Insight Arts

Adult Classes in Rogers Park - Ongoing

2012-04-18T14:46:39Z

INSIGHT ARTS ADULT CLASSES IN ROGERS PARK
FREE. Art supplies are provided but participants are encouraged to bring other materials/supplies to work with.

ART CLASS
Teacher: Sandra Peterson
Weekly on Thursdays at Trilogy
1400 W Greenleaf
1:00 - 2:30 PM (except 4th Thursday : 2:00 - 3:30 PM)
In the drop-in room called BEACON

JEWELRY & FABRIC ARTS CLASS
Jewelry Teacher: Cheri Fields
Sewing Teacher: Jeannette Perkal
Weekly on Saturdays at Artist's Gallery, V12
6902 N Glenwood (next to the Post Office Boxes Bldg. at Farewell/Glenwood)
1:00 - 4:00 PM, street-level

NUTRITION CLASS - A collaboration with United Church Community Feast with funding from the Greater Chicago Food Depository and Kraft Foods. Teacher: Amanda Peterson
2nd & 4th Saturdays at Artist's Gallery, V12
6902 N Glenwood (next to the Post Office Boxes Bldg. at Farewell/Glenwood)
4:30 - 6:30 PM, street-level

This cycle will focus on:
a) Vegetarian and Vegan Diets, and
b) Understanding restrictions and dietary needs for diabetes, high bllod pressure, and high cholesterol.

COOKING CLASSES TO ENCOURAGE HEALTHIER EATING & NUTRITION BASED ON USDA "MY PLATE"
At United Church's 3rd Floor Kitchen (elevator available)
Held on one Saturday a month (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM) and one Thursday a month (5:00 - 7:00 PM).

Upcoming COOKING CLASSES
Saturday, April 28, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
"Easy Healthy Pizza for One" led by Naomi Safarin

Thursday, May 10, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
led by Maritza Bautista (menu tbd)

Registration for the COOKING CLASS is needed since space is limited. Call Anita at (773) 409-4678 or email Judy at JKline8252@aol.com.

Theatre of the Oppressed : Forum Theater Community Performance : Saturday, April 21

2012-04-04T18:28:25Z

Please join us Saturday, April 21 for a FREE Forum Theater performance. Participants from the 3-Day Theatre of the Oppressed workshop will be headlining the performances. Je Nepomuceno who facilitated the workshops will be the joker.

We invite everyone to come out and participate!

Rumble Arts Center
3413 W North Ave
First Floor, Gallery
FREE
6 PM

more details to follow

Nights of Insight : Friday, April 20

2012-04-04T18:24:19Z

TRAUMA, TECHNOLOGY, & RESISTANCE :
A Three Month Series of Art, Dialogue, and Action

Trauma, Technology, and Resistance: A three month series of art, dialogue and action.

The first quarter of 2012 has witnessed a number of innovative uses of new media technologies to address a number of important human rights struggles. The most remarkable has been the campaign of a well funded US based non-profit organization named Invisible Children to build public support for the capture of Joseph Kony the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a Christian rightwing Fundamentalist Guerrilla group notorious for war crimes including the kidnapping and brainwashing of children and young adults in Uganda. Social media has also played a significant role in the campaign to address the murder of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17 year old African American boy by George Zimmerman, a community watch leader in a gated neighborhood in Sanford, Florida. Racial Justice advocates have also used new technologies to address the brutal murder of Shaima Alawadi, a 32 year old Iraqi immigrant woman within her own home in San Diego, California. Finally, international human rights advocates have attempted to publicize the plight of Yemeni Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shayne who has remained a political prisoner in Yemen because of the direct intervention of the United States.

Insight Arts is assembling an impressive collection of diverse artists, intellectuals, activists and journalists to reflect on these four intersections of new media and human rights struggles. We begin with a set of critical questions around the viral internet success of Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign. Insight Arts is highly critical of the campaign’s manipulation and distortion of the situation in Northern Uganda. We hope to create an environment where people can begin to offer analysis about why the campaign was initially so successful. What are some of the possible hidden agendas of the campaign? What other options are critics of this campaign offering for North Americans genuinely interested in standing in solidarity with progressive social justice movements in Uganda and throughout the two-thirds world? Does the Kony 2012 campaign actually endanger civilian life in Uganda as noted Ugandan intellectual Mahmood Mamdani and many other activists/intellectuals have suggested? Does it function as an advertisement for Western Imperialism? Does it function as an endorsement of White supremacy and colonialism? Would the enormous amounts of funds raised by Invisible Children have been better spent on reintegration programs for former child soldiers as Radhika Coomaraswamy, the UN secretary-general's special representative for children and armed conflict, has suggested?

