* The program will explore the history of race relations in Chicago, highlighting key moments and events that shaped the city’s racial landscape. * The program will examine the social and economic disparities that exist between different racial groups in Chicago. * The program will examine the role of historical figures in shaping race relations and the legacy they left behind.
Friday, Sept. 20, 6-9 p.m. South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave. Attendees can become a part of the art center’s Living Archive, a participatory archive capturing the memories of the community, by taking photos in a photo booth at the center. The photo strips will be scanned and preserved within the broader narrative of the Bronzeville neighborhood’s cultural legacy. The Bronzeville’s Art District Trolley Tour will also stop at SSCAC, inviting riders to hop on and hop off at various art galleries throughout the night. Friday, Sept. 20, and Saturday, Sept. 21, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Various neighborhoods
Organizations will be hosting two-day, citywide guided and self-guided tours with the aim of encouraging Chicagoans to foster understanding and disrupt segregation. Areas include Bronzeville, Englewood, Humboldt Park, Lincoln Park, Pilsen and the Loop. Neighborhood tours require registration. Saturday, Sept. 21, 6-8 p.m. National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 W. 19th St. The museum will host an evening reception, including roundtable discussions, spins by DJ Rae Chardonnay and performances by Harold Green, poet, and Frank Waln, Sicangu-Lakota hip-hop artist, storyteller and music producer. Registration is encouraged. Sunday, Sept. 22, 1-3 p.m. Center for Native Futures, 56 W. Adams St. Sibling artists Monica Rickert-Bolter and Joel Rickert will speak about their graphic novel, the story of Kitihawa and Jean Baptiste DuSable, considered the founders of Chicago. They will also preview their upcoming exhibition, which opens at the National Public Housing Museum this fall.
The event “Remembering Taylor Street” is a listening session that will take place on Sunday, September 22nd, from 3:00 to 5:30 p.m. at Taylor Street Farms, located on Ada and Arthington streets in Ada. The event aims to collect and preserve the stories of public housing residents who lived at Taylor Street Farms.
Thursday, Sept. 26, 5-8:30 p.m. Center for Native Futures, 56 W. Adams St. The Center for Native Futures will host a screening of “Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting.” A conversation will follow with the director Ben West; April Holder, featured artist and descendent of Chief Blackhawk; and Angela Walden, clinical and community psychologist. Friday, Sept. 27, 6-8 p.m. National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 W. 19th St. Artist Delilah Montoya and professors Julie Dowling and Emmanuel Ortega will engage in a discussion related to Montoya’s ethnographic photography project “Contemporary Casta Portraiture: Nuestra ‘Calidad’” on race and human classifications inherited from 17th-century Colonial Mexico.
The South Side Community Art Center is hosting a panel discussion on the representation of Black women in film. The panel will feature Bridgett M. Davis, director of the film “Naked Acts,” Maya Cade, a film scholar, and Jada Amina H. Johnson, a curator. The discussion will focus on the challenges and opportunities for Black women in the film industry.
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