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VIRTUAL: English Language Conversation
REGISTER IN ZOOM NOW. This virtual program comes to you via Zoom. After you register, you will receive a specific Zoom link to join the webinar
VIRTUAL: Shake, Rattle & Read
VIRTUAL: Grief Journaling Workshop
** VIRTUAL:Living History Project
The Living History Project (LHP) is an attempt at youth leadership development that seeks to provide a space to help cultivate social and critical thinking skills, develop research skills, and gain public speaking experience. A major component of this project is that its authentically youth led meaning that youth are given the opportunity to discuss issues pertinent to them and do further research as well as plan and organize community presentations. Facilitated by long time social justice and human rights activist Billy Brooks, LHP’s program structure is fairly informal and flexible, capable of adjusting to a variety of settings. It is within this informal conversationalist structure that Mr. Brooks is able to further instill necessary leadership skills ranging from foundations to effective communication to critical thinking and public speaking. In effect what the LHP is prepared to offer students is:
Knowledge of effective communication and social skills
Further development of critical thinking skills
Research skills
Experience with direct project management
Experience with public speaking
Self advocacy strategies You can register with this link.
VIRTUAL: Adult Improv
VIRTUAL: Shake, Rattle & Read
** VIRTUAL:Living History Project
The Living History Project (LHP) is an attempt at youth leadership development that seeks to provide a space to help cultivate social and critical thinking skills, develop research skills, and gain public speaking experience. A major component of this project is that its authentically youth led meaning that youth are given the opportunity to discuss issues pertinent to them and do further research as well as plan and organize community presentations. Facilitated by long time social justice and human rights activist Billy Brooks, LHP’s program structure is fairly informal and flexible, capable of adjusting to a variety of settings. It is within this informal conversationalist structure that Mr. Brooks is able to further instill necessary leadership skills ranging from foundations to effective communication to critical thinking and public speaking. In effect what the LHP is prepared to offer students is:
Knowledge of effective communication and social skills
Further development of critical thinking skills
Research skills
Experience with direct project management
Experience with public speaking
Self advocacy strategies You can register with this link.
VIRTUAL: French Conversation Hour / Heure de Conversation Française
Virtual Halloween Parade: Open for Submissions
VIRTUAL: Midday Meditation
VIRTUAL: Beatlemania With Professor Moptop
Love the Beatles? Join Beatle expert Professor Moptop (Gregory Alexander) to discuss BEATLEMANIA and all the excitement surrounding it. Using rare audio and news clips, the Professor will discuss 1963 and 1964—the time period during which the Beatles fame spread throughout Europe, just before they came to America. Professor Moptop has made several guest appearances on Terri Hemmert’s WXRT radio show titled, “Breakfast with the Beatles.”
REGISTER IN ZOOM. This virtual program comes to you via Zoom. After you register, you will receive a specific Zoom link to join the webinar.
VIRTUAL: 2020 Restorative Justice Conference The Medicine Wheel: Balancing Humanity Opening Ceremony
Throughout October, the conference will be held via Zoom. Individual sessions will be offered on Wednesdays and Fridays.
The goal of this year’s conference is to provide the community with strategies to cope in these extreme times. “2020 has been very difficult for everyone,” says the library’s Manager of Teen Services Stephen Jackson. “This year’s conference is about ways people can support themselves and others, find balance, and find tools just to connect. Connection is something so many of us need right now.”
Each week, we’ll explore one of the four quadrants of the medicine wheel.
- Opening Ceremony: Friday, October 2, 6-8 pm
- Week 1: Mental (October 7 & 9)
- Week 2: Spiritual (October 14 & 16)
- Week 3: Emotional (October 21 & 23)
- Week 4: Physical (October 28)
- Closing Ceremony: Friday, October 30, 6-8 pm
We’ll be releasing more information, dates, and times in the coming weeks.
VIRTUAL: English Language Conversation
REGISTER IN ZOOM NOW. This virtual program comes to you via Zoom. After you register, you will receive a specific Zoom link to join the webinar
VIRTUAL: Shake, Rattle & Read
VIRTUAL: Spanish Conversation Hour / Conversación en español
REGISTER IN ZOOM NOW. After you register, you will receive a specific Zoom link to join in the event.
VIRTUAL: Writers' Word Feast
** VIRTUAL:Living History Project
The Living History Project (LHP) is an attempt at youth leadership development that seeks to provide a space to help cultivate social and critical thinking skills, develop research skills, and gain public speaking experience. A major component of this project is that its authentically youth led meaning that youth are given the opportunity to discuss issues pertinent to them and do further research as well as plan and organize community presentations. Facilitated by long time social justice and human rights activist Billy Brooks, LHP’s program structure is fairly informal and flexible, capable of adjusting to a variety of settings. It is within this informal conversationalist structure that Mr. Brooks is able to further instill necessary leadership skills ranging from foundations to effective communication to critical thinking and public speaking. In effect what the LHP is prepared to offer students is:
Knowledge of effective communication and social skills
Further development of critical thinking skills
Research skills
Experience with direct project management
Experience with public speaking
Self advocacy strategies You can register with this link.
