Time for our favorite program documentation of the week: Check out this colorful Tumblr by Urban Gateways artist Karen Light! She’s got a visual arts residency going at Woodson Charter […]
Enjoying our deluge of (if we do say so ourselves) awesome program videos? Good, because it only gets better: Videography volunteer Rebecca Kahn whisked up this documentation of Urban Gateways
For all you wine connoisseurs out there: Why is wine on tap a great idea? According to David Lecomte of City Winery, the fabulous wine/music/food venue opening in Chicago next
By Anna Joranger Concerning my intense start to a recent workday: Skimming the many e-newsletters weighing down my inbox, my attention was completely taken over by this article in the
By Anna Joranger What do you get when you stick a masterful media artist into 6th and 7th grade classrooms? In the case of Albany Park’s Hernandez School, the answer
By Anna Joranger: Continued from Part 3. …Falling can be good, like falling out of any bad thing you are going through. Like the leaves falling out of the tree,
By Anna Joranger: Continued from Part 2. …The myth of Persephone struck Maia as a relevant theme for her workshop. “It’s about loss and redemption, transitions, being trapped in the
On “The Interrupters” Let he that is without sin cast the first stone But if he is causing harm to the harmful then who is wrong? Constantly what do
By Anna Joranger: Continued from Part 1. …How can writing and art help empower young women recovering from addiction? This question proved crucial to the combined mission of Urban Gateways
The following article by Anna Joranger will be presented in four parts, each Thursday through July. Italicized portions of the article represent writing excerpts from anonymous participants in this Urban