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Our Next Arts Workshop: Marcos Raya and Hector Duarte

9/21/2015

 
Monday, October 5
(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 Marcos Raya and Hector Duarte --
  • We will look at and talk about the work of Raya and Duarte, with a focus on their connections to Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood;
  • We'll talk about other people who are linked to and/or inspired by them; and
  • Workshop participants will create art inspired by Raya and Duarte.
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 fall 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 Carlos Cortez (Mozart Park, 2014) http://www.borderbend.org/blog/carlos-cortez
arts workshop inspired by the Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists (Mozart Park, 2015): http://www.borderbend.org/blog/june-20th
Chicago Calling: Move/Remove/ /Place/Replace (High Concept Labs, 10/10/2015): http://highconceptlaboratories.org/event/chicago-calling-move-remove-place-displace/?instance_id=21784
Marcos Raya: http://www.marcosraya.com
National Museum of Mexican Art: http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org
Yollacalli: http://yollocalli.org

Chicago Calling: Move/Remove/ /Place/Displace

9/17/2015

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Saturday, October 10 (4-9 p.m.)

High Concept Labs
Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S. Throop St.
Chicago, IL  60608

$5 suggested donation, all ages

You’re invited to come to Chicago Calling: Move/Remove//Place/Displace, which explores themes such as migration, immigration, and gentrification—in Pilsen, across Chicago, and with resonances around the world. Pilsen, like other Chicago neighborhoods, is a neighborhood that’s constantly in transition. Some of those changes can be seen and felt quickly, whereas other changes manifest themselves slowly over years and generations. How can we witness the changes happening around us and actively participate in processes that relate to movement and placement—in meaningful ways? How can artists and activists create dynamic work that explores these themes? CC: MRPD explores these themes.

The program includes:
  • artist talk by Shir Ende
  • "Backhoes and Palmyra," a presentation by Janina Ciezadlo
  • artwork by Chicago Public School students -- created in response to a mural by Marcos Raya, facilitated by Arturo Barrera
  • screening of Broadway Corners by Orin Buck
  • music and poetry performance with Joe Vajarsky (tenor saxophone), Kenyatta Rogers (poetry), Roger Carroll (tenor saxophone, piano), Matthew Feingold (upright bass, piano) and Dan Godston (cornet, percussion)
  • Immigration, Gentrification, Arts and Activism -- panel discussion with Tony Diaz, Amanda Gutierrez and Lupe Mendez
  • Out of the map: a collective itinerary of displacements --  Amanda Gutierrez in collaboration with Film Front
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Out of the map: a collective itinerary of displacements is a critical itinerary in collaboration with Film Front, which utilizes a group walk as a reflective tool—revising the role of community centers that have been closed, displaced, or played historically important roles in the development of the Pilsen neighborhood. The walk is meant to be a collective process of memory, inviting three collaborators with their own historical narrative, who have studied or participated in the featured organizations and cultural centers.

The walk features Casa Aztlan, Thalia Hall (highlighting its role with the Bohemian community), and Yollocalli Arts Reach. The walk will finish at Film Front -- including a short screening of a documentary about gentrification and post-screening discussion.

Thanks to today's presenters and performers; Rachel Ellison and Steven Wang from High Concept Labs for helping with this event; Peter Weathers from HCL for helping with the marketing; Film Front and HCL for partnering with Borderbend on this event; and Deon Morrissette and Erik Summerville for assisting with the event.
CC: MRPD happens during the Tenth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. Chicago Calling is a multi-arts collaboration festival; during the Tenth 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.

The 2015 Chicago Calling Arts Festival is part of the 20th Annual Chicago Artists Month, which highlights the work of hundreds of artists throughout Chicago with performances, exhibitions, open studios, tours and neighborhood art walks. The 20th annual Chicago Artists Month (CAM) celebrates the City as Studio: from October 1 – November 15, 2015. Join this community-contributed showcase of Chicago's artists and creatives and experience art in the parks, dance in the neighborhoods, installations in the alley, and concerts on the front porch. CAM is presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in collaboration with the Chicago Park District and numerous community partners. CAM is presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in collaboration with the Chicago Park District and numerous community partners.
Chicago Calling is presented by the Borderbend Arts Collective. Borderbend presents boundary-pushing arts programming by connecting artists with communities to create year-round musical, literary and multi-arts programs involving new and unique arts practices. Our programs include site-specific events; arts education programs; collaborations among local, regional, and international artists and organizations; and work presented on web-based platforms -- all with the goal of building community. 

