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#24 July 2008 Events Listings
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#23 June 2008 Events
by AREA | Published May 28, 2008permalink / comments[[[[[[[Summary for June 08]]]]]]]]
01) 05.29 Thu - Black Contemporary Art Discussion @ Experimental Station
02) 05.31 Sat - BBQ for Prison Abolition!
03) 05.31 Sat - Labor and Globalization Discussion
04) 06.01 Sun - Death Row Art Show Opening
05) 06.02 Mon - Democracy Event: One Person, One Vote
06) 06.05 Thu - New Documentary on Iraqi Resistance to Occupation
07) 06.06 Fri - Northwestern Presents 1968 Art History Conference
08) 06.07 Sat - AREA Chicago #6 Release Party/Picnic in Logan Square
09) 06.07 Sat - Learning from Canadian Teachers Unions to preserve CPS
10) 06.07 Sat - Art and Revolution Lecture @ InCubate
11) 05.08 Sun - Tour the Chicago Culumet Underground Railroad
12) 05.08 Sun - Screening of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
13) 05.11/12 Wed/Thu - Making Media Connections Conference
14) 05.12 Thu - 5th Anniversary of Congress Hotel Strikers - Come support them
15) 05.12 Thu - Work Against Work Discussion Series @ Messhall
16) 05.13-19 African Diaspora Film Fest @ Facets
17) 05.18 Wed - African Americans and Voting @ Cultural Center
18) 05.18 Wed - Open House for "Anti-Advertising Agency"
19) 05.19-22 - Socialism 2008 Conference
20) 05.26 Thu - Sex Workers, Criminalization and Human Rights
21) 05.28 Sat - Dyke March Chicago in Pilsen
22) Contribute to 3rd Coast Audio Fest's "Radio Ephmera" Contest
23) Nominate Chicago Artists for Award
24) Contribute to the AREA Chicago 1968/2008 Conference
[[[[[[[Details for June 08]]]]]]]
01)
Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 6:30pm
'Black Enough: Black Representation in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice'
Part of Black Is, Black Aint
@ Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
http://experimentalstation.org
Join us at the Experimental Station on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 6:30pm for a candid conversation around the intersection of race, ethnicity, and aesthetics in contemporary art. How do we begin to unpack the complexity of race and representation as it relates to the art market? A thoughtful group of artists, curators, art historians and collectors will share with us their thoughts in a candid conversation with members of the arts community. Featuring Blake Bradford (Hyde Park Art Center), Huey Copeland (Northwestern University), Patric McCoy (Independent Collector & Member, Board of Directors-Diasporal Rhythms), Kymberly Pinder (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago), moderated by Makeba Dixon-Hill (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago). All are welcome. Bring questions...answers...soap boxes...lectures...and violins.
The event is FREE and open to the public, at Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Avenue.
'Black Enough: Black Representation in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice' is part of Representations: A Series on Culture, Politics and Aesthetics, and is made possible in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General Assembly.
02)
BBQ for Prison Abolition!
Chicago CR10
Promontory Point 5491 S. Lake Shore Dr.
May 31st - 4 to 8 pm
Free food, Music. Games. Raffle.
Donations Accepted...
At the end of May, Prison activists across the country will be raising money to cover travel costs to the 10th Anniversary Critical Resistance Conference (criticalresistance.org) in Oakland, September 26th-29th, 2008. Join Chicago area activists for good food, good fun, and a good cause!
For more info:
Toussaint Losier toussaint.losier@gmail.com215.837.4071
Save the date: CR is turning 10! Join us Sept. 26-28, 2008 in
Oakland, CA, to celebrate.
For more information and to get involved in the CR10 planning, please contact:
cr10@criticalresistance.org or 510.444.0484 ext. 2#
03)
May 31, Sat, 3 pm, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
LABOR & GLOBALIZATION IN EUROPE & THE U.S.
Labor analyst Kim Scipes examines the consequences of neo-liberal
globalization on union movements in Europe & the US
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org
04)
Jun 1, Sun, 5-7 pm, Treat Restaurant, 1616 N Kedzie
EXHIBIT: I SHALL CREATE
Opening reception for Death Row Art show
Sponsors: Campaign to End the Death Penalty,
No Death Penalty for Zolo Committee, Treat Restaurant
05)
June 2nd 630pm
One Person, One Vote
@ Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
http://experimentalstation.org
A desire for change is mobilizing record numbers of voters to participate in the primaries this presidential election season. A diverse, robust, and ever-changing population is asserting itself in the electoral process. But how democratic is the political process in this country? As a society, how can we understand and overcome the racialized nature of American citizenship? Who gets to vote, who doesn't and why? And ultimately, how much do our votes really count?
Join us for a lively, critical conversation about these questions and an opportunity to challenge ourselves to think, imagine, and act to revitalize and reinvent a more participatory democracy. This program is a part of The Public Square at the IHC's "Looking for Democracy in '08 and Beyond" series.
06)
Jun 5, Thu, 7 pm, Open University of the Left
Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
FILM: MEETING RESISTANCE
Steve Connors & Molly Bingham's must-see documentary features extensive interviews with Iraqi insurgents
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org
07)
1968/2008: The Aesthetics of Engagement10am-5pm @ Northwestern University (Harris 108/1881 Sheridan Road)
Contact h-feldman@northwestern.edu for more info
On the occasion of the 40th year anniversary of the mass uprisings, strikes, and manifestations that marked 1968 around the globe, Assistant Professor Hannah Feldman is organizing a colloquium and lecture series to bring scholars from a variety of fields that touch upon the visual and the urban to Northwestern, where they will explore the implications of 1968 for understanding the intersections of politics and culture today.
08)
Release Party for AREA Chicago Issue #6 (areachicago.org)
Saturday June 7th, 2008
2pm-4pm
@ Paseo Prairie Garden
directly adjacent to the south exit of the Logan Square 'el' exit
at the intersection of Kedzie/Milwaukee at the West End of Logan Blvd.
(view map here http://xrl.us/PaseoGarden)
AREA Chicago #6: City As Lab
A Local Reader on Experimental Policies on the Ground in Chicago
In this issue of AREA Chicago we have attempted to look at Chicago as a policy laboratory in which experimental public policy in the areas of housing, labor and education are tested on the residents of Chicago.
The articles in this issue attempt to trace a lineage of Chicago's prominent policy experiments and its policy designers. The issue focuses on several case studies, including the complicated transformation of our local economy and public school system. These case studies focus on how Chicagoans are pushed to the limits and what kind of responses that has elicited from activists.
With contributions by/about:
Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, Neil Brenner, Pauline Lipman, Renaissance 2010, Plan for Transformation Connections, Kenneth J. Saltman, Disaster Capitalism, Bill Wilen, Henry Horner Homes, Chicago Housing Authority, Beth Gutelius, Lisa Sousa, Commercial Club of Chicago, Micah Maidenberg, Mortage Crisis, Michael Van Zalingen, Brian Holmes, Chicago School of Sociology, Precarity Chicago, Nick Krietman, Deindustrialization, Aaron Sarver, Virginia Parks, Gentrification, Ryan Hollon, Low-Wage Labor, Nic Halverson, Yonquero workers, Vinay Ravi, UNITE HERE, Eric Triantifillou, Charter Schools, Kenzo Shibatta, Therese Quinn, Erica Meiners, Jesse Mumm, Sonjanita Moore, Euan Hague, Peter Zelchenko, Erika Mikkalo, Jim Nelson, Margo Coulter, Helena Marie Carnes-Jeffries, Diana Cruz, Marisel Melendez, Amelia Ramos, Neil brideau, Jason Reblando, and more.
09)
CORE-Chicago, The Pilsen Alliance, Collaborative for Equity and Justice Sponsors:
"Privatization, Charters, High-Stakes Testing, and the Fight to Preserve Public Education"
Jinny Sims, the former President of the British Columbia Teachers Federation will talk about how the BC union effectively fought these efforts.
Casa Aztlan
1831 S. Racine, Chicago
June 7th, 2008
@5:30 PM
10)
Saturday, June 7, 2008
7 PM
FREE
Art of, with, as, for, in...AND Revolution. Art and Revolution!
MRCC/Continental Drift presents Gerald Raunig with Dan S. Wang at InCUBATE
InCUBATE 2129 North Rockwell
http://www.incubate-chicago.org/
Gerald Raunig is a theoretician of art and social action who is now gaining an English-speaking readership. His book Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century was published by Semiotext(e) in an English translation last year, and in recent months his articles have been published in Artforum, including a meditation on the meaning of "the breach" in this month's special issue on May of ¹68.
He is the co-ordinator of the transnational, multi-lingual research projects republicart and transform, the work of which has been disseminated as books and online through the eipcp.net website. Gerald Raunig also serves EIPCP (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies) as a lead administrator. He lives and works in Vienna. This will be his first appearance in Chicago.
Dan S. Wang is an artist and writer. He was a co-founder of Mess Hall, works with Red76, writes about new Black art, is lately obsessed with the Chinese language, and for years has devoted labor to a range of activist projects.
