Podcast appearances and mentions of Harold Washington Library

Coming home from the Midwestern History Conference, changing trains in Chicago, laying over a few hours at a fourth-floor table in the downtown Harold Washington Library, writing this essay. I am quite certain I am in the midwest. Dawn tomorrow morning I'll ride the Empire Builder into the Red River Valley and alight in Fargo. At that point I will be equally certain I am in the Great Plains. If I were to ask the first citizen I met whether we were in the midwest, however, the person probably would say yes, and I would not say this is mistaken.

Nat Cummings has been doing cosplay for half their life. From appearing at C2E2 as Fiona from Adventure Time in 2016, to creating a themed mini-collection for their fashion class at Whitney Young Magnet High School, Nat has taken their love for costumes and clothing to bold new realms. In this episode, Nat joins Elle to talk about their internship at the Chicago Public Library Teen Gamer's Guild, their excitement for the upcoming conventions, and how all this time with their hobbies and classes fits in to next year's college plans.Links to the Chicago Teen Gamer's Guild, and to event information for Gamer's Universe at the Harold Washington Library are in the full show notes at hoorfpodcast.comSubscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast:Apple | Spotify | YouTubeBecome a Patron:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hoorfpodcast/membershipConnect with Elle Billing:Website: www.hoorfpodcast.com / www.elleandwink.comInstagram: instagram.com/hoorfpodcastSupport the show

Tomorrow the Poetry Foundation is starting its Fall season with a celebration at the Harold Washington Library featuring Chicago's first-ever poet laureate avery r. young. young was raised in the Austin neighborhood, and has built a career as a writer, educator, activist, and visual artist. Host Jacoby Cochran sat down with the new poet laureate earlier this summer to learn about Chicago's poetry scene. Plus, we hear young's recent Juneteenth poem and get some tips for crafting our own poems!  See avery r. young perform with other poet laureates, including E'mon Lauren (Chicago Youth Poet Laureate), Angela Jackson (Illinois), Nandi Comer (Michigan), Airea D. Matthews (Philadelphia), and Amanda Johnston (Texas). This episode originally aired Tuesday, June 20. Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We were at the Winter Garden of the Harold Washington Library this month for the launch of “Help This Garden Grow,” a new docuseries that tells the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. “Help This Garden Grow” is a project of Respair, a liberatory ecosystem hub brought to life by an entire community, and spearheaded by my mentors in media, the visionaries Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger. Respair Production and Media (RPM) creates and builds media projects in partnership with social justice movement-makers, visionaries, and creatives who are taking stock of the world as it is, and working relentlessly to create a world that could be or should be, but is not yet. Over the past few years AirGo has made its mark as a unique space of movement-building, opening critical conversations, deepening our understanding of fundamental questions, connecting people and linking issues. Respair represents a qualitative leap forward, spinning off new media projects in all directions. One example is the podcast “Guaranteed” with the incomparable Eve Ewing. Another is “Help This Garden Grow,” and I'm honored to have been asked to help launch this docuseries by broadcasting Episode One. Here it is.Subscribe to listen to the entire docuseries by searching “Help This Garden Grow” wherever you get your podcasts, and you can find out much more about the project at respairmedia.com.

Chicago's weather has been unpredictable this month. Canadian wildfire smoke has blanketed the sky for days, torrential rain has already affected major events like NASCAR and Pitchfork, and we could see a high of 98 degrees Friday. So with one of the summer's busiest weekends upon us, we are designing the perfect schedule to keep you safe from the weather without sacrificing your fun!  Festivals this weekend: Fiesta Del Sol in Pilsen Silver Room Block Party at Oakwood Beach Summer Fair in Chinatown Wicker Fest in Wicker Park Tonight the Harold Washington Library is celebrating the launch of the "Help This Garden Grow" podcast. It is a series dedicated to life and labor of Chicago's own Hazel Johnson aka the “mother of environmental justice.” Tickets are free. Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

• POLITICO's Josh Gerstein joins John with the latest on the Trump documents trial. • Mark Guarino, journalist and author of “Country & Midwestern,” shares stories about his book and an event tomorrow at the Harold Washington Library. • Ike Ejiochi, ABC News Washington, has the details on Biden's Competition Council meeting from earlier today. • Plus, Bret Gogoel, WLS Defacto Sports Director, joins to talk about the record breaking week in baseball.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

