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Date: Mar 21, 2006 3:53 PM
Subject: AREA: Announcing Issue#2 Local Food Systems/ Temporary
Memmorials/ + More
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 For Immediate Release 03/21/06 + Please FWD Widely
 Announcing a New Edition of the Chicago Art and Activism Magazine:
 "AREA: Chicago Art/Education/Activism" Issue#2 Release
 www.areachicago.com | Publisher: www.stockyardinstitute.org

 1. Welcome to AREA
 2. Contents of Issue#2
 3. Distribution
 ++Other News
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 1. Welcome to AREA
 AREA is a biannual publication project initiated by the Stockyard
Institute in spring 2005. AREAs focus is on documenting the
intersections of art, education, and activist concerns and practice in
the city of Chicago. At that space where the lines blur, is where we
have decided to focus our attention.

 This issue especially focused on temporary monuments to hidden
histories in Chicago and on local food related activism. 25 local
artists, educators and activists have contributed to this issue.
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 2. Contents of Issue#2: Theme: "After Winter Comes Spring – A
critical look at local food systems"

 AREA#2 will build on our stated goal "to be a shared space to fuel,
debate, refine, express and implement our collective goals for a more
desirable and livable Chicago and world." This particular issue will
focus on food politics through the lens of local groups who are
committed to urban agriculture, radical ecology and to creating an
alternative food infrastructure in Chicago.

 Contributions by and about the following groups, projects and
individuals will appear in AREA#2
 Gods Gang, Genewise, Dill Pickle Food Coop, Visible Food, Seed
Archive, Salvation Jane, Nicolas Lampert, Ken Dunn, Growing Home, Juan
Hernandez, Ladonna Redmond, Little Village : Nueva Vida ABC, Growing
Power, Heather Sewell, Resource Center, the Chicago Heat Wave, Center
for Urban Transformation, Dean Rank, Faith Wilson, Angelic Organic CSA
Learning Center, Cassie Fennel, Coop Image Cooking Classes/Chi Town
Chefs, Growing Home, Sarah Lewison, Michael Piazza, Humboldt Park Food
Not Bombs, Josh MacPhee, Claire Pentecost, Alisa Baum, Nance Klehm,
Dakota Brown, Esther Parada, Daniel Block, Nancy Thomas, Claire
Pentecost, Martha Boyd, Micah Maidenberg, Brian Holmes, Nicole
Garneau, Material Exchange, Patricia Evans, Jamie Kalven and more....
 (Bios for contributors here http://areachicago.com/issue2/contributors2.htm)

 ALL TEXTS AVAILABLE ONLINE at www.areachicago.com

 Issue 2 direct link: http://areachicago.com/main_pages/current.htm
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 3. Distribution
 5,000 Copies of AREA issue 2 were printed. The issue release happened
on February 17th at the Chicago Cultural Center.  In addition to 
placement at relevant events and spaces in the city, copies will also
be available consistently at the Chicago cultural spaces listed on
www.areachicago.com

 Subscriptions:
 For those individuals outside of Chicago, we are now offering mailed
subscriptions via the website via check. We will eventually set up a
credit card system.

 ………………….
 Also:

 + Call for AREA#3 Theme: Solidarities and Chicago
 Available on the home-page blog at www.areahicago.com

 Additional News:
 +Since the release of AREA#2, we have been pleased to sponsor a local
lecture by one of the issues few non-Chicago-based contributors, Brian
Holmes (see www.u-tangente.org) on the theme of continental
integration and neoliberalism entitled 'Continental Drift'. This
lecture was the inauguration of a series entitled 'AREA Network' which
will provide material, promotional and emotional support for selected
events by AREA published contributors. Later this spring there will be
a workshop about mapping food systems co-presented with the
anti-biotech mobilizations BioEthics and Reclaim The Commons and
AREA#2 contributors Claire Pentecost and Genewise
(www.bioethics2006.org www.reclaimthecommons.net). And finally, in
may, we will co-sponsor a forum with the Journal of Ordinary Thought
(www.jot.org) and the Public Square (www.thepublicsquare.org) on
Community Health and Geography (Details TBA).

 +Also, earlier this month we were happy to participate in an event at
the local cultural space Mess Hall (see www.messhall.org) for a
'Counter Cartography Brunch' where many different activist mapping
practices were discussed and presented.

 +In late April, AREA will include some of our recent mapping projects
entitled 'sites of relevance' in an exhibit on the topic of
environmental racism called 'Entorno' at Polvo gallery in Chicago
(www.polvo.org).

 +Soon we will be switching our web server and getting a significantly
better email-list manager. Then you can update/unsubscribe/etc very
easily and we can all keep in touch better.


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