The Midwest Radical Culture Corridor is a place, a network, and a state of being. Continental Drift is an ongoing, multi-form research project and experimental seminar devoted to the impossible task of articulating the immense geopolitical and economic shifts which took place between 1989 and 2001, the effects of which are still being played out in the emerging bodies of governance and in the rise of new social and identity constructions. The question of What now? is precisely at the core of its study. For ten days this June, Continental Drift travels the MRCC. For more info on Continental Drift, see http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/. For more info about the MRCC, http://radicalmidwest.blogspot.com/ for info on chicago events contact cpente@saic.edu
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Sunday June 8
Tour the Chicago Culumet Underground Railroad
the C/CURE tour is 1pm - 5pm, byo-picnic
Carver Park, 900East 134th Street
This event is part of the Radical Midwest Cultural Corridor project http://radicalmidwest.blogspot.com/
for info on chicago events contact cpente@saic.edu
12)
Sunday June 8
Screening of The Spook Who Sat by the Door, appearance by filmmaker Sam Greenlee 7 pm @ Backstory Cafe (6100 South Blackstone). Part of the Radical Midwest Cultural Corridor project http://radicalmidwest.blogspot.com/ for info on chicago events contact cpente@saic.edu
event is cosponsored by AREA 68/08 issue (1968.areachicago.org)
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June 11-12
Making Media Connections Conference
Columbia College Chicago
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor
http://www.communitymediaworkshop.org/mmc2008/?page_id=2
Contact maude@newstips.org or 312-344-6400
14)
Jun 12, Thu, 4-6 pm, Congress Hotel, 520 S Michigan
ALL OUT: SUPPORT CONGRESS HOTEL STRIKERS
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY PICKET
Info: www.CongressHotelStrike.info
15)
Thursday, June 12, 2008
7:30p-10:00p
@ Mess Hall 6932 North Glenwood Avenue ('Morse' stop on the Redline)
"Work Against Work: Hobohemia " Potluck followed by discussion. Bring something to share.
This is a continuation in a series exploring the changing nature of work in our time and in history. All events approach work as a complex activity thru which we may be utterly debased or magnificently elevated; thru which we may destroy the world or revolutionize it. Texts to be discussed are available online at http://49underground.org/nextevents.php_. Attendees are not expected to read all the articles, but please come prepared to discuss what you are able to read. The series is co-organized by the 49th Street Underground (http://.49underground.org), Finding Roots (http://mayfirst.wordpress.com) and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (http://iww.org)
16)
Jun 13-19, Fri-Thu, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
CHICAGO AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL
Opening night screening of CUBA, AN AFRICAN ODYSSEY
documentary on Cuban aid to anti-colonial struggles in Africa
17)
Join the Public Square, Chicago Freedom School, and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and the Chicago Cultural Center for
African Americans and Voting: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Wednesday, June 18
6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center
77 East Randolph Street
First Floor Garland Room
This program will examine how African Americans won the right to vote and will include a screening of the acclaimed film Mississippi, America. Following the screening, Dr. Charles Payne and Dr. Kate Masur will engage participants in a discussion that bridges history with the present.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Reservations are required. E-mail events@prairie.org or call 312-422-5580 to reserve your place. This is an intergenerational event and youth are encouraged to attend.
18)
June 18
Open House
@ Mess Hall 6932 North Glenwood Avenue ('Morse' stop on the Redline) For more info http://messhall.org/
SF's Anti-Advertising Agency is coming to town and setting up the "Foundation for Freedom"For more info see:
http://antiadvertisingagency.com/projects/foundation-for-freedom#more-506
The FFF DROP-IN CLINIC
The FFF Drop-In Clinic is open Friday afternoons from 1 to 4, where our dedicated volunteers will be on hand to help you, the overtaxed creative executive, resolve the dilemmas posed by your work week. Had to pull another all-nighter on a cigarette ad campaign? Sick of putting creative energy into those payday loan radio spots? Still feeling angsty about that Saturday-morning JROTC spot? Our soothing, lab-coated volunteers can help you find a way out. Email aem@anneelizabethmoore.com
19)
June 19-22
Socialism 2008 Conference @ Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare
Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization
http://www.socialismconference.org/
20)
June 26, Thursday, 7 PM
Sex Workers, Criminalization and Human Rights
Organized by Open University of the Left
NEW LOCATION: Lincoln Park Public Library
1150 W. Fullerton Ave, Chicago
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org
Sex worker organizer Pussy Willow and journalist Kari Lydersen examine issues that affect the lives and livelihood of sex workers – in particular the current controversy surrounding trafficking victim legislation – and the moralistic and dangerous crusade against prostitution.
As the pressure to criminalize sex work increases, acts of violence against sex workers are on the rise. Without the protection or recourse from violent acts committed against them, society tolerates violence against sex workers because of the stigma and myths that surround prostitution. Sex workers and their allies seek to stop the violence and correct these falsehoods, change the context for current legislation, and to legitimize sex work.
21)
Dyke March Chicago
DMC will take place on Saturday June 28th, 2008. Gathering begins at
1:00 PM at 1800 South Halsted (Chicago Community Bank Park), and step
off is at 2:30 PM. Attendees will then march down 18th street to rally
at Harrison Park (1824 S. Wood).
All people, including allies to the community, are encouraged to attend.
For more information e-mail dykemarchchicago@gmail.com, or visit
http://www.myspace.com/dykemarchchicago
22)
Contribute to 3rd Coast Audio Fest's "Radio Ephmera" Contest
Remix Books into Audio
Submissions due August 3, 2008
http://thirdcoastfestival.org/shortdocs_2008_archive_about_RE.asp
23)
Artadia is accepting nominations for Chicago area artists until August 29th. For more info www.artadia.org
24)
Contribute to the AREA 1968/2008 Project
http://1968.areachicago.org/2008/04/03/new-project-description/
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#22 May 2008 Events
by AREA | Published April 30, 200801) 05.01 Thu - May Day March 02) 05.01 Thu - Discussion - What is Precarity? Are you Precarious in your labor/life? 03) 05.01 Thu - Precarity Chicago Launch Party 04) 05.01 Thu - The Wobblies and 1968 on May Day @ Newberry Library 05) 05.02 Fri - Cafe Intifada: Commemorating 60 Years of Struggle 06) 05.02 Fri - Prison Abolition Discussion at Hull House 07) 05.02 Fri - the 8th Annual Chicago Anarchist Film Festival 08) 05.02 Fri - 4,000 Words for 4,000 Dead Soldiers - Downtown Public Art Project 09) 05.02 Fri - Neighborhood Writing Alliance @ Looptopia 10) 05.06 Tue - Hull House Free Soup Discussion Event 11) 05.07 Wed - Mingus Awareness Project 12) 05.08 Thu - 40 Years After 1968 Panel with Klonsky/Ayers/Nesbitt 13) 05.08 Thu - Harvey Milk Event @ Chicago Freedom School (CFS) 14) 05.10 and 11 Sat/Sun: FreeStore in Pullman - get stuff/givestuff 15) 05.12 Mon - AREA Chicago Fundraiser @ Danny's Tavern - Dance and Drink 16) 05.17 Sat - Communiversity about Labor Movements and Immigration @ CFS 17) 05.19 Mon - Neighborhood Writing Alliance/Journal of Ordinary Thought Fundraiser 18) 05.21 Wed - Women and Elections Event @ Hull House 19) 05.22 Thu - Work Against Work: Autonomism Potluck @ Mess Hall 01) MARCH MAY FIRST - MARCHA PRIMERO DE MAYO For the Rights of Immigrants and All Workers We Demand: Equal Rights in the Workplace for All Workers The Right to Unionize Employee Free Choice Act Fair Wages End the Occupation of Iraq Equal Access to Education Universal Health Care May 1st, 2008 International Workers Day Día Internacional de los Trabajadores When: Meet at 10:00 A.M Where: Union Park (Ashland and Lake) March at 12:00 PM If you or your organization would like to endorse the May First March, please send us an e-mail to:info@movimiento10demarzo.org Movimiento 10 de Marzo http://www.movimiento10demarzo.org/ 02) Thursday May 1, 2008 - 4:00PM New World Resource Center 1300 N. Western Ave. Chicago, IL 60622 Precarity : Chicago presents - "Centering the Margin: Chicago Theory and Practice in Action" - Topic: What is precarity? Can Chicago activism benefit from it? - a new and irreguarly held series that will explore and crystallize the Chicago progressive/radical community's formulation of theory, strategy, and application. A central theoretical idea or topic will guide the discussion, with the intent of exploring what that idea/topic means to Chicago activism and whether there is a strategic usefulness to it. A social and friendly atmosphere will be stressed, where the intent is to foster non-hierarchical forms of debate and organization. Co-sponsored by Finding Our Roots, the Chicago Anarchist Film Festival, and the 49th Street Underground. 