• POLITICO's Josh Gerstein joins John with the latest on the Trump documents trial. • Mark Guarino, journalist and author of “Country & Midwestern,” shares stories about his book and an event tomorrow at the Harold Washington Library. • Ike Ejiochi, ABC News Washington, has the details on Biden's Competition Council meeting from earlier today. • Plus, Bret Gogoel, WLS Defacto Sports Director, joins to talk about the record breaking week in baseball.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're SO hyped to share the trailer for Help This Garden Grow, the second Respair project dropping this summer. It's dropping 7/27, and we're celebrating with a BIG release party at the Winter Garden in the Harold Washington Library. It's free and open to the public, come through! Here's the RSVP link: Help This Garden Grow is a new podcast docuseries telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. Hazel is the founder of People for Community Recovery, a 40 year-old organization that fights to address the toxic industrial pollution that has been killing the members of her community. Over the course of the multigenerational multipart documentary, we talk with organizers, policy-makers, historians, and community members about how PCR emerged and led, the legacy of Ms. Johnson's work, and how this marginalized Chicago pocket built the lineage of today's vibrant, impactful, and necessary modern environmental justice movement.  Help This Garden Grow is presented by Respair Production & Media, Elevate, and People for Community Recovery.

Fall is in full swing, but there's still time to get outside before winter hits. Journalist and naturalist Zack Nauth compiled a list of 20 midwest hiking trails to visit this season all over the prairies, marshes, valleys, and forests near Chicago. Host Jacoby Cochran talks with Nauth about his top picks from that list, what to expect on the trails, and his favorite things about hiking. Places discussed: Cap Sauers Holding Nature Preserve Sag Valley Trail System Swallow Cliff Woods Lakewood Forest Preserves Big Marsh  Franklin Creek State Natural Area Nachusa Grasslands Salt Creek Woods Nature Preserve  Wolf Road Prairie Nature Preserve Illinois and Michigan Canal News: Where to vote early in Chicago Some good news: Fatimah Asghar at Harold Washington Library. Listen back to our episode with Asghar about writing for Disney's "Ms. Marvel." Follow us on Twitter: @CityCastChicago Sign up for our newsletter: chicago.citycast.fm Call or Text Us: (773) 780-0246 This episode sponsored by the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Check out their series of spooky events this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chicago is a famed architecture town, but the road has not always been smooth. Hear from the editor and author, respectively, of two recently released guides – Laurie Petersen for the AIA Guide to Chicago and Vladimir Belogolovskyfor the DOM Architectural Guide Chicago, discourse on Postmodernist icons like the Thompson (future Google?) Center and Harold Washington Library, and muse on what came next, where we are now, and why Chicago is still important to architecture everywhere.

Harold Washington died months into his second term as Chicago's first Black mayor but he left an impact people can still see in the city today. Reset hears about a new exhibit at the Harold Washington Library celebrating his contributions to Chicago. You can learn more about Harold Washington's time in politics and relevance today At the Table with Laura Washington & Lynn Sweet virtual event, April 21st. GUEST: Stacie Williams, Division Chief of Archives and Special Collections at the Chicago Public Library

Harold Washington died months into his second term as Chicago's first Black mayor but he left an impact people can still see in the city today. Reset hears about a new exhibit at the Harold Washington Library celebrating his contributions to Chicago.

The boys try to adapt Pokemon GO to work with the intricacies and nuances of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. And then it doesn't work, so they throw that out and make an entirely new game that, honestly, we'd all absolutely play.  Join us as we discuss what makes a ring wraith a ring wraith, how lit the Harold Washington Library is, and Andy Serkis's great butt.Tell Me Where I Lose You: Lord of the Rings GOOUR LINKS:www.twitter.com/tmwilypodcastwww.instagram.com/tmwilypodcastwww.instagram.com/stillwhitsonSend all hate mail to Tellmewily@gmail.com

This week's CHIRP Radio Artist Interview is between Chicago-local hip hop artist The Third and Features Department Contributor Marjorie Alford. They talked about The Third's start at Harold Washington Library’s YouMedia Lab, the origins of his rap name, and the thoughtful inspirations behind many of his songs. The Third's first EP Director's Cut is available now through his website. Produced by: John Mulvany. Photo courtesy of The Third.

