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Our Workshop on June 15th -- Win Stracke and Lois Weisberg

6/1/2015

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Monday, June 15th
(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 Lois Weisberg and Win Stracke:
  • We will talk about Weisberg and Stracke's work, including their connections to Chicago;
  • We'll also discuss examples of people and organizations that are linked to and/or inspired by Weisberg and Stracke's work and legacy; and
  • Workshop participants will have opportunities to create music and writings  inspired by Weisberg and Stracke.  your musical
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 summer 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:
  • After School Matters
  • Arts Workshop at Mozart Park inspired by Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie & Howlin' Wolf (2014)
  • Arts Workshop at Mozart Park inspired by Studs Terkel (2014)
  • Association for Cultural Equity
  • Chicago Gospel Music Festival
  • "City makes amends with Lois Weisberg, ex-cultural affairs commissioner" by Melissa Harris (Chicago Tribune, 9/12/2014)
  • Fifth Star Awards honoree, Lois Weisberg (2014)
  • Gallery 37
  • Old Town School of Folk Music
  • Paul Bunyan -- 80 at 80 at the Museum of Science and Technology (2013 exhibition) 
  • "The 'Pocket Guide To Hell' History Project Salutes Classic Chicago Children's Television" (chicagoist.com)
  • "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg" by Malcolm Galdwell (1999)
  • Win Stracke: Chicago's Troubadour (Old Town School of Folk Music)
  • Win Stracke Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)


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Our Next Arts Workshop: Margaret Walker, Haki Madhubuti, Carol D. Lee, and Sterling Plumpp

3/31/2015

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Monday, April 13th
(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 Dr. Margaret Walker, Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti, Dr. Carol D. Lee, and Sterling Plumpp. We will:
  • Talk about their work, including their connections to Chicago; 
  • Make music and create text-and-image collages inspired by work by Walker, Madhubuti, Lee, and Plumpp.
Bring your musical instruments, your poetry, your art supplies! 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 spring 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:
  • "Confronting the Warpland" by Ed Herrmann (The Poetry Foundation)
  • Dr. Carol D. Lee (Northwestern University)
  • "For Malcolm X" by Margaret Walker (The Poetry Foundation)
  • Gwendolyn Brooks-inspired arts workshop at Mozart Park (2014)
  • Lorraine Hansberry-, Bruce Norris-, and Pam Mackinnon-inspired workshop at Mozart Park (2014)
  • Margaret Walker (Alabama's Literary Landscape)
  • Margaret Walker (Modern American Poetry, University of Illinois)
  • Margaret Walker (Voices from the Gap, University of Minnesota)
  • "Mississippi Suite" by Sterling Plumpp (TriQuarterly, January 2013)
  • "Poet Sterling Plumpp captures rhythms of the blues" by Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune, 6/4/2013)
  • "Quality: Gwendolyn Brooks at 73" by Haki Madhubuti (The Poetry Foundation)
  • "Reader of the Week: Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti" (Chicago Tribune)
  • South Side Community Art Center
  • Sterling D. Plumpp (The Poetry Foundation)
  • "Sterling Plumpp: Interview" by Reginald Gibbons (TriQuarterly, 4/27/2010)
  • Sun Ra- and Ed Roberson-inspired workshop at Mozart Park (2014)
  • Third World Press
  • This Is My Century: Margaret Walker Centennial (Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University)













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Our Next Workshop: Joan Mitchell

1/28/2015

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Monday, February 2nd
(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 life and legacy of Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell. This will be a lecture-workshop on Joan Mitchell, who was born in Chicago and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. We will discuss the principles of abstraction and Expressionism in painting and music and make an abstract drawing in charcoal or paper cutouts. 

Bring your musical instruments, your poetry, your art supplies! 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 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. 
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Links:
  • City Landscape by Joan Mitchell (Art Institute of Chicago)
  • Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry (Poetry Foundation)
  • Joan Mitchell by Cora Cohen and Betsy Sussler (BOMB -- "Artists in Conversation," Fall 1986)
  • Joan Mitchell Foundation
  • “Joan Mitchell: Terra Foundation Artbeat Special” by Lindsey Prossnitz (WTTW)
  • "Joan Mitchell’s Life and Art—Brutal and Beautiful" by Janina Ciezadlo (New City, 2011)
  • "The Most Dangerous Man in Publishing" by Louisa Thomas (Newsweek, 2/23/2012)
  • Oral history interview with Joan Mitchell (Smithsonian Institution)
  • "Original Maverick: Crusading publisher Barney Rosset is Obscene in a good way" by Boris Kachka (New York Magazine, 9/21/2008)
  • Painters Painting: The Definitive Documentary Portrait of the New York Art World (1940-1970)
  • "Poetry Foundation Gallery Presents Joan Mitchell Exhibition: Show examines painter’s relationship to poetry and Chicago" (poetryfoundation.org) 
  • "Remembering Barney" -- Tribute by Richard Milazzo (Evergreen Review #130, 2012)
  • "Remembering Joan" by Richard Milazzo (Evergreen Review #104, 2001)