03) Thursday May 1, 2008 - 7:00PM Quenchers Saloon 2401 N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60647 Precarity : Chicago Debut Celebration Help celebrate the founding of Precarity : Chicago, a militant research collective organized around analyzing society and culture from the framework of precarity. The idea of precarity centers upon the belief that once welfare and industrial economies shifted toward neo-liberal capitalism, life has become more unpredictable, more intensified, and more oppressive globally. Precarity : Chicago will attempt to link this idea to Chicago activism through discussion, research and publication, social events, direct action, and artistic expression. So come out and help us start off right! Come for a fun night, come to get more information, come to see what this is all about, but just come! There will be a safe and fun atmosphere, entertainment, prizes, and other great stuff! A $5-$10 suggested donation is asked. Raffle prizes from Early To Bed, New World Resource Center, Caffe RoM, Fall of Autumn Press, and The Comic Vault. For more information on Precarity : Chicago or any of our events contact PrecarityChicago@gmail.com 04) Thursday, May 1, 2008, 6pm At the Newberry Library Celebrate May Day The WOBBLIES: Memory & Model, An Event about the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World, two activists from 1968 Franklin & Penelope Rosemont and David Roediger & Leon M. Despres will speak. At the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago IL 60626 Featuring noted historians and speakers, including David Roediger, Leon M. Despres, and Franklin & Penelope Rosemont, this special event celebrates the comprehensive IWW Collection (books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and other items) now open to the public. This collection at Newberry is the only major collection of historic IWW material available in Chicago, the city in which the union began, and in which it maintained its headquarters for some eighty years. Roediger will speak on the 1886-87 Haymarket events, the origins of May Day and its influence on the IWW. Leon Despres will speak on the IWW's impressive traditions of Free Speech (The 1918 infamous trial of 101 Wobblies and their imprisonment was also a Chicago event). Franklin Rosemont will relate his adventures as a young IWW organizer hitchhiking across the country meeting and talking with old Wobblies in the 1960s, and its activities in 1968. Penelope Rosemont will speak about the IWW's legendary Solidarity Bookshop in Lincoln Park, in that same decade, and the later role of such old-time Wobblies as Fred Thompson, Jack Sheridan, Carlos Cortez, and Jenny Lahti Velsek in revitalizing the Chicago's Charles H. Kerr Company, the world's oldest working class publishing house. Contact Information: Rachel Bohlmann 312-255-3665 or Mary Janzen 312-255-3593janzenm@newberry.org Franklin Rosemont 773-465-7774 or 773-262-1329 arcane@ripco.com 05) -- On Friday, May 2nd, 2008, please join the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in commemorating 60 years of Palestinian resistance to colonialism and occupation. This month of May marks the 60th anniversary of *al-Nakba* (Arabic for "catastrophe"), a time when more than 750,000 Palestinians were forced into exile and more than 500 Palestinian villages destroyed by Israeli Zionist forces. Join us as we continue the resistance through spoken word, hip-hop, music and art! *CAFE INTIFADA!* WHEN: Friday, May 2, 2008 Doors open at 6pm Shows starts at 7pm WHERE: Arab American Action Network 3148 W. 63rd Street, 2nd Floor Performances by: the AAAN's own Spoken Word & Hip Hop Youth Group, *SILENT ECHOES!* Breakdancing by *Power Breaking* of the SWYC University of Hip Hop Reggae/Hip-Hop Music by the *Ital Conquerors* Sounds by *DJ Robyo* And much more! $7-10 sliding scale $5 with student ID (no one turned away for lack of funds!) Food, drinks, and merchandise will be sold. All proceeds will support the AAAN's youth programs and the U.S. Palestine Conference Network's (USPCN's) efforts to mobilize for a Popular Palestinian Community Conference on August 8-10, 2008 in Chicago (palestineconference.com). For more information about the Cafe, or to perform, please call the AAAN at 773.436.6060, x. 105, or email aaanevent@gmail.com. Sponsored by: Arab American Action Network (AAAN), the Southwest Youth Collaborative (SWYC), Students for Justice in Palestine-UIC, Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago, Al-Awda-Chicago, and the U.S. Palestine Conference Network (USPCN), www.aaan.org www.myspace.com/italconquerors www.palestineconference.org www.swyc.org www.psgchicago.org www.sjp-uic.blogspot.com 06) Friday May 2 2 - 3:30 PM Imagine and Enact a World Without Prisons Coffee and cookies and conversation with Critical Resistance / CR 10 with Kai Barrow from Critical Resistance @ Hull House http://www.hullhousemuseum.org 800 South Halsted, Chicago For more information about CR see http://www.criticalresistance.org/article.php?list=type&type=36 07) Friday May 2nd Chicago Anarchist Film Festival http://home.comcast.net/~more_about_it/ 08) You are invited to a performance of 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD Poet and artist Jennifer Karmin is collecting 4000 WORDS for the 4000 DEAD in Iraq. All words will be used to create a public poem. After reading the poem aloud, each word will be given away to passing pedestrians. Participating writers include: Manan Ahmed, Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Maxine Chernoff, Catherine Daly, Arielle Greenberg, David Hernandez, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Joyelle McSweeney, Juliana Spahr, Stacy Szymaszek, Andrew Zawacki and more. Friday, May 2nd 5pm beginning in front of the Vietnam War Memorial Wabash & Wacker along the Chicago River 8:30pm ending at the DePaul Center 1 East Jackson Boulevard Chicago, IL Sponsored by Looptopia 2008 http://www.looptopia.com "I want to start with the milestone today of 4,000 dead in Iraq. Americans. And just what effect do you think it has on the country?" -- Martha Raddatz, ABC News' White House correspondent to Vice President Dick Cheney 09) Friday, May 2 – Defining Our Place in History. Chicago Temple (77 W Washington St.). 6:30-7:30pm. Free. As part of Looptopia, writers from Neighborhood Writing Alliance workshops will read pieces connecting their personal stories to historical moments. For more information, see www.jot.org or call Mairead at 773.684.2742. 10) Hull-House Kitchen: Re-thinking Soup Tuesdays at noon, beginning May 6 12-1:30pm Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Residents' Dining Hall 800 South Halsted FREE (donations from $.01 to $1,000,000 gladly accepted) Please join us for free soup and conversation regarding food, sustainable living, and other issues. We will meet in the historic Resident's Dining Hall, where Jane Addams and other important social reformers met daily to share meals and ideas. http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/Events/kitchen/ 11) What: Mingus Awareness Project 2 Where: Velvet Lounge 67 E. Cermak Road When: Wednesday, May 7 (8 p.m.) On Wednesday, May 7th, a group of musicians and a poet will gather at the Velvet Lounge (67 E. Cermak Road in Chicago) to celebrate the life and music of Charles Mingus, and to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation. Mingus, an American musical hero who died of ALS, is one of the greatest figures in jazz history. His bass playing, compositions and philosophy have transcended his genre and left indelible marks on music history. The Mingus Awareness Project 2 is being organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective. For more information about MAP2, please call 312.543.7027. For more information about the Les Turner ALS Foundation, please contact 847.679.3311 or events@lesturnerals.org. www.mingusawarenessproject.org www.velvetlounge.net 12) 40 years of 1968 The problematic drama of the past in the present with Bill Ayers, Mike Klonsky, and Prexy Nesbitt Thursday, May 8, 2008, 6PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago 280 S. Columbus Drive main auditorium co-sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society and Platypus http://platypus1789.home.comcast.net/~platypus1789/platypus_fora.htm 13) Thursday, May 8 – Campaign Trailblazers: Harvey Milk – 5:30 – 8 pm @ http://www.chicagofreedomschool.org/ 719 S. State St., Suite 3N Chicago, IL 60605 p: 312.435.1201 f: 312.435.1203 Email: info@chicagofreedomschool.org 14) Everything is Coming to You You Better Get Ready The Free Store in PULLMAN At the Pullman State Historic Site (home of the historic Hotel Florence) 11111 South Forrestville Avenue The Free Store returns for May! 10th and 11th. Come by and get your mom something nice. Saturday, May 10 from Noon – 6 pm Sunday, May 11 from Noon – 4 pm Feel free to bring stuff to give away. Be prepared to take stuff home! We're going to have a BBQ going both afternoons so feel free to bring food/beverage to eat, drink, and share with others. DIRECTIONS TO THE PULLMAN STATE HISTORIC SITE and information about the neighborhood: http://www.pullman-museum.org The Pullman State Historic Site and Hotel Florence is located at 11111 South Forrestville. Drivers: The Pullman State Historic Site is easily accessible from Interstate 94, using either exit 66A (111th Street) or 66B (115th Street). Take a left before the viaduct – it's a huge building, you can't miss it! Parking is available on Forrestville in front of the Hotel and throughout the neighborhood. By Public Transit: The Metra Electric train stations at 111th Street and 115th Street are within a short walking distance. The Chicago South Shore and South Bend commuter rail also stops at the 115th Street station. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus route #111 provides direct service to Pullman and connects with the CTA Red Line at 95th/Dan Ryan station. The Hotel site, which is under restoration, will be open for viewing during the Free Store. ////////////////////////// We have very limited ability to pick things up from you this round. Please ask us for a pick-up only if you have a full truckload within the city of Chicago. Idea: you may want to coordinate with friends and neighbors who live nearby to create a full truckload. TO HELP: Best way to help us for this particular Free Store is to drive your own stuff down to Pullman on the day(s) of and/or volunteer to be available to drive others home after their shopping is done. If you have a car, truck, or van and strong bodies available for bringing pick-ups down to Pullman the week of the Free Store, please contact us. More Free Stores to follow this season. Please join us for the fun in Pullman! More info: contact Salem salem@temporaryservices.org or (773) 562-1428 The Free Store is put together by Melinda Fries, Zena Sakowski, Rob Kelly, and Salem Collo-Julin. Thanks to Erika Mikkalo, Shari Parker, and the Pullman State Historic Site for their help this round. Feel free to forward this message to others. 