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.
Explore the supernatural through the folk tales and haunted histories of Hull-House.
Explore the architecture of Hull-House, one of the Chicago’s only pre-fire buildings, and the settlement’s dining hall, constructed by brothers Allen & Irving Pond in 1907. Learn about the Arts & Crafts movement through a hands-on experience with crafts on display.
Spend the day at Hull-House immersed in the spooky and supernatural, with tarot, silent films, and folk tales from settlement history.
Theatre Nobody presents an immersive storytelling experience to an audience of only two.
UIC Architecture research reconstructing Chicago’s vanished residential hotels and proposing new futures for SRO housing
A hands-on reverse drafting workshop inspired by the Hull-House textile collection
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.