Come to celebrate the end of Chinese New Year Month known as 龍抬头 (LONG raise its head) and the start of the working year with free haircut, fortune-telling, food and art!

We will have three hairdressers Anthony Spaulding, Heather Canuel and Sungjae Lee. Each has a different way of working and expertises. Please RSVP a haircut spot here. 

This event is co-hosted by Anthony Spaulding, Heather Canuel, Li Yao, Jinlu Luo, Ji Yang, Peixuan Ouyang, Sungjae Lee, Shuo Cai, Yezhou Zheng, Yue Xu, Zachary Sun as a family. 

Water Conversation with Andrea Jackson, from the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. Join this open conversation about the sacredness of water. How we honor it and why we as women have to be the voice to care for the water.

Closing celebration with food and drink 3-6 PM

Visit Water from 1-5 PM and receive a Moon Reading by Rebecca Beachy! Why moon readings? Since the moon has influence over huge bodies of water like Lake Michigan and the oceans, you can discover the moon's influence on you at the time of your birth and now.

On Saturday join Tria Smith to create a second life for trash by stringing water bottles with her and adding to Plastic Water Collection. The installation invites you to collect and reuse single use water bottles by bringing them to the show and add them to the walls. If you have bottles at home or find a water bottle along the way or that you have used, please bring it, even if dirty and smashed. 

Join artist and energy worker Rhonda Wheatley and Red Line Service for an interactive healing experience with water. We’ll briefly discuss the power and magic of water then set our intentions for the healing we’d like to receive. Next, Rhonda will lead a guided energy healing meditation during which you’ll be invited to both send energy healing to Lake Michigan and receive the healing you need in return. Lastly, we’ll end with practices to continue this healing connection with water in our everyday lives. No energy healing experience is necessary to participate. Bring a notebook or journal and please feel free to participate at your level of comfort.

Open Hours from 1-5 PM with welcoming snacks 2 PM!

Join Aneela Dean with Red Line Service as she helps us move the water of life from within to guide us and connect us to wholeness, using hands, breath, and movement. 

Join us for the welcome and snacks at 2 PM!

Visit Water from 1-5 PM and receive a Moon Reading by Rebecca Beachy! Why moon readings? Since the moon has influence over huge bodies of water like Lake Michigan and the oceans, you can discover the moon's influence on you at the time of your birth and now.

On Saturday join Tria Smith to create a second life for trash by stringing water bottles with her and adding to Plastic Water Collection. The installation invites you to collect and reuse single use water bottles by bringing them to the show and add them to the walls. If you have bottles at home or find a water bottle along the way or that you have used, please bring it, even if dirty and smashed. 

Visit Water and receive a Moon Reading by Rebecca Beachy! Why moon readings? Since the moon has influence over huge bodies of water like Lake Michigan and the oceans, you can discover the moon's influence on you at the time of your birth and now! And if that isn’t enough, Rebecca Beachy creates a beautiful, personalized moon drawing for you to keep.

Join us with Edgewater Environmental Coalition for an end of year celebration where we share a dye pot and potluck with each other. Please RSVP!

If you would like, bring 1-2 things made with natural fibers (cotton, wool + mordant if you would like), something to take hot wet dyed things away with (waterproof container/durable bag), food to share, and a craft to work on. 

We will have a brief presentation at 6:30pm with natural dye basics and an accompanying zine, but encourage participants to bring their own natural dye projects and will have time for group discussion/tips.

Visit Water and receive a Moon Reading by Rebecca Beachy! Why moon readings? Since the moon has influence over huge bodies of water like Lake Michigan and the oceans, you can discover the moon's influence on you at the time of your birth and now! 

Visit Water and receive a Moon Reading by Rebecca Beachy! Why moon readings? Since the moon has influence over huge bodies of water like Lake Michigan and the oceans, you can discover the moon's influence on you at the time of your birth and now! 

Join us for Chicago Architecture Biennial opening weekend reception, featuring a performance "Water Organoids" by Baudouin Saintyves. RSVP

This event is a part of Water – an exhibition featuring work by Rebecca Beachy with Nina Barnett and Christine Wallers, Jennifer Buyck, Julie Carpenter, Eugenia Cheng, David Freid, Virginia Hanusik, Candace Hunter, Anna Johnson, Matthew Kaplan, Roland Knowlden, JeeYeun Lee, Jin Lee, Meredith Leich, Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty, Tria Smith, and Ines Sommer.

