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Lunch Buttons at Beauty & Brawn

11/19/2014

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You're invited to come to "Lunch Buttons," a performance event that celebrates and explores Tender Buttons at 100 and Lunch Poems at 50 -- 
Wednesday, December 10th (7 p.m.)

Beauty and Brawn Art Gallery & Think Space
3501 W. Fullerton Ave.
Chicago, IL  60647

free and open to the public

Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein is an essential Modernist masterpiece that manifests an experimental sensibility in prose poetry. Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara is a groundbreaking collection that shows O'Hara at the peak of his powers, while capturing vivid images of New York City in the early/mid-1960s. 

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Lunch Buttons by Della Watson

"Lunch Buttons" celebrates and explores Tender Buttons and Lunch Poems -- Chicago-based poets who will perform work in collaboration with artists who live outside of Chicago, displays of mail art, and more. Including the Bay Area Correspondence School, Matthias Regan, Bob Rashkow, Radu Dicher, Natalie Simpson, Gene Tanta, Fist of Kindness, Duane Vorhees, Vittorio Carli, Lindsey Meyers Alexander, Charlie Newman and Dan Godston. 
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Grains by M.P. Klier
Links: 
  • 100 Tender Buttons: Celebrating Gertrude Stein (7/27/2014)
  • Bay Area Correspondence School
  • Beauty and Brawn Art Gallery & Think Space
  • "Beauty & Brawn Behind Big Wall at Paseo Prairie Garden" (logansquare.tv, 9/9/2014)
  • "Cigarettes, Coffee, a Stop at the Liquor Store: Frank O’Hara’s ‘Lunch Poems’ Turn 50" by Dwight Garner (The New York Times, 8/8/2014)
  • "Frank O'Hara's 'Lunch Poems' -- at 50" by David L. Ulin (Los Angeles Times, 7/24/2014) 
  • How To Draw a Bunny (dir. John Walter and Andrew Moore)
  • Jackson Mac Low Reads Tender Buttons (Poetry Foundation)
  • Lunch Poems (poets.org)
  • "The Making of an American" by Edward White (The Paris Review, 5/14/2014)
  • "Naked ‘Lunch’: Behind the Scenes of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems" by Garrett Caples (Poetry Foundation)
  • "Objects, Rooms, Food: Gertrude Stein's 'Tender Buttons' Goes Off-Broadway for 100th Birthday, Care of Van Reipen Collective" by Maria Jean Sullivan (Classicalite, 8/11/2014)
  • "Okay I’ll Call You / Yes Call Me: Frank O’Hara’s 'Personism'" by Stephen Burt (poets.org)
  • Ray Johnson Estate
  • Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein (bartleby.com) 
  • Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition by Gertrude Stein (edited by Seth Perlow, afterword by Juliana Spahr, City Lights Publishers) 
  • "Urban Poet" by William Logan (The New York Times, 6/29/2008)




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Our Next Workshop: Lorraine Hansberry, Bruce Norris & Pam MacKinnon

11/18/2014

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Monday, November 24th
(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 are invited to come to our next arts workshop, during which we focus on Lorraine Hansberry, Bruce Norris and Pam MacKinnon -- 
  • We learn about those three artists, their work, and their connections with Chicago; 
  • We read and talk about passages from A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris; and
  • Participants create mixed media artworks (with text and image) that are inspired by Hansberry, Norris and MacKinnon. 
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Above: Hansberry at Home by Lauren Kaelin, inspired by a photography by David Mose Attie. Vitaminw.co commissioned this painting. 

Patricia Marx interviews Lorraine Hansberry
(WNYC, 1960). Click on the link below
to listen to the interview. 


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:
  • "The Black Revolution and the White Backlash" Forum at Town Hall (American RadioWorks)
  • "Bruce Norris: squirm, you hypocrites!" by Lyn Gardner (The Guardian, 3/5/2013)
  • "The Burden of A Black Prometheus: Lessons from A Raisin in the Sun" (LDS Baltimore)
  • "Clybourne Park (September 8 - November 13, 2011)" by Bruce Norris (Steppenwolf Theater)"
  • "Collaborating With the Cast and Playwright" by Rob Weinert-Kendt (The New York Times, 5/10/2012)
  • "A Delicate Balance Interview with Director Pam MacKinnon" by Gerard Raymond (Slant Magazine, 11/12/2014)
  • Issa Rae to Play Nina Simone in New Lorraine Hansberry Biopic" by Hillary Crosley (The Root, 6/2/2013)
  • "Lorraine Hansberry: The Battle for Fair Housing" by Richard Guzman (10/25/2012)
  • Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust
  • "Harlem" by Langston Hughes (The Poetry Foundation)
  • "Los Angeles Theater Reviews: Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun (Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theater)" by Harvey Perr (Stage and Cinema, 2/1/2012)
  • Nina Simone: "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" (Live, 1970)
  • "Of dreams deferred and dreams denied" by Toula Foscolos (The Telegram, 11/18/2010) 
  • 'Once,' 'Clybourne Park' are big winners at Tony Awards" by Reed Johnson (Los Angeles Times, 6/11/2012)
  • Patricia Marx Interviews Lorraine Hansberry (WNYC, 8/4/1961)
  • Professor Strain on inspiration, filmmaking, and Lorraine Hansberry" (Northestern University, 6/2/2014) 
  • "A Raisin in the Sun: An Introduction" (Westport Playhouse) 
  • "A Raisin in the Sun review – Denzel Washington shines in a bracing revival" by Ethel Barrymore (The Guardian, 4/4/2014)
  • A Raisin in the Sun Revisited: Lorraine Hansberry
  • "Slashing the Tires on the Welcome Wagon" ‘Clybourne Park,’ by Bruce Norris, at Walter Kerr Theater" by Ben Brantley (The New York Times, 4/19/2012)
  • "South Side resident Timuel Black on how Lorraine Hansberry differed from her siblings" (dir. Tracy Heather Strain) 
  • Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry's Letters to "The Ladder" (Brooklyn Museum)
  • "Why Writers Trust Pam MacKinnon" by Christopher Kompanek (Theater Communications Group)
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Herbie Hancock- and Jack DeJohnette-Inspired Arts Workshop on November 17th

