Look out for 2 months of AREA Programs @ Hyde Park Art Center Starting July 22 as part of the Stockyard Institute sponsored project "Pedagogical Factory: Exploring Strategies for an Educated City". An Email Calendar of Events for this project will go out towards the end of the month!
Summary: Another Chicago #10 June26-July 2007
) 06.26 Local Youth Organizing Round Table @ Roosevelt University
) 06.26 Public Square hosts Discussion with Feel Tank Chicago (Panel with AREA contributors)
) 06.26 Chicago/Calumet Underground Railroad Effort (C/CURE) Gathering
) 06.28 Dont be a Bystander: A Letter Writing Day to Men in Supermax Prison
) 06.29 The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd - Free Screening @ MessHall
) 06.30 Michael Piazza Art Auction and Fundraiser - Need Your Help
) 06.30 Art and Activism About the Body Presentations/Workshops
) 06.30 Screening About Slowness and Political Life
) 06.30 Screening of Film about 2006 Immigrant Rights Marches all over US
) 07.01 When Ex-Offenders return: Discussion about Re-entry
) 07.01 Canada Day Party @ Lil Manotoba
) 07.02 Dan Wang Plays music about Anxiety and Depression @ HPAC
) 07.04 4th of July Day of Politically Depressed Parade!
) 07.06 Disco of the Depressed @ Gallery 400 - Dance Party
) 07.07 Salsa Party to Benefit Latino Union @ Casa Aztlan
) 07.07 Feedback/ReportBack on Month of Feel Tank Events
) 07.09 Screening about Chicago's Ren2010 plan for Public Schools
) 07.13-15 48hour Free Store: Give Stuff and Take Stuff
) 07.22 Pedagogical Factory: Exploring Strategies for an Educated City Exhibit Opening
) 07.25 How We Remember: A conversation with Chicago Underground Library about Archiving
) 07.28 How We Learn: Informal Adult Education in Chicago
) 07.28 Temporary Services Book Release About Collaborative Art Groups @ Exp Station
1+ CAAAELII Needs Technology Center Volunteers
2+ FREE Collaborative Bike Repair Clinics Every Saturday
3+ Do you know members of Chicago New Left 60s/70s groups? Help uncover some history!
4+ Call for Participation in Barrio Arts Fest from Inst. of PR Arts and Culture
5+ Bike-In Rooftop Cinema @ Heaven Gallery Every Wed Night @ 8pm
6+ Art of Democracy Political Printmaking Open Call for 08 Chicago Exhibit
7+ Volunteers Needed For Chicagoland Underground Railroad Efforts
8+ Support Day Laborers and Immigrants by Talking to Senator About New Bill
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Details: Another Chicago #9 May-June
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Event Date: Tuesday, June 26th from 3 to 5pm
Roosevelt University 430 S. Michigan Ave. Room 244
Crossroads Fund is offering a round-table discussion on Youth Organizing and Social Justice at Roosevelt University.
Join youth organizers and adult allies from Roger's Park Young Women's Action Team, Korean American Resource and Cultural Center, Batey Urbano, and the Chicago Freedom School as they address the questions:
What does youth organizing look like?
What are the priorities of young activists in Chicago today?
How can organizations support youth activism and develop young leaders?
After a short panel presentation, we will open the floor to a wider discussion about youth organizing, and share challenges, strategies, and suggestions.
RSVP to Rachel Wallis rachel@crossroadsfund.org or 773-227-2626
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Event Dates: Tuesday June 26 6pm Free at Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC)
Join the Public Square for a discussion with the Feel Tank Chicago collective as they discuss their new exhibit "Pathogeographies" which deals with politics and depression. (Food will be served and reservations are required: 312.422.5580.) www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Date: Tuesday June 26 6-8pm
REMINDER! : Chicago/Calumet Underground Railroad Effort (C/CURE) Gathering
@ Riverdale Marina, 131st and Halsted (west side of Halsted, just south of the Little Calumet River).
The Marina serves beverages and sandwiches, soups, and other good snacks.
Come on over to the Riverdale Marina this Tuesday evening for a C/CURE get together ~
See old and new friends, and learn about preparations for the upcoming True North Underground Railroad Festival August 18-19th. www.chicagolandundergroundrailroad.org
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Event Dates: Thurs. June 28
6pm at Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC). "Don't be a bystander," Tamms letter-writing project. The Tamms Poetry Committee will be holding a letter-writing event for the 286 prisoners housed in the Tamms Supermax prison in Tamms, IL. These men are in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, conditions that the UN and Amnesty International consider torture. The inmates suffer from extreme sensory deprivation, loneliness, and depression. Come read some of their letters, meet members of their families, and be part of a group mailing experience. As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: Fri. June 29
7:30 pm - Feel Tank Microcinema Program 2 at Mess Hall, 6932 North Glenwood Ave.