Presented as a partner project of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Water uses the Chicago River as an entryway to discuss the interconnectedness and relational importance of water upon the City and its people. From pre-settler colonialism to present day, the availability of water has impacted the City of Chicago’s formation, rise, and current environmental concerns. The exhibition begins with a contemporary view of the Chicago River through the video of artist/architect Jennifer Buyck walking along the entire river. The exhibition also looks to Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River to correlate universal costs of exploitation, commodification, control, and renewal of waterways. Water’s impact and importance is much more than just economical and environmental. Water—essential to life—is a shared resource that connects all.

Water is presented throughout 6018North, with each floor housing four thematic sections: Now; Then; We the People – What Have We Done?; and Imagination. Through videos and photographs, Now depicts the present conditions of the Chicago River and Mississippi River. Then offers archives and historical documents of Chicago’s waterways. We the People – What Have We Done? explores the anthropogenic effects on water. Imagination features both representational and abstract approaches to water’s metaphoric quality. The sections We the People – What Have We Done? and Imagination contend with the dueling view of water as harsh reality (a reflection of climate insecurity) vs. abstract metaphor of possibility (of fluidity and adaptability). This dualism is what hydrofeminist Astrida Neimanis asks us to move beyond: “for us humans, the flow and flush of waters sustain our own bodies, but also connect them to other bodies, to other worlds beyond our human selves.” The exhibition, accompanying public programs, and convenings aim to reveal how waterways can be re-examined, better understood, and re-imagined, so that we can become better stewards of water and all that it connects.

A central component of the exhibition is a water parole donnée, parole rendu – an exchange of water stories in Chicago, by Chicagoans. Through a series of community storytelling engagements, people across Chicago collect water samples and tell the story of their water. Scientists, activists, and historians respond to the water and stories. The collection is presented chandelier-like, in 6018North’s stairway connecting the themes of the exhibition.

Water is a partner program of the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. This exhibition is a collaboration between artist/architect Jennifer Buyck, curator Tricia Van Eck, 6018North, and the Villa Albertine. Water is ongoing research in sustainable strategies for a 2024 exhibition as a part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art investigating and elevating Chicago’s rich visual art and design histories and creative communities. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events. 6018North projects are partially supported by an anonymous donor advised fund at The Chicago Community Foundation, a CityArts Innovation Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, a Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Field Foundation of Illinois, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, IL Humanities, Illinois Arts Council Agency Youth Employment Grants, Joyce Foundation, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations.

The first image is a still from Chicago par ses rivières / Chicago by its rivers by Jennifer Buyck

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Sunday, October 1 from 1-4 PM
Pause For Peace Community Garden
E 75th St and S St. Lawrence Avenue, Chicago
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Join AMFM at the Pause for Peace Community Garden - Justice Hotel partners - for A Soliloquy of Sound: A South Side Visual Art and Performance Activation featuring an eclectic mix of experimental jazz and hip-hop and art set within the beautiful backdrop of art and nature nestled on Chicago’s south side. A Soliloquy of Sound features sonics and art from:

Pugs Atomz is an internationally known MC, Radio host, designer, and painter. Born in Pittsburgh, but raised in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. He has released numerous albums, and Chicago rap compilations. His music and art has been featured in movies, sport events, & video games. As a teen he founded the legendary Nacrobats crew (200+members like Mike Eagle, Psalm One, Max Sansing, Statik RK, Ruben Aguirre to name a few). His first big break was in the 20th Century Fox Movie`Light up" he was the main character study and did all the murals in the movie For the last 20 years he has co-hosted CTA radio show interviewing established & underground artists from Chicago and worldwide on WHPK. He is one of the co-founders of the Englewood Arts Collective, using art to change the narrative of Englewood. As well as a member of THE Chicago Public Art Group, Pugs has been a mentor to Chicago’s next musicians, street artists, and clothing designers. He has traveled the world several times over with his London band The Electric, always making a lasting impression thanks to his music, energetic stage performances, forward-thinking attitude and relate-able lyrics. Hip Hop culture, worldwide and in the Chi especially, influenced him from graffiti art in his city to street performers on train while attending SAIC. On screen he has been on TV shows and independent movies in minor roles, but directing and editing has been his passion. Currently, he is the Creative Director of the fashion forward Iridium Clothing Co. designing clothing, and creating video content and events. You can also find his art on t-shirts and accessories from his personal brand and production company USUWE 93.

