Event Archive

EVENT ARCHIVE 

		Bern Nadette Around Town Bern Nadette Stanis, Spokesperson for the Museum's "Make your Mark" campaign, will be signing her book: Situations 101 at several locations throughout the city of Chicago on the following days:
Bern Nadette Stanis "Thelma" from Good Times Vandyke Houses, Brownsville, NY

Sunday, April 11th
6.00 p. - 7.00 p.          Book signing: Situations 101 by Bern Nadette Stanis
                                   History Coming Home Exhibit 
                                   Merchandise Mart, South Lobby                   

Monday, April 12th     
12.00 p. - 2.00 p.        Book signing: Situations 101 by Bern Nadette Stanis
                                   History Coming Home Exhibit 
                                   Merchandise Mart, South Lobby          

3.00 p. - 5.00 p.          Make Your Mark Campaign & Book signing
                                   Cabrini Green
                                   375 West Elm Street
                                   Chicago, IL

7.00 p. - 8.30 p.          Make Your Mark Campaign & Book signing
                                   ABLA
                                   1247 S. Loomis
                                   Chicago, IL

Tuesday, April 13th           
4.00 p. - 6.00 p.          Make Your Mark Campaign & Book signing
                                   Washington Park
                                   3939 Lake Park Drive
                                  Chicago, IL

6.30 p. - 8.00 p.          Make Your Mark Campaign & Book signing
                                   Altgeld Garden
                                   927 East 131st Street
                                   Chicago, IL

Wednesday, April 14th
10.00 a - 12.00 p.       Tenant Services Breakfast & Meeting
                                    Make Your Mark Campaign & Book signing
                                    243 E. 32nd Street
                                    Chicago, IL

History Coming Home An Exhibit at the Merchandise Mart In 2012, The National Public Housing Museum will open as a permanent home for the complicated, contentious - yet often inspiring history of public housing in America. Come explore this exhibit to get a hint of what's to come. If all you know of public housing is its tragic side, you'll find there's more to the story. Dates: February 8 - April 22, 2010 Location: Merchandise Mart, South Lobby - Chicago IL Hours: 11a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday - Saturday Exhibit is free and open to the public To arrange for special docent-led group tours, please call 312.545.3656 To view a printable flyer, Click Here To view press release, Click Here Sponsored by: Join us for: The Women Behind the Names Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Date: March 24, 2010 Location: Conaway Center @ Columbia College 1104 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL Ida B. Wells This inaugural program co-presented by the National Public Housing Museum and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media will focus on the lives and work of the women for whom many public housing communities have been named.  In the spirit of celebrating these women who made inordinate contributions to our society, this program highlights people who are currently carrying this torch through their own work and activism. The theme of this panel discussion, "Journalism as Activism: Using Media to Expose Inequality and Impact Social Change," will focus on the journalism legacy of Ida B. Wells, celebrated journalist, civil rights activist, suffragist, community organizer and founder of the NAACP. Several veteran journalists including Clarence Page, Barbara Reynolds, David Protess, Thandi Chimurenga and Megan Cottrell, who are working in the tradition of Ida B. Wells, will discuss today's issues and how they are using current media outlets to address them. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call: 312-369-8829 The National Public Housing Museum presents Daniel Beaty's acclaimed one-man performance on race, nation and identity   Date:         Monday, November 16 Time:         7:00 PM Location:   eta Creative Arts Foundation                   7558 S. South Chicago Avenue                   Chicago, IL Tickets & Information: 773.752.3955 Date:         Tuesday, November 17 Time:         7:00 PM Location:    Northwestern University                    Wallis Theater                    1949 Campus Drive                    Evanston, IL Tickets & Information:312.545.3656   - What does centuries of slavery do to the psyche? - How free are we really at athe dawn of the 21st century? 2006 - A slave ship rises out of the Hudson River in front of the Statue of Liberty sending the nation into a whirlwhind of emotion and exploration. Award winning artist Daniel Beaty portrays a cast of 40 characters, including a homeless man, a scientist, a republican business executive, a street vendor, and an 11 year-old boy from public housing who all respond to the phenomenon. Through the characters' individual responses to the ship and their varied testimonies on identity and personal freedom, Emergency!  To watch a clip of Emergency!: click here PDF of Emergency! invitation: click here Museum in the Streets presented by In collaboration with: Join Us   Breakfast Conversation with Ruth Abram Founding President, Lower East Side Tenement Museum   "Putting First Things First"    Date:              Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Time:              8:00 - 9:30am Location:        Roosevelt University                        Sullivan Room                        430 S. Michigan Avenue                        Chicago, IL   RSVP:            rsvp@publichousingmuseum.org  To View PDF for this event:  Click Here

Affecting Lasting Change through Design Build Activism

Sergio Palleroni is an architect, professor and fellow at the Center for Sustainable Practices and Processes at Portland State University and is internationally know for his social and environmental activism, and for providing sustainable design solutions to communities in need. Palleroni is also co-founder of BASIC Initiative, a service-learning program for students in various partner universities.

