March 24, 2021 Dear Jones Community, Political Solidarity Is A Solution to Attacks Against Asian Americans I acknowledge and lament the terrible violence and stand in solidarity with Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans. Click to read this Harper’s Bazaar article Political Solidarity Is A Solution to Attacks Against Asian Americans by Julie Ae Kim, a writer and organizer in Queens, NY. This March 4, 2021, New York Times opinion piece by Jorge Ramos asks Why Has There Been a Spike of Anti-Asian Hate? This PBS NewsHour article by Vignesh Ramachandran recommends concrete actions to fight violence and racism against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. The organization Stop AAPI Hate recently released this report detailing sharp increases in violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the past year. The free, virtual bystander intervention training offered by Hollaback! is recommended by the Chicago chapter of Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Explore this padlet featuring picture books by Asian creators (assembled by librarian colleague Elisa Gall). Click to explore the Asian American Interest print titles in the JCP Library collection, many of which are available in eBook and/or eBook formats through JCP, CPS, and/or Chicago Public Library. Lincoln Award Winners Announced! And SPRING BREAK READING!! The winners of the annual Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award (hosted by the AISLE - the Association of Illinois School Library Educators) were announced on March 19: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (1st place), Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman (2nd place), and Devils Within by S.F. Henson (3rd place). Click here for the online slideshow of the nominated titles with links to the works in various formats available through Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Public Library. Click here for the 20 nominated titles of the 2022 Illinois Lincoln Award Master List. Check out great eBooks and eAudiobooks during SPRING BREAK! Click HERE for lots of eBook/eAudiobook guidance and HERE to access a list of highly recommended titles with easy links. Download the SORA app (for Overdrive titles) and the Mackin app (for Mackin titles) to access eBooks and eAudiobooks on your mobile devices. President Obama Meets with CPS Students Former President Obama generously provided all CPS high school students and educators free access to his memoir, A Promised Land, in late 2020. On March 11, President Obama met with CPS community members including students and CPS CEO Janice Jackson for a lively discussion. Click here to watch a 6-minute cut of the discussion or click here for the full-hour discussion. IT ONLY TAKES TWO MINUTES TO HELP BUILD AMERICA’S LIBRARIES! While libraries are among our nation’s important institutions, many are woefully underfunded. The Build America's Libraries Act would help fix that, providing $5 billion to underserved libraries to repair and modernize their facilities. Click here to contact your legislators. Do it now! Teens on Coping With a Pandemic Year - The New York Times COMING OF AGE: Teens on a Year That Changed Everything: In words, images and video, teens across the United States show us how they have met life's challenges in the midst of a pandemic. March 7, 2021 Last fall The New York Times Learning Network invited students to respond in words, images, audio, or video to the question, “What has it been like to be a teenager during the first year of a historic pandemic?” The result was 5,500 entries, 245 finalists, and 24 published works by students with edited and condensed excerpts from their artists’ statements. Students and teachers, consider exploring the student work and engaging in discussion in your social circles and classrooms. Coming of Age: complete digital copy Teaching guide List of 245 finalists Submit this form to get a free subscription to The New York Times for free through September 1, 2021. Media Literacy / Women’s History Month Get Smart About News: Sexism in Journalism Women working as journalists increasingly face gender-based violence outside of their newsrooms, including a barrage of threats and hate online. But they also endure it inside their workplaces, from discrimination to sexual assaults and harassment, according to a new Reporters Without Borders report detailing the toll sexism has taken on journalism. Click here to subscribe to Get Smart About News published by The News Literacy Project. Click here for current and past editions. Tomorrow! National Museum of Mexican Art NMMA invites you to attend the Storytellers 4 Unity (S4U) Film Forum featuring the Davey Silver Award winning animated short film Color of Tomorrow (4 min 33s). The film is the collaboration between Chicago artist Sam Kirk and the Film Director and Storyline Author Michelle M. Collins. Join youth leaders and community influencers in a screening and a Q&A with the makers. Help craft the future of storytelling without words. Youth and young adults are strongly encouraged to participate! Register here for the screening at 5:00 pm CST. More info about the film here. The 37th Chicago Latino Film Festival - produced every April by the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago (ILCC) - is considered the largest, most comprehensive and best Latino film festival in the United States, and presents over 100 films of cultural and social significance from Latin America, Spain, Portugal and the U.S. The virtual screenings can be purchased for viewing within specific date ranges throughout the festival. Explore the festival and the featured films. Bisa Butler: Portraits Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago through September 6, 2021 Bisa Butler (b. 1973) is an American artist who creates arresting and psychologically nuanced portraits composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics that she cuts, layers, and stitches together. Her work often depicts scenes from African American life and history. Learn more about the artist, her background, her techniques, and her vision in this brief video. In response to the exhibition, celebrated poet and author Marilyn Nelson joined visual artist and author Krista Franklin to reflect on historical and contemporary narratives of Black life. Watch the conversation here. Full exhibition information is here. Entry does not require a separate exhibition ticket, but be aware that there is a virtual line. Free Theater!