Semira Truth is a multidisciplinary artist from Chicago, IL. Semira’s ability to be a nuanced storyteller, combined with their glitchy hallucinating beats has led to extensive collaborative projects that they have contributed to around the globe. Semiratruth has also been praised by the Chicago Reader, Bandcamp, Pitchfork, and Artforum. Semira allows you to travel through dimensions with their words and the possibility of sound.

Isaiah Collier is a Chicago/Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, curator, activist, motivational speaker, and educator. Collier is most known for his work as a saxophonist and drummer. Collier's sound and approach is drawn from the influences of other master saxophonists including John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, Wayne Shorter, Ari Brown, and Gene Ammons. Collier has shared the stage with many musicians both locally and internationally, with artists such as Chance the Rapper, Lewis Nash, Waddada Leo Smith III, Antonio Hart, Junius Paul, James Carter, Rene Marie, Carl Allen, Paul Rogers, Bennie Maupin, Rudy Van Gelder, Angel Bat Dawid, and many more. Past venues and festivals include the Jazz Showcase, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, the Lithuania Jazz Festival, the White House, Chicago Jazz Festival, New York Winter Jazz Festival, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Jazz in the Court (Hyde Park), the United States Embassy in Paraguay, and others.

Bonita Appleblunt (they/them) is a Chicago Based multifaceted DJ and Audio Visual Professional who specializes in exploring the lineage of modern and underground genres with their African roots. Bonita has been nominated as Best Hip Hop DJ 2021 & 2022 by Chicago Reader's Best of, and played a set at Afropunk Brooklyn this past year. They continue to play all over the city at places like Berlin, Retreat Currency Exchange, Virgin Hotels, and Sleeping Village to name a few.

Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar was born in 1986 in Brooklyn, NY and is a self taught contemporary visual artist and MAS MAN (carnival costume designer). His work includes MAS, mixed –media collage paintings, repurposed material, sculptural metal, performance, photography which interrogates notions of cultural heritage, sexual and gender identity as a first generation African –American black queer man born to Trinidadian immigrants. In 1996, he participated in the opening/closing Ceremonies of the Olympic Games, where he performed in a costume designed and made specially by his role model and iconic costume designer Trinidadian Peter Minshall. Ajmal graduated with a B.A. in English from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and studied at The Art Students League of New York in 2012. He has exhibited costumes and other art works in a range of spaces including alternative spaces, club venues, carnival, ‘pop up’-events locally and regionally. In Autumn of 2019, Ajmal relocated to Chicago and is a recent graduate from the Masters of Fine Art program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This event is a part of our ongoing Southside projects Justice Hotel and Soil and Soul.

Justice Hotel is supported in part by The Builders Initiative. 

Soil and Soul is supported in part by federal assistance listing number 21.027 awarded to 6018North by the US Treasury through the American Rescue Plan Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds in the amount of $45,000 representing 50% of total project funding.

Soil and Soul is partially supported by a Together We Heal Creative Place grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events and the Mayor's Office of Equity and Justice.

Join us for the opening reception of Water – an exhibition featuring work by Rebecca Beachy, Jennifer Buyck, Eugenia Cheng, Virginia Hanusik, Candace Hunter, Anna Johnson, Roland Knowlden, JeeYeun Lee, Jin Lee, Meredith Leich, Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty, Tria Smith, and Ines Sommer.

At 7 PM, there will be a performance "Surface Tension" by Anna Johnson.

Presented as a partner project of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Water uses the Chicago River as an entryway to discuss the interconnectedness and relational importance of water upon the City and its people. From pre-settler colonialism to present day, the availability of water has impacted the City of Chicago’s formation, rise, and current environmental concerns. The exhibition begins with a contemporary view of the Chicago River through the video of artist/architect Jennifer Buyck walking along the entire river. The exhibition also looks to Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River to correlate universal costs of exploitation, commodification, control, and renewal of waterways. Water’s impact and importance is much more than just economical and environmental. Water—essential to life—is a shared resource that connects all.