above: Grandes Carrières, 1961–62. Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 118 1/4 inches (200 x 300.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of The Estate of Joan Mitchell. © Estate of Joan Mitchell

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Our Next Workshop: Oscar Brown Jr., Abbey Lincoln & Maggie Brown

9/21/2014

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Monday, September 22nd
(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 arts workshop at Mozart Park, which focuses on the work and legacies of Oscar Brown Jr., Abbey Lincoln and Maggie Brown. We will: 
  • Learn more about those artists' work, and listen to several songs that they recorded and/or composed. 
  • Talk about how songs composed, recorded and performed by those three artists relate to Civil Rights dynamics of the 1950s till today. 
  • Write poetry and create music inspired by the work of Oscar Brown Jr., Abbey Lincoln and Maggie Brown.  

These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. We often use an upright piano during workshops as well. 

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: 
  • "A Depression-Era Anthem For Our Times" (NPR, 11/2008)
  • "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" by Yip Harburg Jay Gorney, performed by Abbey Lincoln
  • Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa by Ingrid Monson (excerpt at amherst.edu)
  • Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa by Ingrid Monson (review by Brian Gilmore, JazzTimes, 2009)
  • Liner Notes — We Insist! Max Roach’s "Freedom Now Suite," by Nat Hentoff (Jerry Jazz Musician)
  • Maggie Brown: Tribute to Oscar Brown Jr. at Ravinia (8/22/2014)
  • Oscar Brown, Jr. (National Living Visionary Project)
  • "Oscar Brown Jr.: Legendary jazz vocalist, poet and social activist" by Todd S. Jenkins (jazzhouse.org)
  • "Oscar Brown, Jr.’s Work Song" by Ayana Contreras (darkjive.com, 7/18/2011)
  • "Revisited! The Freedom Now Suite" by Ingrid Monson (Jazz Times, 9/2001)
  • Something About Oscar Brown, Jr. by Morris Gearring
  • "A Tribute To Abbey Lincoln On JazzSet" by Becca Pulliam (NPR, 1/14/2014)
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Studs Terkel-Inspired Arts Workshop

8/6/2014

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Friday, August 8th (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 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 "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop about Studs Terkel, with a focus on his radio interviews with people such as Oscar Peterson, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Alan Lomax and Joan Baez. During this workshop we will:
  • Learn more about Studs Terkel's life and legacy. 
  • Listen and talk about clips from Terkel's music-centric interviews with people such as Memphis Slim, Janis Joplin, Big Bill Broonzy, Mahalia Jackson, John Cage, Alan Lomax, Oscar Peterson, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. 
  • Create art inspired by Studs. 
  • More info TBA. 

These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. We often use an upright piano during workshops as well. 

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: 
  • "Big Bill Broonzy" by Ellen Harold and Peter Stone (Cultural Equity)
  • Buckminster Fuller and Studs Terkel in conversation (The Story)
  • Essay by Louis "Studs" Terkel (Class of 1934, The Univeristy of Chicago)
  • "Have one on Studs, and the rest of this week's screenings" by J.R. Jones (Chicago Reader)
  • Ida Terkel, 87, Social Activist, `Best Critic' Of Famous Husband" by Rick Kogan (Chicago Tribune, 12/26/1999)
  • Illinois Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) 
  • Jazz Oral Histories (The University of Chicago Library)
  • Let's Get Working: Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel (University of Chicago
  • Merce Cunningham and John Cage talk with Studs Terkel (Internet Archive)
  • Remembering Studs Terkel (Community Media Workshop)
  • Studs Terkel 1912-2008: A Democracy Now! Special Tribute to the Beloved Oral Historian and Broadcaster
  • Studs Terkel: Conversations with America (Chicago History Museum)
  • Studs Terkel Interview (Archive of American Television)
  • Studs Terkel interviews Bob Dylan (kottke.org)
  • "Studs Terkel on Music" (12/19/2005 issue of The Nation)
  • "Studs Terkel, Oral Historian And Radio Legend, 96" by Cheryl Corley (NPR)
  • Studs Terkel Radio Archive (WFMT)
  • "Studs Terkel: The Voice of Work and the American Worker" (American Postal Workers Union)
  • "Studs Terkel's Music Interviews" by Karen Fishman (Library of Congress) 
  • Studs's Place (richsamuels.com)
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Harriet Monroe-Inspired Workshop on July 25th