Annual Borderbend programs include the Chicago Calling Arts Festival and Mingus Awareness Project. Borderbend partners with other organizations to enrich and extend the reach of its programs which have involved artists, organizations, and communities from the U.S. and beyond.
Links:
  • Amanda Gutierrez
  • “Casa Aztlan, a beacon of hope” by Peter Alter (Chicago History Museum)
  • Chicago Artists Month 
  • Chicago Calling Arts Festival
  • High Concept Labs
  • Janina Ciezadlo
  • MRPD call for artists (5/7/2015)
  • “The Outlaw Artist of 18th Street” by Jeff Huebner (Chicago Reader)
  • Shir Ende / MRPD multidisciplinary installation
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Our Next Arts Workshop at Mozart Park: Pullman Porters

9/16/2015

 
Monday, September 28
(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 the Pullman Porters. We will find out more about the Pullman Porters, and talk about this Saturday's soundwalk and performance at the Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site. Then we will create art inspired by the Pullman Porters. 

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 fall 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:
  • A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
  • "At Seattle Rep, a play about the Pullman Porters" by Florangela Davila (KPLU, 10/1/2012) 
  • Black in Time: A Moment in Our History -- A. Philip Randolph & the Pullman Porters by Hubert Gaddy
  • "Cheryl West on ‘Pullman Porter Blues’" (WGN)
  • Chicago Calling
  • Early Chicago: Pullman Porters (WTTW)
  • "Mural marks 1st public art initiative for Pullman monument" by Tony Briscoe (Chicago Tribune, 7/2/2015)
  • "Oldest living Pullman porter looks back" by Ann M. Simmons (Los Angeles Times, 7/5/2010)
  • “Positioning Pullman: Collaborative Ideas Workshop for America’s Newest National Monument” (National Parks Conservation Association)
  • "A Proud Preservation: The Pullman Porters Role in Creating Chicago’s First National Park" by Viva Yeboah (Outdoor Afro Chicago)
  • Pullman National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
  • "Pullman Porter" by Robert Service (Poetry Foundation)
  • "'Pullman Porter Blues' Travels Back In Time" (NPR)
  • Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925 – 1945 by Beth Tompkins Bates
  • "Pullman Porters Helped Build Black Middle Class" (NPR, 5/7/2009)
  • Pullman State Historic Site
  • The Pullman Strike -- Chicago, 1894 (Kansasheritage.org)  
  • Rising from the Rails by Larry Tye
  • Soundwalk and Performance at the Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site (Oct. 3, 2015)

Soundwalk and Performance at Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site

9/15/2015

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Saturday, October 3 (10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.)

Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site
11057 S. Cottage Grove Ave.
Chicago, IL  60628

free and open to the public

You're invited to come to a program at Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site that includes a soundwalk and performance. This program, which happens during the Tenth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival and Chicago Artists Month, is co-presented by Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site, Outdoor Afro, Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and Borderbend Arts Collective.

“A soundwalk is any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment. It is exposing our ears to every sound around us no matter where we are.” — Hildegard Westerkamp (Soundwalking)

Program:
  • We will meet in front of the historic Pullman factory clock tower, with introductory talks by Linda Beierle Bullen, Curator at the Pullman State Historic Site; Susan Bennett, Park Ranger at the Pullman National Monument; and Yolanda Bradley-Crocker, from Outdoor Afro.
  • The soundwalk will happen outside the historic Pullman administration building, along a route whose soundscape will include sounds of nature and the built environment. Click here to download the soundwalk map.
  • Following the soundwalk will be a performance that includes Chicago Phonography and readings of texts that pertain to this site and the Pullman Porters. The readers include Camille Ann Brewer, Toni Asante Lightfoot and Yolanda Bradley-Crocker, and the texts include Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye; "FDR, A. Philip Randolph, and the Desegregation of the Defense Industries"; and A. Philip Randolph's speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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This program at Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site happens during the Tenth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. Chicago Calling is a multi-arts collaboration festival; during the Tenth 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.
The 2015 Chicago Calling Arts Festival is part of the 20th Annual Chicago Artists Month, which highlights the work of hundreds of artists throughout Chicago with performances, exhibitions, open studios, tours and neighborhood art walks. The 20th annual Chicago Artists Month (CAM) celebrates the City as Studio: from October 1 – November 15, 2015. Join this community-contributed showcase of Chicago's artists and creatives and experience art in the parks, dance in the neighborhoods, installations in the alley, and concerts on the front porch. CAM is presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in collaboration with the Chicago Park District and numerous community partners.
Links:
  • arts workshop inspired by the Pullman Porters (Mozart Park, 9/28/2015)
  • A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
  • Chicago Artists Month
  • Chicago Calling
  • Chicago Phonography
  • Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
  • Morning Edition conversation with Eric Leonardson (audio pending, WBEZ)
  • "Obama Makes Chicago’s Pullman District a National Monument" by Jenn Stanley (Next City, 2/16/2015)
  • Outdoor Afro
  • Outdoor Afro Chicago (meetup group)
  • "A Proud Preservation: The Pullman Porters Role in Creating Chicago’s First National Park" by Viva Yeboah (Outdoor Afro Chicago)
  • Pullman National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
  • Pullman State Historic Site
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Banned Books Jam Session

9/14/2015

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Friday, October 2nd (5:00-6:30 p.m.)