Our project will also analyze the way social and mass media has been used by activists/organizers in response to the shooting of unarmed African-American teenager Trayvon Martin by Community Watch leader George Zimmerman and the murder of the middle class Iraqi immigrant, Shaima Alawadi within her own home in San Diego. We will examine the ways these two tragic incidents have been dealt with by the major media and by anti-racist activists. Particular emphasis will be placed on the social media campaigns such as the “I am Trayvon Martin” campaign on facebook.

This project also aims to centrally address the plight of Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shayne whose ongoing incarceration in Yemen came at the direct request of the US government. We hope to draw more attention to Haider Shayne’s case whilst also examining why his plight has not been addressed with as much intensity on the internet or in major US based media outlets. This seems particularly strange since Haider Shayne was a free lance contractor for ABC News, CNN and the New York Times. None of the US based news agencies Haider Shayne worked for have stepped forward to file a grievance with the US state department.

The project hopes to engage participants of an examination of the political choices that are made by mainstream media groups and non-profit organizations in selecting what constitutes an International human rights violation.

We have scheduled three core events (the third Friday of April, May June - during our Nights of Insight) and are open to coordinating more discussions and events based on participant feedback and interest. The events will be an engaged hybrid of performance, screenings, information sharing, dialogue and art making. We will also have reading and information packets available at each scheduled event. Events may also include national artists and intellectuals via skype. Insight Arts' hope is that these events will lead to the creation of strategies and tools for engaging a wide variety of audiences in the process of an intersectional analysis of oppression and political solidarity.

Join us Friday, April 20 for the first part of Trauma, Technology, & Resistance during our Night of Insight.

Rumble Arts Center
3413 W North Ave
First Floor, Gallery
FREE
7 PM

Re-Frame: The Progress of Works featuring Sojourner Wright : Friday, April 13

2012-04-04T18:17:49Z

Theatre of the Oppressed 3-Day Workshop: Starts Sunday, March 18!

2012-03-17T16:14:19Z

Mixed Movement Chicago: Saturday, March 17

2012-03-17T16:11:55Z

We invite the community to join us for an evening of solos and spontaneous duets across movement styles improvised to live beats and sounds. Mixed Movement is a showcase of multi-genre choreography and a jam session hosted by award-winning performance artist Baraka de Soleil featuring KrisDeLaRash, along with live music by special guests representing some of Chicago’s best artists! This is an Insight Arts event, co-produced by DUNDERBELLY, and hosted by Rumble Arts Center.

Mixed Movement is an open stage for dancers to improvise with live musicians while sharpening and sharing their skills. At its essence Mixed Movement is a place where no matter what your movement background, you can come together and celebrate with others the joy of dance, whether you sign up and participate, or just watch.

The night begins with improvised solos. In the second round these eight dancers are paired up, their names pulled out of a hat, and then magic of Mixed Movement manifests. Movers from different backgrounds find and create a common language of the body in the moment. Next we turn to the audience for the inspired Wild Card Section, where we invite three to five members to improvise a group piece on the spot. All ranges and styles welcomed.

Mixed Movement Chicago
Rumble Arts Center
3413 W North Ave
Gallery, First Floor
an accessible space

$7, first 30 RSVP
$10, door

This exciting and revolutionary event is the brainchild of NY/UK based dancer, theatre artist, and poet DawN Crandell - who created an open-stage event for dancers after being frustrated with the lack of spontaneous opportunities for performance.

Once just happening in NY, this is now an international event that has connected different dance & performance communities of NYC, Manchester, London and now CHICAGO! Come watch and maybe even participate with some of the best that Chi-town's performing community has to offer!

Nights of Insight: CIRCA Pintig featuring Lani T. Montreal

2012-02-27T21:08:20Z

Please join us Friday, March 16 for our Nights of Insight cultural series featuring the one act play PANTHER IN THE SKY by Lani T. Montreal.

