Image: One of the first days of programming in Little Village, at La Villita Park. In the foreground, Simone Reynolds facilitates an activity reflecting on community and the senses. In the background, a multi-generational group improvisationally paints play objects with Andrés Lemus-Spont, Ebere Agwuncha, Nina Lemmenes, and Alex O’Neill. Photo by Marya Spont-Lemus.
Image: Gardeners and their families at LVEJO’s Semillas de Justicia Garden in Little Village discuss alternative ways to address problems happening in the neighborhood without involving the police. Photo by Andrés Lemus-Spont.
Image: Jasmin Cardenas and Teatro for Change members performing an original play on workers’ rights in La Villita Park. Photo by Andrés Lemus-Spont.
Semana del 8 de agosto, 2021
"Mobilize! Creative Blocks, Collective Dreams" en La Villita
Este verano, Mobilize Creative Collaborative presenta “Mobilize! Creative Blocks, Collective Dreams” (¡Movilizar! Cuadras Creativas, Sueños Colectivos): una serie de reuniones comunitarias de una semana de duración, que se llevan a cabo al aire libre en cinco vecindarios en los lados sur y suroeste de Chicago, co-diseñado con un equipo de artistas y organizadores comunitarios que también tienes raíces es estos barrios. Esta programación en La Villita es hecha en conjunto con Little Village Environmental Justice Organization y con apollo de Chicago Park District.
Lugar
La Villita Park (2800 S. Sacramento; cerca de la entrada de la 28 y Troy)
El Programa Para La Villita
Este evento es gratuito, para gente de todas edades, accesible, y al aire libre. Excepto cuando indicado lo contrario, puede unirse a eventos o talleres a cualquier hora guste. Para los eventos con (*), se pide que participe desde el principio.
Domingo, 25 de julio, de 2-6pm
2-6pm – Feria de recursos comunitarios (varias organizaciones)
2-6pm – Varios talleres y eventos creativos
2-4pm* – Círculo de conversación
Martes, 27 de julio, de 1-6pm
1-6pm – Varios talleres y eventos creativos
Jueves, 29 de julio, de 1-6pm
1-6pm – Varios talleres y eventos creativos.
1-3pm* – Limpiar el parque con LVEJO
3-5pm* – Círculo de conversación
6pm* – Entrenamiento de Defund CPD (TIEMPO NUEVO)
Viernes, 30 de julio, de 3-8pm (TIEMPO NUEVO)
3-7pm – Varios talleres y eventos creativos (TIEMPO NUEVO)
7-8pm – *Función de Teatro for Change
Sábado, 31 de julio, de 2-6pm
2-6pm – Evento curativo
2-6pm – Varios talleres y eventos creativos
Facilidad de Acceso:
La mayoría de los eventos serán en inglés y español (bilingüe o interpretados). La mayoría de los eventos serán situados cerca de la entrada al parque por la 28 y Troy (cerca de la capota amarilla). El parque tiene caminos pavimentados y baños accesibles para sillas de ruedas. Los eventos serán situados en áreas planas de pasto y/o concreto. Ponga se en contacto a través de nuestra página www.mobilizecreative.com con sus preguntas o requisitos de facilidad de acceso.
Meet the Little Village Team
Image Credit : @petetsai
William Estrada | Multidisciplinary Artist + Educator
William Estrada is an arts educator and multidisciplinary artist. His art and teaching are a collaborative discourse that critically re-examines public and private spaces with people to engage in radical imagination. He has presented in various panels regarding community programming, arts integration, and social justice curricula. He is currently a Teaching Artist at Telpochcalli Elementary and faculty at the School of Art and Art History at UIC. William is engaging in collaborative work with the Mobilize Creative Collaborative, Chicago ACT Collective, and Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. His current research is focused on developing community based and culturally relevant projects that center power structures of race, economy, and cultural access in contested spaces that provide a space to collectively imagine just futures.
IG | @werdmvmnt FB | facebook.com/werdmvmnt Website | https://werdmvmntstudios.com
Image caption: Jasmin Cardenas
Image credit: Joel Maisonet
Image description/alt-text: This photo shows Jasmin Cardenas, a brown Latina, facing camera with her hair down, wavy curls swept back away from her face. Her right arm is up on the back of the wooden chair, her head leans into her hand. She wears a dark blue Jean blazer, hoop earrings and a prominent round white & blue ring.
Jasmin Cardenas | Arts Activist, Theater Deviser, Storyteller, Facilitator.
Jasmin Cardenas is a Chicago Theater Director/Deviser, published Storyteller, Educator, Facilitator and daughter of Colombian immigrants. Jasmin uses teatro & play in joyful resistance to the status quo reimagining whats possible and crafting a more JUST reality. Recognized for her arts & civic engagement work she was awarded a 2020-2022 LAB Fellowship by the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. Working with low-wage temp workers she Founded TEATRO For Change and Co-Founded Workers Resistance Theater, fighting for workers rights using Theater of the Oppressed, a powerful tool for collective action, critical thinking, solution finding and healing. Lead Artist of Lookingglass Theater Company’s Civic Practice Lab she has also worked with Chicago Childrens Theater Company, Goodman Theater, Steppenwolf, Lifeline, Lookingglass, UrbanTheater and Collaboraction. Currently commissioned to write a solo play by 1st Stage Theater in Virginia, Jasmin is using teatro and story to view labor thru a more humane lens in her newest play, DISPOSABLE.
IG | @1JasminCardenas Professional FB Page | Facebook.com/JasminCardenasCreates
Website | https://www.jasmincardenas.com
Image caption: Selfie of Edith Tovar, Just Transition Community Organizer with the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) and lifelong resident of the Little Village community.
Image credit: Edith Tovar
Image description/alt-text: The photo shows Edith Tovar, a brown person, from the chest up and smiling slightly. Wearing white framed glasses, a black shirt of Berta Caceres and a striped black and gray sweater.
Edith Tovar | Organization of Little Village Environmental Justice Organization / Community organizer, creative, environmental justice urban planner, and a proud life-long resident of La Villita community.
Edith Tovar (she/they) is a proud brown Mexican femme from Zhigaagoong / Chicago who grew up in the Little Village / South Lawndale community. Edith is a community organizer, creative, and environmental justice urban planner who loves to nerd out on everything monarch butterflies and astrology (Big 3: Scorpio Sun, Taurus Moon, and Sagittarius Rising). Edith has been part of various community movements / campaigns such as No Riot Fest in Douglass Park and was part of the founding members of Neighbors for Environmental Justice (N4EJ), addressing environmental racism in McKinley Park. In the summer of 2019, Edith joined the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization’s (LVEJO) Just Transition team. Edith focuses on the "Hell No Hilco" campaign, informing residents about the new Target warehouse facility at the former Crawford Coal Plant -- Exchange 55 -- and connecting ongoing EJ efforts across the community and city. #FueraHilco #HellNoHilco #DontTargetUs #Exchange55 #LaVillitaRespira
IG | @LVEJO20 or @yayedith Website | http://www.lvejo.org