15) Come Drink to Support AREA Chicago, your favorite magazine about the City and its social movements Monday, May 12th 2008 9pm-2am Danny's Tavern 1951 W Dickens Ave (Cross Street: Damen Avenue) View Map (http://tinyurl.com/yz8st4 ) Directions: Bus: 50 to Dickens Ave; 73 to Damen Ave Peace Party is a monthly program organized by danny's tavern to fund small operation non-profits in the Chicago area. This month the money gets split between AREA Chicago and Arts for Life. DJs: Naomi Walker, Jeff Parker, Jocelyn Brown, and Josh Abrams. 16) Saturday, May 17 – Communiversity: Labor Movements and Immigration – 10 am – 4 pm @ http://www.chicagofreedomschool.org/ 719 S. State St., Suite 3N Chicago, IL 60605 p: 312.435.1201 f: 312.435.1203 Email: info@chicagofreedomschool.org 17) Monday, May 19 – Every Person Is a Philosopher: An Evening with the Journal of Ordinary Thought. Roosevelt University Library (430 S. Michigan Ave, 10th fl.) 5:30-7:30pm. Tickets at www.jot.org. Includes cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, with student fee available. This year, the Neighborhood Writing Alliance’s annual benefit features readings from Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer prize-winning critic (and author of On Michael Jackson), Brad Norris (St. Leonard’s House Writing Workshop), and Kamilyn Baskerville (The CARA Program Writing Workshop). For more information, see www.jot.org or call Mairead at 773.684.2742. 18) Wednesday, May 21 – The Fight for the Right: Women, Voting and Elections in America @ Hull House Museum – 6 – 8:30 pm Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Residents' Dining Hall 800 South Halsted 19) Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:30p-9:30p "Work Against Work" TheLegacy of the Ultra Left, part 3. Potluck and discussion. Bring something to share. Join Joe Feinberg for potluck and discussion. This is a continuation in a series exploring the changing nature of work in our time and in history. All events approach work as a complex activity thru which we may be utterly debased or magnificently elevated; thru which we may destroy the world or revolutionize it. Texts to be discussed are available online at http://49underground.org/nextevents.php_. Attendees are not expected to read all the articles, but please come prepared to discuss what you are able to read. The series is co-organized by the 49th Street Underground (http://.49underground.org), Finding Roots (http://mayfirst.wordpress.com) and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (http://iww.org) This month's discussion: Autonomism Today Concurrent with a recent resurgence of radical street protests in many parts of the world, there has been a rebirth of interest in many of the theories that informed the last major global wave of insurrection, in the 1960s. At the same time, there been many new attempts to re-formulate older theoretical formulations in ways appropriate for the current historical moment. The combination of these two tendencies can be seen most clearly in the most recent contributions coming from the “autonomist” tradition, including especially the works of Toni Negri and John Holloway. @ Mess Hall 6932 North Glenwood Avenue messhall.orgpermalink / comments -
#21 April 2008 Events
by AREA | Published April 30, 2008~~~~~~~~~ AREA Chicago's "Another Chicago" Newsletter April 2008 ~~~~~~~~~ :::April Summary:::Fwd To Your People:::You Never Who Knows What::: AREA Chicago is wishing you a happy and active April 08. We have just moved into a new office in the historic Congress Theater building. We are happy to be sharing the space with the arts and ideas organization "Incubate" who do fantastic project such as the Sunday Soup series where you can buy cheap delicious soup every week and then the profits go into a grant fund for your projects. Check them out and stop by sometime and say hello! Also, please look out for our announcements about future projects and blogs and a presentation about AREA Chicago at the Finding Our Roots conference (see below) at Roosevelt University April 18-20. * 01) 03.02-06 - Goat Island Performance Group's final show after 20 years * 02) 03.02 Wed - Advicates for Urban Agriculture Potluck Dinner * 03) 04.03 Thu - Heat Wave play continues for last weekend * 04) 04.03Thu - Discussion: Anarchist Labor Organizing in Spain @ Messhall * 05) 04.04 Fri - Insight Arts Fundraiser @ Funky Buddah * 06) 04.04 Fri - Benefit for new 61st St Farmers Market @ Exp Station - Our friends and Fiscal Sponsor - See the article about ES in AREA #1 * 07) 04.04 Fri (ongoing through may 11)- Theater Oobleck play - The Stranger * 08) 04.05 Sat - France 1968 Panel @ NWRC * 09) 04.07 Mon - Community Justice for Youth - Poetry and reflection event Event - with AREA#4 Editor Ryan Hollon * 10) 04.10 Thu - Labor and Ecology Discussion and Potluck @ Messhall * 11) 04.11 Fri - Release Event for "Finding Food in Chicago and the Suburbs" Report - A 4 year Research Project by AREA#2 Contributor Danny Block * 11) 04.11 Fri- Umoja School Annual Fundraiser * 12) 04.12 Sat - Co-Op Image Fundraiser @ Q4 - AREA#2 Contributors * 13) 04.17 Thu - Screening of video art about prisons @ Gene Siskel Center * 14) 04.17 Thu - Versionfest Begins with Networking Fair on April 18-20 * 15) 04.18-20 Finding Our Roots: Anarchist Organizing in the Midwest @ Roosevelt * 16) 04.19 Sar - Black Tie, Black Flag - Anarchist Formal Dance * 17) 04.19 Sat- Nicole Garneau's Uprising Project #4 - Contributor to AREA #2 * 18) 04.26 Sat - Green and Growing Fair @ Garfield Park Conservatory * 19) 04.26 Sat - Teach In About Prison Industrial Complex with contributors to AREA#4 * 20) 04.28 Mon - Public Hearings about Closing Tamms Supermax Prison * 21) 04.29 Tue - "Torture in the Era of Democracy" Lecture @ Northwestern * 22) 05.01 Thu - The Wobblies and 1968 on May Day @ Newberry Library * 23) 05.02 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival April Details 01) Goat Island's Final Show THE LASTMAKER April 2, 3, 5, 6 7:30pm Cost:20-24 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Avenue mcachicago.org We end Goat Island in order to make a space for the unknown that will follow. We intend this ending to present itself as a beginning, and we invite you to join us on the occasion. goatislandperformance.org ROUNDTABLE Friday, April 4 at 2:00pm free Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N. State Street artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter Ensemble members are joined by art historian Claire Bishop for a discussion about the significance of architecture, art, and theology addressed in Goat Island's work, and the group's decision, after more than 20 years of practice, to create a last performance. WEB-BASED WRITING PROJECT The Last Performance is created to evolve alongside the creation and performance of The Lastmaker. The work is being collectively authored by Goat Island, invited artists and critics, the Goat Island community at large, and you. thelastperformance.org 02) April 2 (Wed) 5:30pm AUA (Advocates for Urban Agriculture) Spring Meeting at Garfield Park Conservatory, Potluck, bring a dish to share 03) Thursday April 3-6th Every Night Heat wave Play Tickets Cost:17-25 Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 pm Sunday at 3:00 pm For more information call (773) 878-9761or see Based on the book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg, this moving new play looks at the heat wave of 1995 which took the lives of 739 Chicagoans. More people died in our city than in New Orleans or Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina. Could it have been prevented? Who was listening? The play examines one of the country's worst weather-related disasters from all perspectives, creating a vivid portrait of a city in crisis, but with its resources and humanity firmly intact.Heat Wave tells the story no one wanted to listen to. Come join us for an evening of exploration and healing as we struggle to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. Directed by Ilesa Duncan 04) Apr 3, Thu, 7:30 pm, Mess Hall, 6932 N Glenwood ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM & SHIPYARD RESISTANCE: THE CNT IN PUERTO REAL, SPAIN. Part of Work Against Work series Sponsor: 49th St. Underground, Finding Our Roots, Industrial Workers of the World 05) On Friday April 4, Insight Arts presents: JAMNESTY an Amnesty International / Insight Arts Benefit @ FUNKY BUDDHA LOUNGE 728 W. Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60610 Dancers, Music, Spoken Word, Live Art, & More 06) The Experimental Station cordially invites you to a fundraising benefit for the 61ST STREET FARMERS MARKET that will take place at the Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Avenue, on Friday, April 4, from 5-8pm. This community endeavor, organized under the auspices of the Experimental Station, an Illinois non-profit, aims to create an oasis in our local 'food desert' by establishing a weekend farmers market at 61st Street and Dorchester Avenue that will serve the Woodlawn, Hyde Park, Kenwood, and South Shore neighborhoods. The market is scheduled to begin this spring and will take place on Saturdays from May 17 thru October 25. As a non-City-sponsored market, we are working to establish a strong and dedi- cated base of community volunteers, financial supporters, and market-goers. We invite you to become a part of this effort by attending this benefit event! The evening will feature emcee Theaster Gates, music by the Josh Abrams Quartet, hors d'ouvres and beverages, wine tastings by Damien Casten of sustainably produced Candid Wines, bread baking and other food demon-strations, raffles of regionally and sustainably grown foods and products, and the opportunity to become a Founding Member of the 61st Street Farmers Market. We are delighted that the Honorable Alderman Willie B. Cochran and other local and state representatives will be in attendance.We look forward to an entertaining, food-filled, community- building evening and hope that you will be a part of it! Note: Dorchester Avenue is currently closed to vehicular traffic for construction between 60th and 61st Street. If driving, please take Woodlawn Avenue south to 61st Street and then east to 6100 S. Blackstone. For more information about the event, please email info@experimentalstation.org. Advance tickets Cost:20, tickets at the door will be Cost:25. 