With materials generously donated by the Art Institute of Chicago, join us in our Community Room to get crafty and create a small book to reflect your exciting summer! Choose one of three beautiful designs. All materials will be provided.

JAHHM enhanced CPL's free drop-in programs with activities grounded in the social reform history and storytelling activities of Hull-House including bookbinding, zine making, art making, improvisation, and theater arts. Drawing from professional development workshops led by Hull-House collaborators, CPL developed programs across the city that enable people to express themselves.

Join Matt and learn how to create simple and beautiful books of your very own. All ages are welcome, as there will different styles of bookmaking available at all levels of ability. 

Using only paper, rubber bands, glue, various cutting implements and/or needle and thread, find out how to bind pages into an empty book - which you can fill with whatever you like! Perhaps you've made a blank journal, a picture book, a place to keep your collection of poems, or other means of holding and sharing your very own stories. If you have any bookmaking materials of your own, please bring them along!

JAHHM enhanced CPL's free drop-in programs with activities grounded in the social reform history and storytelling activities of Hull-House including bookbinding, zine making, art making, improvisation, and theater arts. Drawing from professional development workshops led by Hull-House collaborators, CPL developed programs across the city that enable people to express themselves.

Learn to make an accordion-fold book and a Japanese sewn book.

JAHHM enhanced CPL's free drop-in programs with activities grounded in the social reform history and storytelling activities of Hull-House including bookbinding, zine making, art making, improvisation, and theater arts. Drawing from professional development workshops led by Hull-House collaborators, CPL developed programs across the city that enable people to express themselves.

Create a story with more than just words. 

Forms we'll explore include pinch pottery, memory boxes, musical instruments, improv and more.

Space is limited. Registration is required. 

For kids 5 to 13. 

JAHHM enhanced CPL's free drop-in programs with activities grounded in the social reform history and storytelling activities of Hull-House including bookbinding, zine making, art making, improvisation, and theater arts. Drawing from professional development workshops led by Hull-House collaborators, CPL developed programs across the city that enable people to express themselves.

Hi teens, did you know that clay pots are one of oldest forms of art and have been used throughout history in many different cultures worldwide? Then join us in making and decorating your own pinch pot to celebrate your culture and identity. All supplies are provided.

JAHHM enhanced CPL's free drop-in programs with activities grounded in the social reform history and storytelling activities of Hull-House including bookbinding, zine making, art making, improvisation, and theater arts. Drawing from professional development workshops led by Hull-House collaborators, CPL developed programs across the city that enable people to express themselves.

Join us at Sulzer for a five week improv theater program. Find characters, build environments and create scenes from scratch. Be a part of an ensemble. Have fun! 

We will will meet once a week to learn and practice improv games, techniques and skills. Week five will be a performance for friends and family at Bughouse Theater, a nearby non-profit improv venue. There is no experience necessary, but please note that each session will build on the previous one. Registration for this program assumes a commitment to all five weeks.

JAHHM enhanced CPL's free drop-in programs with activities grounded in the social reform history and storytelling activities of Hull-House including bookbinding, zine making, art making, improvisation, and theater arts. Drawing from professional development workshops led by Hull-House collaborators, CPL developed programs across the city that enable people to express themselves.

For rising 4th through 7th graders.