Our Next Arts Workshop: Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry

Monday, October 26
(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 Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry --

• We will listen to and talk about the music of Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry, including their connections to Chicago;
• We'll talk about other people who are linked to and/or inspired by them; and
• Workshop participants will create art inspired by these two American originals.

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 & Howlin' Wolf (Mozart Park, 2015)
  
• Chuck Berry

"Chuck Berry's Bottomless Vault: Inside His Epic 21-Hour Box Set" by Patrick Doyle (Rolling Stone, 1/9/2015)
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/chuck-berrys-bottomless-vault-inside-his-epic-21-hour-box-set-20150109
 
Chicago blues legends -- arts workshop at Mozart Park (2014)
http://www.borderbend.org/blog/july-11th
 
Lomax Family Collections (American Folklife Center)
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/lomax
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