Happy May Everyone

We really hope you join AREA for a may day party this friday and the release of our 8th issue! Can you believe it - 4 years of AREA Chicago. Also, we really want to encourage everyone to check out the documentary video that was made about our last issue "68/08" by the amazing Laura Klein. Its up online here and features interviews and footage from our release party at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, who supported that issue with a residency for AREA. If you know any institutions who are willing to financially support AREA projects in the future, get in touch!

Enjoy your month and see you in June!

 

************Summary Below************

01) 05.01 Fri - May Day Rally and March @ Union Park (Leaves at 11:30 AM)!

02) 05.01 Fri - Haymarket Memorial @ Haymarket Site w/ Republic Windows Workers

03) 05.01 Fri - AREA Chicago #8 Release Party and May Day Party in Wicker Park 730pm

04) 05.02 Sat - ARC109 Movement Building Conference in Little Village and After Party

05) 05.02 Sat - Fundraiser for Saving Our Sons

06) 05.03 Sun - Tamms Year Ten Planning Meeting @ Backstory Cafe

07) 05.07/08 - "Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back" book readings with Diana Block

08) 05.08 Fri - Visible Cities Exhibition by Aaron Delahanty

09) 05.09 Sat - Labor Notes "Chicago Trouble Makers School" @ Malcolm X College

10) 05.09 Sat - Benefit for YCA, Tamms Year 10 and Logan Square Neighborhood Association @ Hideout

11) 05.10 Sun - Sunday Soup and Brunch with InCUBATE

12) 05.10 Sun - Urban Foraging Walk with Nance Klehm @ Douglas Park

13) 05.11 Mon - Peace Party @ Danny's Tavern for Iraq Book Mobile

14) 05.15 Fri - Benefit for Project Focus @ Q4

15) 05.16 Sat - Class on WEEDS as Foods with Nance Klehm - Register Now

16) 05.16 Sat - DePaul Conference on Palestine

17) 05.17 Sat - Fundraiser for Caucus Of Rank and file Educators (CORE) @ Funky Buddah Lounge

18) 05.20 Wed - How to Make a Sub-Irrigated Planter workshop in Wicker Park

19) 05.21 Thu - Ride of Silence for Fallen Bikers

20) 05.21 Thu - Presentation on "Urban Homesteading in Los Angeles" @ Experimental Station

21) 05.21 Thu - Workshop on Bio-Fuel and Microbrew @ Greenheart

22) 05.23 Sat - Greywater Workshop - Register Now

23) 05.28 Thu - Next Objectivist Poetry Workshop @ Mess Hall

24) 05.29 Fri - Threewalls Costume Party @ The International Museum of Surgical Science

25) 05.30 Sat - Teacher Appreciation Day @ Greenheart

26) 05.30 Sat - Class on WEEDS as Foods with Nance Klehm - Register Now

27) 05.30 Sat - How to Make a Sub-Irrigated Planter

28) 05.30 Sat - Afrobeat Project and Mucca Pazza Play Benefit for Latino Union @ Hideout

 

************Details Below************

 

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Call to Rally and March

WITHOUT LEGALIZATION THERE CAN BE NO EQUAL LABOR RIGHTS!

ATTENTION ALL WORKERS AND STUDENTS!

10am: Rally in Union Park (Ashland and Washington)

11:30am: March to Federal Plaza*

In commemoration of the International Day of the Working Class, this May 1st, march for jobs and the right to unionize for all workers, and the legalization of more than 12 million undocumented immigrant workers in the U.S.

Join us to stand up against the attempts to make immigrants and working families pay for the economic crisis and war. We demand greater and equal access to education, healthcare, affordable housing and jobs for all! We demand an end to raids and deportations!

The March 10th Committee welcomes everybody to march behind our banner: “Without Legalization There Can Be No Equal Labor Rights”. In the spirit of making our march lively and energizing we have gathered a few props that we invite you to look for at Union Park. We’ll have giant puppets from The Backbone Campaign, Korean Drummers from KRCC, a sound truck that will lead the contingent and 1,500 signs with the same slogan as our banner.