THE CONTINUING STORY OF CAREL AND FERD (TRT: 58 MIN.)
Ferd Eggan in person!
The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd, Arthur Ginsberg with Video Free America, 58 min., 1970-75
A fascinating hybrid of performance and video verité, The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd introduces Carel and Ferd, a couple who allowed Ginsberg to produce an ongoing documentary record of the intimate moments of their relationship. Carel, a porn actress, and Ferd, a bisexual drug addict, invite the camera to participate in their wedding, their sex life, and their break-up. Produced before the landmark PBS documentary An American Family introduced television audiences to the live-in camera, this document raises questions about the dynamic of subject and camera, privacy and manipulation. Originally presented as an installation, this one-hour version, which includes interviews with Carel, Ferd and Ginsberg, was distilled form thirty hours of footage recorded from 1970 to 1975. Produced by the TV Lab at WNET/Thirteen, VTR series. - Electronic Arts Intermix
BIO: Ferd Eggan is an ageing gay white man in Los Angeles who makes videos and texts for the internet: "Communiqués from a cranky PWA" <http://crankypwa.blogspot.com>, a serial joke about AIDS, liver cancer and death, and "Revolution is an eternal dream" <http://www.ferdeggan.net/id16.html>, a series of interviews on transforming the world.
As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: Saturday, June 30, 2007 from 7-10pm
chimercurycafe.com
1505 W Chicago Ave
http://stockyardinstitute.org/MichaelPiazza.html
"we will have a benefit for the family of Michael Piazza at the Mercury Cafe in West town. Michael, as most of you know died last year of a heart attack at the age of 50. Michael was an extremely important artist whose work and actions influenced many. This small gathering at the Mercury Cafe will have works donated by artists which will be for sale. It will also include works of Michaels recently excavated from the Piazza vault in Humboldt Park which includes journals, posters, and prints. All the proceeds will go directly to the family. There will be a dedicated area in the cafe that folks can contribute pieces to that will benefit the family. Please let me know if you are interested in making a piece available for sale. Postcards are being distributed around the city and will also be available on Monday at the Mercury Cafe."
Contact Duignan, James <JDUIGNAN@depaul.edu> if you would like to donate an art work to the auction.
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Event Dates: Sat. June 30 Noon-7pm
Mapping the Body Politic 12-7 at Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC)
A series of presentations, workshops, performances, and discussions to help sketch out the contours of the multifarious Body Politic. (Schedule subject to change)
12-1 Drawn Lots (presentation)
Drawn Lots starts a dialogue concerning how people feel about their hopes for owning land and/or a house/home. The collective interacts with a variety of communities to gauge personal responses to property. Research feeds into Google image searches that will in turn serve as a resource for drawings.
1:15-1:45 travis, WEEDS (performance). Every time I see you naked I offer my death bed but you won't take it. Strange, my flower bed cannot hold you. In my prime I tried to burn away my winter weeds but I breed and then I decay. Strange, my flower bed cannot hold you.
2-3 BLW workshop: "A Meeting is a Question" Between June 30th and July 7th, BLW invites co-participants to five open meetings to be conducted in public. Meeting at unremarkable sites around Chicago, we will look for traces of power and listen to expert testimony that considers: what are the landscapes of war? BLW provides agendas, notepads, refreshments and site-seeing apparatus. Schedule and locations will be posted on the Pathogeographies website and at Gallery 400.
3:15-3:45 "Habit Swap" with Meredith Haggerty & Public Movement Troop. Participants should bring habits or movements from structured events such as work or rush hour and will recreate them in a new space. The goal is simply to reroute these activities as both internal and external events.
4-5 The Cranky PWA. Morbid queer thoughts of the Cranky P.W.A., who also shares meditations on radical frivolity, living (or dying) with liver cancer, remembering Michael Bumblebee, and much more.
5:15-6:45 "I think about Iraq every day" -- roundtable
As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: June 30 730pm
Microcinema Program 3 at Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC). THE PATHO-POLITICAL WORLD, Part 2: Slow Feeling (TRT: 106.5 MIN.)
Isil Egrikavuk in person!