07) Theater Oobleck Presents Mickle Maher's The Strangerer re-opens on Friday and runs through May 11 Thurs/Fri/Sat at 8pm Sundays at 3pm at the Chopin Theatre 1543 W. Division Street Cost:10 suggested donation. More if you've got it. Free if you're broke. For more info or to reserve seats see theateroobleck.com "It is funny, it is beyond brilliant. it's the best piece you'll see this year about American politics, the news business, or existentialism." WBEZ, critic's pick of the week 08) Saturday, April 5, 4 PM PRELUDE TO REVOLUTION: MAY-JUNE 1968 IN FRANCE Panelists: Michael Lowy, Joanna Misnik, William A. Pelz Forty years ago, poetry ruled the streets. Join us as we examine this remarkable chapter of 20th century history, and reflect on how May-June 1968 has influenced contemporary social justice movements in Chicago and around the world. Michael Lowy, born in Brazil, has lived in France since the 1960s. He is emeritus research director in sociology at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. A prolific author of many books in several languages, his publications include: The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx (2005), Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History (2005), The Marxism of Che Guevara (1970), Marxism and Liberation Theology (1988) Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity (2001), Erlösung und Utopie. Judischer Messianismus und libertares Denken (2002), Capital contre nature (2003), Politics of Combined and Uneven Development (1987), Dialectica Y Revolucion: Ensayos de sociologia e historia del marxismo (1983), Fatherland or Mother Earth? Essays on the National Question (1998), Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the Present: An Anthology (1992), and many others. Joanna Misnik was expelled from France for her trade union and political activism. A life-long anti-war and labor union militant, she is a member of SEIU Local 73. Historian Dr. William A. Pelz is the author of Against Capitalism: The European Left on the March (2007), The Spartkusbund and the German Working Class Movement (1988), and Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy (1994). He also edited the recently re-issued Eugene V. Debs Reader (2000, 2007). Bill's articles and book reviews have appeared in the American Historical Review, International Labor and Working Class History, German History, Sozialismus, JahrBuch fuar Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, and International Labor History Yearbook, among others. This public forum is co-sponsored by Open University of the Left, the Chicago Socialist Party, Solidarity-Chicago Chapter, Democratic Socialists of America-Chicago, and the New World Resource Center. Info: openuniversityoftheleft.org 09) Steppenwolf Garage Theater 1624 N. Halsted April 7th 2008, 7pm to 8:30pm Cost:20 at the Door. Space is limited please RSVP to Ryan Hollon 312/860-0097 or Sylvia Ewing 312/654-5633 Poetic performances for peace & power - to benefit the the Community Justice for Youth Insititute. Come ready to relax and reflect with: Kuumba Lynx, the winners of the 2008 Louder Than A Bomb Poetry Festival, songs from Avery R Young, and Hip Hop artist Jeff Baraka, Drumming and spoken word from Keith Kelley, plus Sylvia Ewing, Ryan Hollon, and many others committed to bringing community-led justice to Chicago's blocks. And: Hear the hidden truth about youth justice in a discussion with Xavier Bey . 10) Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:30p-10:00p @ Mess Hall, 6932 N Glenwood Work Against Work: The Labor of Ecology Potluck followed by 3 presentations. Bring something to share. This is a continuation in a series exploring the changing nature of work in our time and in history. All events approach work as a complex activity thru which we may be utterly debased or magnificently elevated; thru which we may destroy the world or revolutionize it. Texts to be discussed are available online at 49underground.org/nextevents.php_. Attendees are not expected to read all the articles, but please come prepared to discuss what you are able to read. The series is co-organized by the 49th Street Underground (49underground.org), Finding Roots (mayfirst.wordpress.com) and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (iww.org) 11) Finding Food in Chicago and the Suburbs Chicago State University, Academic Library Auditorium 9501 S. Martin Luther King Dr., Chicago, IL 60628 US When: Friday, April 11, 9:15AM Please come to Finding Food in Chicago, the release of the final results of the Northeastern Illinois Community Food Assessment. We will have a light breakfast beginning at 9:15, followed by speakers and discussion from 10:00 until 11:45. Parking passes will be provided for those who RSVP. Chicago State is located at 95th St. and King Dr. We are about 1/2 mile east of the 95th St. Red Line stop. You may also take the 95E bus from the station. The Metra Electric Line also stops at 95th, directly east of campus. Service is infrequent but there is a train from both the south and north stopping at CSU at 9:40. You must tell the conductor you wish to get off at 95th or the train will not stop. Driving from the north, take the Dan Ryan to 95th St., exit and take a left and then look for the gate on the right after King Dr. You may also take Stony Island to 95th and turn right. The gate will be on the left after Cottage Grove. From the south, take I-94 to Stony Island, take a left at 95th and then look for the gate after Cottage Grove. The library is located on the north end of campus. It is the large, new building. The auditorium is on the 4th Floor (there will be signs). For more information, please contact Daniel Block at findingfood@sbcglobal.net. This is the largest food access study ever completed in the Chicago region. It includes results of a mapping (GIS) study led by Dr. Daniel Block of Chicago of access to independent and chain supermarkets in the entire six county region, as well as other food access sites such as chain convenience stores and food pantries. In addition, Dr. Noel Chavez of UIC will present the results of a "market basket study" of food availability and price at stores in five Chicago communities. Finally, Dr. Judy Birgen will present the results of a door-to-door hunger and food access study completed in three Chicago communities. The Northeastern Illinois Community Food Assessment is funded by the Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust. Dissemination of results is funded by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation through the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children at Children's Memorial Hospital. 12) Umoja School Spring Fling and Silent Auction Friday, April 11, 2008 6-930pm @ Galleria Marchetti 825 W. Erie, Chicago (valet parking available) Umoja Student Development Corporation was formed in 1997 to link the educational efforts of Manley Career Academy High School to the broader community and to serve as an advocate for young people. 6:00-7:00 pm Cooking demonstration with Chef Julius & open bar, dinner and auction to follow. 6:30-9:30 pm Drinks, Buffet Dinner, Silent and Live Auction. Silent Auction closes at 9:30 pm. How to Purchase: Tickets can be purchased by credit card through PayPal via umojacorporation.org/NewsandEvents/2008spring_fling.htm, or by sending a check payable to Umoja Student Development Corporation to: Umoja Student Development Corporation 2935 West Polk, Room 116 Chicago, IL 60612. Regular Ticket: Cost:46.60 (includes Cost:1.60 processing fee), Cost:55 at the door VIP Ticket - Cooking demonstration with Chef Julius: Cost:103.20 (includes Cost:3.20 processing fee), Cost:110 at the door umojacorporation.org/news_events.htm 13) Back 2 Basics - Coop Image Group Spring Fundraiser @ 2716 W North Ave 9pm-12pm w/ Live hiphop coopimage.org or jessica@coopimage.org for more info 14) 4/17-Thursday-6PM. Gene Siskel Film Center co-sponsored between Tamms Year Ten and the Campaign to End the Death Penalty You Don't Remember The Time You Do: Moments in the Lives of Prisoners Space Ghost by Laurie Jo Reynolds and In Loving Memory by Rob Todd. With exciting special guests! 164 N. State St, Chicago IL 60601 Program Description Prison has long been a popular setting for motion pictures, from the oft-remade Man in the Iron Mask to recent Oscar-nominated hits Dead Man Walking and The Shawshank Redemption. Rarer is the film that examines the prison system's complicated impact on individuals, families, and communities. Artists Laurie Jo Reynolds and Robert Todd take on this challenge in a pair of lyrical essays on the experiences of incarcerated men and women. Weaving together pop cultural imagery and prison phone conversations, Reynolds' collage-like Space Ghost (2007) explores confinement and isolation in the lives of astronauts and the imprisoned. Todd's In Loving Memory (2005) juxtaposes the reflections of prisoners on their lives with haunting landscape shots of prisons around the country, in a moving meditation on memory and a compelling critique of the death penalty. Presented as part of a series of events organized by the Tamms Year Ten Campaign, marking the ten-year anniversary of the Tamms C-MAX prison in Tamms, Illinois. (2005-07, various directors, USA, multiple formats, ca 90 min.) 15) Version08 DARK MATTER April 17 - APRIL 27 2008 see versionfest.org for more information Saturday, April 19 and Sunday, April 20: LUMPEN MAGAZINE PRESENTS: Version08 Festival's NFO XPO Door time: Saturday 1pm to 2am @ The Viaduct Theater3111 N. Western Ave. Sunday 1pm - 2am Ticket price: Cost:8 for each day or Cost:10 for two -day The NFO XPO (pronounced info expo) brings art groups, community organizations and artists together to exchange information and ideas as well as provide a public platform for each group to present themselves. We view it as a trade show for experimental art, emerging spaces, and radical exchange. It's our version of what an art fair should be. It's a big part of Version Festival, our annual convergence. The NFO XPO features booths with artist and gallery projects, installations, interactive works, science fair style exhibits and more. The NFO XPO also features talks presentations, video screenings, performances and live music. 