Friday, February 23, 2007
Marching for change: Immigrant Movement
MOVEMENT (Conference schedule attached)
Thursday, March 1, 2007
9.00am - 7.30pm
Room 302 Student Center East
University of Illinois at Chicago
750 S. Halsted
Chicago, IL 60607
Friday, March 2, 2007
9.00am - 6.00pm
Room 329 Student Center East
You are cordially invited to attend a two-day conference this upcoming March 1-2, hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Immigrant Mobilization Research Project.
The March 10th and May 1st mobilizations are the first national level mobilizations in U.S. history to be spearheaded by Latinos. They are also the first national mobilizations to focus on the rights of undocumented immigrants. An important feature of the immigrant movement
is that it reflects new and unprecedented connections among immigrant rights, civil rights and workers' rights.
UIC and Chicago area scholars will join community activists and artists in analyzing the impact of the immigrant marches, and the social and political significance of the immigrant movement at the local and national levels. Everyone interested is welcome to attend.
Keynote speakers will include:
Ms. Dolores Huerta, a lifelong workers' rights activist and
proponent of social justice, as well as Dr. Gaspar
Rivera-Salgado, Program Director of the Labor and Workplace
Studies Minor at the UCLA Center for Labor Research and
Education, and Ms. Xiomara Corpeno, the Organizing Director
of Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights.
*Please RSVP/Register with us by February 27th to nlesin2@uic.edu
(Please include your name, email/phone and affiliation) if you are planning to attend the conference. This event is free and open to the general public.
For questions or additional information email
Nawojka Lesinski - nlesin2@uic.edu or
Marta Elena Ayala - martae@uic.edu or call 312.996.2445.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Campaign for Fair Food
- Friday, February 23, 7pm: video, food, music and presentation with the CIW
- Saturday, February 24, 9am-9pm: strategy discussions and workshops
- All events take place as Casa Aztlan, 1831 S. Racine, Chicago, IL
- Download and share the outreach flyer here.
- Presentation and discussions with farmworker leaders from Immokalee
- "Fair Food Animators" training - How to talk about the campaign with your community
- Mobilizing for the April 13-14 actions
- Educating and engaging communities beyond April
- Solidarity and connections between our struggles
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Finishing School
WWFSD?: Finishing School
mini-exhibit: Lucia Gomez
flatscreen DVD: Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Opening Friday February 9, 2007 from 6pm-10pm
February 9- March 3, 2007
Finishing School’s new project, WWFSD?, which is primarily formatted as a blog, investigates specific ideas that they feel influence their practice. This introspective exercise helps them become more critically conscious of themselves and the world around them. Their goal is to share one idea each day for the year 2007. The installation at Polvo will include a selection of pieces from this project. You can visit the blog at www.wwfsd.blogspot.com
Finishing School (FS) is a collective identity that investigates the many intersections between critical, covert, and common subject territories. All FS projects attempt to demystify cultural production and engage viewers into various participatory models. The collective has been open for business since 2001. You can visit them at www.finishing-school.net
mini-exhibit: Lucia Gomez
Lucia Gomez (born in Guatemala) is pursuing her B.F.A. in Photography with Columbia College Chicago. Her exhibited work deals with identity politics, dealing with her bi-cultural heritage. Presently, Gomez is documenting the Immigrant Rights Movement, photographing the life of activist, Elvira Arellano. Her photographs have been published with "Hoy" Newspaper and can seen on "Deviant Art" website.
flatscreen DVD: Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Amelia Winger-Bearskin is currently an MFA Candidate at the University of Texas in Austin where she is majoring in Transmedia, the study of time based art which includes Video Art , Performance art, and time based Installation. Amelia is greatly interested in exploring the 4th dimension in art, and to challenge the visual experience in addition to the temporal connection to artistic experience.
She was classically trained as an Opera Singer in Rochester NY at the Eastman conservatory of music, and then pursued an undergraduate degree in the area of sculpture and Performance art at George Mason University outside of DC. Growing up in Rochester NY , close to her seneca-cayuga tribal lands and the site of their largest city, was influential in shaping her narrative and outlook of her current work. Her mother is a traditional native storyteller from the Seneca Cayuga tribe of the Iroquois nation. Stories of all kinds weave themselves into her works and are re contextualized to shape her work, unfolding destination, space, and time. She is currently working out of Austin Texas, and is showing works with live performance art and digital video. Amelia Winger-Bearskin has shown in various galleries in major US cities, as well as in Mexico and Central America, where she lived for many years. She has received various grants, fellowships and awards in the artistic fields, and has a large body of collaborative artwork in addition to her solo pieces.
POLVO
1458 W. 18th St. 1R
Chicago, IL 60608
info@polvo.org
773 344 1940
http://www.polvo.org
HOURS: Saturdays from Noon-5pm or by appointment
Self- Adored
Self- Adored
Artwork by: Miguel Jimenez & Mitchell Lara
Opening Reception Saturday, February 10th, 2007 from 6pm-9pm
Exhibit will run til March 1st, 2007
Music by: Ivan Resendiz, classical guitar
For more information: cys_94@hotmail.com
This show is in support for Jose David, cordinator of Casa de Arte y Cultura, Calles y Sueños, Juchitan, Oaxaca-Mexico.
Café Mestizo
1646 West 18th Street
Chicago, Illinois , 60608
www.cafemestizo.com