 
City Design Center - UIC College of Architecture & the Arts
And
The National Public Housing Museum

		Chicago Public Library's "One Book, One Chicago" series: Blueprint for Disaster The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing

Join us for a "Premiere Weekend" June 11-13:  

Hope VI at the Chicago Dramatists Theater
AND
Inside Out (Back by Popular Demand!)

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HOPE VI Thursday, June 11 is National Public Housing Museum Night* at The Chicago Dramatists Theater, along with the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago.

Join us for this world premiere play, HOPE VI -- The story of six-year-old Hope Graves, a highly spirited and funny young girl who has become strangely quiet.

Hope VI is the journey of her dream and her family's struggle to survive after the wrecking ball hits the Robert Taylor homes on Chicago's Southside.

*VIP ticket holders will have the unique opportunity to attend a pre-play reception and follow-up discussion with director Ilesa Duncan, Institute Executive Director Jane Saks, and Museum Executive Director Keith L. Magee.
Part of the proceeds from this performance will be donated to the Museum.
For special admission rate, mention code: NPHM.

When: Thursday, June 11, 2009: 8pm
Where: Chicago Dramatists Theater
1105 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL

Admission:
(Please mention code: NPHM)
$10 - CHA Residents
$25 - General Admission
$35 - VIP Admission to Reception, HOPE VI and Panel Discussion

Reservations: 312-633-0630
http://www.chicagodramatists.org/

INSIDE OUT Back by Popular Demand!  June 12 & 13, 2009 With the overwhelming response of over 300 visitors in one night and the request from hundreds more... it returns!

 

Inside Out: An Audio and Visual Installation - A premier series of audio and visual installations in the former Jane Addams Homes. Experience the future of the National Public Housing Museum through the eyes and voices of the many generations who have made their homes in public housing.

When:	Friday, June 12: 6-8pm             AND   Saturday, June 13: 12-3pm
Where:	The future home of the National Public Housing Museum,   1322-24 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL  (Map)
Admission:	Exhibition is free and open to everyone

May 12, 2009 - In the K/Now: Public Attitudes Toward Public Housing

Influences of Alternative and Traditional Journalism

"In the K/Now" Series - A Joint Program of the Chicago History Museum and The National Public Housing Museum

	Join Us Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Time: 6:30-8:00 pm Location: Chicago History Museum 1601 N. Clark Street, Chicago Admission: FREE

A panel of journalists, writers and activists - representing both alternative and established media - will explore the media's influence on public attitudes toward public housing communities and residents. Panelists will also comment on resident jornalists and how their unique voices and perspectives are changing media portrayals of public housing. Given the power and pervasiveness of the mass media, how can we discern what is the truth and what is "spin"? What is accurate and what is sensationalized or sentimentalized about public housing?

Moderator: Laura Washington - Chicago Sun-Times Panelists: Mary Johns - Editor-in-Chief, Resident's Journal Jamie Kalven - Author and Activist, The Invisible Institute and The View from the Ground Sarah Olkon - Reporter, Chicago Tribune Barbara A. Reynolds - Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Author, Professor and former Editorial Board - USA Today

April 17, 2009 - Inside Out

Inside Out
A series of audio and visual installations in the former Jane Addams Homes. Experience the future of the National Public Housing Museum through they eyes and voices of the many generations who have made their homes in public housing.

Friday April 17, 2009
6pm to 10pm

1322-24 West Taylor Street, Chicago IL
(In the future home of the National Public Housing Museum)

Will you attend? Please let us know by emailing: RSVP@publichousingmuseum.org

Click here to view full invitation: NPMH_InsideOut.pdf (930 KB)

This program is made possible in Part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council,
The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General Assembly.
Other sponsors include The Woods Fund of Chicago, The Adler Planetarium,
The Boeing Company and Bar Louie.

Constructing Community in Public Housing
November 2nd, 2008: Panel Discussion, Chicago Humanities Festival 

Public Housing: Not What You Think
A Public Forum on Gentrification, Public Housing and Change in Chicago Communities: Click here to listen to the panel discussion at the Chicago History Museum on February 5^th, 2008 Image 1 Image 2

Resilience from Aaron Cahan on Vimeo.