Slowness as interruption to speed, billions of info bits, the fast read, the quick study, the swift satiric bite…slowness as analogical to how the political flows through bodies, gets blocked, gets absorbed, is manifest in what we might call "political feelings"…the slow burn, the double-take…
The Infamous Library, Isil Egrikavuk, 7:40 min., 2006
The Black Tower, John Smith, 24 min., 1987
South of Ten, Liza Johnson, 10 min., 2006
Not a Matter of If, but When: brief records of a time in which expectations..., The Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David Thorne), 17:33 min., 2006
Archivo, Bea Santiágo Muñoz, 30 min., 1999-2003
Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, the Law and Poetry, Paul Chan, 17:30 min., 2006
As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Date: Jun 30, Sat, 7 pm, ACME Artworks, 1741 N Western
FILM: GIGANTE: DESPIERTA! (GIANT: AWAKE!) Chicago debut of the documentary on historic immigrant rights marches that swept America in 2006 Sponsor: Chicago Indy Media Info: imc-chicago (at) indymedia.org
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Event Date: July 1, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
WHEN EX-OFFENDERS RETURN: LEARNING MORE Martina Jackson of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois on experiences & needs of women returning from prison into Chicago communities Info: www.thirdunitarianchurch.org
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Event Date: July 1 All Day Long Sunday
Canada Day at Lil' Manotoba 50th and Racine
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Event Dates: Mon. July 2 –6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
@ Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
Dan S. Wang presents Patho-Selections: "Listen and Feel Together" As a return of the long dormant Selections series, Dan will be playing and speaking about songs having to do with politics and feelings, including feelings of Anxiety, Depression, Apathy, Impatience, Irritation, Sorrow, Paranoia, Righteousness, Confusion, Inspiration, Ecstasy, and maybe even a little Outrage. This will be a listening party/presentation of recorded music presented in two sets: Part 1 will be about twenty songs, maybe more, mixed in with commentary; Part 2 will be just music for the rest of the evening without commentary. The presentation will include a mini-set of songs from artists who came out of Chicago's South Side. A free pamphlet text assembled to accompany the event will be made available. As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: Wed. July 4 – 2pm
Meet outside 400 S. Peoria and from there we'll walk the walk, talk the talk, feel the feel.
The Fourth of July is the perfect day for a Parade--of the Politically Depressed. What, you've never been to a Parade of the Politically Depressed? Never reveled with comrades about engaging, avoiding, responding to, repressing, being angry about, and wanting a lot more from politics? Here's your chance! Come barbecue your depression. Marinate it in a delicious concoction of counter-politics and collectivity. Stew in alternative emotions! Feel Tank Chicago invites you to join us in numbness and jaw-dropping disbelief about the state of the world for the Fifth Annual International Parade of the Politically Depressed. Come help us make a political world that vibrates to a different tune. As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: Fri. July 6 –10pm
400 S. Peoria
Get Down And Dance Your Heart Out At The Disco of the Depressed! Featuring Special Guest DJs Dewayne Slightweight and Sadie Benning As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Date: Jul 7, Sat, 7 pm, Casa Aztlan, 1831 S Racine
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT SALSA DANCE PARTY
Dance lessons, drink specials, raffles, etc Benefit for Latino Union of Chicago Info: http://www.latinounion.org
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Event Dates: Sat. July 7 12-6pm
400 S. Peoria
The Body Politic in Recovery, or, Debrief. Open time slots for performances, reports back, discussions, documentation . As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: Jul 9, Mon, 7 pm, In These Times bldg, 2040 N Milwaukee
FILM: RENAISSANCE 2010 - ON THE FRONTLINES
New documentary examines the Chicago Public Schools' Renaissance 2010 project that is closing underperforming public schools & replacing them with non-union charter, contract & performance schools;
discussion with filmmakers & CPS teachers Jackson Potter & Al Ramirez follows screening
Sponsor: Open University of the Left Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/
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Event Dates: 7/13-7/15 Friday - Sunday 1958 W. Walnut
48 Hr Non-Stop Free Store
Friday - movies till dawn
Saturday - readings and other surprises
Drop off stuff and pick stuff up!