Water is presented throughout 6018North, with each floor housing four thematic sections: Now; Then; We the People – What Have We Done?; and Imagination. Through videos and photographs, Now depicts the present conditions of the Chicago River and Mississippi River. Then offers archives and historical documents of Chicago’s waterways. We the People – What Have We Done? explores the anthropogenic effects on water. Imagination features both representational and abstract approaches to water’s metaphoric quality. The sections We the People – What Have We Done? and Imagination contend with the dueling view of water as harsh reality (a reflection of climate insecurity) vs. abstract metaphor of possibility (of fluidity and adaptability). This dualism is what hydrofeminist Astrida Neimanis asks us to move beyond: “for us humans, the flow and flush of waters sustain our own bodies, but also connect them to other bodies, to other worlds beyond our human selves.” The exhibition, accompanying public programs, and convenings aim to reveal how waterways can be re-examined, better understood, and re-imagined, so that we can become better stewards of water and all that it connects.

A central component of the exhibition is a water parole donnée, parole rendu – an exchange of water stories in Chicago, by Chicagoans. Through a series of community storytelling engagements, people across Chicago collect water samples and tell the story of their water. Scientists, activists, and historians respond to the water and stories. The collection is presented chandelier-like, in 6018North’s stairway connecting the themes of the exhibition.

Water is a partner program of the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. This exhibition is a collaboration between artist/architect Jennifer Buyck, curator Tricia Van Eck, 6018North, and the Villa Albertine. Water is ongoing research in sustainable strategies for a 2024 exhibition as a part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art investigating and elevating Chicago’s rich visual art and design histories and creative communities. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events. 6018North projects are partially supported by an anonymous donor advised fund at The Chicago Community Foundation, a CityArts Innovation Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, a Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Field Foundation of Illinois, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, IL Humanities, Illinois Arts Council Agency Youth Employment Grants, Joyce Foundation, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations.

The image is a still from "Chicago par ses rivières / Chicago by its rivers" by Jennifer Buyck, 2023.

6018north.org/current-upcoming-projects#/water

Join us for panel discussion with Jennifer Buyck, Adam Flickinger, Ron Henderson, and Phil Nicodemus.

This event is a part of Water – an exhibition featuring work by Rebecca Beachy, Jennifer Buyck, Eugenia Cheng, Virginia Hanusik, Candace Hunter, Anna Johnson, Roland Knowlden, JeeYeun Lee, Jin Lee, Meredith Leich, Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty, Tria Smith, and Ines Sommer.

Presented as a partner project of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Water uses the Chicago River as an entryway to discuss the interconnectedness and relational importance of water upon the City and its people. From pre-settler colonialism to present day, the availability of water has impacted the City of Chicago’s formation, rise, and current environmental concerns. The exhibition begins with a contemporary view of the Chicago River through the video of artist/architect Jennifer Buyck walking along the entire river. The exhibition also looks to Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River to correlate universal costs of exploitation, commodification, control, and renewal of waterways. Water’s impact and importance is much more than just economical and environmental. Water—essential to life—is a shared resource that connects all.

Water is presented throughout 6018North, with each floor housing four thematic sections: Now; Then; We the People – What Have We Done?; and Imagination. Through videos and photographs, Now depicts the present conditions of the Chicago River and Mississippi River. Then offers archives and historical documents of Chicago’s waterways. We the People – What Have We Done? explores the anthropogenic effects on water. Imagination features both representational and abstract approaches to water’s metaphoric quality. The sections We the People – What Have We Done? and Imagination contend with the dueling view of water as harsh reality (a reflection of climate insecurity) vs. abstract metaphor of possibility (of fluidity and adaptability). This dualism is what hydrofeminist Astrida Neimanis asks us to move beyond: “for us humans, the flow and flush of waters sustain our own bodies, but also connect them to other bodies, to other worlds beyond our human selves.” The exhibition, accompanying public programs, and convenings aim to reveal how waterways can be re-examined, better understood, and re-imagined, so that we can become better stewards of water and all that it connects.

