There is a bunch of AREA news to go over and then a short and sweet calendar of amazing events happening this month are listed below.
First off, July 1st is the deadline for proposals for the next issue of AREA so please check out the call for participation here:
http://areachicago.org/b/area-news/area-9-call-participation-july-1-deadline/
Secondly, AREA Chicago and Mess Hall are joining together to organize an exhibition and event series that will expand the content of the last issue of "AREA#8 Everybody's got money issues". We will send out announcements of events soon. If you have any questions or would like to be involved, please contact Jerome at grandj[at]gmail[dot]com.
Thirdly, AREA Back Issues are now available for cheap from our friends at Half Letter Press: http://www.halfletterpress.com/store/
Fourthly, this summer we are going to start back up our "Report Back" blog for people to report back about events (like the ones listed below, and the ones you attend). So please let AREA & Report Back know what you've been up to so far this summer! Been to a workshop? Attended a rally? Seen an exhibit? What has gotten you out and about in your community & how do you think it went? We want to know, and so do our readers. Reflection is a necessary task of building our communities and our practices. Stay connected between AREA issues and share your thoughts with others on the Report Back blog!
Just send your review to areachicago.reportback@gmail.com and updates will be posted weekly at
http://reportback.areachicago.org/ and mailed out in the monthly "Another Chicago" newsletter of events!
and FINALLY, This summer AREA turns 4 years old. We've put out 8 issues featuring hundreds of Chicagobased artists and organizers, we've organized nearly a hundred events throughout Chicago, and promoted thousands of projects through our monthly newsletter. Please come dance and celebrate at Danny's Taven (1951 W. Dickens) this Monday July 13th starting at 9pm. Details are below.
Have a good month!
July Events Summary:
01) Mon 06.29 - Iran Lecture @ News and Letters
02) Wed 07.01 - Arcade and Speakeasy @ Orientation Center
03) Fri 07.03 - Paloma Negra Magazine Benefit Party
04) Sat 07.04 - “Salad-Church-Exercise" Exhibition Opening @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
05) Fri 07.10 - Teach-In & Discussion on Pakistan @ Messhall
06) Sun 07.12 - Urban Foraging with Nance Klehm @ Kinzie and Racine
07) Mon 07.13 - AREA Chicago 4th Birthday Party - Come DANCE at Danny's Tavern
08) Tue 07.14 - Sex Documentary Series @ Hull House Museum
09) Tue 07.21 - A Day at Stateville Reading/Play @ Southwest Youth Collab
10) Sat 07.25 - Chicago Community Cinema presents "LAKSHMI & ME"
11) Tue 07.28 - Sex Documentary Series @ Hull House Museum
12) Sat - 08.01 - "Word: Across Generations" @ Perry Mason Cultural Center
July Events Details:
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News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting:
Specter of revolution stalks Iran 's theocratic rulers
Speaker: Gerry Emmett, writer for News & Letters
Date: Monday June 29
Time: 6:30 PM
Place: News & Letters Library
228 S. Wabash, Room 230 (Note new address)
Chicago, IL 60604
Free and open discussion to follow presentation.
For more information: 312-431-8242; www.newsandletters.org
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Arcade & Speakeasy : Wednesday July 1st : 8 - tap runs dry
@ the Orientation Center
2129 N. Rockwell St.
Chicago, IL 60647
Join us for an evening of cocktails, home-brewed beer, arcade games, live music, and celebrating fourth of july early.
Featuring....
Ted Danyluk's hand-crafted Skee-ball (last seen at King Ludd's Midway Arcade), vintage hand-held pinball machines, "Space: 1999, a bagatelle game," and more.
Four premium craft brews on tap: Palisades Best Bitter, ESB, Small Beer, and IIPA by Ted Danyluk (www.tedbrews.com)
InCUBATE serving Rhubarb Gin Ricky cocktails.
$4/a drink + bbq food in the back. Throw a dart, win a discount!
Plus ... Magic show by Nate Sandberg and Live Music by Ryan Hammer.
Come dressed to impress...
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PALOMA NEGRA Benefit Show on Friday July 3rd
Doors and DJ at 7pm
Show starts at 8pm-????
@ the New Weizer Space
3951 W. Fullerton
DJ Angela
music that'll make you shake your ass
DJ Doominion
spining the best anarchopunk and goth
Tras De Nada
hardcore anarcho punk and cop conjurers
Tierra De Nadie
epic crust
Cenobytes
Hardcore Stylings
+ more t.b.a
books, zines and other goodies will be available.
Paloma Negra is a Pilsen based publication. Our main focus is to shed light on issues affecting our daily lives and the communities we live in; with special emphasis on Pilsen. Our mission is to inform so we can better foster the seeds of change. We are a collective of anarchists and revolutionaries. We offer this publication for free so that it is accessible to all. Because together we can fly, we encourage you to read, enjoy and participate.
Respectfully, The Black Dove Brigade
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SALAD-CHURCH-EXERCISE
An art show about self-improvement through self-denial
Featuring work by:
Michael Bancroft, Noah Berlatsky , Dayton Castleman, CThrough Outfit, Chelsea Culp, Derek Erdman, Gina Grafos, Jacob C. Hammes, Jaime Lynn Henderson, Hideous Beast, Thaddeus Kellstadt, Paul Mack, Rachel Pollak, Yvie Raij, Oliverio Rodriguez , Christopher Santiago, Dewayne Slightweight, Edra Soto, Bert Stabler, Matthew Steinke, Susannah Kite Strang
Curated by Bert Stabler
Opening Saturday, July 4, 2009, 2-6 pm at the Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S. Morgan, Chicago. Massive salad potluck-- come hungry!
