:::Fwd To Your People:::You Never Who Knows What:::
Happy July from AREA Chicago
Dont Forget to Read AREA #6: City As Policy Lab online today!
And Please Submit a Proposal for AREA's Next Issue on the legacy of 1968 by August 1, 2008.
The Summary of July 08
01) Contribute to the Notes For a Peoples Atlas of Chicago (new website)
02) 07.02-07.27 - All month long events with artist group "Hideous Beast" in Logan Sq - Get involved!
++ ACTION to save Rape Crisis Funding ++
03) 07.03 Thu - SNCC, Freedom Summer, and Freedom Schools (panel)
04) 07.03 Thu - Bike Tour of Chicago War Profiteers
05) 07.04 Fri - Golden Age Art Store in Pilsen has BBQ
06) 07.05 Sat - Independence Workshops with Foundation for Freedom @ Messhall
07) 07.10 Thu - Screening of A Documentary about Gentrification in Logan Square
08) 07.10 Thu - Jens Jensen, Community, and Gardening Workshop @ Hull House
09) 07.10-07.13 - Greenparty USA Conference in Chicago
10) 07.11 Fri - History and Legacy of Youth Participation in the Chicano Movement (panel)
11) 07.12-07.13 Sat/Sun - Socially Engaged Art Symposium and Bookfair @ 3walls (w/ AREA Chicago!)
12) 07.13 Sat - Bastille Day Party
13) 07.18 Fri - History and Legacy of Activism in LGBTQ Communities (panel)
14) 07.21-07.22 Mon/Tue - Talk about Energy Policy @ Nature Museum w/ new public art project
15) 07.21 Mon - History of Activism in the Puerto Rican Community (panel)
16) 08.01 Fri - History of the Independent Living/Disabilities Rights Movement (panel)
17) Ongoing: Hull-House Kitchen: Rethinking Soup Every Tuesday at Noon
18) Ongoing: Roots of Reform Bus Tour @ Chi Architecture Foundation
19) Contribute to Chicagoan's attending "Critical Resistance" Prison Abolition Conference
20) New Infoshop/Cafe Opens in Hyde Park: Backstory Cafe
21) New World Resource Center Closes
The Details of July 08
01)
Contribute to the Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago project
Check out the new website http://chicagoatlas.areaprojects.com/ for more info or to download a map
Or go pick one up at Quimby's Bookstore @ 1854 W. North Ave
02)
Make Movies, Show Movies, Show Powerpoint
Hideous Beast is producing a series of activities and events as part of our residency during the month of July, 2008 at InCUBATE
All events take place at InCUBATE 2129 N. Rockwell, Chicago, IL
- MEDIAreport // Wednesdays from 7-10 pm (July 2, 9, 16, 23)
- SWEATtime // Tuesdays from at 9-10 pm (July 8, 15, 22, 29)
- Hideous Beast makes Sunday Soup! // Sunday, July 27, 1-4 pm (http://www.incubate-chicago.org/sundaysoup)
- PowerPoint Extreme! Workshop // Wednesday, July 9, 7-10 pm
- PowerPoint Extreme!: Groups and Spaces // Thursday, July 17, 8-10 pm
- Mini Movie Fest Workshops// Wednesdays, July 16 + 23, 7-10 pm (http://www.hideousbeast.com/projects/mmf)
- Mini Movie Fest: Entertainment? // Friday, July 25, 8-10 pm
A full schedule description is at: http://www.hideousbeast.com/
(http://www.incubate-chicago.org/). Join us as we DO STUFF!!! this July. Below is a list of dates and times for planned activities,
++ACTION)
Advocacy Alert:
Rally to save rape crisis funding on July 3!
Before you leave for the holiday, please join us for a rally at the Thompson Center this Thursday, July 3 at 11 a.m. to ask the Governor and legislators to restore funding for rape crisis centers.
We are asking that rally participants wear black shirts. If you can't attend the rally, please click here to contact your legislators and ask them to restore rape crisis funding today.
We can't afford more cuts!
Overall loss to YWCA sexual violence services budget due to federal cuts: 12.5%
Overall loss to YWCA sexual violence services budget due to state cuts: 15%
Overall impact to YWCA clients and staff: Devastating
How much more can we afford lose?
