Our Next Workshop -- Toys and Games Made in Chicago

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.

Links:

• Arts workshop inspired by Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists (Mozart Park, 2014)
• "Build It with Lincoln Logs!" (Chicago History Museum)
• "Hairy Who: Funky, Folky and Still Fresh" by Richard Vine (Art in America, 7/14/2014)
• "Jackpot! Chicago's hold on pinball industry and artistry" by Mickey Capper (WBEZ's Curious City)
• "Jon Hey's List of Projects" (Arcade History)
  
• "Mold-A-Rama-rama! The secrets behind Chicago's plastic souvenir empire" by John Fecile (WBEZ's Curious City)
  
• "Where have all the Chicago-made toys gone?" by Becky Yerak (Chicago Tribune, 11/22/2015)
  
• "The World According to Wirsum"  by John Yau (Hyperallergic, 11/10/2013)