Also happening today, a coronavirus testing site in west suburban Aurora is set to close at the end of the month; Oakton Community College in Des Plaines is offering training to become COVID-19 contract tracers; the city has chosen five development teams to compete for a project to rebuild part of the area near the Harold Washington Library; and much more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 19 (S4). Past guests and members of the Senate call-in and talk about "whatever is on their minds!" Intro, 0:00 – 3:49 Rob takes the crew of the Ancient Rome Refocused show to Britain, where through social media holds a street party in West London. Famous ancients show up, with rappers and musicians. The London police break it up with tear gas, but Rob dutifully goes back to his apartment in Knightsbridge to start the show. 3:50 – 5:38 Call in – Caller talks about the episode "I'm the Emperor and you're not." 5:39 – 8:54 Rob intros excerpt from "I'm the Emperor and you're not." 5:57 – 8:10 Past episode where Rob rants about the influences on an Emperors psyche. 8:12 – 9:09 Call in - Tom from Arkansas talks about owls and what they mean symbolically. 9:11 – 9: 48 Rob talks about his hobby of taking a digital recorder when he travels. 9:50 – 15:23 Chicago location - Rob is standing in front of the Harold Washington Library. Something is staring down at him from the roof. What is that? Could it be? Owls? Really? What's up with that? 15:24 - 17:15 Rob likes the podcast Twilight Histories. "Who better to take us to worlds of our imagination than an archeologist?" Check out: https://www.twilighthistories.com/ 17:18-18:36 ROME INDUSTRIAL: Narrated by Jordan Harbour, you find yourself trying to understand this is a very different Rome, a far more advanced Rome. 18:37-19:36 Call in – Jordan Harbour, Twilight Histories, creator and host. 19:38 – 21:35 Rob intros the blog Letters to Cicero (and other dead friends). http://letterstocicero.blogspot.com/ 21:37 – 26:00 Call in - Morgan Taubert, host of Letters to Cicero (and other dead friends, calls from southern Australia 26:05 – 27:43 Rob intros the disappearance of the 9th Legion. Five thousand men walked into Caledonia and disappeared. Didn't you hear it on the news? Rob introduces the late Willaim Glover, formerly of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation. 27:44 -29:20 Call in - The late William Glover, archeologist, talks on the Ninth Lego. 29:21 – 32:13 Rob discusses Rosemary Sutcliff's book The Eagle of the Ninth and the 1970s TV BBC series. 32:15 – 34:07 Cottia, the Iceni, tells what's it's like to pretend to be Roman. 34:08 – 35:02 Rob suggests additional reading material. 34:08 – 45:55 The following is a discussion of Queen Zenobia. He reflects on the 16th Century Opera on this Palmyra queen. Reviews Zenobia on stage and screen, and the original musical Zenobia presented in Bolingbrook, Illinois. Lorisa Julianus was the playwright and composer with Angela Salvaggione. Who produces a musical about a third century queen, and stars in it? On the show we hear one of the love songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukbAKsPOg4 This Chicago area actor is now starring in a movie titled The Misadventures of Mistress Man-eater a comedy adventure (Check out their Face-book page). . https://www.facebook.com/mistressmaneatermovie/ 45:00 – 47:50 Call in – Lorrisa Julianus 47:55 - 48:50 Rob introduces Vicky Alvear Schecter, author of the book Cleopatra's Moon. https://www.vickyalvearshecter.com/ 48:51 – 56:13 Call in – Vicky Alvear Schecter talks about her book Warrior Queens, and introduces us to the Nubian Queen Amanirenas, ruler of the Kingdom of Kush from c. 40 BC to c. 10 BC. Her full title was Amnirenas qore li kdwe li. Amanirenas is one of the most famous kandakes, because of her role leading Kushite armies against the Roman army. 56:15 – 57:05 CLOSING CREDITS. Rob promotes his next podcast. The title: The Case of the Caesarian Quote. Rob hears a quote that was supposed to be said by Julius Caesar. He then investigates to find the origin. Join him on his journey on Episode 20. He is then told to go to bed. After all, he was at the street party in West London. If anyone saw him there, email the show at: rob@ancientromerefocused.org.

