Hey There! Happy Almost July.
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 #11 July 2007
1) 07.03 Art/Anarchism/Squats/Talking
/Videos Dinner @ MessHall
2) 07.03-05 Performance Downtown Regarding Women Soldiers Killed in Iraq War
3) 07.04 Fourth of July Day of Politically Depressed Parade Downtown!
4) 07.05 Art Against Authority: Art and Anarchism Lecture @ Green Lantern
5) 07.06 Disco of the Depressed @ Gallery 400 - Dance Party
6) 07.07 Salsa Party to Benefit Latino Union @ Casa Aztlan
7) 07.07 Feedback/ReportBack on Month of Feel Tank Events
8) 07.09 Screening about Chicago's Ren2010 plan for Public Schools
9) 07.09 Material Exchange Art/Ecology Lecture @ HydeParkArtCenter
10) 07.11 Dialogue: Art and Activism with Incarcerated Youth @ Messhall
11) 07.12 Chicago Tenant/Community Congress Meeting in Austin
12) 07.13-15 48hour Free Store: Give Stuff and Take Stuff
13) 07.14 Faces of Resitance Photo Exhibit @ "Ghetto Gallery" w/ Poor
Peoples Millenium Movement
14) 07.20 Printers Ball: Chicago's Print Media Comes Together for Party
15) 07.22 Pedagogical Factory: Exploring Strategies for an Educated
City Exhibit Opening
16) 07.25 How We Remember: A conversation with Chicago Underground
Library about Archiving
17) 07.28 How We Learn: Informal Adult Education in Chicago
18) 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+ Fire This Time Fund for Chicago Projects - Call for Proposals
9+ Map Chicago Art with 2 New Chicago Art Groups
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Details: Another Chicago NewsLetter BreakDown
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Event Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 7:30p
Art & Anarchism & Squats & Talking & Videos: Dinnerluck & Discussion
A talk/screening/catch up with Dara Greenwalk, Emily Piper Forman, and
Josh MacPhee!
at Mess Hall messhall.org
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
(sw of MORSE on the red line)
Dara Greenwald is showing new videos, including one about squats in
Barcelona (including a squat that Emily Piper Forman lives and works
in -- Emily will be here to talk about her experience)
Josh MacPhee talking about his new book, "Realizing the Impossible:
Art Against Authority". Just published on AK Press, and edited by Josh
& Erik Reuland, it's a 300 plus page collection of writing and images
investigating the intersections of art and anarchism. Mess Hall
keyholder Brett Bloom has an essay in it.
Dinnerluck, Discussion! Come hear from ex-Chicagoans about the
important and inspiring work they've been up to!
www.justseeds.org
www.streetartworkers.org
http://daragreenwald.com/
Tomb of the Known, Emily Siefken
http://www.emilysiefken.com
2)==================================================
Event Dates: July 3/4/5
Navy veteran Emily Siefken performs a work honoring and memorializing
the lives and deaths of female military casualties of the Iraq War.
This work is an endurance piece, dedicated to fallen female soldiers
in the present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will be performed in
various places until combat operations are deemed over.
On the front plinth of the MCA:
*Tuesday, July 3, at 7pm
*Wednesday, July 4, from 1-4pm and 8:30-11:30pm
In the McCormick Tribune Gallery:
*Thursday, July 5 - Sunday, July 8, from 1-4pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
http://www.mcachicago.org
3)==================================================
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
4)==================================================
Event Dates: July 5, Evening Time TBA, Contact for details
Art & Anarchism & Squats & Talking & Videos
A talk/screening/catch up with Dara Greenwalk, Emily Piper Forman, and
Josh MacPhee!
Green Lantern: 1511 N. Milwaukee Avenue=Second Floor
See event description from July 3, and contact www.thegreenlantern.org
for more details
5)==================================================
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
6)==================================================
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
7)==================================================
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
8)==================================================
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/
9)==================================================
Event Dates: Monday, July 9, 6pm
TalkingPoint at the Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
Special guest: Material Exchange
Come join the conversation with Material Exchange at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Material Exchange is a Chicago-based collective who invent objects and
processes that consider ways in which value becomes attached to
things. They intercept material waste as it transitions from value to
obsolescence. Through the re-contextualization and re-envaluation of
materials, they examine the loose ends of a system or value structure
that permits and encourages surplus, waste, and resource depletion.
They explore ways in which these processes are related to and overlap
with contemporary practices in art and design.
