West Side/South Side: Coalitioning Around School Closures
Thursday, March 22, 2018, 6-8 PM at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

In 2013, communities on the South and West sides of Chicago fought the largest school closures in history. As part of the Making the West Side initiative, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum organized this panel about organizing and action across neighborhoods. Speakers included: moderator Amara Enyia (community organizer), Elisabeth Greer (Chicago United for Equity), Candace Moore (Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil RIghts), Simone Woods (Communities in Schools), and Byron Sigcho (Pilsen Alliance).

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Video Length: 1:45:17

West Side Arts: Rootwork, Girlbands and Activating Public Archives Thursday, June 15, 2017, 6-8 PM at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

A discussion among curators, artists and activists about emerging art initiatives in Pilsen, North Lawndale, Austin and the Lower West Side. Speakers included Tracie D. Hall (director of the Joyce Foundation's Culture Programs and founding curator of Rootwork Gallery), Nicole Marroquin (artist and activist), and Sarah Beth Woods (community activist and multidisciplinary artist).

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Self-Determination and School Segregation in Chicago’s West Side
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 6-8 PM at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Book talk and panel discussion over Dr. Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s book, A Political Education Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s. Discussion ranged from the Great Migration to 90’s education reform in Chicago and black student/teacher rights/unionization. Moderating the panel was Rufus Williams and sitting on panel were Elizabeth Todd-Breland (author and UIC professor), Prexy Nesbitt (a native West Sider, activist and educator), and Ayesha Jaco (a Chicago based Philanthropist, Educator and Choreographer).

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Video Length: 1:56:59

Writing the West Side: The West Side Writers Guild 1990-1996
Thursday, July 20, 2017, 6-8 PM at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Reunion and book reading by the West Side Writers Guild. Participants were the original members of the writers guild Mark Allen Boone, Cranston S. Knight, Irene J. Steele, Harold Hunter, and Tina Jenkins Bell. Moderating the session was Ellis Cose, who is also an author. The topics discussed ranged from Black youth, public housing, and Black engagement within the West Side community.

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Video Length: 1:46:23

Part 3: More Schools for Sale? CPS Before and After the Moratorium
Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 6-8 PM at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Hosted by Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, a panel of experts discuss the significance and impact of public school closures in the City of Chicago. Speakers included Kalyn Belsha, a reporter for The Chicago Reporter (moderator); Beatriz Ponce de Leon, Executive Director, Generation All; Katherine Gladson, Staff Attorney, LAF (former the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago); and Paola Aguirre and Sara Pooley from Creative Grounds, a collective tracking school closures.

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Video Length: 1:35:52

Crafting Social Change: Bookbinding at Hull-House by Julia Mondschean and Free Spirit Media
September 6, 2018 - July 28, 2019 at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum director Jennifer Scott introduces the museum’s exhibition, Participatory Arts: Crafting Social Change, and explains how bookbinding has a lasting legacy at Hull-House stemming from Ellen Gates Starr. Found of North Branch Projects and Chicago-based bookbinder Regin Igloria explains the process behind his bookbinding workshops, creating connections and focusing on the interactions that take place when people come together to create handmade books.

Video Creators: Julia Mondschean and Free Spirit Media
Video Length: 4:34

A Tribute to Viola Spolin and Paul Sills - Chicago Theater 
Thursday June 20, 2019, 6-8 PM at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

As part of the exhibition, Participatory Arts: Crafting Social Change, at Hull-House, this tribute featured an array of guest speakers who have directly been influenced by the legacy of Viola Spolin and her son Paul Sills. Speakers and guests included; Lisa Laws, Christine Dunford, Mark Larson (moderator), Carol Sills and family, Patrick Murphy and his students Amy Pietz, John C Reily, and Kevin Douglass (via recorded phone call), Warren Leming, Dan Castellaneta, Deb Lacusta, and Jennifer Green. The session included several improv games including a gibberish session, difficult theme-small object  game, animal images games, and a mirror game.

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Video Length: 1:45:55

Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater by Mark Larson. Book launch, discussion and reception
Monday, August 12, 2019, 6-8 PM at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Book launch and reception for Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater with author Mark Larson. Along with Mark, many speakers were heard; Doug Shibeth, Tim Evans, Joyce Piven, Alan Arkin, and Derrick Sanders (via recorded audio). The session focused on Mark’s book which includes the history and the community surrounding Chicago Theater and what makes it great. There is also a small discussion on Black theater in Chicago.

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Video Length: 52:26

Imagine Armistice in Chicago
Monday, November 11, 2019, 2-4 PM at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

A panel discussion presented by Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and the Chicago chapter of Veterans for Peace, exploring the work needed to stop all forms of violence: guns, police, secual, racieal, domestic, nationalistic, and military. Speakers included: moderator Arnie Steiber (Veterans for Peace), Valerie Burgest (Illinois chapter of Moms Demand Action), China Smith (Good Kids Mad City), Carmel Brown (Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center), Andy Thayer (Gay Liberation Network), and Natasha Erskine (CPS parent, Air Force veteran). The event was a  reclamation of Veterans Day as Armistice Day--its original title.

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Video Length: 1:49:02

Dangerous Women: The International Women’s Peace Movement Then and Now
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 5:30-7:30 PM at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

An inspiring conversation about courageous women who powerfully opposed war and state violence. A roundtable discussion highlighted the women’s peace movement during Jane Addams’ era, Addams’ anti-war efforts, including the founding of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and explored the contemporary women’s movement. Speakers included historians and activists: Rima Lunin Schultz, historian and author; Beth Ann McGowan, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Natasha Erskine, Veterans for Peace; Byul Yoon, Korean Education and Exposure Program; and Monica Trinidad, For the People Artists Collective.

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Video Length: 1:20:57

Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois
Wednesday, January 22, 2020, 6-8 PM at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum was joined by Lisa Masterson, author of For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932, in a discussion about black suffragists in Illinois. Speakers included: Jane Rhodes (moderator), UIC Department Head and Professor of African American Studies; Beverly Cook, Senior Archivist at the Vivian Harsh Collection; and author Michelle Duster who is the great-granddaughter of journalist, anti-lynching advocate, and suffragist Ida B. Wells. The session focused on the overlooked stories of black women in Illinois who advocated for voting rights and the racism within the suffrage movement--past and present--what is remembered, what is forgotten and how little has been told.

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Video Length: 1:42:08

Black Politics in Chicago: A Conversation with Professor Barbara Ransby and WBEZ Reporter Natalie Moore Monday, November 5, 2018, 4:30-6:30 PM

A discussion about Black politics in Chicago and UIC professor of history Barbara Ransby's new book, Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in The 21st Century. Professor Ransby was in conversation with WBEZ Southside reporter and author Natalie Moore. 

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