Taking Action to End Homelessness: a panel discussion
@ Weinberg/Newton Gallery
300 West Superior St, Suite 203, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Thursday, March 16th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Join us for a conversation about how to end homelessness in Chicago and Illinois. Hear from advocates and practitioners actively engaged in solving homelessness, by providing immediate resources, connecting families with sustainable housing, speaking up for residents’ rights, or shaping housing policy. In addition to talking about all of the efforts currently underway to address homelessness, we’ll discuss how anyone can join in to help make sure that everyone in our city and state has a stable, affordable, safe place to call home. Light refreshments will be served.
Moderator:
Sharon Legenza, Executive Director, Housing Action Illinois
Speakers:
Nonie Brennan, CEO, All Chicago
Michael Banghart, Executive Director, Renaissance Social Services – RSSI
Ronald Smith, graduate of the Speak Up program at Corporation for Supportive Housing
This event is is a component of House, Weinberg/Newton Gallery’s winter exhibition presented by Red Line Service. Red Line Service works with Chicagoans experiencing or concerned about homelessness to reframe art as a broad social justice endeavor. Committed to ending homelessness, Red Line Service co-founders, artist Billy McGuinness and curator and art historian Rhoda Rosen, have teamed up with the gallery to mount an exhibition as well as a robust programming calendar with the intention of opening and expanding critical dialogues about poverty, social responsibility, and culture
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