Two Unique Opportunities from Chicago Sister Cities International

Parker’s friends at Chicago Sisters Cities International informed the school about a unique opportunity. Two artists from Morocco, Mohamed Fariji and Eugénie Forno, will visit Chicago next week and hold a lecture and book launch, as well as a special workshop.

According to CSCI, “Mohamed is the co-founder of L’Atelier de L’Observatoire, an arts organization that develops community-based projects designed to preserve the artifacts and memories of ordinary people. His work documents—and experiments with—an alternative history, offering a counternarrative to official accounts. He collaborates with artists, researchers, activists and citizens to recover and record, via a range of creative means, things, spaces and memories that are undervalued and that might otherwise be lost. This will be his first visit to the U.S. He’s been invited to present a workshop at an international museum conference in NYC, and is taking advantage of this opportunity to come to his sister city Chicago.”

A presentation and book launch of his new Le Musée Collectif takes place on Thursday, October 12 at 6 p.m. at the John David Mooney Foundation. Click here for details.

On Saturday, October 14 at 3 p.m., there is a workshop at the Sukkah Design Festival about collecting and displaying stories, objects and memories. Click here for details.