11/12/2014

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Monday, November 17th
(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 are invited to come to our next arts workshop when we focus on the work and legacies of Jack DeJohnette and Herbie Hancock, two great jazz composers and musicians who grew up in Chicago. We will -- 
  • Talk about the careers of Herbie Hancock and Jack DeJohnette, including their innovations in musical genres such as jazz, funk, and fusion; 
  • Listen to songs that include Hancock and DeJohnette as bandleaders and sidemen; 
  • Create graphic scores inspired by songs by those two artists. 
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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: 
  • "Ba’aka - Hindewhu meets Herbie Hancock" (Sound Junction) 
  • "Bill Laswell: Sonic collage" by Anil Prasad (innerviews, 1999)
  • "Destroying Jazz: Esperanza Spalding and the future of fusion" by Michael Gonzales (Wax Poetics, 5/31/2011)
  • "The Ethics of Jazz" by Herbie Hancock (Norton Lectures, Harvard University)
  • Feature Interview with Jack DeJohnette (chicagojazz.com) 
  • "Herbie Hancock, Chris Anderson & the Chicago School of Modern Jazz Piano" by Ted Gioia (jazz.com, 2/12/2008)
  • "Herbie Hancock offers revelations in memoir and conversation" by Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune, 11/11/2014)
  • Herbie Hancock on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
  • "Herbie Hancock: 'On A Path To Find My Own Answer'" (NPR, 10/23/2014)
  • Herbie Hancock -- "Rockit" Live
  • Jack DeJohnette
  • Jack DeJohnette: Recording period between 1965-1994 (Blue Note Records) 
  • Jack DeJohnette's Made in Chicago (Walker Art Center, 3/12/2015)
  • "Jack DeJohnette Returns to His Roots In Chicago" by Lloyd Sachs (JazzTimes, 11/26/2013)
  • "The Jack Johnson Sessions" by Paul Tingen
  • "Jazz Drummer Jack DeJohnette Plays Piano Too" (Here & Now, 3/1/2012)
  • "Jazz legend Jack DeJohnette returns to Chicago" by by Alison Cuddy (WBEZ, 8/29/2013)
  • "Miles Davis: Bitches Brew [Legacy Edition]" -- review by Mark Richardson (Pitchfork, 9/10/2010)
  • "Pygmy POP. A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis" by Steven Feld (Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 28)
  • "Review: Jack DeJohnette sets new tempo for relocated jazz fest" by Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune, 8/30/2013)
  • "So Many Sounds, but Jazz Is the Core: Herbie Hancock Is the Emissary of an Art Form" by Nate Chinem (The New York Times, 11/27/2013) 
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Our Next Arts Workshop: H.C. Westermann, June Leaf & Robert Barnes

11/10/2014

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Monday, November 10th
(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 are invited to come to our next arts workshop when we: 
  • Learn about the work and legacies of H.C. Westermann, June Leaf and Robert Barnes; 
  • Write ekphrastic poetry inspired by those artists' works; 
  • Work on art-making activities that are inspired by those artists. 

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: 
  • "Artists on art: Anthony Green on The Death Ships of HC Westermann (1922-81). Interview by Martin Gayford" (The Telegraph, 6/30/2001)
  • Blood and Perfume by Robert Barnes (Corbett vs. Dempsey) 
  • "Critic’s Notebook: Lessons in Looking" by Roberta Smith (The New York Times, 3/6/2012) 
  • Death Ship: Tribute to H.C. Westermann (The Pit LA, November 2 - December 13, 2014)
  • Dill Pickle Club (Borderbend arts workshop on 8/1/2014) 
  • "Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann" by Thomas Micchelli (The Brooklyn Rail)
  • H. C. Westermann -- June 30-September 24, 2001 at the Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists (Borderbend workshop on 6/20/2014)
  • Huit artistes de Chicago : Robert Barnes, Cosmo Campoli, George Cohen, Leon Golub, June Leaf, Irving Petlin, Seymour Rosofsky, H.C. Westermann. - Exposition à Paris, Galerie du Dragon, 16 janvier-14 février 1962
  • June Leaf (Edward Thorp Gallery)
  • June Leaf collection (Art Institute of Chicago)
  • June Leaf video (Owens Art Gallery, 10/31/2007)
  • "June Leaf with John Yau" (The Brooklyn Rail)
  • Record 1974/1975 by June Leaf -- review by Becky Hunter (Whitehot Magazine, 7/2010) 
  • Robert Barnes: Homage to the Dil Pickle Club at Printworks Gallery -- review by Chris Miller (New City, 6/27/2012)
  • Robert Frank and June Leaf photographed by Richard Avedon (Richard Avedon Foundation)
  • "Talking About H. C. Westermann in the Context of Mainstream American Art Is Like Trying To Put a Square Peg into a Round Hole. Or So It Might Be Said." by Robert Storr (Smart Museum of Art)
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