Panther in the Sky is a new play by Lani T. Montreal about four mothers and four sons dealing with poverty, violence, and racism in the city of Chicago. Reading directed by CIRCA Pintig Executive Director Ginger Leopoldo.

Friday, March 16
7 to 9 PM
FREE

Rumble Arts Center
3413 W North Ave
Gallery, 1st Floor
an accessible space

Lani T. Montreal is an educator, writer, performer, and community activist. Her writings have been published and produced in Canada, the U.S., the Philippines and in cyberspace. She is the recipient of the 2008 3Arts Ragdale Residency Fellowship for Playwriting, the 2001 Samuel Ostrowsky Award for her memoir "Summer Rain," and the 1995 JVO Philippine Award for Excellence in Journalism for her environmental expose "Poison in the River." Lani holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Roosevelt University. She teaches English & Communications at Malcolm X College. She is a member of Pintig CIRCA Cultural Group, former program director for Insight Arts, and was among the first batch of the Mango Tribe Performance Collective.

Insight Arts and Project NIA at Rumble Arts

2012-02-20T04:56:20Z

Social Justice Issues : The Oscar's : A Critical Discussion : Saturday, February 18, 2012

2012-02-14T23:42:34Z

Please join us Saturday, February 18, for our monthly critical discussion at the Center for New Possibilities at 4:30 PM.

Center for New Possibilities
1505 W Morse Avenue
an accessible space

This month we are going to explore the 84th Annual Academy Awards, The Oscars. Specifically, we will take a close look at Best Picture nominees (The Artist, The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, War Horse) (watch trailers by clicking on the titles).

The critical discussion will revolve around The Help.

Below are some helpful links in preparation for the critical discussion.
Watch This Must-See Debate Between Tavis Smiley, Viola Davis + Octavia Spencer About "The Help" by Cynthia Reid. Taken from Shadow and Act, On Cinema of the African Diaspora on IndieWire.

Viola Davis: The Fresh Air Interview from NPR.

Viola Davis on a Mind-Set that She Says Harms Black Actors by Melena Ryzik. Taken from The Carpetbagger, The Awards Season Blog of The New York Times.

Our critical discussions are free and open to the public. As always, donations are appreciated.

Nights of Insight: #Crapitalism Listening Party / Panel Discussion, Friday, February 17

2012-02-08T22:55:18Z

Please join us Friday, February 17 from 7 to 9 PM for Night of Insight : #Crapitalism Listening Party / Panel Discussion featuring KrisDeLaRash.

#Crapitalism Listening Party / Panel Discussion featuring KrisDeLaRash

Rumble Arts Center
3413 W North Ave
Friday, February 17
7 to 9 PM

...Monumental hip-hop is often highly expressive, vivid, risky, and aggressive like no other in its dissection of peoples and motivation. Oh, and full of contradiction (Like its makers). I think #Crapitalism is exemplary in all of these pursuits. -Emanuel Vinson @emancan

KrisDeLaRash has spoken her ever-evolving truth through her art, music, and poetry. Hailing from the south side of Chicago, Kris sculpts a (sometimes abrasive) reality that impels her audience to critique, embrace, and improve our world. Kris extends her art to activism, performing all across the nation at benefits, fundraisers and community festivals to crowds of all demographics, for causes such as LGBTQ Rights, Rape Victims Advocates, Hate Crime Awareness, AIDS Awareness, and in solidarity with the people of Haiti and Palestine. At present, Kris boasts working with the legendary Oscar Brown Jr., as well as sharing the stage with HBO Def poets such as Suheir Hammad, Kristiana Colón, and Kevin Coval, in addition to opening for musical acts such as Kid Sister, K-Os , and John West. Now holding a Bachelor's of Communication and Media Studies from DePaul University, Kris teaches critical thinking and media literacy through creative writing and performance arts. She is the author of two publications of poems, Kliff Notes and Visceral.

DOWNLOAD #CRAPITALISM -> http://krisdelarash.bandcamp.com/

Night of Insight: #Crapitalism Listening Party / Panel Discussion will include live performances from "#Crapitalism" as well as a panel discussion on U.S. economic policies, the 2012 Presidential Election, the Occupy Movement, and other current events. We invite you to join us and share your perspectives!

