feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
This is the first of three guest posts, reprinted with the kind permission of Clarisse Thorn. This post originally appeared here on Clarisse’s blog. Clarisse Thorn is a feminist, sex-positive educator who has delivered workshops on both sexual communication and BDSM to a variety of audiences, including New York’s Museum of Sex, San Francisco’s Center for [...]
Standing FIRM (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Yesterday, museums across the country launched a new town hall dialogue program about immigration. “Face to face: immigration Then and Now” offers communities a chance to discuss immigration outside of specific policy measures and the fierce political debates that the issue typically inspires. Most importantly, the discussions are placed in a historical context, with exhibits [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
CHICAGO -- With little progress on immigration reform among lawmakers, the nationwide debate has entered a new space: museums.
Unending Conversations of Hope (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO GRACE’S TALK. This event celebrated the birthdays of Jane Addams and the Keynote Speaker Grace Lee Boggs. Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer, and speaker whose more than sixty years of political involvement encompass the major U.S. social movements of this century: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Asian-American, Women’s, [...]
Unending Conversations of Hope (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Images from Grace Lee Boggs presentation at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago. Photos by David Schalliol. READ AND ADD COMMENTS.
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Just when we think I've finally put the September calendar to bed, they pull me back in ! Here's still another set of great events we've just added to the September calendar. On Monday, the 21st, Chris Luebkeman , ARUP 's Director for Global Foresight, lectures at Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute, and there's an encore showing of the documentary Fresh at Archeworks on Tuesday the 22nd. On Thursday,...
Unending Conversations of Hope (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Sept 10, 2009, 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Residents’ Dining Hall. 800 S Halsted St., Chicago, IL. Free. Open to the public. For more information, call 312.413.5353. Join us in celebrating the birthdays of Jane Addams and our Special Keynote Speaker Grace Lee Boggs, an acclaimed activist, writer, and speaker whose more than sixty [...]
Unending Conversations of Hope (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Register Today! Ticket Deadline is this Friday, September 4! Join the Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Urban Farm, for our second annual Harvest Dinner Saturday, September 12, to celebrate working together for food justice for all. 5 pm – A social hour in the garden with light appetizers and garden tours given by members of Earthworks’ [...]
Cahiers de Corey (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
I shake myself awake from end-of-summer slumbers to offer some heads-up about this and about that that. THIS: I'm pleased to say that I will be writer-in-residence at the University of Illinois at Chicago for the first two weeks of September. I'll be giving a reading open to the public on Friday, September 4 at 6 PM at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum , which strikes me as a particularly auspicious...
THE METHODS REPORTER (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
A free documentary series hosted at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum explores all forms and variety of sex. examiner.com [[ Like this story? Click the headline to vote it up on WindyCitizen.com ]]
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
Chicago activists today launched a lobbying effort to pressure the Obama administration into taking up immigration reform before 2010, part of a week of events in 20 states that will culminate in a national prayer vigil the night before the White House is scheduled to host a bipartisan meeting on the issue June 8. "We're here because of one simple truism: If it's broken, fix it and fix it now,"...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The biweekly film series Sex +++ will once again be meeting at the Hull-House Museum this Tuesday. A gathering of the sex-positive community, this week's topic (sixth in the series) is bisexuality, via a screening of the documentary "Bi the Way." From the Sex Positive press release: "'Bi The Way' intimately follows four young (ages 15-29) lives in different parts of the country, testing...
Newswise (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to nearly double permanent exhibit space at the university's Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in the Hull mansion.
EarthFirst.com (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Okay, so there might not be a White House victory garden in place yet – though we hope it will happen, eventually – but Obama is already eating sustainably and locally thanks to new White House assistant chef Sam Kass. Kass has a background in eco-conscious food and previously ran a home cooking service that [...]
MenuPages Blog :: Chicago (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
In honor of chef Sam Kass's sudden thrust into the celebrity spotlight, let's revisit a June 2008 Tribune article that features "Rethinking Soup," a weekly feature at the Hull House Museum for which Kass provided the sustenance. At the time,...
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