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

free, open to the public
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 during which passages from banned books and literary works inspired by banned books will be performed. Participants include Whitney Scott, Elizabeth Harper, Vittorio Carli, Janina Ciezadlo, Carolyn Curtis Magri, Bob Rashkow, and special guests. Texts to be read and used as inspiration during the creative writing activity include Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston.

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.
The 2015 Chicago Calling Arts Festival is part of the 20th Annual Chicago Artists Month, which highlights the work of hundreds of artists throughout Chicago with performances, exhibitions, open studios, tours and neighborhood art walks. The 20th annual Chicago Artists Month (CAM) celebrates the City as Studio: from October 1 – November 15, 2015. Join this community-contributed showcase of Chicago's artists and creatives and experience art in the parks, dance in the neighborhoods, installations in the alley, and concerts on the front porch. CAM is presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in collaboration with the Chicago Park District and numerous community partners.
Links:
  • Banned Books Week
  • Chicago Artists Month
  • Chicago Calling
  • I Refuse To Not Read This Book (Chicago Calling 2013 event)
  • Intergenerational Banned Books Week Performance Event (Chicago Calling 2014)
  • Librotraficante en Pilsen (Chicago Calling 2013)
  • My Favorite Banned Books Abecedarian Read-Out (Chicago Calling 2010 event)

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Our Next Workshop: Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim

9/13/2015

 
Monday, September 21
(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 Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim--
  • We will talk about the careers of Wilie Dixon and Memphis Slim, including their connections to Chicago;
  • We'll listen to examples of those artists' works, and we will talk about other people who are linked to and/or inspired by them; and
  • Workshop participants will have opportunities to create music and writings inspired by Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim.
 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 fall 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 Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie and Howlin’ Wolf (Mozart Park, 2015)
  • arts workshop inspired by Jimmy Yancey and Albert Ammons (Mozart Park, 2015)
  • arts workshop inspired by Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy and Etta James (Mozart Park, 2014)
  • “Blues in Many Colors” (University of Arkansas)
  • “Chicago Blues Festival to honor Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon” by Miriam Di Nunzio (Chicago Sun-Times, 2/2/2015)
  • "How Black Poets Challenged Literary Conventions" by Howard Rambsy II (Cultural Front, 7/29/2011)
  • "Illustrator William Stout Draws 100 Blues Legends : Slideshow" (Soundcheck from WNYC, 5/24/2013)
  • Memphis Slim and the Real Boogie-Woogie (Smithsonian Folkways, 1959)
  • Memphis Slim House
  • Willie Dixon’s Blues Heaven Foundation

Chicago Calling TallGrass

9/12/2015

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Sunday, September 27 (2-4 p.m.)

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

$6 donation / $5 for students, all ages
You're invited to come to "Chicago Calling TallGrass," which involves a special collaboration with the TallGrass Writers Guild -- including a reading by featured poet Allan Johnston, an open mic, and creative writing "stations" that involve collaborations with writers who live outside Chicago.

Allan Johnston's latest collection of poetry is Contingencies (Finishing Line Press), which Johnston will debut during this event. Johnston's poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry East, Rattle, Rhino and many other journals. His poetry collections include Tasks of Survival and Northport, also published by Finishing Line Press. He has received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and other awards. Originally from California, he now teaches writing and literature at Columbia College and DePaul University in Chicago, and serves as a reader for Word River and for the Illinois Emerging Poets competition. He is also an editor for the Journal for the Philosophical Study of Education and Roundtable. His scholarly articles have appeared in Twentieth Century Literature, College Literature, and several other journals.

Chicago Calling TallGrass includes creative writing "stations" that involve collaborations with writers who live outside Chicago -- Lisa Hemminger (San Diego, CA), Tim Hunt (Normal, IL), Duane Vorhees (Thailand) and Andy Jones (Davis, CA). Vorhees, Hemminger, Jones and Hunt have provided creative writing prompts that are being used to spark pieces of writing that will be shared during this event. 

