Our Next Arts Workshop: Ed Roberson & Sun Ra

You're invited to our next Chicago Heroes & Arts Adventures workshop -- 

Monday, February 24th (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 this next workshop, we will focus on the work and legacies of Ed Roberson and Sun Ra. Ed Roberson is an amazing Chicago-based poet, and Sun Ra is a pioneering instrumentalist, composer and bandleader whose dynamic vision has exploded conceptions of music, space and identity. We are delighted that Ed will be joining us at the workshop. 

After growing up in Birmingham, Sun Ra moved to Chicago where he developed key aspects of his musical approach, including his iconic Egyptology-suffused space persona. Sun Ra later lived in Montreal, New York City, and Philadelphia...but Chicago and Sun Ra have a special connection. 

This workshop will include the following: 

• Ed Roberson will read a selection of his poetry.
• We will discuss one or two of Ed's poems. 
• We will listen to several songs by Sun Ra and his Arkestra.  
  
• We will write poetry and create visual art inspired by Ed Roberson and Sun Ra.  
  

Location: Mozart Park is on Armitage Avenue in Logan Square -- several blocks east of Pulaski Road, just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. 

Please contact us by clicking here -- if you have questions about this workshop and/or if you would like to RSVP. Thanks!

Links: 

• "Brother From Another Planet: The Cult and Culture of Sun Ra" by Adam Shatz (Slate)
• Ed Roberson's website
• Mechanisms of Emotion: An Interview with Ed Roberson (Fifth Wednesday Journal) 
  
• Space is the Place: The Life and Times of Sun Ra by John Szwed (book review by Matthew Muethrich at allaboutjazz.com) 
• Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (dir. Robert Mugge)