7/23/2014

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Friday, July 25th (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 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 "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop, when we focus on the life and legacy of Harriet Monroe. During this workshop we will:
  • Talk about aspects of Monroe's biography; 
  • Read selections of writings by Monroe; 
  • Read poems by great poets with whom she worked; 
  • Write poetry inspired by Harriet Monroe and her legacy. 
  • More info TBA. 
These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. We often use an upright piano during workshops as well. 

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:
  • "At 100, poem 'Chicago' still fierce, fresh" by Steve Johnson (Chicago Tribune)
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (Poetry, March 1914)
  • Harriet Monroe Biography (poetryfoundation.org)
  • Harriet Monroe Poetry Collection (The University of Chicago Library)
  • "Letter by Letter" by Richard Mertens (University of Chicago Magazine)
  • "A Lover" by Amy Lowell (Poetry, March 1917) 
  • "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot (Poetry, June 1915)
  • Poetry Foundation
  • Poetry Magazine
  • "Review of A Poet's Life by Harriet Monroe" by William Carlos Williams (The New Republic, 4/27/1938)
  • Carl Sandburg
  • Valeria and Other Poems by Harriet Monroe (A.C. McClurg & Company, 1893)
  • "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks (Poetry, September 1959)
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Our Next Arts Workshop: Chicago Blues Legends

7/7/2014

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Friday, July 11th (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 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 "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop, when we celebrate the lives and legacies of these Blues legends -- Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy and Etta James: 
  • We listen to and talk about music by those four artists;   
  • We play several songs recorded by those artists; 
  • We create contour poems, blues renga and pattern poetry inspired by Chicago Blues artists. 

Borderbend is among the organizations that is presenting programming during the upcoming Armitage Arts Festival, on September 6th. Festival programming happens at four venues along Armitage Ave., including Rosa's Lounge -- which is one of Chicago's great blues venues. So the focus of our next workshop is a nice way to pay homage to the Blues, one of America's original art forms, in anticipation of the festival that will be happening in this neighborhood in less than two months! 

Note: There are so many great Blues artists who are associated with Chicago (besides the four listed abovbe), including Big Bill Broonzy, Paul Butterfield, Bo Diddley, Lightning Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, Pinetop Perkins, Sugar Blue, Melvin Taylor, Junior Wells and many others. We will have more workshops that focus on other Chicago Blues artists in the future, for sure.  

These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. The fieldhouse has an upright piano that we have used during workshops as well. 

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:
  • "13 Cartoon Portraits of Legendary Blues Artists" (Mother Jones)
  • Alligator Records 
  • Armitage Arts Festival
  • The Blues Foundation
  • Buddy Guy (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
  • Buddy Guy interview on Sound Opinions (1/5/2007)
  • Buddy Guy & Jimi Hendrix -- jam session
  • "Buddy Guy: A Man and His Blues" by Alan Di Perna (Guitar World Magazine)
  • "Buddy Guy Sets the Record Straight With New Book" by Greg Prato (4/25/2012 issue of Rolling Stone)
  • Buddy Guy's Legends
  • Buddy Guy's website
  • Cadillac Records (2008)
  • Chess Records feature (Sound Opinions #440)
  • Chicago Blues Festival
  • Delmark Records
  • Encore: Koko Taylor On Mountain Stage (NPR)
  • Etta James interviewed by Sue Simmons on Live At Five (1995)
  • "Hound Dog" performed by Big Mama Thornton, with Buddy Guy
  • "How the blues brothers behind Chess Records made all the right moves" by Elijah Wald (11/5/2010 edition of The Guardian)
  • I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story by Willie Dixon with Don Snowden -- book review by Chris Goodrich (11/21/1990 edition of The Los Angeles Times)
  • "I'd Rather Go Blind" performed by Etta James (Montreaux, 1975)
  • "Illustrator William Stout's Legends of the Blues - exclusive excerpt" by Mark Frauenfelder (Boing Boing)
  • Interview with Robert Gordon, author of Can't Be Statisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters (Fresh Air, 11/28/2008)
  • Koko Taylor Remembrance (Chicago Blues Guide)
  • The Last Waltz (bobmargolin.com)
  • "The Living Legends of Blues" with Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, B.B. King, James Cotton, John Lee Hooker & Blind John Davis (1978)
  • Mississippi Blues Trail
  • "Pop Music’s Dreamgirl Awakens Her Earthy Side" by Alan Light (The New York Times, 11/14/2008)
  • "Queen of the Blues: Koko Taylor Talks About Her Subjects" by James Plath (Clockwatch Review)
  • Rosa's Lounge
  • Save Muddy Waters' House
  • "Ten Years Ago" -- Buddy Guy & Junior Wells (Live at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, 1974)
  • When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy and David Ritz -- book review by Arlene R. Weiss (Guitar International, 9/11/2012)
  • Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation
  • Windy City Blues Society
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Our Next Arts Workshop: The Staple Singers, Don Cornelius & Frankie Knuckles 

