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2024 Holiday Benefit and Bazaar

Saturday, November 9
9:30 a.m. - 12 noon
Augustana Lutheran Church
5500 South Woodlawn Avenue

Help make this fundraiser a success:

Donate Gift Cards or Tickets - Contact Debbie Franczek (debbiefranczek1971@gmail.com) or Caroline Harney (harneyc@att.net)
Donate Jewelry for sale at the Silent Auction - Contact Susan van der Meulen (sjvandermeulen@yahoo.com)
Create a Basket to be sold by Silent Auction - Contact Peggy Garrett (edwpeggy@ameritech.net)
Crafters can consider donating creations to be sold at the Handmades Table - Contact Cheryl Miller (cammil@att.net)
Bakers can donate baked goods, jams, jellies or preserves - Contact Grace Dodier (gracemariedodier@gmail.com)
Help advertise - print and share or post our flyers:

All proceeds help support Chicago Commons, HP Kenwood Hunger Programs, HP Neighborhood Club, HP Refugee Project and Southside Center of Hope

Tree image from vecteezy.com

A Hyde Park Salute to the Remarkable Charles Newell

postponed due to illness of one of the speakers

Photo on the left is of Mr. Newell, courtesy of Joe Mazza
Photo on the right is of Mr. Larson, courtesy of Sarah Larson

Join us for opportunity to visit with each other, and talk about the November 9 Holiday Bazaar and Bake Sale. Be sure to bring any jewelry and/or handmade items you have to donate for the Bazaar.

Social Hour and Refreshments

Wednesday, October 30 at 1:30 p.m.
Augustana Lutheran Church

Program Meeting

A Hyde Park Salute to the Remarkable Charles Newell

Wednesday, October 30, 1:30 p.m.
Augustana Lutheran Church

Charles Newell, Senior Artistic Counsultant for Court Theatre, in conversation with Mark Larson, author of Ensemble

Photo on the left is of Mr. Newell, courtesy of Joe Mazza
Photo on the right is of Mr. Larson, courtesy of Sarah Larson

In an extraordinary career, Charles Newell led Court Theatre, the professional theater of the University of Chicago, as the Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director for thirty years; he is now the theater's Senior Artistic Consultant.

Mark Larson, author of Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater and Working in the 21st Century will lead a lively celebratory discussion of Mr. Newell's myriad accomplishments, particularly in audience development and Court's engagement with the local South Side community. With full recognition, Court Theatre was bestowed the 2022 Regional Theater Tony Award, which is given annually to a regional theater company in the United States.

A Q & A will follow their conversation.

Refreshments will be served following the discussion.
Free and open to the public.
REGISTER HERE (suggested but not required)

a picnic table with strawberries and bread

Special Program Meeting

Wednesday, October 9, 1:30 p.m.
Hosptitality Suite - 1700East 56th Street

RSVP Barbara Wagner, wagner36@sbcglobal.net

After a long career as a librarian and public historian, Dorothy Lazard turned her attention to her own family history, which is a rich story of migration, dependence, youthful curiosity, and self-determination. She will discuss her memoir, "What You Don't Know Will Make a Whole New World," and the influential role her older sister, Sarah Wright, played in her life as a reader, scholar and educator. The memoir, called by The Chicago Review of Books a "beautifully written memoir full of heart and soul," was published by Heyday Books in 2023.