ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time. To be featured in a future edition, send your recommendations of what to do at home and why you love them to: Creative Director / Publisher Dave Hamilton at dhamilton@streetwise.org
Free Comics!
Free Comic Book Day Free Comic Book Day is the comic book industry’s largest annual promotion event. It is traditionally scheduled on the first Saturday of May each year. Due to COVID-19, the event was reorganized and has been taking place on Wednesdays throughout the summer. The last Free Comic Book Day will take place on September 9. In order to find your nearest comic book store, feel free to visit https://www.comicshoplocator.com/
Be the Change!
(HOME) ENTERTAINMENT
Climate Responsibility and Judaism The critical nature of climate change hasn't paused amid the pandemic and efforts to address long standing social inequities. In many ways, these issues are linked. Join Spertus Institute for ViewPoints Online as two experts on religion and the environment delve into what Judaism teaches about our accountability to the natural world. Dr. Rachel Havrelock is founder and director of the UIC Freshwater Lab, a humanities-based initiative focused on research, teaching, and public awareness about the Great Lakes. She is a University of Illinois at Chicago and Spertus Institute faculty member. Rabbi Dr. Rachel Mikva (pictured) is the Herman E. Schaalman chair and associate professor of Jewish Studies, and senior faculty fellow of the InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary. Her work focuses on biblical interpretations across time and place, and how they shape and reflect the societies in which they unfold. The program will be held on Zoom at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 10. Tickets are $8 for students and Spertus alumni, $10 for Spertus members and $18 for the public at spertus.edu
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Sounds of the World!
Virtual World Music Festival Chicago The reimagined “Virtual World Music Festival Chicago” will offer a series of free concerts featuring artists from across the globe on Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m. Highlights include: • “People of Rhythm; Afro-Diáspora y Folklore” (September 13) recorded and co-curated with Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center; • the Chicago-based traditional Irish supergroup Anam Mór (September 20) recorded at and co-curated with Martyrs’; • and the Chicago Immigrant Orchestra (September 27) recorded at Epiphany Center for the Arts and coconducted by Fareed Haque and Wanees Zarour. For the complete lineup and details, visit WorldMusicFestivalChicago.org. The virtual concert series will air on YouTube.com/ChicagoDCASE
-Compiled by Dave Hamilton, Suzanne Hanney, & Nina Rothschild