How To Donate: To donate for the May Day events, write checks payable to Comite 10 de Marzo, and contact Victor Cortez at http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mizisa@aol.com.

For more info about the march and rally call 312-738-6100.

For a flyer click below...

http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/Mayday09FlyerEnglish.pdf

* Due to talks with the City of Chicago we had to start the march earlier; we must leave promptly at 11:30 am.

 

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Friday, May 1, 4:00PM

Haymarket Monument

Randolph and Des Plaines, Chicago

Labor unions and workers will gather to celebrate the annual reclaiming of May Day at Haymarket Square. This year’s plaque will be dedicated by the AFL-CIO. A national AFL-CIO representative will speak about labor’s fight to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. The President of United Electrical Workers Local 1110 will talk about the local factory occupation of Republic Windows and how they inspired workers all over the world to stand up and save jobs.

The Haymarket Monument is a symbol of International Labor Solidarity and the right of all working people to have a voice in their job, their economy and their government.

Co-sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society

and the Chicago Federation of Labor

 

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AREA Chicago #8 "Everybody's Got Money Issues"

A local reader about money and its relationship to our work and lives

Release Party on Friday May 1st, 2009

7:30pm-11:30pm

@ St Paul¹s Cultural Center*

2215 W North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647 (773.278.7677)

Hosted by NNWAC

*This space is not wheelchair accessible

$5 Donation requested at the door

7:30-9:30pm - DJs Dan & Jay, Readings from Neighborhood Writing Alliance's contributions to AREA #8 and a temporary bazaar of low-cost, fair-trade and fun-filled items (featuring Resistance Coffee, Maya Essence, Mark Shipley, AREA Chicago, JustSeeds, TWINE NFP, and more)

9:30-11:30pm DJs Dan & Jay + Special May Day Premier of the new Reading band (http://readingband.wordpress.com)

Refreshments Available/BYOB Not allowed

In this issue of AREA contributions by/about:

Mark Messing,  Elanor Laskiw, Meghan Strell, Mucca Pazza, Neighborhood Writing Alliance authors, Bert Stabler, Timothy Sarrantonio, B. Loewe, Latino Union, Kari Lydersen, the occupation of Republic Windows, UE, Rachel Wallis, Congress Hotel Strike, Unite HERE, Lauren Cumbia, Labor History, Chicago Political Workshop, Mark Shipley, Erotic Massage, 183 definitions of capitalism, Rodrigo Paredes,Temporary Services, Bail-out Protests, CORE, Dave Marques, Half Letter Press, InCUBATE, Megan Wells, Kammy Lee, Douglas Ward, Kristen Cox, Amber Ginsburg and Lia Rousset, Daniel Tucker, NFP vs For Profit, Florence Johnson ,Sara Black, Robin Hewlett, Backstory Cafe, Elise Zelechowski, Pilsen Alliance, Rebuilding Exchange, Delta Institute, David Wolf, the punk scene and the financial crisis, Lee Ann Norman, Insite Arts, Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, Ajitha Reddy, Activist Nuns, Raechel Tiffe, Food Not Bombs, Sergio Zetina, Mark Saulys, Tamara Smith, Dale Asis, Rebecca Zorach, Southwest Youth Collaborative , San Lucas Workers Center, ARISE Chicago, in memory of Franklin Rosemont, protesting the Milton Friedman Institute, ourmfi.org, Crossroads Fund,  Harishi Patel, Jill Doub, the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Patrick Dunn, Free Street Theater, Subprime Mortages, Damon Rich, history of red-lining in Chicago, NTIC, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Neily Jennings, Solidarity Economies, Ashley Weger, Wade Tillett, Neil Brideau, Larry Shure, Marisa Holmes, Town Hall Talks, Creative Time, Nato Thompson, Ed and Rachael Marszewski, Amanda Guiterrez, Mike Bancroft, Nance Klehm, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Coya Paz, Shannon Stratton, Edra Soto, Deborah Stratman, Dan Peterman, Marianne Fairbanks, Nicole Garneau, Amy Partridge, Sara Black, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa, Salome Chasnoff, Amanda Du, Boone Public School Funding, Sheila O'Donnell, Jeanne Kracher, Marshall Sahlins, Toussaint Losier, Bruce Lincoln, Kara Elliott-Ortega, Lauren Berlant , Yali Amit and more.

areachicago@gmail.com | http://areachicago.org

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Re-Imagining Change: A Movement Summit

    Saturday, May 2

Gather with Activists to Analyze the Political Moment and Shape a Progressive Agenda!

Our goal is build relationships, sharpen our analysis, and promote collaborations and connections across the broad swath of social justice issues and organizations.

Save the date! Please attend and participate in a large gathering of activists in Chicago on the day after the historic May Day march for worker rights. On Saturday May 2, ARC ’09 is convening a "Movement Summit” in Chicago at the Little Village Lawndale High School for Social Justice. ARC ’09 (A Movement Re-Imagining Change) was launched last fall by a group of activists and educators committed to making a stronger and more connected social justice movement. We wrote a ten point “people’s platform” to promote a progressive analysis during the presidential campaign (see People's Platform) and have been convening a series of dialogues and workshops bringing together activists across a range of issues and constituencies. www.ARC109.org

10am - 5:30pm Program

9:30am Doors open for on-site registration.

Little Village Lawndale High School for Social Justice

3120 S. Kostner, Chicago, IL

$10-50 Donation requested, sliding scale, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Register Now by clicking here: Online Registration

Please join activists from Chicago and across the country as we grapple with ways to address the many crises we face, and most importantly, to promote solutions. To view more details about this Summit, the pre-dinners, afterset, or May 2nd weekend happenings, please visit:

If you have questions or would like to get involved with the summit, please contact info@arc109.org. www.ARC109.org

 

WHERE: Tonik, 7247 W. Roosevelt (2 blocks west of Harlem)

WHEN: Saturday, May 2, 2009

TIME: 4:00-7:00 p.m.

http://yearten.org/

 

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"Tamms Year Ten" Organizing Meeting. We will be working on canvassing, outreach, writing letters to prisoners and preparing future projects/events for the campaign.

WHERE: Backstory Cafe, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave. (inside the Experimental Station)

WHEN: Sunday, May 3, 2009

TIME: 2:00-5:00 p.m.

http://yearten.org/

 

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ARM THE SPIRIT** BOOK EVENTS - CHICAGO

 

THURSDAY, MAY 7, 7:30 PM

WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST - 5233 N. CLARK ST.

 

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 6:30 PM

EL QUIXOTE BOOK STORE - 2546 W. DIVISION ST.

READING, DISCUSSION, SIGNING

For more information and other reading event dates see www.armthespirit.com

ARM THE SPIRIT: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back

NOW AVAILABLE FROM AK PRESS

To order go to www.akpress.org

 

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Visible Cities Gallery Opening - May 8th

Finestra Art Space is pleased to present Visible City by Chicago-based artist Aaron Delehanty, May 1 through May 31, 2009. There will be an opening reception Friday May 8, 5:00 – 9:00 pm.  Curated by Caro d'Offay, this is Aaron's first solo exhibition in Chicago, it is also the premier of Visible City, an ongoing project by the artist that incorporates a range of paintings, experimental mapmaking, sound pieces, a website, artist-books and sculptures that build a mythos of an unknown urban place.  Visible City acts as a mirror to the edge of current and contemporary ideas of city building and urban planning, but is oddly mythic and contradictory.  

The title for the exhibit comes from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, in which the main character describes Venice in 55 different ways in a futile attempt to dictate a fulfilling description of a city.  Calvino's book only scratches the surface of what an existing city can inspire and affect in the imagination.  Aaron Delehanty's Visible City is an interdisciplinary attempt to describe a place that does not exist but could be believed to exist. His is a city where the workings of the earth and the workings of man are symbiotic, where social order and the order of nature are complimentary.  The place his work describes is not necessarily a city of the future, however is an image of an urban center that is spurred from the contemporary wish for a smarter form of living.  It is as if man worked from a clean slate and built a city overnight without the conditions of some of our nastier habits.

Finestra Art Space is located in the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 516 in Chicago, immediately off the human operated elevator.

 

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Saturday, May 9

9 am to 4:30 pm

2009 Chicago Troublemakers School: Learn ways to fight back during the

tough times

Malcolm X College

1900 W. Van Buren

Workshop themes include:

   * Bargaining in tough times

   * Assertive grievance handling

   * Public sector fight backs

   * Defending and organizing immigrant workers

   * Changing your union from within

   * Innovative organizing strategies

Go to www.labornotes.org/chicago to register online, or call 313-842-6262.

 

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3-WAY BIG BENEFIT 2009

an eclectic musical showcase celebrating social change in Chicago

Saturday, May 9 at the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia

  4 pm  - 1 am,  $12 cover.

emceed by Avery R. Young ("true soul poet")

• Pillars & Tongues (“improvised psych-folk gospel-blues”) 4 pm

• Allá (“latin psych pop”) 5 pm

• Afri Caribe (“bomba y plena”) 6 pm

• Roommate ("moody psych-tinged avant-pop") 7 pm

• Judson Claiborne (“twangy, soulful, countrified folk-pop”) 8 pm

• Spires That In The Sunset Rise (“avant-rock/psych-folk”)  9 pm

• Baby Alright (“all-star Chicago funk”) 10 pm

• Followed by Hideout Dance Party with DJ Itch13! resident DJ For Young Chicago Authors' Wordplay

BENEFITTING:

YOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS www.youngchicagoauthors.org

LOGAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION http://www.lsna.net

TAMMS YEAR TEN COALITION http://yearten.org

 

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May 10

12pm-2pm

Sunday Soup and Brunch with InCUBATE artist-in-residence from Canada - Michael Coolidge

2129 N Rockwell

http://www.incubate-chicago.org/sundaysoup

 

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MAY 10

PUBLIC URBANFORAGE walk

3-5pm (rain or shine!)

meet at Douglas Park Field House entrance

$10-$20 donation/person (young kids are free!)

nettlesting@yahoo.com

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May 11 9pm

Peace Party Fundraiser for Iraq Book Mobile

@ Dannys Tavern

1951 W Dickens Ave Chicago, IL 60614 - (773) 670-9495

 

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Come Raise Your FOCUS at Quennect 4 on Friday, May 15th for a Project FOCUS multi-media art exhibition & night of Reggae, Hip Hop, African Dance, Live Art & Spoken Word! 

The purpose of this event is to celebrate community through music, arts, and dance and to support development work in Lyantonde, Uganda. Visit our website to hear a short audio clip on development at Prince Primary School.

Check the flyer & the links below for more deets! If you cannot attend the event, but would like to invest in Project FOCUS by purchasing a ticket anyways, please visit our online store by Clicking Here. You can also purchase your tickets prior to the event here.

Featuring:

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MAY 16

SPRING & SUMMER TONICS

WEEDS as Foods. WEEDS as Medicine in-depth foraging series

9am – 1pm

2446 south sawyer avenue

$65 (register by May 13 nettlesting@yahoo.com)

This hands-on workshop will include making and tasting hot and cold infusions, roasted root coffees, herbal energetics, drying and storing herbs. Price includes a light meal, tastings and handouts. 

‘WEEDS as Foods. WEEDS as Medicine.’

A Series of in-depth URBANFORAGE classes 

In this series we will meet and learn from 25+ common weeds as well as many local trees and wild perennials. We will cover techniques that include: elixirs, infusions, decoctions, energetics, pickling, pestos, pates, dips, spreads, salves, tinctures, infused oils, flower essences, drying, vinegars and wine. 

PRICING:

$65/single class

$60/class if 3 or more taken

$275 for entire series ($55/class) 

class price includes: light meal, tastings and handouts 

- Registration is required before each class without exception.

- Classes are intentionally kept small to facilitate learning. Maximum/class=10 participants.

- All classes held at 2446 South Sawyer Avenue – Little Village, Chicago.

 

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Sat., May 16th, 4pm

The Struggle for Palestine: What does the Future Hold? with Gilbert Achcar & Moshé Machover.

DePaul University, Schmitt Academic Building (SAC) Rm 161 2320 N. Kenmore

• Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon and is currently Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He is author of Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror, The Clash of Barbarisms and Perilous Power with Noam Chomsky. He is also a frequent contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique.

• Moshé Machover was born in Tel-Aviv, studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and currently teaches in the Philosophy Department at King's College London. As a long-time campaigner against Zionism, he coauthored the classic essay, "The Class Character of Israel" with Akiva Orr and cofounded the radical left Matzpen (Israeli Socialist Organization) group in 1962.

Sponsors: DePaul Universi! ty International Studies Program, International Socialist Organization, Solidarity. Co-Sponsors: Chicago Jewish Voices for Peace, Chicago Socialist Party, Open University of the Left, Students for Justice in Palestine–DePaul

Contact chicago_socialists@yahoo.com or chicago@solidarity-us.org for more information.

 

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May 16th, 2009
 5:30 PM

 Fundraiser for the Caucus Of Rank and file Educators (CORE)- a member driven caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union
 A night of comedy with Hannibal Burress and Alex Orozco

 Funky Buddha Lounge - 728 w. Grand

  $25 at the door/$20 in advance

 Contact:
Coreteachers@gmail.com

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MAY 20

How to Make a Sub-Irrigated Planter (SIP) Heidi Hough, Bruce Fields & Erik Knutzen

6-8pm $50

Wicker Park close to Blue Line

Register with: nettlesting@yahoo.com 

Join Chicago’s Green Roof Growers and LA’s Homegrown Evolution for a fun class on how to make a sub-irrigated planter (SIP) out of two buckets. As a bonus, meet Homegrown Evolution blogger and author Erik Knutzen, who will be co-teaching the class and signing copies of his book The Urban Homestead. 

Bring some gloves and learn how to make and plant your own SIP. Leave with everything you need for a summer of fresh heirloom tomatoes–all you add is about 6 hours of good sun per day in your yard, balcony, or roof and enough water to keep the reservoir full. No weeding, no mulching, no worries. 

You’ll go home with:

–Plant-ready two-bucket sub-irrigated planter (SIP).

–Enough potting mix, organic fertilizer, and powdered lime to plant your tomato.

–An organic heirloom tomato plant, from the Green Roof Growers seed-starting group

–Comprehensive understanding of how SIPs work and how to plant yours once you get home. 

View one, do one, teach one! 

Heidi Hough, writer and editor, is a lifelong in-the-ground organic gardener who one year found her growing area in full shade. Sub-irrigated planters (SIPs) made it possible for her to continue growing extraordinary amounts of fresh organic produce on her roof. She’s committed to sharing the knowledge of how to grow your own food anywhere you have sun–back porch, balcony, roof–or even the vacant lot next door. 

Erik Knutzen, along with his wife Kelly Coyne is the co-author of The Urban Homestead, a hands-on guide that covers everything from growing food, raising chickens to navigating city streets on a bicycle. Erik writes about urban sustainability issues for magazines and blogs at www.homegrownevolution.com

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May 20

Ride of Silence

http://www.rideofsilence.org/chicago/

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MAY 21

HOMESTEADING 101 with Erik Knutzen

7-9pm $7-10 (sliding scale)

Experimental Station 6100 South Blackstone, Chicago

Register with: nettlesting@yahoo.com 

Erik will lead an informal presentation on Urban Homesteading in Los Angeles – focusing on his and his wife’s homegrown systems of adventurous experimentation of chickens, growing, greywater, brewing and more - some successful, some not so much! 

