There are many, many great events happening this holiday month starting with the exciting RELEASE PARTY for AREA issue 9: Peripheral Vision at the South Side Community Arts Center and then ending with AREA Chicago's 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction!
We look forward to see you checking these out!
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November 2009 Summary
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01) Fri 10/30 - Sun 11/01 - " Love Does Not Hurt " @ Links Hall
02) Sun 11/01 - AREA issue 9: Peripheral Vision RELEASE PARTY @ South Side Community Arts Center
03) Sun 11/01 - "Envisioning One's Living Conditions" @ Three-Walls
04) Wed 11/04 - 15th Anniversary of Hoop Dreams @ Gene Siskel Film Center
05) Wed 11/04 - "Don't accept the country cuts!" @ Damen + Ogden
06) Wed 11/04 - Artisan Feature - World Finds @ Greenheart Shop
07) Thurs 11/05 - "Optimism and Everyday Life" @ Three-Wall
08) Fri 11/06 - Diversity in Higher Education @ University of Illinois at Chicago
09) Sat 11/07 - "Beyond the Rhetoric" @ La Decima Musaa
10) Sat 11/07 - "The Power of the People" @ University of Chicago
11) Sat 11/07 - 2009 Media Democracy Day @ Grace Place
12) Sun 11/08 - the Neighborhood Writing Alliance @ First United Church
13) Sun 11/08 - "Wine and Time" @ Three-Wall
14) Sun 11/08 - "Crystal-clear voice" @ First Unitarian Church
15) Mon 11/09 - "Collision Theory" @ Links Hall
16) Tues 11/10 - Volunteer Orientation @ CFS
17) Wed 11/11 - "Concern America Trunk" Show @ Greenheart Shop
18) Thurs 11/12 - 'War and Peace' Exhibit @ 1530 N. PAULINA
19) Fri 11/13 - Moments of Justice @ Catalyst Ranch
20) Fri 11/13 - Day Laborer Art Exhibition @ Albany Park Workers' Center
21) Fri 11/13 - Our Own Devices @ Links Hall
22) Sun 11/15 - Females Unite for Action @ Dyett High School
23) Mon 11/16 - On Moving Politics @ University of Chicago
24) Wed 11/18 - Senteamental Moods Tea Tasting @ Greenheart Shop
25) Wed 11/18 - Gentrification & Displacement workshop @ 11 E Adams
26) Thurs 11/19 - "1 2 3 4 5" @ Links Hall
27) Thurs 11/19 - "A Culture of Fear?" @ Community Room
28) Sat 11/21 - Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair @ Orozco School
29) Sat 11/21 - “The Green Ring Circus” @ Chicago Center for Glass Arts
30) Sun 11/22 - "Precious Cargo" @ Mess Hall
31) Tue 11/24 - Faith-Labor-Action Breakfast @ Operating Engineers Local 399
32) Wed 12/02 - "World Shoppe Launch Party!" @ Greenheart Shop
33) Thur 12/03 - 9th Annual Anniversary Celebration @ National Museum of Mexican Art
34) Fri 12/11 - AREA Chicago 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction @ UE Hall
November Events in Detail
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Date: October 30 - November 1, Fri & Sat at 7pm and Sun at 4pm.
Event/title: love does not hurt
Location: Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield Ave. | Suite 207 | Chicago | IL | 60657
Details: In commemoration of Domestic Violence Awareness and Let's Talk Month there will be a community discussion after each performance. Tickets are $20, and proceeds go towards AquaMoon's girls and woman-centered programming. Buy tickets now! We look forward to seeing you there.
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Date: Sunday November 1, 2-5pm
Event/Title: AREA issue 9: Peripheral Vision RELEASE PARTY
Location: South Side Community Arts Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave. (CTA: Indiana stop on the Green Line)
Details: The release party will be coinciding with the closing party for The Demise of the South Side Community Art Center So there will be lots of great things to see alongside two events which are scheduled: 3:00 Peripheral Feminism: Readings by contributors and 4:00 Performance by Sebastian Alvarez.
