Arts & Culture
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Achy Obejas presents her “Ruins”
“Achy Obejas writes like an angel: flush with power, vision and hope … one of the Caribbean’s most important writers.” Junot Diaz, author of Drown, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Achy Obejas, author of “We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?” and “Memory Mambo” (stories of…
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New (Hip-Hop) America at the MCA
Coming this Saturday, a conversation about how hip-hop is influencing media and culture on every level, and whether that’s always a good thing… New America: Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Jeff Chang in conversation Saturday, February 28, 2009, 2 pm MCA Theater $10, $8 members, $6 students $6 with performance ticket for the break/s – the break/s…
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Mask Madness
One good reason to keep LPs around: they work really well as masks.
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Stage Black at MPAACT
Stage Black, MPAACT 2009 Written by Lydia R. Diamond Directed by Mignon McPherson Nance In Stage Black a well-respected but under-produced African-American playwright, attempts to write the “perfect producible black play”. As the writer attempts to script the black play that falls within the comfort zones of white and black audiences, her subconscious leaps to…
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Little Black Pearl presents: Portraits Carved in Black
I am a big fan of the starkness of Linoleum printmaking, and it’s exciting to see such an exhibition in the Bronzeville community… from Little Black Pearl: Portraits in Print- Larry Winston Collins Exhibition Saturday, February 28, 2009 “Portraits in Prints” Linoleum-Block Prints Exhibition by Larry Winston Collins sponsored by Citibank Saturday, February 28th Saturday,…
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Killer of Sheep: Cult Movie of the Week
“Killer of Sheep caught the lives of the children with a fidelity to how kids really do fight, play, and cry — and how they can sometimes be cruel simply because they’re so scared.” — ROGER EBERT “If Killer of Sheep were an Italian film from 1953, we would have every scene memorized.” — MICHAEL…
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We the People (Who are Darker than Blue)
Curtis Mayfield performing “We the People” and “Gimme Your Love”, plus archival tape of folks vibin’ in various Chicago parks back-in-the-day. From the classic film “Save the Children” (1972). The film chronicled PUSH Expo ’72 (at the International Amphitheatre** in Chicago), touted as the biggest gathering of black business in history. When black power was…
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Immodest Proposals Wanted
This came to me from the good people at Lumpen, an Arts magazine based in Bridgeport. They want to get folks involved in their Alternate Arts Festival (and the deadline in fast approaching). Sky’s the limit on the level of creativity you can express here….. VERSION>09 IMMODEST PROPOSALS April 23 – MAY 2, 2009 Chicago,…
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