Open hours 1-4 pm Saturday July 11, Saturday July 18. Closing party Saturday July 25, 8-12 pm (check Facebook for info as it develops)
While large-scale organs of control, such as schools, hospitals, and prisons, enforce the social contract through a restriction of choice and a remote delegation of authority, personal or cultural techniques for redirecting and mastering libido, the inner primordial chaos we carry within, can be found in the options represented by salad, church, and exercise. The deep loyalty and repulsion aroused in modern hearts by these three everyday pursuits, and their heroic and perverse obsession with denying the desires of the body, is the starting point for the works in “Salad-Church-Exercise,” fantasies that are channeled into a polymorphous menagerie of audiovisual media.
Three classic texts that have instructed the bodies of our ancestors can be found online at these URLs, and will be available in hard copy at the show.
- St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises. http://www.jesuit.org/Spirituality/Spiritual+Exercises/default.aspx
- John Evelyn, A Discourse on Sallets. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15517/15517-h/15517-h.htm
- Friedrich Ludwig Jahn: A Treatise on Gymnasticks.
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Friday, July 10, 2009
6:00p-9:00p
Teach-In & Discussion on Pakistan:
Three Poets & A Country: N. M. Rashid, Habib Jalib, Faiz Ahmed Faiz
@ Mess Hall 6932 North Glenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60626. Morse CTA Red Line Train Stop Email: info[at]messhall[dot]org. Tel: 773-465-4033
Even though Pakistan dominates the news cycle as a new front in Obama’s “war on terror,” it remains a country strangely bereft of context – even history. We hear of the radicalization of its population, the march of extremism towards its cities, and the Pakistani military’s campaign against those forces. What remains occluded is any sense of the people of Pakistan, of their own struggles, hopes, and fears.
What we do not hear about is the fact that 30 of the 62 years of Pakistan’s existence have been spent under military dictatorships – & that United States policy has aided and supported those dictators. Nor do we hear about the brave men and women who raised their voices for democracy, for justice, & for equal rights for all, throughout this period. We want to tell you about three such voices. These members of the “Progressive Writers” lit fires of resistance with their poetry and through their deeds.
Join us, as we read a few of their poems, tell you about their lives, and speak about the history of progressive thought in Pakistan.
Presenters: Manan Ahmed, Atiya Khan, Shehla Arif
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Public URBANFORAGE walk
sunday, july 12th 3-5pm (rain or shine!)
$10-$20 donation/person (young kids are free!)
meet at train tracks Kinzie and Racine streets
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Peace Party: AREA Chicago's 4th Birthday Party
DJs: Naomi Walker, Jeff Parker, Jocelyn Brown, and Josh Abrams.
Monday July 13th
9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Danny’s Tavern 1951 W. Dickens
Free Admission
Thanks to Joe Proulx for hosting this and so many other Peace Parties over the years
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July 14
SEX +++ Documentary Film Series @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted
“Filming Desire” (2000) Sex positive documentary film and discussion. Tasty snacks. RSVP's STRONGLY RECOMMENDED call 312-413-5353. NOTE: this film contains explicit sexual footage. Guest facilitator: Aspasia Bonasera, blogger at La Libertine’s Salon
More info at http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/Events/sexPositive/sexPositive.html
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Date Tuesday, July 21, 5:30pm
A Day at Stateville Reading and Inter-generational Conversation
Location South West Youth Collaborative, Uni Hip Hop Room
6400 South Kedzie Avenue, Chicago
Free. Open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 312.422.5580.
A Day at Stateville is a short play detailing a newcomer's first day at Stateville Correctional Facility in Joliet, Illinois. Join us for a special reading of A Day at Stateville and an inter-generational post-show conversation focusing on the needs of the youth and community to interrupt the schools to prison pipeline, take steps towards creating street peace, and to re-think safety and de-criminalize our communities.
This event is presented in partnership by The Southwest Community Coalition the "Life Transformation through Communication" course at Stateville Correctional Facility, Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern and The Public Square.
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Chicago Community Cinema presents:
LAKSHMI & ME
Saturday, July 25th at 2PM
Chicago Cultural Center
in the Claudia Cassidy Theatre
In this intimate examination of the relationship between Indian filmmaker Nishtha Jain and her young maid, Lakshmi, Jain holds up a mirror to her own culture and the pervasive caste system that can still determine an individual's fate in life. Set against this backdrop, where servants are habitually treated as social inferiors, the film looks at what can happen when an employer shows empathy, and a silent worker finds her voice.
For a preview, click here: http://www.itvs.org/shows/preview.php?showID=7663
Following the screening, panelists will lead the audience in a discussion about the caste system, the organizing of domestic workers and women's rights in India.
Guests to be announced.
Presented by ITVS, Apna Ghar, South Asia Language and Area Center at U of C, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and WTTW Channel 11.
For more information, Contact: Naomi_Walker@itvs.org
(773) 677-9600
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July 28
SEX +++ Documentary Film Series @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted
"Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography" (2003) + "Bill and Desiree: Love is Timeless" (2008) PORN/EROTICA NIGHT Sex positive documentary films and discussion. Tasty snacks. RSVP's STRONGLY RECOMMENDED call 312-413-5353. NOTE: films contain explicit sexual footage. Guest facilitator: Serpent Libertine, vlogger at Red Light District: Chicago More info at http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/Events/sexPositive/sexPositive.html
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Date Saturday, August 1st (afternoon)
Word: Across Generations with Quraysh Ali Lana; Adrian Majteca, author of Mixology; and FM Supreme
Location Perry Mansion Cultural Center, 7042 S Perry Ave. Chicago
Details/Contact Free. Open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 312.422.5580.
