursdays @ 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays @ 8pm, and Sundays @ 3pm,
Who: PERFORMED: by Belinda Cervantes, Maritza Cervantes, Gina Cornejo, Yadira Correa, Miranda Gonzalez, and Suzette Mayobre.
DIRECTED AND DEVELOPED BY: Tanya Saracho
How Much?: PREVIEWS: $10, $7 Students (ID required)
GENERAL: $15, $10 Students (ID required), Groups of 8 or more, $12
For Reservations: Call 773-878-LUNA
For more information visit: www.teatroluna.org
As all Teatro Luna shows, LUNATIC(a)S is performed in English with a sprinkle of Spanish.
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Event Dates: Saturdays June 2 & 9, ALL SHOWS AT 5PM, $10, 21+
luckypierre.org Presents ROCK & ROLL: IMPATIENCE FINAL 2 CHICAGO PERFORMANCES
@ The Hideout 1354 W Wabansia (near Elston)
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Event Dates: June 7:
Monthly meeting of the Community Congress of Tenants. At MTO's offices - 1180 N. Milwaukee Avenue. 6pm-8pm. www.tenants-rights.org
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Event Dates: 6/15 Congress Hotel Strikers Fourth Anniversary Mass Picket
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Event Dates: Festival of Political Emotion
On June 16, the first Saturday of the Pathogeographies exhibition,
Feel Tank will host a Festival of Political Emotion at Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC)
including a chance to participate in George Bush's daily thoughts
about Iraq. The festival embraces a variety of projects with artists
on hand to elicit your participation and measure the emotional
temperature of the body politic. How do you carry your pile of
political feelings? How do you cope with Other People's Baggage? What
is to be felt, and what is to be done? (http://feeltankchicago.net/
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+++++++++ ONGOING EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION ++++++++++++
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1+ CAAAELII Needs Technology Volunteers
The Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European, and Latino Immigrants of Illinois has a new public access computer lab @ 4300 N. Hermitage Ave
Interested in volunteering to supervise open lab time or teaching technology classes? Contact Marc Kelley @ 773 248 1019
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2+ Collaborative Bike Repair Clinics with Chicago Community Bike Project
Every Other Saturday Noon-7pm FREE!
@ West Town Bikes 2418 W. North (in back)
May 12/26 June 9/23 July 14/28
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3+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Living Kitchen: New Urban Food Workshops
If you've never gotten a chance to join local artist-gardner-ecologist Nance Klehm's urban food workshops, you are in for a treat this spring. Klehm has just announced a new series of "Living Kitchen" workshops that will include foraging for food in the urban landscape, cheese-making, pickling, sourdough and medicine. According to Klehm, "Living Kitchen is about direct experience with what is living and growing around us, new tastes, simple food-making processes, and sharing with others." Contact Nance @ nettlesting@yahoo.com for more information
5/27, Sunday, 1-5pm - $70 Raw Cheese
6/16, Saturday 2-4pm by donation**, urbanforage walk, location TBA
6/24, Sunday, 1-5pm - $50 local medicine herbal tinctures/salves/syrups/lozenges and teas
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4+ Help Uncover Hidden History
Currently looking for veterans of JOIN Community Union, the Young Patriots Organization and Rising Up Angry to interview for a book on community organizing of poor whites during the sixties. Did you belong to one of these groups or work with them? If so, we want your story. Please contact James Tracy at partisanblock@earthlink.net or (415) 260-9496.
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5+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Pedagogical Factory
Exploring Strategies for an Educated City
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL USA
July 22-September 23, 2007
For updated information visit our site at http://www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
Contact Jim Duignan at factory07@gmail.com
On July 28, AREA and the Neighborhood Writing Alliance/Journal of Ordinary Thought will sponsor a symposium dealing with informal educational practices geared towards adults at the HPAC. (see www.jot.org for more information)
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6+ Announcement/Call For Participation
REGISTER NOW FOR CHEAP REGISTRATION - VISIT THE WEBSITE
Please register to attend Free Minds, Free People online at www.edliberation.org/conference. The conference will take place in Chicago at Little Village/Greater Lawndale High School, 3120 S. Kostner Ave from June 21st to June 24th 2007.
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7+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Pathogeographies: Or, Other People's Baggage
A project/event series organized by Feel Tank Chicago ( http://feeltankchicago.net/)
How do you carry your pile of political feelings, and how do
you want to encourage others to carry theirs?
Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC), June 15-July 7, 2007
For more information, contact pathogeographies@uchicago.edu
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8+ Announcement/Call For Participation
A new email list-serv for critical/social/activist art practices in Chicago.
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/gochgo (you can subscribe from going to that link)
Review the Archive online and look for the very first post to better understand the objectives and ideas of the discussion list
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9+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture (IPRAC) presents 4th annual
"Barrio Art Fest" August 18th - 10am-6pm
at the Humboldt Park Field House
1440 N. Sacramento (Humboldt Boulevard)
BAF07 focuses in bringing attention to the diversity of the arts community in Humboldt Park. BAF07 will consider visual artists, performers, writers, craftmakers, sculptors, ceramicists, sound artists, conceptual artists, experimental, installations, musicians, designers, video/film and more. BAF07 considers submissions by Puerto Rican/Latino artists and/or by any artist whose artwork addresses issues relevant to the Humboldt Park community of Chicago. BAF07 encourages cross disciplinary collaborations with an emphasis in education. BAF07 seeks submissions for art demonstrations and art educational workshops for children, teens and adults. All submissions will be reviewed by a team of community representatives. The selection process is based in presentation, quality, uniqueness, and educational content. BAF07 is a cultural and educational festival that attracts thousands of people interested in a unique cultural experience.
Registration Deadline: June 30th
QUESTIONS? Call: 773-486-8345 or Email: jorgefelix@iprac.org Jorge Felix, program director
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10+ Announcement/Call For Participation
www.heavengallery.com Presents BIKE-IN CINEMA '07
Every Wednesday starting MAY 9th
Films Begin at 8
1550 N. Milwaukee / Wicker Park
Heaven Gallery on the roof!
Free as always but donations for Heaven are encouraged
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