March 30, 2010, Martyrs’, Chicago
The Moth, a not-for-profit storytelling organization, was founded in New York in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings on his native St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, where he and a small circle of friends would gather to spin spellbinding tales on his friend Wanda’s porch. After moving to New York, George missed the sense of connection he had felt sharing stories with his friends back home, and he decided to invite a few friends over to his New York apartment to tell and hear stories. Thus the first “Moth” evening took place in his living room. Word of these captivating story nights quickly spread, and The Moth moved to bigger venues in New York. Today, The Moth conducts eight ongoing programs and has brought more than 3,000 live stories to over 100,000 audience members.
Martyr’s
3855 North Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60613
8pm Stories start (get there early to ensure seating)
$7 at the door
Photo: AP
CMW presents The 2010 Studs Terkel Community Awards
Wednesday, March, 10, 2010, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Community Media Workshop honors journalists who go the extra mile to report news “from the people who made Chicago, news that’s bottom up rather than up, down,” as Studs said at our 2007 awards event. “That’s what this is all about.”
Louis B. “Studs” Terkel, the “patron saint” of Community Media Workshop from its founding in 1989, gracefully and graciously led these tributes to a special kind of Chicago journalism — the kind that, in the words of Salim Muwakkil at the March 2009 event, “is more important now than ever before.”
Presented annually, the Studs Terkel Media Awards honor outstanding media professionals for excellence in covering and reflecting Chicago’s diverse communities. Terkel Awards highlight reporters who take risks in covering social issues by offering new or unusual perspectives on topics of general concern, from housing to neighborhood safety and beyond. The awards reward a body of work rather than a single article or series, and go to journalists at any stage of their career.
GAR Hall, Chicago Cultural Center
77 E. Randolph St., Chicago
5 to 9 p.m.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, Cliffdweller’s Club, Chicago
Chicago poet, novelist and playwright Angela Jackson will discuss her recent book, “Where I Must Go.”
The South Side writer has been profiled by The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Public Radio. Jackson’s debut novel, “Where I Must Go” (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University), is the story of an African-American working-class girl from a big city attending an elite university in the late ’60s. Jackson won the 1994 Carl Sandburg Award for poetry, and Booklist praised her novel’s “lyrical writing and finely drawn characters.”
Cliff Dwellers Club
200 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL
Social Hour 6:00 p.m. | Program 7:00
Free to the public
This month’s theme: Busted
