Printmaking: A Virtual Senior Series – Register by January 29

Virtual Chicago, IL, United States

The Garfield Park Conservatory has teamed up with Teaching Artist and Printmaker Sarita Garcia to offer an 8-week online printmaking course with older adults, age 55+, that takes place in the comfort of your own homes! In this class, we will be experimenting with different methods of printmaking, such as block printing, patternmaking, silk screen and natural dye […]

Virtual Yoga Livestreamed from Garfield Park Conservatory

    Garfield Park Conservatory

    Join us for this one-hour virtual yoga session from the comforts of your own home with the Conservatory as the background. Pre-registration is required so we can send you a link to join, and space is limited. Registration closes at 10:00am when the session begins. Automated live captioning is available. This class is free but […]

    Printmaking: A Virtual Senior Series – Register by January 29

    Virtual Chicago, IL, United States

    The Garfield Park Conservatory has teamed up with Teaching Artist and Printmaker Sarita Garcia to offer an 8-week online printmaking course with older adults, age 55+, that takes place in the comfort of your own homes! In this class, we will be experimenting with different methods of printmaking, such as block printing, patternmaking, silk screen and natural dye […]

    Plenary Session

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    The Chicago Cultural Alliance welcomes you to Activating Heritage 2021! In our first session, we will be receiving a welcome from our Board President, Vanessa Vergara, hearing from the Alliance […]

    Transforming Fundraisers

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    Moderator: Suzy Kahn Weinberg & Adam Yoffe (Big Shoulders Stories) Panelists: Josey Nieto, Nitha Nagubadi Aspirations to reopen our cultural centers are on everyone’s minds. Yet, many of the creative virtual tools developed and harnessed over the past year to amplify our stories and make our collections accessible to wider audiences have become key to […]

    Contested Narratives: Chicago’s Monuments

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    Moderator: Tiffany Tolbert, National Trust for Historic Preservation Panelists: Jaime Rivera , Sherry Williams, Joi Boose, Elsie Hector Hernandez Monuments and memorials frame our built environment in Chicago, both reflecting and impacting our civic life. Concern over which figures are memorialized is not new. However, over the past year the global pandemic and racial justice […]

    New Frontiers in Digitization: Amplifying Stories

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    Moderator: Laurence Anthonie Taumpag, Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago Panelists: Kate Flynn, Jorge Felix, Halyna Sarancha Over the past two decades museum and archives professionals have been inundated with rallying cries to digitize, digitize, digitize. But digitized collections do not constitute an end, in and of themselves.  Participants in this session will learn how […]

    Strategies for Local Advocacy in the Arts

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    Moderator: Jonathan VanderBrug, Arts Alliance Illinois Panelist: Ben Lau, Ahmed Flex Omar, Gabriela Juarez Advocacy is critical to organizational sustainability. It is imperative that non-profit leaders, especially those working in the cultural sector, foster strong working relationships with their local representatives, including alder-people, officials in chambers of commerce, and visitors’ bureaus. Learn some of the […]

    The Significance of Community Gardens

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    Moderator: Tony Pena, Chicago Botanic Garden Panelists:Sherry Williams, Michael Howard, Mario Longoni, Mattie Wilson, Angela Taylor and Johnnie Owens A panel of community stakeholders, urban agriculturalists, and environmental anthropologists will discuss the significance of community gardens in the wake of COVID-19. Community gardens are a source of wellness and are especially pertinent to local engagement […]

    Intersections in Art and Educational Curriculum

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    Moderator: William Estrada, Artist and Educator, Chicago Public Schools and UIC Panelists: Carlos Bossard, Kay Kihwa Rho, Julia deBettencourt, Helena Swanson-Nystrom, Robin Koelsch Learn the most effective strategies for crafting an educational curriculum that will harness your cultural insight and share your community’s stories with Chicagoland youth. William Estrada educator, artist, and specialist in arts […]