A central component of the exhibition is a water parole donnée, parole rendu – an exchange of water stories in Chicago, by Chicagoans. Through a series of community storytelling engagements, people across Chicago collect water samples and tell the story of their water. Scientists, activists, and historians respond to the water and stories. The collection is presented chandelier-like, in 6018North’s stairway connecting the themes of the exhibition.

Water is a partner program of the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. This exhibition is a collaboration between artist/architect Jennifer Buyck, curator Tricia Van Eck, 6018North, and the Villa Albertine. Water is ongoing research in sustainable strategies for a 2024 exhibition as a part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art investigating and elevating Chicago’s rich visual art and design histories and creative communities. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events. 6018North projects are partially supported by an anonymous donor advised fund at The Chicago Community Foundation, a CityArts Innovation Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, a Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Field Foundation of Illinois, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, IL Humanities, Illinois Arts Council Agency Youth Employment Grants, Joyce Foundation, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations.

The image is a still from "Chicago par ses rivières / Chicago by its rivers" by Jennifer Buyck

Water Music on the Beach is an annual series of live performances in Edgewater. Water Music on the Beach: Persephone is a collaboration between 6018North and Tria Smith, as part of ongoing research in sustainable strategies for Art Design Chicago 2024, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art investigating and elevating Chicago’s rich visual art and design histories and creative communities.

On Sunday, September 17 the performance begins at 5:30 PM at Lane Beach with a sound wash by Sakai Parker. Neighbors who have been transforming trash into lanterns, gathered from monthly cleanups with Edgewater Environmental Coalition, will meet at 5:00 PM at the Broadway Armory and begin a procession to Lane Beach at 5:15 PM.

Performers include Simon Anderson, Braeden Barnes and Michelle Meltzer, Whitney Bradshaw and OUTCRY participants, Coco Elysses, Elaine Lemieux, Ella Schultz, Angie Tillges, and Trevor Nicholas and the Senn High School Choir.

Initiated in 2012, Water Music on the Beach series highlights Chicago’s proximity to Lake Michigan through compositions and scores that reflect, react to, or personify the sounds of water. Free and open to the public – just like the lakeshore in Chicago – this event features experimental musicians and artists. Performances happen without a formal platform – the sand is our stage, the water and sky our backdrop.

Tria Smith is an artist creating work that brings together performance, writing, and design to facilitate deep engagement and promote community. She trained as an actress at the Piven Theater, Interlochen, Oberlin, Northwestern University, and was a principal collaborator at Redmoon Theater since its inception. For 25 years Redmoon pursued Spectacle + Wonder through adaptations of great novels, pageantry + circus. She creates programming and produces events at Guild Row Chicago, a social club for people who Give a Damn. She's the co-creator of The Persephone Project which uses the Persephone myth to create pageants to address climate change.

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6018North thanks The Puffin Foundation for their support of Water Music on the Beach: Persephone.

And thank you to Emanuel Congregation for sharing power to the beach!

6018North is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of culture and the arts in Chicago. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events. 6018North projects are partially supported by a Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, IL Humanities, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Terra Foundation for American Art, and individual donations.

Image: Persephone, photo by Eileen Ryan

Join Tria Smith to collect trash at Lake Michigan beach cleaning events at Osterman Beach for three Sundays:

Aug. 27: 10:30 - 12:30

Source, scavenge, and sift through trash with us on Sundays this Summer! Smith will then photograph, soak, scrub, air dry, and oven sanitize each day’s harvest of foraged micro-plastics to transform into costumes for a Persephone pageant on the beach. Join us each month in the messy poetry of circularity.

Tria Smith is the co-creator of The Persephone Project, which uses the myth of Persephone to address climate change. Costumes are being made from trashed plastic. If you saw and tried on her clothing at Expo, you can now be a part of the next iteration of Wear the Street!

Photo credit: Saverio Truglia

Join Tria Smith to collect trash at Lake Michigan beach cleaning events at Osterman Beach for three Sundays:

July 30: 10:30 - 12:30

Aug. 27: 10:30 - 12:30

Source, scavenge, and sift through trash with us on Sundays this Summer! Smith will then photograph, soak, scrub, air dry, and oven sanitize each day’s harvest of foraged micro-plastics to transform into costumes for a Persephone pageant on the beach. Join us each month in the messy poetry of circularity.

