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Enjoy This Month's events!
January 2010 Events Summary
- 01) 1-5 Tue - Meeting for Chicagoans about US Social Forum in July 2010
- 02) 1-5 Tue - Ludite Cafe and Dinnerluck - Card Weaving Workshop
- 03) 1-9 Sat - Exhibit "In the Shell of the Old" by Dylan A.T. Miner
- 04) 1-9 Sat - CORE Community Forum on School Violence and Renaissance 2010
- 05) 1-9 Sat - Freestreet Theater presents "To Kill a Teenager: seven sins of the juvenile mind"
- 06) 1-13 Wed - Join the New "Capitalism" Reading Group
- 07) 1-16 Sat - First Teachers for Social Justice meeting of 2010
- 08) 1-17 Sun - Public Sq and WBEZ present a Chicago Intergenerational Poetry Event
- 09) 1-18 Mon - Chances Dances Benefit for Transformative Justice/Write To Win
- 10) Artists interested in social justice? - Insight Arts seeks new artists!
January Event Details!!
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Another World is Possible. Another US is Necessary. A New Detroit is Underway
Learn about the Social Forum Process and Chicago's Road to Detroit.
January 5th. 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Access Living. 115 w. Chicago Ave.
20,000 changemakers will be gathering in Detroit in June from all different sectors and communities to share vision, strategy, practice, and action.
This information session is for people new to the Social Forum organizing. It will orient Chicagoans to the history of the World Social Forum, the plan for Detroit, and how Chicago can use this as a movement building moment.
Hundreds are getting together to fundraise, coordinate travel, and plan events to support the participation of youth, low-income, people of color, and neighborhood folk from affected communities. Come to the session to see how we can link up and build a Chicago that works for everyone.
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The Ludite Cafe & Dinnerluck
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
When: Tue, January 5, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
"In the Shell of the Old" by Dylan A.T. Miner | Print Media and Installation
ARC GALLERY | JANUARY 6-30, 2009
832 W. Superior Street # 204, Chicago, IL 60622
Reception: Friday, January 8 from 6:00-09:00pm
ARC Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition In the Shell of the Old by Dylan A.T. Miner. Telling stories of the daily struggles faced by working in the building and dismantling of the rural and industrial Midwest, Dylan A.T. Miner's bold and unique vision valorizes the perseverance that contributes to the small victories of the everyday. Through the medium of politically charged relief prints and installation, Miner viscerally connects our daily concerns with those of the past by compelling us to act toward the building of “another,” possibly better world.
Miner has exhibited widely, including the Institute for American Indian Arts, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, National Museum of Mexican Art, Native American Rights Fund, La Galería de la Raza, Nokomis Center and countless alternative and university galleries, community centers, union halls, and anarchist bookstores. His comics are included in /Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation/ (New Press, 2009) and /Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World /(Verso, 2005). He is an Assistant Professor of Transcultural Studies at Michigan State University and a member of Justseeds. He may be contacted at dylanminer.com
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Date: January 9th, 2009 10 AM-1PM
Event title/host: CORE Community Forum on School Violence and Renaissance 2010
Location: Malcom X College 1900 W. Van Buren
Details/Contact $10 suggested donation, refreshments and childcare available.
coreteachers@gmail.com
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Explore the amplified emotional minefield of becoming adult:
To Kill a Teenager: seven sins of the juvenile mind
directed by Ron Bieganski
January 9 - February 6
Fridays at 7:00 pm
Saturdays at 2:00 pm
1419 W. Blackhawk, Chicago, IL 60642
Pulaski Park 3rd floor
(just east of Ashland between North and Division, near the Blue Line Division stop, street parking available)
Tickets available online at brownpapertickets.
Reservations and info at 773-772-7248
Suggested donation: $15 general, $5 student
For teens and older due to gunplay, razor blood, and misuse of powertools.
Special benefit performance on Jan. 29 to support a tour and collaboration with Makhampon Theater in Chaing Doa, Thailand.
Everyday teens are the victims and perpetrators of senseless violence and inexplicable behavior. Free Street Theater untangles some of the psychology leading to such predicaments in a twisted variety show of sins such as emotional driving, suicidal pride, and assuming invincibility.
Cast: Ashley Echevarria, Olawunmi Faleti, Giovanni Gonzalez, Karina Gonzalez, Ashley Johnson, Mark Poore, Celina Rivera, Petra Samardzija
Playwright: Free Street Ensemble
Director: Ron Bieganski
"I am not the individual parts that make up my psyche. I am a hellbox of a woman, a girl child, lover loser, lost soul, filling my many empty spaces with vices. " - To Kill a Teenager
www.freestreet.org/sins.html
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AREA/CPW Capitalism Reading Group
In AREA #8 "Everybody's Got Money Issues" the group Chicago Political Workshop developed a critical response to the contents of AREA #8 (http://areachicago.org/p/issues/everybodys-got-money-issues/). They are now inviting friends of AREA to join them in a reading group inspired by that issue of AREA. Please come to this first meeting to get involved and contact them to get the first readings. The theme of the first meeting is about grounding ourselves in the history and context of Chicago.
Meeting 1: Chicago as an Intellectual, Social, and Political Problem
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
7:00pm at Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Ave.
Morse CTA Red Line stop
The readings for this meeting are*:
1. Chicago: A Success Story, The Economist Magazine, March 2006
2. Neo-Bohemia: Art and Neighborhood Development in Chicago, Richard Lloyd
3. Urban Outcasts: Stigma and Division in the Black American Ghetto and the French Urban Periphery, Loïc Wacquant
* PDF texts sent upon request. contact (etriantafillou@yahoo.com)
07)------------------------------- 08)------------------------------- WORD: Across Generations Join The Public Square and Chicago Public Radio for WORD: Across Generations with poets Carloyn Rodgers, John Murillo, and Aja Monet. Each poet will perform their work and then participate in a post-performance conversation, followed by an Open Mic Showcase. This event is taking place as part of Chicago Public Radio Presents… The 2nd Annual Winter Block Party for Chicago’s Hip-Hop Arts. For more about this exciting day,visit Chicago Public Radio's website.
January 16 11AM - 1PM
First Teachers for Social Justice meeting of 2010
UIC College of Education
1040 W. Harrison (Harrison & Morgan), Blue Line UIC stop
Discussion/analysis of Renaissance 2010, national significance, and TSJ's position
Planning actions, projects, events and how to get involved
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater 2433 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago
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A dance party benefit for the Write to Win Collective and TJLP!
Monday January 18, 2010
CHANCES DANCES (at the Subterranean)
2011 W North Ave, Chicago IL
10pm-2am
*Bake sale!
*Raffle!
*Drink specials!
*DJs! (including TJLP's very own Owen Dmc!!)
*Much much more!
This event is 21+
Free admission! (Donations for Write to Win and TJLP accepted inside).
Chances is a dance party which functions to bring together the varied LGBTIQ communities of Chicago. Third Mondays at The Subterranean. Always free. All gender expressions welcome.
www.writetowin.wordpress.com
www.tjlp.org
www.chancesdances.org
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Call For all kinds of artists! no age limit!
Are you and artist with strong beliefs, morals, words? Here is the time to express yourself.
we are looking for Poets, Musicians, Fine Artists, Visual Arts, Film Artists, Dance Artists...and many more, whose work addresses issues of Racial Jusitce, Gender Equality, the Right to Safe & Sane Conditions, Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability.
please send us a message through facebook or you can react someone directly at info@insightartsliberation.org
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