Friday 9/13 – Thursday 9/22
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If (or when) the U.S. attacks Iraq, the Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism is poised to hold two rallies at Federal Plaza–at 5 PM on the first day of the offensive and at the same time the day after. In the meantime the group is holding biweekly planning sessions and events like tonight’s free panel discussion, Countdown to War in Iraq: Why We Must Stop It, with local activists Jose Lopez, Emma Lozano, Lionel Baptiste, Dan Dale, and Mahmud Ahmad. It starts at 7 in the second-floor lounge of Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan. Call 312-458-9559 or go to www.chicagoantiwar.org for more information.
14 SATURDAY The effects of U.S. foreign policy in East Timor, Israel and the Occupied Territories, Guatemala, Vietnam, and El Salvador are the focus of David Kaplowitz’s In Whose Interest?: The Practical Horrible Realities of Power, a short documentary that’s reported to both include an interview with Noam Chomsky and be funny. It’ll be shown tonight along with Toyin Adebanjo’s What Is a Terrorist?, followed by an open discussion. The screening starts at 6 at the Autonomous Zone, 2129 N. Milwaukee; the suggested donation is $5, or pay what you can (773-235-7370).
18 WEDNESDAY Author, video artist, photographer, and installation artist David Robbins lived in New York City in the 1980s, where his contemporaries included Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Jeff Koons, and Peter Nagy. Robbins took 18 head shots of his peers–and himself–and arranged them in a three-by-six-foot rectangle for 1986’s Talent, which was widely hailed as a critique of the era’s celebrity-crazed art market. Robbins, who now lives in Milwaukee and teaches writing at the School of the Art Institute, will discuss the piece tonight at 6 as the first installment in SAIC’s visiting artist series, “A Particular Time and Place: 1980s East Village Art.” It’s at the SAIC Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus, and admission is $5; call 312-443-3711.