Panelists:
-Craig Harshaw
-Natasha Correa
-Jasson Perez
-Johnathan Fields
-KrisDeLaRash

This event is free, all ages and open to the public event -- However, "#Crapitalism" does contain Explicit Language. Discretion is advised.

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Classes at Rumble Arts Center - Jan 23 to Mar 17

2012-01-24T22:06:14Z

Insight Arts is happy to announce their Winter 2012 programming at Rumble Arts Center. Classes begin January 23 and end on March 17.

TRANSITIONS

Transitions is a program specifically designed for youth in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Middle school youth in Humboldt Park will be challenged for 8 weeks, Monday through Thursday with a variety of mediums and projects. Participants will engage in writing, theater work, and visual arts in various media.

The ages of 11 to 14 are times of transition in the lives of youth. A space where youth are safe, encouraged to ask questions and to both independently and collectively explore this time in their lives is essential.

While in this intensive class, youth will create collaborative art that will encourage them to reflect and think critically about themselves, their communities, and their role as members of the community at large. They will explore issues that affect them directly, contributing to an ongoing dialogue about how to work for social justice.

MEDIA ARTS

Media Arts is a high school youth media-literacy program. Through intensive workshops, high school youth in Humboldt Park will be challenged with hands-on technical training in digital media technologies including photography, sound, and video.

This program is greatly informed by the work of Paulo Freire, specifically ideas outlined in his book Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (1998).

“…[a] correct way of thinking that goes beyond the ingenuous must be produced by the learners in communion with the teacher responsible for their education. At the same time, it is necessary to insist that the matrix both of ingenuous and critical thinking is the same curiosity that characterizes all human vitality” (Freire, p. 43).

This 8 week workshop will allow youth to engage in a critical learning environment where interactions and communication, through critical discussions with peers and facilitators are essential. Youth will not only be learners, but teachers and leaders, establishing a learning environment for themselves, other participants, and the community, therefore empowering them as such.

As a group, youth will investigate aspects of life unique in their community and the social impacts digital media technologies have in their community. They will learn how to initialize concepts by teaming up with an experienced mentor throughout the process. Youth will intensively learn basic technical aspects of the creation of media, and will lead the creation of projects in the form of moving picture or sound to promote awareness of an issue important to them. They will learn how to make choices about interviewing, recording behavior, narration and dialogue, and visual composition before shooting.

MULTI-ARTS CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP

The Multi-Arts Children's Workshop is a visual arts program for youth ages 7 to 12. Participants will explore various media while learning to take a critical look at artwork at the same time.

For more information about Insight Arts classes at Rumble Arts Center contact Maritza Bautista at (773) 278-4441 or send us an email requesting more information to info@insightartsliberation.org.

Nights of Insight : Reframing Community, January 20 & 21

2012-01-09T23:01:00Z

Please join Insight Arts as we present our first winter series' Nights of Insight on Friday, January 20 from 7 to 9 PM at Rumble Arts Center (3413 W North Ave).

This month we will be engaging in Re-Frame: Communing (facilitated by Baraka de Soleil) exploring issues and challenges artists face in the creative process. Topics to be explored include community, gender politics and artists vulnerabilities. Participants will also get the chance to experience the process of Re-Frame.

Last month artists participating in Re-Frame: A Gathering, a D UNDERBELLY initiative curated by Awilda Rodríguez Lora and Baraka de Soleil, sought to create a communal space for rigorous experimentation and investigation of an expansive performance aesthetic. They offered three unique showings of their process in partnership with Insight Arts, Rumble Arts Center and Links Hall.

Artist participants from Chicago's 2011 Re-Frame project:
Victoria Martínez
Ching-In Chen
Iman Crutcher
Michael Johnson
Rebecca Kling
Anansi Knowbody
Sojourner Zenobia Wright
Isaac Fosl Van-Wyke
Eboni Senai Hawkins

We also invite you to join us in Rogers Park on Saturday, January 21 for a critical discussion on Re-Framing Community from 4:30 to 6:30 PM at the Center for New Possibilities (1505 W Morse Ave).

D UNDERBELLY is an underground interdisciplinary network of artists of color. For more information about Re-Frame: A Gathering visit reframeagathering.blogspot.com

CALL FOR PROPOSALS : NIGHTS OF INSIGHT : 2012

2012-01-05T23:05:26Z

We are currently coordinating the 2012 season for Nights of Insight and are seeking proposals (due January 31, 2012)!

