Wake Up and Rest: Jane Addams Bedroom Project Launch with Tricia Hersey
@ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Sunday, September 17th, from 12PM - 1PM
Come witness radical rest as Tricia Hersey performs the ritual of rest in the bedroom of Jane Addams. This event on Sunday, September 17th, noon-1 pm is the launch of the Jane Addams Bedroom Project.
Hersey is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance and reparations. Hersey will also be reading from her New York Times bestselling Book, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto.
Following the event, UIC community members can sign up to nap in Jane Addams’s bedroom throughout the fall.
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/698484755707?aff=oddtdtcreator
About Tricia Hersey
Tricia Hersey has over 20 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian and community organizer. She is a Chicago native who has called Atlanta home for 12 years. Tricia creates sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Her work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, Afrofuturism, womanism, and liberation theology, and is a guide for how to collectively deprogram, decolonize, and unravel ourselves from the wreckage of capitalism and white supremacy. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Eastern Illinois University and a Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
Official Website
More events on this date
Tags: Chicago, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, near west side, Tricia Hersey, Wake Up and Rest: Jane Addams Bedroom Project Launch with Tricia Hersey
« previous event
next event »