See:http://material-exchange.org/
10)==================================================
Event Dates: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
7:30p
Dialogue: Art and Activism with Incarcerated Youth
led by Lauren Adelman
Lauren will present her experiences facilitating activist art programs
with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth. She will discuss
how such an approach can be an agent of empowerment for the
participants through encouraging critical dialogue, and providing a
space in which youth can create artwork with the intention of
combating public stereotypes that surround adolescents and prison. An
open dialogue to discuss the intersection of art, activism and
education will follow.
at Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
(sw of MORSE on the red line)
11)==================================================
Event Date: July 12 6pm
The July Community Congress of Tenants meeting will be held at South
Austin Coalition located at 342 South Laramie.
We hope that you will join us. For more information contact: Shirley Johnson at
(773) 292-4980 ext.224. or see
http://tenants-rights.org/index.php?page=congressmeetings
12)==================================================
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
13)==================================================
Event Date: Saturday July 14th 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm
Where: Ghetto Gallery, 7911 South Evans 1- block west of Cottage Grove
When your backs are against the wall come out swinging and standing tall.
Poor People Millennium Movement presents: Faces of resistance.
Come out and see Beauty's photo exhibits of protesters and hear the
voices as well as see the faces of resistance.
Speakers: POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., David Bate Activist fighting
against injustice for the wrongfully convicted.
Grant News burger, CPPH - Paul McKinley Voice of the Ex- Offenders
Free food, entertainment. Cash bar.
"The hottest Hip Hop Artists performing $12 donation at the door need
I say more". INFO: 1- 773 -297-5619 (Beauty Turner)
14)==================================================
Event Dates: July 20, 2007 8pm
The Printers' Ball: An annual celebration of print literature
Free admission, magazines & more
Zhou B. Art Center
1029 West 35th Street, Chicago Free Parking | Red Line to Sox-35th | Halsted Bus
http://www.printersball.org/
15)==================================================
Event Dates: Sunday July 22 3pm
Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
Pedagogical Factory Opening Exhibit
www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
16)==================================================
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)
17)==================================================
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)
18)==================================================
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 ++++++++++++
===================================================================
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
Check out The Fire This Time Fund, Applications Due August 17 2007
http://www.crossroadsfund.org/fire_this_time_fund.htm
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9+Announcement/Call For Participation
ATTN: All artists, activists, curators, gallerists, teachers, makers,
thinkers, retailers, politicians, doers, yeasayers, naysayers,
friends, historians and lovers.
InCUBATE and placekraft are interested in the colloquial ways that
people reference "€œthe art world"€ as if it is a monolithic entity.
We resist this idea, instead hoping that in figuring out personal
relationships to the public sphere that we participate in, we can
address imaginative spaces, matters of inclusion/exclusion and
locality through specificity. Terms such as "€œsite,"€ "€œlocation,"€
and "€œplace"€ should no longer be abstracted as simply the generic
“borders, boundaries, margins, peripheries, migrations and centers,"
but instead used to reaffirm and reclaim the importance of actual
location in terms of the physical, social, political and geographical
local in reaction to a globalized [art] world. As Brian Holmes writes,
"€œ[The] illusion that a single, globalized, or 'networked' logic
could account for the diversity of conditions across the world has
come to its close. We must go back to making careful judgments that
assess our own local situation with respect to very different ones."€
We agree with this, and for this reason we must consider the state of
arts and culture in Chicago by asking those involved in the equation
of artistic production to articulate how they fit within their own
real or imagined artworlds with Chicago as a geographical starting
point.
InCUBATE and placekraft seek articulations that depict, in varying
ways, relationships to the Chicago art world created by individuals,
groups and institutions. These maps are a way to situate differing
viewpoints within local worlds, establish historical and contemporary
connections and will work to assemble a collection of broad
perspectives that undermine the notion of a monolithic art world. In
addition to the mapping of art worlds, this collection will make
visible the modes of working, systems of relationships and other
infrastructures that wouldn't be easily observable.
Submissions/Maps can take any form, whether it’s a traditional
two-dimensional drawing or three-dimensional spatial analysis.
Submissions will be presented via an Atlas/book in addition to an
appropriate public display based on the nature of contributions.
Those wishing to participate can submit their maps via email at
youarehere@incubate-chicago.org or drop them off at InCUBATE located
at 2129 Rockwell Chicago, IL 60647 by Sept. 1.
