10 December 2004
December 10th Beyondmedia's First Annual Art Auction ExtravaGOWNza and Holiday Sale! Do your holiday shopping in style, while you support grassroots media activism! Attend Beyondmedia Education's first annual holiday party, art auction and craft sale on Friday December 10 from 7-11 pm at Las Manos Gallery located at 5220 N. Clark Street in Andersonville. Call us at 773-973-2280 for tickets or buy them on the web!
7 November 2004
A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark has been selected for programming in Reeling 2004: The 23rd Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival.
A Fish is scheduled to play on November 7th at 1pm at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 North Clark St.
18 November 2004
Beyondmedia is throwing a BIRTHDAY BASH for all of our beloved SCORPIOS and friends at T's bar, located on the south east corner of Clark and Winnemac in lovely Andersonville. Won't you join us? Exact address: 5025 N. Clark Street. Thursday, November 18th @ Ts from 7-10 PM! For more information, contact:
beyond@beyondmedia.org or call 773-973-2280.
30 November 2004
Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories was featured on
eight forty-eight on Chicago Public Radio today! Listen to Susan Nussbaum and Dawn Ramsey talk about the project on
Chicago Public Radio's website.
8-11 October 2004 Beyondmedia is sponsoring the Pilot TV conference this weekend!
Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo will be on display throughout the weekend and on Saturday, October 9th Salome will give a guided tour of the installation and moderate a panel discussion around issues of women's incarceration. Get all the details of the conference at
Pilot's website.
21 October 2004
Blackbird Benefit for Beyondmedia. Indulge your senses in a night of unique flavors and visuals from Blackbird and Beyondedia. Join award-winning Chef Paul Kahan and Beyondmedia on Thursday October 21st for an exclusive evening of dinner, wine, art and great conversation. Seating for 50 people only!
Tickets are $150 each/ $250 pair.
Call us at 773-973-2280 to order, or email us at
beyond@beyondmedia.org
26 October 2004
Join The Empowered Fe Fes, Beyondmedia Education, and Access Living for the preimere screening of
Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories with a post-screening discussion hosted by the Fe Fes. The event is 10/26 from 7 until 8:30pm at the UIC Auditorium, 1640 W. Roosevelt Road, in Chicago. Refreshments will be provided! The event is completely accessible - the video is open-captioned and a sign language interpreter will be provided. For more information, call Susan at 312-253-7000 x121 or TTY: 312-253-7002. See our
Girls!Action!Media! program page for more information on our workshops with the Fe Fes.
25 September 2004
Join us at the Women's Outreach and Resource Fair during Estrojam on Saturday, September 25 between 11 and 6! Estrojam, is a professionally produced, community-based event that promotes, showcases, and celebrates the artistic,
organizational and political work and talents of women. Beyondmedia will have a table so you can come by to chat, pick up information, or buy a t-shirt.
7 & 8 August 2004
Come buy a Beyondmedia t-shirt or video at the 23rd Annual
Northalsted Market Days - we're once again sharing space with Las Manos Gallery!
18 July 2004
Beyondmedia and Access Living's Empowered Fe Fe's march and document the Inaugural
Disability Pride Parade in Chicago, Illinois featuring Yoshiko Dart as the Grand Marshall.
3-13 June 2004
A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark screens at The 16th New York Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival!
9 June 2004
A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark screening and discussion at Taft High School in Chicago
12 & 13 June 2004
Beyondmedia unveils new T-Shirts at Andersonville's
Midsommarfest! Look for us in front of Las Manos Gallery.
13 June 2004
A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark screening and discussion at
Amigas Latinas in Chicago
20 June 2004
A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark screens at The San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival!
11 May 2004 Join us for DePaul University's Community Connection Series 2004
Girls' Theory: Me-Search Research Film screening and discussion hosted by Beyondmedia boardmember Camilla Fojas! All-girls panel discussion with past Beyondmedia program participants!
6:00 p.m., Student Center 314B
2250 North Sheffield Avenue
This event is free and open to the public
15 May 2004
Alternatives' Girl World presents The Girls' Movement 2004. Beyondmedia will give 4 video workshops. Senn High School 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
26 May 2004
A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark screening and discussion at Kennedy High School in Chicago
29 May 2004
A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark screens at
Video Machete in Chicago
21 April 2004
A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark screening and discussion at Lakeview High School's Latina Club
5 March 2004
Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo - Las Manos Gallery 5220 N. Clark, Chicago
Tel: (773) 728-8910
(download a PDF of events)
All panels will begin at 7:00 pm, preceded by a reception at 6:00 pm.
