Maker Sessions with CTJM

Chicago Torture Justice Center

Join breakout rooms that will become community maker spaces!

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Join CTJM members Anthony Holmes, Dorothy Burge and Alice Kim as they reflect on how art and culture played a central role in envisioning reparations. In this session we&#x27;ll talk about far we&#x27;ve come, what it took to get here, and the importance of the memorial. Then spend time with artists, writers, and educators to spend time making and creating in a world where there is so much un-making and destruction. <ul><li>Writing Workshop with educator Bill Ayers &amp; CTJM member Alice Kim</li><li>Make a quilt patch for incarcerated survivors with artist and CTJM member Dorothy Burge</li><li>Breathe Deeply in a workshop with Patricia Nguyen, co-designer of the memorial &quot;Breath, Form and Freedom&quot;</li><li>Make a protest poster with artist Aaron Hughes</li><li>Learn about teaching the Reparations Won Curriculum via history and art with CPS educators Jen Johnson &amp; Dave Stieber</li></ul>Registration is donation-based and we warmly welcome all regardless of contribution. The event will stream live on Facebook and Youtube from the Chicago Torture Justice Center. Register to receive links and updates about this and other events!<ul><li><a href="https://www.classy.org/give/337684/#!/donation/checkout" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">To donate to the Chicago Torture Justice Center, please click here!</a></li><li><a href="https://www.chicagotorturejustice.org/may2021" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://chicagotorture.org/donate-2/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">To donate to Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, please click here!</a></li></ul>Accessibility requests: Please reach out to Gina Tarullo at gina@chicagotorturejustice.org with any accessibility requests and we will do our best to meet them.<a href="https://chicagotorture.org/donate-2/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>With thanks to our event partners: the Joseph &amp; Bessie Feinberg Foundation, the People&#x27;s Law Office, #LetUsBreathe Collective, the Old Town School of Folk Music, and HotHouse Global.

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