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HOUSE & HOME: A People’s Salon

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When

Nov 20, 2024
6:00pm–9:00pm

Where

Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave
Chicago, IL 60613

Cost

Free. Registration is required.

The final experience in Illinois Humanities' 2024 public conversation series, A People’s Salon, centers on House and Home and will accompany a chef-forward menu from the culinary studio TXA TXA Club

Home is where the heart is… or maybe the heart is what defines the home? 

In an era of inflation, immigration, segregation, and incarceration, many among us find ourselves making homes outside of houses, or being housed in places that don’t feel like home. Still others are making their homes into places that do far more than serve as a house.  

You’re invited to join Illinois Humanities at Haymarket House – previously a private home – to interrogate where we lay our heads at night, and how that affects our days.

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The Presenters and Performers

Tiff Beatty
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Tiff Beatty is a performance poet and cultural organizer based in Chicago, IL. She is the associate director at the National Public Housing Museum and co-founder of House of the Lorde. 

​Tiff organizes and moderates dozens of cultural events and workshops each year and her work has been featured in various publications and media outlets, including Crain's Chicago Business, History News Network, Block Club Chicago, The New York Times, Ebony, Chicago Tribune, WVON, and more.

​​Tiff Beatty received the 2022 Roberta “Bobbie” Raymond Leadership & Innovation Award from The Oak Park Regional Housing Center. She was a 2020-2021 Senior Fellow with Chicago United for Equity (CUE) and recipient of a 2019 Field Leader Award from Field Foundation of Illinois as a 2018-2019 CUE Fellow. ​

​From 2011-202, Tiff organized and hosted Art Is Bonfire, Chicago's only bonfire poetry cypher at Promontory Point in Hyde Park, Chicago.

​Tiff is a sister, a lover, a daughter, and an auntie. She was born and raised in Tacoma, WA, where she experienced joy, struggle, instability, friendship, labor, and love. In 2007, she received her B.A. in Psychology from Whitworth University as the first in her immediate family to earn a four-year degree.

Patric McCoy
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Patric McCoy, art collector, photographer, and retired environmental chemist, has been acquiring artwork — mostly by Chicagoans, many of whom are Black artists — for more than five decades. 

Patric's also co-founder of Diasporal Rhythms, a 20-year-old nonprofit dedicated to collecting, promoting, and preserving art from the African Diaspora.

Learn more about Patric McCoy and his collection in this 2024 feature in Block Club Chicago by Jake Wittich.

Photo by Jerry Nunn

Laurie Jo Reynolds
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Laurie Jo Reynolds is a policy advocate and community organizer who has spent two decades opposing the demonization, warehousing, and social exclusion of people in the criminal legal system — especially focusing on solitary confinement and public conviction registries, extreme punishments that emerged in the punitive turn of the 1990s.

She coordinates the Chicago 400 Alliance, a grassroots coalition led by formerly incarcerated people who challenge conviction registries and housing banishment laws.

Robyn Mineko Williams
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Robyn Mineko Williams is a director and artist from Chicago, IL. She is drawn to embodiments of memory, time, lineage, and our relationships with the traces left by the people we encounter. Robyn is the founder and director of Robyn Mineko Williams and Artists (RMW&A), which houses and shares a body of interdisciplinary performances created in collaboration with an evolving roster of dynamic artists and designers. 

Prioritizing public, malleable forms of presentation, RMW&A creates by intertwining performance, design, people, and place. Robyn’s work has been presented at the Kennedy Center, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Thalia Hall, Jacob’s Pillow, the Joyce Theater, MCA Chicago, and more. Commissions include Pacific Northwest Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Malpaso Dance Company among others. 

Williams is a Princess Grace Foundation-USA Choreographic Fellowship awardee and an inaugural recipient of the Walder Foundation Platform Award.

More About...

TXA TXA Club
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TXA TXA Club is a creative culinary studio based in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Their team of artists, chefs, writers, stylists, and food activists is dedicated to making and sharing food through their catering program and monthly supper club that redefines hospitality and the dining scene through community and artistic collaborations.

Haymarket House
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Haymarket House, a community space in the heart of Chicago's Uptown neighborhood and home to Haymarket Books, hosts political, cultural, literary, and community events. They are committed to uplifting the work of writers, artists, thinkers, activists, and educators who are committed to all struggles for a better world.

Venue Parking and Directions

Parking

Haymarket House is located in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. There is limited, free parking in the building’s parking lot accessible via Clarendon Avenue. There is also free street parking nearby.

Parking for a fee is available at nearby Walter Disney Magnet School on Clarendon Avenue and Belle Plaine Avenue about a block away.

Directions

The 146, 151, and 36 buses stop nearby. The CTA Red Line at Sheridan or Wilson is about 7 blocks away.

Get driving directions here.

Accessibility

Haymarket House is equipped with a ramp from the parking lot to the main floor, elevators, and accessible, all-gender restrooms. There are a few steps leading up to the front door of the building.

If you require accommodations to participate in this event fully, please contact Zerline Thompson at events@ilhumanities.org at least 48 hours before the event.

Vegan and vegetarian options will be available. Please list any food allergies when registering.

A People's Salon

 A People’s Salon is a series of four energizing evenings of chef-driven meals, creative performances, and lively discussions about the big ideas and cultural movements of our moment. Each salon is curated around important current issues and features artists, thinkers, and organizers who will present original works that spark connections between our lived experiences, expert opinions, and the futures we want to see.

Learn more