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Banned Books Jam Session

7/29/2015

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Friday, October 2nd (4:30-6:00 p.m.)

Powell's Books
1218 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL  60607

phone: (312)243-9070


You are invited to come to a Banned Books Jam Session at Powell’s Books that happens during Banned Books Week. Local writers, musicians and artists working in visual art and music celebrate Banned Books Week at Powell’s Books in this jam session during which passages from banned books and literary works inspired by banned books will be performed. Free and open to the public.

From the America Library Association website: “Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.”


This Banned Books Jam Session is part of the Tenth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. Chicago Calling is a multi-arts collaboration festival; during the Seventh Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival people in Chicago work with people outside of Chicago -- both here in the U.S. and abroad. These collaborations include a range of art forms, such as music, dance, film, literature, and intermedia -- and they are prepared or improvised. Some Chicago Calling events involve live feeds between Chicago and other locations.
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Our Next Workshop: Henry Jacobs

7/21/2015

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Monday, July 27
(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 Henry Jacobs --
  • We will talk about Jacobs' career, including his connection to Chicago;
  • We'll watch and listen to examples of Jacobs' work, including his collaborations with Lenny Bruce and Bob McClay, and we will talk about other people who are linked to and/or inspired by Jacobs; and
  • Workshop participants will have opportunities to create music and writings inspired Henry Jacobs.
Bring your musical instruments, art supplies and notebooks. 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 summer 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.
Links:
  • Arts Workshop Inspired by Ken Nordine and Howard Levy (2015)
  • Arts Workshop Inspired by Viola Spolin, Paul Sills, Elaine May, Mike Nichols & Del Close (2014)
  • “The Fine Art of Goofing Around” (Artful Topics)
  • "Henry Jacobs Animation Screening!" by Ben Pritchard (The Quietus, 8/30/2012)
  • "Henry Jacobs: An interview" by Meredith Holmgren (Smithsonian Folkways Magazine)
  • "Henry Jacobs' Last Tape" by Jose Fritz (Arcane Radio Trivia)
  • “Henry Jacobs' 'Wide Weird World'" by Joel Rose (NPR, 8/23/2005)
  • "My KPFA: An Historical Footnote" (KPFA History)
  • "One Man Goofing: A visit with legendary Zen humorist Henry Jacobs" by Joel Rose (Arthur Magazine)
  • Radio Programme, No. 1: Henry Jacobs' “Music and Folklore” (Smithsonian Folkways)
  • “Vortex” by Adi Newton
  • The Wide Weird World of Henry Jacobs (Important Records)


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Our Next Workshop: Chico Freeman, Matana Roberts and Steve Coleman

7/12/2015

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Monday, July 20
(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 Chico Freeman, Matana Roberts and Steve Coleman--
  • We will talk about the careers of Freeman, Roberts and Coleman, including their connections to Chicago;
  • We'll listen to examples of their music and discuss examples of people and organizations that are linked to and/or inspired by those three artists; and
  • Workshop participants will have opportunities to create music and writings inspired by Freeman, Roberts and Coleman.
Bring your musical instruments, art supplies and notebooks. 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 summer 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.
Links:
  • AACM New York: Chico Freeman
  • "The Chico Freeman Project: Out of Many Comes the One" -- album review by David Whiteis (JazzTimes)
  • "Jazz reviews: Chico Freeman lights up Englewood Jazz Festival" by Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune, 9/21/2014)
  • "George and Chico Freeman Keep Chicago Jazz Family Tradition Alive On 'All In The Family'"  by Rob Maynard (WCLK)
  • "Listen: Matana Roberts' Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile album" (WIRE, 9/2013)
  • Matana Roberts
  • "Matana Roberts: ‘I feel sorry for George Zimmerman’" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas (The Guardian, 1/19/2015)
  • "Matana Roberts on 'Panoramic Soundquilting,' Living on a Boat and Exploring the South" by Robert Ham (Paste, 2/13/2015)
  • Steve Coleman
  • Steve Coleman (MacArthur Foundation)
  • "Steve Coleman, a Jazz Outlier, Rides a Wave of Acclaim" by Nate Chinen (The New York Times, 4/29/2015)
  • "The Sweet Science: Floyd Mayweather and Improvised Modalities of Rhythm" by Steve Coleman



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Our Next Arts Workshop -- Cornelia Clapp, Joel Greenberg and Liam Heneghan

7/5/2015

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Monday, July 13
(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 Cornelia Clapp, Joel Greenberg and Liam Heneghan --
  • We will talk about the careers of Cornelia Clapp, Joel Greenberg and Liam Heneghan, including their connections to Chicago;
  • We'll discuss examples of people and organizations that are linked to and/or inspired by Clapp, Greenberg and Heneghan; and
  • Workshop participants will have opportunities to create music and writings inspired by Clapp, Greenberg and Heneghan.
Bring your musical instruments, art supplies and notebooks. 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 summer 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.
Links:
  • 10 Things Wrong with Environmental Thinking
  • Center for Humans and Nature
  • Chicago Wildsounds
  • Chicago Phonography
  • Cornelia Clapp (Marine Biological Laboratory)
  • Cornelia Clapp (Project Gutenberg)
  • "DePaul museum show 'Rooted in Soil' looks at role earth plays in life, death" by Lynette Kalsnes (WBEZ, 1/29/2015)
  • "Dirt takes center stage at DePaul Art Museum" by Lori Waxman (Chicago Tribune, 3/4/2015)
  • Educating for Sustainability Lecture Series -- Liam Heneghan (New York University)
  • Female Scientist of the Day: Cornelia Clapp (adafruit)
  • "Into the wild: DePaul students delve into nature with Chicago Wildsounds" by Megan Daley (The DePaulia, 11/14/2014)
  • Joel Greenberg's Natural History
  • Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
  • "Sound of science: DePaul phonographers tune in to city noise" by Bryce Gray (Medill Reports Chicago, 3/19/2015)
  • Talking with Extinct & Endangered Species (10/6/2014)
  • World Listening Day 2015: H2O
  • World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
  • World Listening Project



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