Restorative Justice practitioner, teaching artist and Abolitionist Jenny Viets will lead a talking circle with PO Box Collective Artist-in-Residence Molly Costello.
This is a SIGN-UP FORM for the Talking Circle. We are capping this event at 15 people. Please please let us know if you can no longer make this gathering so we can let those on the waiting list know.
About this Gathering
Art is often a gateway to meaningful and moving conversation. Join Molly Costello and facilitator Jennifer Viets for a guided conversation allowing participants to respond to a theme in Molly’s works. Enjoy the opportunity gather, to share, listen and to learn from and with one another.
About Talking Circles
Talking Circles are one of the practices used in Restorative Justice/Restorative Practices. The Circle involves a ritual opening, and the establishment of Guidelines and Values. Circle values often include empathy, compassion, honesty and confidentiality. The Circle-keeper creates a plan around a theme and asks “rounds” of questions which act as prompts for sharing. We will pass a talking piece and speak one at a time without interruption. No one is required to share and the Circle is as deep as the participants choose to make it.
This is not a meeting. It is voluntary. It is an opportunity to share in a safer/braver space. Participation in Circle hopefully leads to a greater sense of personal well-being and support while challenging us to think more deeply.
Accessibility + COVID Safety
The P.O. Box Collective is located at street level and is accessible by ramp and has an accessible bathroom. We will be sitting in chairs in a circle.
MASKS ARE REQUIRED while inside the P.O. Box space. We will also have air filtration systems running. We kindly ask that if you are not feeling well that you please stay home.
PO Box Artist-in-Residence Molly Costello is facilitating this registration-only workshop in generative drawing: a social space to practice your creative skills and expand your imagination.
REGISTRATION FULL.
Join us in-person for a special reading with CM Burroughs, Camille Roy, and Syd Staiti, hosted at the PO Box by the Poetry Foundation.
CM Burroughs is an associate professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago and author of The Vital System and Master Suffering, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Burroughs’s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry, Ploughshares, Gathering Ground, and Best American Experimental Writing. Burroughs has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, MacDowell, Djerassi Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Cave Canem Foundation.
Camille Roy is a writer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Roy’s fiction collection Honey Mine was published in 2021. Her other works include Sherwood Forest, Swarm, and The Rosy Medallions, and the plays Cheap Speech and Cold Heaven. She co-edited Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative. Recently her work has been published in Amerarcana and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art blog, Open Space.
Syd Staiti is the author of Seldom Approaches and The Undying Present. Staiti’s work has been published in Baest, Tripwire, Social Text, and A Perfect Vacuum. Staiti is the director of Small Press Traffic and a collective member of Light Field.
The Poetry Foundation’s events are completely free of charge and open to the public. This event will include ASL interpretation. Masks are required. Please note that some performers may choose to perform without a mask. For more information about accessibility, please contact [email protected].
This popular monthly event features in-person readings with local poets. The June reading features Katana Smith, Serena Solin, and Timothy Ashley Leo.
Free and open to the public.
Doors open at 7:30pm.
Presented by AYWA + PO BOX COLLECTIVE
Donation drop-off:
Thursday, May 11: 1-8pm
Friday, May 12: 1-8pm
Open hours:
Saturday, May 13: 12-5pm
Sunday, May 14: 10am-4pm
Bring us your household supplies, suitcases, bags, children’s toys, blankets, towels, and cleaning supplies!!!
Is It Just Destiny? – 28 minutes – about the rise of Erdogan and gentrification after the 1999 earthquake
Plan of Destiny – 41 minutes – about the February 2023 earthquake and its impacts
Enjoy delicious food + drinks (including real Turkish tea!) donated by local Kurdish-Turkish friends while discussing the current situation in Turkey + Kurdistan, solidarity efforts, anarchist resistance and immigrant solidarity in North America.
This event is sponsored by Exiled Anarchists ([email protected])
Since the coronavirus crisis hit Rogers Park, Food Not Bombs (FNB) has been at the center of our community’s mutual aid. We quickly developed strategies to stay safe and maintain optimal sanitary procedures while continuing to rescue fresh healthy food and distribute it to people in need. FNB is now bagging and delivering over 200 bags of groceries per week to RP households.
Rogers Park FNB is a DIY solidarity organization, one autonomous branch of an international organization with chapters all over the world. FNB saves food from the waste stream while highlighting the inequities of our society.
Rogers Park FNB rescues unsold groceries from Whole Foods and local restaurant supply sources. If you are in need of food or would like to volunteer, do not come to the PO Box space.
Email: [email protected]
Since the coronavirus crisis hit Rogers Park, Food Not Bombs (FNB) has been at the center of our community’s mutual aid. We quickly developed strategies to stay safe and maintain optimal sanitary procedures while continuing to rescue fresh healthy food and distribute it to people in need. FNB is now bagging and delivering over 200 bags of groceries per week to RP households.
Rogers Park FNB is a DIY solidarity organization, one autonomous branch of an international organization with chapters all over the world. FNB saves food from the waste stream while highlighting the inequities of our society.
Rogers Park FNB rescues unsold groceries from Whole Foods and local restaurant supply sources. If you are in need of food or would like to volunteer, do not come to the PO Box space.
Email: [email protected]
Brought to you by Stomping Grounds, Tortas y Talento, + PO Box Collective!
Held at Chicago Art Department –1926 S. Halsted
Delicious Ecuadorian food will be catered by a local restaurant!
Photo booth + more!
Thursday, April 20th
Doors open at 5:30 PM
Workshop + Open Mic 6-9 PM
REGISTER TO PERFORM — BIT.LY/3UAAGLF
Join Molly Costello and PO Box Collective for the official art opening of Molly’s “FERTILE FUTURES: Practicing the World We Want” installation!
Featuring 12 new art pieces, this body of work travels deep into the dark soily subterrain from which all life grows and asks; What are the roots of our collective culture? What are the foundations from which our social infrastructure sprouts? Are they life sustaining? Are they conducive to our collective flourishing? We are invited to re-dream these spaces! We are invited to sow care back into our bedrock. We are invited to play, experiment, collaborate, and fail forward!
This collection is packed full of soil layers, roots, and foundations. These pieces play with themes of composting, collective care, practice, accountability, ungovernability, transformation, celebrating abundance, sowing commitment, failure as portals to possibility and more. Come enjoy some art, friends, food and help us dream-in our new culture!
Event Activities:
– Art Print Sale Fundraiser
– Food & Drinks (to enjoy outside)
– Screen Printing (bring some clothing to print on!)
– Interactive Art Pieces
Molly will be selling prints, calendars and other small items. 100% proceeds will go to supporting the PO Box Collective, the Rogers Park Free Store, and the Rogers Park Seed Library. Please bring cash or be ready to make digital donations.
We will be screen printing and have food and drink to enjoy outside. Folks are invited to bring a shirt or bag to screen print!
MASKS ARE REQUIRED