Join the Office of Community Affairs, the Department of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism, Bronzeville Black Metropolis National Heritage Area, Gary Comer Youth Center, Organic Oneness, and other partners at the One Earth Film Festival on Friday, April 24, at 5 p.m. in The McCormick Tribune Campus Center Auditorium for a double film screening.

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Illinois Tech faculty, staff, and students are invited to a Repacking Day at the Greater Chicago Food Depository on Friday, March 27, from 1:00–3:30 p.m. Roll up your sleeves and help pack food that will reach families across Chicago.

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Illinois Tech faculty, staff, and students are invited to serve as volunteers at a repack session at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, 4100 W. Ann Lurie Place, Chicago, on Thursday, October 23, from 1–3:30 p.m.

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Do you love Pilates? Are you interested in a lunch time Pilates class at the Mies Campus during the summer? The Office of Community Affairs will facilitate classes taught by Linda Spriggs. Certified in the Classical Pilates Method of Body Conditioning, Linda apprenticed under her mentor, Romana Kryzanowska, a first-generation protégé of Joseph H. Pilates.

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Deluge, in collaboration with Alicia Bunton (assistant vice president of community affairs) and Michelangelo Sabatino (director of the College of Architecture Ph.D. program), presents Echoes of Bronzeville: Memories of the Mecca featuring avery r. young, Poet Laureate of Chicago. This event will take place on Saturday, November 16, from 3–5:30 p.m. in S. R. Crown Hall.

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Join us on Saturday, June 22, 2024, from 10 a.m.–9 p.m. for the annual Bronzeville outdoor vendor market and bazaar that will take place on 33rd Boulevard between Michigan Avenue and State Street.

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Did you know there was a Civil War-era POW camp in Bronzeville a few blocks away from Illinois Tech’s Mies Campus? The Bronzeville Black Metropolis National Heritage Area and the Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation have curated a pop-up exhibition beginning June 8 at the east side of the lobby in Michael Paul Galvin Tower. A brief program in partnership with the Office of Community Affairs will precede the exhibition opening at 2 p.m. in the auditorium.

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Register and join the Office of Community Affairs, Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism, Department of Environment, Organic Oneness, Bronzeville Black Metropolis National Heritage Area, Bronzeville Winery, One Earth Film Festival, and others as we celebrate Earth Day on Sunday, April 21 at 1:30 p.m. in Schulz Auditorium at Michael Paul Galvin Tower. We will screen the film Common Ground, which unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system.

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