May Care Team Events
From May till September, CareTeam will be working with youth in Englewood and Bronzeville to produce vegetable and flower gardens. Regardless of your experience, if you’d like to help plant, prune, water, mulch, accidentally kill (and possibly resurrect) the various vegetables, flowers and trees we’re about to plant, please email us at careteam@mgrf.org. Each site has a different schedule: Until school’s out, our Englewood garden will meet on Sundays at 2:30pm, and our Bronzeville garden will meet on Saturdays at 10am. Want more details? Just email us.
If you like, be a Volunteer & Event Leader and lead other volunteers through the event. It’s easy schmeasy.
Saturday, May 5th
Urban Art Retreat Mural
Phase one of UAR mural and neighborhood beautification project: We’re surveying neighbors on what they’d like to see as the subject of the UAR mural in North Lawndale; inviting them to participate in painting the mural; and finding out what other beautification projects they’d like to start. After the surveys are taken, volunteers will have a chance to make some art of their own at the UAR studio. Artists and non-artists are welcome.
Urban Art Retreat
1957 S Spaulding Ave
11-1pm
Wednesday, May 9th
REST Men’s Shelter Trivia
After a one-man riot threatened to prematurely end our trivia game last time, the men of REST Shelter told us to soldier on and finish the game, which we did. Team Chi Town won again and promised trivia dominance forever. Will you come out? You’ll join a team and aid its members to victory.
REST Shelter
941 W Lawrence
8-9:30pm
Tuesday, May 15th
Dignity Diner Artwork
We must have produced 30-something pieces of work last time, and we only want more. Our upcoming summer art exhibit is themed, “This is Me. Who are You?” Come out and encourage the patrons to create works of self-expression using paint, clay, pencils, charcoal – anything they get their hands on. For this next session, we want patrons to use only their 3 most favorite colors in their work.
Holy Covenant United Methodist Church
925 W Diversey Ave
6:30-8:30pm
Saturday, May 19th
Rainbow Beach Cleanup (technically we’ll be at 79th)
After careful scientific sampling of Lake Michigan , our E. coli sample came up negative. We did, however, find a piece of luggage with underwear and a bathing suit. We also found a den of garter snakes. All this while doing a superb job of cleaning up the lakefront. We filled up 5 large garbage bins! Bring your Frisbee or volleyball, ok?
79th and Lake Michigan
10-1pm
Sunday, May 20th
Oral History on Lower Wacker, Part I
Ever see someone living on the street and wonder where your lives diverged? (At birth? At 12?) Ever wonder how they got there? We’re offering you the chance to sit down and talk with people from Chicago ’s large(ly) ignored population. We’ve asked some of the men and women who live on Lower Wacker Drive to sit down with us and share their stories. Someone from StoryCorps is helping to develop the questions, and she’ll train us from 10-11am. Later in the summer, we’ll display the stories at our art exhibit.
Initial meetup place: Starbuck’s @ 202 N Michigan Ave
10-1pm
Wednesday, May 23rd
Community Lenses
Some of Living Room Café’s guests live in the neighborhood and have taken us on walking tours. This time we’re taking cameras. Community mapping is a great way for us volunteers to understand where people are coming from (literally and figuratively) with visual cues to remind us. It also encourages us to collectively develop community improvement projects for the future . . . .
Living Room Café
806 E 64th St
4-6pm
Sunday, May 27th
Oral History on Lower Wacker, Part II
Reverse the roles: Now we get to be interviewed.
Initial meetup place: Starbucks @ 202 N Michigan Ave
11-1pm
*NOTE: If you need driving directions to any of these events, please try www.mapquest.com. For public transportation, try www.yourcta.com. If you need a ride, please let us know by selecting “Need Transportation” when you sign up.
From May till September, CareTeam will be working with youth in Englewood and Bronzeville to produce vegetable and flower gardens. Regardless of your experience, if you’d like to help plant, prune, water, mulch, accidentally kill (and possibly resurrect) the various vegetables, flowers and trees we’re about to plant, please email us at careteam@mgrf.org. Each site has a different schedule: Until school’s out, our Englewood garden will meet on Sundays at 2:30pm, and our Bronzeville garden will meet on Saturdays at 10am. Want more details? Just email us.
If you like, be a Volunteer & Event Leader and lead other volunteers through the event. It’s easy schmeasy.
Saturday, May 5th
Urban Art Retreat Mural
Phase one of UAR mural and neighborhood beautification project: We’re surveying neighbors on what they’d like to see as the subject of the UAR mural in North Lawndale; inviting them to participate in painting the mural; and finding out what other beautification projects they’d like to start. After the surveys are taken, volunteers will have a chance to make some art of their own at the UAR studio. Artists and non-artists are welcome.
Urban Art Retreat
1957 S Spaulding Ave
11-1pm
Wednesday, May 9th
REST Men’s Shelter Trivia
After a one-man riot threatened to prematurely end our trivia game last time, the men of REST Shelter told us to soldier on and finish the game, which we did. Team Chi Town won again and promised trivia dominance forever. Will you come out? You’ll join a team and aid its members to victory.
REST Shelter
941 W Lawrence
8-9:30pm
Tuesday, May 15th
Dignity Diner Artwork
We must have produced 30-something pieces of work last time, and we only want more. Our upcoming summer art exhibit is themed, “This is Me. Who are You?” Come out and encourage the patrons to create works of self-expression using paint, clay, pencils, charcoal – anything they get their hands on. For this next session, we want patrons to use only their 3 most favorite colors in their work.
Holy Covenant United Methodist Church
925 W Diversey Ave
6:30-8:30pm
Saturday, May 19th
Rainbow Beach Cleanup (technically we’ll be at 79th)
After careful scientific sampling of Lake Michigan , our E. coli sample came up negative. We did, however, find a piece of luggage with underwear and a bathing suit. We also found a den of garter snakes. All this while doing a superb job of cleaning up the lakefront. We filled up 5 large garbage bins! Bring your Frisbee or volleyball, ok?
79th and Lake Michigan
10-1pm
Sunday, May 20th
Oral History on Lower Wacker, Part I
Ever see someone living on the street and wonder where your lives diverged? (At birth? At 12?) Ever wonder how they got there? We’re offering you the chance to sit down and talk with people from Chicago ’s large(ly) ignored population. We’ve asked some of the men and women who live on Lower Wacker Drive to sit down with us and share their stories. Someone from StoryCorps is helping to develop the questions, and she’ll train us from 10-11am. Later in the summer, we’ll display the stories at our art exhibit.
Initial meetup place: Starbuck’s @ 202 N Michigan Ave
10-1pm
Wednesday, May 23rd
Community Lenses
Some of Living Room Café’s guests live in the neighborhood and have taken us on walking tours. This time we’re taking cameras. Community mapping is a great way for us volunteers to understand where people are coming from (literally and figuratively) with visual cues to remind us. It also encourages us to collectively develop community improvement projects for the future . . . .
Living Room Café
806 E 64th St
4-6pm
Sunday, May 27th
Oral History on Lower Wacker, Part II
Reverse the roles: Now we get to be interviewed.
Initial meetup place: Starbucks @ 202 N Michigan Ave
11-1pm
*NOTE: If you need driving directions to any of these events, please try www.mapquest.com. For public transportation, try www.yourcta.com. If you need a ride, please let us know by selecting “Need Transportation” when you sign up.
