Come vent about your workplace issues and organizing struggles at a fun, informal game night, featuring cards, board games, and chess. Open to anyone interested in labor organizing, from organizing veterans, to workers completely new to organizing, who are curious about improving their workplace. Complaining builds community! Every fourth Friday of the Month.

Our monthly gathering of newshounds and journalists.  Like old pub gatherings where people would go to hear the town crier read the news aloud, a trio of journalists will each explain a story they’ve worked on recently, followed by audience questions, comments and concerns.

Journalists from all publications are invited to work together at the club all day, whether you’re a member or not. We will have a citywide pitch meeting/discussion at 1 pm.

Bring your current textile project or one you'd like to start and learn from your fellow textile artists while working communally.

Knitting, weaving, embroidery, crochet, and all other textile projects are welcome as are all skill levels.

The film is set largely in Chicago and the geography of the city is an integral part of the training of the militants in the film. As we enter the new era of NSPM 7 this film and the history of its banning can be really useful to understanding what the FBI saw as effective opposition in the previous cointelpro era. Before the film we will have a short talk about the history of the film, probably some stuff about George Jackson, Young Lords, and other Chicago revolutionaries.

Join three seasoned flavor professionals for an exhilarating group-led discussion of the ins-and-outs of flavor science. Dan Petry, senior flavorist at Imbibe, will be joined by Lisa Chou, a fa!rlife milk product development specialist and another special guest. Learn about flavor science’s origins to traditional medicine and its ongoing connections to the world of fragrance production. You won’t want to miss this.

The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran triggered the mother of all commodity-supply shocks. In response, Iran had all but closed the Strait of Hormuz, bringing to a standstill the delivery of huge amounts of the world economy’s critical inputs. For a time we were bracing for a period projected to be more severe than the monumental oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. As U.S. bombing resumes we’re left wondering what this war means for both global energy and the U.S. empire.

In our moment when shared ethical languages seem impossible and where associational life is in decline, this reading and discussion group aims to investigate several related questions: What conditions do ethics require? Is it possible to create a shared ethical world that is neither oppressively exclusive nor so capacious as to be meaningless? Is ethics even a useful register through which to discern "a good life" or are they dependent upon other social/material questions?  For this session, we'll finish our discussion of Hegel's Philosophy of Right with the section called "Ethical Life." No pressure to do the entire reading, and no need to have attended the previous session in order to join this one! 

Please join us for an evening of Chicago Poetry and Fiction, featuring Kai Ihns, Jo Barchi, and Lou Leere.

This introductory workshop on creative coding and image processing explores the protocols and algorithms underpinning the interfaces of our social media feeds. Using the p5.js programming language, we will learn how computers store, transmit, and display images, and create our own poetic image algorithms.

Bring your current textile project or one you'd like to start and learn from your fellow textile artists while working communally.

Knitting, weaving, embroidery, crochet, and all other textile projects are welcome as are all skill levels.

The queers and the translators get experimental! Join us at the end of June for an evening of new poems from a stacked line-up of Chicago and New York based writers.

A budget war is raging in Chicago, and our press is all over it. But rarely do we confront the deeper questions that underlie the conflict, here and in every other American city: Are we actually broke, and why? Who controls the cash that flows into and out of our cities? Is social democracy, let alone socialism, even possible at the municipal level–or are we destined to forever beg for scraps of state and federal revenue?

Come vent about your workplace issues and organizing struggles at a fun, informal game night, featuring cards, board games, and chess. Open to anyone interested in labor organizing, from organizing veterans, to workers completely new to organizing, who are curious about improving their workplace. Complaining builds community! Every fourth Friday of the Month.

Learn first-hand how the researchers from the Urban Wildlife Institute at Lincoln Park Zoo study bats by participating in a bat walk around Palmisano Park. We will use special equipment to detect and record the bats that are flying around us. You will learn about the species that are present and their ecology, and how we identify recordings to understand more about their habitat needs.

Our monthly gathering of newshounds and journalists.  Like old pub gatherings where people would go to hear the town crier read the news aloud, a trio of journalists will each explain a story they’ve worked on recently, followed by audience questions, comments and concerns.

Journalists from all publications are invited to work together at the club all day, whether you’re a member or not. We will have a citywide pitch meeting/discussion at 1 pm.

Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea is a 3D documentary film about the life and work of artist, marine, and acrobat H.C. (Cliff) Westermann. As a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, Westermann’s dramatic personal history can be traced through beguiling, surreal artworks he made to process the horrors he witnessed on the front lines. In so doing, he became an inspiration for many young artists. The film reveals ways in which Westermann protected his empathic spirit – and sanity – by ‘sculpting’ his body, artworks, friendships, his hand-hewn house, and his art-filled letters to his dearest friends and family.

From 5:30 to 8 PM, we will tinker with junk to create our own sculptures. BYOJ(unk). At 8 PM, we will screen the film.

In our moment when shared ethical languages seem impossible and where associational life is in decline, this reading and discussion group aims to investigate several related questions: What conditions do ethics require? Is it possible to create a shared ethical world that is neither oppressively exclusive nor so capacious as to be meaningless? Is ethics even a useful register through which to discern "a good life" or are they dependent upon other social/material questions?  For this session, we'll discuss "Abstract Right" and "Morality" from Hegel's Philosophy of Right. No pressure to do the entire reading, and no need to have attended the previous session in order to join this one!

From soy, to cashews, to walnuts, to seeds, anything can be cheese! Learn different fermentation techniques to produce all kinds of traditionally dairy based products like yogurt and cheese, but free from any dairy and easily made in your own kitchen. Whether you're already vegan, vegan curious, or skeptical that a vegan alternative can be just as good as dairy, all are welcome to expand their fermentation palate!

Join art historian and documentarian Hamed Yousefi for a screening and discussion of three classic Iranian documentaries: The House is Black, Recording the Truth, and The Night it Rained.

Come vent about your workplace issues and organizing struggles at a fun, informal game night, featuring cards, board games, and chess. Open to anyone interested in labor organizing, from organizing veterans, to workers completely new to organizing, who are curious about improving their workplace. Complaining builds community!

Our monthly gathering of newshounds and journalists.  Like old pub gatherings where people would go to hear the town crier read the news aloud, a trio of journalists will each explain a story they’ve worked on recently, followed by audience questions, comments and concerns.

Journalists from all publications are invited to work together at the club all day, whether you’re a member or not. We will have a citywide pitch meeting/discussion at 1 pm.

Bring your current textile project or one you'd like to start and learn from your fellow textile artists while working communally.

Knitting, weaving, embroidery, crochet, and all other textile projects are welcome as are all skill levels.

Join your friends at Mouse for a community potluck. Bring a dish, any dish! Fun, good times, and music.