Cuts to rape crisis services in Illinois total $5.2 million and would leave only $600,000 in General Revenue Funds for the 33 rape crisis centers across Illinois. If this budget passes, the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois will be faced with the abrupt cessation of services: rape crisis hotlines will shut down; agencies will be forced to close their doors, programs will be forced to turn away survivors for counseling services and schools won't be able to offer vital prevention education programs. At the YWCA alone, we have already endured both the loss of staff and services .
Please join us. We are strong alone, fearless together.
03)
THURSDAY, JULY 3
10 am - 12 pm
Location: Chicago Urban League, 4510 S. Michigan
SNCC, Freedom Summer, and Freedom Schools
The Chicago Freedom School discusses the history and work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), what happened during Freedom Summer in 1964 Mississippi and how the original Freedom Schools were established. Using creative expression, participants will be challenged to think about how they are going to uphold various tenets of the original Freedom Schools. For more information, please call Ed or Landon at 312.435.1201. To rsvp, e-mail rsvp@chicagofreedomschool.org
04)
July 3rd 6pm - Bike Tour of Chicago War Profiteers
come on a tour of our local war profiteers, you'll be astounded. tour package includes a handy informational zine about those who build the bombs, fuel the army's tanks, wash their towels, build their outposts, ship their food and toilet paper, protect US congress members visiting iraq, kill civilians without any recourse, roam the streets with no oversight, pump and sell iraqi oil, get the contracts to build expensive submarines (just in case the insurgents start building theirown), and the rest who keep this destructive, pointless, illegal, awful war going.
stop by daley plaza at 4 to tune up and decorate your bike on july 3rd. we'll kick off the tour at 6.
Visit http://tinyurl.com/6hswj6 to see where these suckers are, and http://chicagowartour.blogspot.com/ to read all about them. contact chicagofreeschool@riseup.net
05)
Golden Age (www.goldenagestore.com) is having a 4th of July BBQ this Friday from 2-6 at 1744 W 18TH ST., w/ a nearby afterparty @ 7pm.
This event is a celebration of independence, come and relax at our new location. Listen to music, read a bit, check out the sick installation by artist Peter Friel, eat some bbq, have a cold beverage, and catch up on the summer.
The BBQ will be potluck style. Our grill has 192 sq.cm of grilling space so please bring an item
06)
The Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom presents...
a Weekend of Independence Workshops @ Mess Hall
Saturday, July 5, 2008
1:00 Workshop 1: Redefining Your Skillset: putting together a great resume for
the non-profit sector
2:00 Workshop 2: how to find good-paying jobs in the non-profit sector workshop
3:00 Workshop 3: How to tell your account manager you don't wont work on
advertising for the military/cigarette companies/alcohol companies/car
companies/axe body spray anymore.
4:00 Workshop 4: Letter of resignation writing seminar / barbecue
This event is part of AAAFFF residency currently being held at Mess Hall by the Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom. For more info on this and other events see http://antiadvertisingagency.com/category/projects/foundation-for-freedom
The mission of the Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation for Freedom is to bring the best and brightest former ad pros together once a year; inspire young people to leave the craft; focus the industry and public at large on the profoundly negative social and economic impacts of advertising; inspire problem-solving methods focused on the most important issues facing the real world; and shine a light on the influence that advertising, media, and marketing industries have on dwindling public space, atrophying human relationships, and the destruction of democracy.
Mess Hall
6932 N Glenwood, Chicago
just across from the Morse stop on the Red Line
(773) 465-4033; http://www.messhall.org
07)
Local Documentary Screening
A Documentary about Gentrification in Logan Square
created by Kelvyn Park Social Justice Academy High School Students
Thursday, July 10
6:30 pm
Elastic Arts, 2830 N. Milwaukee. Ave.
FREE
Presented by Logan Square Neighborhood Association and Kelvyn Park High School Students
Please feel free to bring others from your institution or organization. RSVP by July 9 to jamcdjr@yahoo.com or by calling (773) 384-4370 x38. Thanks!!
