Another Chicago: The Irregular Newsletter of AREA Chicago
Art/Research/Education/Activism
www.areachicago.org
Happy New Year Peoples! Lots of Great Events and Projects This Month.
Look for more soon. AREA Issue#4 will be released next month. Get in
touch if you would like to help with distribution!
Another Chicago #1
Summary:
01.05 Dread Scott Art Show on Paris Commune and Hurricane Katrina
01.09 Anarchist Anthropology
01.12 Race and War Panel
01.12-14 4th International Conf. on Teacher Ed and Social Justice
01.14 Young Chicago Authors Benefit Party
01.17 Captive Audience: Art and Prison Exhibition + Related Events
01.17 Art, Sex and Censorship with art historian Richard Meyer
01.18 Chicago Short Film Brigade Season Launch
01.20 Climate Change Town Hall Meeting
+ Reminder Call for Proposals: Education for Liberation Conference
+ Volunteer Opportunities with mid south side Home Building org
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Details:
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Event Date: Friday, January 5, 5-9 PM
http://dreadscott.net
FLATFILEgalleries
January 5, 2007 - February 16, 2007
New Year, Same Old Politics: Fredrick Holland & Dread Scott
Opening reception Friday, January 5, 5-9 PM
217 Carpenter St.
Info: 312-491-1190
http://www.flatfilegalleries.com
Friends,
My art is returning to Chicago in a major way for the first time since
"What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?" was the center of
controversy in 1989. The new work opens Friday, January 5, 2007 at
FLATFILEgalleries. I'm showing several pieces including "Let 100
Flowers Blossom, Let 100 Schools of Thought Contend", a new
installation that uses imagery from the Paris Commune, the October
Revolution and the Chinese revolution. Also, I'm showing a new work on
Katrina. If you are in town, I hope to see you at the opening.
Best,
Dread http://dreadscott.net
==================================================
Event Date: Tuesday January 9th at 6pm
Possibilities that are not yet.
Join us for an informal discussion of *Fragments of an Anarchist
Anthropology* by David Graeber.
Tuesday January 9th at 6pm -
Harper Hall, room# 125
1116 E. 59th St (on the Midway), Chicago,
reach by the Metra Electric,
or CTA bus #s 2, 6, 28X, or 55
Breaking with various orthodoxies in the academic world as well as much
of leftist politics, this book discusses the possibility of radical
social change the role of intellectuals in helping bring about that
change without taking control of the movements they serve. While
anarchism and anthropology serve as the two central points of Graeber's
argument, the issues should be of interest to people in many walks of
life and politics who share an interest in changing the world. Everyone
is invited.
Text available in many bookstores or free online at
http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html
Co-sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the 49th St.
Underground of Chicago, with the help of the University of Chicago
Anthropology Students Association
contact southsideanticap@riseup.net <mailto:southsideanticap@riseup.net>
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Event Date: Friday January 12th at 7pm
--Jan 12, Fri, 7 pm, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, 2700 W Haddon
RACE & WAR
Panelists: Dr Ghada Talhami of Lake Forest College,
Jose Lopez of Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Doug Gills of UIC,
Raja Halwani of School of the Art Institute
Sponsor: Peace Pledge Chicago
Info: www.peacepledgechicago.org
==================================================
Event Dates: 12-14 January 2007
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
TEACHER EDUCATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Location: University of Illinois-Chicago
http://www.antioppressiveeducation.org/2007conference.html
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Event Date: Sunday January 14th
Young Chicago Authors Benefit Party
@ HotHouse
31 E. Balbo
http://www.hothouse.net/
www.youngchicagoauthors.org
==================================================
Event Date: Wednesday, January 17, 5-8 pm
Captive Audience curated by Marc Fischer
January 16 - February 24, 2007
Opening reception: Wednesday, January 17, 5-8 pm
An exhibition of artwork, cultural products and industrial design
created by, for, about, or in collaboration with people who are
imprisoned. From music and spoken word records, drawings, video
projects, photographs, posters, written correspondence, movies and
stills, to mass produced toothbrushes, jumpsuits, sneakers, and
mattresses designed for prisoners, Captive Audience allows visitors to
the exhibition to experience the material conditions of prisoners'
lives and review artwork made in, for or about prison life.
See Event Details here http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit.htm
==================================================
Event Date: Wednesday January 17th at 630pm
--Jan 17, Wed, 6:30 pm, Chicago History Museum, 1600 N Clark
ART, SEX & CENSORSHIP: FROM PAUL CADMUS TO THE PATRIOT ACT
Hear gay art historian Richard Meyer
==================================================
Event Date: Thursday January 18th at 830pm
Chicago Short Film Brigade Season Launch
$7
the hideout
1354 w wabansia
www.filmbrigade.com
==================================================
Event Date: Saturday January 20 10am
Global Climate Change Town Hall Meeting
How Chicago's citizens and neighborhoods can take action
Jobs - Energy - Transportation - Food - Clean Air
10 AM - 12:30 PM
Whitney Young Magnet High School
211 S. Laflin
- Panel presentations and discussion
- Networking
- Alternatives and examples
http://www.ecojusticecollaborative.org/
==================================================
+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Free M i n d s Free P e o p l e
A National Conference on Education for Liberation
Chicago
June 21 to 24, 2007
Reminder—Proposals due Jan. 30, 2007
Free Minds, Free People will bring together teachers, youth, parents,
researchers and community-based educators from across the country to
begin building a movement to develop and promote Education for
Liberation. Education for Liberation is an umbrella term we use to
describe the work of people who are trying to link education, social
justice and activism. Other more common terms are popular education,
social justice education, survival schools or Freedom Schools.