PRIVATE REELS: From the Lincoln Center Theatre Archives allows audiences the opportunity to experience past award-winning LCT productions in full at home via no-cost streaming (one offering at a time over a few months). 1. Click here to learn more, to register for the current offering (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang through April 11), and to subscribe to the Private Reels email list to receive notices of upcoming streams. 2. Create a Broadway on Demand account. When LCT Private Reels come out you will receive a code by email that gives you access to watch the play for free. You can also purchase lots of other performances from Broadway on Demand but there is no obligation to do that. I am eager to get back into the physical library and start slinging books again. And don’t worry, the eBooks and eAudiobooks are here to stay! Seize the spring break to step back, reflect, breathe deeply, soak up some sun, read what you want to read, and take care of yourselves. I wish all the best for you, your families, and your communities. I am so looking forward to seeing you. Mr. Feeley School Librarian [email protected] jcplibrary.weebly.com My recent reads Women’s History Month/Free eAudiobooks!/Goodman Theatre Online/Loyola Climate Conference/MUCH MORE!3/10/2021
March 10, 2021 Dear Jones Community, Women’s History Month // JCP/CPS eBook and eAudiobook Titles The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. Click here to explore various offerings and online events. A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry eBook eAudiobook Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work by Victoria Ortiz eBook eAudiobook Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis eBook eAudiobook The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen eBook eAudiobook Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World Malala by Yousafzai Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights by Karen Blumenthal Lifting As We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne eBook eAudiobook Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz She Takes a Stand: 16 Fearless Activists Who Have Changed the World by Michael Elsohn Ross Get TWENTY-EIGHT FREE eAudiobooks To Keep Forever! SYNC is a free spring/summer audiobook program for teens 13+ running fourteen weeks from April 29 until August 5, 2021. Check out the SYNC website to register using your CPS email, to download the SORA reading app, to sign up for weekly new title alerts, and to learn about the 28 titles (fourteen thematically paired books) that will be provided over 14 weeks. Be sure to check out the FAQ’s and the full list of titles in this year’s SYNC season. This. Opportunity. Is. GOLD! Get on the eBooks and eAudiobooks train! I challenge you all to check out great eBooks and eAudiobooks! Click HERE for lots of eBook/eAudiobook guidance and HERE to access a list of highly recommended titles with easy links. Download the SORA app (for Overdrive titles) and the Mackin app (for Mackin titles) to access eBooks and eAudiobooks on your mobile devices. Women’s History Month: Mikki Kendall on Powerful Women (recorded 11/9/2019) Award-winning author Mikki Kendall (author of Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights and Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot) details the triumphs and challenges of women across centuries and cultures. In conversation with Jill Hopkins-Olewnik, host of The Morning Amp on Vocalo Radio, Kendall shares stories about the achievements of a diverse group of women, providing the perfect way to celebrate women past, present, and future. Media Literacy: The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election As painful an episode in American history as the January 6 insurrection was, it wasn’t a surprise to those who closely followed the arc of disinformation around the 2020 presidential election. A coalition of research entities known as the Election Integrity Partnership supported real-time information exchange between the research community, election officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, and social media platforms. The Partnership included the Stanford Internet Observatory, Graphika, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Click for the executive summary of the report and the option to download the full report. Click to view the webinar of the launch of this report. Media