Meet at the semi-circular lawn area directly east of the Harrison Park fieldhouse entrance on the Wood St. side of the park.

Join us for the opening program of Andres L. Hernandez’ Future Signals / Señales Futuras mobile radio/recording station at Harrison Park! This program is the second of four opening festivities for the Dreaming of a Future exhibition on the occasion of Threewalls’ 20th anniversary. Learn more about the program below!

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Transportation: Participants are encouraged to use CTA public transportation and/or bikes to reach the event location. The Harrison Park fieldhouse is approximately 1.5 blocks away from the 18th St. stop on the CTA Pink Line, and 1 block away from the #18 CTA bus stop at 18th St. and Wood St. If traveling by car, there is on-street paid parking on 18th St., and free parking in the surrounding neighborhood.

What to bring: Please bring a folding/camping chair or blanket for seating on the lawn, and don’t forget your water, insect repellant, and sunscreen (if needed). The event will be approximately 1 hr. 30 mins. with two rounds of a 40 min. listening session and group discussion with a brief transition break between sessions.

Andres L. Hernandez will host a live online radio broadcast on TUFF BOPP Radio and facilitate an intimate listening session and discussion around possible futures for the Pilsen neighborhood and the City of Chicago. Using pre-recorded and live audio content and written prompts for inspiration, participants will be guided in imaginative visioning and public declarations of the types of futures they desire for themselves and their communities.

Andres L. Hernandez’ Future Signals / Señales Futuras takes form as a mobile radio/recording station with on-site broadcasts and public listening sessions in Chicago’s historic Pilsen neighborhood. Future Signals / Señales Futuras is inspired by the histories of community-based radio stations which previously broadcast from Pilsen and Little Village, as well as neighborhood street cart food vendors, and the mobile DJ sound systems of sonideros. Future Signals / Señales Futuras creatively appropriates the radio format to publicly consider and imagine a one-hundred-year span of neighborhood history, from the founding of the WCYC community radio station in 1970, to the not-so-distant future of 2070. Future Signals / Señales Futuras looks backwards in history to imagine and signal more affordable, equitable, and just futures for the Pilsen neighborhood and its residents.

Future Signals / Señales Futuras is additionally sponsored in part by TUFF BOPP Radio and the Center for (E)utopian Imagination.

OPENING PROGRAM

Future Signals / Señales Futuras Listening Session #1

Thursday, June 15, 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Location: Harrison Park

1824 S. Wood St., Chicago, IL 60608

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