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.
Join us at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a communal arts activation, presented in partnership with Court Theatre to celebrate the world premiere of Berlin.
Join celebrated theatre historian Mark Larson for an afternoon of conversation and screenings from the archive of Hull-House Theatre. During the 1960s, Hull-House reestablished its place at the center of Chicago theatre and played a pivotal role in the development of the storefront theatre movement. Ahead of the conversation, visitors can engage a unique reading room of archival materials relating to the history of Hull-House Theatre.
For two nights only, experience The Neo-Futurists’ legendary performance The Infinite Wrench live at Hull-House. Extending its deep historical commitment to artistic experimentation and play, Hull-House invites The Neo-Futurists to take over the Residents’ Dining Hall.
Join Hour Studio for a conversation and celebration of Hull-House Theatre and graphic design. In conversation with Hull-House staff, and the audience, designers Tobey Albright and Mollie Edgar reflect upon the work of reimagining over a century of design for performance at the country’s most influential social settlement, engaging design as a mode of reproducing history in the present.
Join Hull-House for a celebration of Chicago's multi-ethnic and multi-generational immigrant legacies. Artist Aram Han Sifuentes, in partnership with HANA Center, brings traditional Korean folk banner-making to Hull-House through a workshop series and community gathering. In conjunction with Hull-House’s current exhibition Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935, this series celebrates over one hundred and thirty years of craft, immigrant narratives, and the fight for racial justice.
Gather at Hull-House and celebrate over one hundred and thirty years of immigrant narratives in Chicago. See over eighty Nonggi, Korean folks banners, displayed throughout the Hull-House campus. Listen to video testimonials from banner makers across Chicago. Visit the museum’s current exhibition Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935, that lifts up the immigrant artisans of Chicago Near West Side and celebrates the heritage of immigrant communities. This event includes a shared meal.
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.