Welcome to the New Year! Enjoy These Events and Look for More Announcements from AREA soon!

Summary

01) 01.01-17 Camp Hope Anti War Actions For Obama in Hyde Park
02) 01.10 Sat - City Wide Public Hearing on School Closings @ Malcolm X College
03) 01.15 Thu - AREA's "Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago" Exhibition in Wicker Park
04) 01.15 Thu - "Experimental Geography" Book Release Party (Featuring AREA) in Wicker Park
05) 01.17 Sat - Inaugural Ball at AV-Aerie
06) 01.19 Mon - Martin Luther King Jr. Day @ CHM
07) 01.26 Mon - Book Release for new book on intersections of art and justice in S. Africa
08) 02.01 Sun - Readings from AREA #7 @ Japanese American Service Committee (Northside) + Details on Festival @ Links Hall Throughout January

Details

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Camp Hope - Countdown to Change
A presence in Hyde Park January 1st-19th (Dr. Martin Luther King Day), 2009
Every day from New Years’ to Dr. Martin Luther King Day (1/1-1/19), whatever winter has in store for us, we will set up at the intersection of E. Hyde Park Blvd. and 5100 S. Drexel Ave to congratulate Senator Obama as our new President-elect and recommit ourselves to progressive actions he promoted on his campaign trail. 

Contact:
Phone: 773-878-3815     Email: contact@camphope2009.org
www.camphope2009.org

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CITY WIDE PUBLIC HEARING on Ren 2010 School Closings
Saturday January 10, 2008 - 10am to 2pm
@ Malcolm X College Cafeteria 2nd floor 1900 W. Van Buren Chicago, Il60612
(parking is available off of Jackson)
The event above has been organized by the Caucus of Rank and File Educators
COREteachers@gmail.com
www.COREteachers.org
With the Board of Education announcing 20 more schools closures for February, 2009 and up to 14 new Turnaround schools, the fate of our public schools hang in the balance.

It's a now or never moment!

Either parents, teachers/psrps, students and community members stand up and demand our educational rights, or the whole district will soon be controlled by private interests that don't care about our needs.

There is a way to stop this. Attend a city-wide public hearing on Saturday, January 10th, at Malcolm X College at 10:00am, and contest the privatization of the system. We have parents, students and teachers scheduled to testify about what has happened to their schools and communities because of Renaissance 2010.

We hope you will attend, invite others, and join us to build a resistance to school privatization and a vision of a truly public, democratically run and adequately funded public education system. 

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January 15 2009 5-8pm 1425 N Damen Ave
NOTES FOR A PEOPLES ATLAS OF CHICAGO

Around the Coyote has collaborated with local arts, education and activism magazine AREA Chicago to bring AREA's Chicago Community Mapping Project: Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago to the Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood. In 2006, AREA Chicago began the Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago project by distributing blank maps throughout the city and asking Chicagoans to record their history, knowledge and impressions on the maps. This project taps into the power of mapping as a way of composing a portrait of Chicago by Chicagoans.

AREA Chicago and Around the Coyote are inviting Wicker Park/Bucktown residents to contribute to this map-making project, and will display the maps in an exhibition at the Wicker Park Fieldhouse (1425 N Damen Ave, Chicago) during January 15-January 18, 2009.

Residents participate as a cartographer by using a blank map to draw, paint, write and create their specialized knowledge of the city in a visual form. These maps will reflect the unique insights and experiences of Wicker Park/Bucktown residents and their depictions of the city as they see it. Blank maps have been sent to neighborhood residences, can be picked up at various local businesses, or downloaded at www.aroundthecoyote.org, and will be returned by December 15 to designated drop-off spots (listed below).
http://www.aroundthecoyote.org/area/

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Thursday January 15th 8-10pm 1371 N. Milwaukee Ave
EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY BOOK RELEASE PARTY
http://www.mhpbooks.com/event.php?id=185

Melville House Publishing will host a presentation and release party for the book Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, edited by Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International, featuring contributions by Chicago-based Artists and Organizers: Ellen Rothenberg, Deborah Stratman, Daniel Tucker and AREA Chicago. The event will be held on on January 15th, 2009, from 8pm-10pm, at STOP SMILING Magazine's Storefront—1371 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL.

Experimental Geography explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide (and possibly make a new field altogether). This lavishly illustrated book features more than a dozen maps; artwork by Francis Alÿs, Alex Villar, and Yin Xiuzhen; and recent projects by The Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Raqs Media Collective, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy.

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Inaugural Ball
Sat January 17th 2009 at AV-Aerie 2000 W Fulton, Chicago
Doors at 8pm, $15 Donations to benefit AV-Aerie; Donation Bar
Come Dressed To The 09's And Ready To Celebrate!
 
We’ll be dancing to the sweet sounds of:
The Joel Patterson Trio
DJ Mr P.C.
DJ Jacob Ross
 
Limited Space Available So Come Early And Stay Late!
RSVP to 312 953 3600

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, January 19, 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
@ Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60614
312.642.4600

Commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Enjoy dramatic readings and musical performances that reflect Dr. King's messages of peace and justice.

Cost: Free admission to the Museum; no reservations required

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Monday, January 26
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Discussion, followed by book signing
A Discussion and Book Signing with South Africa Constitutional Court Justice
Albie Sachs and Dr. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen Managing Editor, David Krut Publishing
celebrating the publication of
ART and JUSTICE: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
 
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 
The Institute is proud to present the Chicago installment of a national book tour celebrating the publication of Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Published by David Krut Publishing, the book pays tribute to the uniquely successful fusion of art and justice in a building that has achieved international acclaim for its warm and democratic quality.
 
The Constitutional Court, the most important new building of South Africa's peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy, is built on the site of a notorious prison that once held Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. The award-winning building glows with extraordinary artwork and draws thousands of visitors to the site every year. Art and architecture are fused in the Court in an inspiring and innovative way, informing visitors that they are in a place where the constitutional principles of human dignity, equality and freedom reign. Ben Law-Viljoen's brilliant photography and Ellen Papciak-Rose's vibrant and intuitive design are combined with incisive texts by the creators of the building in a book of rare visual emotion and imbued with intense respect for human rights.
 
For more information: 312-369-8829 or institutewomengender@colum.edu.

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Sunday, February 1, 3-5pm
Readings and Discussion of AREA #7 with Magazine Contributors
AREA #7: 1968/2008: The Inheritance of Politics and The Politics of Inheritance
http://areachicago.org/p/issues/7/ (all publication content is free online)

@ Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago 4427 North Clark Street
Free, part of the January Festival @ Links Hall (see below)

Readings and discussion with writers in celebration of the latest magazine release of AREA Chicago, a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting, and networking local social, political, and cultural movements.

 
Part of:
LINKS HALL PRESENTS....
When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation)
Writing, Performance, & Video Festival

Curated by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin,
Links Hall Artistic Associates

Featuring local, national, and international writers and artists
January 9 – February 1, 2009
Weekend Performances: Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 7pm
Tickets are $12 ($10 students, seniors, & working artists)
More Info http://www.linkshall.org/09-pp-jan.shtml