Earth Day Fundraiser for Chippewa Bad River Tribe

https://www.facebook.com/events/295935363889972/?ref=51&source=1

This is a fundraiser to support the Chippewa Bad River Tribe in protecting the Penokee Hills of Northern Wisconsin from a dangerous iron ore mine that will wreak havoc and destruction on a protected natural area.

More info on the mine can be found here:
http://wisconsin.sierraclub.org/Penokeemine.asp

The fundraiser will be held on Earth Day, April 22, at the HumanThread Gallery in the Bridgeport Art Center:
1200 W. 35th Street 5th floor, Chicago, Illinois 60609

Starts at 6PM!

Music, Puppets, and More!
6:00-6:30 - Welcome to the HumanThread Gallery
6:30-7:15 - Water is Life! Puppet Show (with Emerald Dragonfly, Wood Turtle and Whooping Crane)
7:15-8:00 - Micki Croisant (of Railway Records)
8:15-9:00 - Thistle Thorns (Original Radical Folk Music from Madison, Wisconsin): https://www.facebook.com/ThistleFolkSinger
9:00-9:30 - Short Presentation on the proposed mine and its impact, by Carl Sack, of the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, and Cherie Pero, of the Bad River Tribe.
9:30-10:15 - Max Lockwood (of Big Dudee Roo)
10:15-11:00 - PozLyrix (Rap/DJ Set from a member of the Bad River Tribe)

$20 Suggested Donation
Free Parking

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Please use the Racine Street Entrance for this event to get into the building, and take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Please come out and show your support for the Bad River Tribe!

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Also on display will be art from the HumanThread Gallery's April 2014 "Finite Growth" exhibit:

From riots in Gezi Park to oil spills in Lake Michigan, the consequence of interactions between the Earth’s and human systems have never been more palpable. Do current events provide evidence of a trajectory towards overshoot and collapse? Or will social and environmental movements on both the local and global scale result in a stabilized world? The artists in Finite Growth explore the implications of human interaction with the natural world, defining both physical and psychological limitations.

Including work by: Alex Borgen, Hale Ekinci, Laura Elayne Miller, Maggie Puckett