February 2011
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WatchFood & Exchange
Food & Exchange
Our Chicago, a boom town owing early success to the extraction of food from the countryside and later to the abstraction of food on the Market, remains a city in which food, specifically how we procure food, gives shape to our communities. We frequent bodegas & delis, break bread in school cafeterias & in parks, and open our homes to neighborly dinners.
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January 2011
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Food & Sense
Our experience of food is a flood of local and environmental sensations. From the closeness of mouth feel and smell, to the intensity of lighting and our choice of dining companions, or deeper still into our associations of memory with the sounds or colors of a particularly bad dinner date. Even our choice of food may conspire to alter our ability to sense.
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December 2010
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And we're back...
Join us January 10th at 8 pm as we welcome a new year and the renewal of The Seasonal Salon. While we reflected upon the 20 Salons and 75+ speakers that we have hosted from our home on Palmer Square, many of you asked, What happened to the salon? Well… We’re back from our Summer/Fall sabbatical with a variation on an old theme. The Seasonal Salon will continue to be a place...
April 2010
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Seasonal Sabbatical
Hello Friends, Two things to you all. First, as of last Monday I am taking a sabbatical from the Seasonal Salon for the entirety of Spring and into Summer. After nearly two years and 70 storytellers, it is time to re-acclimate myself with the goals of and the community about the Seasonal Salon. One of the organizational shifts to occur this Spring that I’m sure you will appreciate is the...
February 2010
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Friends of the Seasonal Salon 20
Kate Joyce, a documentary photographer by training and architectural photographer by practice. link
Joseph Mohan, the whiz behind the SpecificObjects brand, and a collaborator in The Building Society. link
Greg Harris, the curatorial chops behind the soon-to-open Art Institute photography collection, In the Vernacular. link
January 2010
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Friends of the Seasonal Salon 19
Excerpts from the Resolutions Salon:
I will not over commit.
I will be more methodical.
I will folkdance with Mom.
I will not eat cereal straight form the box.
I will make a sketch each day.
I will learn more.
I will see more live music.
I will shower with people I love.
I will learn to do my job better.
I will spend more time in a bathrob.
I will stop being academic, and start doing.
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December 2009
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Friends of the Seasonal Salon 19
Gajus Miknaitis Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Vice President of Logan Square’s newly-open Dill Pickle Food Coop.
Sam Rosen One Design Company & Post Family, facilitator of Chicago’s West Loop co-working space COOP.
Lisa Junkin Education Coordinator at the Jane Addams Hull House, resident & former president of Qumbya housing cooperative in...
November 2009
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Friends of the Seasonal Salon 18
Erin Rensink
Ben MacDonald burns the midnight oil as a jazz guitarist heading-up Ben Brown & the Makeout Machine. He spends his days building gardens as Backyard Bounty, and acting as Food Production Manager at City Farm.
Kristin DeLap is one part of the Archeworks team that took the Little Village Pockets Parks project from vacant lots to community-built & supported garden space.
October 2009
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August 2009
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July 2009
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June 2009
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May 2009
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Friends of the Spring Salon 12
John Greenfield Traveled from Milwaukee to Chicago, on foot.
Ben Helphand A self-described Pedestrian Advocate promoting Pedestrian Safety, Access, Awareness, and Community in Logan Square and beyond.
Will Hutchinson An artist and model builder, Will spent months of his life walking from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Charlie Vinz Architect, Musician, Educator, & a...
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Ioana Marinescu is an economist and educator at the University of Chicago, who studies the labor market. Kelly Huang is a real estate broker for commercial and governmental properties. Matt Krepsik is an economist and consultant with an intense love for geographic relativity and Hayek. Bob Elchert works for Chicago’s 3rd alder-district, while advocating for wide-spread inclusion of...
April 2009
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March 2009
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February 2009
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January 2009
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Friends of the Winter Salon 8
The Post Family
Print Shop, Gallery & Blog partners.
Check out: The Post family
Claire Bidwell Smith & Greg Boose
Partners in Life and Practice.
Check out: She Wrote, He Wrote The Printed Blog
Claire & Greg’s readings from the Winter Salon
Elizabeth Stephens & Jess Hanebury
A Copywriter & Art Director combo of colleagues, friends, & former roommates.
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All our wonderful guests.
I will post your Polaroid resolutions very soon!
December 2008
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Friends of the Fall Salon 6
Caitlyn Galloway
I like to think that Caitlyn flew in from San Francisco to share her work with the Salon. I met Caitlyn in the backyard where she keeps her garden in the Mission. She works with a sign shop in SF that produces all their work by hand. In a world of digital prodcution and vinyl letters, her work shows where each line starts and stops.
View the work of New Bohemia Signs
Abigail...
November 2008
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Friends of the Fall Salon 5
Dave Hampton
View the work of Echo Studio
Bensen Loveless
Joseph Miller
See Joe in Timeout Chicago
October 2008
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Friends of the Fall Salon 4
Will Bouvel
Lolo Evans
Ross Wolinsky
Mark Shipley
Karen Faith
View Karen’s Blog A Particular Time and Place
September 2008
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Friends of Summer Salon 3
Brenda Arellano
Brenda left Chicago for a year to teach english on an Island off the coast of Japan. She came back with a heightened sense of fashion, phone dongles, and a video that she will present tonight.
Martha Brabec
Martha chose to test her newly minted college education in Panama working for the Peace Corps. She expected the work to be hard; tonight she will try to convey the...
August 2008
5 posts
Friends of Summer Salon 2
Anna Barnes
A persistent organizer, Anna is always up to something good. Whether gathering the community around gardening or public health issues, she is a welcoming and engaging partner.
Steve Gentry
Contrary to possible expectations given his surname, Mr. Gentry works with the people, many different people. Steve is a Public Defender here in Chicago.
Shannon Heffernan
Shannon is a...
July 2008
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Friends of Summer Salon 1
Max Berniker
I work on human (and animal) motor control, that is, how the brain controls our motions. it is somewhere between robotics and neuroscience (and my work has moved back and forth between those two fields). Right now i don’t see a connection between my work and communication, other than the vague notion that we communicate with our bodies. However, yes, i do have some peeves...