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Borderbend's On the Table Event

4/28/2015

Borderbend is happy to be participating in the Chicago Community Trust's On the Table celebration! Jillian and Jon are hosting this On the Table get-together at their home on May 12th, and we're looking forward to the conversation about the arts and culture in Chicago. We intend for our conversation to focus on these issues -- philanthropy, community arts, public spaces, artist wages, neighborhood festivals, and the Chicago Cultural Plan.

From onthetable.com: "Inside each of us is the inherent drive to make an impact and leave a legacy.

"Every day, people are making 'good' happen. We call them philanthropists. Commitments – both great and small – made every day to strengthen communities and improve the lives of others are the essence of philanthropy.

"As a kickoff to The Chicago Community Trust’s Centennial, On the Table 2015 begins a yearlong campaign to celebrate everyday philanthropists – people like you, committed to doing great things to improve our community."

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Our Next Arts Workshop: Elizabeth Catlett, Archibald Motley and Charles Wilbert White

4/27/2015

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Monday, May 4th
(6:00-7:00, 7:15-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647

all ages, free & open to the public

You're invited to come to our next workshop, which is inspired by Elizabeth Catlett, Archibald Motley and Charles Wilbert White. We will:

Talk about their work, including their connections to Chicago;
Make music and create text-and-image collages inspired by work by Catlett, Motley and White.

Bring your musical instruments, your poetry, your art supplies! These workshops are interactive and multidisciplinary. We have supplies and equipment on hand that workshop participants can use -- including pencils, pens, paint, a piano, other musical instruments.

Location: Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. Our workshop series happens in the room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.

Transportation & parking: Mozart Park can be reached by public transportation (such as the #73 Armitage Ave. bus, and not far from the Logan Square and Western Ave. stations on the CTA's blue line. Mozart Park has a parking lot on Armitage, east of Avers.

Registering for Chicago Portraits & Arts Journeys: Click here or here to register for the spring term at the Chicago Park District website.

Additional info: You can contact us by clicking here (if you have questions about this workshop or to RSVP). Click here to find out more about the Chicago Portraits & Arts Journeys workshop series.

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Armitage Arts: Summer Edition at Mozart Park

4/25/2015

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Wednesday, June 24th (6:30-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647

free and open to the public

The Borderbend Arts Collective presents “Armitage Arts: Summer Edition,” a Night Out in the Parks event at Mozart Park that includes an interdisciplinary performance with poetry, music and projections, as well as interactive arts-making activities for all ages. The poets include Janina Ciezadlo, Steven Schroeder, Elizabeth Marino, Charlie Newman and Wayne Allen Jones, and the musicians include Adam Zanolini (flute, saxophone, djembe, electric bass), Angel Elmore (piano, clarinet), Dan Godston (cornet, pixiphone) and Lou Ciccotelli (drums).

“Armitage Arts: Summer Edition” is part of an ongoing series that is part of a community-building initiative along W. Armitage Ave; other “Armitage Arts” programs have included the 2014 Armitage Arts Festival, as well as events at the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center and Rosa’s Lounge.

This program is presented as part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks with the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Arts programming in neighborhoods across the city advances the goals of the Chicago Park District and the Chicago Cultural Plan.

Funding for this program is also being provided by Poets & Writers. Support for Readings & Workshops events in Chicago is provided by an endowment established with generous contributions from the Poets & Writers Board of Directors and others. Additional support comes from the Friends of Poets & Writers.

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Our Roundtable Conversation During Printers Ball 2015: Push and Pull

4/17/2015

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Saturday, June 27th

Printers Ball 2015: Push and Pull
1821 W. Hubbard St.
Chicago, IL 60622

We're happy to be facilitating "Intersections Between the Arts, Politics & Community Building in Chicago," a roundtable conversation that happens during Printers Ball 2015: Push and Pull.

