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2008


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2007...............

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2006..................
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4.26, Tuesday
Girls Writing for (a) Change
writing workshop for women ages 13 to 19.
Residents' Dining Hall


4.25, Tuesday
Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winners Unveiling
Residents' Dining Hall


4.23, Wednesday
You Must Learn! Syposium Toward a Hip-Hop Pedagogy
with David Stovall, Jung Kim, Jacinda Bullie, and Lavie Raven
Residents' Dining Hall


4.23, Wednesday
Brown Bag Lunch and Conversation on Queer Citizenship
Residents' Dining Hall


4.17- Thursday
Jenny 8. Lee and Patrick Rosal

Residents' Dining Hall


4.16- Wednesday
Great Chicago Places and Spaces: Conversations within Communites.
with Mary Patillo, author of Black on the Block
Residents' Dining Hall


4.7- Monday
Historical and Social Perspectives: Childbirth in the U.S.
with authors Judy Norsigian and Carrie Klima

Residents' Dining Hall


4.1- Tuesday
Reading and Release Party for The End of the Jews with
ADAM MANSBACH
Residents' Dining Hall


3.12- Wednesday
Celebrating New Books on Social Justice and Education
with authors Kevin Kumashiro and Erica R. Meiners


3.10- Monday
First Annual Ida B. Wells Barnett Lecture
Paula Giddings
author of Ida: Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching


3.9- Sunday
Young Chicago Authors presents
Louder Than A Bomb, The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival Finals
@The Vic Theater


3.6- Thursday
Don't Touch the Record!
Remixing Classic American Theater with playwrights Varrick Douglass, Bryn Magnus, and Tanya Saracho.


2.29- Friday
Chicago: An Immigrant City
Undocumented Immigration and Sanctuary
Brown Bag Lunch and Conversation with Anna Ortiz Maddali


2.25- Monday
Hull-House Theatre Labor Film Series
Roger & Me


2.16- Saturday
Chicago: An Immigrant City
Immigrant Stories: FREE WRITING WORKSHOP FOR YOUTH

2.15- Friday
Year of the Dangerous Woman
HOME GIRLS: Makers of Word and Worlds, Makers of Culture
3pm- Conversation around Spoken Word
   
Residents' Dining Hall
7pm- Spoken Word Concert
   
UIC Theatre Lecture Hall L28

1.31
GETTING OFF:
SEX, PORNOGRAPHY, and MASCULINITY in the 21st Century
with Robert Jensen and Barbara DeGenevieve
1.26
Chicago: An Immigrant City
FREE WRITING WORKSHOP FOR YOUTH
with Kevin Coval


12.10
JANE ADDAMS DAY 2007:
Celebration Luncheon
(( )) with poetry reading by Kevin Coval

12.9
JANE ADDAMS DAY 2007:
Family Fun Day

12.8-9
Renegade Craft Fair

11.26
OYE!-Listen Performance Series 1.4

11.18
Being Muslim
A talk with author HAROON SIDDIQUF
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

11.16
Friday Night Reading Series 1.3

11.12
Arts and Democracy Series
Patricia Smith
and other CHI-Town Voices
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

11.11
The Authentic Chicago Community:
Unveiling

11.5
Funding the Revolution?
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

10.31
HISTORY OF FUNK, SOUL, AND HIP-HOP
with Clyde Stubblefield and Kool Herc

10.22
HULL-HOUSE THEATRE LABOR FILM SERIES
Bus Riders Union

10.21
CONVERSATIONS ON PEACE AND JUSTICE
with Kit Bakke

10.20
Illinois Humanities Council
FESTIVAL OF DEMOCRACY
with topics:
-Resistance and Liberation, Then and Now
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified
-Rashid Khalidi in Conversation with Salim Muwakkil
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified
-Presidential Politics
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

10.18 - 19
Shanti Conference 2007
Building Peaceful Communities Through the Arts

10.13 - 12.16
The Hyperbolic Crochet Reef
Exhibition including the Chicago Coral Reef

