Apr
26
11:00 AM11:00

Just Praxis Circle Fellows Kick-off

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Note:This event is for prospective BIPOC creatives and arts administrators interested in forming part of the Just Praxis Circle for 2025

During this time we will welcome new members of the Just Praxis 2025 cohort, a group comprising BIPOC artists and creatives engaging in community-based artistic practice. In 2025, we will revisit a community-created definition of justice and engage in creative rest practices. We will also have a teach-in with Ethan Viets-Van Lear around the practice of resourceful pooling. The Just Praxis Circle endeavors to further equip a field of leaders with the tools needed to engage in creative practice in a way that advances justice and helps us all imagine a future without white supremacy.

Facilitated by:

ethan (he/him) is a poet, organizer, peace-circle keeper and prison abolitionist hailing from Rogers Park on the far north side of Chicago.  He is currently the Civic Engagement Manager at Lawndale Christian Legal Center as well as the co founder of Stick Talk a mutual aid organization centering people intimately impacted by gun violence.

When: Saturday, April 26th

Time: 11-2:30pm

Where: HAZ Room

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May
1
5:30 PM17:30

Give Them Their Flowers

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Planks and Pistils: Give Them Their Flowers

Hands-on floral arrangement session led by Planks & Pistils founder, John Carpenter. John will narrate his approach to floral arranging as a means to highlight Black stories and guide participants in creating a piece of their own for gifting to someone in their life/pay homage to someone who inspires their commitment to liberatory work.

Praxis anchors: joy, creativity, critical consciousness

When: Thursday, May 1

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

Where: Drip Collective

Price:

Rates for Individuals

These rates are for you if you are paying for the training without financial support from an organization. The cost listed below is for 1 person attending the full event.

  • Solidarity: $20

  • Sustain: $40

  • Full Cost: $60

  • Redistribution: $80

Rates for individuals supported by organizations

These rates are for you if you are a member of an organization that is paying for your participation in the training. The cost listed below is for 1 person attending the full event.

  • Solidarity: $100

  • Sustain: $150

  • Full Cost: $200

  • Redistribution: $250

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May
8
5:30 PM17:30

Re-Tell It

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Participants will engage in a folk tale storytelling session and practice reimagining stock tales with a liberatory spirit and more just outcome.

Praxis anchors: Disrupting dominant narratives, Embodying justice

Facilitated by:

Zahra Glenda Baker

Zahra is a dynamic Chicago-based artist with 35 years of experience, known for her work as a vocalist, ritualist, storyteller, and teaching artist. She has collaborated with renowned storytellers and performed at significant festivals and venues nationwide. Her storytelling facilitation extends to diverse groups, including incarcerated women and survivors of trauma, focusing on wellness practices rooted in the Zulu concept of sawubona—a Zulu phrase that means “ We see you, we hear you, you are valued.”

When: Thursday, May 8th

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

Where: Northwest Avondale (Location TBD)

Price:

Rates for Individuals

These rates are for you if you are paying for the training without financial support from an organization. The cost listed below is for 1 person attending the full event.

  • Solidarity: $20

  • Sustain: $40

  • Full Cost: $60

  • Redistribution: $80

Rates for individuals supported by organizations

These rates are for you if you are a member of an organization that is paying for your participation in the training. The cost listed below is for 1 person attending the full event.

  • Solidarity: $100

  • Sustain: $150

  • Full Cost: $200

  • Redistribution: $250

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May
15
5:30 PM17:30

Pop-Up Choir: Movement Songs

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Songs were integral to labor and civil rights movements as a means of storytelling, motivation, and spiritual connection. Participants will engage with various artifacts of these movement songs (audio/video) and then form a pop-up choir to sing them together. They will write a new movement song together based on this practice and inspiration. BYO instruments.

Praxis anchors: forming collective identity

Facilitated by:

jireh l. drake (written as is; pronouns: they // them) is an unapologetic queer, black, trans non-binary baddie, youth worker, & abolitionist organizer, who has been reimagining life in Chicago for over a decade. they are a mixed media drawing and sculpting artist, woodworker, and poet, who is often laughing, chanting, or freestyling healing hymns.

jireh uses art to tenderly unearth trauma & imagine new worlds where we strive to put things as right as possible to heal. their work has a strong sense of texture & movement while utilizing earth-based materials. they work in collaboration with radical grassroots organizations and create public installations to ensure their work is rooted in community. jireh invites their community to create and move with them, imagining a world where QTBIPOC folks breathe easy. their work has been featured in Gallery 400, Depaul Art Museum, Hairpin Arts Center & numerous Chicago grassroots abolitionist campaigns & actions, on top of being archived at the Newberry Library.

When: Thursday, May 15

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

Where: Bridgeport (Location TBD)

Price:

Rates for Individuals

These rates are for you if you are paying for the training without financial support from an organization. The cost listed below is for 1 person attending the full event.

  • Solidarity: $20

  • Sustain: $40

  • Full Cost: $60

  • Redistribution: $80

Rates for individuals supported by organizations

These rates are for you if you are a member of an organization that is paying for your participation in the training. The cost listed below is for 1 person attending the full event.

  • Solidarity: $100

  • Sustain: $150

  • Full Cost: $200

  • Redistribution: $250

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May
29
5:30 PM17:30

Signs of a Movement

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Protest signs, murals, and banners represent historic and present-day movements and demonstrations. Members of the artist community will talk about their work and lead participants through their own poster making/print that they will then wheat paste in the neighborhood

Praxis anchors: creating as resistance, embodying justice

When: Thursday, May 29

Time: 5:30-8:30

Where: Location TBD

Price:

Rates for Individuals

These rates are for you if you are paying for the training without financial support from an organization. The cost listed below is for 1 person attending the full event.

  • Solidarity: $20

  • Sustain: $40

  • Full Cost: $60

  • Redistribution: $80

Rates for individuals supported by organizations

These rates are for you if you are a member of an organization that is paying for your participation in the training. The cost listed below is for 1 person attending the full event.

  • Solidarity: $100

  • Sustain: $150

  • Full Cost: $200

  • Redistribution: $250

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