16) April 18-20, 2008 Finding Our Roots is a yearly conference in Chicago to discuss anarchist theory and action. The next conference is planned for April 18-20, 2008 and will focus on Anarchist Organizing in the Midwest. There will be a presentation about AREA Chicago as a local networking/research tool at this year's conference. mayfirst.wordpress.com/ 17) Black Tie, Black Flag Formal Dance and Party Organized by Chicago Anarchist Film Fest in conjunction with the Finding Our Roots Conference mayfirst.wordpress.com/ 7pm-1230am @ 2328 N Milwaukee 18) Nicole Garneau's UPRISING #4 takes place during Version>08 on Saturday, April 19 around 10pm at The Viaduct Theater3111 N. Western Ave. UPRISING: monthly performance project 2008 nicolegarneau.com/UPRISING.html 19) April 26 (Sat) 10am-4pm Green and Growing Fair, Garfield Park Conservatory 20) 4/26-Saturday-11AM to 4PM. Freedom School Communiversity All day education on the prison industrial complex. Participants will write letters to Tamms prisoners. 719 S. State St., Suite 3N, Chicago IL 60605 21) 4/28-Monday-10AM-3PM. HEARINGS ABOUT TAMMS C-MAX Save the date and please be part of our public press event at 3pm. Definitely check the website for more specific details. YearTen.org House Prison Reform Committee of the Illinois General Assembly James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph, Chicago IL 60601 22) 4/29-Tuesday-4PM to 5:30PM. Northwestern University lecture Center for International and Comparative Studies series: Torture in the Era of Democracy Ex-prisoner Akkeem Berry and attorney Jean Maclean Snyder will speak about Tamms as Torture. Moderated by Professor Stephen F. Eisenman. Northwestern University, BCSIS conference room 1902 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL 60208 (free parking behind the building) 23) Thursday, May 1, 2008, 6pm At the Newberry Library Celebrate May Day The WOBBLIES: Memory & Model, An Event about the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World, two activists from 1968 Franklin & Penelope Rosemont and David Roediger & Leon M. Despres will speak. At the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago IL 60626 Featuring noted historians and speakers, including David Roediger, Leon M. Despres, and Franklin & Penelope Rosemont, this special event celebrates the comprehensive IWW Collection (books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and other items) now open to the public. This collection at Newberry is the only major collection of historic IWW material available in Chicago, the city in which the union began, and in which it maintained its headquarters for some eighty years. Roediger will speak on the 1886-87 Haymarket events, the origins of May Day and its influence on the IWW. Leon Despres will speak on the IWW's impressive traditions of Free Speech (The 1918 infamous trial of 101 Wobblies and their imprisonment was also a Chicago event). Franklin Rosemont will relate his adventures as a young IWW organizer hitchhiking across the country meeting and talking with old Wobblies in the 1960s, and its activities in 1968. Penelope Rosemont will speak about the IWW's legendary Solidarity Bookshop in Lincoln Park, in that same decade, and the later role of such old-time Wobblies as Fred Thompson, Jack Sheridan, Carlos Cortez, and Jenny Lahti Velsek in revitalizing the Chicago's Charles H. Kerr Company, the world's oldest working class publishing house. Contact Information: Rachel Bohlmann 312-255-3665 or Mary Janzen 312-255-3593janzenm@newberry.org Franklin Rosemont 773-465-7774 or 773-262-1329 arcane@ripco.com 24) Friday May 2nd Chicago Anarchist Film Festival Thank your customer, tell them how valuable they are to you, but don't go overboard. Insincerity is easy to spot. mayfirst.wordpress.com/permalink / comments -
#20 March 2008 Events
by AREA | Published April 30, 2008~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AREA's Another Chicago Newsletter Events for March 08 (Tamms Year 10/Anti Gravity Surprise/Young Chicago Authors/Versionfest/49th St Underground/More) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :::Please Repost and Spread the Word Widely, We Never Know Who Knows What::: Mar 08 Events Summary (Details Below) 01) 03.01 Sat - Start Your Own Farm Workshop - RSVP For Space! 02) 03.01 Sat - GunViolence Workshop with Journal of Ordinary Thought 03) 03.01 Sat - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: A talk on "Human Contact Deprivation" 04) 03.02 Sun - Self Care for Social Justice @ Albany Park Workers Center 05) 03.02 Sun + 03.04 Tue - Critical Conversation about Climate 06) 03.03 Mon - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Press conference/spoken-word event 07) 03.03 Mon - Talking Point with Anti Gravity Surprise @ HPAC 08) 03.04 Tue - Women in the Global City Discussion @ Lozano Library 09) 03.04 Tue - Douglas Crimp On Gay Districts and Urban Space @ SAIC 10) 03.06 Thu - Eyes Wide Open Installation @ Depaul 11) 03.06 Thu - Screening of film about League of Revolutionary Black workers 12) 03.06 Thu - Gender, Human Rights and Media Panel @ Columbia College 13) 03.07 Fri - Aaron Hughes/Iraq Vets Against War @ Vietnam Vets Art Museum 14) 03.08 Sat - International Womens Day! 15) 03.08 Sat - Letter-writing to Tamms prisoners event @ Mess Hall 16) 03.09 Sun - Louder Than a Bomb Finals @ Vic Theater 17) 03.09 Sun - Rosa Luxembourg Revisited with Peter Hudis 18) 03.10 Mon - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Fundraiser Party @ Danny's 19) 03.13 Thu - 49th Street Underground Presents Readings on the 60s "UltraLeft" 20) 03.14 Fri - Lectures: International Women's Conferences/Black Chicago 1938-47 21) 03.14 Fri - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Live Performance Art About in Pilsen 22) 03.15 Sat - King Corn Screening with Claire Pentecost and Ladonna Redmond 23) 03.15 Sat - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Fundraiser @ the Hideout 24) 03.19 Wed - Opening Reception for "Secrets" by the 6+ Women's Art Collective 25) 03.19 Wed - Anti War Protest 26) 03.22 Sat - Fundraiser for Arrested Anti War Protesters @ Decima Musa 27) 03.28-30 Fri - Midwest Social Forum - Spring Organizers Retreat 28) 03.29 Sat - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Organizing Meeting 29) Get Ready: Version Fest 2008 Call For Participation - Do the the "Nfo Xpo" 30) Ongoing: Go see Chicago 10 @ Landmark Theater Today Until Mach 6th Event Details Below and Archived Here ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 01)============= Farm Dreams, March 1, 11am-3pm Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 N Sacramento Have you ever dreamed of starting your own farm? This interactive course is designed to help you explore whether a farming business is the right choice for you. Learn about regional business and training opportunities and get a chance to ask questions about the development of successful local farms. Join us for this class in the Center for Green Technology's new Resource Center! Get in touch with Angelic Organics Learning Center. You can contact our office by email (workshops@learngrowconnect.org) or phone (815.389.8455) to reserve your spot for any of the workshops below. If we do not meet a minimum registration of 8, classes may be cancelled. 02)============= A Call to Conscience: workshop on non-violent responses to gun violence. In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King. Code Pink, Women for Peace, the National Lawyers' Guild, the Strictly Flow Poetry Slam and the Neighborhood Writing Alliance invite you to attend this three-part workshop. Includes non-violent response training, a writing workshop and an open mic. Sat. Mar.1, 12-3pm, North Branch Library Community Room, 310 W. Division Street. RSVP to Rupal at (773) 684-2742 or rsoni@jot.org. 03)============= March 1-Saturday-10:30AM. A talk on "Human Contact Deprivation" Sacred Heart Parish, 337 S. Ottawa Street, Joliet, IL 60436 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 04)============= --Mar 2, Sunday, 1 pm, Albany Park Workers Center 3416 W Bryn Mawr SELF CARE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Benefit for Chicory Center & On-The-Fly Farms Sponsor: Acudetox Healing Collective Info: www.chicorycenter.org, lizappel@yahoo.com 05)============= --Mar 2 & 4, Sun & Tue SOLVING OUR CLIMATE CRISIS: A CRITICAL CONVERSATION ON CARBON TRADING Hear Larry Lohmann of Durban Group for Climate Justice 3/2, 2 pm, Good News Community Church, 7649 N Paulina 3/4, 1:30 pm, DePaul Loop, 1 E Jackson, Rm 8009 3/4, 6 pm, DePaul Lincoln Park, Student Center Rm 220 Info: www.ecojusticecollaborative.org 06)============= March 3-Monday-4PM. Press conference and spoken-word event Jane Addams Hull-House Museum The University of Illinois at Chicago, 800 S. Halsted (M/C 051), Chicago, IL 60607 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 07)============= TalkingPoint: Anti Gravity Surprise 6pm Monday, March 3rd at the Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell Avenue Muller Meeting Room http://www.hydeparkart.org TalkingPoint is a free monthly Monday evening series in which Chicago-based cultural producers share their ideas as a starting point for conversation in an intimate setting. Since 2001, public art group Anti Gravity Surprise has addressed the concept of world peace in 9/11-themed multimedia project Gathering Motion; mounted a full eight-hour day of art and discussion about work with Second Shift; and hosted $election community art events to engage voters. Co-founders Kathleen Duffy and Jennifer Karmin will speak about their collaborative approach and ongoing work Tell Us What You Think, an evolving public art project that will be distributed as a free workbook. http://www.antigravitysurprise.org Come down to the Hyde Park Art Center for a chance to listen, discuss, and learn. Food and drink provided. TalkingPoint is curated by Dan Wang. Past guests include Industry of the Ordinary, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Theaster Gates, and Jeanne Dunning. 