Free Store drop-offs at 1958 W. Walnut, let me know and I'll unlock the gate. melinda.fries@gmail.com
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Event Dates: Sunday July 22 3pm
Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
Pedagogical Factory Opening Exhibit
www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
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Event Dates:Wednesday July 25 6pm
How We Remember: Discussion with Chicago Underground Library about Archiving
www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
@ Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
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Event Dates: Saturday July 28 1pm
How We Learn: Informal Adult Education in Chicago
Co-sponsored by Journal of Ordinary Thought, AREA, Stockyard Institute
www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
@ Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
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Event Dates: Saturday July 28 in Evening
Temporary Services Book Release About Collaborative Art Groups @ Exp Station (6100 S Blackstone near 61st and Dorchester)
www.temporaryservices.org
www.experimentalstation.org
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+++++++++ ONGOING EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION ++++++++++++
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1+ CAAAELII Needs Technology Volunteers
The Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European, and Latino Immigrants of Illinois has a new public access computer lab @ 4300 N. Hermitage Ave. Interested in volunteering to supervise open lab time or teaching technology classes? Contact Marc Kelley @ 773 248 1019
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2+ Collaborative Bike Repair Clinics with Chicago Community Bike Project
Every Other Saturday Noon-7pm FREE!
@ West Town Bikes 2418 W. North (in back)
June 9/23 July 14/28
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3+Help Uncover Hidden History
Currently looking for veterans of JOIN Community Union, the Young Patriots Organization and Rising Up Angry to interview for a book on community organizing of poor whites during the sixties. Did you belong to one of these groups or work with them? If so, we want your story. Please contact James Tracy at partisanblock@earthlink.net or (415) 260-9496.
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4+Announcement/Call For Participation
Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture (IPRAC) presents 4th annual
"Barrio Art Fest" August 18th - 10am-6pm
at the Humboldt Park Field House
1440 N. Sacramento (Humboldt Boulevard)
BAF07 focuses in bringing attention to the diversity of the arts community in Humboldt Park. BAF07 will consider visual artists, performers, writers, craftmakers, sculptors, ceramicists, sound artists, conceptual artists, experimental, installations, musicians, designers, video/film and more. BAF07 considers submissions by Puerto Rican/Latino artists and/or by any artist whose artwork addresses issues relevant to the Humboldt Park community of Chicago. BAF07 encourages cross disciplinary collaborations with an emphasis in education. BAF07 seeks submissions for art demonstrations and art educational workshops for children, teens and adults. All submissions will be reviewed by a team of community representatives. The selection process is based in presentation, quality, uniqueness, and educational content. BAF07 is a cultural and educational festival that attracts thousands of people interested in a unique cultural experience.
Registration Deadline: June 30th
QUESTIONS? Call: 773-486-8345 or Email: jorgefelix@iprac.org Jorge Felix, program director
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5+Announcement/Call For Participation
www.heavengallery.com Presents BIKE-IN CINEMA '07
Every Wednesday starting MAY 9th
Films Begin at 8
1550 N. Milwaukee / Wicker Park
Heaven Gallery on the roof!
Free as always but donations for Heaven are encouraged
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6+Announcement/Call For Participation
"THE ART OF DEMOCRACY" Exhibition of Prints and Artist Books
Chicago area based printmakers are invited to submit original prints and artist books for a joint group show being organized The New York Society of Etchers, Inc. for the Loyola University Museum of Art on N. Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. The exhibition is scheduled for presentation in the fall of 2008.
For the exhibition "The Art of Democracy" we are seeking artist prints and artist books featuring the topics of war, domestic politics, constitutional rights like privacy an free speech, human rights, environmentalism, and related areas of social activism.
Artists may submit up to a half-dozen original works, created in the last four years, for consideration.
The submission of art works is free.
Please send images and contact information to info@nysetchers.org], or write to ask a question. Please note THE ART OF DEMOCRACY as the 'subject' of your email.
For more information about the New York Society of Etchers and the traveling Art of contact: www.nysetchers.org and www.artofdemocracy.org
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7+Announcement/Call For Participation
Help out a new Local Effort: chicagolandundergroundrailroad.org
As we ramp up activities this summer and onward, we have great need of volunteers to help at events and behind the scenes. Please come out and help C/CURE grow and do! If you know folks looking for volunteer and community service opportunities, send them our way.
We thought up this list ~ if you have other ideas of how you can get involved, let us know. We welcome any amount of time you can offer:
Now and ongoing:
- Publicity and outreach
- Planning and preparations
- WEBSITE ASSISTANCE - know anyone who can give us a hand?
- DATABASE and MAILING LIST - clean up and maintenance
JUNE 19 - JUNETEENTH at QUINN CHAPEL
Mid-afternoon through 9 PM, tell us your availability:
1. Set up (loading and transporting supplies, unloading at Quinn, set up
chairs and tables)
2. Welcome Committee - greeters, posting signs, sign in table
3. Tablers - membership, refreshments, information
4. Photographer/Videographer
5. Clean up
6. Other Tasks!
AUGUST 18-19 TRUE NORTH FESTIVAL
All the above PLUS -
- Site preparation days ahead and days of
- Site guides in the park
- Woods guides (to plants and wild foods, trail leaders to the Ton Farm and back)
- Performers (dance, song, dramatic roles...)
