AREA Chicago ART RESEARCH EDUCATION ACTIVISM

August Event Summary:

01) 08.01 Fri -  Photo Exhibit of Oaxacan Social Movements
02) 08.01 Fri - Chicago Labor Drinks @ South Loop Club
03) 08.02 Sat - Write Letters to Supermax Prisoners @ Insight Arts
04) 08.02 Sat - Pilsen Open Studios Fundraising Party + Auction
05) 08.02 Sat - Planning Meeting for CR10 Prison Abolition Conference
06) 08.02 Sat - Protest Impending Attack on Iran
07) 08.02 Sat - Learn to Build Solar Ovens (must RSVP now!)
08) 08.03 Sun - Forage the Urban Landscape
09) 08.03 Sun - Art Show in a Huge Empty Lot - get involved
10) 08.05-21 - Art Project about Daily Life in Rogers Park @ Mess Hall
11) 08.06 Wed - 1968 in Chicago Revisited with Marilyn Katz & Don Rose
12) 08.06 Wed - Conference on Long Term Prison Sentences
13) 08.07 Thu - Screening of DIY Craft Documentary @ Hull House
14) 08.07 Thu - Hobohemia Potluck event with Rosemonts @ Mess Hall
15) 08.08 Fri - Latino Union Screening of film about Immigrants in NYC
16) 08.10 Sun - AREA Chicago BBQ - Mark Your Calendars!!
17) 08.12 Tue - International Art Discussion at Insight Arts
18) 08.13 Wed - Learn to Pickle Your Food
19) 08.13 Wed - Put Putt Golf To Support Crossroads Fund and Chicago Activism
20) 08.14 Thu - "Work Against Work" Discussion Series Potluck
21) 08.15-17 - Exhibition about Chicago in 1968
22) 08.15-17  CLIT Fest - Combating Latent Inequality Together
23) 08.16 Sat - Screening of Film about first All-Female Mariachi Band
24) 08.19 Tue - Hull House Tuesday Soup Events Resume!!
25) 08.20 Wed - Hearings on Prison Sentencing of Elderly
26) 08.22 Fri - 100 Chicago Publications come to Printers Ball @ MCA
27) 08.22-28 "Filming the '68 Revolution" Series @ Facets
28) 08.22 Fri - The Platypus Review Writers and Readers Forum
29) 08.25 Mon - Lecture on April 68 Oral History Project
30) 08.28 Thu - Reenact 68 Action
31) Get Funding From the "Fire This Time Fund"
32) Submit to the Looking for Democracy Film Fest

Event Details:

01)

ChicagOtra Presents
Oaxaca Rebelde:
Fotos de la Resistencia de Oaxaca
Photos from the Oaxacan Resistance
Photographers Eleuterio Garcia and Ilaria Gabbi document the Oaxacan teachers' movement and the uprising it inspired.

Fotógrafos Eleuterio Garcia y Ilaria Gabbi documentan el movimiento magisterial de Oaxaca, y el levantamiento que éste inspiró.

At Maya Essence
4357 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago
August 1-31

Exhibit Opening: August 1 7pm
For more information
www.Chicagotra.org or call Rachel Wallis at 202-557-1449

02)

"How many house visits can you be doing at 7pm on a Friday....really?"
--an HERE organizer

What: Bar Night
Host: Chicago Labor Drinks

Start Time: Friday, August 1 at 7:00pm
End Time: Friday, August 1 at 11:00pm

Where: South Loop Club
      1 E. Balbo (at State St.)

03)
AUGUST 2, 2008 2-5pm

INSIGHT ARTS PRESENTS

TAMMS LETTER-WRITING EVENT

Please join us for an afternoon of letter-writing. There are many, many letters from prisoners which remain unanswered because we have all been so busy organizing.

This is a great space--there is even a coffee shop on the premise!

1545 W. Morse Chicago, IL 60626 -
http://insightartsliberation.org/calendar.html

In 1998, the first prisoners were transferred from prisons across the state to Tamms CMAX, in Southern Illinois. This new “supermax” prison, designed to keep men in constant solitary confinement, was intended for short-term incarceration. The IDOC called it a one-year “shock treatment.” Now, ten years later, many of the original prisoners have been there for a decade. They have lived in isolation 24/7—no human contact, no phone calls, no programming, no communal activity.

Year Ten is a coalition of prisoners, ex-prisoners, families, artists, activists and concerned citizens who have come together to protest the misguided and inhumane policies at Tamms C-MAX, and to call for an end to state-sanctioned torture. We have initiated a program of cultural, educational and political events to publicize Tamms on the anniversary of its opening.
1501 W Morse Ave Chicago, IL 60626
  
For more information please go to www.yearten.org/

05)

National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is hotsting a meeting on CR 10 Critical Resistance 10 Year Conference in Oakland California in September. 
The meeting will be on August 2 at 2:00 pm at the office of the Chicago Branch of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, 1325 S. Wabash Ave. Suite 105. See www.criticalresistance.org

06)

--Aug 2, Sat, 12 pm, Thompson Center, Clark & Randolph
PROTEST AGAINST US OR ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN
National day of protest

10)
Not Specific in Rogers Park
Sarah Febbraro will be occupying Mess Hall for the month of August. She will be using the space as a studio and a means to engage the neighborhood in a talk show that will feature guests from Febbraro's daily encounters in the Roger's Park neighborhood. Dates/times vary from Tues August 5 - Thurs Aug 21 -- go to the MH calendar online for more details.

http://messhall.org / 6932 North Glenwood Avenue

11)

--Aug 6, Wed, 7:30 pm, Yoshi’s Café, 3257 N Halsted
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING: THEN & NOW
Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Democratic National
Convention in Chicago with protest activists Marilyn Katz & Don Rose
Info: RSVP to lauraswashington@aol.com

13)

"Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft, and Design"
 Screening and conversation with filmmaker Faythe Levine.
 Thursday, August 7
 5:30-7:30pm
 Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
 Residents' Dining Hall
 800 South Halsted
 FREE
 Join us this program where we will see a 20 minute sneak preview from a work in progress from the feature film to be released in 2009. After the screening we will hear from Faythe about her thoughts on craft, community, and the nature of DIY.

14)

Aug 7th 7pm

Dinnerluck and Hobohemia

Screening/Discussion/food with Franklin Rosemont

@ Mess Hall

http://messhall.org / 6932 North Glenwood Avenue

15)

Latino Union Movie Night - August 8th
7:00pm - 9:30pm
Holy Trinity Church
1850 S. Throop

$5 Donation, No one turned away for lack of funds.

"La Ciudad / The City"
For those who missed last month's movie night, you have another opportunity to view the powerful docu-fiction "La Ciudad," a series of
vignettes about low-wage and immigrant workers' lives in New York City.

The film is eye opening and deeply moving, strong content for a conversation about immigrant worker organizing to be had at the
showing. Bring your friends, bring your family, bring members of your organizations.

The movie is in Spanish with English subtitles.
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thecity/index.html

16)

Sunday August 10th - 12pm-4pm

AREA BBQ

2129 N Rockwell

Come share a BBQ and Drink with AREA, See the latest additions to the "Notes for a People's Atlas" and learn about upcoming events related to our 68/08 issue

http://areachicago.org

18)

Living Kitchen/Urban Forage: localizing the palate in the landscape

13th, wednesday,
6-9:30pm - $70 (register by august 09th nettlesting@yahoo.com)
3-way pickling
learn how to preserve your fruit and vegetables!l we will cover the basics of canning
and preserving through vinegar pickling and wild fermentation. go home with a
few jars of pickles.

19)

-8/13 Crossroads Fund Mini-Golf Benefit, www.crossroadsfund.org/minigolfouting.htm

20)

Thursday, August 14, 2008
7:30p-10:00p
"Work Against Work: An Introduction To Producer Economics" 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)

21)

"looks like freedom: art, politics, and urban space / around 1968 / Chicago"
at DOVA Temporary Gallery, 5228 S. Harper Ave. in Hyde Park
works by Africobra, the Hairy Who, the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, Bob Crawford and others

August 15, opening reception, 5-7pm
August 16, participatory workshop, A People's Atlas of 68 [co-sponsored by AREA]
August 17, 8pm at Backstory Cafe, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave. Looks Like Freedom and Backstory Cafe kick off a 68-themed film series with a special screening of the Chicago Film Archives program "Out Of The Vault - Year Of Confrontation"

Other events TBA, including a listening party on the history of university-neighborhood relations, and a discussion of issues in archiving materials from the late 60s: check out www.looks-like-freedom.com for more info

22)

 CLITfest Chicago 2008
 CLIT - Combating Latent Inequality Together
We are a bunch of individuals from the expansive Chicago DIY scene and community working together to bring you a weekend of music, workshops and discussions celebrating women in the punk community and addressing the problems of hierarchy and oppression in all its manifestations; to celebrate the potential and strengths of our scene!