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Date: Sunday November 1st 2:00 PM
Event/Title: "Envisioning One's Living Conditions," Tour of Anthony Elm's collections
Location: 119 n. Peoria #2d, Chicago, IL 60607, 312.432.3972 info@three-walls.org
Details: On November 1st, we will lead an excursion to the Artist and Exhibition Ephemera Collection of Anthony Elms, at his home in the Northwest Side. We will meet at threewalls at 2:00 PM. Organized by InCUBATE & Randall Szott.
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Date: Wednesday November 4th
Event/Title: Kartemquin Films will be celebrating the 15th Anniversary of our iconic documentary, Hoop Dreams.
Location: the Gene Siskel Film Center
Details: 50% off youth tickets.
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Date: Wednesday 4th, 4.00pm
Event/Title: Don't accept the country cuts!
Location: Stroger Hospital, Damen + Ogden
Details: Protest at Stroger Hospital: Don't Accept the County Cuts! Fight for you life!
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Date: Wednesday, November 4th; 5:30-7:30pm
Event/Title: Artisan Feature - World Finds
Location: Greenheart Shop- 1911 W. Division
Details: Chicago-based World Finds works with Fair Trade women artisans in India. Learn more about their work and the beautiful jewelry and sari accessories they make.
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Date: Thursday, November 5th, 7:00 PM
Event/Title: Public Culture lecture: "Optimism and Everyday Life" with Claire Pentecost
Location: 119 n. peoria #2d, Chicago, IL 60607, 312.432.3972 info@three-walls.org
Details: Claire Pentecost visits the epicenter of a failed paradigm and asks how people generate optimism.
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Date: Friday, November 6th, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Event/Title: Diversity in Higher Education with Evelynn Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College
Location: University of Illinois at Chicago, Student Center East-Illinois Room B 750 South Halsted Street, Chicago
Details/ Contact: This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by sending an email to Nadia Sulayman at nsulay1@uic.edu. For more information, call 312.996.2441.
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Date: Saturday, November 7th , 7:00pm
Event/title: Beyond the Rhetoric: What everyone needs to know about the current realities of the Israeli Occupation and prospects for a just resolution in Israel/Palestine---A Fundraiser for the Palestine Solidarity Project
Location: La Decima Musa, 1901 S. Loomis
Details: Bekah Wolf, co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Project speaks. 9pm - Celebrate resistance! Music from Pilsen groups (TBA) and Chicago youth perform hip hop
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Date: Saturday, November 7th, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Event/title: Howard Zinn: "The Power of the People" in a conversation with Dave Zirin
Location: University of Chicago, Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Details: Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at www.nodeathpenalty.org. This event is expected to sell out and tickets are available online on a first come, first served basis.
This event is part of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty's national convention, November 7 & 8. "Making the Death Penalty History" will feature former prisoners, family members of prisoners and other anti-death penalty activists from across the country.
Date: Saturday, November 7th, 2009, 1-4-pm
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Date: Sunday, November 8th 2009
Event title/host: the Neighborhood Writing Alliance at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Location: First United Church (77 W Washington), 3:30-4:30pm
Details/Contact: Come hear true, original stories about laughter and humor across Chicago, performed by NWA writers – with live music and movement! – under the direction of Glenda Zahra Baker. These are brand-new pieces – haven’t even been submitted to JOT yet! To buy $5 advance tickets, call 312.494.9509 or visit www.chicagohumanities.org and search “Neighborhood Writing Alliance.” If you have questions, contact Mairead at mcase@jot.org or 773.684.2742.
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Date: Sunday, November 8th, 7.00 PM
Details: Suggested donation of $5. No one turned away. David Tamarkin will lead a seminar on the pleasure of wine; a sensory examination and evaluation of wine for personal appreciation.