For more information visit:
http://www.incubate-chicago.org
http://placekraft.blogspot.org
2) 07.03-05 Performance Downtown Regarding Women Soldiers Killed in Iraq War
3) 07.04 Fourth of July Day of Politically Depressed Parade Downtown!
4) 07.05 Art Against Authority: Art and Anarchism Lecture @ Green Lantern
5) 07.06 Disco of the Depressed @ Gallery 400 - Dance Party
6) 07.07 Salsa Party to Benefit Latino Union @ Casa Aztlan
7) 07.07 Feedback/ReportBack on Month of Feel Tank Events
8) 07.09 Screening about Chicago's Ren2010 plan for Public Schools
9) 07.09 Material Exchange Art/Ecology Lecture @ HydeParkArtCenter
10) 07.11 Dialogue: Art and Activism with Incarcerated Youth @ Messhall
11) 07.12 Chicago Tenant/Community Congress Meeting in Austin
12) 07.13-15 48hour Free Store: Give Stuff and Take Stuff
13) 07.14 Faces of Resitance Photo Exhibit @ "Ghetto Gallery" w/ Poor
Peoples Millenium Movement
14) 07.20 Printers Ball: Chicago's Print Media Comes Together for Party
15) 07.22 Pedagogical Factory: Exploring Strategies for an Educated
City Exhibit Opening
16) 07.25 How We Remember: A conversation with Chicago Underground
Library about Archiving
17) 07.28 How We Learn: Informal Adult Education in Chicago
18) 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+ Fire This Time Fund for Chicago Projects - Call for Proposals
9+ Map Chicago Art with 2 New Chicago Art Groups
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Details: Another Chicago NewsLetter BreakDown
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Event Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 7:30p
Art & Anarchism & Squats & Talking & Videos: Dinnerluck & Discussion
A talk/screening/catch up with Dara Greenwalk, Emily Piper Forman, and
Josh MacPhee!
at Mess Hall messhall.org
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
(sw of MORSE on the red line)
Dara Greenwald is showing new videos, including one about squats in
Barcelona (including a squat that Emily Piper Forman lives and works
in -- Emily will be here to talk about her experience)
Josh MacPhee talking about his new book, "Realizing the Impossible:
Art Against Authority". Just published on AK Press, and edited by Josh
& Erik Reuland, it's a 300 plus page collection of writing and images
investigating the intersections of art and anarchism. Mess Hall
keyholder Brett Bloom has an essay in it.
Dinnerluck, Discussion! Come hear from ex-Chicagoans about the
important and inspiring work they've been up to!
www.justseeds.org
www.streetartworkers.org
http://daragreenwald.com/
Tomb of the Known, Emily Siefken
http://www.emilysiefken.com
2)==================================================
Event Dates: July 3/4/5
Navy veteran Emily Siefken performs a work honoring and memorializing
the lives and deaths of female military casualties of the Iraq War.
This work is an endurance piece, dedicated to fallen female soldiers
in the present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will be performed in
various places until combat operations are deemed over.
On the front plinth of the MCA:
*Tuesday, July 3, at 7pm
*Wednesday, July 4, from 1-4pm and 8:30-11:30pm
In the McCormick Tribune Gallery:
*Thursday, July 5 - Sunday, July 8, from 1-4pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
http://www.mcachicago.org
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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
4)==================================================
Event Dates: July 5, Evening Time TBA, Contact for details
Art & Anarchism & Squats & Talking & Videos
A talk/screening/catch up with Dara Greenwalk, Emily Piper Forman, and
Josh MacPhee!
Green Lantern: 1511 N. Milwaukee Avenue=Second Floor
See event description from July 3, and contact www.thegreenlantern.org
for more details
5)==================================================
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
6)==================================================
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
7)==================================================
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
8)==================================================
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/
9)==================================================
Event Dates: Monday, July 9, 6pm
TalkingPoint at the Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
Special guest: Material Exchange
Come join the conversation with Material Exchange at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Material Exchange is a Chicago-based collective who invent objects and
processes that consider ways in which value becomes attached to
things. They intercept material waste as it transitions from value to
obsolescence. Through the re-contextualization and re-envaluation of
materials, they examine the loose ends of a system or value structure
that permits and encourages surplus, waste, and resource depletion.
They explore ways in which these processes are related to and overlap
with contemporary practices in art and design.