6/26/2014

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Friday, June 27 (4:30-5:30, 5:45-7:00 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 "Chicago Heroes & Arts Journeys" workshop, when we focus on the lives and legacies of these musical legends -- The Staple Singers, Don Cornelius, and Frankie Knuckles. During this workshop we will: 
  • Listen to and talk about music created, produced, and presented by The Staple Singers, Don Cornelius, and Frankie Knuckles. We will also watch a few short videos that involve those music icons. 
  • Talk about the some of the cultural and political dynamics that pertain to their work (e.g. the Civil Rights movement, elements of Chicago's cultural landscape)
  • Create visual art and creative writings inspired by those American originals.  

These arts workshops are free and open to the public, and all ages welcomed. Participants are invited to bring writing utensils and paper, although supplies will be provided if needed. Sometimes we play music and explore other art forms, so if you have a musical instrument that you'd like to bring, or if you have art supplies (e.g. colored pencils, pastels, etc.) you can bring those. The fieldhouse has an upright piano that we have using during workshops as well. 
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:
  • "10 Things You Didn't Know About Mavis Staples" by Eric R. Danton (Paste Magazine)
  • Don Cornelius: Peace, love, soul -- and civil rights" by Greg Kot (Chicago Tribune, 2/1/2012)
  • "Jeff Tweedy And Mavis Staples Talk You Are Not Alone" by Evan Schlansky (American Songwriter)
  • "Frankie Knuckles Mural Goes Up in Prime Logan Spot For Graffiti Artists" by Darryl Holliday (DNAinfo Chicago)
  • "Freedom Highway" performed during the Summit For Civil Rights at the LBJ Presidential Library (2008)
  • "How a Family Spread Its Gospel: ‘I’ll Take You There,’ by Greg Kot" by Dwight Garner (The New York Times, 2/20/2014)
  • "I'll Take You There" by Frankie Knuckles, featuring Jamie Principle
  • Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy perform "You Are Not Alone"
  • Muscle Shoals (dir. Greg "Freddy" Camalier, 2013) 
  • Q&A: Greg Kot–I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom’s Highway (SoulTrain.com)
  • The Staple Singers (Stax Museum)
  • The Staple Singers cover "For What It's Worth" (Neilyoung.com"
  • The Staple Singers performing "I'll Take You There" at the 15th Grammy Awards
  • Uncloudy Day by the Staple Singers
  • "Where Do I Start With Frankie Knuckles?" by Nicholas Fonseca (Slate)
  • "The Whistle Song" by Frankie Knuckles
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Carl Sandburg-Inspired Arts Workshop at Mozart Park

5/19/2014

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You're invited to come to our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop --
Monday, May 19 (6:00-7:15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60647

all ages, free & open to the public


Come discover, discuss & debate some of the origins of Objectivst poetics during this session, when Matthias Regan reads from his edited volume of Sandburg’s poetry and prose in the International Socialist Review. Here’s all the details:

“That’s when Sandburg was a Niceberg,” writes Edward Dorn in Book IV of Gunslinger. He’s thinking of the radical Carl Sandburg – the poetic brawler who changed the shape of poetry and politics simultaneously in the early years of modernism.