VIRTUAL: 2020 Restorative Justice Conference The Medicine Wheel: Balancing Humanity-Mental
Please join us for Oak Park Public Library's third annual Restorative Justice Conference, held virtually on Wednesdays and Fridays throughout October. This year's theme is The Medicine Wheel: Balancing Humanity. Sign up now to receive email updates about the conference »
In week 1, we are highlighting the mental component of humanity. Week 1 focuses on strategies one can use to build stronger skills for your mental well-being.
REGISTER IN ZOOM NOW. After you register, you will receive a specific Zoom link to join in the event.
Jacquelyn Eadie is the Executive Director for Project Increase which was founded in 2015. Their mission is to destroy poverty through education and opportunity. Areas of focus are education, employment, business development, restorative justice & trauma. Project Increase takes these issues and examine their relationship to poverty, thereby identifying economic gaps in the community and filling them with economic solutions.
Jacqueline holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting information systems from Devry University and a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in Finance as well a Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Studies from the Keller Graduate School of Management and has worked in finance for over 10 years. She is employed with the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics where I oversee their Accounts Receivables. She partnered with Project Increase because of her need to take the knowledge that she acquired to help my neighborhood which was economically disadvantaged. Her goal is to empower voices in making key economic decisions that will improve their overall quality of life.
FEELREAL is an experiential social platform powered by a community of skilled and committed spaceholders. Our mission is to create inclusive and authentic experiences for people to come together to share stories & resources, to practice emotional wellness & mindfulness, and to build resilient & equitable communities. www.feelreal.net
VIRTUAL: Let's Make Music!
VIRTUAL: Detection By Daylight - Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich
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** VIRTUAL:Living History Project
The Living History Project (LHP) is an attempt at youth leadership development that seeks to provide a space to help cultivate social and critical thinking skills, develop research skills, and gain public speaking experience. A major component of this project is that its authentically youth led meaning that youth are given the opportunity to discuss issues pertinent to them and do further research as well as plan and organize community presentations. Facilitated by long time social justice and human rights activist Billy Brooks, LHP’s program structure is fairly informal and flexible, capable of adjusting to a variety of settings. It is within this informal conversationalist structure that Mr. Brooks is able to further instill necessary leadership skills ranging from foundations to effective communication to critical thinking and public speaking. In effect what the LHP is prepared to offer students is:
Knowledge of effective communication and social skills
Further development of critical thinking skills
Research skills
Experience with direct project management
Experience with public speaking
Self advocacy strategies You can register with this link.
VIRTUAL: Medicare Educational Seminar
VIRTUAL: 2020 Restorative Justice Conference The Medicine Wheel: Balancing Humanity-Mental
Please join us for Oak Park Public Library's third annual Restorative Justice Conference, held virtually on Wednesdays and Fridays throughout October. This year's theme is The Medicine Wheel: Balancing Humanity. Sign up now to receive email updates about the conference »
In week 1, we are highlighting the mental component of humanity. Week 1 focuses on strategies one can use to build stronger skills for your mental well-being.
REGISTER IN ZOOM NOW. After you register, you will receive a specific Zoom link to join in the event.
Zaire Brooks is a 19-year-old Sophomore at Triton College studying music technology and sound production. He is a recording artist who has been writing and releasing music since 2017. Since then he has participated in several performance events in cities such as Miami as well as Chicago downtown. Some of these events more specifically include the “Showcase Tour competition” hosted by “Open Stage Club” in Miami, and the “Emcee Olympics” that took place in Chicago. Zaire is a part of the social justice group held at the Oak Park public library titled “Living History” who were responsible for hosting the “Community Control of Police” zoom video conference most recently and has been working together with them since 2018. He has also served as a student mentor to spoken word students at OPRF. Zaire is a kind hearted, community focused, jovial individual looking to improve the quality of the lives around him and within communities. He sees is role as pushing forward the expansion of the definition of black excellence.
Cody Cotton is the Co-founder and Chief of Heart of A Greater Good Foundation. This organization was co-founded by a few young men to educate and serve diverse communities through unique service opportunities, mentor youth, and house young men in a residential extended learning community.
As they work towards their goal of building Chicago's first residential high school for high risk youth, Cody co-founded a holistic fitness company, Rapture Lifestyle. Throughout his mission, Cody aims to create safe spaces that not only allow people to build perspective, understanding, and community but to show up as their best selves.
Since then, Cody has excelled in his passion of philanthropy and education by advocating AGGF’s cause on platforms such as WGCI, NBC News, and TEDx. He is persistently focused on his mission of serving and educating globally.
Joshua Easter was born in Oak Park, IL and raised in Chicago and Proviso Township. Being around different communities made him want to improve neighborhoods that were less fortunate economically. He attended Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, NC where he majored in Sport Management. He also earned his Master’s Degree in Sports Administration from Northwestern University, while also working as a Teaching Assistant for children with Autism. He strives to create positive relationships and improve self-confidence through restorative practices, sports, recreation, personal development and mentorship.
VIRTUAL: Middle School Book Group (Grades 5-8): Stamped From the Beginning
Stamped offers a history of racist and anti-racist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi.
