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• 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMNEA Big Read Kick-Off: Views of Global Migration, Haiti
  Museum of Contemporary Photography 600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605

  In conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Photography's exhibit Stateless: Views of Global Migration, Mario LaMothe, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, uses oral history and journalistic accounts to narrate Haitian immigrants' physical transformations during their captivity in American detention facilities. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for...Get the details
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  7:00 PM - 10:00 PMLibrary Zine Night
  Library 624 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605

  Join Us for our monthly Zine Night, a chance for you to work alone or collaboratively on zines, comics, artist books, or other paper projects in the library. You Need: Ingenuity, creativity, and inspiration. A desire to show off or learn new techniques. A want to work and get to know other zinesters and artists? We Have: Staplers,...Get the details
• 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMBook to Art Club
  Library 624 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605

  Join the Library and the Aesthetics of Research for our Fall 2018 installment of The Book to Art Club featuring HG Wells’ classic War of the Worlds. Started by the Library-As-Incubator Project, the Book to Art Club is a book and art-making club that exists virtually and in-person at libraries around the world. Because we...Get the details
• 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMExploring Negritude in Haitian Art: Dr. Peter L. Haffner
  624 S. Michigan Ave. 624 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605

  Join us for a conversation via Skype with Dr. Peter L. Haffner, a scholar on Haitian art. He will present a lecture exploring the shared roots of the "Négritude" movement with the mid-1940s Haitian art scene in Port-au-Prince. Following Haffner's presentation there will be a Q&A session. Dr. Haffner is a Smithsonian Institution Research Fellow doing...Get the details