Saturdays 2:30pm

January 30 - March 5, 2016

Red Line Service: Soup for the Mind is an exhibition and programming series inspired by the recent Bryant Settlement Agreement concerning Chicagoans experiencing homelessness. This agreement, in an attempt to restrict the widespread and routine disposal of the people's belongings by city authorities, lists what can and can't be legally possessed by segments of Chicago's homeless population. The exhibition and programming at 6018North encourage viewers to consider what constitutes a home and the possessions within it.

Saturday programming at 2:30pm from January 30th to March 5th includes lunch and film screenings at 6018North:

January 30, The Trials of Muhammed Ali

Feb 6, What Happened Miss Simone?

Feb 13, Weather Underground

Feb 20, James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

Feb 27, Cesar Chavez

March 5, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

Events are free and open to all, with a special invitation extended to Chicagoans experiencing homelessness. We invite visitors with the means to do so, to bring items that Chicagoans experiencing homelessness are allowed to possess under the Bryant Settlement Agreement. These include gloves, hats, socks, boots, coats, blankets, sleeping bags, suitcases. Please only bring new items. 

Red Line Service: Soup for the Mind is presented by Red Line Service Collaborative which seeks to reframe art’s possibility as a broad social justice endeavor. As cultural practitioners deeply concerned with the widespread poverty that defines and beleaguers Chicago, Red Line Service presents an ongoing series of social interventions into these issues within the terms of artistic practice. Focused primarily on homelessness, this work is embodied and personal, insisting on a robust and enduring engagement with the world. For more information about Red Line Services online click here. For Facebook click here. 

Click here for more information about the Settlement Agreement

"Portable personal possession" as defined by this agreement are:    a sleeping bag or bed roll, not more than 2 coats, not more than two pairs of shoes or boots, not more than five blankets, and not more than 3 bags or suitcases. From October through April, homeless people in lower Wacker Drive may have up to 5 additional blankets and 1 additional sleeping bag or bed roll with them. 

Read here about RedLine Service review at Weinberg Gallery