"Building Power Through Participation"
Remaking Democracy Book Talk & Performance
September 8th 7pm
at Pilsen Community Books
1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Buy the book at Pilsen!
Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want is a guidebook for social change that teaches how to analyze problems, consult desires, and design interventions to grow participation as the undoing of fascism.
Join authors Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams along with Sarah Ross, co-founder of Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project and Walls Turned Sideways, and Meadow Jones, author of Archiving the Trauma Diaspora (forthcoming) for a book talk and performance focused on how we can Remake Democracy.
About the Book
Remaking Democracy is a liberatory education project and guidebook for social change. Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams offer analysis and strategy for sustainable social transformation, drawn from decades of organizing and teaching. This accessible and practical resource presents case studies alongside a design toolkit that equips readers to participate in creating the abundant worlds we want. Instead of offering a single solution, Remaking Democracy helps us create the abundant variety of solutions we need to survive and thrive.
Bios
Danielle Chynoweth is a media justice and housing rights leader who organizes with impacted residents to build power through strategic interventions that grow healing and hope. She works to end homelessness as an elected official. She co-founded the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and was the Organizing Director for Media Justice where she led successful national campaigns for prison phone justice and expansion of community media and broadband. She teaches at the University of Illinois, School for Designing a Society, and internationally. https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellechynoweth/
Elizabeth Adams, PhD, is a composer, teacher, and caregiver, who has worked at the intersection of art, education, and organizing for over 20 years. Her compositions use sound to invoke social and political metaphors, and have been performed throughout Europe and the US. As a knowledge worker intent on creating the cultural change that will support social justice, she co-instigates Julie & Elizabeth’s Anti-Capitalist Concert Series, and organizes with the Crown Heights Tenant Union, and previously with Free University NYC, and What A Neighborhood! She has taught at Columbia University and the School for Designing a Society. More about her work at https://arttothinkwith.org/
Sarah Ross, PhD is an artist centered on the spatial politics of race, gender, class and control. In 2011 she co-founded the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP), a project that brings together artists, writers and scholars in and outside Stateville prison to create public projects. Sarah worked on Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, a campaign for reparations for survivors of Chicago police torture. She is a co-author of The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom (2019); Carving Out Rights From Inside the Prison Industrial Complex 2021) and Our Tuesday Girl: An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs. Sarah is a Soros Justice Media Fellow. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Meadow Jones, PhD, is a literary artist, filmmaker, and social practice artist whose work brings together writing, visual media, and collaborative forms of making. Her practice is grounded in arts-based research and community-based facilitation, with an emphasis on narrative, material processes, and collective authorship. She recently completed her postdoctoral work with UCLA DataX and the Department of Gender Studies, where she worked on her book Archiving the Trauma Diaspora, focused on arts-based practices and public storytelling.
See: www.meadowjones.com and datax.ucla.edu/people/meadow-jones-0
