Happy half-way through winter everybody!
We just wanted to thank everyone or coming out last week to the People's Atlas exhibition (see photos). There was also a great article on the project by Victoria Fine for the Medill News Service (check it out here).
For this announcement, we are inviting people who either missed our 68/08 programs over the fall or who have picked up the issue #7 (full contents here) and have a desire to learn more about where the issue was coming from. Please come out to one, two or three of the events listed below. Look out for our "Another Chicago" calendar of non-AREA related events for feb 09 later this week, and please dont forget to send in a proposal for our next issue by Sat (the details are here).
SUMMARY
1) Sun Feb 1 - Come talk with contributors to AREA #7 "68/08" @ 4427 North Clark Street
2) Wed Feb 4 - Check out an archive of Chicago's Rainbow Coalition and pick up AREA #7 @ 400 S Peoria
3) Mon Feb 9 - A release party for Journal of Ordinary Thought feat. AREA maps @ 6 S Hoyne
DETAILS
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Sunday, February 1, 3-5pm
Readings and Discussion of AREA #7 with Magazine Contributors
AREA #7: 1968/2008: The Inheritance of Politics and The Politics of Inheritance
http://areachicago.org/p/issues/7/ (all publication content is free online)
@ Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago 4427 North Clark Street
This event is free of charge
Readings and discussion with writers in celebration of the latest magazine release of AREA Chicago, a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting, and networking local social, political, and cultural movements. Featuring AREA #7 contributors: Ashley Weger, Michael Staudenmaier, Cathleen Schandelmeier, Samuel Barnett, Rebecca Zorach, Frank Edwards, Earl Silbar, and Daniel Tucker
Part of:
LINKS HALL PRESENTS....
When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation)
Writing, Performance, & Video Festival
Curated by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin,
More Info http://www.linkshall.org/09-pp-jan.shtml
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Paper Trail (an archive of Chicago's original Rainbow Coalition)
February 3 - March 7, 2009
Reception: Wednesday, February 4, 5-8pm
@ Gallery 400/UIC - 400 S Peoria
Paper Trail is an exhibition of historical and contemporary ephemeral material originally produced by disparate communities using remarkably similar forms of rhetoric and graphic styles to visually articulate their collective revolutionary agendas and concerns.
The historical material was created, produced, and distributed in the late 1960s by Chicago's original Rainbow Coalition-an alliance between The Black Panther Party, the Young Lords Organization, Young Patriots, and Rising Up Angry. This material is presented "in conversation" with what can be considered its contemporary counterpart-visual reproductions of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, language of the newly formed Rainbow Coalition Council of Elders, and publications from other contemporary initiatives in Chicago and beyond that re-engage with the principal of grassroots political organizing and cross-cultural solidarity. The movements share a common idea that despite our dire collective circumstance a spirit of hope and optimism results and acts as a unifying, mobilizing force.
This exhibition is organized by curators Nancy Zastudil and Julia Hamilton, with the support and participation of Kathleen Cleaver, Michael James, Bill Jennings, Cha Cha Jimenez, Jaqueline Lazu, and countless others.
Copies of AREA #7 will be available at the gallery.
More info is here
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Monday, February 9
Release Reading for the Journal of Ordinary Thought/Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Mabel Manning Branch Library (6 S Hoyne), 5:30-7pm
Come hear Chicago adults read stories they wrote about their own lives and neighborhoods. Plus: snacks and a free copy of the Journal of Ordinary Thought, featuring maps from a AREA Chicago's notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago.
Questions? Contact Mairead at mcase@jot.org.
