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  A Video Celebration of Black Chicago

  Black, Blog, Chicago, Communities

  This video showcases Media Burn’s videos documenting Black life in Chicago. It includes everything from neighborhood cultural festivals to jazz and blues legends to trailblazing politicians. Follow the links to watch the full programs from which these excerpts were taken. 0:09 Journalist Vernon Jarrett (1918-2004) describes the intersection of 47th and Martin Luther King Drive in Bronzeville as the “terminal point of the great dream that so many Black people [from the South] envisioned,” from Omnibus: Studs Terkel’s Chicago (1985, […]

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  [Landlord protest]

  Chicago, CLIR, Communications for Change, Roots of Video

  Documentation of attempts to maintain a block in Uptown Chicago.

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  Organization of the Northeast (O.N.E.) Community Meeting with Terry Gabinski

  Chicago, CLIR, Communities, Roots of Video

  This video was recorded in Uptown, Chicago. It was a victory for the O.N.E’s Community Task Force to have the District Police Commander Terry Gabinski, come to a community meeting. Everyone from the community had an opportunity to voice their concerns on empty lots, vacant burnt-out buildings and crime in their neighbourhood.

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  Chicago Area Project (C.A.P.) Gathering in Woodstock, Illinois

  Black, Chicago, CLIR, Roots of Video

  This video is one of three and was recorded during a retreat in Woodstock, Illinois where the Chicago Area Project (C.A.P.), organised a weekend gathering to reflect on their past accomplishments and plan for the next year.

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  Paper Press

  Chicago, Eleanor Boyer, Videomakers

  Documents the activities of a Chicago artist-run, non-profit organization fostering experimental hand papermaking and artists’ collaborations. Shows the process of making paper by hand. Includes interviews with co-directors Marilyn Sward, Linda Sorkin-Eisenberg and other artists. The videowas made in three versions: English, Spanish and American Sign Language. (note: Paper Press served as the proto-type for the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book &
  Paper Arts, established in 1993 with Marilyn Sward as its Director)

• Somewhere To Go, Someone To Hear: Battered Women Speak

  Chicago, Eleanor Boyer, Videomakers

  Four women, who were victims of physical and emotional abuse, find support in a self-help group. This video, edited from material recorded at one of their weekly meetings, gives insight into the nature of domestic abuse and the problems women face in overcoming that situation. The self-help project was originated by Barbara Stewart, Chicago Department of Human Services Victim/Witness Advocacy Program, and Marcia Alpert, Loop Center YWCA Women’s Services Staff.

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  Festival De Mujeres

  Chicago, Communities, Eleanor Boyer, Latinx, Videomakers

  Taped at the first-ever women’s street fair held in Pilsen, a predominantly Latinx, working-class neighborhood in Chicago. The event was organized by Mujeres Latinas in Accion to showcase Latinx women’s culture and to provide information about social services, health services and recreational opportunities available for women. The video captures the activity and color of the fair and features readings by poets Salima Rivera and Marta Callazo. Comments by organizers, participants and local residents give insight into the role of Latinx women in society at that time. Produced, videotaped, and edited by Eleanor Boyer and Karen Peugh with a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.

• Image Union, episode 1313: Halloween Fright

  Chicago, Image Union

  A special Halloween episode of Image Union.