Copies of his book The Urban Homestead will be for sale. 

Erik Knutzen, along with his wife Kelly Coyne is the co-author of The Urban Homestead, a hands-on guide that covers everything from growing food, raising chickens to navigating city streets on a bicycle. Erik writes about urban sustainability issues for magazines and blogs at www.homegrownevolution.com

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Bio-Fuel and Microbrew!

 

Learn how to convert that old junker of a car into a bio-diesel-running green machine! Chicago Biofuels will lead this fun workshop at Greenheart introducing biodiesel, ethanol, waste vegetable oil (WVO), and other petroleum substitutes for your car. And what a better way to wash it all down then with a complementary micro-brew beer tasting by Metropolitan Brewing, a local Chicago brewery.

 

When: Thursday, May 21st; 6-7pm

Where: Greenheart Shop; 746 N. LaSalle

$5 suggested donation. Space is limited RSVP to info@greenheartshop.org or 312-264-1625

 

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MAY 23

Greywater is Liquid Gold! WATER - with Sayre Vickers

2-5pm

$60 includes materials and a light and wholesome snack.

2446 South Sawyer Avenue

Register by email: sayre@sevensapphires.net  

In this workshop, we will learn to harvest and use greywater through simple, reversible plumbing changes and learn techniques to decrease potable water use. Our projects will include ‘unplumbing’ a sink, putting a ‘hippo’ in a flush toilet, and identifying simple ways to streamline water use. You’ll go home with hands-on experience and handouts covering what we did, and the ultimate urban greywater tool - a five gallon bucket. 

Sayre Vickers is a Chicago-based artist, permaculturist, bicyclist, activist, and witch. His varied projects are unified by a mindful honoring of connection and relationship to the Earth, to People, to Place, to Spirit. He finds the city to be a very magical place and considers urban permaculture/sustainability to be a part of his spiritual practice. He’s been exploring water conservation and greywater in an urban setting for the last few years and considers the 5-gallon bucket to be mightier than the sword, at least in relationship to water.

 

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

6:30p-9:00p

Next Objectivist

Poetry Workshop

Mess Hall

6932 North Glenwood Avenue

Chicago, IL 60626

http://www.messhall.org/

 

SEMINAR ONE: The Drama of Anti/Absorption

The Next Objectivist Workshop is the world’s only literary workshop entirely dedicated to the study and practice of objectivist poetry. We are a free, autonomous academy pursuing the techniques of writing poetry from outside the self. Our program of study is largely organized by the participants, so come join us!

Workshops are held on 2nd and 4th Thursdays, beginning at 6:30. Our doors are open to anyone interested in the collective practice of poetry reading, discussing and writing who wishes to join us in our exploration of objectivist techniques.

On any given night our workshop may comprise a mixture of book discussions, group writing exercises, readings and lectures by visiting writers, readings by ourselves, and the production of conferences, journals, manifestos and joyful celebrations.

Broadly conceived, objectivist poetry is verse that organizes itself outside of the subject. Poems that reside in the world as objects, poems written in other voices and through other texts, poems labored over by groups, poems generated by chance or pre-determined procedures, poems that recognize their emplacement within histories larger than those of the “I” held in isolation by traditional lyricism, poems that demand political justice and aesthetic autonomy . . . —the tradition of objectivist technique is a broad and powerful outside to the normative practices of emotional resume writing that dominate the modern poetry industry.

Our first Seminar will focus on the “Drama of Anti/Absorption,” and begin with a group reading and discussion of Charles Bernstein’s long poem, “Artifice of Absorption.” The fields of poetic practice we have on our agenda currently includes names like William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein, the New York Objectivists, Jackson Mac Low and David Antin and Amiri Baraka, the Black Mountain poets and San Francisco Renaissance poets, C. A. Conrad and Caroline Rogers, the “Language” poets and Surrealists, Oulipo and Gnoetry, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Fearing and Kenneth Goldsmith . . . Join us and contribute to our curriculum of study.