Nights of Insight is a cultural event presented by Insight Arts that takes place every third (3rd) Friday of the month from 7 to 9 PM at Rumble Arts Center (3413 W North Avenue; 1st Floor, Gallery - a wheelchair accessible space). Artists, poets, writers, spoken word artists, educators, filmmakers, dancers, performance artists + are all invited to submit.

Nights of Insight provide a safe space where issues, ideas or movements can be explored and discussed critically. If your work addresses issues related to economic justice, immigrant rights and racial justice, criminal justice, environmental justice, social justice or human rights this is the perfect venue for you. Homophobia and transphobia will not be tolerated.

PROPOSALS DUE JANUARY 31, 2012
Proposals should include a one page resume, artist or curator statement and a sample of the work (descriptions are fine). If you are interested in presenting a Night of Insight on a particular month, please specify it on the proposal.

Proposals, comments or questions regarding Nights of Insight should be addressed to Maritza Bautista and emailed to info@insightartsliberation.org.

2011 Was A Remarkable Year! Call for Year-End Donations

2011-12-30T18:43:54Z

2011 was a remarkable year!

Oppressive governments throughout Africa and the Arab world have been boldly challenged by coalitions of students, workers and intellectuals. Throughout Europe the vast majority of citizens have rebelled against attempts to role back the quality of life for the working classes, immigrants, and the poor. Latin American social movements have pushed the center-left governments that they helped elect to make good on their campaign promises to create a world free from poverty, discrimination, and environmental degradation. Here in the United States scores of Americans have begun "occupying and decolonizing” public spaces with the goal of giving voice to the 99% of global citizens that are customarily disempowered and disrespected.

Insight Arts has always been an organization dedicated to the power of popular movements to effect lasting social change. In fact, we have been so energized by the current international political climate that since January we have more than tripled our arts education, political education, and cultural programming! We now offer ongoing programming throughout the year in the Rogers Park, Humboldt Park and Uptown neighborhoods of Chicago. Most remarkably, we have managed through strategic partnerships to expand our arts education, exhibition, performance and archive space whilst simultaneously reducing overhead costs. We have also begun strategic planning that will result in an upgrade in the consistency and quality of our online and print publications next year. This means that Insight Arts will be able to reach a national and international audience with online journals like Underground Philosophy and our new biennial journal of contemporary art and social change Interactivity.

Please help us continue to provide space for cultural work that supports the development of the powerful social movements that are changing the world by making a generous year-end donation to Insight Arts by clicking DONATE.

You may also send a check to:
Insight Arts
6934 N Glenwood
Chicago, IL 60626

Please make sure to date your check no later then December 31, 2011 if you want to claim this donation on your 2011 taxes. Insight Arts is a 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

Forward Ever, Backward Never,

Craig Harshaw
Executive Director
INSIGHT ARTS

Nights of Insight : Extrodinary : A 5th and 8th Grade Showcase, Friday, December 16

2011-12-08T03:16:45Z

Please join us Friday, December 16 at 1:00 PM for a special Nights of Insight (this will be our first daytime Nights of Insight).

This month Insight Arts is happy to present a collaborative project between 5th and 8th grade students at Von Humboldt Elementary and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Artists will be present. Refreshments will be served. This is a free event open to all the Chicago community.

Extrodinary : A 5th and 8th Grade Showcase is an exhibition that will be on view at the Rumble Arts Center's Community Gallery from December 16 to January 27, 2012.

Nights of Insight take place every third Friday of the month at Rumble Arts Center (3413 W North Avenue), an accessible cultural space that facilitates the empowerment and education of individuals and communities.

Creative Movement Awards & Dinner Benefit - Friday, December 9

2011-12-06T15:53:24Z

Purchase your ticket(s) to our 2011 Creative Movement Awards Ceremony and Dinner. Click here to purchase now! The awards ceremony begins at 6 PM this Friday, December 9, followed by a meet and greet reception at 8 PM.

Creative Movement Awards & Dinner Benefit

This year, Insight Arts has partnered with Rumble Arts Center, an accessible cultural space that facilitates the empowerment and education of individuals and communities, to present the Creative Movement awards.

