Events
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Field Recording for Five-Year-Olds…Tonight!
The Chicago Children’s Museum is welcoming a new permanent sound installation. The interactive sculpture, by Jesse Seay, showcases the favorite sounds of Chicago, as submitted by both children and adults. If you or someone you know has a sound-minded-type kid, join the celebration: Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009 Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm Location: Chicago Children’s…
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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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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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The Equalizer is Coming…
Chicago-based Shala’s music is afro-punk/hip-hop/electro/freshness. For the uninitiated, here’s links to some samplings: get-yur-Shala.-here and here coming soon: Equalizer presents Shala. at Darkroom Time and Place Start Time: Friday, February 27, 2009 at 9:00pm End Time: Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 2:00am Location: Darkroom Street: 2210 W. Chicago Ave. City/Town: Chicago, IL
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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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The Break/s: a mixtape for the stage
the break/s: a mixtape for the stage Marc Bamuthi Joseph March 26th thru March 28th at the Museum of Contemporary Art I am really looking forward to this. NOTE: If you haven’t read Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation by Jeff Chang…..do. from the MCA website: “Poet and performer Marc…
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