08)============= --Mar 4, Tue, 6 pm, Lozano Library, 1805 S Loomis WOMEN IN THE GLOBAL CITY Panelists: Janet Smith of UIC College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs, Pauline Lipman of UIC College of Education, Kim Wasserman of Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Kim Daykin of Housing Opportunities for Women Sponsor: Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies Info: www.workingclassstudies.org 09)============= March 4 6pm SAIC Ballroom 112 S Michigan Ave Douglas Crimp the art historian and critic discusses the 1970s transformation of Manhattan's Lower West Side, as both artists and gay men sought the neighborhood's abandoned spaces. For more information, visit saic.edu. 10)============= --Mar 6, Thu, 11 am & 8 pm, DePaul University Student Center, 2250 N Sheffield EYES WIDE OPEN 140 pairs of combat boots, one for each Illinois service person killed in the Iraq War; also screening of The Ground Truth Sponsor: AFSC 11)============= March 6th Film: "Finally Got the News" 7:30pm (bring food to share) at the Mess Hall (6932 N. Glenwood; 'Morse' stop on the Red Line; 773-465-4033) A documentary about the League of Revolutionary Black workers inside and outside of auto factories in Detroit, and their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, would respond to workers' problems. After Party Benegit for Finding Our Roots @ 6748 N. Newgard. 12)============= GENDER, HUMAN RIGHTS AND MEDIA March 6, 2008 Reception 5:30pm. Program 6:00pm. Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor Open to the Public & Free of Charge In recognition of International Women's Day, the Institute presents the 2nd annual panel program on gender and media, with this year's focus on human rights. Gender, Human Rights and Media brings together five leading writers, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars whose work ranges from broadcast reporting on Hurricane Katrina and South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to a film on Argentina's state terrorism in the 1970s. Through individual presentations, media clips and discussion, the panelists will engage in personal and scholarly interpretations of the complicated role that media can play in reflecting, influencing and broadening our understanding of human rights. Introduced by Jane M. Saks (Executive Director, Institute) and moderated by Laura S. Washington (Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor in Journalism, DePaul University), the panel discussion will feature Cheryl Corley (reporter, National Public Radio), Antjie Krog (poet, writer and journalist), Silvia Malagrino (visual artist and filmmaker), and Joe Richman (independent producer, National Public Radio's Radio Diaries). 13)============= March 7th, 7-10pm @ National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum 1801 South Indiana Ave. Aaron Hughes of Iraq Veterans Against the War has a Closing Reception for his Exhibit "You Are Not My Enemy" and a Book release for IVAW's Warrior Writers Publications http://ivaw.org/node/2653 14)============= --Mar 8, Sat INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 15)============= March 8-Saturday-6:00-8:30PM. Letter-writing to Tamms prisoners event and kick-off for Supermax Subscriptions - an initiative to get the residents of Tamms prison magazine subscriptions Mess Hall. 6932 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago 60626 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 16)============= Louder Than a Bomb 2008 Finals! Sunday, March 9th, 2007 The Vic Theater 3145 N. Sheffield Ave. Doors at 5PM, Show from 6PM-9PM For specific questions, contact Robbie Q: robbieq@youngchicagoauthors.org or call 773-486-4331 17)============= --Mar 9, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield ROSA LUXEMBURG REVISITED Hear Peter Hudis of News & Letters 18)============= March 10-Monday-10PM. Chicago Peace Party at Danny's Benefit for Tamms Year Ten Campaign-half of bar proceeds go to our campaign. Danny's Bar. 1951 W Dickens Ave, Chicago, IL 60614 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 19)============= March 13th - The Legacy of the "Ultraleft," Part II: Workerists and Gauchistes around 1968* 7:30pm (bring food to share) at the Mess Hallpermalink / comments -
#19 February 2008 Events
by AREA | Published Jan. 29, 2008Dear Friends of AREA Chicago: Please come out on THIS SUNDAY to hear the public discussion between Feel Tank Chicago, AREA Chicago and the AREA contributor and prolific artist/organizer/writer Dan S. Wang about last summer's How We Learn series. It should be a great chance to critically reflect on some of the energy mobilized around our summer series and the last issue of AREA (details below). People will also be meeting 1 hour early at the Experimental Station (6100 S. Blackstone - starting at 4pm) to discuss events and ideas around AREA's fall issue about 1968. The events/issue will deal with the legacy of the new left and its impact/influence on local social movements today. If you are interested please come on out! Also, please check out the AREA Sponsored Screening of "Chicago10", the new animated feature film about the 1968 DNC Protests in Chicago, on Monday Feb18th (details below). Also, any of the events on this list were taken from New World Resource Center's very impressive events listing, so if you want to know more info see their site. Finally, AREA's monthly events newsletter will now be a bit less irregular and will go out on the last Monday of the month, so please get your events listings for March into us by Feb 25th. Have a great month! Feb 08 Events Summary (Details Below) 01) 01.29 Tue - Politics of Place in the new "We Are Many" Chicago Activism Lectures 02) 02.01 Fri - Exhibit Opening: Art and Resistance in Oaxaca @ Cafe Mestizo 03) 02.01 Fri - Torture in Chicago: Overview of The Burge Case - Panel Discussion 04) 02.01-02 - Academic Freedom Conference @ DePaul 05) 02.02 Sat - Iraq Veterans Against War/IVAW Fundraiser @ Acme Co-Op 06) 02.02 Sat - Come Meet The Freightliner Five - Striking Workers @ UE Hall 07) 02.03 Sun - AREA/Feel Tank Discussion @ Experimental Station 08) 02.05 Tue - Vote if you Vote @ Your Local Polling Place 09) 02.05 Tue - Poetry reading by women incarcerated in Cook County Jail 10) 02.07 Thu - Residents Journal - Public Housing Journalism - Party and Website Launch 11) 02.09 Sat - Shut Down Tamms Prison "Year Ten Campaign" Planning Meeting 12) 02.09 Sat - Networking Party for Local Independent Media Makers 13) 02.09 Sat - TSJ/AFSC Release Event for Counter Recruitment School Curriculum 14) 02.10 Sun - Presentation about Chicago Women's Liberation Union History 15) 02.11 Mon - Iraq Veterans Against War/IVAW Fundraiser @ Danny's Tavern 16) 02.15 Fri - Pedestrian Hell Exhibit and Discussion about Public Space @ Efebos Café 17) 02.15 Fri - HomeGirls: Makers of Words and Worlds, Makers of Culture @ UIC/Hull House 18) 02.16 Sat - History of Lynching @ Chicago Freedom School 19) 02.16 Sat - African American Folk Tales at 57th Street Books 20) 02.18 Mon - SCREENING of Chicago 10 @ Columbia College (co-sponsored by AREA) 21) 02.19 Tue - Iraq Veterans Against War/IVAW Screening 22) 02.23 Sat - Sex Workers Art Show - Performance @ Funky Buddah 23) 02.29 Fri - Crossroads Fund Annual Benefit - Get out and support! 24) 02.29 Fri - Critical Mass Rides to Critical Mass Art Show Closing Party (Secret Location) 25) Every Friday @ Hull House - Stitch and Talk @ Ellen Gates Starr Craftivism Free Lunch! 26) Now till April - "HereThereEverywhere" Exhibit about Politics of Place 27) Now till March 31 @ Youth Hostel - MLK jr. Inspired Mural Exhibit 28) Now till July - "Chupacabras!" Exhibit on Border Myths @ Museum of Mexican Art 29) Job Posting: New Chicago Left Web Magazine Hiring Authors DETAILS 01)========================================== Jan 29, Tue, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western THE POLITICS OF PLACE: A HISTORY OF ZONING IN CHICAGO Author Joseph P. Schwieterman Part of We Are Many: Inquiries Into Chicago Activism series Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/ 02)========================================== Son de las Barricadas: Art and Resistance in Oaxaca Prints by the Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca February 1st through the 29th Cafe Mestizo 1646 W. 18th St. Exhibit Opening: Friday, February 1st 7:30pm Featuring the Chicago premiere of the documentary "The Taking of the Media" (in Spanish with English subtitles) Organized by ChicagOtra with support from the Fire This Time Fund 03)========================================== Feb 1, Fri, 5:30 pm, Grace Place, 637 S Dearborn TORTURE IN CHICAGO: THE BURGE CASE Panelists: Flint Taylor & Joey Mogul of Peoples Law Office, representatives from Black People Against Police Torture, victim Darrell Cannon, Sponsors: National Lawyers Guild, American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International, 8th Day Center for Justice 04)========================================== Feb 1-2, Fri-Sat, DEPAUL ACADEMIC FREEDOM CONFERENCE Speakers: Sara Roy, Juan Cole, Robert Jensen, Peter Novick, Bill Ayers Info: http://academicfreedomchicago.org 05)========================================== --Feb 