This roundtable conversation will focus on several key people and organizations throughout Chicago history whose work exists in the intersections of the arts, politics and community building. This conversation will include discussion of people and organizations such as the The Dill Pickle Club, Charles H. Kerr Company, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, Margaret Burroughs, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Carlos Cortez. Participants will be invited to offer suggestions regarding how some of the visionary innovations created by some of those important organizations and individuals can provide inspiration for what we can work on in Chicago in the future. The roundtable facilitators will include Penelope Rosemont, Adam Zanolini, Janina Ciezadlo, Toby Altman, Jennifer Karmin and Dan Godston.

From printersball.com: "Printers Ball, presented by Spudnik Press Cooperative, is an annual festival celebrating print and highlighting presses, publications, projects, designers and artists that utilize printing in unique ways. Featuring the best in contemporary print, artmaking, and the written word, Printers Ball brings together artists, community organizations, publishers, students, creative thinkers and lovers of the arts from Chicago and beyond to convene for conversations, community art projects, hands-on printmaking demonstrations, readings, music, and conviviality."

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Spudnik Press

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Our Next Workshop: Ken Nordine and Howard Levy

4/12/2015

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Monday, April 20th
(6:00-7:00, 7:15-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647

all ages, free & open to the public

You're invited to come to our next workshop, which is inspired by Ken Nordine and Howard Levy. We will:

Talk about their work, including their connections to Chicago;
Make music and create text-and-image collages inspired by work by Nordine and Levy.

Bring your musical instruments, your poetry, your art supplies! These workshops are interactive and multidisciplinary. We have supplies and equipment on hand that workshop participants can use -- including pencils, pens, paint, a piano, other musical instruments.

Location: Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. Our workshop series happens in the room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.

Transportation & parking: Mozart Park can be reached by public transportation (such as the #73 Armitage Ave. bus, and not far from the Logan Square and Western Ave. stations on the CTA's blue line. Mozart Park has a parking lot on Armitage, east of Avers.

Registering for Chicago Portraits & Arts Journeys: Click here or here to register for the spring term at the Chicago Park District website.

Additional info: You can contact us by clicking here (if you have questions about this workshop or to RSVP). Click here to find out more about the Chicago Portraits & Arts Journeys workshop series.

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"Will Ken Nordine Ever Grow Up?" by Adam Langer (The Chicago Reader, 7/12/1990)

Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein (Henry Jacobs MP3s on WFMU's Beware of the Blog)

"'Word Jazz' pioneer Ken Nordine's career gets a closer look at film festival" by Christopher Borrelli (Chicago Tribune, 10/9/2012)

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Chicago Kaleidoscopes

4/7/2015

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Borderbend is excited to be offering two sections of "Chicago Kaleidoscopes," a creative writing After School Matters class this summer. If you're a teenager, or if you have a teenager in your life, we'd like to invite you or a teenager you know to take this class!

Class Description: “Chicago Kaleidoscopes” looks at key aspects of Chicago’s identity via creative writing. Apprentices in the “Chicago Kaleidoscopes” program look through Chicago-centric lenses of writing, music, visual art, sports, history and the sciences as they critically think about the world they live in; then they combine their critical observations of those source materials with their creativity through poetry, short fiction, and other literary genres (prose poetry, etc.). Apprentices learn key marketable skills such as listening to their peers, writing clearly, communicating persuasively, and sharing and receiving feedback on their work, while learning more about how their personal identities resonate with aspects of Chicago’s identity.

Dates: July 6-August 13

Location: Mozart Park (2039 N. Avers Ave., in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood)

Class Registration: Click here to register for the class on the After School Matters website. You can search for the class by typing "kaleidoscopes" in the keyword search window.

Additional Info: Please email Borderbend or call us at (312)380-9223 to find out more about "Chicago Kaleidoscopes."

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Borderbend's On the Table Event

Our Next Arts Workshop: Elizabeth Catlett, Archibald Motley and Charles Wilbert White

Armitage Arts: Summer Edition at Mozart Park

Our Roundtable Conversation During Printers Ball 2015: Push and Pull

Our Next Workshop: Ken Nordine and Howard Levy

Chicago Kaleidoscopes

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