Jul 17th 2025

subVersion Summer Camp

@ Multiple

Multiple

Opening Thursday, July 17th, at Multiple

On view through Sunday, July 27th

subVersion Summer Camp is a Do-It-Together series of gatherings and calls to action! MOST PROGRAMS EVENTS and MEALS are FREE TO THE PUBLIC. To help fund the camp you can donate and become a Camper and pin for $25, or become a Parent of a Camper for $100. ( or make yer donation at Co-Prosperity)

We have invited artists, educators, musicians, filmmakers, activists, designers, and workers of all stripes to converge in Chicago this summer to help us make posters, music, t-shirts and merit badges while we make friends, comrades, and plans. Let’s make camp.

Join us in Bridgeport, the Community of the Future (and beyond), for ten days of camaraderie, fun and resistance to the spread of fascist culture. subVersion Summer Camp will foster collective re-education through public conversations, workshops, classes and happenings. We’ll present a broad range of creative forms of protest, and participants will be able to choose their own solidarity adventure… kickball or tag, puppets or banners, ballots or stink bombs? Schedule is below.

Full schedule available here

THURSDAY, JULY 17TH
Printervention:Exhibition – 6:00PM – 10:00 pm

@ Research House for Asian Art • 3217 S. Morgan St

subVersion Summer Camp will open with a selection of prints and posters exhibited in the gallery where most of our Art Building will take place. Most of the works on display ones printed by Public Media Institute and Lumpen Magazine over the past few decades. Some are ones we have collected over the years and many are ones created for Summer Camp. Come make or share your own.

We will be freely distributing stickers, zines and prints we have made for Summer Camp. You can stop by and pick some up to display in your neighborhood or street corner.


Meet the Lost Boys – 6:00 – 7:00 PM

Hosted by: Lizzy May

@ Co-Prosperity • 3219 S Morgan St

A performance & a spell: come meet the lost boys and devise a ritual for community, resistance, magic, and mischief. Neverland is an unpoliced world: a space where chosen family and the spirit of the dance floor are guides. We invite you to witness a scene from our queer rewrite of Peter Pan. After the scene, we will guide you to join in spell‑casting, moving with us to weave a ritual of connection and queer magic.


Hand Coloring LED LIGHTS: A Workshop for a New Muralism – 6:00 – 7:15 PM

 

@ Research House for Asian Art • 3217 S. Morgan St

This workshop experiments with hand coloring / hand tinting ubiquitous LED storefront lights in service of a new CoProsperity initiative–a community wheatpaste wall (10×30′) on the south wall of the building. Workshop attendees will experiment handpainting LED lights to be permanently installed as a new ‘diy frame’ around this community wall.

Easy Peasy Papier – Mache 101 for Adults – 6:00 – 9:00 PM

Hosted by: Jen Grant

@ 1048 w 37th st. Unit 102 ( Trash Castle Studio, in the Bubbly Dynamics building )

Think outside the piñata! Let’s start at the very beginning to learn, collaborate, and experiment with the cheap and cheerful art of papier-mâché. Meet us at Trash Castle for an introduction to the basic tools and techniques pretty much anyone can use to take an idea and turn it into an object.


The Box – Social Exploration through Community Devising – 7:00 – 10:00PM

Hosted by: Kevin Aoussou

@ Co-Prosperity • 3219 S Morgan St

This is a workshop to explore our responses to the current moment, inviting artists of all mediums to be in creative exploration. If you are a physical or visual performer, please join us for a community conversation, followed by a community creative jam session!


Squiggle Build – 8:00 – 10:00 PM

Hosted by: ¡Anímate! Studio

@ Research House for Asian Art • 3217 S. Morgan St

Play, dream, and collaborate to transform familiar materials into imaginative landscapes. Throughout the event, help create (and re-create!) a one-of-a-kind experimental creation—out of pool noodles! Together we can build new spaces and imagine new possibilities.

 

 

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