Friday, March 30, 2007
From our friend, Rupal Soni:
The Neighborhood Writing Alliance is pleased to announce the opening of another writing workshop located at St. Leonard's House. St. Leonard's provides transitional housing and other life-building services to formerly incarcerated men. While this workshop is only open to residents of St. Leonard's, we are excited about the collaboration, and expansion of our programming.
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Beginning Thursday, April 12th, our Humboldt Park workshop will move from the Humboldt Park Library to San Lucas Church at 2914 W. North Ave. Day and time remain the same--Thursdays, 6:30-8:00 pm.
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Friday, March 30, 6:30 pm, Hamilton Park Cultural Center, 513 West 72nd St. The Englewood Community Cultural Planning Council African American History Subcommittee in partnership with Hamilton Park Cultural Center has invited the Neighborhood Writing Alliance to present a JOT reading at their panel discussion on The State of African Americans In The Englewood /West Englewood Community. This event will be recorded by Chicago Amplified, so if you can't join us, be sure to listen online.
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The Neighborhood Writing Alliance is presenting two great film screenings as part of our project on the theme of formal and informal education. Both are free and open to NWA/JOT writers as well as the general public. For reservations please call Rupal Soni at 773-684-2742 or email at rsoni@jot.org.
The film screenings have been made possible through a generous grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.
Monday April 9, 6-8:15 pm, University of Chicago Art History Lecture Hall, 5540 S. Greenwood. Real Women Have Curves, Directed by Patricia Cardoso, with a discussion led by Deva Woodley of the Civic Knowledge Project. Set in East Los Angeles, this is the story of Ana, a Mexican-American teenager struggling to break free from the responsibilities and expectations of her mother, Carmen, and sister, Estela. Ana wants to attend college so she can better herself (she's received a scholarship to Columbia University), but she's needed in Estela's sewing sweatshop, where women labor to make dresses that are then sold for many times what the shop is paid to make them. Real Women Have Curves is the winner of the Dramatic Audience Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
Monday April 16, 5-8:30 pm, Jane Addams Hull House, 800 South Halsted, Residents Dining Hall. Matewan, Directed by John Sayles, with a discussion by Bill Ayers, Professor of Education at University of Illinois at Chicago. Presented in partnership with the Jane Addams Hull House. Also we will provide a delicious free dinner. This film is about well-intentioned labor leader Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper) who arrives in Matewan, W. Va., to unionize the coal mine workers. But his efforts to organize the coal company workers spark one of the most violent incidents in the history of the 1920-21 Coal Wars. Tensions grow between the miners and the company men, igniting a powder keg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal. Matewan was nominated for an Academy Award and was the winner of the Independent Spirit Award, 1988.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Chicago Cultural Center
G.A.R. Rotunda and Claudia Cassidy Theater, 78 East Washington Street Neighborhood Writing Alliance 2007 Annual Benefit
Every Person Is a Philosopher
Kenneth W. Warren
2007 Benefit Chair
An evening with the Journal of Ordinary Thought featuring
Luis Alberto Urrea
2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Devil's Highway
Latino Hall of Fame
For more information and ticket prices, please call our event coordinators, Hoopla Communications, Inc., at 773.486.6920. On line ticket purchase is available here.
