AREA Chicago ART RESEARCH EDUCATION ACTIVISM

01) 05.29 Thu - Black Contemporary Art Discussion @ Experimental Station
02) 05.31 Sat - BBQ for Prison Abolition!
03) 05.31 Sat - Labor and Globalization Discussion
04) 06.01 Sun - Death Row Art Show Opening
05) 06.02 Mon - Democracy Event: One Person, One Vote
06) 06.05 Thu - New Documentary on Iraqi Resistance to Occupation
07) 06.06 Fri - Northwestern Presents 1968 Art History Conference
08) 06.07 Sat - AREA Chicago #6 Release Party/Picnic in Logan Square
09) 06.07 Sat - Learning from Canadian Teachers Unions to preserve CPS
10) 06.07 Sat - Art and Revolution Lecture @ InCubate
11) 05.08 Sun - Tour the Chicago Culumet Underground Railroad
12) 05.08 Sun - Screening of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
13) 05.11/12 Wed/Thu  - Making Media Connections Conference
14) 05.12 Thu - 5th Anniversary of Congress Hotel Strikers - Come support them
15) 05.12 Thu - Work Against Work Discussion Series @ Messhall
16) 05.13-19 African Diaspora Film Fest @ Facets
17) 05.18 Wed - African Americans and Voting @ Cultural Center
18) 05.18 Wed - Open House for "Anti-Advertising Agency"
19) 05.19-22 - Socialism 2008 Conference
20) 05.26 Thu -  Sex Workers, Criminalization and Human Rights
21) 05.28 Sat - Dyke March Chicago in Pilsen
22) Contribute to 3rd Coast Audio Fest's "Radio Ephmera" Contest
23) Nominate Chicago Artists for Award
24) Contribute to the AREA Chicago 1968/2008 Conference

01)

Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 6:30pm

'Black Enough: Black Representation in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice'

Part of Black Is, Black Aint

@ Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
http://experimentalstation.org

Join us at the Experimental Station on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 6:30pm for a candid conversation around the intersection of race, ethnicity, and aesthetics in contemporary art. How do we begin to unpack the complexity of race and representation as it relates to the art market? A thoughtful group of artists, curators, art historians and collectors will share with us their thoughts in a candid conversation with members of the arts community. Featuring Blake Bradford (Hyde Park Art Center), Huey Copeland (Northwestern University), Patric McCoy (Independent Collector & Member, Board of Directors-Diasporal Rhythms), Kymberly Pinder (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago), moderated by Makeba Dixon-Hill (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago). All are welcome. Bring questions...answers...soap boxes...lectures...and violins.

The event is FREE and open to the public, at Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Avenue.

'Black Enough: Black Representation in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice' is part of Representations: A Series on Culture, Politics and Aesthetics, and is made possible in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General Assembly.

02)

BBQ for Prison Abolition!

Chicago CR10
Promontory Point 5491 S. Lake Shore Dr.
May 31st - 4 to 8 pm
Free food, Music. Games. Raffle.
Donations Accepted...

At the end of May, Prison activists across the country will be raising money to cover travel costs to the 10th Anniversary Critical Resistance Conference (criticalresistance.org) in Oakland, September 26th-29th, 2008. Join Chicago area activists for good food, good fun, and a good cause!

For more info:
Toussaint Losier toussaint.losier@gmail.com215.837.4071

Save the date: CR is turning 10!  Join us Sept. 26-28, 2008 in
Oakland, CA, to celebrate.
For more information and to get involved in the CR10 planning, please contact:
cr10@criticalresistance.org or 510.444.0484 ext. 2#

03)
May 31, Sat, 3 pm, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
LABOR & GLOBALIZATION IN EUROPE & THE U.S.
Labor analyst Kim Scipes examines the consequences of neo-liberal
globalization on union movements in Europe & the US
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org

04)
Jun 1, Sun, 5-7 pm, Treat Restaurant, 1616 N Kedzie
EXHIBIT: I SHALL CREATE
Opening reception for Death Row Art show
Sponsors: Campaign to End the Death Penalty,
No Death Penalty for Zolo Committee, Treat Restaurant

05)
June 2nd 630pm
One Person, One Vote
@ Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
http://experimentalstation.org

A desire for change is mobilizing record numbers of voters to participate in the primaries this presidential election season. A diverse, robust, and ever-changing population is asserting itself in the electoral process. But how democratic is the political process in this country? As a society, how can we understand and overcome the racialized nature of American citizenship? Who gets to vote, who doesn't and why? And ultimately, how much do our votes really count?

Join us for a lively, critical conversation about these questions and an opportunity to challenge ourselves to think, imagine, and act to revitalize and reinvent a more participatory democracy. This program is a part of The Public Square at the IHC's "Looking for Democracy in '08 and Beyond" series.

