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Banned Books Jam Session

7/29/2015

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Friday, October 2nd (4:30-6:00 p.m.)

Powell's Books
1218 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL  60607

phone: (312)243-9070


You are invited to come to a Banned Books Jam Session at Powell’s Books that happens during Banned Books Week. Local writers, musicians and artists working in visual art and music celebrate Banned Books Week at Powell’s Books in this jam session during which passages from banned books and literary works inspired by banned books will be performed. Free and open to the public.

From the America Library Association website: “Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.”


This Banned Books Jam Session is part of the Tenth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. Chicago Calling is a multi-arts collaboration festival; during the Seventh Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival people in Chicago work with people outside of Chicago -- both here in the U.S. and abroad. These collaborations include a range of art forms, such as music, dance, film, literature, and intermedia -- and they are prepared or improvised. Some Chicago Calling events involve live feeds between Chicago and other locations.
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Intergenerational Banned Books Week Performance Event

9/10/2014

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Friday, September 26 (6:30-8:00 p.m.)

City Lit Books
2523 N. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL  60647


free and open to the public

You are invited to attend an intergenerational banned books week performance event at City Lit Books. Beatriz Badikian-Gartler, Annabelle Forney, Caleb Kowalkowski, Henry Kowalkowski, Kathleen Larkin and Deirdre Harrison will read passages from masterpieces such as To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Sandman by Neil Gaiman, A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein, and Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The readings will be accompanied by music -- KG Price (percussion), Jeff Kowalkowski (accordion, NORD), Sam Bradshaw (upright bass) and Dan Godston (trumpet, small instruments).
From the America Library Association website: “Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.”
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This Banned Books Week event is part of the Ninth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival and Chicago Artists Month. Chicago Calling is a multi-arts collaboration festival; during Chicago Calling 2014 people in Chicago work with people outside of Chicago -- both here in the U.S. and abroad. These collaborations include a range of art forms, such as music, dance, film, literature, and intermedia -- and they are prepared or improvised. Some Chicago Calling events involve live feeds between Chicago and other locations.
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Links: 
  • "20 Banned Books That May Surprise You" by Molly Driscoll (The Christian Science Monitor, 6/28/2011)
  • "Alison Bechdel Awarded MacArthur Fellowship: 'Fun Home' Creator One Of 21 New Fellows" by Claire Fallon (The Huffington Post, 9/17/2014)
  • American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
  • American Library Association
  • "Ban This Book: An Uncensored Look At The Lorax And Other Dangerous Books" by Alan Levinovitz (The Millions, 3/1/2012)
  • Banned Books Week
  • "Banned Books Week 2014 Celebrates Graphic Novels" by Nanette Perez (bannedbooksweek.org, 6/4/2014)
  • "Banned Books Week 2014 To Focus on Comics, Graphic Novels" by Emelia Fredlick (Paste, 6/10/2014)
  • "Banned Books Week and the 'Dangers' of the Comic Book" by Casey Gilly (Comic Book Resources, 9/25/2014)
  • Case Study: Watchmen (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund)
  • "Chicago Public Schools’ Ban of ‘Persepolis’ Continues to Face Challenge from Anti-Censorship Alliance" by Kevin Gosztola
  • "Chicago Public Schools denies it banned the book "Persepolis" by Linda Lutton (WBEZ)
  • City Lit Books
  • "Controversial ‘Lorax’ a threat to Dr. Seuss legacy?" by Jeremy Lott (The Washington Times, 3/5/2012)
  • "Fighting for Captain Underpants" by Samia Hossain (ACLU)
  • Freedom To Read Foundation
  • "'Mockingbird Next Door': A Genteel Peek Into Harper Lee's Quiet Life" by Maureen Corrigan (NPR)
  • National Council of Teachers of English
  • "'Perks Of Being A Wallflower' Glen Ellyn Book Ban Busted By Judy Blume's Intervention" (The Huffington Post, 6/11/2013)
  • Scholars at Risk Network
  • "Shel Silverstein's Unlikely Rise to Kid Lit Superstardom" (Mental Floss)
  • "Wars of Comics and Culture in 'Ten-Cent Plague'" (NPR, 4/28/2008)
  • "Why Chicago’s Persepolis Book Ban Hurts Students Most" by Michelle Sinsky (Hyperallergic, 4/16/2013)


