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Our Messy Archives: 2003 (in progress) | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008

CALENDAR
Exhibitions, screenings, lectures, workshops, & more

FAQs
What is Mess Hall? and other frequently asked questions

MAPPING MESS HALL

A social-network and shared resources map of MH

A LOVE LETTER TO CHICAGO

WHAT IS MESS HALL?
Dan S. Wang gives this question some thought

CAN EXPERIMENTAL CULTURAL CENTERS REPLACE MFA PROGRAMS?

Rogers Park Resources:

Stockyard Institute / Artslab

NeighborFoodFest

Forum 49
A free public bulletin board for Chicago's 49th Ward

RogersPark.com

WLUW
WLUW is a progressive, community-oriented radio station...

Beyond Media
Beyondmedia Education's mission is to collaborate with under-served and under-represented women...


Morse Hell Hole

I Love Morse Ave

Save Senn High School

Lifeline Theatre


Red Door Animal Shelter

Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society

Housing Opportunities for Women

Special links: Love Letter to Chicago in AREA | Metal Fest on Ausgang.com | In the Field's Mess Hall flier | Open Source / Open Ear images

Mess Hall runs on the generosity of those who use it. This allows us to provide everything for free - from food and drinks to workshops and events. Please bring things to share with others.

Workshops - It is important to us to share knowledge and build up a culture of participation, access, and empowerment rather than of competition, intellectual property, and proprietary information.

Printed material - we have a library of publications from all over the world that are available for visitors' perusal.

Mess Hall is a place for visual culture, creative urbanism, sustainable ecology, food democracy, radical politics, and cultural experimentation. We are networked with other intiatives like ours in Chicago, the U.S. and abroad.

It's a messy Chicago:
Area | Chicago Indymedia | Resource Center | ACLU IL | Just Seeds | FuckCorporateGroceries.net | Center for Neihgborhood Technology | Illinois Stewardship Alliance | T.H.O.N.G. | GeneWise | Chicago Critical Mass | Friends of the Bloomindale Trail | Quimby's | Working Bikes Coop | People Powered | Artistical | The Baffler | In These Times | Pilot TV | Ausgang | Forever Free and Clear | Chicago FreeCycle | Heartland Alliance | DSLR | Video Data Bank | Texas Ballroom | Video Machete | Locus | Polvo | Archeworks | Lucky Pierre | Illinois NORML | Save the Point | Newtopia | Sound Opinions | Chicago School of Media Theory | Hyde Park Co-op | Asian American Artists Collective | Lao Szechuen | Deadtech | Deb Stratman/Pythagoras Films | Simparch | The Heartland Alliance | This is Hell | Intermod Series | Seminary Co-op | Version Fest | Fareed Haque | Gapers Block | BikeCartInfoShop | Ready Subjects | Universtiy of Hip Hop | Feel Tank | In The Weather | Chicago Free-Fi | Microrevolt | Habitat Project | Queer to the Left | Congress Hotel Strike | Little Village Environmental Justice | Blackstone Bicycle Works | Blues In The Schools | Chicago Wilderness | Campaign for Better Transit | Citizens Taking Action | Open-Loop | Starbucks Delocator |
Visible Food | Nomy Lamm | Cake and Polka Blog | Kuumba Lynx | Three Walls | View From the Ground | Young Womens Empowerment Project | WNUR | Free Walking | Public Collectors

Other messes:
Anna Callahan | Critical Art Ensemble Defense Fund | Boing Boing | Walking in Place | Autonomedia | Journal of Aesthetics and Protest | IWW | Families Against Mandatory Minimums | End Zero Tolerance | Black Panther Party for Self Defense | Anarchist People of Color | Situationists | Informed Comment on the Middle East | Blog Left | Iraq Body Count | Media Channel | Liberty Movies/Kyle Harris | Bureau D'Etudes | Aljazeera in English | China Study Group | 16 Beaver Group | CLUI | Tactical Museum Tokyo | Arts Initiative Tokyo | Dreamtime Village | Center for the Study of Political Graphics | Nettime | Repohistory | Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection | Fifth Estate | We Make Money Not Art | Tree Hugger | Dynamite | 3rd Floor | California Prison Focus | c cred | Bug Me Not | Altruists | Visual Resistance | World Changing | Center for the Study of the Gift Economy | Copyshop | Rum46 | Swopnetwork | Mute Magazine

Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
'Morse' stop on the Redline
Email: messhall8(at)yahoo.com
Tel: 773-465-4033

Keyholders: Salem Collo-Julin, Marc Fischer, and Brett Bloom (Temporary Services); Marianne Fairbanks & Jane Palmer (JAM); Mike Wolf (Network of Casual Art); Erik Newman (www.hhuman.com), Diana Berek (The Chicago Labor and Arts Festival), Claire Pentecost (www.clairepentecost.org), Britt Shawver (Housing Opportunities for Women) and Natasha Wheat.

Keyholders-at-large:
Ava Bromberg (In the Field) in Los Angeles, and Dan S. Wang in Chicago.