Tria Smith is the co-creator of The Persephone Project, which uses the myth of Persephone to address climate change. Costumes are being made from trashed plastic. If you saw and tried on her clothing at Expo, you can now be a part of the next iteration of Wear the Street!

Photo credit: Saverio Truglia

Come to INGA Books on *Friday July 28th, 2023 at 5 PM* for the film program:

*HOW TO TREAT A BODY: DISABILITY REFRAMED* programmed by Ana García Jácome and Caroline K. Ng.

We’ll be screening a collection of short films and sharing the How to Treat A Body Museum Guide.

Screening Artist List:

Emily Beaney(UK), Deviant, 2021

Ana García Jácome (MX), Malitas, 2022

Trini Ibarra (MX), He sido muchas, 2021

Nur Matta (MX), Maldita Iisiada, 2021

Radical Visibility Collective (US), Access Bitch, 2018

Marrok Sedgwick (US), People Like Me, 2020

Join us afterwards for a conversation with Sky Cubacub and Ana García Jácome.

Guests are asked to mask at this event.

For accommodations please contact justicehotelsocialmedia@gmail.com

Proud to partner with *INGA BOOKS 1740 W. 18th St.* This project is supported by 6018|North as a part of the ongoing project Justice Hotel, and is partially supported by a Together We Heal Creative Place grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events and the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Justice.

Over the summer, we'll clean, catalogue, and transform trash collected on the beach into stunning costumes and sculptures for a performance in August and an exhibition in September.

Trash washing and soap making at 6018 N. Kenmore
Sunday, July 2: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Source, scavenge, and sift through trash with us on Sundays this Summer! Smith will then photograph, soak, scrub, air dry, and oven sanitize each day’s harvest of foraged micro-plastics to transform into costumes for a Persephone pageant on the beach. Join us each month in the messy poetry of circularity.

Tria Smith is the co-creator of The Persephone Project, which uses the myth of Persephone to address climate change. Costumes are being made from trashed plastic. If you saw and tried on her clothing at Expo, you can now be a part of the next iteration of Wear the Street!

Photo credit: Saverio Truglia

Join Tria Smith to collect trash at Lake Michigan beach cleaning events at Osterman Beach for three Sundays:

June 25: 10:30 - 12:30

July 30: 10:30 - 12:30

Aug. 27: 10:30 - 12:30

Source, scavenge, and sift through trash with us on Sundays this Summer! Smith will then photograph, soak, scrub, air dry, and oven sanitize each day’s harvest of foraged micro-plastics to transform into costumes for a Persephone pageant on the beach. Join us each month in the messy poetry of circularity.

Tria Smith is the co-creator of The Persephone Project, which uses the myth of Persephone to address climate change. Costumes are being made from trashed plastic. If you saw and tried on her clothing at Expo, you can now be a part of the next iteration of Wear the Street!

Photo credit: Saverio Truglia

RSVP to be a part of the celebration!

3-6 PM Food Prep Workshop led by JI Yang

6-10 PM New Year Party!

Join us at 6018North for a lunar celebration with a family of artists: JI Yang, Zhuyan Ye, Zachary Sun, I-Chien Chen, Jinlu Luo, Xu Yue, and Ajumma Rising.

Please RSVP ASAP to join us with Mashaun Ali Hendricks of TRAP HOUSE CHICAGO at HolyGround, 2242 S Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60608 for the first CRIMEDROUGHT dinner and dialogue.

This program supported by Illinois Humanities through its Envisioning Justice program.

Join us 2-8 PM to paint a mural and share a dinner celebration honoring the life, art, and activism of Lauren Stumblingbear. 6018North hosts a shared meal and discussion alongside artists Pablo Mendoza, Sarah Ross, Heather Canuel, and friends of Bear. 

This program is supported by Illinois Humanities through its Envisioning Justice program.

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This gathering and event will take place in the front yard of 6018 N Kenmore Ave, on the East side of the building, on uneven natural terrain. If you are an individual with a disability and need accommodation to attend, please contact 6018north@gmail.com.

Image created by Lauren Stumblingbear.