AUGUST 15-17, ALL AGES!
3-DAY PASS = $25

*childcare will be available during workshops on saturday, e chicagoclitfest@yahoo.com, up the kids!
www.chicagoclitfest.com

23)

Saturday August 16, 2008 2:00 pm CDT
COMPANERAS screening
Chicago Cultural Center

COMPAÑERAS is an intimate profile of America’s first all-female mariachi band: Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles. Since 1994, this 12-member group has been taking on a male-dominated musical tradition and building the popularity of mariachi music.

Presented by the National Museum of Mexican Art, The Department of Cultural Affairs, ITVS Community Cinema and WTTW Channel 11.

24)
 The Re-thinking Soup program will resume on August 19
 Hull-House Kitchen: Re-thinking Soup
 Every Tuesday, 12-1:30pm
 Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
 Residents' Dining Hall
 800 South Halsted
 FREE
 Gather every Tuesday to eat delicious, healthy soup and have fresh,  organic conversation about many of the urgent social, cultural, economic, and environmental food issues facing us all.

25)

26)

Printers Ball

August 22 5-10pm

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/programs/events.html

The Printers' Ball is an annual celebration of print literature in Chicago, hosted by Newcity, Poetry, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), in collaboration with CHIRP, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine, Proximity Magazine, Stop Smiling, Venus Zine, and over 100 local literary organizations. The event showcases a diverse selection of print publications, available free of charge, including magazines, journals, weeklies, posters, and broadsides, plus a full night of live entertainment.

27)

-8/22-28 Filming the ’68 Revolution – Film Fest, Facets Cinémathèque

28)

The Platypus Review Writers and Readers Forum

Friday, August 22, 6-9PM

Around the Coyote Gallery
Flatiron Arts Building
1935 1/2 West North Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622

Please join the editors and writers from the first five issues of the new publication The Platypus Review for an open discussion of the points of departure and future directions for the PR and its goals as a publication.

In this forum, we are inviting the feedback and creative suggestions from our current and prospective writers and readers, in discussing
the current necessity of a new periodical publication forum on the Left in Chicago and beyond.

The Platypus Review, first published in November 2007, is a freely distributed broadsheet monthly periodical of the Platypus Affiliated
Society, and is currently  distributed on campuses and coffee shops and other social and cultural locations throughout Chicago, and in
select locations in New York City and other cities in the U.S. and abroad. It is a short-format publication for brief, hard-hitting but
thought-provoking articles intended to stimulate further critical discussion and debate.

Please find the on-line edition of the current and prior issues of The Platypus Review at, including on-line discussion of individual articles at:
http://www.platypus1917.org/theplatypusreview

29)

August 25th

Lecture and discussion pertaining to the 1968 April Riot oral history project. Monday, 25 August at 6:00 pm. Westwood College - Chicago Loop, 17 N. State Street (The Stevens Building), 3rd floor, rooms 303 + 304. Free and open to the public.
 
Email: samuelalove@gmail.com or acasal@westwood.edu for RSVP or more information.

30)

August 28th

Re-enact 68 http://www.reenact68.com/

31)

The Fire This Time Fund is an all-volunteer group organized as a giving circle housed at Crossroads Fund. They raise money that they then give away in grants,

32)

The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council, Independent Television Service, Independent Lens, Kartemquin Films, Independent Feature Project (IFP) Chicago, Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV), and the Columbia College Television Department present…

Looking for Democracy Short Film Contest

Now is your chance to show what democracy means to you in our Looking for Democracy Short Film Contest. Any genre is fair game:  
documentary, narrative, experimental, music video. We encourage filmmakers to unleash their radical imaginations and look for democracy in creative and unusual places. Can you find democracy where you might least expect it?

As the 2008 presidential election heads into its final months, democracy is at the forefront of everyone’s mind. But democracy is defined by more than just electoral politics. Where do you find democracy in your life? Can you find it in your school, church, union, community, or a professional or sports association? How do you see democracy functioning locally, nationally, and globally?
 
All films cannot be more than five minutes and must be submitted by Tuesday, September 2, 2008.
 
For more a complete listing of prizes, rules, and resources, visit www.prairie.org/DemocracyFilmContest, or contact Maggie Berndt at The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council at 312.422.5585 x239 or mkb@prairie.org.