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Join Us for the Chicago Freedom School 2007 Summer Showcase

Friday, August 17
5:30 - 8:00 pm
Jones College Prep Auditorium
606 S. State St.

This year, 40 youth ages 14-16 participated in the inaugural Freedom Fellowship Year of the Chicago Freedom School. Please join the 2007 Freedom Fellows as they celebrate the end of their summer institutes by sharing culminating projects in Visual Arts, Media Arts, Music, Sports, Health, and Performing Arts. The program will end with a commencement ceremony for all participants.

This event is FREE and open to the public. Please bring friends. RSVP at info@chicagofreedomschool.org .

Schedule of Events
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Summer Institute Presentations
Music
Media Arts - Journalism and Poetry
Sports
Health
Visual Arts

The Northwestern University Collaboratory Project invites all K-12 students to participate in the third annual “A Day in Our Neighborhood” project, May, 2007, to learn more about the communities around us.

After registering for the Collaboratory Project, classrooms submit a link in our A Day in Our Neighborhood Cybrary about their school and hometown for students in other parts of the world.

On May 23, 2007, students take The Day in Our Neighborhood Survey,
an online Survey to learn more about the other students who are participating in the A Day in Our Neighborhood Project and their schools and communities.

Blocks Together Youth Council invites you to the West Humboldt Park neighborhood on Wednesday, May 9 for a community forum on parent, youth, & community input in our schools.

Blocks Together "Graduate Don't Incarcerate" Youth Campaign: Public Meeting
Wednesday, May 9th, 6-8 pm
Cameron Elementary School
1234 N. Monticello (right off Division)

Lynn Moore (Duncan's Chief of Staff) and a representative of the CPS Law Department (creates Board policies) will be there for one part of the meeting to hear from youth about how school discipline should be changed. Blocks Together Youth Council members will ask them to explain what they are recommending for next year's Student Code of Conduct.

Everyone is welcome!

The Blocks Together Youth Council Believes:

A FULL SERVICE EXPUNGEMENT SUMMIT: Adult & Juvenile Application, preparation, and filing for expungement.

Saturday, June 9, 2007
CHICAGO VOCATIONAL CAREER ACADEMY
2100 E. 87TH STREET, Chicago

Registration at 8:30 a.m. Doors close at 6 p.m.

Volunteer attorneys will be on site to help with expungement and sealing applications.
Information on employment, job training, health care and other services for ex-offenders will be available.

For additional information, call (312) 603-5200 or (312) 603-4719 or visit: www.cookcountyclerkofcourt.org

Presented by The HONORABLE DOROTHY BROWN, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY

Networking Services and Information Technologies (NSIT) University of Chicago
and the Southwest Youth Collaborative present…

“A Taste of Technology”

University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
1155 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Saturday, May 19, 2007
8:30am-4:30pm

The YouthNet Career Development Program will be offering free workshops to the members of the community as follows:

May 1, 2007- Resume Writing
May 8, 2007- Application Writing
May 15, 2007- Dressing For Sucess
May 22, 2007- Interviewing

Location:
SWYC Amandla Center
6400 S. Kedzie Avenue

Time:
4-6pm

The YouthNet Career Development Program will be offering free workshops to the members of the community as follows:

May 1, 2007- Resume Writing
May 8, 2007- Application Writing
May 15, 2007- Dressing For Sucess
May 22, 2007- Interviewing

Location:
SWYC Amandla Center
6400 S. Kedzie Avenue

Time:
4-6pm

The YouthNet Career Development Program will be offering free workshops to the members of the community as follows:

May 1, 2007- Resume Writing
May 8, 2007- Application Writing
May 15, 2007- Dressing For Sucess
May 22, 2007- Interviewing

Location:
SWYC Amandla Center
6400 S. Kedzie Avenue

Time:
4-6pm

The YouthNet Career Development Program will be offering free workshops to the members of the community as follows:

May 1, 2007- Resume Writing
May 8, 2007- Application Writing
May 15, 2007- Dressing For Sucess
May 22, 2007- Interviewing

Location:
SWYC Amandla Center
6400 S. Kedzie Avenue

Time:
4-6pm

UNIVERSITY OF HIP-HOP/ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING IN HIP-HOP EDUCATION
Presenters: Lavie Raven, Anna Viertel, and Elizabeth Lazdin-Pinkham
Date and Time: Saturday, May 5, 2:30-6pm
University of Chicago’s Midway Studios, 6016 Ingleside Avenue

Please RSVP as soon as possible, as slots are limited. Email stylekillers(at)yahoo.com

This session is free (sponsored by the
University of Chicago), so spaces will go fast.

Program description: