Celebrating Kwanzaa!
Today begins the seven-day, pan-African festival of Kwanzaa. During this cultural holiday from December 26 through January 1, millions of people of African descent come together to celebrate family, community, culture and the bonds that tie them together as a people. Each night, families light one of seven candles on a Kinara symbolizing the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Although Kwanzaa has only been around for a few decades, its roots trace back to ancient African harvest celebrations. The name "Kwanzaa" comes from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya kwanza" which means "first fruits." Learn more about the history, context, traditions, and significance of Kwanzaa:
| CHPV Holiday Closures & Cancelations | There's still time this year to make a change!
Please make a gift to CHPV today.
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Chicago Hyde Park Village actively fosters vibrant healthy aging for the community’s older adults. We are determined to grow our services, enriching the lives of older adults, families, and the community at large.
Now your gift can mean TWICE AS MUCH during our $10,000 Challenge Grant! Any donation up to $1,000 received by December 31 will be matched dollar for dollar by CHPV’s Board Challengers.
With many thanks,
Lucas Livingston, Executive Director | Announcing a New StrongerMemory Class!
Are you interested in small interventions that yield large outcomes?
Join CHPV's new StrongerMemory class!
The 12-week StrongerMemory program can improve your memory with just 20-30 minutes of simple activities (reading, writing and math) each day! This innovative program is easy to follow with the workbook provided to you.
Meets weekly on Mondays, 1:15-1:45pm Central Time
Registration required
January 9, 16, 23, 30
February 6, 13, 20, 27
March 6, 13, 20, 27
| | Conversation: The Healing Power of Art
Join CHPV Executive Director Lucas Livingston & artist and art therapist Eric Dean Spruth for a conversation about how art can combat loneliness.
Wednesday, December 28
6–7 pm Central
Free
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 North Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60610
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HYDE PARK BOOK CLUB EVENT | | Monday, January 16
7:30pm via Zoom
Who is the City For?: Architecture, Equity and the Public Realm in Chicago
with Pulitzer Prize winning author Blair Kamin & acclaimed photographer Lee Bey
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Author Blair Kamin, a past Pulitzer Prize winner for Criticism, and acclaimed photographer Lee Bey will discuss their new book – Who is the City For? Architecture, Equity and the Public Realm in Chicago. Together, they paint a revealing portrait of Chicago that reaches beyond its glamorous downtown and dramatic buildings by renowned architects like Jeanne Gang to its culturally diverse neighborhoods, including modest structures associated with storied figures from the city’s Black history, such as Emmett Till.
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Chicago Hyde Park Village is proud to sponsor the Chicago Women's Mayoral Forum 2023
By Chicago Women Take Action
| Saturday, January 14
2–4pm Central
Chicago Temple Building
77 West Washington
Reserve your in-person ticket now or watch live on CANTV, YouTube, and Facebook. Limited seating! Advanced registration is required for in-person tickets:
Join Chicago Women Take Action Alliance (35 women’s organizations) for the 2023 Chicago Mayoral Forum. Moderated by Carol Marin and Cheryl Corley. Get your questions answered before you go to the polls.
Chicagoans want to know where the Chicago mayoral candidates stand on issues important to women – including reproductive rights, public safety, affordable housing, clean air and water, equity in the workplace and our paychecks, healthcare, education and more.
Chicago is our city and we care deeply about it. Together we must make sure that our women's agenda is every candidate's agenda.
Masks strongly recommended. If you are experiencing Covid-19, flu, or cold symptoms or are not feeling well, please refrain from participating in CHPV in-person activities.
| The collaboration of the Center for Life and Learning at Fourth Presbyterian Church and Skyline Village Chicago invite you:
Mayoral Forum on Aging
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
12:00-1:30 PM
Buchanan Chapel in the Gratz Center
123 East Chestnut
Free, registration required
Register Now!
Center for Life and Learning is Fourth Presbyterian Church’s learning community for older adults. Skyline Village Chicago is a virtual community of older adults centered in the Near Northside.
Over 600,000 Chicagoans in a population of 2.9 million are 55 and older. Society has a tendency to structure itself based on an assumption that everyone is young, thereby failing to respond appropriately to the real needs of older persons. This bias is called ageism.
Ageism operates alongside other systems of inequity and oppression—racism, classism, genderism, and ableism. Aging equity requires justice across all areas of people’s lives—housing, education, healthcare, public transportation and social connectors.
We look to the Chicago mayor to dismantle ageist tendencies in all departments of city government, to commit to an innovative and forward-thinking approach to ensure that older Chicagoans are able to thrive in their neighborhoods and communities as they age.
Meet the candidates and hear their views in this important discussion.
For further information contact Regan Burke, Skyline Village Chicago at regan.burke@gmail.com or Heather Groh, Center for Life & Learning at hgroh@fourthchurch.org. | New Year's Eve Luminarias
Nichols Park baseball field between Kenwood, Kimbark, 53rd, & 55th
Saturday, December 31
4–6pm
Singalong 4:30pm
Families, friends & neighbors come & stop by! Sing songs and make wishes and luminarias for the New Year. Luminarias are paper lanterns made with tea candles in paper bags with sand at the bottom. All materials are provided. You provide the inspiration! This year the luminarias will be placed in a large, community-created spiral radiating out our wishes into the New Year.
This free, family-friendly community event is brought to you by the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club's Early Childhood Program and the Nichols Park Advisory Council.
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