Seed + Plant Swap + Demos!!
Come swap seeds and fall transplants at our Fall Seed Celebration on Saturday, October 16th, 2:30-5pm.
Let’s process our seeds together before we all begin hibernation!
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Teach-in on the #BoeingArmsGenocide campaign
Join Loyola Dissenters, PO Box Collective, and AFSC Chicago for a teach-in on Saturday October 16th, at 12:30-2 pm at 6900 N. Glenwood Ave on Boeing, and the chance we have to kick them out of Chicago.
Come through early if you want to check out the Dissenters & JustSeeds ‘Demilitarize’ portfolio which is currently on display at the PO Box!
Demilita-RISE: 20 Years of the War on Terror
“Demilitarise: 20 Years of the War on Terror” is a new exhibit that runs through the month of October with various related events.
The exhibits offers us a chance to reflect and learn as we mark the twenty years after the events of 9/11 and the subsequent forever wars, drone strikes, torture and attacks on civil liberties.
Come to our next open gallery hours on Oct 16th 10:30am-12:30pm and stay for a teach-in on the #BoeingArmsGenocide campaign.
The exhibit shares work from the following:
“Shattering Justice & Re-Making the Muslim Threat,” is an exhibit that counter-narrates the War on Terror through Muslims eyes. By centering the impact on Muslims, this visual exhibit brings the impact of the many laws and policies that have targeted Muslims, to life. Through this carefully curated poster series, attendees coming to the exhibit will able to better understand what the War on Terror has meant for Muslims both domestically and abroad. (2021 – The Sanctuaries and Justice for Muslims Collective).
“Shattering Justice & Re-Making the Muslim Threat,” is an exhibit that counter-narrates the War on Terror through Muslims eyes. By centering the impact on Muslims, this visual exhibit brings the impact of the many laws and policies that have targeted Muslims, to life. Through this carefully curated poster series, attendees coming to the exhibit will able to better understand what the War on Terror has meant for Muslims both domestically and abroad. (2021 – The Sanctuaries and Justice for Muslims Collective).
The “De-mil-i-ta-rise” portfolio of prints organized in support of Dissenters, a movement organization leading a new generation of young people to reclaim resources from the war industry, reinvest in life-giving institutions, and repair collaborative relationships with the earth and people around the world. (2021 – JustSeeds)
An excerpt from “A Thing of Great Power and Size has Gone Missing,” an extensive timeline citing historical, political, and social events occurring during the U.S. led war on terror, including the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, with a focus on the human body and its destruction, control and exploitation in these conflicts.(2018 -Lucky Pierre).
Panels from “Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan,” an exhibit of large scale paintings. (2010- AFSC).
Co-Sponsored by American Friends Service Committee, PO Box Collective, Justice for Muslims Collective, Just Seeds, StopCVE Chicago, and Lucky Pierre.
Co-Sponsored by American Friends Service Committee, PO Box Collective, Justice for Muslims Collective, Just Seeds, StopCVE Chicago, and Lucky Pierre.
Seed Cleaning Skill Share with Rogers Park Seed Library
Join us for a seed cleaning skill share. Have you been saving seeds from your garden but are unsure of how to effectively and efficiently separate them from the rest of the plant material?
The RP Seed Library will have a number of specialized and everyday tools available to help assist in this process. This event will be structured as a collaborative workday and will help prepare YOU for our larger Seed Swap and Celebration the following weekend on October 16!
Bring your uncleaned seeds. Bring your skills. Let’s learn together!
Artist Talk with Van Bo Le-Mentzel
PO Box Collective hosts democratic design artist Van Bo Le-Mentzel remotely from Germany through October 2021. Van Bo opens his residency with an Artist Talk, which will also serve as a brainstorming session to envision the collaborative project with the PO Box Collective, the Rogers Park Seed Library, the Rogers Park Free Store and Rogers Park Food Not Bombs. The project will unfold over Fall 2021.
Sponsored by the Goethe Institute for the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Recyclery Mobile Open Shop at The PO Box Collective
Saturday Sept 25th we will host a Mobile Open Shop with the Recyclery at the PO Box, 2-5 PM.
Come join us in the afternoon for a limited, mobile open shop! Bring your bike on over and we can assist you in diagnostics, recommendations, and minor repairs!
