OUR Mic: Music, Memory, and Mourning
Sun, Dec 14
|Groom Culture Barbershop
Radical counter-memory, storytelling, and flowing for your ancestors.
Time & Location
Dec 14, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
Groom Culture Barbershop, 112 E University Ave, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Guests
About the event
Immerse yourself in our exclusive event with a captivating guest speaker and talented artist. Experience the magic of creativity in a unique local setting.
Guest Speaker: Asif Wilson's
Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D., research broadly focuses on justice-centered pedagogies in P-20 educational contexts and has been featured in peer-reviewed publications like the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, the Journal of Educational Foundations, and Rethinking Schools.
More specifically, Asif’s scholarship studies the historical and contemporary forces that shape justice-centered pedagogies, how teachers engage in, and conceptualize, justice-centered pedagogies, and how students experience justice-centered educational spaces. Wilson is a three-time alumnus from the University of Illinois Chicago, completing his bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education, master’s degree in Educational Studies, and doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction. He is actively involved in education organizing in Chicago and nationally with several groups.
Tickets
General Admission
$10.00
+$0.25 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00