Race and Gender in the Prison System
Moderator: Cheryl Graves, Community Panels for Youth and Girl Talk in the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center
Panelists: Beth Richie, Professor and Chair, African-American Studies, UIC; Senior Research Consultant, Institute on Violence, Inc.; activist in the movement to end violence against women
Joey Mogul, Attorney with People's Law Office and leading advocate for lesbians on death row
Karen Shain, Administrative Director, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, San Francisco
Performer: Pamela Thomas, playwright, poet and former prisoner; Program Director, Daisy's Resource and Developmental Center-"Rose House"
Topics: domestic violence and incarceration; gender-specific programming; lesbians in prison; women and the death penalty; women and girls' prison healthcare; organizing women prisoners.
11 March 2004
Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo - Las Manos Gallery 5220 N. Clark, Chicago
Tel: (773) 728-8910
(download a PDF of events)
All panels will begin at 7:00 pm, preceded by a reception at 6:00 pm.
Children and Parents in Prison
Moderator: Dorenda Dixon,Department of Women's Justice Services, Cook County Department of Corrections
Panelists: Bernardine Dohrn, Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University, Director and Founder of the Children and Family Justice Center, leading child advocate
Joanne Archibald, Advocacy Director, Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM) and former prisoner
Lourdes Torres, Youth Leader Specialist and group facilitator, formerly incarcerated at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center
LaCrystal Brown, Illinois Task Force on Behalf of Children of Prisoners
Performer: Wenona Thompson, Coordinator, Girl Talk in the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center, and former prisoner
Topics: incarceration of girls; intergenerational incarceration; impact of parental incarceration; caring for children of prisoners; family reunification; alternative sentencing; working with girls.
11 March 2004
A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark screening and discussion at a CESO training, Glenbard East High School
19 March 2004
Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo - Las Manos Gallery 5220 N. Clark, Chicago
Tel: (773) 728-8910
(download a PDF of events)
All panels will begin at 7:00 pm, preceded by a reception at 6:00 pm.
Forms of Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex
Moderator: Jeanne Kracher, Executive Director of the Crossroads Fund and longtime activist
Panelists: Pilar Maschi, National Former Prisoner & Family Coordinator, Critical Resistance
Brenda Myers, PART (Prostitution Alternatives Round Table)
Ann Stanford, Professor, DePaul University School for New Learning and Director of The DePaul Project in Creative Writing and Incarceration
Kathleen Desautels, 8th Day Center for Justice and former prisoner of conscience
Topics: gender violence and the prison-industrial complex; forms of political resistance; restorative justice; prison abolition; health and arts programs in prisons; organizing prostitutes.
25 March 2004
Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo - Las Manos Gallery 5220 N. Clark, Chicago
Tel: (773) 728-8910
(download a PDF of events)
All panels will begin at 7:00 pm, preceded by a reception at 6:00 pm.
Reentry: Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Laura Washington, DePaul University Ida B. Wells Barnett Professor of Communication and award-winning journalist
Panelists: Jewell Oates, Executive Director of The Women's Treatment Center, a national model for substance abuse treatment for women with young children
Sr. Kathy Nolan, 8th Day Center for Social Justice; licensed clinical social worker, most recently with St. Leonard Ministries' women's residential program, Grace House
Patricia O'Brien, UIC Jane Addams College of Social Work and Substance Abuse Research Collaboration
Naoma Dye, Truman College student in Criminal Justice, public speaker at Cook County Jail for Genesis House, Grace House board member, and former prisoner
Performer: Pamela Thomas, playwright, poet and former prisoner; Program Director, Daisy's Resource and Developmental Center-"Rose House"
Topics: housing; employment and education; healthcare/treatment after prison; recidivism; living with
the "X"; sex worker issues; domestic violence services; correctional policy and practice.
Beyondmedia begins its fourth tech workshop at Senn High School! See After
After School Matters for more information.
10 February 2004
A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark screening and discussion at Maine East High School's GSA in Park Ridge, Illinois
18 February 2004 A Fish (Almost) Eaten by a Shark screening and discussion at Oak Park River Forest High School's GSA
