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Borderbend's Programming in August

7/31/2014

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Friday, August 1st (6:00-8:30 p.m.): "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" Session at Mozart Park -- about the Dill Pickle Club
Friday, August 8th (6:00-8:30 p.m.): "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" Session at Mozart Park -- about Studs Terkel
Friday, August 15th (6:00-8:30 p.m.): "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" Session at Mozart Park -- about Marc Smith and the Poetry Slam
Friday, August 22nd (6:00-8:30 p.m.): "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" Session at Mozart Park -- Our Culminating Summer Session 
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Our Next Arts Workshop: The Dill Pickle Club

7/31/2014

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Friday, August 1st (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 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 "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop, when we focus on the Dill Pickle Club. The Dill Pickle Club (which was also known as the Dil Pickle Club other similar iterations) was a legendary establishment founded by Jack Jones one hundred years ago. During this workshop we will:
  • Explore documents about The Dill Pickle Club -- including poster images and writings by people who were associated with the club (including Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, William Carlos Williams, Emma Goldman, Kenneth Rexroth and Upton Sinclair).  
  • Create artwork and write poetry inspired by the Dill Pickle Club. 

These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. We often use an upright piano during workshops as well. 

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 Heroes & Arts Journeys: You can register for this workshop series 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 Heroes & Arts Journeys workshop series. 


Links: 
  • "5 questions for the new 'Pickles'" by Courtney Crowder (Chicago Tribune, 12/17/2010)
  • AREA Chicago
  • "Brains Brilliancy Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago"
  • A Brief History of the Dill Pickle Club (Newberry Library)
  • Clarence Darrow (PBS' American Experience)
  • "The Dil Pickle Club: 1914-1933" poster by Marc Moscato/Dean Rank (Justseeds Artists' Cooperative)
  • Dil Pickle Press
  • Dill Pickle Food Co-Op
  • "Embracing The Quirkiness Of Djuna Barnes" (NPR)
  • Emma Goldman (PBS' American Experience)
  • FBI case file about the Dill Pickle Club (Toby Higbie's Bughouse Square blog)
  • Inventory of the Dill Pickle Club Records (Newberry Library)
  • “Jack Jones—The Pickler.” by Sherwood Anderson (Chicago Daily News, 6/18/1919)
  • Vachel Lindsay (The Poetry Foundation)
  • The Lucy Parsons Center
  • "Lute Music" by Kenneth Rexroth (The Writer's Almanac)
  • Mess Hall
  • "The Migration of the hipster: A Chicago history: 1898-present" by Aimee Levitt (Chicago Reader, 10/2/2013)
  • Carl Sandburg
  • Kenneth Rexroth (The American Academy of Poets)
  • A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht (University of Chicago Press)
  • "Welcome to the Jungle. Does Upton Sinclair's famous novel hold up?" By Karen Olsson (Slate)


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Harriet Monroe-Inspired Workshop on July 25th

7/23/2014

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Friday, July 25th (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 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 "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop, when we focus on the life and legacy of Harriet Monroe. During this workshop we will:
  • Talk about aspects of Monroe's biography; 
  • Read selections of writings by Monroe; 
  • Read poems by great poets with whom she worked; 
  • Write poetry inspired by Harriet Monroe and her legacy. 
  • More info TBA. 
These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. We often use an upright piano during workshops as well. 

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 Heroes & Arts Journeys: You can register for this workshop series 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 Heroes & Arts Journeys workshop series. 
Links:
  • "At 100, poem 'Chicago' still fierce, fresh" by Steve Johnson (Chicago Tribune)
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (Poetry, March 1914)
  • Harriet Monroe Biography (poetryfoundation.org)
  • Harriet Monroe Poetry Collection (The University of Chicago Library)
  • "Letter by Letter" by Richard Mertens (University of Chicago Magazine)
  • "A Lover" by Amy Lowell (Poetry, March 1917) 
  • "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot (Poetry, June 1915)
  • Poetry Foundation
  • Poetry Magazine
  • "Review of A Poet's Life by Harriet Monroe" by William Carlos Williams (The New Republic, 4/27/1938)
  • Carl Sandburg
  • Valeria and Other Poems by Harriet Monroe (A.C. McClurg & Company, 1893)
  • "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks (Poetry, September 1959)
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Our Workshop on July 18th: The AACM

7/13/2014

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Friday, July 18th (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 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 "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop, when focus on the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). During this workshop we will: 
  • Listen to music created by the AACM and its members; &
  • Collaboratively create music using a variety of instruments. 

July 18th is World Listening Day. It's a nice serendipity that this workshop, which focuses on listening and creating inventive music, happens on WLD. Check out the World Listening Project website for more info about World Listening Day! 

These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. We often use an upright piano during workshops as well. 


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 Heroes & Arts Journeys: You can register for this workshop series 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 Heroes & Arts Journeys workshop series.
 
Links: 
  • 8 Bold Souls
  • Muhal Richard Abrams
  • Fred Anderson
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago
  • Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)
  • Renée Baker
  • Mwata Bowden
  • Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton by Graham Lock (Duke University Press)
  • Anthony Braxton Discography (restructures.net) 
  • Ari Brown
  • Kelan Phil Cohran
  • Ernest Dawkins
  • Dusty Groove
  • Douglas R. Ewart
  • Forces in Motion: Anthony Braxton and the Meta-reality of Creative Music: Interviews and Tour Notes, England 1985 by Graham Lock
  • Henry Threadgill (Pi Recordings)
  • Henry Threadgill's Zooid performs “All The Way Light Touch” (Roulette TV)
  • “I Dreamed of Other Worlds”: An Interview with Nicole Mitchell by Ellen Waterman, University of Guelph
  • Joseph Jarman Interview by Jason Gross (Perfect Sound Forever)
  • Jason Moran on Muhal Richard Abrams
  • Jazz Institute of Chicago
  • Jazz Record Mart
  • Josh Sinton on Ed Wilkerson, Jr. — A Gentleman from Chicago (destination-out.org)
  • George Lewis
  • Nicole Mitchell
  • NEA Jazz Masters: Interview with Muhal Richard Abrams
  • A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George Lewis (University of Chicago Press)
  • Roscoe Mitchell
  • Reckless Records
  • "The Sixties, Chicago, and the AACM" by Sam Ottenhoff
  • Sun Ra
  • The Tri-Centric Foundation
  • TUNTUI performs "Narrow Road, Suite 2" at PianoForte (4/9/2010)
  • Ann Ward
  • Edward Wilkerson, Jr. 
  • Saalik Ziyad

