Chadbourne plans events to teach about Park Street

Park Street, the primary Madison thoroughfare running from the front steps of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus to the Beltline in south Madison, connects the many diverse residential and commercial neighborhoods in the area.

Chadbourne Residential College (CRC) at UW–Madison will hold a series of events and conversations titled “‘CRSee’ Park Street-South Madison: Connecting Stories, Connecting People,” running Feb. 16-28.

The ‘CRSee’ Park Street/South Madison series is intended to foster mutual learning about the richness of the people and communities along Park Street in a series of engaging presentations by those who live and work there.

All events are open to the public and, unless otherwise noted, take place in the Chadbourne Main Lounge, Chadbourne Hall, 420 N. Park St.

More information is available about Park Street neighborhoods as well as a full listing of Chadbourne events.

Planned events include:

• Wednesday, Feb. 16
  • 7:30-8:30 p.m., “Democratic Communities: Conversation and Action,” presented by Judy Adrian, south Madison educator; Betty Banks, founder of Wisconsin Free Press and director of the Early Childhood Family Enhancement and Resource Center; and Carol Lobes, co-director of the Center for Democratic Action and an organizer of the People’s Legislature.
• Thursday, Feb. 17
  • 7-8:30 p.m., “Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America,” by Mindy Fullilove, author and professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at the New York Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University.
• Friday, Feb. 18
  • 8:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m., “The Spirit of Greenbush,” a bus tour with Greenbush residents, Randall School fourth-graders, CRC college students, Fullilove and Margaret Nellis, lecturer in the UW–Madison School of Human Ecology and manager of academic partnerships at University Health Services.
• Monday, Feb. 21
  • 4:30-5:30 p.m., “Hope in the Dark: Place, Environment, Politics and Change,” by Rebecca Solnit, award-winning author, art critic, curator and activist.
  • 7-8 p.m., “The Odyssey Project: A Moveable Classroom,” by project director Emily Auerbach, professor of English at UW–Madison and co-host of Wisconsin Public Radio’s “University of the Air.”
• Tuesday, Feb. 22
  • 4:30-5:30 p.m., “Riffs on Park Street: Music, Campus and Community,” by Richard Davis, professor of bass, jazz history and combo improvisation at UW–Madison and founder of the Madison chapter of Institutes for the Healing of Racism Inc.
  • 5:30-7 p.m., “Treasures of the Elvehjem” at the Elvehjem Art Museum with Leotha Stanley, musical director at Mount Zion Baptist Church and special assistant to the chancellor for community relations.
• Wednesday, Feb. 23
  • 7-8 p.m., “Life on Park Street: Stories of the Community,” by Sadie Pearson, a community activist, and Robert Pierce, an organic farmer and manager of the south Madison Farmer’s Market.
• Thursday, Feb. 24
  • 7:30-9 p.m., “South Side Gathering Places,” presented by Jean Nielson, facilitator of the South Metropolitan Planning Council; Jodi Wortsman, volunteer coordinator for the South Metropolitan Planning Council; and Margaret Nellis, a lecturer in the UW–Madison School of Human Ecology and manager of academic partnerships at University Health Services.
• Monday, Feb. 28
  • 4:30-5:30 p.m., “South Madison: Visions of the Past, Present and Future,” presented by Percy Brown, executive director of Madison’s Community Development Authority, deacon at Mount Zion Baptist Church and planner for the Community and Economic Development Unit of the City of Madison.