Saturday 4/11
Come make a zine, a self-published booklet or periodical that anyone can make! Learn more about the IMC’s Zine Library. You can also peruse the used book sale to support UC Books to Prisoners!
9am-5pm – Gallery hours for Re-Making Democracy Art Show (Rm 102) & Books to Prisoners Book Sale (Main Space)
1-3pm – Zine Library Workshop
Sunday 4/12
Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want Book Launch, Performance and Exhibit: Celebrating 35 years of Curiosities at the School for Designing a Society
Gallery open at noon. Event 1-4pm
RSVP encouraged: https://www.facebook.com/events/908809801774883
In conversation with moderator Carol Ammons, Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams will discuss Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want, a newly published guidebook for social change that, at this crucial moment on the clock of the world, offers analysis and strategy for sustainable transformation.
It tells the story of a series of interconnected local to global projects that started in Urbana: The School for Designing a Society, Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, CU Citizens for Peace and Justice, Healthcare Design Intensives with Dr. Patch Adams, and Cunningham Township’s campaign to end homelessness.
The event features work by artists connected through 35 years of the School for Designing a Society including Elizabeth Adams, Aaron Ammons, Jacon Barton, Roberta Bennett, Herbert Brün, Danielle Chynoweth, Cope Cumpson, Mark Enslin, Christopher Evans, Jeff Glassman, Benjamin Grosser, Meadow Jones, Elvy Kinbell, Kate McDowell, Keith Moore, Susan Parenti, elizaBeth Simpson, and others. NOTE: SDaS alumni who wish to participate are invited to upload work here.
The event is free but a sliding scale donation of $10-60 is encouraged to help pay the performers and support the book tour. Donations of $20 or more receive a signed copy of the book.
Schedule:
12pm Gallery open
1pm Remaking Democracy book talk
1:30pm Discussion
2pm Concert
3pm Discussion
3:30 Art gallery reception
Danielle Chynoweth is a media justice and housing rights leader who organizes with impacted residents to build power through strategic interventions that grow healing and hope. She works to end homelessness as Cunningham Township Supervisor and co-founded the local Independent Media Center.
Elizabeth Adams is a composer, writer, organizer who has been working at the intersection of art, education and social change for more than 20 years. This is her first book.
Mark Enslin is a composer, playwright, educator, clown and activist whose compositions highlight social contradictions, ironize power relations, and ignite empathy by putting performers in impossible situations.
Susan Parenti is a composer, playwright, activist, performer, and teacher whose work challenges us to examine language in order to reject the premises and logics of violence.
Keith Moore uses the fields of acoustics and psychoacoustics to compose expressive and conceptually rich works that compel listeners to consider the beauty and breadth of perception itself. A recipient of many awards for his music, he also pursues research through academic and popular writing, performance, curating and teaching.
Meadow Jones, PhD is a social practice artist, award winning filmmakers and community organizer. Her writing has been published in literary journals, peer reviewed scientific journals, poetry collections, books, and chapbooks.
Cope Cumpston is a community member, graphic artist, and long-time and grateful student of the School for Designing a Society
Aaron Ammons is a passionate spoken word artist who uses his artistic gift to spread love and truth.
Jacob Barton composes, improvises, and produces music, and is a consummate arranger of tonal music, developing the Udderbot, a new slide wind instrument family. His curiosity for experimental music composition took him to Rice University (2003-2007) and to the School for Designing a Society (2005-2015). He participates as a pollinator in projects like UnTwelve, the Xenharmonic Alliance, and the World Harmony Project.
Roberta Bennett is a public school art teacher from Illinois. She has learned from teaching in various settings that regardless of where one teaches, the performance of teacher is always constrained by the policies of the place.
Herbert Brün was a composer of acoustic music, a pioneer of electronic and computer music, a formulator of algorithms, graphics, and words. A cybernetician and social theorist sympathetic to the Frankfurt School, he taught experimental composition in any media at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, and was a co-founder of both the Performers’ Workshop Ensemble and the School for Designing a Society.
Mark Enslin is a composer, playwright, educator, clown and activist whose compositions highlight social contradictions, ironize power relations, and ignite empathy by putting performers in impossible situations.
Christopher Evans is an artist, organizer, and Urbana City Council member. He was a core member of CU Citizens for Peace and Justice, and the Court Watch it founded.
Jeff Glassman obsesses over his homegrown collection of theatrical oddities, all organic, and tries to plant them around the perimeter of artistic space, wherever there’s enough dirt.
Ben Grosser is an artist recomposing and reimagining social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures.
Meadow Jones, PhD is a social practice artist, award winning filmmakers and community organizer. Her writing has been published in literary journals, peer reviewed scientific journals, poetry collections, books, and chapbooks.
Elvy Kinbell (AKA Kim Olsen) – Local childcare provider / play advocate; writer, artist, and former student involved with SDaS from 2008-09 and 2011-2016.Ben Grosser is an artist recomposing and reimagining social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures.
Kate McDowell, is Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact.
Keith Moore uses the fields of acoustics and psychoacoustics to compose expressive and conceptually rich works that compel listeners to consider the beauty and breadth of perception itself. A recipient of many awards for his music, he also pursues research through academic and popular writing, performance, curating and teaching.
ElizaBeth Simpson is a folk indie jazz singer-songwriter and conflict mediator in Urbana
Roberta Bennett is a public school art teacher from Illinois. She has learned from teaching in various settings that regardless of where one teaches, the performance of teacher is always constrained by the policies of the place.
Susan Parenti is a composer, playwright, activist, performer, and teacher whose work challenges us to examine language in order to reject the premises and logics of violence.
IMC Zine Library is a volunteer-run zine library in the Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center. We catalog zines, plan zine-making events, provide library tours, participate in the biennial Small Press Fest, and so much more.The UCIMC’s ramp for the main level/venue is located on the south side of the building between the UCIMC and Lincoln Square. For Makerspace access, please use the ramp on the north side of the building off of Elm Street.
Wheelchair ramp to access the main floor is on the south side of the building. For directions, visit ucimc.org/accessibility.
