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What the world needs now is poetry and abortion access!

Please join Lifted Voices for a celebration of poetry and resistance against heteropatriarchal control of our bodies! Atena O. Danner will read poems from her newly released collection “Incantations for Rest: Poems, Meditations and Other Magic.“ Book release reception to follow.

Free copies of the book will be distributed, while supplies last(!), and donations to the Chicago Abortion Fund are highly encouraged.

Dorothy Burge, Anthony Holmes, LaTanya Sublett and Mary L Johnson, presenters at the “Stitch x Stitch: Conversations on Quilting, ‘Healing’, and Abolition” conference, offer this special workshop at the PO Box to further the conversation about the rich history of textiles and movements for justice. 

In the spring of 1972, police raided an apartment on the South Side of Chicago where seven women who were part of a clandestine network were arrested and charged. Using code names, fronts, and safe houses to protect themselves and their work, the accused had built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions. They called themselves “Jane.”

Directed by Oscar-nominee Tia Lessin (HBO’s Trouble the Water) and Emmy-nominee Emma Pildes (HBO’s Jane Fonda in Five Acts), The Janes offers first-hand accounts from the women at the center of the group, many speaking on the record for the first time.

The Janes tells the story of a group of unlikely outlaws. Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the members of Jane risked their personal and professional lives to help women in need. In the pre-Roe v. Wade era –– a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois –– the Janes provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women.

MAKE A DISTINCTION is a hybrid nonfiction feature that maps unseen forces of US imperialism through ostensibly disconnected aspects of daily life. If you can’t name the enemy, do you become it?

Anarchist Media Fest and Skill Share begins at 6pm.
Books and zines for sale, trade, and free.
Skill Shares: Solar Generator demo, Soil Science, and Mushroom Cultivation.

Film screenings begin at 8PM.
-Two short docs in English and Spanish
-Make a Distinction (feature length film) followed by discussion with filmmakers.

Convergence is CAPE’s annual exhibition of student artwork created in arts-integrated processes that expand academic learning. With over 40 classrooms represented, Convergence 2022 celebrates the creativity of the young artists and the teacher–teaching artist collaborations.

CAPE’s Northside schools’ exhibition explores identity, community, and urban space at PO Box Collective. Rogers Fine Arts students created illustrated poems that investigate their sense of self and identity. Boone Elementary students transferred ideas about balance and interdependence in social frameworks parallel to their study of ecosystems found in the rainforest: creating masks to examine social constructs in daily interactions with family, friends, enemies, pets, school, and community. Goudy students built a cardboard city to explore urban planning and engineering to visualize what a city could look like from Kindergarten’ through 3rd graders’ perspectives