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Borderbend Programs in July 

7/10/2014

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Friday, July 11 (6:00-8:30 p.m.): "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" Session at Mozart Park -- about Chicago Blues artists Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy & Etta James
Friday, July 18 (6:00-8:30 p.m.): "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" Session at Mozart Park -- about the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
Friday, July 25 (6:00-8:30 p.m.): "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" Session at Mozart Park -- about Marianne Moore
Sunday, July 27: Mingus Awareness Project concert at The Camel (Richmond, VA)
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Our Next Arts Workshop: Chicago Blues Legends

7/7/2014

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Friday, July 11th (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 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 "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop, when we celebrate the lives and legacies of these Blues legends -- Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy and Etta James: 
  • We listen to and talk about music by those four artists;   
  • We play several songs recorded by those artists; 
  • We create contour poems, blues renga and pattern poetry inspired by Chicago Blues artists. 

Borderbend is among the organizations that is presenting programming during the upcoming Armitage Arts Festival, on September 6th. Festival programming happens at four venues along Armitage Ave., including Rosa's Lounge -- which is one of Chicago's great blues venues. So the focus of our next workshop is a nice way to pay homage to the Blues, one of America's original art forms, in anticipation of the festival that will be happening in this neighborhood in less than two months! 

Note: There are so many great Blues artists who are associated with Chicago (besides the four listed abovbe), including Big Bill Broonzy, Paul Butterfield, Bo Diddley, Lightning Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, Pinetop Perkins, Sugar Blue, Melvin Taylor, Junior Wells and many others. We will have more workshops that focus on other Chicago Blues artists in the future, for sure.  

These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. The fieldhouse has an upright piano that we have used during workshops as well. 

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 Heroes & Arts Journeys: You can register for this workshop series 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 Heroes & Arts Journeys workshop series. 
Links:
  • "13 Cartoon Portraits of Legendary Blues Artists" (Mother Jones)
  • Alligator Records 
  • Armitage Arts Festival
  • The Blues Foundation
  • Buddy Guy (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
  • Buddy Guy interview on Sound Opinions (1/5/2007)
  • Buddy Guy & Jimi Hendrix -- jam session
  • "Buddy Guy: A Man and His Blues" by Alan Di Perna (Guitar World Magazine)
  • "Buddy Guy Sets the Record Straight With New Book" by Greg Prato (4/25/2012 issue of Rolling Stone)
  • Buddy Guy's Legends
  • Buddy Guy's website
  • Cadillac Records (2008)
  • Chess Records feature (Sound Opinions #440)
  • Chicago Blues Festival
  • Delmark Records
  • Encore: Koko Taylor On Mountain Stage (NPR)
  • Etta James interviewed by Sue Simmons on Live At Five (1995)
  • "Hound Dog" performed by Big Mama Thornton, with Buddy Guy
  • "How the blues brothers behind Chess Records made all the right moves" by Elijah Wald (11/5/2010 edition of The Guardian)
  • I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story by Willie Dixon with Don Snowden -- book review by Chris Goodrich (11/21/1990 edition of The Los Angeles Times)
  • "I'd Rather Go Blind" performed by Etta James (Montreaux, 1975)
  • "Illustrator William Stout's Legends of the Blues - exclusive excerpt" by Mark Frauenfelder (Boing Boing)
  • Interview with Robert Gordon, author of Can't Be Statisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters (Fresh Air, 11/28/2008)
  • Koko Taylor Remembrance (Chicago Blues Guide)
  • The Last Waltz (bobmargolin.com)
  • "The Living Legends of Blues" with Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, B.B. King, James Cotton, John Lee Hooker & Blind John Davis (1978)
  • Mississippi Blues Trail
  • "Pop Music’s Dreamgirl Awakens Her Earthy Side" by Alan Light (The New York Times, 11/14/2008)
  • "Queen of the Blues: Koko Taylor Talks About Her Subjects" by James Plath (Clockwatch Review)
  • Rosa's Lounge
  • Save Muddy Waters' House
  • "Ten Years Ago" -- Buddy Guy & Junior Wells (Live at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, 1974)
  • When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy and David Ritz -- book review by Arlene R. Weiss (Guitar International, 9/11/2012)
  • Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation
  • Windy City Blues Society
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Mingus Awarenss Project Concert at The Camel

7/7/2014

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Mark your calendars! The next Mingus Awareness Project concert happens soon --

Sunday, July 27th (7 p.m.)

The Camel
1621 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA  23220

$7 donation

Details TBA. Check back soon for more details! 
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Armitage Arts Festival Updates

7/7/2014

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Plans for the upcoming Armitage Arts Festival (September 6th) are coming together! We've been having meetings over the past several months, and we've got great programming lined up for the fest -- performances, workshops, mini-parades, and other activities at the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, Rosa's Lounge, Mozart Park and Weegee's Lounge. 

Click here to find out about the Armitage Arts Festival! 
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