Telling Belongings, December 8th, 2014 Our storytelling conversation was moderated by Georgina Valverde, an interdisciplinary artist and educator who serves as Assistant Director of Teacher Programs at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her concern for generating creative opportunities for everyone was especially pertinent to our open-source ambitions for the evening. Our Stories: The Reverend Marshall Hatch, is the Pastor of West Garfield’s New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church. His stories recall life in the Jane Addams Homes from 1962 – 1974, a time that African-American families’ housing options were limited by legal discrimination such as red-lining. Ines Medor will be joined by her son, Jack Medor, NPHM’s Board Treasurer. She remembers how Jane Addams Homes was embraced by immigrant families like hers that moved in when it opened in 1938. The daughter of Jewish Holocaust refugees from Poland and Russia, her stories recall the intricate connections between public housing, the “Hull House” neighborhood and Little Italy. As a Cuban-American growing up in Uptown, Maria Sopeña now lives in “scattered site” housing just a few blocks from the Mayor’s home. She’s a public housing resident advocate as the Local Advisory President representing the Northeast Scattered Sites community, and her son and nephew are part of NPHM’s Youth Advisory Council which will pilot a community co-curation initiative in 2015. Audience stories inspired by community members and their chosen objects complete the program. _______ FOLLOW LIPSapp Classic Radio _______ FB: r-js/1vz7Pcz / TW: r-js/1kHd2Qt / Listen to LIPSapp Classic Radio r-js/1dOIQ18 #classicrock #rollingstones #ledzeppelin #santana #eagles #zztop #thewho #beatles #elvis #jimihendrix #dylan #acdc #michaeljackson #pinkfloyd #madonna #u2
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