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Our Next Arts Workshop: The Dill Pickle Club

7/31/2014

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Friday, August 1st (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60647

all ages, free & open to the public
You're invited to come to our next "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop, when we focus on the Dill Pickle Club. The Dill Pickle Club (which was also known as the Dil Pickle Club other similar iterations) was a legendary establishment founded by Jack Jones one hundred years ago. During this workshop we will:
  • Explore documents about The Dill Pickle Club -- including poster images and writings by people who were associated with the club (including Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, William Carlos Williams, Emma Goldman, Kenneth Rexroth and Upton Sinclair).  
  • Create artwork and write poetry inspired by the Dill Pickle Club. 

These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. We often use an upright piano during workshops as well. 

Location: Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. Our workshop series happens in the room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.  

Transportation & parking: Mozart Park can be reached by public transportation (such as the #73 Armitage Ave. bus, and not far from the Logan Square and Western Ave. stations on the CTA's blue line. Mozart Park has a parking lot on Armitage, east of Avers. 

Registering for Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys: You can register for this workshop series at the Chicago Park District website. 

Additional info: You can contact us by clicking here (if you have questions about this workshop or to RSVP). Click here to find out more about the Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys workshop series. 


Links: 
  • "5 questions for the new 'Pickles'" by Courtney Crowder (Chicago Tribune, 12/17/2010)
  • AREA Chicago
  • "Brains Brilliancy Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago"
  • A Brief History of the Dill Pickle Club (Newberry Library)
  • Clarence Darrow (PBS' American Experience)
  • "The Dil Pickle Club: 1914-1933" poster by Marc Moscato/Dean Rank (Justseeds Artists' Cooperative)
  • Dil Pickle Press
  • Dill Pickle Food Co-Op
  • "Embracing The Quirkiness Of Djuna Barnes" (NPR)
  • Emma Goldman (PBS' American Experience)
  • FBI case file about the Dill Pickle Club (Toby Higbie's Bughouse Square blog)
  • Inventory of the Dill Pickle Club Records (Newberry Library)
  • “Jack Jones—The Pickler.” by Sherwood Anderson (Chicago Daily News, 6/18/1919)
  • Vachel Lindsay (The Poetry Foundation)
  • The Lucy Parsons Center
  • "Lute Music" by Kenneth Rexroth (The Writer's Almanac)
  • Mess Hall
  • "The Migration of the hipster: A Chicago history: 1898-present" by Aimee Levitt (Chicago Reader, 10/2/2013)
  • Carl Sandburg
  • Kenneth Rexroth (The American Academy of Poets)
  • A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht (University of Chicago Press)
  • "Welcome to the Jungle. Does Upton Sinclair's famous novel hold up?" By Karen Olsson (Slate)


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Librotraficante en Pilsen

9/19/2013

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You are invited to attend "Librotraficante en Pilsen" --
Friday September 27 (6 p.m.)

Sol Studio
2233 S. Throop St., Suite 206
Chicago, IL  60618


"Librotraficante en Pilsen" will include performances and readings from books that are banned from school curricula in Arizona. The readers will include Saul Aguirre, Vittorio Carli, Dan Godston, Paula Martinez, and other TBA readers. 

"Librotraficante in Pilsen" is one of two 2013 Chicago Calling Arts Festival events that happens during Banned Books Week; "I Refuse To Not Read This Book," which happens at Powell's Bookstore on September 23rd, is also a BBW event!

This event is part of Librotraficante 2013’s “50 for Freedom of Speech.”
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Banned Books Week Event at Powell's Bookstore

8/24/2013

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I Refuse To Not Read This Book:
Blazing Toward AntiBookBanning&Burning
Monday, September 23 (7-9 p.m.)

Powell's Bookstore in University Village
1218 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL  60607

This Eighth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival event is being presented in collaboration with Waiting 4 the Bus. Yey, it's Banned Books Week! 

The program includes: 
  • Buddha 309 reading from The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  • Tony Diaz -- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  • Robin Fine -- Go Ask Alice 
  • Dana Jerman -- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Wayne Allen Jones -- 1984 by George Orwell
  • Robert Lawrence -- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  • Charlie Newman -- "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg
  • & other readings in solidarity with Librotraficante

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