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Intended audience = Black women and femmes only. Curated by veronica bohanan.

Artist as Therapist : Therapist as Artist

Life is made of details. These details do not exist in isolation from one another, neither do our mental and emotional health. Life's details must be nurtured to foster personal (and communal) growth and development. As both an artist and a therapist, veronica bohanan is interested in exploring life's details.

"I explore my awareness of details; the context in which details manifest themselves; humanities reactions to details; and, how details can be reframed and reimagined." –veronica bohanan

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Reservations is a long table seated dinner with performances in-between each course. Dinner guests will break bread together and engage with local artists who will perform short pieces of music, poetry, dance, comedy and more. Reservations will be held on the 4th Saturday of each month from 6-9pm and will be sliding scale / "pay what you can."

AMFM is a brand for artists and the people. We support emerging and established artists by offering a platform through our web content, our curated events and collaborations. AMFM hosts events combining the arts to cultivate community, diversity, inclusivity, intergenerational engagement and of course, good vibes. From art shows at galleries, concerts, and activations, we host and curate all kinds of events. Projects and events for AMFM have been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, with Red Bull, on Chicago’s Fox 32, and published The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun Times, Southside Weekly, Afropunk, The Milwaukee Business Journal, Millennial Magazine, and more. Check out our site: amfm.life

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Join us for Group Oracle Experience with Rhonda Wheatley, the organizer of the Sanctuary Sundays workshop series. Brunch included!

Tap into your intuitive abilities and shed light on some of your most burning unknowns as a Group Oracle participant. We discuss empowering questions vs. questions that give your power away. Experience a two-part guided meditation that will manifest in an oracle reading and creating oracle art cards. Rhonda guides individuals in intuitively selecting the card meant for you, but made by someone else.

Rhonda Wheatley is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, energy healer, and intuitive reader whose projects are grounded in the speculative and metaphysical. She connects with the public through her visual and written works, workshops, and interactive performances to promote healing and consciousness expansion.

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Join us for Breath | Body: Collective Sigh with Silvia Inés Gonzalez, a release, reflection, and manifestation workshop that invites the body to take the breaths it needs. Breath | Body is a time to consider the ways our body organizes within itself to heal, as well as the ways our collective functioning operates to manifest larger socio-political liberation. Through breathing techniques, we work to meditate and check-in with the different areas of our physical selves. As a form of release, we create and archive the quieter sounds of release during a close-out participatory performance. Please wear comfortable clothing!

Silvia Inés Gonzalez is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator in Chicago actively participating in spaces where collective wellness takes on critical dialogue, art making, and community building. Sanctuary Sunday is organized Rhonda Wheatley. Brunch included!

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Join Melissa Blount for one of the Black Lives Matter Sewing Circles to be held at the Justice Hotel from 6-9 PM this Thursday. There will be a 30 minute presentation followed by social justice stitching.

This experience does NOT require any sewing skills! Share a family-style dinner while we sew. This event is free and open to the public!

Melissa Blount is a licensed clinical psychologist, writer, and artist who creates textile pieces that explore the notions of trauma, white supremacy and violence against Black cis and transgender women. Through community sewing circles, she cultivates unique opportunities for people to bear witness to the unjust and violent loss of life in communities of color.

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Join us for a 7 PM screening of a short documentary casa de pájaro by Amadís Adrián García Orozco from Abierto Mexicano de Diseño, followed by a short film ECONOMIA SOCIAL by Gonzalo Escobar Mora. 

At 8 PM join our Dinnertime Phone Brigade! Politicians respond to phone calls over emails, social media rants, and even letters, but where to begin? Over dinner we practice together and start ringing the phones of public offices with our concerns and interests. 

Amadís Adrián García Orozco (León, MX, 1990) works with filmmaking in general and stop-motion in particular as a way to animate the material life that surrounds us and guides our relationship with spaces and things, as well as with memory and others. "Nothing goes to waste" is one of the ruling concepts of the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño 2019, which briefly and powerfully encapsulates the creative spirit of making and sensibility of popular architecture. 