See:http://material-exchange.org/
10)==================================================
Event Dates: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
7:30p
Dialogue: Art and Activism with Incarcerated Youth
led by Lauren Adelman
Lauren will present her experiences facilitating activist art programs
with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth. She will discuss
how such an approach can be an agent of empowerment for the
participants through encouraging critical dialogue, and providing a
space in which youth can create artwork with the intention of
combating public stereotypes that surround adolescents and prison. An
open dialogue to discuss the intersection of art, activism and
education will follow.
at Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
(sw of MORSE on the red line)
11)==================================================
Event Date: July 12 6pm
The July Community Congress of Tenants meeting will be held at South
Austin Coalition located at 342 South Laramie.
We hope that you will join us. For more information contact: Shirley Johnson at
(773) 292-4980 ext.224. or see
http://tenants-rights.org/index.php?page=congressmeetings
12)==================================================
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
13)==================================================
Event Date: Saturday July 14th 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm
Where: Ghetto Gallery, 7911 South Evans 1- block west of Cottage Grove
When your backs are against the wall come out swinging and standing tall.
Poor People Millennium Movement presents: Faces of resistance.
Come out and see Beauty's photo exhibits of protesters and hear the
voices as well as see the faces of resistance.
Speakers: POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., David Bate Activist fighting
against injustice for the wrongfully convicted.
Grant News burger, CPPH - Paul McKinley Voice of the Ex- Offenders
Free food, entertainment. Cash bar.
"The hottest Hip Hop Artists performing $12 donation at the door need
I say more". INFO: 1- 773 -297-5619 (Beauty Turner)
14)==================================================
Event Dates: July 20, 2007 8pm
The Printers' Ball: An annual celebration of print literature
Free admission, magazines & more
Zhou B. Art Center
1029 West 35th Street, Chicago Free Parking | Red Line to Sox-35th | Halsted Bus
http://www.printersball.org/
15)==================================================
Event Dates: Sunday July 22 3pm
Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S Cornell Ave)
Pedagogical Factory Opening Exhibit
www.stockyardinstitute.org/PedagogicalFactory.html
16)==================================================
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)
17)==================================================
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)
18)==================================================
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 ++++++++++++
===================================================================
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
Check out The Fire This Time Fund, Applications Due August 17 2007
http://www.crossroadsfund.org/fire_this_time_fund.htm
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9+Announcement/Call For Participation
ATTN: All artists, activists, curators, gallerists, teachers, makers,
thinkers, retailers, politicians, doers, yeasayers, naysayers,
friends, historians and lovers.
InCUBATE and placekraft are interested in the colloquial ways that
people reference "€œthe art world"€ as if it is a monolithic entity.
We resist this idea, instead hoping that in figuring out personal
relationships to the public sphere that we participate in, we can
address imaginative spaces, matters of inclusion/exclusion and
locality through specificity. Terms such as "€œsite,"€ "€œlocation,"€
and "€œplace"€ should no longer be abstracted as simply the generic
“borders, boundaries, margins, peripheries, migrations and centers,"
but instead used to reaffirm and reclaim the importance of actual
location in terms of the physical, social, political and geographical
local in reaction to a globalized [art] world. As Brian Holmes writes,
"€œ[The] illusion that a single, globalized, or 'networked' logic
could account for the diversity of conditions across the world has
come to its close. We must go back to making careful judgments that
assess our own local situation with respect to very different ones."€
We agree with this, and for this reason we must consider the state of
arts and culture in Chicago by asking those involved in the equation
of artistic production to articulate how they fit within their own
real or imagined artworlds with Chicago as a geographical starting
point.
InCUBATE and placekraft seek articulations that depict, in varying
ways, relationships to the Chicago art world created by individuals,
groups and institutions. These maps are a way to situate differing
viewpoints within local worlds, establish historical and contemporary
connections and will work to assemble a collection of broad
perspectives that undermine the notion of a monolithic art world. In
addition to the mapping of art worlds, this collection will make
visible the modes of working, systems of relationships and other
infrastructures that wouldn't be easily observable.
Submissions/Maps can take any form, whether it’s a traditional
two-dimensional drawing or three-dimensional spatial analysis.
Submissions will be presented via an Atlas/book in addition to an
appropriate public display based on the nature of contributions.
Those wishing to participate can submit their maps via email at
youarehere@incubate-chicago.org or drop them off at InCUBATE located
at 2129 Rockwell Chicago, IL 60647 by Sept. 1.
For more information visit:
http://www.incubate-chicago.org
http://placekraft.blogspot.org
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