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    Squiggle Build

    A creative workshop for all ages

    • National Public Housing Museum, 919 S. Ada Street, Chicago, IL 60607

    • Free
    • Register

    Pick up a pool noodle, find a connector, and start creating alongside your friends, families, and complete strangers!

    Play, dream, and collaborate to transform familiar materials into imaginative landscapes during this free workshop led by ¡Anímate! Studio.

    Throughout the event, help create (and re-create!) a one-of-a-kind experimental creation! Together we can build new spaces and imagine new possibilities.

    Register for the workshop

    FREE, open to all.

    Can’t make it? Join us for another Squiggle Build at Taylor Street Farms on August 10.

    About the artists

    ¡Anímate! Studio is a Chicago-based arts collaborative led by Andrés Lemus-Spont and Marya Spont-Lemus.rnrnTrue to our name, our projects embody our shared values of community, mentorship, possibility, and openness to experimentation, as well as encourage movement toward action. In our workshops, we guide intergenerational groups of participants in re-imagining and re-making existing objects and structures through open-ended, play-based experimentation in public space.

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    Upcoming events

    Museum visitors look at a midcentury high school letterman sweater

    Teacher Preview and Reception

    Teachers are invited to discover how the National Public Housing Museum can support classrooms through K-12 field trips and tours.

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    Squiggle Build

    Pick up a pool noodle, find a connector, and start creating during this free and fun workshop at Taylor Street Farms.

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    Banner graphic with the text Community Conversations, A Place in the World over a blue background

    Where I’m From: Poetry Writing Workshop

    Join the National Public Housing Museum for a poetry writing workshop led by creative writing instructor, poet, healer, and former Hilliard Homes resident, Toni Asante Lightfoot. 

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