Gonzalo Escobar Mora (Bogotá, 1982) is an artist who wants to be a filmmaker, and a filmmaker who wants to be an artist. He loves this confusion. Gonzalo received a Master of Arts in Film Directing from Bela Tarr's film factory program under the mentorship of Hungarian director Béla Tarr, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work questions formal definitions and narrative structures, exploring intersections between the personal, the lyrical, and the political.

Organized by Caroline Ng and Wisdom Baty.

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Join us for Vocalizing Alignment: Healing Through Harmony with Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero, an exploration of cleansing methods through vocalization and harmony. Sanctuary Sunday is organized Rhonda Wheatley. Brunch included!

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Regin Igloria of North Branch Projects presents a Community Binding session for visitors of Justice Hotel at 6018North. Learn how to bind books while contributing to the Luggage Cart, an ongoing book collection containing shared resources regarding value and equal exchange. Organized by Caroline Kawen Ng.

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Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story is about a black waiter named Booker Wright who worked at a whites-only restaurant. Booker later opened his own restaurant called "Booker's Place," which was fire-bombed.

Cookin’ & Eatin’ is an intimate culinary journey in the tradition of the family-style dinner. You are welcome to sit, laugh, cry, contemplate, and, most importantly, get full. This interaction of Cookin’ & Eatin’ centers on themes of service toward community, hospitality, self-actualization, and justice denied. A complementary PDF of the text will be available to those who RSVP.

Program, program notes, and food by Janelle A.M., an artist and archivist whose work reclaims historical narratives rooted within Black communal structures while allowing for interventions of nostalgia and folklore to take hold. her work often uses modes of collage, photography, installation and found objects.

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Regin Igloria of North Branch Projects presents a Community Binding session for visitors of Justice Hotel at 6018North. Learn how to bind books while contributing to the Luggage Cart, an ongoing book collection containing shared resources regarding value and equal exchange.

Food served! Organized by Caroline Kawen Ng.

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Fred Hampton was an activist and leader in the Black Panther Party of Chicago. This year marks the 50th anniversary of his murder when he was just 21, by authorities, for his work organizing for civil rights, social change, and liberation for his people.

This film, originally released in 1971, began as a portrait of Fred Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party. During the film's production, Hampton's home was raided in the middle of the night and he was assassinated. Justice Hotel at 6018North invites guests to participate in continuing the legacy of Fred Hampton's work, which included various anti-poverty and justice efforts, and the Black Panther's famous free breakfast program.

Seating will be first come, first served. Ticketing for this event is free and donation-based. A complementary PDF of the text will be available to those who RSVP. The majority of donations will go to the estate of Fred Hampton, which is still raising money to save his home, in a petition to have it preserved as a historic landmark.

Program and program notes by Janelle A.M., and artist and archivist whose work reclaims historical narratives rooted within Black communal structures while allowing for interventions of nostalgia and folklore to take hold. her work often uses modes of collage, photography, installation and found objects.

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Join us for Align & Manifest! with Rhonda Wheatley, the organizer of the Sanctuary Sundays workshop series. Brunch included!

Align & Manifest! explores the basics of manifesting and the concept of “alignment” while getting at the root of unproductive thought habits that may block us from attracting what we want. Rhonda leads a writing exercise and guided meditation to help us become more “magnetic” to what we want to create in our lives. You’ll leave this workshop with tools and practices to continue the work on your own. To participate, just bring a notebook, pen, and an open mind!

Rhonda Wheatley is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, energy healer, and intuitive reader whose projects are grounded in the speculative and metaphysical. She connects with the public through her visual and written works, workshops, and interactive performances to promote healing and consciousness expansion.

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Join us on Saturday, December 7th for an evening of performance workshopping as we explore the role of body movement as a catalyst for radical empathy and visual storytelling. View recently commissioned works by writer and performance artist, Sylvia Bowersox, and vogue artist and dancer, William LaBeija, then work with performance artist and dancer Joseph Lefthand to build a communal response to the question "Who is my Enemy?" Free admission.

