PERMANENT RECORD: A People’s Salon
When
May 28, 2025
6:00pm–9:00pm
Cost
Free. Registration is required.
Illinois Humanities presents the second event in its 2025 public conversation series, A People’s Salon, which centers on the theme PERMANENT RECORD.
Fixedness is an illusion. Words, deeds, monuments, and archives – all are subject to interpretation by the people and times that encounter them. What does it mean to pursue permanence when, as Octavia Butler wrote:
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes You.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
Join us for an evening of engaging presentations, interesting conversation, great food provided by the culinary genius at TXA TXA Club, and community.
The Presenters and Performers
Tempestt Hazel
Tempestt Hazel is a curator, writer, artist advocate, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center.
Damon Locks
Damon Locks (he/him) is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014, he has been working with the Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art. He is a 2025 recipient of the Creative Capital Award.
In 2017, Damon became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. He received the Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts in 2015. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee.
Damon spent 4 years as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts’ SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy High School. He teaches Improvisation in the Sound Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Damon leads the Black Monument Ensemble, is a member of New Future City Radio, Exploding Star Orchestra, and co-founded the band The Eternals.
Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis.
Reuben Jonathan Miller
Reuben Jonathan Miller is a writer and sociologist.
More to come
TBD
More About...
TXA TXA Club
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.
Revolution Brewing
The change in the U.S. beer scene has undoubtedly been revolutionary. Revolution Brewing has become a leader and innovator in the industry. The evolving tastes of beer drinkers have demanded bigger flavors, more variety, and better beer. That’s exactly what you get at Revolution Brewing. Between its brewery and brewpub, Revolution Brewing produces dozens of different beer styles every year. IPAs, porters, pilsners, Belgian-style ales, pale ales, barrel-aged beers—the list goes on.
Revolution's brewery has been a labor of love. You can see it in everything they do, from the beautiful details of our mahogany bar at the brewpub, to the massive beauty of our eight 800-barrel fermenters at the brewery, to the commitment to quality in each beer that's put in a can or a keg.
Haymarket House
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 Brooklyn Rue 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.
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