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Hull-House Kitchen: Re-thinking Soup Every Tuesday, 12-1:30pm Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Residents' Dining Hall 800 South Halsted FREE (donations from $.01 to $1,000,000 gladly accepted)	Hull-House Kitchen: Re-thinking Soup Every Tuesday, starting May 6 12-1:30pm Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Residents' Dining Hall 800 South Halsted This event is FREE. Donations accepted. Paid parking is available across the street. This event is ADA accessible. If you have a disability and need additional accommodations to attend an event, please inform us at the time of reservation. The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is part of UIC College of Architecture and the Arts and serves as a dynamic memorial to social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jane Addams (1860-1935) and other resident social reformers whose work influenced the lives of their immigrant neighbors as well as national and international public policy. The Museum's exhibits and public programs preserves and develops the original Hull-House site for the continuation of the historic settlement house vision, linking research, education, and social engagement. More information about the museum and its programs can be found at: www.hullhousemuseum.org.
May 20- Official Listening Session with members from the Governor's Task Force (see below for more information)
Join us each Tuesday at noon in the historic Dining Hall for this tasty treat! Please bring your hunger for free soup and conversation every tuesday. Hull-House Kitchen: Rethinking Soup is a communal event where we will eat delicious, healthy, soup and have fresh, organic conversation about many of the urgent social, cultural, economic and environmental food issues that we should be addressing. We will meet in the historic Residents' Dining Hall, where Upton Sinclair, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B.Duboise, Gertrude Stein and other important social reformers met to share meals and ideas, debate one another and conspire to change the world. Activists, farmers, doctors, economists, artists, and guest chefs will join us each week to present their ideas and projects. In the tradition of the Hull-House Settlement's commitment to free speech and Chicago's Bug House Square, the third tuesday of every month will feature a "Soup Soap Box." Anyone and everyone is invited to take the stage for 2 minutes each to share their projects, opinions, and visions for the future of food. May 20 Soup-TBA Soup Soapbox: Take the stage on the third Tuesday of every month to share projects, opinions, and visions for the future of food. Each speaker gets 2 minutes. This month's Soup Soapbox will serve as an official Listening Session with members from the Governor's Task Force, appointed as a result of the Illinois Food, Farms, and Jobs Act. Reccomendations from the Task Force will be considered by the Illinois General Assembly in 2009. The soup for the kitchen is generously provided by Sam Kass, Yoni Levy and Tara Lane of Everyone Eats. The bread is provided by Bleeding Heart Bakery- a little haven where pastry, punk rock and all things organic come together! http://www.thebleedingheartbakery.com
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EVERYONE EATS An IneviTable Project We believe that people have a stake in each other's health. This link is what binds us together as families, communities and a nation. Nowhere are we more powerfully bound together than in the daily cultivation and preparation of food. Within food lays vast untapped potential to uplift and connect people, to provide a medium for discourse, and an opportunity to taste our common humanity along with our differences. Jane Addams understood this. As we seek openings to utilize the power of food, we find ourselves in a fight to salvage a food system that has been ravaged by an approach of quantity over quality, of short-term gain over long-term stability. Our sustenance is now inextricably dependent on fossil fuels. The massive injection of this energy into our food system over the past 40 years has doubled the world population, yet left a billion malnourished. Ironically, over abundance now plagues this country witnessed in the excess our community carries on its hips and thighs: in 2015 75% of Americans will be overweight or obese. The next generation now faces the real possibility that they will live a shorter life than that of their parents. Although the ready availability of food is a great achievement, the industry our society has built around food is harmful and unsustainable. It threatens our health today, and imperils the legacy of improving health we wish to pass on. We are thrilled by the possibility at the Hull-House Kitchen to bring together people from all walks of life, to share visions for the future inspired by lessons from the past. Over delicious soup made with ingredients from local sustainable farmers, we aim to cultivate an exploration into the reservoirs of transformative power yet to be utilized within our food.