- Artisans - all kinds of skills and crafts, to demonstrate and to exhibit
- Assistants for activities - hay wagon, horse rides, stage, art/crafts tables, green technology demonstrations, more as it all develops!
- Trash/recycling/compost coordination
We look forward to hearing from you - Email info@chicagolandundergroundrailroad.org And/or call 773.569.4464
THANK YOU!
Naomi Davis, President
Martha Boyd, Vice President
Chicago/Calumet Underground Railroad Effort
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8+Announcement/Call For Participation
Take Action to Defend Day Laborers
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/stophomedepot?rk=xp_x2Pn1bv2LW
The historic immigration bill working its way through the Senate as written will have devastating effects on our community. This week Senators will be proposing amendments that make it even worse.
Day Labor Workers' Centers are in danger because of a corporate sponsored amendment to the National Immigration Bill.
Please defend day laborers.
Take the simple step of following this link to tell your senators the bill is not for sale. http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/stophomedepot?rk=xp_x2Pn1bv2LW
Details: Another Chicago #9 May-June
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Event Date: Tuesday, June 26th from 3 to 5pm
Roosevelt University 430 S. Michigan Ave. Room 244
Crossroads Fund is offering a round-table discussion on Youth Organizing and Social Justice at Roosevelt University.
Join youth organizers and adult allies from Roger's Park Young Women's Action Team, Korean American Resource and Cultural Center, Batey Urbano, and the Chicago Freedom School as they address the questions:
What does youth organizing look like?
What are the priorities of young activists in Chicago today?
How can organizations support youth activism and develop young leaders?
After a short panel presentation, we will open the floor to a wider discussion about youth organizing, and share challenges, strategies, and suggestions.
RSVP to Rachel Wallis rachel@crossroadsfund.org or 773-227-2626
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Event Dates: Tuesday June 26 6pm Free at Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC)
Join the Public Square for a discussion with the Feel Tank Chicago collective as they discuss their new exhibit "Pathogeographies" which deals with politics and depression. (Food will be served and reservations are required: 312.422.5580.) www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Date: Tuesday June 26 6-8pm
REMINDER! : Chicago/Calumet Underground Railroad Effort (C/CURE) Gathering
@ Riverdale Marina, 131st and Halsted (west side of Halsted, just south of the Little Calumet River).
The Marina serves beverages and sandwiches, soups, and other good snacks.
Come on over to the Riverdale Marina this Tuesday evening for a C/CURE get together ~
See old and new friends, and learn about preparations for the upcoming True North Underground Railroad Festival August 18-19th. www.chicagolandundergroundrailroad.org
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Event Dates: Thurs. June 28
6pm at Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC). "Don't be a bystander," Tamms letter-writing project. The Tamms Poetry Committee will be holding a letter-writing event for the 286 prisoners housed in the Tamms Supermax prison in Tamms, IL. These men are in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, conditions that the UN and Amnesty International consider torture. The inmates suffer from extreme sensory deprivation, loneliness, and depression. Come read some of their letters, meet members of their families, and be part of a group mailing experience. As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: Fri. June 29
7:30 pm - Feel Tank Microcinema Program 2 at Mess Hall, 6932 North Glenwood Ave.
THE CONTINUING STORY OF CAREL AND FERD (TRT: 58 MIN.)
Ferd Eggan in person!
The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd, Arthur Ginsberg with Video Free America, 58 min., 1970-75
A fascinating hybrid of performance and video verité, The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd introduces Carel and Ferd, a couple who allowed Ginsberg to produce an ongoing documentary record of the intimate moments of their relationship. Carel, a porn actress, and Ferd, a bisexual drug addict, invite the camera to participate in their wedding, their sex life, and their break-up. Produced before the landmark PBS documentary An American Family introduced television audiences to the live-in camera, this document raises questions about the dynamic of subject and camera, privacy and manipulation. Originally presented as an installation, this one-hour version, which includes interviews with Carel, Ferd and Ginsberg, was distilled form thirty hours of footage recorded from 1970 to 1975. Produced by the TV Lab at WNET/Thirteen, VTR series. - Electronic Arts Intermix
BIO: Ferd Eggan is an ageing gay white man in Los Angeles who makes videos and texts for the internet: "Communiqués from a cranky PWA" <http://crankypwa.blogspot.com>, a serial joke about AIDS, liver cancer and death, and "Revolution is an eternal dream" <http://www.ferdeggan.net/id16.html>, a series of interviews on transforming the world.