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Join us on Friday, December 6th for an intimate evening of food, performance, and storytelling as our featured artists, Timothy Engelbrecht, Melon Fernsebner, and Fabrizzio Emilio Subia, explore the psychic history of migration, U.S. foreign policy, and identity through the lens of the politicized body. Spirited discussion to follow! Vegetarian options available.

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Join us on Thursday, Dec 5th for an intimate evening of food, performance, and discussion as our featured guests, artist Lariel Joy, and Dr. Elizabeth Son, author of "Embodied Reckonings: "Comfort Women", Performance, and Transpacific Redress" explore the psychic legacy of the Japanese Empire's sexual enslavement of Korean women in the 20th century. Lariel Joy's performance "In Her Name" examines the role of remembrance and erasure in exposing institutional and systemic violence, while Dr. Son's work and research emphasizes the multidisciplinary approach survivors, activists, and artists have taken in their continued calls for justice over the decades. Discussion to follow!

Vegetarian options available.

Let's talk about Justice!

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Join us for Tarot & Intention: New Energy through Art with Teshika Silver. December can be a difficult time of year. This workshop involves a group tarot reading based around the theme of “home is where the heart is,” and developing the energy you would like to manifest in the year 2020. New traditions? Changing ideas about what “family” and "home” look like? Share insights and reflect on the year to come – at the end you’ll come away with a piece of art and a New Year intention!

Teshika Silver makes her living as an illustrator and designer. Teshika is the founder and co-runner of Queer Underground Illustrators of Chicago events, a teaching artist, and an avid student of tarot, astrology and all things esoteric and metaphysical. Sanctuary Sunday is organized Rhonda Wheatley. Brunch included!

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Let’s Talk About Money Baby invites discussion on the relationship between value and prices. Join Yair Kaldor, a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and invited guests over rice and beans – a universal staple food often associated with workers. Throughout dinner we discuss the role of power, class, and labor in determining the value of goods and consequently wages and prices, and what we and cultural workers can do about it.

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Join us for The Channels & Our Purpose with Khadijah Kysia. Wear comfortable clothing and bring paper and pencil! Doctors of acupuncture specialize in navigating networks that facilitate a flow of life promoting ‘current’. These channels connect our internal world to all of external environments – nature and society. Channel connections play a role in structuring our perception and mediating the healing response.  

Khadijah Kysia is a licensed acupuncturist and doctoral fellow at Five Branches University, San Jose. She has a Master degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Khadijah’s private practice is in Humboldt Park, Chicago. Sanctuary Sunday is organized Rhonda Wheatley. Brunch included!

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Reservations is a long table seated dinner with performances in-between each course. Dinner guests will break bread together and engage with local artists who will perform short pieces of music, poetry, dance, comedy and more. Reservations will be held on the 4th Saturday of each month from 6-9pm and will be sliding scale / "pay what you can."

6pm: Doors
7pm: Dinner begins
1st performance: Tiff Beatty (15 minutes)
2nd performance: Jabowen Dixon (15 minutes)
3rd performance: Drea Smith (15 minutes)

Performances will be in between courses!

Organized by AMFM. AMFM is a brand for artists and the people. We support emerging and established artists by offering a platform through our web content, our curated events and collaborations. AMFM hosts events combining the arts to cultivate community, diversity, inclusivity, intergenerational engagement and of course, good vibes. From art shows at galleries, concerts, and activations, we host and curate all kinds of events. Projects and events for AMFM have been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, with Red Bull, on Chicago’s Fox 32, and published The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun Times, Southside Weekly, Afropunk, The Milwaukee Business Journal, Millennial Magazine, and more. Check out our site: amfm.life

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Waste Not Want Not invites you to discuss the environment with a focus on waste including food, building, and plastic waste. Join local Edgewater environmentalists Carla Bruni, Michael Courier, and Killian Walsh to discuss what can be done including a focus on composting. The dinner is accompanied by a dirge to water by musician Alexander Massa to consider our shared precious resource.

