LCCA Sounds of Summer: Sonnets and Sonics
Tuesday, July 29, 4:30-6pm, Logan Center Performance Penthouse

Sonnets and Sonics is a divine collaboration of writing and sound meditation. This is your invitation to dream, imagine, reflect and give reverence to your life. Come find your calm, bring a friend (or many!) immerse yourself in soothing vibrations and experience a creative event like no other. Writing guided by Nile Lansana and Sound Meditation guided by Mecca Elevated.
What’s provided: Water, Writing tools
Bring: Yourself, Open heart and mind, mat, additional writing tools or anything you feel you may need to get comfy while sitting on your mat (shoes off for extra comfort)
For more information on Healing Arts Chicago go to: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/healing_arts.html

About LCCA Sounds of Summer:
Join us as we celebrate great summer vibes through learning, exploring, and reflecting together. This range of programs offers members of the University, South Side, and greater Chicago communities the chance to connect and build sonic wellness through the arts. All are welcome as we experience the sounds of summer at the Logan Center!

Mothering on Screen: Film + Discussion Series
*July 27, 5-8pm: Bush Mama (Haile Gerima, 1979) | *Evening Screening

This July and August, join us for Mothering on Screen, a free film and discussion series. Featuring six films that explore the experiences of black mothers across different decades, landscapes and social contexts, this series will follow the labor of mothering through the popular, critical and experimental terms of black cinema.

Black mothering on screen can take different forms. Sometimes black mothers appear as matriarchs of multi-generational families, tasked with conveying the rich inheritances of the past. In another context, the black mother is a survivalist, forced to navigate a precarious present defined by racism, mass incarceration, and poverty. There is the expectant mother, who anticipates the future that mothering can make. Each of these figures perform different aspects of mothering, and they each respond to the racialized and gendered scripts of the home, the marriage, the city, the South, and the world.

A catered, group discussion will follow each screening. Free and open to all!

Mothering on Screen: Film + Discussion Series | Sundays, July 13 - August 17, 1 - 4 PM*
*Sunday, July 27, 5-8pm
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room 201

Upcoming Screenings:

• 7/20: Mother of George (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)

• 7/27 *5-8pm: Bush Mama (Haile Gerima, 1979)

• 8/3: A Thousand and One (A. V. Rockwell, 2023)

• 8/10: Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022)

• 8/17: Soul Food (George Tillman Jr., 1997)

This series is organized by Screening*, a film programming partnership between Elizabeth Myles and Avery LaFlamme. Previous series include: Screening Juneteenth (2022), Screening Freedom (2023), Screening Acts (2024).

LCCA Sounds of Summer: Sound Healing & Wellness with Shannon Harris of AudioPharmacology
Thursday, July 24, 4:30-6pm, Logan Center Performance Penthouse

Join audio pharmacologist Shannon Harris as he utilizes the power of pure nature recordings, pure tones, medicinal music, indigenous healing arts, harmonic instrument tuning, sonic/sacred geometry, light/heat therapy, TCM(Traditional Chinese Medicine), 5 Element System Qi Gong, brain/body entrainment, and meditation for wellness.”(Description courtesy of Shannon Harris’s website)

About LCCA Sounds of Summer:
Join us as we celebrate great summer vibes through learning, exploring, and reflecting together. This range of programs offers members of the University, South Side, and greater Chicago communities the chance to connect and build sonic wellness through the arts. All are welcome as we experience the sounds of summer at the Logan Center!

LCCA Sounds of Summer: Drum Circle with Azania Drum
Tuesday, July 22, 4:30-6pm, Logan Center Performance Penthouse

Get ready for a fun and exciting adventure exploring West African music! Join Azania Drum for an interactive Djembe Orchestra workshop, where you’ll play, discover, and learn about the rich lineage of West African percussion instruments and their cultural significance.”
Founded in 2001, Azania Drum is a youth and young adult mentoring organization that instills discipline, leadership and teamwork through the lens of West African music and culture.

About LCCA Sounds of Summer:
Join us as we celebrate great summer vibes through learning, exploring, and reflecting together. This range of programs offers members of the University, South Side, and greater Chicago communities the chance to connect and build sonic wellness through the arts. All are welcome as we experience the sounds of summer at the Logan Center!

Mothering on Screen: Film + Discussion Series
July 20, 1-4pm: Mother of George (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)

This July and August, join us for Mothering on Screen, a free film and discussion series. Featuring six films that explore the experiences of black mothers across different decades, landscapes and social contexts, this series will follow the labor of mothering through the popular, critical and experimental terms of black cinema.

Black mothering on screen can take different forms. Sometimes black mothers appear as matriarchs of multi-generational families, tasked with conveying the rich inheritances of the past. In another context, the black mother is a survivalist, forced to navigate a precarious present defined by racism, mass incarceration, and poverty. There is the expectant mother, who anticipates the future that mothering can make. Each of these figures perform different aspects of mothering, and they each respond to the racialized and gendered scripts of the home, the marriage, the city, the South, and the world.

A catered, group discussion will follow each screening. Free and open to all!

