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Hear from North Lawndale residents about the positive impact more than 50 community gardens are making in their West Side neighborhood.

October 25, 2020
2:00 pm
FREE
Zoom Virtual Event (details to come)

This program will be hosted on Zoom. Approximately 3 hours before the start of the program, you will receive a link directly from Zoom with details about how to access and view it.

If you do not receive your link 2 hours prior to the start of the event, please contact tickets@architecture.org. Please note, if you do not contact us at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.

Discover the stories behind empty North Lawndale lots that have become beautiful havens for residents to share gardening skills and gather outdoors for peace circles, storytelling, art and music events and outdoor recess. This discussion will highlight nine of the more than 50 community gardens in the neighborhood and examine how they are steering North Lawndale toward a safer, more sustainable future.

Community members will share their experiences working in the gardens as well as the impact of the gardens on the North Lawndale community.

PROGRAM MODERATOR: ODILE COMPAGNON

Odile Compagnon is a licensed architect with a practice in Chicago and Paris, France, as well as a professorship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), in the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects. She has taught classes at SAIC’s North Lawndale campus, where her students have engaged in meaningful design collaborations with neighborhood organizations. As a design advisor to the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council (NLCCC)’s Greening Open Space, Water, Soil and Sustainability committee, Odile creates blueprints and drawings that speak about the community’s strong vision and intentional purpose.

NOTES:

• Ticket sales for CAC Live end three hours prior to the event.
• Events are Central Daylight Time

CLICK TO VIEW RESULTS

Check out the results of our Community Impact Survey! These results will change and so will our response to those expressed needs. If you have not filled out the survey, please fill it out and share with your fellow community members!

We are pleased to share with you the results of the first COVID-19 NLEN client survey, prepared by Director of Evaluation, Adam Levine.

Frontline employees and program directors wanted to better understand, challenge or confirm assumptions about the impact that program modifications have had on U-Turn Permitted job readiness program and READI, participants, as a result of COVID-19.

As we seek to expand the pathways in how to serve the most vulnerable in our community, we will utilize this survey and other feedback tools to further inform how we deliver programs and services today and tomorrow, after the pandemic. 

Here a few initial highlights:

73% said this was their first e-Learning experience

73% said they had all the necessary technology they needed

• Computers/laptop were the most in-need technology

About one-quarter prefer e-Learning (28) | nearly half prefer in-person (49%)

Aspects of e-Learning people like:

• Convenience | flexibility | accessibility | something new | reduced costs (transportation) | being at home | off the streets | freeing up time (transportation)

Aspects of e-Learning people don’t like:

• Human connection and interaction | Less individual focus | not being in the classroom | network

Connectivity issues | less depth of conversation | getting ‘up and going’ | privacy concerns

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