Talking with Extinct & Endangered Species

Monday, October 6th

(6:00-7:00, 7:15-8:30 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 an arts workshop at Mozart Park, which also happens during the Ninth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. During this workshop we will: 

• Learn more about Project Passenger Pigeon. The passenger pigeon went extinct 100 years ago, and throughout 2014 a number of initiatives and events have been happening that commemorate this occasion. 
• Talk about several Chicago-based individuals who have been leaders in the areas of nature conservation and ecology -- such as Joy Bergelson, Steve Sullivan, Suzanne Malec-McKenna, and Joel Greenberg. 
• Write poetry and fiction, and create visual art inspired by extinct and endangered species. 

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: 

• 14 Animals That Could Be Resurrected (Mother Nature Network)
• 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act
• "Bringing Them Back to Life" by Carl Zimmer (National Geographic Magazine)
• "Brushwood Center hosts ‘Avian Spirits’ exhibition" by Myrna Petlicki (Barrington Courier-Review, 7/9/2014)
• Chicago Park District
• Chicago Wilderness
• Chicago Zoological Society
• Dodo Bird
• "Endangered Species" by Phillip Carroll Morgan (poetryfound.org)
• Endangered Species Act
• Endangered Species Quiz (PBS & The Nature Conservancy)
• "Eulogy for the Passenger Pigeon" by Steve Sullivan
• Facing Extinction exhibition (Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods)
• A Feathered River Across the Sky by Joel Greenberg
• The Field Museum
• Forest Preserves District of Cook County
• From Billions to None: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction (dir. David Mrazek)
• "How America's most plentiful bird disappeared" by Shannon Heffernan (WBEZ, 8/28/2014)
• "In The World's 'Sixth Extinction,' Are Humans The Asteroid?" (NPR)
• "The Mammoth Cometh" by Nathaniel Rich (The New York Times, 2/27/2014)

Artist Maya Lin's Sound Ring immerses listeners in a world of endangered species" by David Leveille (PRI's The World, 6/12/2014)

• Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
• "Monarch butterflies: The next passenger pigeon?" (Poor Richard's Almanac blog)
• "On 'For a Coming Extinction'" by Ian B. Gordon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Department of English) 
• The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
• People's Climate March
• Project Passenger Pigeon
• Silent Spring at 50
• Species Directory (World Wildlife Fund)
• Swan Song: Stories of Extinction by J. Patrick Lewis
• "Talking with Extinct & Endangered Species" Workshop (Douglas Center for Environmental Education, 4/26/2014)

• Urban Wildlife Institute
• World Listening Project
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman