Announcing: Chicago Radicalendar (http://www.chicagoradicalendar.org)
contact: areachicago@gmail.com
April 1st 2010
A Tool for Getting Radical and Getting Connected: chicagoradicalendar.org
We are pleased to announce the release of a new city-wide initiative that is designed to network disconnected and fragmented communities across Chicago. This new calendar website will be useful and essential for keeping up with the complex array of events, actions and happenings across this vast city.
Expanding on the 5 year long history of AREA Chicago (http://www.areachicago.com/) promoting events through it's publication and online newsletter "Another Chicago", this tool represents a new era for the organization and it's collaborators. This upgrade & evolution of the calendar will offer new features such as a "Map View" of events, post to Facebook option, weekly events email digests, and event feeds to iCal, RSS, and Twitter.
AREA Chicago has committed to sponsor this project's creation from the ground up with the hopes that other groups will become "Anchors" and help sustain this valuable project with donations ranging from $200-$600 annually and commitments of volunteer support for the calendar. At this point we have been joined by the Fire This Time Fund granting program (www.firethistimefund.org) who have committed to be anchors in 2010.
A diverse team of calendar-makers will post events from various parts of the city and work to approve events submissions through the site's "Submit an Event" feature: www.chicagoradicalendar.org/2010/02/submit-event.html
If you are interested in donating to support the growth of this project please visit the donation button www.areachicago.org/donate/ with a note for 'Radicalendar' and the Radicalendar will appreciate you for years to come.
This initiative connects to a year long project that AREA Chicago is embarking on entitled "Institutions and Infrastructures" which will culiminate with the relase of AREA's 10th publication. AREA sees communication and coordination between various communities trying to promote critical dialogue and the creation of stronger social movements across the city as a kind of social infrastructure. Chicago Radicalendar will be a grassroots infrastructure for today to serve community building for the future.