Episode 19 (S4). Past guests and members of the Senate call-in and talk about "whatever is on their minds!" Intro, 0:00 – 3:49 Rob takes the crew of the Ancient Rome Refocused show to Britain, where through social media holds a street party in West London. Famous ancients show up, with rappers and musicians. The London police break it up with tear gas, but Rob dutifully goes back to his apartment in Knightsbridge to start the show. 3:50 – 5:38 Call in – Caller talks about the episode "I'm the Emperor and you're not." 5:39 – 8:54 Rob intros excerpt from "I'm the Emperor and you're not." 5:57 – 8:10 Past episode where Rob rants about the influences on an Emperors psyche. 8:12 – 9:09 Call in - Tom from Arkansas talks about owls and what they mean symbolically. 9:11 – 9: 48 Rob talks about his hobby of taking a digital recorder when he travels. 9:50 – 15:23 Chicago location - Rob is standing in front of the Harold Washington Library. Something is staring down at him from the roof. What is that? Could it be? Owls? Really? What's up with that? 15:24 - 17:15 Rob likes the podcast Twilight Histories. "Who better to take us to worlds of our imagination than an archeologist?" Check out: https://www.twilighthistories.com/ 17:18-18:36 ROME INDUSTRIAL: Narrated by Jordan Harbour, you find yourself trying to understand this is a very different Rome, a far more advanced Rome. 18:37-19:36 Call in – Jordan Harbour, Twilight Histories, creator and host. 19:38 – 21:35 Rob intros the blog Letters to Cicero (and other dead friends). http://letterstocicero.blogspot.com/ 21:37 – 26:00 Call in - Morgan Taubert, host of Letters to Cicero (and other dead friends, calls from southern Australia 26:05 – 27:43 Rob intros the disappearance of the 9th Legion. Five thousand men walked into Caledonia and disappeared. Didn't you hear it on the news? Rob introduces the late Willaim Glover, formerly of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation. 27:44 -29:20 Call in - The late William Glover, archeologist, talks on the Ninth Lego. 29:21 – 32:13 Rob discusses Rosemary Sutcliff's book The Eagle of the Ninth and the 1970s TV BBC series. 32:15 – 34:07 Cottia, the Iceni, tells what's it's like to pretend to be Roman. 34:08 – 35:02 Rob suggests additional reading material. 34:08 – 45:55 The following is a discussion of Queen Zenobia. He reflects on the 16th Century Opera on this Palmyra queen. Reviews Zenobia on stage and screen, and the original musical Zenobia presented in Bolingbrook, Illinois. Lorisa Julianus was the playwright and composer with Angela Salvaggione. Who produces a musical about a third century queen, and stars in it? On the show we hear one of the love songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukbAKsPOg4 This Chicago area actor is now starring in a movie titled The Misadventures of Mistress Man-eater a comedy adventure (Check out their Face-book page). . https://www.facebook.com/mistressmaneatermovie/ 45:00 – 47:50 Call in – Lorrisa Julianus 47:55 - 48:50 Rob introduces Vicky Alvear Schecter, author of the book Cleopatra's Moon. https://www.vickyalvearshecter.com/ 48:51 – 56:13 Call in – Vicky Alvear Schecter talks about her book Warrior Queens, and introduces us to the Nubian Queen Amanirenas, ruler of the Kingdom of Kush from c. 40 BC to c. 10 BC. Her full title was Amnirenas qore li kdwe li. Amanirenas is one of the most famous kandakes, because of her role leading Kushite armies against the Roman army. 56:15 – 57:05 CLOSING CREDITS. Rob promotes his next podcast. The title: The Case of the Caesarian Quote. Rob hears a quote that was supposed to be said by Julius Caesar. He then investigates to find the origin. Join him on his journey on Episode 20. He is then told to go to bed. After all, he was at the street party in West London. If anyone saw him there, email the show at: rob@ancientromerefocused.org.

