#41: December 09 Events

by AREA   |   Published Nov. 26, 2009
December Events Summary:

01) 11.27-12.31 - Exhibit open all month about public space
02) Sunday, November 29th - Emergency Honduras Democracy Rally

03) November 30, 2009 - Climate Justice Nationwide protests and 10th Anniv of WTO Protests in Seattle

04) December 1st, 2009 - Panel on "After the Olympic Bid: What’s Next for Chicago?"
05) Thursday, December 3 - Latino Union of Chicago 9th Annual Anniversary Celebration, Flamenco Concert and Corridos
06)Thursday December 3 - Boricua PRIDE Premiers new play “Cuba and His Teddy Bear”
07) Fri. Dec.4th - The "Art of Stopping War" Anti-war fundraiser
08) December 5 - Report from Honduras Solidarity Delegation: Teachers Taking the Lead (TSJ delegate)
09) Saturday, December 5 - Long Hand A group exhibition about meticulous process and hard labor
10) Saturday, December 5th. - Resource Center Barter Day
11) Saturday, December 5th - Chances Dances DJs @ The Hideout's Saturday Night Dance Party!
12) Sunday December 6, 5-8pm - Challenging the Machine: Movement Building and Electoral Politics in Chicago
13) Tuesday December 8th- SEX Documentary Film Series
14) Tuesday December 8th 2009,Peacemaking Circle - Citywide Day of Healing
15)Wednesday, Dec. 9th; 5:30-8:30pm - Greenheart’s Fair Trade Groove! Holiday Benefit Party
16) Wednesday, December 9th - Public Collections Study Center Opening
17) Thursday, December 10 - Jane Addams Day
18) Friday, December 11 - AREA's 3rd Annual "Wants and Needs" Auction and Dance Party

December Events Details:

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Date: November 27 – December 31, 2009
Event: The Opportunity Shop - Hyde Park
location: The Op Shop will be located at 1613 E. 55th Street between the Metra station and Cornell on 55th street.
Description: What *is* the Opportunity Shop? Come find out, and a be a part of the ever-evolving answer. The OpShop was conceived as an ephemeral, experimental space dedicated to free flowing ideas and imagination of how a temporary arts forum can exist in a community context. It is an open invitation to everyone curious about the opportunities inherent in an otherwise vacant urban space for exhibition, performance, viewings, readings, workshops, conversations. laura.shaeffer@gmail.com
www.theopshop.org

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Emergency Action 

Honduras: De Facto Elections Equal a De Facto Government - Not Democracy!

 

We Are All Honduras - Chicago VIGIL - 3pm to 5pm

Sunday, November 29th

In front of the Honduran Consulate at 4439 West Fullerton

 

Join us in a vigil to protest the illegal elections organized by the coup government - in the midst of a growing human rights crises - and to honor the assassinated and imprisoned members of the anti-coup resistance.

At 4 pm, there will be a ceremony marking the closing of the polls and the attempted murder of democracy in Honduras.

 

Sunday, November 29, 2009, the de facto Honduran government installed in power through a military coup on June 28, 2009, will hold its illegal elections under conditions of a human rights crisis in which the army and police forces have murdered more than 30 resistance members, and there are ongoing detentions and repression.


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Date: November 30, 2009 
Event: Mobilization for Climate Justice (www.actforclimatejustice.org) Nationwide protests in cities across the U.S. will take place a week before the beginning of the international UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen, and on the 10th Anniversary of the World Trade Organization
protest in Seattle.
Location: 11 a.m. CST Chicago: Rally at Federal Plaza, marches to the Chicago Climate Exchange, the first and largest carbon trading institution in North America
Description: A broad and diverse coalition of organizations working for social,
environmental, economic and racial justice has come together to call for
urgent action on the global climate crisis based on equitable, democratic
and science-based solutions.

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Date: December 1st, 2009 6:00pm-8:00pm
Event: After the Olympic Bid: What’s Next for Chicago?
Location: Roosevelt University, Congress Lounge
Description: Join us as voices from varying backgrounds – a poet, an historian, a social worker, and a community organizer – come together to envision possible futures for Chicago and a city that "works for us." We will explore how we can work together to create a more just and humane community for all Chicagoans. This program is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by email at events@prairie.org, or by calling 312.422.5580.

