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Chicago West Community Music Center

News

West Siders enjoy narratives and live music at storytelling event

By Nick Samuel | June 6, 2013

Last Friday, local residents shared stories they created. Other stories will be shared at a similar event June 7.

Community

Witness a night of transformation

By AustinTalks | May 31, 2013

Chicago West Community Music Center and 2nd Story present “Breaking Through” May 31 and June 7.

Community

Stories and music at Inspiration Kitchen

By AustinTalks | February 21, 2013

Enjoy two nights of free live music and story telling in Garfield Park Feb. 22 and March 15.

News

Monday Brazilian night at the Garfield Park Conservatory

By Ellyn Fortino | July 27, 2012

The 6 p.m. July 30 free event will feature performers from the Chicago West Community Music Center’s cultural exchange program.

Community

West Siders travel to Brazil for cultural exchange

By AustinTalks | April 19, 2012

Chicago West Community Music Center teachers and students participated in a series of musical performances and art projects with Santo Andre residents of low-income housing complexes.

Community

Westside Instructional String and Harp students charm guests at holiday event

By AustinTalks | December 16, 2011

The musicians, ages 4 to 16, played violin, cello and guitar at The Foundation for Homan Square staff party Dec. 8.

News

Move Me Soul appears at the Chicago Theater

By Jennifer T. Lacey | March 30, 2011

The dance troupe comprised of students from the Austin high school campus as well as others from the West Side took part in the March 23 show. See what you missed.

Community

West Side music center shines in Chicago

By Devin Katayama | March 10, 2011

Musicians from the Chicago West Community Music Center performed earlier this month at a downtown hotel.

Community

Local group partners with Berklee College of Music

By AustinTalks | December 23, 2010

The Chicago West Community Music Center held auditions for Boston-based Berklee last week and will hold them again in mid-February.

Community

Free concert tonight at Garfield Park Fieldhouse

By AustinTalks | August 3, 2010

Don’t miss Chicago West Community Music Center students performing.

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News

  • Expungement, record sealing event helps West Siders get jobs after leaving prison

    Austin resident Anthony Jefferson has been working over the past six years to expunge his criminal record. With help from the Monroe Foundation, he's moving toward the clean slate he wants to achieve to secure employment.

  • Get free groceries, other help from these Austin groups

    On a recent Thursday, volunteers from What About Us Charitable Enterprises spent the morning filling dozens of grocery bags with fresh food and staples that soon filled the arms of West Side residents in need. Dorin “Pastor Mac” McIntyre, executive director and co-founder of What About Us Charitable Enterprises and pastor of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, is one of many helping Austin residents struggling with food insecurity.

  • 29th Ward residents invited to holiday events on Tuesday

  • 29th Ward residents invited to propose how to spend $450,000

    Austin residents are invited to participate in this year's participatory budgeting cycle. The annual process lets ward residents ages 14 and up decide how to spend a portion of the aldermanic menu money.

  • Forty Acres Fresh Market marks important moment this week in bringing store to Austin

    Austin moves one step closer this week to getting a new grocery store with the groundbreaking of Forty Acres Fresh Market in the heart of the Soul City Corridor. Another effort to expand food offerings on the West Side continues with the Austin Community Food Co-op, which held a virtual info session last week on its efforts to bring a grocery store to the area.

  • Healing in nature workshop set for Saturday

    The Westside Cultural Alliance continues its "See, Feel and Heal" nature series Saturday at Garfield Park Nature Area, 100 N. Central Park with a workshop on making memory boxes. The workshop sessions focus on art and nature as vehicles of healing through art therapy, which provides wholistic healing for the body, mind and spirit.

  • Illinois residents can apply for help with paying gas, electric bills

    Applications are now open for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for qualified residential customers who are over the age of 60, have a disability or have children under the age of 6 to receive financial assistance to pay their energy bills. LIHEAP is a federally funded bill payment assistance program that helps low- and fixed-income families pay their utility during the winter heating season.

  • West Siders turn out for chili cook off in Austin’s Soul City

    Over a dozen local chefs competed in the second annual "It’s Getting Chili in Soul City" event on Saturday. A team of five who make up the Austin African American Business Networking Association board – Malcolm Crawford, Shirley Fields, Sharmine Rickett, Ronald Smith and Marshawn Felton – created the chili contest last year.

  • Chicago Marathon runner raises money for West Side girls

    Over the last 20 years, Ashley Graham has run 56 marathons - including the Chicago Marathon five times. Several of those marathons she raised money for charity - and this year was no different.

  • Stop by Austin farmers market this week

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