This event leads into to Media Literacy Week

https://medialiteracyweek.us/

EXHIBIT:

Gone But Not Forgotten is a collaborative quilting project memorializing 144 individuals killed by the Chicago Police Department or while in police custody from 2006 to 2015.

In collaboration with the grassroots group We Charge Genocide, project creator Rachel Wallis planned and organized a series of 15 quilting peace circles where participants read the victims' news pieces aloud, shared personal stories, and created a hand embroidered panel in their memory. The final project is a product of more than 200 participants.

By engaging in the slow process of hand sewing and focusing on the lives and deaths of individual victims, Gone But Not Forgotten encourages participants to engage in radical empathy. The circles served as a venue to process loss and the trauma of police violence. They also act as a forum for inspiration and collaboration where participants discussed how they can take action to end the history of violence in Chicago.

The quilts, accompanying digital photos, and video installation Present Absence by Salome Chasnoff and Meredith Zielke featuring interviews with friends and family of the victims will be on display in the Murray-Green Library at Roosevelt University from October 17th-27th.

EVENTS:

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17TH

OPENING NIGHT

Location Murray-Green Library

6:00PM

Reception

6:30PM

Opening Comments

Heather Dalmage Director of

The Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation

Artists Rachel Wallis and Salome Chasnoff

7:00PM

Conversation between Dorothy Holmes, Henrine Edwards, Martinez Sutton, and Gloria Pinex, whose family members were killed by the Chicago Police Department; Moderator: Associate Director of The Mansfield Institute Nancy Michaels

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25TH

Location: Murray-Green Library

5:30pm-8:30pm

Quilting Peace Circle featuring project creator Rachel Wallis, Mansfield Institute Assistant Director Nancy Michaels, and Peacekeeper and Program Director at Precious Blood Ministry Pam Purdie

To RSVP to this event please email Lyly Harrington:lharrington01@roosevelt.edu

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27TH

SYMPOSIUM

Location Congress Lounge 2nd Floor Auditorium Building

Roosevelt University

1:00PM - 2:30PM

Journalism Panel

Featuring Roosevelt Professor of Journalism Anne-Marie Cusac

and

Martin Macias from City Bureau and Independent Journalist Sarah Macaraeg

3:00pm- 4:30pm

Art & Activism Panel featuring:

The Chicago Justice Torture Memorials, A Long Walk Home, BLM Chicago, Let Us Breathe, For The People Artist Collective, and The Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project

TRANSITION TO ART EXHIBIT IN THE MURRAY-GREEN LIBRARY, 10th FLOOR

5:00PM

Closing Ceremony:

Saying the names of those Gone But Not Forgotten

To learn more about Media Literacy Week visit: https://medialiteracyweek.us/

For more information about the Gone But Not Forgotten event contact Special Projects Coordinator: Lyly Harrington, lharrington01@roosevelt.edu