9 January 2002
What We Leave Behind screening and discussion at St. Mary's College in California

January 2002
Salome Chasnoff spends one week in California at St. Mary's College and 17 days in Brazil (Rio and Santarem, PA in the Amazon) with twelve St. Mary's students and two other teachers. Salome directs the students in a multi-media ethnographic study of everyday life in Brazil.

February 5
Girl World hosts a fishbowl discussion at Alternatives

February- March 2002
Salome Chasnoff, Charlotte Saenz and Prudence Browne, representing Women's International Information Project (WiiP), are travelling to Chiapas, Mexico to do a 2-week media workshop with the Mayan women artists of FOMMA. This workshop is the first in a 3-year exchange between the two groups. Together we will produce a documentary about their performance work. FOMMA will come to Chicago in October 2002 to present their work at several Chicago-area sites.

February- March 2002
Salome Chasnoff, Charlotte Saenz and Prudence Browne, representing Women's International Information Project (WiiP), are travelling to Chiapas, Mexico to do a 2-week media workshop with the Mayan women artists of FOMMA. This workshop is the first in a 3-year exchange between the two groups. Together we will produce a documentary about their performance work. FOMMA will come to Chicago in October 2002 to present their work at several Chicago-area sites.

14 March 2002
Joanne Archibald screened What We Leave Behind and led discussion for a class of 18 seniors and 3 instructors at Francis Parker High School.

16 March 2002
What We Leave Behind screening at the Color of Violence Conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago

28 March 2002
Beyondmedia interview with Jane Evelyn Atwood for the forthcoming What We Leave Behind handbook. Jane is an award-winning photojournalist who has documented incarcerated women.

29 March 2002
Beyondmedia Education Open House Info Cafe at our office, 6960 N. Sheridan Road, Store B, 5-8pm Joclyn Eccles, a WiiP member, is visiting Chicago from Japan for one week. She will read some of her poetry at the event and talk about her experiences in Japan.

April 2002
Two ninth graders from Evanston Township High School participate in a 10 hour internship in science and technology with Beyondmedia Education. They tested their their theories at Girls! Action! Media! workshops.

April 2002
Family Matters Oral History Media Project is launched

10 April 2002
The Schurz High School Spirit Club held a Day of Silence to draw community attention to the issues of GLBT students.

12 April 2002
Screening of FOMMA (Fortitude or Strength of the Mayan Women) trailer at the University of Chicago. Brown-bag lunch with Salome and Charlotte Saenz, artist, teacher, consultant and researcher focusing on projects that use creative processes and tools for individual and community development.

18-21 April 2002
Salome in New York City participating in a Criminal Justice Initiative Meeting sponsored by the Funding Exchage and attended by organizers, donors, and funders.

29 April 2002
Council on Foundations Conference in Chicago. Attending funders who visit St. Leonard's House/Grace House receive a copy of What We Leave Behind.

11 May 2002
Chicago Filmmakers screening of What We Leave Behind with another film about women in prison, 900 Women, at their theater, 5243 N. Clark Street on Chicago's North Side.

14 May 2002
Heartland Alliance screening of What We Leave Behind for a group of visiting legal aid attorneys from Russia.

15 May 2002
Joanne Archibald screened What We Leave Behind and led discussion for 30 students (17-21 year olds) at the Consuela York Alternative HS at the Cook County Department of Corrections.

21 May 2002
Girl World premiere screening at Alternatives (4730 N. Sheridan Road) 5 - 7 P.M. There will be food before the screening and the girls will facilitate a discussion of the issues afterwards!

6 June 2002
Joanne Archibald part of one-hour panel discussion, "Video Opportunities for Non-Profits" at Community Media Workshop's annual Making Media Connections conference. Also on the panel at Malcolm X College: Bruce Orenstein of the Chicago Video Project, Linda Gerber, independent producer, and Raven Patterson of CAN-TV. Joanne will screen What We Leave Behind.

8 June 2002
Screening of A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark at Women in the Director's Chair's eighth annual Pride Screening. 7-8:30 PM Matinee & 9-Midnight Late Show. WIDC Theater, 941 W. Lawrence, 5th Floor

13-15 June 2002
Several Board Members and Staff to attend the National Women's Studies Association Conference in Las Vegas, NV to present a panel on women's activism and distribute Beyondmedia works.