 

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Friday, May 29th, You Oughta be in Fangs, written & directed by Death by Design
Threewalls Fundraiser @ International Museum of Surgical Science
Tickets @ http://www.three-walls.org/about/support/

Decadent 1920s party-goers in search of hot-jazz and free-flowing booze, head to a secret speakeasy run by the conjoined Whisper Sisters. Assisted by a team of waxen virgins and undead goons, the Sisters entice their guests with vampish performers, seductive strains and intoxicating elixirs. But watch your step – lest you should shimmy straight into the arms of their Vampire suitors, who slip incognito through the euphoric crowd, adding to their brood.

Join us for our first artist-directed fundraiser, You Oughta Be in Fangs by Death by Design. Featuring hot-jazz by D.J. Coffin Banger, a medicine show by Sanjula Vamana, vampire bites by The Bleeding Heart Bakery, open casket portraits, a secret potion hunt, prohibition era coffin varnish (ie. booze) and much much more.

A one-of-a-kind event, You Oughta Be in Fangs is a prohibition era meets the undead, housed in Chicago’s spectacular The International Museum of Surgical Science. Unlike any event threewalls has ever held, You Oughta Be in Fangs is our first spring fundraiser, a new annual artist designed and directed ‘experience’ where guests become ‘part of the art’.

Death by Design, Co., is a special effects and video-based company established by artists Michelle Maynard and Teena McClelland in May 2005. The Death by Design team constructs film sets and immersive environments at select locations where clients are invited to enter the set and engage in an in-depth conversation with life through their own "Hollywood" death.  Visitors can either watch the action unfold or be part of the story-line, infiltrating the artwork as live (and dead) bodies. You Oughta Be In Fangs is their first ‘party’ environment/installation, where party-goers, immersed in the set, become characters in a speak-easy riddled with the undead.

Take a bite of the visual arts and help support threewalls support artists.

Costumes encouraged!  

7:30-8:30: VIP Preview with appetizers, live entertainment, and open bar.

8:30-11:30: General Admission with dessert, and open bar.

Be reborn this spring as the eternally undead!

 

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Teacher Appreciation Day at Greenheart!

 

The school year's almost over... Students and parents, stop by during the day to pick up end of the school year sustainable gifts for your teachers! Fair Trade makes your gift that much more meaningful. Teachers, come by and treat yourself- all teachers will receive a 20% discount on products in the store for the day as well as free reiki treatments from 3-5pm.

 

When: Saturday, May 30th; 11-6pm

Where: Greenheart Shop; 746 N. LaSalle

Contact Greenheart for more info-info@greenheartshop.org or 312-264-1625 or visit our website at www.greenheartshop.org

 

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MAY 30

WEEDS AS FOODS

‘WEEDS as Foods. WEEDS as Medicine’ in-depth foraging series

2446 South Sawyer Avenue

$65 (register by May 27 nettlesting@yahoo.com)

This hands-on workshop will cover making and tasting pickles, pates, dips, spreads and sprinkles. Price includes a light meal, tastings and handouts. (SEE DETAILS OF SERIES FOR MAY 16^th) 
 

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May 30

How to Make a Sub-Irrigated Planter (SIP) with Heidi Hough & Bruce Fields

1-3pm $50

Wicker Park close to Blue Line

Register with: nettlesting@yahoo.com

(SEE LISTING FOR MAY 20^th!)

 

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Date: Saturday  9 p.m. May 30 (may start at 6 p.m. with kid-friendly musical potluck)    

Event Title/Host:  Benefit for the Latino Union Hosted by the Latino Union and DentalWork Productions

Location: the Hideout

Details/Contact     Chicago Afrobeat Project, Mucca Pazza, DJ Phunk One in the Event of the Spring Season!  

contact  events@latinounion.org or call 312.491.9044