We are seeking individuals and organizations who would like to plan
and facilitate discussions, panels, workshops, demonstrations and/or
activities that will help develop our understanding and practice of
Education for Liberation. We are aiming for a diverse audience and a
wide variety of conference activities. Free Minds, Free People
represents a unique and exciting opportunity for all of us to come
together to learn and build strength from each other. Whether you are
a teacher trying to offer students a version of history they won't see
on their exams, a community-based activist leading a rites of passage
or popular education program, a researcher interested in the impact of
alternative approaches to education, a youth organizing other youth to
make change in your community or a parent helping a child understand
her inheritance of a proud history of struggle against injustice we
hope you will share your experience and knowledge at this gathering.
This conference is being organized by The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, the
Chicago Freedom School Project, the Education for Liberation Network
and the University of Chicago's Center for Urban School Improvement.
For more information on how to apply, see www.edliberation.org.
Questions? Call 212 283 7044 or email
freeminds@brotherhood-sistersol.org .
==================================================
+ Announcement/Call For Participation
AREA Readers!
Rebuilding Together*Metro Chicago is happy to request your help for
the upcoming Rebuilding Day event on April 28, 2007. Rebuilding
Together provides free home repairs and modifications for low-income
homeowners in the Chicagoland area. Rebuilding Day combines the
volunteer labor of the skilled trade unions (plumbing, carpentry and
electric) with teams of handy volunteers and donated materials to
improve the homes of families and seniors. This year we are looking
forward to working on homes in the Englewood/West Englewood
Neighborhoods and in Markham, IL.
Volunteer Opportunities!
One day to Rebuild Chicago! Rebuilding Day: April 28th, 2007 8am-4pm -
join a team and lend a hand to paint, patch and do other handy work.
Individuals & groups welcome!
Committees for Rebuilding Together-- if you have skills and want to
share them, Rebuilding Together needs your help. Logistics,
Marketing, Fundraising & others.
Contact Andrea Fritsch at (312)201-1188 or email rtmc@rebuildingtogether-chi.com
www.rebuildingtogether-chi.com
Happy New Year Peoples! Lots of Great Events and Projects This Month.
Look for more soon. AREA Issue#4 will be released next month. Get in
touch if you would like to help with distribution!
Another Chicago #1
Summary:
01.05 Dread Scott Art Show on Paris Commune and Hurricane Katrina
01.09 Anarchist Anthropology
01.12 Race and War Panel
01.12-14 4th International Conf. on Teacher Ed and Social Justice
01.14 Young Chicago Authors Benefit Party
01.17 Captive Audience: Art and Prison Exhibition + Related Events
01.17 Art, Sex and Censorship with art historian Richard Meyer
01.18 Chicago Short Film Brigade Season Launch
01.20 Climate Change Town Hall Meeting
+ Reminder Call for Proposals: Education for Liberation Conference
+ Volunteer Opportunities with mid south side Home Building org
==================================================
Details:
==================================================
Event Date: Friday, January 5, 5-9 PM
http://dreadscott.net
FLATFILEgalleries
January 5, 2007 - February 16, 2007
New Year, Same Old Politics: Fredrick Holland & Dread Scott
Opening reception Friday, January 5, 5-9 PM
217 Carpenter St.
Info: 312-491-1190
http://www.flatfilegalleries.com
Friends,
My art is returning to Chicago in a major way for the first time since
"What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?" was the center of
controversy in 1989. The new work opens Friday, January 5, 2007 at
FLATFILEgalleries. I'm showing several pieces including "Let 100
Flowers Blossom, Let 100 Schools of Thought Contend", a new
installation that uses imagery from the Paris Commune, the October
Revolution and the Chinese revolution. Also, I'm showing a new work on
Katrina. If you are in town, I hope to see you at the opening.
Best,
Dread http://dreadscott.net
==================================================
Event Date: Tuesday January 9th at 6pm
Possibilities that are not yet.
Join us for an informal discussion of *Fragments of an Anarchist
Anthropology* by David Graeber.
Tuesday January 9th at 6pm -
Harper Hall, room# 125
1116 E. 59th St (on the Midway), Chicago,
reach by the Metra Electric,
or CTA bus #s 2, 6, 28X, or 55
Breaking with various orthodoxies in the academic world as well as much
of leftist politics, this book discusses the possibility of radical
social change the role of intellectuals in helping bring about that
change without taking control of the movements they serve. While
anarchism and anthropology serve as the two central points of Graeber's
argument, the issues should be of interest to people in many walks of
life and politics who share an interest in changing the world. Everyone
is invited.
Text available in many bookstores or free online at
http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html
Co-sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the 49th St.