As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: Saturday, June 30, 2007 from 7-10pm
chimercurycafe.com
1505 W Chicago Ave
http://stockyardinstitute.org/MichaelPiazza.html
"we will have a benefit for the family of Michael Piazza at the Mercury Cafe in West town. Michael, as most of you know died last year of a heart attack at the age of 50. Michael was an extremely important artist whose work and actions influenced many. This small gathering at the Mercury Cafe will have works donated by artists which will be for sale. It will also include works of Michaels recently excavated from the Piazza vault in Humboldt Park which includes journals, posters, and prints. All the proceeds will go directly to the family. There will be a dedicated area in the cafe that folks can contribute pieces to that will benefit the family. Please let me know if you are interested in making a piece available for sale. Postcards are being distributed around the city and will also be available on Monday at the Mercury Cafe."
Contact Duignan, James <JDUIGNAN@depaul.edu> if you would like to donate an art work to the auction.
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Event Dates: Sat. June 30 Noon-7pm
Mapping the Body Politic 12-7 at Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC)
A series of presentations, workshops, performances, and discussions to help sketch out the contours of the multifarious Body Politic. (Schedule subject to change)
12-1 Drawn Lots (presentation)
Drawn Lots starts a dialogue concerning how people feel about their hopes for owning land and/or a house/home. The collective interacts with a variety of communities to gauge personal responses to property. Research feeds into Google image searches that will in turn serve as a resource for drawings.
1:15-1:45 travis, WEEDS (performance). Every time I see you naked I offer my death bed but you won't take it. Strange, my flower bed cannot hold you. In my prime I tried to burn away my winter weeds but I breed and then I decay. Strange, my flower bed cannot hold you.
2-3 BLW workshop: "A Meeting is a Question" Between June 30th and July 7th, BLW invites co-participants to five open meetings to be conducted in public. Meeting at unremarkable sites around Chicago, we will look for traces of power and listen to expert testimony that considers: what are the landscapes of war? BLW provides agendas, notepads, refreshments and site-seeing apparatus. Schedule and locations will be posted on the Pathogeographies website and at Gallery 400.
3:15-3:45 "Habit Swap" with Meredith Haggerty & Public Movement Troop. Participants should bring habits or movements from structured events such as work or rush hour and will recreate them in a new space. The goal is simply to reroute these activities as both internal and external events.
4-5 The Cranky PWA. Morbid queer thoughts of the Cranky P.W.A., who also shares meditations on radical frivolity, living (or dying) with liver cancer, remembering Michael Bumblebee, and much more.
5:15-6:45 "I think about Iraq every day" -- roundtable
As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: June 30 730pm
Microcinema Program 3 at Gallery 400 (400 S. Peoria @ UIC). THE PATHO-POLITICAL WORLD, Part 2: Slow Feeling (TRT: 106.5 MIN.)
Isil Egrikavuk in person!
Slowness as interruption to speed, billions of info bits, the fast read, the quick study, the swift satiric bite…slowness as analogical to how the political flows through bodies, gets blocked, gets absorbed, is manifest in what we might call "political feelings"…the slow burn, the double-take…
The Infamous Library, Isil Egrikavuk, 7:40 min., 2006
The Black Tower, John Smith, 24 min., 1987
South of Ten, Liza Johnson, 10 min., 2006
Not a Matter of If, but When: brief records of a time in which expectations..., The Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David Thorne), 17:33 min., 2006
Archivo, Bea Santiágo Muñoz, 30 min., 1999-2003
Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, the Law and Poetry, Paul Chan, 17:30 min., 2006
As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Date: Jun 30, Sat, 7 pm, ACME Artworks, 1741 N Western
FILM: GIGANTE: DESPIERTA! (GIANT: AWAKE!) Chicago debut of the documentary on historic immigrant rights marches that swept America in 2006 Sponsor: Chicago Indy Media Info: imc-chicago (at) indymedia.org
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Event Date: July 1, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
WHEN EX-OFFENDERS RETURN: LEARNING MORE Martina Jackson of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois on experiences & needs of women returning from prison into Chicago communities Info: www.thirdunitarianchurch.org
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Event Date: July 1 All Day Long Sunday
Canada Day at Lil' Manotoba 50th and Racine
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Event Dates: Mon. July 2 –6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
@ Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
Dan S. Wang presents Patho-Selections: "Listen and Feel Together" As a return of the long dormant Selections series, Dan will be playing and speaking about songs having to do with politics and feelings, including feelings of Anxiety, Depression, Apathy, Impatience, Irritation, Sorrow, Paranoia, Righteousness, Confusion, Inspiration, Ecstasy, and maybe even a little Outrage. This will be a listening party/presentation of recorded music presented in two sets: Part 1 will be about twenty songs, maybe more, mixed in with commentary; Part 2 will be just music for the rest of the evening without commentary. The presentation will include a mini-set of songs from artists who came out of Chicago's South Side. A free pamphlet text assembled to accompany the event will be made available. As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: Wed. July 4 – 2pm
Meet outside 400 S. Peoria and from there we'll walk the walk, talk the talk, feel the feel.
