Celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day with Hull-House this March! Click below to learn more about an art therapy workshop to build an archive of the activism and artwork of black women and girls on Chicago's West Side. Join us for a screening of short films by women of color filmmakers. Engage in a panel discussion with muslim students and community leaders about anti-sexual violence advocacy on college campuses. Gather your family and your chosen family for a day of games and body positive vogueing. See you at Hull-House!
UIC’s Gender & Women’s Studies Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary! Join us on Thursday, March 9, 2023, for a daylong celebration featuring two-panel discussions, captivating talks, and hand on art-making.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum’s Women’s History Month presentation and conversation featuring author and advocate Michelle Duster in conversation with author and social justice communications strategist Essence McDowell.
Halal If You Hear Me is a forthcoming anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans. Join us for an evening of poetry and performance by Muslim artists celebrating intersectional identity and dispelling the notion that there is only one way to be Muslim. This event is co-hosted by the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) and Young Chicago Authors as part of the 2017 Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Festival. JAHMM presents this program in collaboration with the Muslim American Leadership Alliance and the UIC Arab American Cultural Center. Sign-up for the Open Mic starts at 6:30pm. Free. Limited seating available.
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is excited to partner with the Chicago Park District’s Young Cultural Stewards to present their short film We Are Each Other’s Harvest. The film is a thoughtful collection of images and video excerpts from interviews uplifting the work of Chicago's BIPOC & LGBQIA2S land stewards and cultural workers. The screening will be followed by a conversation featuring three land stewards from the film and moderated by Hull-House Curatorial Assistant Fabrizzio Subia.
A one-day conference presented in collaboration with Perennial City: Experiments in Urban Gardening (March 19 — December 18, 2026), an exhibition at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum that reveals how working people—past and present—have used gardening as a tool for creativity, care, and community action.
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum will partner with the Chicago Park District’s Young Cultural Stewards to present this one-day workshop, Build Your Dream Garden. Visitors will be guided through this workshop by experienced teaching artists Bee Rodriguez and Izzy Jackson to explore themes of mending and building with the goal of deepening community connections. After a tour of the exhibition, participants will work with Bee and Izzy to explore the ways gardens can help our environment and strengthen our communities. They’ll explore the Hull-House courtyard to identify plants and insects and then work collaboratively on an artistic rendition of their dream gardens. Come join us for an afternoon of community-building and art making!
Join us for our Making the West Side preview website launch and a conversation at Hull-House exploring the ways in which activists and artists creatively engage youth to address historical and contemporary issues of gender justice, patriarchy and safety on Chicago’s west side. Presented in Partnership with UIC Women's Leadership and Resource Center.