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SPECIAL
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Times for Special Events:
Tuesday evenings at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 3:30 p.m.,
occasional Saturday
programs.
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Events
for week August 3rd - 9th |
 Sun
AUG 3, 3:30 p.m. |
Bliss
Browne, Honoree and Imagine Chicago: "From
Generation to Generation: Expanding Imagination about
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Tue
AUG 5, 6 p.m. |
Bernarda Wong, Honoree, "Chinese Culture 101
Presentations, Chinese American Service League. Dance,
Tai Qi, Calligraphy
"Chinese Culture 101"
Bernarda "Bernie: Wong, an honoree and President of
the Chinese American Service League, will provide a
glimpse into the world of Chinese culture. Through a
series of short performances that will include Tai Qi,
calligraphy and traditional Chinese dance, Bernie will
inform guests about the ancient culture and will
demonstrate that Chinese culture is alive and well in
Chicago's vibrant Chinatown. |
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Events
for week August 10th-16th |
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Sun,
AUG 10, 3:30 p.m. |
Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola
University Chicago Christine George: "How to Use
Research to Empower" |
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Tue
AUG 12, 6 p.m. |
Marca
Bristo, Honoree: " Celebrating the ADA Anniversary:
Disabled Women in Action" |
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Events
for week August 17th-23rd |
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Sun
AUG 17 |
To be
announced |
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Tue
AUG 19, 6 p.m. |
Three performances, Working Women's History
Project: Alma Washington, "Lucy
Parsons: Rebel Woman for Labor". Mary Bonnett. " Agnes
Nestor: The Thread That Binds" Mary Wehrle,
Michelle Jackson, and David Rosenblatt, "Alice
Hamilton: Battling for Industrial Safety"
Three performances by the Working Women's history
Project. "Lucy Parson: Rebel Woman for
Labor", a performance staring Chicago actress Alma
Washington. Lucy parsons waged a life long
battle for the improvement of wages, hours and working
conditions for the nation's laborers. The wife
of Albert Parsons, a Chicago Haymarket martyr, she was
a woman of black and Creek ancestry in the white man's
new industrial order.
See a firey and impassioned portrayal of Parsons.
"Alice Hamilton: Battling for Industrial Safety"
with Mary Wehrle, Michelle Jacobson and David
Rosenblatt. As a physician at Hull House, Alice
Hamilton, established the field of industrial
toxicology because she believed and then proved that
exposure to dangerous chemical killed workers.. She
knew that the poor must take dangerous jobs or
have no jobs at all. Her work led to OSHA and
the standards that are in place today. "Agnes
Nestor: The Thread that Binds" written and performed
by Mary Bonnet. Agnes Nestor, an immigrant Irish
Catholic girl, founded the International Glove Workers
Union of America. In 1914, she became the
president of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League
and remained there for three decades. She fought
for the 8 hour day but it took 27 years before the
bill became law in Illinois. |
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