The Fourth of July is the perfect day for a Parade--of the Politically Depressed. What, you've never been to a Parade of the Politically Depressed? Never reveled with comrades about engaging, avoiding, responding to, repressing, being angry about, and wanting a lot more from politics? Here's your chance! Come barbecue your depression. Marinate it in a delicious concoction of counter-politics and collectivity. Stew in alternative emotions! Feel Tank Chicago invites you to join us in numbness and jaw-dropping disbelief about the state of the world for the Fifth Annual International Parade of the Politically Depressed. Come help us make a political world that vibrates to a different tune. As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: Fri. July 6 –10pm
400 S. Peoria
Get Down And Dance Your Heart Out At The Disco of the Depressed! Featuring Special Guest DJs Dewayne Slightweight and Sadie Benning As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Date: Jul 7, Sat, 7 pm, Casa Aztlan, 1831 S Racine
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT SALSA DANCE PARTY
Dance lessons, drink specials, raffles, etc Benefit for Latino Union of Chicago Info: http://www.latinounion.org
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Event Dates: Sat. July 7 12-6pm
400 S. Peoria
The Body Politic in Recovery, or, Debrief. Open time slots for performances, reports back, discussions, documentation . As part of Feel Tank Chicago's Pathogeographies Events www.pathogeographies.net www.feeltank.net
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Event Dates: Jul 9, Mon, 7 pm, In These Times bldg, 2040 N Milwaukee
FILM: RENAISSANCE 2010 - ON THE FRONTLINES
New documentary examines the Chicago Public Schools' Renaissance 2010 project that is closing underperforming public schools & replacing them with non-union charter, contract & performance schools;
discussion with filmmakers & CPS teachers Jackson Potter & Al Ramirez follows screening
Sponsor: Open University of the Left Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/
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Event Dates: 7/13-7/15 Friday - Sunday 1958 W. Walnut
48 Hr Non-Stop Free Store
Friday - movies till dawn
Saturday - readings and other surprises
Drop off stuff and pick stuff up!
Free Store drop-offs at 1958 W. Walnut, let me know and I'll unlock the gate. melinda.fries@gmail.com
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Event Dates: Sunday July 22 3pm
Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
Pedagogical Factory Opening Exhibit
www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
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Event Dates:Wednesday July 25 6pm
How We Remember: Discussion with Chicago Underground Library about Archiving
www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
@ Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
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Event Dates: Saturday July 28 1pm
How We Learn: Informal Adult Education in Chicago
Co-sponsored by Journal of Ordinary Thought, AREA, Stockyard Institute
www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
@ Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
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Event Dates: Saturday July 28 in Evening
Temporary Services Book Release About Collaborative Art Groups @ Exp Station (6100 S Blackstone near 61st and Dorchester)
www.temporaryservices.org
www.experimentalstation.org
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+++++++++ ONGOING EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION ++++++++++++
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1+ CAAAELII Needs Technology Volunteers
The Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European, and Latino Immigrants of Illinois has a new public access computer lab @ 4300 N. Hermitage Ave. Interested in volunteering to supervise open lab time or teaching technology classes? Contact Marc Kelley @ 773 248 1019
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2+ Collaborative Bike Repair Clinics with Chicago Community Bike Project
Every Other Saturday Noon-7pm FREE!
@ West Town Bikes 2418 W. North (in back)
June 9/23 July 14/28
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3+Help Uncover Hidden History
Currently looking for veterans of JOIN Community Union, the Young Patriots Organization and Rising Up Angry to interview for a book on community organizing of poor whites during the sixties. Did you belong to one of these groups or work with them? If so, we want your story. Please contact James Tracy at partisanblock@earthlink.net or (415) 260-9496.