Hector Canonge discusses his studio home MODULO 715 in NYC, and the residency program he organized in the space. Faced with a fire that destroyed the building, he had to restart everything (once again). What is an audio performance? The first answer in our series comes from Tamara Al-Mashouk, who asks among other things: “Where are you from?” Next, we invited participants in our residency in Nairobi (Kenya) to discuss: how do you understand transformation in flux? How are materials (and their transformations) part of your art, activism, and research practice? Our group of conversants include artist Laura Porter (Paris/France), artist Wambui Collymore (Nairobi/Kenya), artist/organizer Dennis Kiberu, (Nairobi/Kenya) and photojournalist Adam Sings In The Timber (Providence/USA). We finish off with Dutch sound artist Zeno Van Den Broek’s interpretation of Conversations From The Center, through an audio composition of voices from the future. Portions of this program were recorded at the AfroQueer podcast studios in Nairobi, Kenya.Hector Canonge (@hectorcanonge)Hector Canonge is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural producer based in New York City. His work incorporates various forms of artistic expression: Performance Art, Dance, Multimedia Production, Installation, and Social Practice to explore and treat issues related to constructions of identity, gender roles, and the politics of migration.Tamara Al-Mashouk (@tmraalm)Tamara Al-Mashouk was born in Saudi Arabia in 1988. She graduated from Wellesley College with a major in architecture (2010) and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Art at Tufts University (2016). Through video, performance, and architectural installation, Al-Mashouk examines the movement of people across societal and national borders with specific focus on the intersectional body and conversely this body’s relationship to institutional systems. She has founded an all-female fine art gallery at a music and arts festival in upstate New York. She produces single and multi-channel video works for the gallery and public sphere- a five-channel video installation for a solo show in Boston, a two-channel video installation in Beijing, and a three-hour multi-channelAdam Sings In The Timber (@signsinthetimber) Adam Sings In The Timber is an enrolled member of the Crow Nation in Montana, USA. Adam was born in Montana and grew up in the Midwest of the USA. He studied photojournalism at the University of Montana, Missoula. Currently based in Providence, RI, his work captures the beauty and complexities of Native American culture without shying away from the realities of poverty, addiction and abuse. His photo making process ethically portrays Indigenous communities through art and documentation. Sings In The Timber’s work, combining documentary photography and portraiture, will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago. Previous exhibitions include First Voice Art Gallery at the American Indian Center, Chicago; Paramount Theatre Gallery, Seattle; Montgomery Ward Gallery, University of Illinois-Chicago; Harold Washington Library, Chicago; Gallery OTR, Cincinnati, Ohio; and King Street Station, Seattle, Washington. His photojournalism has been published in The Guardian, Indian Country Today, Indian Peoples Magazine, USA Today and the New York Times, among others. He has lectured widely on the importance of Indigenous people documenting their own culture at institutions including Bowling Green State University, Northwestern University, Brown University, and the University of Colorado Boulder. Laura Porter (@_laura.porter_) Laura Porter is an American artist who lives in Paris, France. She has a practice-based PhD in Fine Arts from École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts / SACRePSL. Through installation, sculpture, and video, her work considers modes of value production. With particular attention to the genesis of objects and tools as well as the role of the body in disposable economies, her works appear as small technological/nutritional economies or systems in the pro- cess of becoming animated. Laura Porter’s work has been presented at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon (Sète), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), Woluwe Park (Brussels), In extenso (Clermont-Ferrand), and Bandjoun Station (Cameroon). Wambui Collymore (@wambuikamiru) Born in 1982, in Kenya, Wambui Wamae Kamiru Collymore has been developing artwork around the theme of colonialism, identity, and independence in Africa. She is the Founder of The Art Space – an online contemporary gallery with alternative show spaces, based in Nairobi. Through her own work in contemporary art – mainly simulated experiences, Wambui tackles history, politics and social issues. Originally a painter, Wambui now creates installations with various mediums. She is currently intrigued by pattern, its repetition, and memory. Wambui Kamiru holds an MSc.in African Studies with a focus on Kenyan History from the University of Oxford. Her dissertation focused on the attempt to create collective memory around Kenyaʼs Mau Mau War and the family of Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi. With this background, Wambui tells stories about the passage of time, through her artwork. Her most recent exhibition, Wakariru (#Wakariru) was an exhibition about the destruction of language for everyday things and the accompanying loss of orally documented knowledge. It looked at memory and the forgotten history of the role of women in the Mau Mau war. It was shown at One Off Galleryʼs Space at Rosslyn Riviera. Akili Ni Nywele (#AkiliNiNywele) was created as part of Sensing Nairobi, a group exhibition that sought to describe Nairobi – the capital city. This exhibition focused on modern perceptions of womenʼs beauty and femininity in relation to hair and how “urbanized” women are increasingly wearing fake hair to enhance their beauty and femininity. It asked where this perception came from and what it means to us, both male and female. It was shown at the British Institute East Africa (BIEA) and at the Kenya National Museum. To see more of her work visit: www.wambuikamiru.com Dennis Kiberu (@denniskibbz) Dennis Kiberu is a radio presenter, PR practitioner, music producer, disc jockey and photographer originating from and based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has studied Journalism and minored in Film at the Multimedia University of Kenya, with a focus on broadcast media and photography. In 2013 after finishing high school, he became a self-taught disc-jockey and went on to perform at events in Mombasa and Nairobi, where he later ventured to music production. In 2015, He was the Assistant PR Officer for the Ministry of Tourism. In the same year he ventured into commercial photography working with fashion designers, art studios, live concert performances and festivals. In 2016 he was a producer at Homeboyz Radio Kenya. Since 2016, he has been producing and presenting live a comical mid-morning Saturday show ʻSato Vybzʼ in Multimedia University Radio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sandor Weisz is the founder of The Mystery League, a company of creative puzzlemakers who stage live games. He developed large scale puzzles and games at locations like the Chicago Art Institute, the Lincoln Park Zoo or the Harold Washington Library. A Northwestern University graduate, Sandor transitioned to working full time on the Mystery League from a career as a software and web developer. He currently focuses on creating tabletop puzzle games and shares a new puzzle every day on Twitter via his account @pzlr.

