Digging for Histories, Listening for Futures
What to bring:
Prior to coming, please check the weather and dress with layers for changing weather conditions. Also consider bringing a garbage bag, blanket or other portable item on which to sit, as well as any items that will make the day more pleasant including sunscreen, water, snacks, or thermos, as desired,
10 AM
Meet on the South Entrance of Logan Center for the Arts
Maplink here
Parking notes:
There is parking on Cottage Grove
Many Public Transportation options including:
Green Line to Cottage Grove
South Shore Metra Train from Millennium Park to 59th Street and Stony Island (1/2 mile walk West or buses)
Hyde Park Express Bus (#2 from Loop to 60th and Cottage Grove).
10:30 AM
Autonomy Is Not Freedom
Join three land-based practice collectives, Gulf South Open School, Hase’, and Untidy Objects, for hands-on activities in the Untidy Objects living Sculpture.
12 PM
Lunch
Bring your own bag lunch or pick something up at the Logan Center Cafe. Weather permitting, we will eat outside.
1 PM
Transition to Steelworkers Park
Maplink here
Meet at climbing wall via carpools or transit.
1:30 PM
History of Indigenous Chicago
Talk by John Low, eminent historian of Indigenous Chicago, professor of history at Ohio State University, and enrolled member of Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
2 PM
Walk with Community Members
Walk with members of the Bush neighborhood and Park Advisory Council of Steelworkers Park.
3 PM
Writing Workshop and South Works Chorus
Dreaming the Lakefront of the Future
This workshop will invite participants to write about what can be sensed and what remains buried on the grounds of the former US Steel South Works site, and imagine what a healed landscape might look and sound like; we will come together in groups to compose and perform choruses invoking the site’s past, present, and future.
4 PM
Transition to Narrow Bridge Arts Club via carpool
Maplink here
4:30 PM
Chicago Book of the Deep
Spells from the Anthropocene, with Tea and Snacks
Participants are invited to reflect upon this day of “Digging for Histories and Listening for Futures” and to consider the beauty in low and deep realms. Everyone will be given instructions on how to contribute to the Chicago Book of the Deep: Spells from the Anthropocene, a hand-bound book that can summon that which goes low and deep.
Note: During this time, there will also be dinner prep going on. If you like to join the kitchen crew, come on in!
6 PM
Sedimentary Dinner
Registration required.
6 PM
Sedimentary Dinner
Registration required.
7 PM
Tour of Narrow Bridge Arts Club
Transforming a space of worship into a space of artistic production, this tour will trace the embodied carbon of a 100-year-old building as an example of carbon-neutral design, with an eye towards implementing a whole life building system, where the inherited carbon in the buildings we live in becomes “banks” to transform Chicago into a carbon neutral city. And we will tour Narrow Bridge’s open studio model with a shared wood shop, fiber arts studio, mark making studio, and a food-for-all garden.