Please join us for the launch events of the Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project 

 

Ten years in the making, this collaborative, community-based project blends history, anthropology and visual storytelling.  It uses the objects people saved and the stories they told about them to offer a multimedia exploration of what the rise and decline of industry has meant for those who live in its midst.
 

Thursday Sept. 26th 

4 - 5:30pm @ The Nexus, 14S-130 in Hayden Library  

Please join SECASP Director Prof. Chris Walley and other participants as they discuss the project and screen segments of the site’s newly launched and final multimedia documentary. Wetlands to Waste explores the environmental history of the multiracial Calumet region and the rise of environmental activism led by Latina, white and black residents against industrial pollution and landfills.  Funded in part with a grant from the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Donnelly Foundation. 

5:30 - 6:30pm, Walker Lawn outside Building 14 (or 14E-304 if rain)

Presentation will be followed by a reception on Walker Lawn outside Building 14 (or 14E-304 if rain).

Friday Sept. 27th 

5:30 - 7pm @Bartos Theater,  E15-070 in Wiesner Building 

A documentary screening of Southeast: A City within a City intercut with live music performances by filmmaker Steve Walsh and his grandfather Roger “Coco” Gomez, a former steelworker, musician, and “gangster philosopher” (accompanied on guitar by Matt Goetz).