AREA Chicago ART RESEARCH EDUCATION ACTIVISM

Please give a tax-deductible donation to AREA today!

Checks can be made to our fiscal sponsor "Experimental Station" and mailed to AREA Chicago at PO Box 476971 Chicago IL 60647. To donate online visit http://www.areachicago.org/donate/

You will be credited in future publications as a supporter of AREA Chicago.

What AREA Is or Has Been Up To: 

• We have moved into a new office at the historic Congress Theater building in the Logan Square neighborhood. We hope to use this space for small networking dinners to bring together progressive organizers from throughout the city to meet face to face.
• AREA #6 - a Local Reader about education, housing and labor policy in Chicago was released on June 7, 2008. Check out photos.
• areachicago.org is getting a face-lift and it will be easier than ever to freely access the archives from our past magazines dealing with themes such as privatization, the local food system, solidarity, prisons, education, public policy and the legacy of the '60s.

• areachicago.org has a new blog: "ReportBack" where Chicagoans are encouraged to write reflections of events and actions they have attended.
• We are developing curriculum out of the articles from past issues of our Local Reader series. With hundreds of articles and interviews about Chicago and the people who live here, we are confident it can be a resource for classrooms and informal education environments. Look for a sample of the new curriculum at this year's Teachers for Social Justice Curriculum Fair.
• A group in NYC has been inspired to start their own AREA NYC and we are assisting them in getting off the ground
• We have been granted the status of "project in residence" this fall at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum where we will develop an event series and AREA # 7.- dealing with the legacy of 1968 and intergenerational dynamics in social movements. The research process has already begun here http://1968.areachicago.org.
• The "Notes for a People's Atlas" mapping project that we sponsor has been expanded to other cities and will be touring throughout the country for the next two years in an exhibition entitled "Experimental Geography". Also see this week's Timeout Chicago for an article about the project.
• AREA has contributed to numerous local and national events such as the Social Justice Curriculum Fair, Version Fest, Printers Ball, Public Square's Café Society, Creative Time (NYC)'s Democracy Project - just to name a few of the diverse exhibitions and events we contribute to.
• Over 1000 Chicagoans have subscribed to our monthly newsletter "Another Chicago" which  has been promoting 20-30 Activist/Art Events every month for nearly 2 years.
  
• Our annual "Wants and Needs" auction will be held again this year on Dec 5th, please save the date. Location is still being determined. Check out a photo from last year.