Great Science Fiction helps us imagine new worlds and to reimagine what our world can look like! Feminist Science Fiction Book Club has been so full of exciting discussions that we just can’t contain ourselves to once a month! Book Club has been devouring The Broken Earth Trilogy and will continue to discuss it the […]
This 2016 film about the lives of recycling plant workers in China documents a facility in a small town dedicated to the business of processing plastic waste. PLASTIC CHINA examines global consumption and culture through the eyes and hands of those who handle its refuse. Popcorn, refreshments and conversation! All free!
Learn how to do DIY screen-printing in your apartment with cheap and recycled materials. WORKSHOP 2: Designing Screens --Stencils $10 to cover materials, but FREE to Rogers Park residents between 14-18 years old.
Do you ride a bike in Rogers Park?💚 Would you like to ride but feel intimidated by drivers/cars? Would you like to experience REAL biking infrastructure: barrier-protected lanes and signalized intersections that prioritize bikes? It's totally possible IF we come together and demand it.✊🏾 ✨This event is part community building part strategizing session.🚲 ✨You do […]
Yu Hyun-mok’s Aimless Bullet (1960) is often recognized as one of the masterpieces of early Korean cinema. Based on the novel of the same name by Lee Beom-seon, Aimless Bullet captures the downbeat portrayal of post-Korean war society in the 50s. The film centers around an extended family; Cheol-Ho, a married accountant with a pregnant […]
Starting on the Friday evening of the Glenwood Arts Fest, we are transforming The PO Box into a community "Living Room” – a space where we can hang out and talk and listen to each other as we work together on a communal rag rug “composted” from the surplus clothing from the Clothing Swap; listen […]
Food Not Borders: A Food Not Bombs Picnic to End Child Detention! Join your fellow Rogers Park neighbors concerned with Heartland Alliance’s government contracts to imprison children immigrating to the US. We will be passing out flyers with Frequently Asked Questions about the detention centers located in Rogers Park. While we inform people we will […]
We will continue reading How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. Artist and scholar Jenny Odell makes the case for reclaiming time and attention from the demands of capitalism. As social media colonizes and commodifies more of our daily life, we increasingly yearn to redirect our focus toward exploring our world […]
French Avant-garde filmmaker and documentarian, Agnes Varda trains her ever-seeking eye on "gleaners", those who pick at already harvested fields for the odd potato or turnip, who insist on finding a use for what society has determined it has no use for. Her investigation leads us from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours […]
Lucy Parsons Labs gets together twice monthly in the PO Box space to work on various projects, including researching policing and surveillance issues, filing FOIA requests, and developing OpenOversight. Open to anyone interested in working on any of these issues or projects with us!
RPSN is organizing to end immigrant child detention at the Rogers Park facilities at 1620 W. Morse and 1628 W. Chase operated by Heartland Alliance -- the 2nd largest immigrant child detention contractor in the country. Enforced family separation, abuse and neglect have been widely reported in ProPublica and elsewhere.
Join the PO Box Collective + The Recyclery for a Bike-In Evening! We'll be talking about bikes, introducing you to The Recyclery (of Rogers Park), offering tips on basic bike maintenance, making inner tube jewelry, and ending the night with an outdoor Bike-In Movie ~ 6 - 7pm Tzippy from The Recyclery - Info Session […]