Wardell Julius Clark and Regina Victor are stars who just keep growing in our Chicago theatre community. We had an amazing time talking with them recently about all of their adventures. They are work and life partners and as Gary said, "extraordinary creative artists and human beings." They also did a beautiful job introducing the show. Voice over agents, take note. Regina Victor works as a theatre director, producer, dramaturg, arts journalist, and mentor. Regina is a non-binary femme who grew up in Oakland, now residing in Chicago. Regina attended boarding school at Phillips Exeter, then studied theatre, religion, and dance at Santa Clara University. They have worked with and been mentored by, among others, Phylicia Rashad, Anna Shapiro, Raelle Myrick-Hodges, and Danya Taymor. Victor has helped develop world premieres by Antoinette Nwandu (Breach:...), Brett Neveu (To Catch A Fish), Sarah Ruhl and Morgan McNaught (A Persephone Pageant), and Loy Webb (The Light, His Shadow). Regina will be direct a world premiere of Pro-Am at Sideshow in May. They have recently been named to be the first Associate Producer ever at Court Theatre. Regina founded an arts criticism platform called Rescripted in 2017. Rescripted’s mission is "to reprogram the way we critically engage with each other using an empathetic lens, while cultivating critics and adding new voices to the field." It is a collective of artists who engage with each other's ideas and opinions openly. Regina mentors young critics through a program called The Key, which has produced some terrific new critics. It is produced in partnership with the Chicago Inclusion Project and is hosted by Steppenwolf Theater Company. Wardell Julius Clark was raised in Fairfield, Alabama, where he toured the country as a child with the amazing Sparkle Dance Company. Read about their mission and programs here. He went on to audition for DePaul University's acting program, which is extremely competitive. He got in to the program, didn't get cut, and has been working here in Chicago ever since. He was a very successful actor for the first 10 years of his career, then asked Ron OJ Parsons if he could assist him on directing Gem of the Ocean at Court. He tells a wonderful story about his first (triumphant) directing gig on Insurrection at Stage Left. Next up was Wardell's hugely acclaimed production of The Shipment. He has been booked as a director since... We recently saw and were blown away by His Shadow, which Wardell (with Sydney Charles) directed, with Regina serving as Dramaturg. It was truly not to be missed. The good news is it was recorded for the archives at Harold Washington Library, so you can see it there. Wardell is a company member at one of our all-time favorite companies, TimeLine, and is a member of their amazing Living History Education Program. Regina is working on a wonderful project at Lyric Opera called "Empower Youth". More to say about these upcoming projects, but can't wait to publish their episode. So come back to this site for updates.  

EPISODE 3: RYDER LEOPOLD & THE QUIETEST PART On today's show, poet and trans advocate Ryder Leopold gets real about his personal experiences growing up trans, and the beauty and importance of connecting with the quietest parts of yourself. Connect wth Ryder at: https://www.instagram.com/rydersblock After the show, take a minute to comment and rate today's program, or send us questions, feedback, and share your stories with us at: shoutbox@kaiharding.com. Learn more by visiting: www.KaiHarding.com/shoutbox Today’s program is the second of two recorded on location at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, and was Edited and Mixed by Sven at Blue Box Studio. Our theme music was written and performed by Melody Jane Wachtel of the band This is a Stickup!

EPISODE 2: KATIE L. O'NEILL & INVISIBLE DISABILITY On today's show, Performance Artist Katie L. O'Neill talks about the invisible disability of mental health, shares her story of growing up with Borderline Personality and Schizo-Affective Disorder, the complexities of "passing", and her artistic and educational efforts to advocate for the disabled. You can learn more about Katie and her work by visiting: www.KatieLOneill.com We'd love to hear from you, so please take a minute to comment and rate our program here, or send us questions, comments, feedback, and share your stories with us at shoutbox@kaiharding.com. To learn more about our program, visit us at www.KaiHarding.com/shoutbox . Today’s program was recorded at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, Edited and Mixed by Sven at Blue Box Studio, and our theme music was written and performed by Melody Jane Wachtel of the band This is a Stickup!