During the Chicago Renaissance, Sandburg was one of the most important innovators in English language poetry. His Chicago Poems (1916) drew on contemporary slang and Native American chants to create free verse poems that spoke to working-class people. He wrote poetry against the robber barons, the war profiteers and the false prophets of Christian morality. Given the popularity of his verse, it’s not surprising that academics and the popular press have “red-washed” Sandburg, portraying him as a bland sentimentalist by excising his early years as a Socialist organizer and muck-raking journalist.

Matthias Regan will read from his edited volume of Sandburg’s writings in the International Socialist Review – the radical journal published by Charles H. Kerr Press in which he published is first and best poems. Using a variety of pseudonyms, Sandburg wrote powerful news stories on union strikes, railroad regulation, the Eastland disaster and “Preparadness Parades.”

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. 
  • "At 100, poem 'Chicago' still fierce, fresh" by Steve Johnson (Chicago Tribune)
  • "Careless Love" by Carl Sandburg, performed by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan
  • Carl Sandburg (poets.org)
  • "Carl Sandburg and the Spanish Guitar" -- concert with John Akers
  • "Carl Sandburg and the Steichens: The Wisconsin Years" by Faith B. Miracle (Wisconsin Academy Review)
  • Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (Flat Rock, NC)
  • "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg (Poetry Foundation)
  • Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
  • The Day Carl Sandburg Died (dir. Paul Bonesteel)
  • Lilian "Paula" Sandburg
  • "Marilyn Monroe and Carl Sandburg" by Roger Ebert
  • The Next Objectivists
  • Next Objectivists Reading at Crisis Image Archives
  • President John F. Kennedy Meets with Carl Sandburg (photograph, JFK Library)
  • "Sandburg's Lincoln Within History" by James Hurt (Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association)
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Our Next Workshop: László Moholy-Nagy & Mies van der Rohe

5/4/2014

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You're invited to come to our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop --
Monday, May 5 (6:00-7:15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park Fieldhouse
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL   60624

all ages, free & open to the public


During our next workshop we will focus on the lives and legacies of László Moholy-Nagy and Mies van der Rohe. Participants will create artworks and write poetry inspired by those two geniuses who have indelibly influenced architecture and design in Chicago and around the world. 
Picture
Untitled (Chicago, 1943)
by László Moholy-Nagy

Picture
Mies van der Rohe with a model
of the Farnsworth House


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. 
Picture
above: László Moholy-Nagy's
Diagram of Finnegans Wake
Links: 
  • "Author Tom Dyja discusses his book The Third Coast" (WBEZ)
  • Bauhaus 9090
  • Bauhaus Dessau
  • Bauhaus Museum
  • Chicago Bauhaus & Beyond
  • Chicago's Bauhaus Legacy -- 2013 exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
  • Farnsworth House
  • "From Bauhaus to Her House" by Ted Shen (Chicago Reader)
  • László Moholy-Nagy with Metalworking Students at the Weimar Bauhaus (1924-25)
  • Lichtspiel Schwarz Weiss Grau (dir. Moholy-Nagy, 1930)
  • "László Moholy-Nagy's visual representation of Finnegan's Wake" by Matt Linderman (Signal v. Noise)
  • A Memory of Moholy-Nagy -- film produced by John Halas (1990)
  • "The Mecca: Where Modernism Began (and Memories of Mies)" by Nancy Bishop
  • Mies van der Rohe Society
  • Moholy-Nagy Foundation
  • "Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art" by Robyn Jeffers
  • Neue Nationalgalerie, designed by Mies van der Rohe
  • "Rally today at noon to save Bauhaus-inspired buildings on Michael Reese Campus" by Lynn Becker (2009 article)
  • Review of “Chicago’s Bauhaus Legacy” at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, by Lara Allison
  • Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, Chicago, 1937–1971 (Edited by David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel)
  • The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream by Thomas Dyja
  • "A Time When Things Started in Chicago: ‘The Third Coast,’ a History of Chicago by Thomas Dyja" -- book review by Scott Turow (The New York Times)
  • "When Margaret Met Moholy-Nagy: Margaret De Patta, The Chicago Bauhaus, and Modernist Jewelry" -- 2012 program at the Museum of Arts and Design 
  • "Won't You Please Come to Chicago?: A Conversation With Thomas Dyja on The Third Coast" by Davis Schneiderman (The Huffington Post)
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