06)
Jun 5, Thu, 7 pm, Open University of the Left
Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
FILM: MEETING RESISTANCE
Steve Connors & Molly Bingham's must-see documentary features extensive interviews with Iraqi insurgents
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org


08)
Release Party for AREA Chicago Issue #6 (areachicago.org)
Saturday June 7th, 2008
2pm-4pm
@ Paseo Prairie Garden
directly adjacent to the south exit of the Logan Square 'el' exit
at the intersection of Kedzie/Milwaukee at the West End of Logan Blvd.
(view map here http://xrl.us/PaseoGarden)


AREA Chicago #6: City As Lab
A Local Reader on Experimental Policies on the Ground in Chicago

In this issue of AREA Chicago we have attempted to look at Chicago as a policy laboratory in which experimental public policy in the areas of housing, labor and education are tested on the residents of Chicago.

The articles in this issue attempt to trace a lineage of Chicago's prominent policy experiments and its policy designers. The issue focuses on several case studies, including the complicated transformation of our local economy and public school system. These case studies focus on how Chicagoans are pushed to the limits and what kind of responses that has elicited from activists.

With contributions by/about:
Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, Neil Brenner, Pauline Lipman, Renaissance 2010, Plan for Transformation Connections, Kenneth J. Saltman, Disaster Capitalism, Bill Wilen, Henry Horner Homes, Chicago Housing Authority, Beth Gutelius, Lisa Sousa, Commercial Club of Chicago, Micah Maidenberg, Mortage Crisis, Michael Van Zalingen, Brian Holmes, Chicago School of Sociology, Precarity Chicago, Nick Krietman, Deindustrialization, Aaron Sarver, Virginia Parks, Gentrification, Ryan Hollon,  Low-Wage Labor, Nic Halverson, Yonquero workers, Vinay Ravi, UNITE HERE, Eric Triantifillou, Charter Schools, Kenzo Shibatta, Therese Quinn, Erica Meiners, Jesse Mumm, Sonjanita Moore, Euan Hague, Peter Zelchenko, Erika Mikkalo, Jim Nelson, Margo Coulter, Helena Marie Carnes-Jeffries, Diana Cruz, Marisel Melendez, Amelia Ramos, Neil brideau, Jason Reblando,  and more.

09)
CORE-Chicago, The Pilsen Alliance, Collaborative for Equity and Justice Sponsors:
"Privatization, Charters, High-Stakes Testing, and the Fight to Preserve Public Education"
Jinny Sims, the former President of the British Columbia Teachers Federation will talk about how the BC union effectively fought these efforts.

Casa Aztlan
1831 S. Racine, Chicago
June 7th, 2008
@5:30 PM

10)
Saturday, June 7, 2008
7 PM
FREE

 Art of, with, as, for, in...AND Revolution. Art and Revolution!
 MRCC/Continental Drift presents Gerald Raunig with Dan S. Wang at InCUBATE

InCUBATE 2129 North Rockwell
http://www.incubate-chicago.org/


Gerald Raunig is a theoretician of art and social action who is now gaining an English-speaking readership. His book Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century was published by Semiotext(e) in an English translation last year, and in recent months his articles have been published in Artforum, including a meditation on the meaning of "the breach" in this month's special issue on May of ¹68.

He is the co-ordinator of the transnational, multi-lingual research projects republicart and transform, the work of which has been disseminated as books and online through the eipcp.net website. Gerald Raunig also serves EIPCP (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies) as a lead administrator. He lives and works in Vienna. This will be his first appearance in Chicago.

Dan S. Wang is an artist and writer. He was a co-founder of Mess Hall, works with Red76, writes about new Black art, is lately obsessed with the Chinese language, and for years has devoted labor to a range of activist projects.

 The Midwest Radical Culture Corridor is a place, a network, and a state of being. Continental Drift is an ongoing, multi-form research project and experimental seminar devoted to the impossible task of articulating the immense geopolitical and economic shifts which took place between 1989 and 2001, the effects of which are still being played out in the emerging bodies of governance and in the rise of new social and identity constructions. The question of What now? is precisely at the core of its study. For ten days this June, Continental Drift travels the MRCC. For more info on Continental Drift, see http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/. For more info about the MRCC, http://radicalmidwest.blogspot.com/ for info on chicago events contact cpente@saic.edu

11)
Sunday June 8
Tour the Chicago Culumet Underground Railroad
the C/CURE  tour is  1pm - 5pm, byo-picnic
Carver Park, 900East 134th Street
This event is part of the Radical Midwest Cultural Corridor project http://radicalmidwest.blogspot.com/
for info on chicago events contact cpente@saic.edu

12)
Sunday June 8
Screening of The Spook Who Sat by the Door, appearance by filmmaker Sam Greenlee 7 pm @ Backstory Cafe (6100 South Blackstone). Part of the Radical Midwest Cultural Corridor project http://radicalmidwest.blogspot.com/ for info on chicago events contact cpente@saic.edu
event is cosponsored by AREA 68/08 issue (1968.areachicago.org)