Check out PO Box’s art exhibit, make some bike inspired art, and stick around for a bike-in-movie! PO Box is screening a short documentary at 6:00PM about Line 3, and the activism around stopping oil pipelines.
Demilitarise: 20 Years of the War on Terror – Opening Event
Please join us for the reopening of our gallery space to view “Demilitarise: 20 Years of the War on Terror,” a new exhibit that will open on September 12th and run through October with various related events.
The exhibits offers a chance to reflect and learn as we mark the twenty years since the events of 9/11 and the subsequent forever wars, drone strikes, torture and attacks on civil liberties.
SEPTEMBER 12 OPENING SCHEDULE
3:30 – doors open
4:00 – Presentation by Dr. Maha Hilal, co-director of Justice for Muslims Collective in Washington DC, and author of the forthcoming “Innocent Until Proven Muslim,” (pre-order here: bit.ly/InnocentUntilProvenMuslim)
5:00 – Screen printing of Fund Healthcare Not Warfare T-shirts: bring your own shirt or make a small donation to support PO Box
20 years of vintage anti-war t-shirt giveaway!! Refreshments!! Community! Ways to take action against war and empire!!!
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The exhibit shares work from the following:
“Shattering Justice & Re-Making the Muslim Threat,” is an exhibit that counter-narrates the War on Terror through Muslims eyes. By centering the impact on Muslims, this visual exhibit brings the impact of the many laws and policies that have targeted Muslims, to life. Through this carefully curated poster series, attendees coming to the exhibit will able to better understand what the War on Terror has meant for Muslims both domestically and abroad. (2021 – The Sanctuaries and Justice for Muslims Collective).
The “De-mil-i-ta-rise” portfolio of prints organized in support of Dissenters, a movement organization leading a new generation of young people to reclaim resources from the war industry, reinvest in life-giving institutions, and repair collaborative relationships with the earth and people around the world. (2021 – Just Seeds)
An excerpt from “A Thing of Great Power and Size has Gone Missing,” an extensive timeline citing historical, political, and social events occurring during the U.S. led war on terror, including the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, with a focus on the human body and its destruction, control and exploitation in these conflicts.(2018 -Lucky Pierre).
Panels from “Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan,” an exhibit of large scale paintings. (2010- AFSC).
Demilita-RISE: 20 Years of the War on Terror – Soft Opening
Please join us for the reopening of our gallery space to view “Demilitarise: 20 Years of the War on Terror,” a new exhibit that will run through October with various related events.
The exhibits offers a chance to reflect and learn as we mark the twenty years since the events of 9/11 and the subsequent forever wars, drone strikes, torture and attacks on civil liberties.
SEPTEMBER 10 SOFT OPENING 7PM
A space for reflection and community as we move into anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks and the War on Terror in 2001.
A space for reflection and community as we move into anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks and the War on Terror in 2001.
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The exhibit shares work from the following:
“Shattering Justice & Re-Making the Muslim Threat,” is an exhibit that counter-narrates the War on Terror through Muslims eyes. By centering the impact on Muslims, this visual exhibit brings the impact of the many laws and policies that have targeted Muslims, to life. Through this carefully curated poster series, attendees coming to the exhibit will able to better understand what the War on Terror has meant for Muslims both domestically and abroad. (2021 – The Sanctuaries and Justice for Muslims Collective).
The “De-mil-i-ta-rise” portfolio of prints organized in support of Dissenters, a movement organization leading a new generation of young people to reclaim resources from the war industry, reinvest in life-giving institutions, and repair collaborative relationships with the earth and people around the world. (2021 – Just Seeds)
An excerpt from “A Thing of Great Power and Size has Gone Missing,” an extensive timeline citing historical, political, and social events occurring during the U.S. led war on terror, including the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, with a focus on the human body and its destruction, control and exploitation in these conflicts.(2018 -Lucky Pierre).
Panels from “Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan,” an exhibit of large scale paintings. (2010- AFSC).
Fibers Circle, Pandemic Support Group
What are you working on? Bring that and some crafty activity. Needles can be stabby and they can be soothing. Let’s try to figure out together how to find what we need together. This is free, this is community-as-therapy time.
Screen Printing at Glenwood Ave Arts Fest
Visit us at the PO Box during #GAAF2021!!
We will be screen printing tee shirts all weekend long for PO Box and Rogers Park Free Store. Get one of ours or print your own!