10.12
Friday Night Reading Series 1.2

10.11
Understanding Reproductive Justice:
Reclaiming Choice and Broadening the Movement

(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

10.10
CONVERSATIONS ON PEACE AND JUSTICE
with author Chris Finan

(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

9.21
Friday Night Reading Series 1.1

9.20
Civically Engaged Youth in the Americas with topics:
-Opening Remarks
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

-On Becoming
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

-On Engaging

(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

-On Envisioning
(( ))
audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

9.6
Jane Addams's Birthday
CONVERSATIONS ON PEACE AND JUSTICE
with Medea Benjamin
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified


8.29

LABOR FILM SERIES:
Dying to Get In

8.20-24
The Authentic Chicago Community:
Workshop for Young Artists

8.14
The Chicago Reef Project:
Shin Dig

7.30
OYE-Listen! Performance Series 1.2

7.26
From Sicko to Sanity
a case for single-payer healthcare

7.25
A Conversation with EBOO PATEL
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

7.13
CHECK THE METHOD
Summer Spoken Word Camp Performances
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified


6.29
The Chicago Reef Project:
Crocheting the Reef

6.20
National Town Hall on Hate Crimes

6.8
Spoken Word Revolution Redux
Book Release Party
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

7.30
OYE-Listen! Performance Series 1.1

5.19
CONVERSATIONS ON PEACE AND JUSTICE
Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders
filmscreening and conversation

5.2
Haymarket and the Labor Trail
guided tour and film screening

4.29
ARTS AND DEMOCRACY SERIES
Neeraj Prem & Ajit Acharya

4.27
Jane Addams Children's Book Awards:
Press Conference

4.19
CONVERSATIONS ON PEACE AND JUSTICE
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded:
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

4.17
CONVERSATIONS ON PEACE AND JUSTICE
with Andrew Whitley

(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

4.16
LABOR FILM SERIES:
Matewan

4.15
ARTS AND DEMOCRACY SERIES
Martha Graham Dance Company:
Master Class

4.11
Elvira Arellano's Story
and a call for Solidarity in Immigration Reform
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

4.9
ARTS AND DEMOCRACY SERIES:
Harriet Tubman and Jazz:
A Lecture/Demonstration by Marcus Shelby

3.26
LABOR FILM SERIES:
Dirty Pretty Things

3.1
CONVERSATIONS ON PEACE AND JUSTICE:
Dolores Huerta
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

2.20
Anti-Gay Pledges and Teacher Education
(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

2.13
ARTS AND DEMOCRACY SERIES:
Robben Island Singers

2.1
FED-UP-HONEYS MAKES ME MAD!

1.31
Silvia Malagrino's
Burnt Oranges

1.29
HULL-HOUSE THEATRE LABOR FILM SERIES:
Workingman's Death

1.19
CONVERSATIONS ON PEACE AND JUSTICE
with Anthony Arnove

1.17
FIGTHING FOR AIR
with Eric Klinenberg

(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

12.10
JANE ADDAMS DAY 2006:
Family Fun Day

11.16
Harnessing History for Social Change
Ruth Abram

(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

11.10
A conversation with
Grace Lee Boggs

(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified

11.10
Coffee and Conversation with
Veronica Cruz

10.26
After Katrina: The State of New Orleans with
Leah Hodges

10.25
ARTS AND DEMOCRACY SERIES
Maria Tallchief

10.19
HULL-HOUSE LABOR FILM SERIES
Turning a Corner

10.11
American Idealist: The Life and Legacy of
Sargent Shriver

11.10
Coffee and Conversation with
Veronica Cruz

10.3
CONVERSATIONS ON PEACE AND JUSTICE
Witness: Extraordinary Rendition

9.25
HULL-HOUSE THEATRE LABOR FILM SERIES
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price

9.6
Jane Addams's Birthday Conversations on Peace and Justice:
with Kathy Kelly

(( )) audio available through WBEZ's Chicago Amplified