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Date: Thursday, December 3
Event: Latino Union of Chicago 9th Annual Anniversary Celebration, Flamenco Concert and Corridos
Location: National Museum of Mexican Art ,1852 W. 19th Street, Chicago, IL
Description: Doors open at 6:00pm, Program starts at 6:30pm.  Celebrate Chicago corner day laborers' 9th year of community organizing, policy advocacy, and leadership development at Latino Union's Anniversary!   $30 for individuals, $60 for professionals representing their organization or employer.  Purchase tickets online at www.latinounion.com under "Donate"

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Date: Thursday December 3 – 7:30PM
Event: Boricua PRIDE invites you to its next fundraising effort. 
Location: This time partnering with UrbanTheater and People’s Theater Chicago
Description: The presentation of the Midwest premier of Reinaldo Povod’s riveting play “Cuba and His Teddy Bear”. Your ticket purchase will support Boricua PRIDE’s mission in support of LGBTQ programs and initiatives.

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Date: Fri. Dec.4th from 7pm-12midnight
Event: THE ART OF STOPPING WAR
Location:  at the Rumble Arts Center (3413 W.North Ave.)
Description:  there will be a benefit art auction with the continued effort
of trying to pay off legal fees for the Holy Name 6. Over twenty artists will be showing works in Humboldt Park on December 4th, at a silent art auction at THE ART OF STOPPING WAR. Photography, sculpture, paint, print arts, and stencil works will be on display and for sale for affordable prices.
 
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Date:December 5, 5:30-7:00 PM
Event:Report from Honduras Solidarity Delegation: Teachers Taking the Lead (TSJ delegates)
Location: Decima Musa, 19th and Loomis, Chicago
Details/Contact:  teachersforjustice@hotmail.com

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Date: Saturday, December 5, 6-9pm
Event: Long Hand A group exhibition of work involving meticulous process and hard labor
Location: Johalla Projects, 1561 N. Milwaukee - 2nd flr
Description: Curated by Caitlin Arnold and Emily Green.  New work by: Jesse Avina
Melissa Damasauskas
Matt Shaw
Alise Spinella
Julia Stotz
Peter Takamori
Casey Ann Wasniewski 

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December 5th. 9-1pm
Resource Center Barter Day
 
222 East 135th Pl., Chicago, Illinois 60827
Telephone (773)821-1351
Cell-773-758-1351
 
Come and pick out some treasures from recent donations and existing
inventory in exchange for your help sorting and organizing goods and
materials.  Recent acquisitions available either in exchange for your labor,
or price can be negotiated.  

Spread the news, bring your friends!
Hope to See You There.

ALSO:  We are looking to find interest in a very large stock, (roughly 6,000 sq. ft.), of marble flooring being removed from an old department store.

The marble is 10" x 20" x 1" thick.  The down-side is that it is covered with mastic, and carpet adhesive, so it would need to be used upside down (bottom is not polished) or cleaned somehow. 

The price will be the labor cost of removal and any associated storage or handling costs.  Reduced dramatically if you remove it yourself. 

Contact Ken for more info: 773-758-1351

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Date: Saturday, December 5th 11:30pm - 3:00am
Event: Chances Dances DJs @ The Hideout's Saturday Night Dance Party!
Location: The Hideout
Description: Featuring DJs John Twatters and Butch Cassidy!  $5 cover ***proceeds benefit the Chances Dances Critical Fierceness Grant for queer Chicago artists***

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Sunday December 6, 5-8pm

Challenging the Machine: Movement Building and Electoral Politics in Chicago
ARC 09 Potluck and Discussion

@ Chicago ACTS, 1400 W. Hubbard Street

Join the ARC community for an evening of good food and good conversation around the question 'What are the roles of electoral politics in our movements?'.  Join the ARC family, Jorge Mujica, Rudy Lozano, Chuy Garcia and others to discuss the role that elections and electoral politics play in building movements for social justice.