08)
Jens Jensen, Community, and Gardening:
A workshop with historical and hands-on gardening components
Thursday, July 10
5:30-7:30pm
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Residents Dining Hall and Courtyard
800 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60607
RSVP REQUIRED: 312.413.5353
Jens Jensen, creator of the Prairie style of landscape and influential advocate for public parks, was an associate of Jane Addams and an important Chicago reformer. Jensen created Columbus Park on the western edge of Chicago, and extensively redesigned three other large west-side parks (Humboldt, Garfield, and Douglas) as well as 15 small ones. He organized and inspired the early conservation movements that led to the creation of the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Illinois state park system, the Indiana Dunes State Park and National Lakeshore. Everywhere he championed his core conviction: people must have some contact with the "living green," - flowers and plants native to their home. To Jensen, landscape architecture was not just a profession, nor was the use of native plants just one style among many - they expressed his near-mystical belief in the renewing and civilizing powers of nature. He was a reformer with his hands on a spade and his head in the clouds.
Join us for a workshop where we will learn about what kinds of public spaces Jensen and Addams were fighting for. Julia Bachrach, Chicago Park District Historian, will give a compelling talk about Jensen's philosophy of community gardens, bringing children closer to nature, and the outdoor public events he used to draw people to green spaces. This workshop includes a community gardening component led by Catherine Murphy, one of many Master Gardeners working in Jensen's legacy. In the gardening component, we will learn about the "three sisters" method of planting and plant herbs to be used in the Hull-House Kitchen!
For more information about Jens Jensen, visit www.jensjensen.org.
More about Julia Bachrach:
Julia Bachrach is the Chicago Park District Historian and the author of The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks and with Jo Ann Nathan author of Inspired by Nature: Inside Garfield Park Conservatory and Chicago's West Side.
09)
--Jul 10-13 Thu-Sun, Palmer House Hilton, 17 E Monroe
also Chicago Symphony Center, 7/12
GREEN PARTY OF UNITED STATES CONFERENCE
Hear Malik Rahim, Kathy Kelly, Cliff Thornton Jr, many others
Info: www.ilgp.org/
10)
FRIDAY, JULY 11
10 am - 12 pm
Location: Little Village Lawndale High School Campus Auditorium, 3120 S. Kostner
History and Legacy of Youth Participation in the Chicano Movement
This program will feature a screening of "Chicano! Part 3: The Walkouts" and a panel discussion with youth and adults who were involved in the struggle to open Little Village Lawndale High School Campus. For more information, please call Ed or Landon at 312.435.1201. To rsvp, e-mail rsvp@chicagofreedomschool.org
11)
Talking With Your Mouth Full: New Language for Socially Engaged Art
A ThreeWalls Symposium
Saturday July 12, and Sunday July 13, 2008
Saturday July 12, 2008
1:00 PM
Panel discussion with Lori Waxman, Claire Pentecost and Carrie Lambert-Beatty. Moderated by Huey Copeland. Sunday July 13,2008
1:00 - 5:00 PM
Small Publications Book Fair with local publications by The Green Lantern Press, InCUBATE, AREA Chicago, Lumpen, and others. InCUBATE will host Sunday Soup at ThreeWalls.
(incubate-chicago,org/sundaysoup) 3:00 PM
Artist Talk by SOLO Artists: Material Exchange
The more art slides between convention and social action, sculpture and public performance, art and the everyday, the more complicated it is to talk about.As socially engaged art rides the boundaries of multiple subjects simultaneously, historians, critics, and other artists must develop multifaceted responses.To discuss projects that include a broad and unfolding web of topics such as art, racial politics, and gender is to speak in many voices all at the same time.The aim of Talking with Your Mouth Full is to contribute language to the critical framework for these projects in an effort to refine discussions around socially engaged art. A companion publication featuring new work from panelists, will be available at each event.Published in collaboration with The Green Lantern Press.
ThreeWalls
119 N. Peoria #2D Chicago, IL 60607
312.432.3972 | sup@three-walls.org | www.three-walls.org
12)
--Jul 13, Sun, 2 pm, Quenchers Saloon, 2401 N Western
BASTILLE DAY PARTY
Off with their heads! Imbibe, fraternize, hear some great live jazz
by the anti-capitalist free jazz band Undertow, & celebrate
the era when the ruling class ran for their lives
Sponsors: Chicago Socialist Party, Solidarity-Chicago,
Open University of the Left, Marxist-Humanist Committee,
Chicago Democratic Socialists of America, New World Resource Center
Info: chgosp@juno.com
13)
FRIDAY, JULY 18
10 am - 4 pm
Location: Youth Pride Center, 7300 S. Cottage Grove Ave.