2, Sat, 7 pm, ACME Coop, 2418 W Bloomingdale IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST WAR BENEFIT Video screening of Soldiers for Peace Info: chicago@ivaw.org 06)========================================== Come Meer The Freightliner Five, North Carolina UAW workers fired for promoting a strike. UE Hall - 37 S Ashland Ave Sat. Feb 2nd - 7pm With Mike Griffin, War Zone Foundation, UBC. Lee Sustar, Charleston Five Defense Committee, Labor Editor. Music by Bucky Halker, Labor Troubadour Background on the Strike http://www.9898.us/3/f5chi80202.htm 07)========================================== Sunday, February 3 5pm @ Experimental Station 6100 S Blackstone (Near 61st and Dorchester) Dan S. Wang moderates a discussion between Feel Tank and AREA, and the public There has been an enormous amount of activity related to critical art practices in the last year in Chicago making it an international hub for this work. Feel Tank and AREA both mobilized large numbers of practitioners, activists, and folks in other fields working and thinking in parallel to make, talk, act, and learn together. What impact did this have? What are the lasting implications of all this activity? What is next? 08)========================================== 02.05 Tue - Vote if you Vote http://www.chicagoelections.com/ 09)========================================== --Feb 5, Tue, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark STILL POINT THEATER COLLECTIVE: STRONG WOMEN Performance featuring poetry written by women incarcerated in Cook County Jail 10)========================================== Residents' Journal, a quarterly news magazine written for and by Chicago public housing residents and other low-income citizens, is relaunching its Web site. Join public housing journalists, youth reporters, RJ staff and supporters for the site launch, a party and readings by RJ contributors. The event takes place on February 7, starting at 7 p.m. at the Palette and Chisel Gallery, 1012 North Dearborn Avenue, Chicago Contact Anjuli Maniam at (773) 984 7798 or via email anjuli.maniam@gmail.com for more information. 11)========================================== Saturday, Feb 9, 10am-noon Progressive Community Center The People's Church 56 E. 48th St. Chicago, IL 60615 (Plenty of parking.) YOU ARE NEEDED FOR THE YEAR TEN CAMPAIGN!I Former prisoners of Tamms and their families have joined forces with The Tamms Poetry Committee to work on the "Year Ten" campaign, and your help is urgently needed. To mark Tamms' tenth year of operation, the "Year 10" campaign has initiated a program of artistic, educational, cultural and political events to bring public attention to the conditions at Tamms. We ask the people of Illinois to join us in protesting the IDOC's misguided and inhumane policies, and in calling for legislation to end the torture of permanent solitary confinement. These efforts are part of a long-term political strategy to achieve humane treatment for the men at Tamms. We expect to have legislative hearings about Tamms in March. But our legislators can only act in response to significant public outcry. We need you to participate in our upcoming events, and get involved in Year Ten organizing. We need your voice, your contacts, your skills, and we need your action! Come to the next organizing meeting on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 10:00 a.m. 12)========================================== Feb 9, Sat, 3 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western NETWORKING PARTY: BEING OUR OWN MEDIA Sponsor: Metro Chicago Progressive Media Network, Chicago Media Action Chicago area progressive media professionals & activists Info: 708-447-1547, walterb306@cs.com 13)========================================== Saturday, February 9, 5-7PM Decima Musa 1901 W. Loomis in Pilsen TSJ and the American Friends Service Committee present: • A curriculum development workshop on anti-military recruitment using the new Camouflaged curriculum* • A short panel presentation on the new CPS Board policy toward anti-recruitment work (AFSC & TSJ) *The brand new curriculum, Camouflaged: Investigating how the U.S. military affects you and your community, was produced by the NY Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE). We will have presentations of two lessons from Camouflaged, then break into subject-matter groups to plan & work on some concrete curriculum ideas (note-this is mainly middle to high school work). You can preview and download a draft version of the curriculum from NYCoRE's website, http://www.nycore.org/PDF/Camouflageddraft.pdf Due to our resources (lack of!)...can people planning on attending please either download and print a copy (not small!, ~150 pages), OR download the pdf onto a laptop and bring the laptop so that people can work on it in small groups at the workshop. We will have a few copies available as well. And there is food and drink for sale at Decima Musa... No preregistration is necessary, this is a free event (though we pass the hat for Decima Musa), please join us. this email sent to you by: Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago) http://teachersforjustice.org/ 14)========================================== Feb 10, Sun, 3 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western CHICAGO WOMEN’S LIBERATION UNION PRESENTATION History of one of the most influential leftist women’s groups of the 1960s-1970s Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/ 15)========================================== --Feb 11, Mon, 10 pm, Danny's Bar, 1951 W Dickens IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST WAR BENEFIT DJs, cash bar, more 16)========================================== PEDESTRIAN HELL An Exhibit at Efebos Café 1640 S. Blue Island Ave. January 25 (opening reception 6:30) - March 6 (2008) With: Janina Ciezadlo, Miguel Cortez, Tom Sibley, Rebecca Wolfram SPECIAL EVENT: February 15, 6:30: Come to discuss Pedestrian Topics such as Public Transit, Car-Sharing, Bicycling - you can rant a little bit if it helps you feel better, share information and ideas, and try some of Efebos' delicious food. Call Efebos 312-633-9212 (efeboscafe@sbcglobal.net), or Rebecca 773-523-7275 17)========================================== Jane Addams Hull House Museum Presents: A Dangerous Woman Affair… HomeGirls: Makers of Words and Worlds, Makers of Culture: A Spoken Word Concert Friday Feb. 15, 7pm UIC Campus 1044 W. Harrison W. Harrison L285 Lecture Hall Jane Addams Hull-House Museum celebrates the legacy of Jane Addams, who was once called "Public Enemy #1" and "The Most Dangerous Woman in America" by the FBI, with a series of events that features and celebrates women who might be considered "dangerous." These artists, scholars, activists and organizers all speak truth to power, share a fierce determination to challenge the status quo and inspire us to imagine a better, more just future. Featuring: Mayda Del Valle (Def Poetry on Broadway, LA via Chicago) Bassey Ikpi ( Def Poet, Washington DC via Nigeria) Marty McConnell ( Def Poet, Brooklyn via Chicago) Kelly Tsai (Def Poet, Brooklyn via Chicago) Lauren Whitehead (YouthSpeaks, Bay Area via Chicago) Angel Nafis (Brave New Voices, Ann Arbor, MI) Anna West (Co-founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival) EARLIER THAT AFTERNOON: HomeGirls: Makers of Words and Worlds, Makers of Culture: 3PM-5PM 800 South Halsted, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum A conversation around spoken word and hip-hop poetics. As part of the first generation of American woman to attend college, Jane Addams understood the importance of breaking boundaries and being a border crosser. She did this in numerous ways: as a white person working in communities of color; as a wealthy person addressing issues of poverty; and as a woman entering into the male dominated and defined public sphere. Join us for an afternoon conversation with a new generation of border crossing female spoken word poets. They are continuing in Jane Addams legacy, blazing across new borders from the subculture to the dominant culture, crossing geographical terrain, from the personal to the political--and back again. How do we unleash our radical imaginations to create a new world with appreciation, acknowledgement, and understanding of difference and boundaries while crossing over to create a common, more just world? Can we do this from the word up? 18)========================================== Saturday Feb 16th - 10am-4pm @ Chicago Freedom School (719 S. State St.) Strange Fruit: The History and Legacy of Lynching Program Includes an interactive presentation by Coya Paz and a screening of "Ida B Wells: A Passion for Justice" contact mhenry@chicagofreedomschool.org for more info 19)========================================== Saturday, February 16th 2:00pm AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOLKTALES STORYTIME In celebration of African-American Heritage month, we'll be exploring the legends and lore of the African diaspora. Come share stories, snacks and activities as we visit Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, Anansi and other memorable characters. Always Free. Always Fun. 57th Street Books 1301 E 57th St 20)========================================== Join AREA Chicago and Participant Productions for a special advanced screening of Chicago-10. Monday February 18th 7:30 pm; FREE Columbia College Film Row Cinema 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60605 Written and directed by Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture), Chicago 10 presents contemporary history with a forced perspective, mixing bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage that explores the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Set to the music of revolution, then and now, Chicago 10 is a parable of hope, courage and ultimate victory, the story of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the face of an oppressive and armed government. Learn more at: http://takepart.com/chicago10 Distributed by Roadside Attractions, opens in theaters in Los