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  • Soup and Bread

    • January 7 @ 5:30 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Hideout
    • 1354 W Wabansia, Chicago

    Since 2009 Soup & Bread has been providing food and community to hungry Chicagoans, and has raised more than $110,000 for local food pantries. This winter, we’re bringing back our traditional community meals at the Hideout on the first Wednesday of the month, from 6-8 pm, from December through April. As... Read More

  • ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! Vigil and Protest

    • January 7 @ 7:30 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • La Villita Arch
    • 26th St & South Troy, Chicago

    Join us for an emergency vigil and protest in solidarity with Minneapolis, where a community responder was murdered by ICE.

  • Nonfiction Read Aloud - ONLINE

    • January 8 @ 6:30 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626

    Nonfiction Read-Aloud Book Group meets online once a month, on the 2nd Thursday of each month @ 6:30pm. We’ve been meeting since 2019. Meetings are fluid. Pop in when you can! We take turns reading aloud to each other and stop the reading frequently to discuss the text, ask questions, and repeat sentences.... Read More

  • Chicago Palestine Film Festival: The Voice of Hind Rajab

    • January 9 @ 5:45 PM
    • until 7:45 PM
    • Gene Siskel Film Center
    • 164 N State Street Chicago, IL

    The Chicago Palestine Film Festival is proud to partner with the Gene Siskel Film Center for the theatrical opening of The Voice of Hind Rajab in Chicago! Between January 9 to 29, there will be numerous opportunities to catch this film, so if you missed it last time, be sure to catch one of the upcoming showings. Note:... Read More

  • Fighting MAGA and the Far Right, from the Campus to the Streets

    • January 9 @ 7:30 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    Join us for a conversation with leading scholars, activists, and organizers about how we can combat the attacks on people in our streets, our communities, and our universities. How do we defend ourselves and organize against ICE, academic repression, racism, and attempts to silence us? The panel will feature those who have been targets of right-wing attacks as well as those who have been writing and organizing about the long history of repression in the US, including Tom Alter, A.... Read More

  • Memorial for People Killed by Police

    • January 11 @ 11:00 AM
    • until 1:00 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626

    We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.

  • Poppy and the Pen (Book Club)

    • January 14 @ 6:30 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Skunk Cabbage Books
    • 2826 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

    After a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by miscarriage after miscarriage, Hala Alyan makes the decision to use a surrogate. In this charged time, she turns to the archetype of the waiting woman—the Scheherazade who tells stories to ensure another dawn—to confront her own narratives of motherhood, love, and inheritance. Book... Read More

  • Memorial for People Killed by Police

    • January 18 @ 11:00 AM
    • until 1:00 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626

    We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.

  • Favorite Shards Album Release Show

    • January 23 @ 8:00 PM
    • Seven Bar
    • 400 East Randolph

    Celebrate the release of Melon Sprout's ablum, Favorite Shards :) at Seven Bar 400 E Randolph - 7th Floor Performances from Quicksails - psych-ed out hypersphere synthesis, Melon Sprout, the ceramic amplifier, Nu AM - tape saturated ambience, Slumpman Ray - all the way from NC, bringing the sweets to our sweet city.... Read More

  • Memorial for People Killed by Police

    • January 25 @ 11:00 AM
    • until 1:00 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626

    We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.

  • Memorial for People Killed by Police

    • February 1 @ 11:00 AM
    • until 1:00 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626

    We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.

  • Soup and Bread

    • February 4 @ 5:30 PM
    • until February 11 @ 8:00 PM
    • The Hideout
    • 1354 W Wabansia, Chicago

    Since 2009 Soup & Bread has been providing food and community to hungry Chicagoans, and has raised more than $110,000 for local food pantries. This winter, we’re bringing back our traditional community meals at the Hideout on the first Wednesday of the month, from 6-8 pm, from December through April. As... Read More

  • Memorial for People Killed by Police

    • February 8 @ 11:00 AM
    • until 1:00 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626

    We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.

  • Memorial for People Killed by Police

    • February 15 @ 11:00 AM
    • until 1:00 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626

    We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.

  • Against Landlords: Belden Sawyer Tenant Association Book Club

    • February 17 @ 6:30 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Skunk Cabbage Books
    • 2826 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

    "Against Landlords overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the blame squarely at the feet of landlordism, which boosts house prices and makes tenancy unaffordable.... Read More

  • Memorial for People Killed by Police

    • February 22 @ 11:00 AM
    • until 1:00 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626

    We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.

  • Soup and Bread

    • March 4 @ 5:30 PM
    • until March 11 @ 9:00 PM
    • The Hideout
    • 1354 W Wabansia, Chicago

    Since 2009 Soup & Bread has been providing food and community to hungry Chicagoans, and has raised more than $110,000 for local food pantries. This winter, we’re bringing back our traditional community meals at the Hideout on the first Wednesday of the month, from 6-8 pm, from December through April. As... Read More

  • Soup and Bread

    • April 1 @ 6:30 PM
    • until April 08 @ 9:00 PM
    • The Hideout
    • 1354 W Wabansia, Chicago

    Since 2009 Soup & Bread has been providing food and community to hungry Chicagoans, and has raised more than $110,000 for local food pantries. This winter, we’re bringing back our traditional community meals at the Hideout on the first Wednesday of the month, from 6-8 pm, from December through April. As... Read More

  • Anjali Enjeti and Simona Supekar

    • April 2 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    Join us as we welcome Anjali Enjeti and Simona Supekar to the store for an event in celebration of their new books Ballot and Stock Photo. About Stock Photo: Part memoir, part cultural criticism, Stock Photo mines the visual culture of stock photography, which is used in nearly every facet of the media landscape we consume, including as part of the datasets on which A.I.... Read More

  • Lisa Low Celebrates REPLICA

    • April 11 @ 7:30 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    Join us as we welcome Lisa Low to the store for a launch celebration for her new collection Replica. Stand-up comedy, a celebrity non-apology, observations of racism, and the slipperiness of nostalgia underpin Replica. In poignant, witty poems, Lisa Low navigates the tensions of solidarity and hostility in white spaces as she sets out to write differently about race. “The... Read More