Sasha Neri runs the Harold Washington Library Maker Lab in the Loop of Chicago, Illinois and runs Chicago's yearly Maker Summit. This is the fourth and final part of our educational makerspaces series, and I'm happy to have Sasha on to talk about how makerspaces work in a library setting, and the benefits they have for the broader community of patrons that libraries serve.

Does humanity deserve another chance? A fable from the great Lorraine Hansberry about a hermit and some children at the end of the world--or the beginning.   To contact Make-Believe, email us at talk@makebelieve.fm   ---------------   What Use Are Flowers?: A Fable By Lorraine Hansberry Music by Mikhail Fiksel Sound by Erisa Apantaku and Mikhail Fiksel Directed by Daniel Kyri Executive produced by Jeremy McCarter   Performed and recorded live at the Harold Washington Library, Chicago   CAST Hermit - Billy Branch Charlie - Daniel Kyri Lily - Khloe Janel William - Tevion Lanier Narration read by Kiayla Ryann   SOUND TEAM Recording engineer - Joe Palermo Additional recording - Scott Tallarida at Trigger   PRODUCTION STAFF Production manager - Madeleine Borg Stage manager - JC Widman Community manager - LaRob Payton   POST-PRODUCTION Editing and mixing by Erisa Apantaku and Mikhail Fiksel Sound design by Mikhail Fiksel Final mixing and mastering by Joe Palermo   Permission from Joi Gresham and the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust   Graphic design by Carly Pearlman   Equipment provided by TechMagic Designs   Make-Believe theme music by Mikhail Fiksel   “Greensleeves” - traditional English folk melody   Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 - 4. Finale (Ode to Joy)   Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 - 3. Adagio molto e cantabile; Andante moderato Performed by Skidmore College Orchestra, via Musopen   SPECIAL THANKS Joi Gresham, Julie McGarvie, and the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust; Brian Bannon and the staff of Chicago Public Library; Carolyn Casselman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison; Robert Hornbostel; Nancy García Loza; Nate Marshall; SAG-AFTRA.   PRODUCTION SPONSORS The Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Family Foundation, for an essential launch grant The Poetry Foundation, our lead season sponsor Joyce Chelberg, whose generosity supports the work of Make-Believe’s actors All our donors and supporters   To support Make-Believe with a tax-deductible contribution, please visit: https://makebelieve.fm/support-us/

Odysseus, the “man of twists and turns”, goes on five new adventures, portrayed by five amazing actors. Sing for our time, too. To contact Make-Believe, email us at talk@makebelieve.fm --------------- Lost Books of the OdysseyBy Jeremy McCarterAdapted from the novel by Zachary MasonMusic composed and sound team led by Mikhail FikselDirected by Jess McLeodExecutive produced by Jeremy McCarter Performed and recorded live at the Harold Washington Library, Chicago CAST (in order of playing Odysseus)Kareem BandealyKristina Valada-ViarsLily MojekwuIan Paul CusterHenry Godinez SOUND TEAMSound designer - Mikhail FikselAssociate sound designer and audio technician - Robert HornbostelRecording engineer - Joe Palermo PRODUCTION STAFFProduction manager - Madeleine BorgStage manager - Brennan T. JonesCommunity manager - Kaitlin Fine POST-PRODUCTIONEditing, mixing, and additional recording by Mikhail FikselAdditional sound design, final mixing and mastering by Joe Palermo Graphic design by Carly Pearlman Equipment provided by TechMagic Designs Make-Believe theme music by Mikhail Fiksel SPECIAL THANKSCatherine Allen and The Den Theater; Brian Bannon and the staff of Chicago Public Library; Carolyn Casselman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison; Bill Clegg; Nancy García Loza; Nate Marshall; Kevin Reader, Max Temkin, and Cards Against Humanity; Chris Rooney; SAG-AFTRA. PRODUCTION SPONSORSThe Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Family Foundation, for an essential launch grantThe Poetry Foundation, our lead season sponsorJoyce Chelberg, whose generosity supports the work of Make-Believe’s actorsAll our donors and supporters To support Make-Believe with a tax-deductible contribution, please visit:https://makebelieve.fm/support-us/

