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Move / Remove // Place / Displace: December Edition

11/21/2015

Sunday, December 13 (1-3 p.m.)

Carlos & Dominguez Fine Arts Gallery
1538 W. Cullerton Ave.
Chicago, IL

free and open to the public

You're invited to come to Move / Remove // Place / Displace: December Edition at the Carlos & Dominguez Fine Arts Gallery in Pilsen. This program includes the Casa Aztlan Art Project installation; "More Psychogeography in the Suburbs," a performance by Janina Ciezadlo; and a panel discussion with Robert Valadez, Elvia Rodriguez, Ochoa Rodriguez and Arturo Barrera. Refreshments will be provided.

Casa Aztlan Art Project

The Casa Aztlan Art Project is based on an art lesson that Arturo Barrera developed, and which has been explored by Arturo's fifth grade art students at Pasteur School. This project was inspired by the mural on the facade of the Casa Aztlan building (at the corner of 18th and Racine Streets in Pilsen). Arturo had his students think about what they would do if they were commissioned to design and paint a mural on the building's facade. The artworks that these fifth graders produced are wonderful, colorful and exciting. 61 artworks by students at Pasteur School are currently being exhibited at the Carlos & Dominguez Fine Arts Gallery.

Panel Discussion

This panel -- with Elvia Rodriguez Ochoa, Robert Valadez and Arturo Barrera -- will include discussion of Pilsen's cultural identity, with a focus on connections to murals; how murals in Pilsen relate and have responded to gentrification in this neighborhood; how schools can educate CPS students in the history of the Latino Mural Movement in Pilsen; and the Multiuso "Day Without Art" project.

More Psychogeography in the Suburbs

Gentrification does not always mean that people are being pushed out of their neighborhoods and homes. In this piece Janina Ciezadlo is considering the loss of a green space that the surrounding communities tried to preserve for public use handed over to developers in a shady deal with a former city official. She is using the Situationist term 'psychogeography,' because our wanderings take us from the current social and political moment into the Paleozoic era and back again following the ceaseless human and planetary processes of moving and removing, creating and investigating places and displacements.

Move / Remove // Place / Displace: December Edition is part of Move / Remove // Place / Displace, a project co-presented by High Concept Labs, Carlos & Dominguez Fine Arts Gallery and Borderbend Arts Collective. MRPD explores themes such as gentrification and immigration -- in Pilsen, throughout Chicago, and elsewhere around the world. Aspects of MRPD have included an HCL residency with Chicago-based artist Shir Ende; and Chicago Calling: Move / Remove // Place / Displace (Oct. 10, 2015).

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Our Next Workshop -- Toys and Games Made in Chicago

11/16/2015

Monday, November 23
(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 focuses on toys and games made in Chicago --

We will find out about toys and games made in Chicago, such as Lincoln Logs, Stern and Bally pintball games, and Mold-A-Rama toys; and
Workshop participants will create poetry and art inspired by toys and games made in Chicago.

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 Borderbend's arts workshop series at Mozart Park: 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 Borderbend's arts workshop series at Mozart Park.

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The People's Promenade: A Walk with Light

11/3/2015

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Borderbend is delighted to be participating in The People's Promenade: A Walk with Light! Borderbend is working with local artists and community members to create hats, headbands, armbands and banners that glow in the dark, and which will be part of A Walk with Light.

The People's Promenade: A Walk with Light

Sunday, December 20th (4:30-6:30 p.m.)
The 606
Chicago, IL

You're invited to join us as we participate in A Walk with Light, presented by The 606 and other organizations. We will meet at the West Trailhead Observatory (1801 N. Ridgeway Ave., behind the McCormick YMCA), at 4 p.m. on the 20th. Click here to view The 606's interactive map. Several dozen wearable objects will be distributed before The People's Promenade: A Walk with Light begins at 4:30 p.m.

Wearable Object-Making Workshop

Saturday, December 12th (noon-5 p.m.)
Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647

You're invited to join us during an arts workshop that happens at Mozart Park. During this workshop we'll be making illuminated hats, headbands, and other fun stuff that will be worn during A Walk with Light.

Help us make some illuminated, wearable objects;
Write haiku that could be painted in glow-in-the-dark paint onto hats that you can wear and keep;
Join us during the workshop that Borderbend is facilitating at Mozart Park (Saturday, December 12); and/or
Join us during The People's Promenade: A Walk with Light.

Haiku for The People's Promenade Hats

If you'd like your haiku to be painted onto a hat, think about these writing prompts:

Write a haiku about walking, running or biking in Chicago.
Write a haiku about an experience you've had on The 606.
Write a haiku about light in Chicago.
Other ideas...? Use your imagination!

Then send your haiku to Borderbend!

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Our Next Workshop: Common, Kanye West and Chance the Rapper

11/2/2015

Monday, November 16
(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 Common, Kanye West and Chance the Rapper --

We will listen to and talk about the music and other projects of Common, Kanye West and Chance the Rapper, including their connections to Chicago;
We'll talk about other people who are linked to and/or inspired by these three artists; and
Workshop participants will create art inspired by Common, Kanye West and Chance the Rapper.

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.

Move / Remove // Place / Displace: December Edition

Our Next Workshop -- Toys and Games Made in Chicago

The People's Promenade: A Walk with Light

Our Next Workshop: Common, Kanye West and Chance the Rapper

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