The STLW organizing committee is excited to announce the release of Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire with the Chicago-based publisher BRIDGE Books. We will be hosting a book release in conjunction with the closing of the Transformative Threads exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center. Masks required and available on site.

Former participants of Sada will showcase video works reflecting on their practice as Iraqi artists, their work with Sada, and where they are today. Artists Ali Eyal and Bassim Al Shaker with co-organizer Aaron Hughes will lead a pre-screening discussion about SADA and the SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Unlikely Entanglements exhibition.

Join us for a guided tour of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Reckon and Reimagine led by Aaron Hughes with special guest artist Ali Eyal.

CANCELED - Sorry, due to unexpected circumstances, this program has been canceled.

Join Chicago Police Torture Archive managing editor Maira Khwaja and Surviving the Long Wars co-curators Ronak Kapadia and Aaron Hughes for an activation of Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh’s collaborative project the Index of the Disappeared, a physical archive of post-9/11 disappearances and a mobile platform for public dialogue.

Join us for a guided tour of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Reckon and Reimagine led by Aaron Hughes with special guest artist Dorothy Burge.

Join us for a tour and discussion with Surviving the Long Wars co-curator Aaron Hughes, Liberation Library co-founder Bettina Johnson, artist and researcher Nicole Marroquin, and Vietnam Veteran Against the War editor and member Barry Romo.

Visitors and friends are invited to join a conversation with Hyde Park Art Center Residency artists Noelle Garcia and Joseph Lefthand moderated by Mariela Acuna, HPAC Exhibitions and Residency Manager.

Join us for a guided tour of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Residues and Rebellions.

Join us for a guided tour of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Reckon and Reimagine led by Aaron Hughes.

Join us for a guided tour in Spanish of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Reckon and Reimagine led by UIC graduate students.

UIC graduate students will lead this group discussion.

Through the lens of the Veteran Art Movement, artists Monty Little and Aaron Hughes, both veterans, will unfold the ways in which Little’s work challenges the dominant histories of the US long wars and prompts all to consider their relationship to war and settler colonialism.

Join Ronak K. Kapadia (University of Illinois Chicago) and Aaron Hughes (emerging Veteran Art Movement), co-organizers/curators of the 2023 Veteran Art Triennial and Summit, as they discuss their project’s history and curatorial themes.

UIC graduate students will lead this group discussion.

Join us for a guided tour of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Reckon and Reimagine led by UIC graduate students.

Contribute to artist Sabba S. Elahi’s embroidery project to memorialize the names of civilians—women and children—who were killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan.