Spring 2024
Spring Seed Swap
At the UIC Latino Cultural Center
What role do seeds play in advancing food sovereignty?
How does community gardening cultivate cultural diversity?
How does gardening heal a community?
Join the UIC Heritage Garden for the annual Spring Seed Swap! We invite gardeners, organizations, and community members interested in learning more about gardening, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Anyone can come to share knowledge, stories, and resources with others, and make new friends from around the city.
Admission is free! Masks are required. Participants do not need to bring seeds to attend.
Date: Saturday April 13th, 2024
Time: 12 pm - 2 pm
Location: UIC Latino Cultural Center, Lecture Center B2, 803 S Morgan Street
To RSVP scan the QR code or go to https://go.uic.edu/SeedSwap24
For access needs or questions, email heritagegarden.uic@gmail.com or call 312-996-3143. All audiences are welcome. Paid parking available. The space is wheelchair accessible.
Image description:
Yellow header with the title of the event in green letters. Text of the poster is in a white background. A circular image of a student's hands showing potted lemon balm and loose chives is on the top right corner. In the middle right is a QR code to RSVP to the event. In the lower left corner is a circular image of a student's hands holding aztec black corn seeds. The side and bottom is a dark green frame with “heritage garden.uic.edu” and “April 2024” written vertically in yellow letters.The logos of the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change, the UIC Latino Cultural Center and the UIC Heritage Garden are at the bottom.
Spring 2024
Flowers for You, Flowers for Our Liberation: Paper Flower Bouquets, Affirmation Zines and Collective Care Conversations
At the UIC Latino Cultural Center
“the moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others” -bell hooks
Join us for a drop-in open-studio where we will learn how to make paper flower bouquets from recycled and collage materials,* create love affirmation zines, and write self-love letters while drinking tea from the UIC Heritage Garden! Discuss collective care during local and global times of stress while building community through art-making!
Materials for card-making and social-justice themed valentines will be provided!
*Supplies will be provided.
This program is co-sponsored by UIC student organization: Sigma Chapter of Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority Inc.
For access needs or questions, email lcc@uic.edu or call 312-996-3095.
All audiences are welcome.
Contact Natalie Ayala | (312) 996-3095 | lcc@uic.edu
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This is a maroon flyer with flowers illustrations at the top right corner and middle. Orange and yellow header text that reads "Flowers for you, Flowers for our liberation" is at the top of the page. There's a green stripe in the middle and bottom of the page with information details on the event. At the bottom left corner is the ARTivism logo, UIC Honors College, UIC Rafael Cintron Ortiz Latino Cultural Center and UIC Heritage Garden logos.
Spring 2024
Volunteer Days
At the UIC Heritage Garden
Have you ever wanted to get involved with gardening at UIC?
Help us prepare for the summer!
Join us for some Spring hands-on gardening and learn how Heritage Garden interns are connecting horticulture with environmental sustainability, cultural diversity, and social justice. Activities will vary, but may include preparing seeds to give away and potting up plants and moving them to different sites. Be prepared to get your hands dirty, make new friends, learn new skills, and have fun!
Limited spots available! Take a free plant when you volunteer! Masks are required.
When
Friday, March 29th from 11 am - 1 pm
Wednesday, April 3rd from 11 am - 1pm
Where: Meet in front of UIC Latino Cultural Center, Lecture Center B2
To RSVP, scan the QR code or go to: go.uic.edu/HGVolunteerSpring24
For access needs or questions, contact us at (312) 996-3143 or heritagegarden.uic@gmail.com
These events will be mostly outdoors: tools, gloves, and all other gardening materials will be provided. All levels of gardening skills are welcomed.
Image description:
Yellow header with the title of the event in purple letters. Text of the poster is in a white background. A circular image of a students with a shovel standing in the raised bed and another kneeling at the base of the raised bed pouring soil with a trowel into a pot is on the top right corner. In the middle right is a QR code to RSVP to the event. In the lower left corner is a circular image of a monarch caterpillar in the middle of four milkweed leaves. The side and bottom is a dark purple frame with “heritage garden.uic.edu” and “Spring 2024” written vertically in yellow letters.The logos of the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change, the UIC Latino Cultural Center and the UIC Heritage Garden are at the bottom.