Underground of Chicago, with the help of the University of Chicago
Anthropology Students Association
contact southsideanticap@riseup.net <mailto:southsideanticap@riseup.net>
==================================================
Event Date: Friday January 12th at 7pm
--Jan 12, Fri, 7 pm, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, 2700 W Haddon
RACE & WAR
Panelists: Dr Ghada Talhami of Lake Forest College,
Jose Lopez of Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Doug Gills of UIC,
Raja Halwani of School of the Art Institute
Sponsor: Peace Pledge Chicago
Info: www.peacepledgechicago.org
==================================================
Event Dates: 12-14 January 2007
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
TEACHER EDUCATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Location: University of Illinois-Chicago
http://www.antioppressiveeducation.org/2007conference.html
==================================================
Event Date: Sunday January 14th
Young Chicago Authors Benefit Party
@ HotHouse
31 E. Balbo
http://www.hothouse.net/
www.youngchicagoauthors.org
==================================================
Event Date: Wednesday, January 17, 5-8 pm
Captive Audience curated by Marc Fischer
January 16 - February 24, 2007
Opening reception: Wednesday, January 17, 5-8 pm
An exhibition of artwork, cultural products and industrial design
created by, for, about, or in collaboration with people who are
imprisoned. From music and spoken word records, drawings, video
projects, photographs, posters, written correspondence, movies and
stills, to mass produced toothbrushes, jumpsuits, sneakers, and
mattresses designed for prisoners, Captive Audience allows visitors to
the exhibition to experience the material conditions of prisoners'
lives and review artwork made in, for or about prison life.
See Event Details here http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit.htm
==================================================
Event Date: Wednesday January 17th at 630pm
--Jan 17, Wed, 6:30 pm, Chicago History Museum, 1600 N Clark
ART, SEX & CENSORSHIP: FROM PAUL CADMUS TO THE PATRIOT ACT
Hear gay art historian Richard Meyer
==================================================
Event Date: Thursday January 18th at 830pm
Chicago Short Film Brigade Season Launch
$7
the hideout
1354 w wabansia
www.filmbrigade.com
==================================================
Event Date: Saturday January 20 10am
Global Climate Change Town Hall Meeting
How Chicago's citizens and neighborhoods can take action
Jobs - Energy - Transportation - Food - Clean Air
10 AM - 12:30 PM
Whitney Young Magnet High School
211 S. Laflin
- Panel presentations and discussion
- Networking
- Alternatives and examples
http://www.ecojusticecollaborative.org/
==================================================
+ Announcement/Call For Participation
Free M i n d s Free P e o p l e
A National Conference on Education for Liberation
Chicago
June 21 to 24, 2007
Reminder—Proposals due Jan. 30, 2007
Free Minds, Free People will bring together teachers, youth, parents,
researchers and community-based educators from across the country to
begin building a movement to develop and promote Education for
Liberation. Education for Liberation is an umbrella term we use to
describe the work of people who are trying to link education, social
justice and activism. Other more common terms are popular education,
social justice education, survival schools or Freedom Schools.
We are seeking individuals and organizations who would like to plan
and facilitate discussions, panels, workshops, demonstrations and/or
activities that will help develop our understanding and practice of
Education for Liberation. We are aiming for a diverse audience and a
wide variety of conference activities. Free Minds, Free People
represents a unique and exciting opportunity for all of us to come
together to learn and build strength from each other. Whether you are
a teacher trying to offer students a version of history they won't see
on their exams, a community-based activist leading a rites of passage
or popular education program, a researcher interested in the impact of
alternative approaches to education, a youth organizing other youth to
make change in your community or a parent helping a child understand
her inheritance of a proud history of struggle against injustice we
hope you will share your experience and knowledge at this gathering.
This conference is being organized by The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, the
Chicago Freedom School Project, the Education for Liberation Network
and the University of Chicago's Center for Urban School Improvement.
For more information on how to apply, see www.edliberation.org.
Questions? Call 212 283 7044 or email
freeminds@brotherhood-sistersol.org .
==================================================
+ Announcement/Call For Participation
AREA Readers!
Rebuilding Together*Metro Chicago is happy to request your help for
the upcoming Rebuilding Day event on April 28, 2007. Rebuilding
Together provides free home repairs and modifications for low-income
homeowners in the Chicagoland area. Rebuilding Day combines the
volunteer labor of the skilled trade unions (plumbing, carpentry and
electric) with teams of handy volunteers and donated materials to
improve the homes of families and seniors. This year we are looking
forward to working on homes in the Englewood/West Englewood
Neighborhoods and in Markham, IL.
Volunteer Opportunities!
One day to Rebuild Chicago! Rebuilding Day: April 28th, 2007 8am-4pm -
join a team and lend a hand to paint, patch and do other handy work.
Individuals & groups welcome!
Committees for Rebuilding Together-- if you have skills and want to
share them, Rebuilding Together needs your help. Logistics,
Marketing, Fundraising & others.
Contact Andrea Fritsch at (312)201-1188 or email rtmc@rebuildingtogether-chi.com
www.rebuildingtogether-chi.com