In these times it's needed more than ever for us to take pause and break bread on a regular basis- to check in with each other, to sustain ourselves. To set the table for going deep and having the larger discussions.  We hope that you'll be able to join us!

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Date: Tuesday December 8th, 7pm +
Event: SEX+++ Documentary Film Series
Location: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S Halsted St.
Description: 7pm, Second Tuesdays.  Join us for our second year of radically inclusive documentary films about positive sexuality. This free documentary series offers a new space to discuss sex, culture, and sexual fun!  Call 312-413-5353 for more details or visit www.hullhousemuseum.org

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Date: Tuesday December 8th 2009, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Event: Peacemaking Circle
Location: 7035 N. Clark Street, Suite 2S
Description: All community members are invited to take part in a circle sponsored by Project NIA as part of the Citywide Day of Healing sponsored by the Community Justice for Youth Institute (www.cjyi.org).
 
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Date: Wednesday, Dec. 9th; 5:30-8:30pm
Event: Greenheart’s Fair Trade Groove! Holiday Benefit Party
Location: Greenheart Shop; 1911 W. Division
Description: Join us for a festive evening of jazz, wine tasting, appetizers, and Fair Trade holiday shopping to support Chicago Fair Trade! For more info, contact info@greenheartshop.org or 312-264-1625

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Date: Wednesday, December 9th,
Event: Public Collections Study Center OPENING + DON CELENDER: 11 Books Exhibition

Location: the Public Collectors Study Center will open at 2456 N. Mozart, 1st Floor, in Chicago. 
Description: When Don Celender died in 2005, he left behind an unusually focused and accessible body of work that feels ripe for rediscovery. To be fair, however, few seem to have known about his work the first time around – particularly younger generations and those who did not see his solo exhibitions (almost all presented in New York),?and have yet to encounter his books (mostly self-published and hard to find).


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Date: Thursday, December 10
Event: Jane Addams Day in Illinois!
Location: Hull-House Museum, 800 S Halsted
Description: Jane Addams Day is celebrated each year on December 10.  This is the first commemorative day in Illinois’ history to celebrate a woman’s accomplishments.  Celebrate Jane Addams Day in your classroom, or visit the museum between 10 am - 4pm to learn about America's first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.  Call 312-413-5353 for more details or visit www.hullhousemuseum.org

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AREA Chicago 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction

Friday, 11th December 7-12pm - Auction @ 930pm -

@ UE Hall - 37 S. Ashland

 $10 Donation at the door, $20 Donation for admission and a tote bag. ALL proceeds from AREA's Wants and Needs Party will benefit the Summer 2010 issue of AREA.

MC Ryan Hollon will host the event while DJs Dave Marques, Naomi Walker, and Sarah Smizz keep you entertained and dancing.

This year 28 contributors and friends of AREA have offered up their skills and services to you.
AREA 3rd Annual Needs and Wants Auction list:
  • 1) Beth Gutelius and Dave Pabellon offer a Tequila Night for 4. Starting bid: $50
  • 2) Charles Vinz offers his skills as a draftsman to measure up one floor of a home and draft it by hand to scale. Starting bid: $30
  • 3) Frank Edwards offers 2 introductory or intermediate bass guitar lessons. Starting bid: $25
  • 4) Amber Ginsburg and Lia offer to take you on a Chicago tastings for 10 with 3 spring greens associated with the naming of the city. Starting bid: $30
  • 5) Sarah Lewison offers a retreat in the Countryside for Small Group (up to 5 people) or Individual. We are about 5 hours from Chicago by train- I will pick you up, and take care of you so you can have a chilled-out productive  and engaging retreat.  The place has great light,  an amazing bird population, good internet, wood heat, delicious water, library access, and your stay will be fully catered with mostly local organic food. Starting bid: $150
  • 6) Samuel A. Love offers a customized tour of the Calumet Region (Example: sand dunes, Mexican Mutual Aid Societies, company housing, etc...). Starting bid: $30
  • 7) Paul Duricais offers a personalized Pocket Guide to Hell walking tours; the tours focus on sites connected to social justice, labor history, and true crime stories. Starting bid: $30
  • 8) Rachel Wallis offers her Service/Skill of sewing a pillow to your specifications, with the embroidered design of your dreams. (previous pillow designs have included images from loteria cards, maps with state birds and flowers, robots, sea creatures, and a portrait of north korean dictator kim jong il, although not all on the same pillow). Starting bid: $25
  • 9) Mairead Case offers to create six anonymous collaged snail-mail letters for you or your special friend. Remember real mail!? (she won't write them herself, but she will choose pieces to copy from her personal library, based on the winner's stipulations), plus small found objects and bits of bright paper. Starting bid: $15
  • 10) Tim Sarrantonio/The Arts of Life offers a personalized portrait of the winner by Arts of Life artist Daniel Brendel. The winner can come in and pose for Daniel or they can provide him with a picture they want painted. We will frame the picture for you and prefer you to come see the studio where it is made! Starting bid: $150
  • 11) Rebecca Zorach offers one-hour consultation on application to grad school, fellowships, or academic jobs. For best results you should be in the arts, humanities, or humanistic social sciences. If I'm not in Chicago I will consult by phone (my dime). starting bid $40
  • 12) Dakota Brown offers to make you custom "Correspondence Stock” Typographic Design and Hand Printing. Includes one session on what your options and desires are, and some strategizing on how to do it cheaply + the actual design and printing! Bidder must pay for paper and some printing supplies. starting bid $40
  • 13) Mike Wolf offers to make for your use two black-and-white, hand drawn illustrations or fliers on a subject of your choice. Starting bid $25
  • 14) Lorenza Perelli offers to make a Italian meal at her house in Pilsen.  3 courses: antipasti; main courses: pasta e ceci (Tuscany); polenta with Gorgonzola, butter and Parmigiano (Lombardia), and salsiccia (options). Italian red wine. Eat dinner, discuss life and enjoy. Dinner will be for 4 people plus Lorenza and Andrew. starting bid: $50
  • 15) Alice Kim offers  'nouveau' Korean BBQ home-cooked dinner for 4 at her place -- starting bid $50
  • 16) Carrie Breitbach offers a custom crochet hat. Chose solid or striped (colors of your choice). starting bid $10.
  • 17) Euan Hague offers a 2hr guided walking tour of gentrification, Tax Increment Financing, Historic District status and other urban development processes in pilsen (53 page research booklet included). Time/date/duration can be adapted to suit a class (of up to 25 people). Starting bid: $20 
  • 18) Salem Collo-Julin offers baby (or adult) sitting services for a minimum four hours. For those who don't have children, Salem will entertain your out of town guest, your parents, your roommate that never gets out of the house. Starting bid: $30
  • 19) Tricia Van Eck and Andre Fiebig offer a 2 bedroom apt. in Edgewater on the lake with a private beach access for a weekend. You can hear waves while you sleep - its great for people wanting to get out of city without leaving. starting bid $100
  • 20) Kieran Gadbury offers 2 hour-long massages!  starting bid: $20
  • 21) Lee Ann Norman is offering her program proposal consulting services for 1-3 people.  If you have an idea that's swimming around in your head related to the arts, arts education, youth, or community development, she can help you solidify your ideas and help you create language/structures/protocols/strategies that will help you realize your plans. starting bid. $50
  • 22) Kirsten Cox offers "Your Ideal Dream Get-A-Way Search Service". She brings ten years of private cottage rental experience ranging from couples to large groups. She will sit with you, personalizing your request, and try to make all your domestic get-a-way dreams come true! Starting bid: $10
  • 23) Jacob Chris Hammes offers a hypnosis session. starting bid: $25
  • 24) Elise Zelechowski offers twenty five 2x4's or 2x6's from the ReBuilding Exchange for your next building project. starting bid: $25
  • 25) Robin Hewlett offers brunch for 2 at Backstory Cafe.  starting bid: $30 
  • 26) Naomi Walker offers custom-made pies with a mix cds. starting bid: $20
  • 27) Mejay Gula offers 4 hair cutting sessions for one person (or one session for 4 people). Starting bid $40.
  • 28) Kim Soss offers to be Your very own Personal Librarian will research the question(s) of your choosing. Specializing in architecture, urban planning, and design. starting bid: $25