Calendar for 5/25/16

The CPD is currently under federal investigation, but many Chicagoans feel this is not enough. In an effort to fill voids left by the Department of Justice, community members and experts on police accountability will be discussing solutions for meaningful change in policing. (Joe Andrews)

Get outdoors before the rain this week and join 20th Ward Alderman Willie Cochran and other community leaders for a discussion on Healthy Chicago 2.0, the new and improved citywide plan for promoting health. Refreshments will be served. (Corinne Butta)

The negative effects of this year’s election rhetoric have undoubtedly contributed to America’s racial and religious polarization. Join Rev. Dirk Ficca, Dr. Michael Dawson, and panelists Hind Makki, Juan Salgado, and Mark Baldwin as they discuss the dynamics of building positive relationships for a more inclusive society. (Joe Andrews)

Construction is slated to begin soon on UChicago Charter School’s new Woodlawn campus. Join the University to discuss the upcoming construction as well as other new projects on Campus South. A copy of the presentation will be available online after the meeting atnews.uchicago.edu. (Carrie Smith)

For years, Bridgeport residents have advocated for the reinstatement of the much-needed 31st Street bus route. This month, the CTA announced a six-month “pilot” program, but its limited hours, service area, and program length have left many unsatisfied. Find out what’s next at this meeting. (Hafsa Razi)

Join veteran docents this Memorial Day weekend for a viewing of the Above and Beyond memorial. Learn about the Vietnam War from the perspectives of these veterans, and recognize the sacrifices of countless others. (Corinne Butta)

Gallery 400’s performance of Rise tells the complicated story of social justice in the transgender community through the story of Eisha Love, a transgender woman who served nearly four years in Cook County Jail—without a trial—after fleeing two men who attacked her at a gas station in 2012. (Bridget Gamble)

How does your garden grow? As if in conjunction with this week’s Nature Issue, the Her Environment media art series offers their third installment, focusing on myths and fables about the processes of body, earth, and nature—and the technology that interprets them. (Corinne Butta)

Local artists Michelle Nordmeyer, Amina Ross, and Lyra Hill are kicking off the holiday weekend with zine and print-making activities at Hyde Park Art Center’s Art Party. The party will start with a bike ride from the UofC quad to the Art Center at 6:30pm. (Bridget Gamble)

Join costume designer Courtney Schum and artist Chad Kouri for an afternoon of conversation and creation that combats the feeling of “nothing to wear.” Bring an item or two from your own closet to kick start conversation; whether you drape it, knot it, belt it, or cut it, you’re sure to find new ways to wear it this Saturday. (Corinne Butta)

Spring into step this weekend and make your way to High Concept Labs to reflect on our human movement. No experience required; just the desire to learn how to use your body to create form and perform. (Corinne Butta)

A poet of Chicago, influence, and personal growth, 20-year-old emcee Taylor Bennett is counted among Chicago’s finest young musicians. He’s circumvented “Mainstream Music” and paid tribute to “Broad Shoulders,” opened for icons and sold out several shows back-to-back. Come to Reggie’s to see why this Bennett is a lot more than Chance’s little bro. (Neal Jochmann)

Soul Brother #1 will be rocking the wheels of steel at the Promontory next Saturday. With twenty-five years of DJ work under his belt, expect to keep your head nodding as he spins the classic, the obscure, and everything in between. (Joe Andrews)

Performances at the self-described “biggest party of the 23rd Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival” will include the experimental duo Pedestrian Deposit, known for their “highly composed, often abstract sound textures” as well as Hogg, a “Chicago-based post-punk industrial psycho-sexual abstraction.” There are three more DJs and artists on the lineup as well. Get ready for a night of fun…abstract fun! (Jake Bittle)

Together with Seattle’s Hissing and Montreal’s Big Brave, this foursome of cloaked avant-metal masterminds named after an Oregon amp brand (hence the three parentheses) will make sounds both wildly confounding and outrageously loud. (Neal Jochmann)

The culmination of a month-long series celebrating footwork, this evening has something for everyone who might be curious about Chicago’s homegrown dance: a screening featuring the creative directors of footwork supergroup The Era, a panel conversation with local artists including DJ Spinn, Traxman, RP Boo, and others, and finally, a short workshop and a party where you can show off your newfound juking skills. (Carrie Smith)

Before German experimental documentarian Harun Farocki died in 2014, he was able to finish his four-part video series Parallel, a computer-generated graphic work in which questions of politics, aesthetics, ethics, and reality run rampant. All four parts, forty-three minutes in total, will be screened in Chicago for the first time. (Julia Aizuss)

Students of Rebuild Foundation’s weekly Self + Otherness film workshop will be screening their final video projects this Saturday at the Stony Island Arts Bank. Each student’s short project uses documentary, experimental, and video art techniques to confront the idea of identity through the exploration of time and space. (Joe Andrews)

Vershawn Ward, the choreographer and dancer behind such recent works as “New World Afrikan,” “#SAYHERNAME,” and “Written on the Flesh,” which have been performed in cities ranging from New York to Kalamazoo to Kampala, Uganda, will next be taking her expertise to Rebuild’s weekly dance forum. (Julia Aizuss)

With a comic title and a fondness for fish and chips, Two Guvnors—an adaption of Carlo Goldoni’s classic The Servant of Two Masters, retrofitted for 1963—all but Union hi-Jacks the source material’s hijinks. It’s fast-paced, farcical, and generally ridiculous: in short, quintessentially British humour. (Christopher Good)

The history of the Great Migration can be overwhelming—a confluence of important cultural strains, people, and institutions all loaded with historical import. Migration tries to capture the complicated interactions that brought thousands of African Americans to northern cities through music, dance, and dialogue. (Adam Thorp)

Gregory Fried, professor of philosophy at Suffolk University and UofC Committee on Social Thought graduate, comes back to the UofC to give a lecture entitled “Epochal Polemics: Thinking with and against Heidegger after the Black Notebooks.” Listen to the author of two books on Heidegger reflect on the philosopher’s later works. (Sarah Claypoole)

An up-and-coming Hyde Park writers’ group, profiled in the Weekly last year, will host another “live lit reading” featuring local authors of fiction, poetry, adventure stories, and more. This lineup of performances features the Weekly’s own Alex Weiss and will be followed by light refreshments and a pop-up book sale. (Jake Bittle)

Columbia University professor Catherine Fennell and independent journalist Ben Austen will be at the Sem Co-op discussing Fennell’s book, Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago. The book takes a deep look into the 1995 razing and controversial redevelopment of the Henry Horner public housing projects on Chicago’s Near West Side. (Joe Andrews)