Spring Potluck & Potawatomi Presentation
UU Society of Geneva
Spring Potluck and Potawatomi Presentation
On Friday, March 21, beginning at 5:45 p.m., the Social Justice team will host a Spring Potluck in the Common Room. The event is open to all in the congregation. Everyone should bring a dish to share. The Social Justice team will provide the drinks. Please sign up at uusg.org/spring-potluck and indicate whether you will bring a hot or cold dish, or a dessert.
Following the potluck at 7:15pm, the Social Justice Team will sponsor a presentation by Sharon Hoogstraten. She is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. A photographer, animator, and graphic designer, Sharon Hoogstraten is best known for her portraits of Potawatomi Indians in regalia and for her Emmy award-winning animated openings for television news programs. She received a BS in Professional Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago where she taught Graphic Communication at UIC as an Adj. Assoc. Professor. A graphic designer for WLS-TV in Chicago, she received an Emmy award for an animated editorial open in 1983. Moving to WTTW-TV, the Chicago PBS station, she received an Emmy for two animations in 1985—a wire-frame computer animation of the city, and a sunrise to sunset 360 degree time-lapse of the Chicago skyline. Sharon will talk about the process of a decade of her photography work which resulted in her book Dancing with Our Tribe. She will explain the importance of the Potawatomi heritage in Illinois and what the future of native tribes in our area means to our community.
We hope you’ll join us.