The Creative Movement Awards celebrate the people, projects, and organizations creating a climate for social change in the United States. Individuals that will be honored at his year’s Creative Movement awards and dinner are political advocate Van Jones, award-winning filmmaker Yvonne Welbon, and Chicago poet Kevin Coval.

Van Jones Yvonne Welbon Kevin Coval

Insight Arts will also present awards to efficacious local projects like The Miracle Center’s youth theatre production of "Chicago's Puerto Rican Story," and the Unemployed Action Center of Chicago Jobs with Justice. Organizational awards will be presented to Gender Just, the Silk Road Rising and Warehouse Workers for Justice.

The event will begin at 6 PM with the award ceremony at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Auditorium (280 South Columbus Drive). A dinner reception will follow at 8 PM at the Renaissance Blackstone Chicago Hotel's Crystal Ballroom (636 South Michigan Avenue).

Tickets for the awards ceremony and reception are available for $125. Students and senior citizens may purchase reduced-rate tickets for $100. Tickets may also be purchased for the awards ceremony alone for $30, $25 for students and senior citizens. We are also offering group rates. Purchase tickets online NOW!.

All proceeds benefit Insight Arts and Rumble Arts Center. Both of these nonprofit agencies are community-based arts organizations based in the working class neighborhoods of Rogers Park, Uptown, and Humboldt Park.

Don't miss this extraordinary event and the opportunity to support local arts organizations and those doing influential work for the people of Chicago and the United States!

If you are unable to attend the Creative Movement Awards but would like to contribute please do so by clicking here.

Or, send your donation to:
Insight Arts
6934 N Glenwood Ave, #2C
Chicago, IL 60626

Thank you very much for your continued support!

Nights of Insight: Gentrification and Racism in Chicago, Friday, November 18

2011-11-15T07:32:54Z

Please join us Friday, November 18 from 7 to 9:30 PM for our monthly Nights of Insight cultural event. This month Columbia College students join Insight Arts to explore gentrification and racism in Chicago.

Rumble Arts Center, 7 PM
Dance Studio (2nd Floor)
3413 W North Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
773.278.4441

This month's Nights of Insight is supported by the Urban Missions program of the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Refreshments will be served. The Dance Studio is not a wheelchair accessible space.

Save the Date : Creative Movement Awards & Dinner : Friday, December 9

2011-11-05T15:19:11Z

Buy Your Tickets Now! Click Here to Purchase Your Tickets.

Occupy Chicago : A Critical Discussion : Saturday, Nov 19

2011-11-05T14:54:37Z

Saturday, November 19
Please join Insight Arts and the Columbia College learning community on Saturday, November 19 beginning at 4:30 PM for a critical discussion surrounding Occupy Chicago.

We invite you to read the Occupy Chicago website (click here), specifically Chicago Specific Demands. You can also download: The Most Important Thing in the World and From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere from The Nation (click here to download).

Discussion will take place at the Center for New Possibilities, 1505 W Morse Ave. Refreshments will be provided.

This month's Nights of Insight is supported by the Urban Missions program of the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

For more information send an email to info @ insightartsliberation.org

Nights of Insight: I Am Troy Davis - Friday, October 21

2011-10-09T19:57:38Z

Please join us this month for I AM TROY DAVIS, the kick off to our Nights of Insight Fall Series.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
Join us on Saturday, October 15 at 4:30 PM for a critical discussion about the Troy Davis execution. This discussion will take place at the Center for New Possibilities (1505 W Morse Ave) in Rogers Park.

Here are a few articles to read to prepare for the discussion:

Dispatch from Death Row: Saving Troy Davis With a Family's Love by Jen Marlowe, in Color Lines. Click on icon for article.

Troy Davis Executed in Georgia by Tim Murphy, in Mother Jones. Click icon for article.

A Wrenching Night of Global Solidarity as Georgia Kills Troy Davis by Stokely Baksh, in Color Lines. Click icon for article.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21
On Friday, October 21 join us at Rumble Arts Center (3413 W North Avenue) in Humboldt Park at 7:00 PM for a night of poetry performance, a critical panel discussion and a visual exhibition.

Kris De La Rash will do a poetry performance. A critical panel discussion will include Kris De La Rash, Craig Harshaw, Mark Clements and Jhonathan Gomez. A visual exhibit of Chicago Troy Davis demonstrations will be on view.

For more information, email info@insightartsliberation.org.