Literacy: Get Smart About News - The News Literacy Project Get Smart About News is a free newsletter for the general public provided by The News Literacy Project. It explores timely examples of misinformation, addresses media and press freedom topics, and discusses social media trends and issues. Current issue here. Click here to subscribe. Click here for current and past editions. The Jones National Honor Society Blood Drive in partnership with Vitalant runs March 1-31. Student blood donors earn two hours of service credit, receive a free Covid-19 antibody test, and are provided a coupon for a free Papa John’s pizza by mentioning the school name at the donation site. Students submit documentation of their blood donation to their counselors. More information here. Vitalant locations. Blood drive flyer. Please contact senior Zora Beaty [email protected] for further information. TOMORROW, March 11! Mikva Challenge Issues to Action Kickoff All students are invited to join a community of young people around the country at the Mikva Challenge Issues to Action Kickoff on March 11, 5:30-7:30 PM. The event focuses on the how-to's of youth-led community action. Students will gain tools and strategies for designing their own community action projects and hear directly from a panel of young people who have completed powerful projects in the past. All students are welcome and teachers are also invited to join as observers. Free registration here. THIS SATURDAY, March 13! The American Writers Museum, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and other partners are proud to co-present the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award to renowned writer, Sandra Cisneros. A native Chicagoan, Cisneros rose to the top of the literary stratosphere with her 1984 young adult novel, The House on Mango Street, followed by an incredible array of poems, stories, memoirs, and essays, including her most recent work, A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (2015). This honor reflects Cisneros's rightful place as one of our greatest contemporary authors and acknowledges her enormous influence on our literary and cultural life. The online ceremony on Saturday, March 13th at 7:00 PM will include an interview with Sandra Cisneros after her acceptance speech. Free registration here. Chicago Children’s Choir’s Black History Month Virtual Concert: Preserving and Persevering explores how the power of Black music has been the cultural key in both preserving African traditions in America and in helping millions persevere in the face of racial injustice. The CCC is a non-profit organization that inspires and unites youth from diverse backgrounds to become global citizens through music. Founded in Hyde Park in direct response to the Civil Rights Movement in 1956, CCC has grown from one choir into a vast network of in-school and after-school programs serving 5,200 students across the city of Chicago. Click here to view the Feb. 25 concert. CCChoir YouTube Channel. For Theatre Lovers! Goodman Theatre’s Encore Streaming Series Experience FOUR acclaimed Goodman Theatre productions from the comfort of your home - FREE and On Demand. Online reservations are required. Click here for further information about the plays and how to stream them. How to Catch Creation Written by Christina Anderson, Directed by Niegel Smith Streaming On Demand March 15-28, 2021 Pedro Páramo Written by Raquel Carrío, Inspired by the Novel by Juan Rulfo, Directed by Flora Lautén, Music Direction by Victor Pichardo & Jomary Hechavarría Streaming On Demand March 29 - April 11, 2021 Smokefall Written by Noah Haidle, Directed by Anne Kauffman Streaming On Demand April 12 - 25, 2021 Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure Directed by Robert Falls Streaming on Demand April 26-May 9, 2021. All Next Week! Loyola University 2021 Climate Change Conference, March 15-18, 2021, Virtual All are welcome to register for any or all of the free webinars all of which start at 6 PM. Daylight Savings Time begins at 2:00 AM this Sunday, March 14. Be sure to “spring forward” and enjoy the 6:56 PM sunset that evening! Imagine where we will be and what we will be doing when Daylight Savings Time ends next fall on Sunday, November 7, 2021. It’s not too early to start dreaming of better times! For now keep your masks on and take care of yourselves and each other.
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