INTERdependence Day BBQ

by AREA | Published June 30, 2011

As the weekend gears up with patriotic fervor, join AREA Chicago and Calles Y Sueños for a counter-nationalist sidewalk cook-out, encuentro and celebration.

Last chance to view
IN A STRANGE LAND,
an exhibit in conjunction with AREA Issue #11, Im/Migrations

Saturday, July 2nd, 5-9 PM
Calles Y Sueños
1900 S Carpenter Ave

View the exhibit, meet some of the artists and writers for the next issue of AREA. Share music and transnational grilling traditions! Make your own flag with organizers from the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign.

The event is FREE and open to the public; food is free and potluck style, we invite you to share something from your community's cooking traditions. Cash bar for drinks.

Participating artists: Ben Thorp Brown, Anne Dodge, Bia Gayotto, Chiara Galimberti, Gretchen Haase and Jen Blair, Natna Hernandez, Ferestheh Toosi.

AREA Chicago supports the work of people and organizations building a socially just city. AREA actively gathers, produces, and shares knowledge about local culture and politics. Its newspaper, website, and events create relationships and sustain community through art, research, education, and activism. www.areachicago.org

La Casa de Arte y Cultura Calles y Sueños-Chicago is a collective of Chicago artists and cultural activists who work to provide an alternative arts space for exhibition, the performing arts, music, film and cultural workshops for the Latino community. As a Latino Internationalist collective, we work to sustain collaboration, dialogue, cultural exchange and connection of the diverse Latino community in Chicago to La Casa de Arte y Cultural-Calles y Sueños, Juchitan- Oaxaca, Mexico. We build bridges to our motherland to nurture a new creativity and understanding.