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We invite you to join us for a Venezuelan dinner with the artist Astro Escudero, and the artist and curator Erika Ordosgoitti, moderated by artist ad curator Carlos Salazar Lermont, to discuss the role of art as an agent of social change from the perspective of the guest artists.

Defiance to Power | Desafío al Poder Chapter 2 is curated by Erika Ordos and Carlos Salazar Lermont showcasing Latin American authors whose work defy different forms of institutionalized power. In addition to the dinner, there will be installation and photography works on display at 6018North by Astro Escudero, Erika Ordos, Carlos Salazar Lermont, and Jacobo Zambrano. If you would like to visit the exhibition at other times, please write to justicehotel@6018north.org for an appointment.

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Join us for a night of moving image work by Rocio Boliver, Deborah Castillo, Carlos Martiel, Regina Jose Galindo, Nadia Granados, Amapola Prada, Deborah Castillo, Sandra Vivas. 

Defiance to Power | Desafío al Poder Chapter 2 is curated by Erika Ordos and Carlos Salazar Lermont showcasing Latin American authors whose work defy different forms of institutionalized power. In addition to the screening, there will be installation and photography works on display at 6018North by Astro Escudero, Erika Ordos, Carlos Salazar Lermont, and Jacobo Zambrano. If you would like to visit the exhibition at other times, please write to justicehotel@6018north.org for an appointment.

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EAP! Experiential Arts Process with Justin Nalley is an Art as Therapy workshop. The intuitive art making session employs writing, intention, making, and sharing as tools to gain personal insight and clarity. This process is recommended for any person seeking a catalyst to access their inner resources and deepen creativity. Sanctuary Sunday is organized Rhonda Wheatley. Brunch included!

Justin T. Nalley is a Chicago based visual artist, poet and educator. He received a BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With a belief in art making as therapy and communication, Nalley seeks to empower and become empowered through his personal practice, pedagogy, and healing arts workshops.

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Join us for a conversational dinner with musicians about how music has empowered them and how the arts can empower disenfranchised and marginalized youth. Guests are invited to design-build their own musical instruments with everyday objects, while enjoying a performance by a string trio. This event is day three of three featuring "elemental" programming exploring our political, natural, social environments and their implications for our community.

Curated by Chicago Mobile Makers, programmed by Wisdom Baty.

Chicago Mobile Makers creates programming that encourages Chicago youth to become advocates and change makers in their own communities through design focused skill-building workshops. Our objectives are threefold:

1. Engage and empower youth through making and skill building
2. Train and support future public interest architects, designers and makers
3. Advocate for social, economic, gender and racial diversity in the architecture and broader design fields

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Join us for a conversational dinner exploring how our natural environments will affect future generations. Questions addressed include: where can natural environments be found and how can they be created at home, after which we create native seed balls. This event is day two of three featuring "elemental" programming exploring our political, natural, social environments and their implications for our community.

Curated by Chicago Mobile Makers, programmed by Wisdom Baty.

Chicago Mobile Makers creates programming that encourages Chicago youth to become advocates and change makers in their own communities through design focused skill-building workshops. Our objectives are threefold:

1. Engage and empower youth through making and skill building
2. Train and support future public interest architects, designers and makers
3. Advocate for social, economic, gender and racial diversity in the architecture and broader design fields

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Join us in food, conversation, and model making (using edible ingredients) to explore how to create a sanctuary or refuge from our current political environment for immigrant and refugee communities. This event is day one of three featuring "elemental" programming exploring our political, natural, social environments and their implications for our community.

Curated by Chicago Mobile Makers, programmed by Wisdom Baty.

About Chicago Mobile Makers

Chicago Mobile Makers creates programming that encourages Chicago youth to become advocates and change makers in their own communities through design focused skill-building workshops. Our objectives are threefold:

1. Engage and empower youth through making and skill building
2. Train and support future public interest architects, designers and makers
3. Advocate for social, economic, gender and racial diversity in the architecture and broader design fields