Filtering by: Feb. 2019

The World is Watching: Book Launch
Feb
20
5:30 PM17:30

The World is Watching: Book Launch

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Hull-House and UIC’s Great Cities Institute launch the book, The World is Watching with a discussion, book signing and reception featuring award-winning poet, professor, architect of the Black Arts Movement, and Third World Press Foundation founder and publisher Haki Madhubuti. The World Is Watching is a compelling collection of historical and autobiographical essays that reflect on a wide range of world activist struggles, travels, international encounters and critical conversations on foreign affairs.

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Neighborhood Narratives: Addressing Change Through Stories Teacher Institute 
Feb
19
9:30 AM09:30

Neighborhood Narratives: Addressing Change Through Stories Teacher Institute 

Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and National Hellenic Museum as we dive into neighborhood history and story-telling techniques that can be used in the classroom. By exploring the two cultural institutions - Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and The National Hellenic Museum - this day will introduce these sites’ rich neighborhood histories. CPDU’s credits will be provided for attending.

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Community Binding II: Participatory Arts Bookbinding Workshop
Feb
17
12:00 PM12:00

Community Binding II: Participatory Arts Bookbinding Workshop

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If you missed last Fall’s bookbinding workshop, you have another chance this month! Join Hull-House for a workshop led by featured Participatory Arts Hull-House artist Regin Igloria, founder of North Branch Projects - an organization that approaches community building through bookbinding practices, collective story writing and community archiving.

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On What We Owe, Parts of Speech: Astra Taylor
Feb
15
5:30 PM17:30

On What We Owe, Parts of Speech: Astra Taylor

How can we form solidarity around indebtedness and make our voices heard? Hull-House co-presents with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, "On What We Owe," the latest installation of "Parts of Speech" - a series of lectures addressing the influence of speech on opinion, authority, intimacy and action. Join us at Hull-House in a conversation with activist, Astra Taylor, co-founder of The Debt Collective, about how debt affects millions of Americans today, and what we can do about it together.

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