SUNDAY, JULY 27TH

Working 2050: A Sci Fi Journaling Workshop for Hopeful Futures – 12:00 – 2:00 PM

Hosted by: H. Kappe-Klote

@ Tangible Books

In this immersive speculative fiction journaling workshop, participants will take on the role of a future worker: maybe you’re a gig nurse for algae farms, a digital janitor scrubbing legacy media, or a community defense baker in a flooded zone. We’ll use writing prompts, somatic cues, and short movement exercises to generate first-person speculative “journal entries” from these future selves. Then, we’ll talk: What does it take to keep working — and caring — in a future built on the wreckage of this one?

We’ll borrow from trauma-informed fitness, somatic narrative, speculative oral history, and very low-tech roleplay.

What you’ll leave with: A written journal entry from your 2050 self, a character sketch for your future working body, some nervous system tools for surviving the present.

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project for a street corner – 2:00- 4:30 PM

Hosted by: L Napier

@ Co-Prosperity • 3219 S Morgan St

“project for a street corner” is a framework for artists/activists to devise creative protest within crowded public space. In this workshop and performance, you will collaborate with a group to create an experimental covert performance to change the behavior of an existing crowd, through your own performative intervention. During the workshop, you will observe a site, discuss how crowds behave within that site, and devise strategies to covertly change  crowd behavior through collectively using your own embodied behaviors. Then we will test out our strategies on-site. To map out what patterns emerge, our performative interventions will be video documented from above.

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Chicago Radicalism 101 Bus Tour – 3:00 – 6:00 pm
Tickets are $25 per person

Hosted by: Paul Durica

@ Marz Community Brewing • 3636 Iron St.

Explore over a century of civil disobedience in Chicago on this bus tour, from the Lager Beer Riot to the DNC. Learn how the past has made our present and can help us to imagine a just, equitable future. This bus tour starts and ends at Marz Community Brewing Co. It includes beers and Non – alcoholic beverages. PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

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Travesuras Colectivas: DIY Art for Resistance – 4:30 – 6:00 PM

Hosted by: Alondra Jara

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

This two-part workshop explores poster-making as a powerful form of creative expression and collective resistance. Using a range of accessible, DIY approaches- such as printmaking, textiles, collage, and hand-drawn design, we’ll create bold posters that reflect defiance, liberation, and imagining new futures in these times.

Open to all skill levels and grounded in values of accessibility, care, and creative autonomy, this workshop centers art as a practice of community-building and liberation. Come to experiment, reflect, and connect!