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4+Announcement/Call For Participation
Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture (IPRAC) presents 4th annual
"Barrio Art Fest" August 18th - 10am-6pm
at the Humboldt Park Field House
1440 N. Sacramento (Humboldt Boulevard)
BAF07 focuses in bringing attention to the diversity of the arts community in Humboldt Park. BAF07 will consider visual artists, performers, writers, craftmakers, sculptors, ceramicists, sound artists, conceptual artists, experimental, installations, musicians, designers, video/film and more. BAF07 considers submissions by Puerto Rican/Latino artists and/or by any artist whose artwork addresses issues relevant to the Humboldt Park community of Chicago. BAF07 encourages cross disciplinary collaborations with an emphasis in education. BAF07 seeks submissions for art demonstrations and art educational workshops for children, teens and adults. All submissions will be reviewed by a team of community representatives. The selection process is based in presentation, quality, uniqueness, and educational content. BAF07 is a cultural and educational festival that attracts thousands of people interested in a unique cultural experience.
Registration Deadline: June 30th
QUESTIONS? Call: 773-486-8345 or Email: jorgefelix@iprac.org Jorge Felix, program director
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5+Announcement/Call For Participation
www.heavengallery.com Presents BIKE-IN CINEMA '07
Every Wednesday starting MAY 9th
Films Begin at 8
1550 N. Milwaukee / Wicker Park
Heaven Gallery on the roof!
Free as always but donations for Heaven are encouraged
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6+Announcement/Call For Participation
"THE ART OF DEMOCRACY" Exhibition of Prints and Artist Books
Chicago area based printmakers are invited to submit original prints and artist books for a joint group show being organized The New York Society of Etchers, Inc. for the Loyola University Museum of Art on N. Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. The exhibition is scheduled for presentation in the fall of 2008.
For the exhibition "The Art of Democracy" we are seeking artist prints and artist books featuring the topics of war, domestic politics, constitutional rights like privacy an free speech, human rights, environmentalism, and related areas of social activism.
Artists may submit up to a half-dozen original works, created in the last four years, for consideration.
The submission of art works is free.
Please send images and contact information to info@nysetchers.org], or write to ask a question. Please note THE ART OF DEMOCRACY as the 'subject' of your email.
For more information about the New York Society of Etchers and the traveling Art of contact: www.nysetchers.org and www.artofdemocracy.org
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7+Announcement/Call For Participation
Help out a new Local Effort: chicagolandundergroundrailroad.org
As we ramp up activities this summer and onward, we have great need of volunteers to help at events and behind the scenes. Please come out and help C/CURE grow and do! If you know folks looking for volunteer and community service opportunities, send them our way.
We thought up this list ~ if you have other ideas of how you can get involved, let us know. We welcome any amount of time you can offer:
Now and ongoing:
- Publicity and outreach
- Planning and preparations
- WEBSITE ASSISTANCE - know anyone who can give us a hand?
- DATABASE and MAILING LIST - clean up and maintenance
JUNE 19 - JUNETEENTH at QUINN CHAPEL
Mid-afternoon through 9 PM, tell us your availability:
1. Set up (loading and transporting supplies, unloading at Quinn, set up
chairs and tables)
2. Welcome Committee - greeters, posting signs, sign in table
3. Tablers - membership, refreshments, information
4. Photographer/Videographer
5. Clean up
6. Other Tasks!
AUGUST 18-19 TRUE NORTH FESTIVAL
All the above PLUS -
- Site preparation days ahead and days of
- Site guides in the park
- Woods guides (to plants and wild foods, trail leaders to the Ton Farm and back)
- Performers (dance, song, dramatic roles...)
- Artisans - all kinds of skills and crafts, to demonstrate and to exhibit
- Assistants for activities - hay wagon, horse rides, stage, art/crafts tables, green technology demonstrations, more as it all develops!
- Trash/recycling/compost coordination
We look forward to hearing from you - Email info@chicagolandundergroundrailroad.org And/or call 773.569.4464
THANK YOU!
Naomi Davis, President
Martha Boyd, Vice President
Chicago/Calumet Underground Railroad Effort
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8+Announcement/Call For Participation
Take Action to Defend Day Laborers
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/stophomedepot?rk=xp_x2Pn1bv2LW
The historic immigration bill working its way through the Senate as written will have devastating effects on our community. This week Senators will be proposing amendments that make it even worse.
Day Labor Workers' Centers are in danger because of a corporate sponsored amendment to the National Immigration Bill.
Please defend day laborers.
Take the simple step of following this link to tell your senators the bill is not for sale. http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/stophomedepot?rk=xp_x2Pn1bv2LW
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