20-22 June 2002
Screening of What We Leave Behind at the National Roundtable for Women in Prison in New York sponsored by the Women's Prison Association.

18 July 2002
Family Matters youth present the first phase of their North-of-Howard Oral History Project.

25 July 2002
A benefit for Beyondmedia at Stargaze 5419 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 7 PM * 21 and over * 773-561-7363 * Win prizes from our generous donors, enjoy free food from local eateries, experience a psychic reading, watch our videos, learn about our programs, and meet excellent people!

20 August 2002
Beyondmedia will provide a morning session on media literacy and images of violence in the media to Friends of Battered Women and Their Children's Teen Peace Institute. The Teen Peace Institute is designed to provide leadership/ team building activities, antiviolence workshops and fun for about 30 high school agedstud ents from August 19th through 30th, 02.Beyonmedia 'sworkshop will help set the tone for the rest of the Teen Peace Institute and provide skills necessary for their ongoing work.

15 September 2002
Women and Prison: a Toolkit for Resistance deadline for bios, titles and abstracts. Read the call for articles for more details.

31 September 2002
Deadline for contributions for an art quilt to be displayed in a traveling exhibition, 30 DAYS OF ART & EDUCATION ON WOMEN'S INCARCERATION. Read the details of the call.

8 October 2002
Beyondmedia begins an intensive 10-week web production workshop at Senn High School through the After School Matters Program,tech37.

17 October 2002
Family Matters and Beyondmedia present Our View from the Redline, A Multi-Media Ethnography Honoring the North of Howard Neighborhood, hosted by the Rogers Park Historical Society. Opening is October 17 from 6-8PM and exhibition runs until mid-November. Call the Historical Society for hours. 6424 N Western Ave. Phone:(773)764-4078.

18 October 2002
8:00 pm Chicago Filmmakers 5243 N Clark St. Chicago Filmmakers presents Info2Action, an evening of review and discussion on the ability of documentaries to impact social organizing and activism - beyond just preaching to the choir. Join us for an evening of Community Organizing, Social Activism, and Social Documentaries. Chicago Filmmakers will screen excerpts from a range of works made by, about, and for community groups and social activists working for change. Following the screening is a discussion of how organizers and activists can collaborate with media makers. Excerpts from Beyondmedia's videos What We Leave Behind, A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark, and Our View from the Redline will be screened. Admission is open to all.

19 October 2002
Joanne Archibald and Diana Delgado from CLAIM screen What We Leave Behind and talk at Northeastern Illinois University in a cross-listed class in Criminal Justice and Social Work: Women, Crime and the Criminal Justice System and Women and Social Work.

30 October 2002
30 Days of Art and Education on Women's Incarceration opens at DePaul University Cultural Center, 2250 N. Sheffield(773) 325-7759. Performance of Only Women Bleed begins at 7PM and a 6PM reception precedes the performance.

7 November 2002
30 Days of Art and Education on Women's Incarceration opens at Woodson Regional Library, 9525 S. Halsted (312) 747-6900. Performance of Only Women Bleed begins at 7PM.

13 November 2002
Joanne Archibald screened What We Leave Behind and made a presentation to a law class, "Prisons and Prisoners" at Northwestern University School of Law..

14 November 2002
30 Days of Art and Education on Women's Incarceration opens at Center for Inner City Studies at NEIU, 700 E. Oakwood Blvd. (773) 268-7500. Performance of Only Women Bleed begins at 7PM and a 6PM reception precedes the performance.

19 November 2002
Screening of Girls' Theory at Girl Talk in the Juvenile Detention Center 3-5PM.

21 November 2002
30 Days of Art and Education on Women's Incarceration opens at Bethel Cultural Arts Center, 1140 N. Lamon (773) 378-3600. Performance of Only Women Bleed begins at 7PM.

26 November 2002
30 Days of Art and Education on Women's Incarceration opens at Chase Espresso and Juice Bar, 7301 North Sheridan (773) 743-5650. Performance of Only Women Bleed begins at 8PM.

9 December 2002
We started mailing our Beyondmedia Buzz and call for donations -- email us if you'd like to receive it!

12 December 2002
Fall Semester ends for Beyondmedia's tech37 class at Senn High School. Check out the finished product: a website for Girl Talk (more content to be added in the Spring Semester).