Brer Rabbit, the iconic trickster of African-American folklore, returns in new tales by the poet Nate Marshall: It’s a whole new briar patch now. To contact Make-Believe, email us at talk@makebelieve.fm This program is dedicated to the life of George Terrell, a storyteller and enslaved man on the Turnwold Plantation in Eatonton, Georgia. He is one of countless storytellers with names that we will never know or get right.   --------------- Bruh Rabbit And the Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis, Esq. By Nate Marshall Music composed and sound team led by Mikhail Fiksel Directed by Wardell Julius Clark Executive produced by Jeremy McCarter Performed and recorded live at the Harold Washington Library, Chicago CAST (in order of appearance) Interviewer/Mayor/Tar Baby - Sydney Charles Remington/Fam Bear - Osiris Khepera Fam Wolf - Charles Andrew Gardner Fam Fox - Kiayla Ryann Bruh Rabbit - Al’Jaleel McGhee SOUND TEAM Sound designer - Mikhail Fiksel Associate sound designer - Robert Hornbostel Recording engineer - Steve Labedz Audio technician - Maddie Doyle PRODUCTION STAFF Production manager - Madeleine Borg Stage manager - J.C. Widman Community manager - Arrion Jones POST-PRODUCTION Editing, mixing, and additional recording by Mikhail Fiksel and Robert Hornbostel Mastering by Joe Palermo Graphic design by Carly Pearlman Equipment provided by TechMagic Designs Make-Believe theme music by Mikhail Fiksel SPECIAL THANKS Catherine Allen and The Den Theater; Brian Bannon and the staff of Chicago Public Library; Carolyn Casselman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison; Nancy García Loza; Chris Rooney; SAG-AFTRA; Maria Tatar PRODUCTION SPONSORS The Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Family Foundation, for an essential launch grant The Poetry Foundation, our lead season sponsor Joyce Chelberg, whose generosity supports the work of Make-Believe’s actors All our donors and supporters To support Make-Believe with a tax-deductible contribution, please visit: https://makebelieve.fm/support-us/      

We sit down with Amara Enyia in the Harold Washington Library to talk her vision for a cooperative economy in Chicago, how TIF funding is meant to work vs. how… The post Scapi Radio 12.13.18 Amara Enyia appeared first on Scapi Magazine.

This episode stars Gint Aras (The Fugue, Finding the Moon in Sugar). It was recorded in Chicago, IL in the Winter Garden at the Harold Washington Library in November 2016.

Former United States Army Ranger and Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Dave Grossman is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Lt. Colonel Grossman is one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of killing and combat. He is the author of several books including On Killing and On Combat.  Lt. Colonel Grossman travels approximately 300 days a year, where in seminars and workshops he shares his insights on "killology" with military special forces and elite law enforcement personal from around the world. In this installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Chauncey and Lt. Colonel Grossman discuss war and warfare, mass shootings, America's culture of violence, if armed teachers help to prevent school violence, how sleep deprivation is directly connected to suicides, police brutality, and questions about firearms and self-defense. During this week's podcast, Chauncey also offers some sharing on the passing of Prince and the former WWE/WWF professional wrestler known as Chyna, how best to die, open marriages, adultery, and Beyonce's amazing "Lemonade" video music-essay.  In this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Chauncey also talks about the death penalty and his eye-opening experience attending a panel on the subject at Chicago's Harold Washington Library. And not to be too dragged down by the morbid, this week's show concludes with a discussion of the heartwarming and life affirming marriage of 90-year-old former U.S. Senator Harris Wofford to his 40-year-old partner Matthew Charlton.

This episode stars John "Johnny Misfit" Wawrzaszek (CHIPRC, Chicago Zine Fest, Two Cookie Minimum). It was recorded in Chicago, IL in the Winter Garden at the Harold Washington Library in December 2015.

This episode stars Todd Summar and Corey Klinzing (Goreyesque). It was recorded in Chicago, IL in the Winter Garden at the Harold Washington Library in May 2014.

This episode stars Dmitry Samarov (Hack). It was recorded in Chicago, IL in the Winter Garden at the Harold Washington Library in January 2013.

This episode stars Sarah Terez Rosenblum (Herself When She's Missing). It was recorded at the DePaul University Campus Bookstore (not the Harold Washington Library) in Chicago, IL in November 2012.

18 year old MJ sings his original composition entitled "I Love Your Swag" during an August Edition of YOUmedia's "Lyricist Loft" open-mic night at the Harold Washington Library. He also talks about what "swag" is and why no one should ever "swaggerjack". A first time visitor to the space, he was excited to use the YOUmedia studio space to record for free with his library card.

Harold Washington was elected as Chicago’s first African American mayor in 1983. Gwendolyn Brooks, Edward Hirsch, and Albert Goldbarth read an array of poems celebrating progress and the pleasures of reading.

In 1912, Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine as a forum for modernist poetry. Featured are poems by George Dillon and John Frederick Nims, former editors of Poetry.