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Details: Featuring Dance Artists, Darrell Jones and Kirstie Simpson and Sound Artists Technical Drawings Tickets $12 / $10 Students
Details: Interested in becoming a volunteer at Chicago Freedom School? Attend this volunteer orientation. Dinner will be provided. RSVP at volunteer@chicagofreedomschool.org
Date: Wednesday, November 11th; 5:30-7:30pm (short presentation of their international volunteer opportunities and slide show at 6:30pm)
Details: Concern America will be in the store selling fair trade crafts from Latin America and Asia. They are a unique nonprofit development and refugee aid organization.
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Date: Thursday, November 12th and Friday, November 13th 5:00pm - 9:00pm (both days)
Event/Title: War and Peace Exhibit Opening Receptions and Informal Conversations at ThinkArt!
Location: 1530 N. PAULINA, Suite F
Details: The War and Peace Exhibit is free and open to the public. To RSVP, or to receive more information, email th!nkartsalon@gmail.com or call 773.252.2294 x305.
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Date: Friday, November 13th 6-10PM
Event/Title: Moments of Justice, a benefit for Chicago Freedom School
Location: Catalyst Ranch, 656 W. Randolph, 3rd Floor
Details: Tickets: $75 (Limited discount tickets available for people under 30 years old) Featuring... A Tribute to the History of Social Change with Live Music from the Kevin Nabors Quartet, Poet Roger Bonair-Agard, Silent Auction. Food, Wine and Good People. Come ready to celebrate the history of grassroots movements and plan new ones.
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Date: Friday, 13 November 5:30 - 8:30PM
Event: Day Laborer Art Exhibition and Open House Hosted by Albany Park day laborers, volunteers, and staff
Date: Friday November 13 - 15, 7:00 pm
Event/Title: Innervation Dance Cooperative presents Our Own Devices
Location: Links Hall
Details: Each piece allows the choreographers to use "their own devices" to present unique works of dance creating a well rounded program that covers the emotional spectrum. Tickets $15 / $10 Students and Seniors
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Date: Sunday, November 15th from 2:30 pm until 4:30 pm
Event/title: Females Unite for Action.
Location:at Dyett High School
Details: LIFE Campaign, a youth-led city-wide campaign fighting for resources and support for Chicago's young peole is hosting a public meeting to address safety in our communities, investment in young people and youth employment.
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Date: Monday, November 16th at 5 p.m.
Event/Title: On Moving Politics
Location: University of Chicago campus, Classics 110, 1010 East 59th Street, Chicago. Reception to Follow.
Details: A Talk by Deborah B. Gould, celebrating the release of her book, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS.
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Date: Wednesday, November 18th; 5:30-7:30pm
Event/Title: Artisan Feature - Senteamental Moods Tea Tasting
Location: Greenheart Shop- 1911 W. Division
Details: Senteamental Moods, a local tea seller, will be in the shop offering samples of their aromatic tea blends.
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Date: Wednesday, November 18th 5-7pm
Event/Title: Gentrification & Displacement workshop
Location: 11 E Adams, Room 902. We order dinner, so please don’t forget to RSVP:femalesunited@gmail.com, 919-618-0442 or 312-341-9650 x13.
DETAILS: How does it affects women and people of color?
Date: Thursday, November 19th 6-7:30pm
Event title/host: Special Café Society conversation on "A Culture of Fear?" in partnership with Chicago Public Radio and featuring Bill Ayers.
Location: Community Room at Chicago Public Radio ---Navy Pier, 848 East Grand Ave.
Details/Contact: Free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 312.422.5580 x. 232 or sending an email to cak@prairie.org
Where: Greenheart Shop- 1911 W. Division
Details: Join us to celebrate the launch of World Shoppe's Fair Trade wholesale business! Megy Karydes will be showcasing her new line of South African jewelry and bags beautifully made by South African Fair Trade artisans.
