About: Meg Duguid

The Juneteenth Market is a pop up market celebrating black business in Chicago. It will take place on S June 19th at the Promontory in Hyde Park. The marketplace will feature various business and industries from beauty to fashion. Food vendors will be on site. This event is free!

Join us for a post Labor Notes evening with Kim Kelly in celebration of her new book Fight Like Hell! Additional guests to be announced. Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude acrossContinue Reading

Pull up to the DuSable’s Juneteenth BBQ! Celebrating freedom in true Black tradition. BYOG, Bring your own grill. Register at https://dusablejuneteenthbbq.eventbrite.com

Throughout the Elmhurst Art Museum’s 25th year of inspiring its community, the Museum will host a year-long celebration, with a focus on the three major hallmarks of its mission: architecture (Spring), education (Summer), and art (Fall). Central to the Summer season is the interactive, family-friendly exhibition, Nature’s Blueprints: Biomimicry in Art and Design, open JuneContinue Reading

ENGAGE Projects will also host an in-house Mole Celebration with Alberto Aguilar on June 18th, 1 – 4 PM. Aguilar will prepare a traditional mole sauce for ENGAGE Projects’ artists, patrons, and community. As a social practice artist, Aguilar’s work relies on his community to incite the conversations that unmoor systems of power. By preparingContinue Reading