NEWS: Bridge Books to Co-Present “From Healing to Action” with Chicago Torture Justice Memorials

Written By Michael Workman

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Bridge Co-presenting Partner of IL Humanities Council Program Event “From Healing to Action”

Bridge is a proud "co-presenting partner" of the Illinois Humanities Council @ilhumanities program “From Healing to Action” on January 26th at the Chicago Torture Justice Center to present an evening of art, storytelling, and community presented by Illinois Humanities, Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (CTJM), and the Chicago Torture Justice Center in Woodlawn. Learn about the history of police torture in Chicago and the movement for healing and reparations from those at its forefront with a short screening of CTJM’s Narrating the Struggle for Justice for Police Torture Survivors, a healing exercise led by artist and educator Patrica Nguyen, and a reception with screen printing provided by PO Box Collective, collaborative quilt-making with artist and activist Dorothy Burge, and food by Celebrations by Us.

RSVP at ILHumanities.org/HealingtoAction.

Featuring a screening, healing exercise, screen printing by @POBoxCollective, quilt making with artist and activist Dorothy Burge, and food by Celebrations by Us. This event is presented in partnership with the Illinois Humanities Council, the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, the Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture, PO Box Collective, the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture @csrpc, and the Human Rights Lab @uchihumanrights.

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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