Please RSVP to join us at 6018North

Transition into fall by learning to mend fabrics with Nandi Duszynski of Bliss Joy Bull and local Scrap Squad Chicago artists.

Learn basic sewing skills and Sashiko mending techniques for both knit and woven fabrics, and consider bringing clothing items from home before donating or to repair for your winter wardrobe!

This event is brought to you with support from the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce and SSA #26. 

While the event is free, donations are welcome and suggested.

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You are invited to this experiential workshop led by Kim Crutcher exploring the healing potential of plants. This workshop offers a vision of using water as a fundamental healer for the human body. We will make tea and discuss other herbal preparations that are water based. Please bring something to write on and with, as we gather to discuss the simple yet powerful method of using herbal medicine and learning about herbs. Rev Kim Crutcher (LCPC) is an artist, teacher and mental health counselor committed to fostering holistic transformation in individuals, groups and communities. Using ritual, song, the written word, storytelling, Western psychotherapy, folk healing traditions, and the creative process Kim is able to meet the emotional, mental, spiritual and physical needs of her clients. Currently Kim stands in the role of Chief Conductor of the Herbal Apprenticeship program with Urban Grower's Collective.

Join us with Tria Smith to explore the radical reuse of trash and the environmental consequences of plastics, as we clean up Hollywood Beach! RSVP for this event and other monthly clean-ups and workshops with Edgewater Environmental Coalition.

Having trained as a performer at the Piven Theater Workshop, Interlochen, and Northwestern, Tria Smith became a principal collaborator with Redmoon Theater. For 25 years we pursued spectacle and wonder through adaptations of great novels, pageantry and circus. We built shadow shows, blew fire, learned to stilt, took over streets, paraded in January and July. A strong desire to reach young people accompanied her work at Redmoon. Tria founded Dramagirls; a long-term creative mentorship for middle school girls on the West Side. Through supportive relationships, challenging training, and public performance, the program offered a safe space for girls to create performances that expressed the truth of their lives. With Redmoon, she had the opportunity to direct the Youth Spectacle at the Peggy Noteabart Nature Museum, write a science fiction comic that was projected on the windows of the MCA, and write a book given to 30,000 3rd graders in CPS about the Great Chicago Fire.

Using principles of theater + spectacle, Tria has had the opportunity to create vibrant partnerships, amplify seldom heard voices + provide an arrival point which gathers momentum and an audience in public spaces. She is passionate about artistic projects that work toward a greater cause, and impact people and the environment beyond the circle of artists and audience. Currently Tria helps create programming and special events for Guild Row, a social club for making things and people who give a damn in Avondale.

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Sustainable Sustenance gathers artists, environmental scholars, historians, and activists to explore Chicago’s land, water, and air from its past to its present. This event will feature Kelly Church, Amy Doll, Yaritza Guillen, and Melissa Potter.

During these conversational dinners, we discuss how to more conscientiously understand the ecologies that preceded us to better face urgent environmental issues.

Sustainable Sustenance is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art investigating and elevating Chicago’s rich visual art and design histories and creative communities.

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Sustainable Sustenance gathers artists, environmental scholars, historians, and activists to explore Chicago’s land, water, and air from its past to its present. Featured guests of this gathering will be Les Begay, Julia S. Bachrach, Nance Klehm, Samuel Kling, and Dick Lanyon.

During these conversational dinners, we discuss how to more conscientiously understand the ecologies that preceded us to better face urgent environmental issues.

Sustainable Sustenance is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art investigating and elevating Chicago’s rich visual art and design histories and creative communities.

Please RSVP to join us at 6018North!

The new Chicago Climate Action plan continues to work toward creating resilient and sustainable communities across the city. Join EEC in bringing the plan to our community by creating a creative vision for the plan in Edgewater. We’ll have a presentation from the City’s Sustainability Team, conversation, and be led through a facilitation technique called The Braid, a meta-modeling adventure, with Adelheid Mers, an artist who works through Performative Diagrammatics, a practice that includes elements of installation, facilitation with publics, and video.

Bring your ideas and reflections on how climate change affects you and the community in Edgewater.

This workshop is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art investigating and elevating Chicago’s rich visual art and design histories and creative communities.

This event is brought to you with support from the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce and SSA #26.