Following Johnston's reading is the regularly scheduled mpen mic -- when readers can present up to ten minutes of poetry, fiction, essays, comedy and more. Everyone is welcome at this 'most supportive and encouraging open mic in Chicago.'
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Chicago Calling Tall Grass happens during the Tenth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. Chicago Calling is a multi-arts collaboration festival; during the Tenth 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.
Links:
  • Allan Johnston 
  • Andy Jones
  • Chicago Calling Arts Festival
  • Duane Vorhees
  • Finishing Line Press 
  • Lisa Hemminger
  • Outrider Press
  • Powell's Books
  • TallGrass Writers Guild
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Red Rover Experiment #89: Fight the Power

9/9/2015

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Saturday, September 26th (7 p.m.)

Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL  60622

$4 suggested donation

A special event with 100 Thousand Poets for Change

On September 26, 2015, many poets around the world will make their voices heard. To declare the change they'd like to see most in the U.S. and throughout the international community, events are being staged worldwide as part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change. In Chicago, this night of poetry and activism is based on the theme "Fight the Power." Inspired by Public Enemy's song Fight the Power, local writers will address standing up to the big man, the boss, the entities that have control over many aspect of our lives. Fighting negative power by doing positive work over time. Fighting the power in any way you can.

FEATURING:
Toby Altman, Jay Besemer, Sarah Carson, Andrea Change, Adrienne Dodt, Rey Escobar, Dan Godston, Tracie Hall, Marcy Rae Henry, Kortney Morrow, Daniela Olszewska, Lew Rosenbaum, Alix Anne Shaw, Nat Sufrin, Diana Goddess Warrior Tyler, avery r. young and special guests.

7pm / doors lock 7:30pm

Logistics -- near CTA Damen blue line, third floor walk up, not wheelchair accessible.

Co-sponsored by the Guild Literary Complex & the Chicago Calling Arts Festival
Curated by the 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Chicago Community Council 2015:
Barbara Barg, Laura Goldstein, Jennifer Karmin, Toni Asante Lightfoot & Kenyatta Rogers

Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. Founded in 2005, the over eighty events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds.

Email ideas for reading experiments to the Red Rover Series at [email protected].

Red Rover Experiment #89: Fight the Power happens during the Tenth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. Chicago Calling is a multi-arts collaboration festival; during the Tenth 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.
Links:
  • 100 Thousand Poets for Change
  • Chicago Calling
  • Guild Literary Complex
  • Red Rover Experiment #79: Ferguson Goddam
  • Red Rover Series
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New Borderbend Interns

9/8/2015

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Borderbend is happy to announce that we have three new interns -- Deon Morrissette, Erik Summerville and Jonathan Bello. Deon and Erik are students at DePaul University, and Jonathan is a student at Whitney Young High Schoo.
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Our Next Workshop: Captain Walter Dyett, Dorothy Donegan, John Gilmore and Dinah Washington

9/7/2015

 
Monday, September 14
(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 Captain Walter Henri Dyett, Dorothy Donegan, John Gilmore and Dinah Washington --
  • We will talk about the careers of Dyett, Donegan, Gilmore and Washington, including their connections to Chicago;
  • We'll listen to examples of those artists' and educators' works, and we will talk about other people who are linked to and/or inspired by them; and
  • Workshop participants will have opportunities to create music and writings inspired by Dyett, Donegan, Gilmore and Washington.
 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 fall 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 the AACM (Mozart Park, 2014)
  • Arts workshop inspired by Sun Ra and Ed Roberson (Mozart Park, 2014)
  • Captain Walter Henri Dyett (Jazz Institute of Chicago) 
  • "Dinah Washington: A Queen in Turmoil" (NPR)  
  • Dorothy Donegan (NEA Jazz Masters)  
  • "Dorothy Donegan, 76, Flamboyant Jazz Pianist" -- obituary by Ben Ratlif (The New York Times)
  • Dorothy Donegan Live at the White House (1993) 
  • Dorothy Donegan with Cab Calloway and His Band (from Sensations of 1945)  
  • "Dyett is saved. Now what about CPS?" -- Editorial (Chicago Tribune, 9/13/2015)
  • John Gilmore (Blue Note Records) 
  • Marian McParland's Piano Jazz -- with Dorothy Donegan
  • "Saxophonist Von Freeman, A Chicagoan From Beginning To End" by Patrick Jarenwattananon (A Blog Supreme)
  • "The Secret History of Chicago Music: Captain Walter Dyett" by Plastic Crimewave (Chicago Reader) 
  • "A shame about the girl: When she died in 1963, Dinah Washington was the self-appointed 'queen of the blues'..." - by Anthony Denselow (The Independent)
  • "Street named for singer Dinah Washington" by Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune, 8/26/2014)
  • "Sun Ra: Stranger from Outer Space" by Mike Walsh (Mission Creep)  
  • "Violinist Leroy Jenkins' Expanding Perspective" by Kevin Whitehead (Wondering Sound)  
  • Windy City Pianist, Dorothy Donegan (African American Registry)
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