Mothering on Screen: Film + Discussion Series | Sundays, July 13 - August 17, 1 - 4 PM*
*Sunday, July 27, 5-8pm
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room 201

Upcoming Screenings:

• 7/20: Mother of George (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)

• 7/27 *5-8pm: Bush Mama (Haile Gerima, 1979)

• 8/3: A Thousand and One (A. V. Rockwell, 2023)

• 8/10: Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022)

• 8/17: Soul Food (George Tillman Jr., 1997)

This series is organized by Screening*, a film programming partnership between Elizabeth Myles and Avery LaFlamme. Previous series include: Screening Juneteenth (2022), Screening Freedom (2023), Screening Acts (2024).

LCCA Sounds of Summer: Dreamgirls Singalong
Thursday, July 17, 4:30-6:30pm, Logan Center Screening Room

Join us in the Logan Center Screening Room for an exciting and glamorous time with Dreamgirls (2006), where dressing up and singing along is not only welcome, but encouraged.

About LCCA Sounds of Summer:
Join us as we celebrate great summer vibes through learning, exploring, and reflecting together. This range of programs offers members of the University, South Side, and greater Chicago communities the chance to connect and build sonic wellness through the arts. All are welcome as we experience the sounds of summer at the Logan Center!

LCCA Sounds of Summer: Collaging to Sounds of Summer with Lauren Dotson
Tuesday, July 15, 4:30-6pm

In this workshop we will be remixing the ways we think about collage! We will use music and the sounds of our community in the summer for artistic inspiration. Then, using mixed media/found objects such as CDs, fabric, and vinyls we will create an array of assemblage art, i.e. collage, mosaic, and zines.

About LCCA Sounds of Summer:
Join us as we celebrate great summer vibes through learning, exploring, and reflecting together. This range of programs offers members of the University, South Side, and greater Chicago communities the chance to connect and build sonic wellness through the arts. All are welcome as we experience the sounds of summer at the Logan Center!

Mothering on Screen: Film + Discussion Series
July 13, 1-4pm: Down in the Delta (Maya Angelou, 1998)

This July and August, join us for Mothering on Screen, a free film and discussion series. Featuring six films that explore the experiences of black mothers across different decades, landscapes and social contexts, this series will follow the labor of mothering through the popular, critical and experimental terms of black cinema.

Mothering on Screen begins with Down in the Delta. Directed by Maya Angelou in her first and only credit behind the camera, Down in the Delta explores the relationship between mothering and the ancestral memory of Black migration. Loretta is a single mother struggling to care for her two young children along the busy streets of Chicago. To protect her daughter from poverty and addiction, Loretta’s mother sends the family south to the Mississippi Delta for a summer with their Uncle Earl. This return to the South promises to revive the roots of a fragmented family tree, a restorative journey made possible by the multigenerational force of mothering.

This screening will feature a selection of home movies taken from the Lynette Frazier Collection, archived by the South Side Home Movie Project. Throughout the 50s and 60s, Frazier recorded silent, 8mm home movies that captured her Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood and her many travels across the country and abroad. Intended as a way to share her experiences with her family, Frazier’s collection mirrors Angelou’s Down in the Delta by using film as a tool for the preservation of family memory across time and space. Frazier will join us as a special guest.

A group discussion will follow each screening. Free and open to all!

Mothering on Screen: Film + Discussion Series | Sundays, July 13 - August 17, 1 - 4 PM*
*Sunday, July 27, 5-8pm
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room 201

Upcoming Screenings:

• 7/20: Mother of George (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)

• 7/27 *5-8pm: Bush Mama (Haile Gerima, 1979)

• 8/3: A Thousand and One (A. V. Rockwell, 2023)

• 8/10: Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022)

• 8/17: Soul Food (George Tillman Jr., 1997)

This series is organized by Screening*, a film programming partnership between Elizabeth Myles and Avery LaFlamme. Previous series include: Screening Juneteenth (2022), Screening Freedom (2023), Screening Acts (2024).

LCCA Sounds of Summer: Makin’ Moves with Double Dutch
Thursday, July 10, 4:30-6pm, Logan Center Courtyard

Join us for an energetic session of jump rope, movement, and music led by Bernedette Rapier, Mary “Dancin’ Mary” Castle-Enyard, and LA Hollywood. Doing what they love and making people smile while strengthening their hearts and minds, each woman uses her experiences to bring a unique style to fitness. We’ll be moving to the sounds of an amazing live DJ.

About LCCA Sounds of Summer:
Join us as we celebrate great summer vibes through learning, exploring, and reflecting together. This range of programs offers members of the University, South Side, and greater Chicago communities the chance to connect and build sonic wellness through the arts. All are welcome as we experience the sounds of summer at the Logan Center!

LCCA Sounds of Summer: Yoga/Sound Meditation with Undone Paige
Tuesday, July 8, 4:30-6pm, Logan Center Performance Hall

Join Undone Paige for a wellness workshop featuring elements of yoga and sound meditation designed to nourish your soul and inspire connection to yourself and one another.

About LCCA Sounds of Summer:
Join us as we celebrate great summer vibes through learning, exploring, and reflecting together. This range of programs offers members of the University, South Side, and greater Chicago communities the chance to connect and build sonic wellness through the arts. All are welcome as we experience the sounds of summer at the Logan Center!

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