13)
June 11-12
Making Media Connections Conference
Columbia College Chicago
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor
http://www.communitymediaworkshop.org/mmc2008/?page_id=2
Contact maude@newstips.org or 312-344-6400

14)
Jun 12, Thu, 4-6 pm, Congress Hotel, 520 S Michigan
ALL OUT: SUPPORT CONGRESS HOTEL STRIKERS
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY PICKET
Info: www.CongressHotelStrike.info

15)
Thursday, June 12, 2008
7:30p-10:00p
@ Mess Hall 6932 North Glenwood Avenue ('Morse' stop on the Redline)
"Work Against Work: Hobohemia " Potluck followed by discussion. Bring something to share.
This is a continuation in a series exploring the changing nature of work in our time and in history. All events approach work as a complex activity thru which we may be utterly debased or magnificently elevated; thru which we may destroy the world or revolutionize it. Texts to be discussed are available online at http://49underground.org/nextevents.php_. Attendees are not expected to read all the articles, but please come prepared to discuss what you are able to read. The series is co-organized by the 49th Street Underground (http://.49underground.org), Finding Roots (http://mayfirst.wordpress.com) and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (http://iww.org)

16)
Jun 13-19, Fri-Thu, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
CHICAGO AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL
Opening night screening of CUBA, AN AFRICAN ODYSSEY
documentary on Cuban aid to anti-colonial struggles in Africa

17)
Join the Public Square, Chicago Freedom School, and  the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and the Chicago Cultural Center for

African  Americans and Voting: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Wednesday, June 18
6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center
77  East Randolph Street
First Floor Garland Room

This program will examine how African Americans won the right to vote and will include a screening of the acclaimed film Mississippi, America.  Following the screening, Dr. Charles Payne and Dr. Kate Masur will engage participants in a discussion that bridges history with the present.

This event is FREE and open to the public.  Reservations are required.  E-mail events@prairie.org or call 312-422-5580 to reserve your place.  This is an intergenerational event and youth are encouraged to attend.

18)
June 18
Open House
@ Mess Hall 6932 North Glenwood Avenue ('Morse' stop on the Redline) For more info http://messhall.org/
SF's Anti-Advertising Agency is coming to town and setting up the "Foundation for Freedom"For more info see:
http://antiadvertisingagency.com/projects/foundation-for-freedom#more-506


The FFF DROP-IN CLINIC
The FFF Drop-In Clinic is open Friday afternoons from 1 to 4, where our dedicated volunteers will be on hand to help you, the overtaxed creative executive, resolve the dilemmas posed by your work week. Had to pull another all-nighter on a cigarette ad campaign? Sick of putting creative energy into those payday loan radio spots? Still feeling angsty about that Saturday-morning JROTC spot? Our soothing, lab-coated volunteers can help you find a way out. Email aem@anneelizabethmoore.com

19)
 June 19-22
Socialism 2008 Conference @ Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare
Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization
http://www.socialismconference.org/

20)
June 26, Thursday, 7 PM
 Sex Workers, Criminalization and Human Rights
Organized by Open University of the Left
 NEW LOCATION: Lincoln Park Public Library
 1150 W. Fullerton Ave,  Chicago
 Info: www.openuniversityoftheleft.org

 Sex worker organizer Pussy Willow and journalist Kari Lydersen examine issues that affect the lives and livelihood of sex workers – in particular the current controversy surrounding trafficking victim legislation – and the moralistic and dangerous crusade against prostitution.

As the pressure to criminalize sex work increases, acts of violence against sex workers are on the rise.  Without the protection or recourse from violent acts committed against them, society tolerates violence against sex workers because of the stigma and myths that surround prostitution.  Sex workers and their allies seek to stop the violence and correct these falsehoods, change the context for current legislation, and to legitimize sex work.

21)
 Dyke March Chicago
DMC will take place on Saturday June 28th, 2008. Gathering begins at
1:00 PM at 1800 South Halsted (Chicago Community Bank Park), and step
off is at 2:30 PM. Attendees will then march down 18th street to rally
at Harrison Park (1824 S. Wood).

All people, including allies to the community, are encouraged to attend.

For more information e-mail dykemarchchicago@gmail.com, or visit
http://www.myspace.com/dykemarchchicago

22)
Contribute to 3rd Coast Audio Fest's "Radio Ephmera" Contest
Remix Books into Audio
Submissions due August 3, 2008
http://thirdcoastfestival.org/shortdocs_2008_archive_about_RE.asp

23)
Artadia is accepting nominations for Chicago area artists until August 29th. For more info www.artadia.org

24)
Contribute to the AREA 1968/2008 Project
http://1968.areachicago.org/2008/04/03/new-project-description/