History and Legacy of Activism in LGBTQ Communities
This full-day workshop will feature a film screening about the history of the Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement, a panel of youth working on to develop safe spaces across the city and a guest speaker, lifelong activist Vernita Gray, who will connect issues addressed by the LGBTQ communities in the past to the work today. For more information, please call Ed or Landon at 312.435.1201. To rsvp, e-mail rsvp@chicagofreedomschool.org
14)
ENERGY PLANS, July 21-22 2008 - Chicago
A project by Futurefarmers, art/design group from San Francisco
Location:
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (naturemuseum.org) (Map: http://xrl.us/NatureMuseum)
just off Lake Shore Drive at Fullerton in Chicago's Lincoln Park
Contact:
energy@futurefarmers.com
Event and Project Summary:
The political debates associated with the 2008 elections are on. Questions are being asked, but only a select few get to answer these questions. Who gets to ask these questions? Let us meet and discuss our concerns about Energy consumption and production in an informal public setting. Let us pose questions to each other and present our collective results in Washington D.C. in Sept. 2008.
On July 21 + 22, Futurefarmer's Energy Tent and Building Workshop will land at the Nature Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
During 2 days Futurefarmers in collaboration with the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will host two building workshops and 4 discussion sessions led by scientists from the University of Chicago. The general public will be invited to participate in discussions with the guests in the Energy Tent. The outcome of these discussions will be a series of questions relative to the issue of "Energy" and the upcoming 2008 elections.
The questions produced in small discussion groups will then be posed to larger groups in the form of a Continuum**(see below for more information). Each morning, Futurefarmers will conduct special workshops with Chicago area teenagers from the Chicago Park District TRACE (Teens Re-Imagining Art/Community/Environment) program and the Nature Museum CPS summer interns.
For more information see http://www.futurefarmers.com/brushfire/
PUBLIC EVENT SCHEDULE - JUST DROP BY ANYTIME!
[Monday July 21]
@ Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum - 2430 N Cannon Dr (Map: http://xrl.us/NatureMuseum)
2pm-4pm
Scientists in tent with public:
David Archer, Professor in Department of the Geophysical Sciences
Justin Borevitz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution
4-5pm
Continuums
[Tuesday July 22]
@ Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum - 2430 N Cannon Dr (Map: http://xrl.us/NatureMuseum)
2pm-4pm
Scientists in tent with public:
Albert Colman, Biogeochemist
Robert Jacob (climate modeler), Argonne National Lab and U Chicago
4-5pm
Continuums
15)
MONDAY, JULY 21
10 am - 12 pm
Location: TBD
History of Activism in the Puerto Rican Community
This program will feature film clips and a discussion about the Young Lords and youth involvement in activism in the Puerto Rican community over the past 50 years. For more information, please call Ed or Landon at 312.435.1201. To rsvp, e-mail rsvp@chicagofreedomschool.org
16)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1
2 - 4 pm
Location: Access Living, 115 W. Chicago Ave.
History of the Independent Living/Disabilities Rights Movement
This program will feature a discussion about the history of Independent Living campaigns in Chicago and the work that continues today by youth involved in current campaigns. For more information, please call Ed or Landon at 312.435.1201. To rsvp, e-mail rsvp@chicagofreedomschool.org
17)
Hull-House Kitchen: Rethinking Soup
Every Tuesday
Noon-1:30
Residents' Dining Hall
800 S. Halsted St.
312.413.5353
More about Rethinking Soup:
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/Events/kitchen
Hull-House Kitchen Blog
http://www.hullhousekitchen.blogspot.com
18)
Chicago Architecture Foundation Offers new tour:
Roots of Reform Bus Tour - This tour highlights efforts among women and minorities to improve Chicago's urban condition. June-September
www.architecture.org
19)
Critical Resistance is turning 10! Join us Sept. 26-28, 2008 in Oakland, CA, to celebrate.
For more information, to find out about travel support, and to get involved in the CR10 planning, please contact:
cr10@criticalresistance.org or 510.444.0484 ext. 2#
Critical Resistance is a national grassroots organization committed to ending society's use of prisons and policing as an answer to social problems.
Get in touch with Erica Meiners <E-Meiners@neiu.edu> if you are interested in receiving or donating towards travel grants from Chicago to Oakland!
20)
Backstory Cafe Opens! http://backstorycafe.com/home.html
21)
New World Resource Center Closes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Resource_Center | |
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