Our Next Workshop: Captain Walter Dyett, Dorothy Donegan, John Gilmore and Dinah Washington

Monday, September 14
(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 Captain Walter Henri Dyett, Dorothy Donegan, John Gilmore and Dinah Washington --

• We will talk about the careers of Dyett, Donegan, Gilmore and Washington, including their connections to Chicago;
• We'll listen to examples of those artists' and educators' works, and we will talk about other people who are linked to and/or inspired by them; and
• Workshop participants will have opportunities to create music and writings inspired by Dyett, Donegan, Gilmore and Washington.
  

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 the AACM (Mozart Park, 2014)
• Arts workshop inspired by Sun Ra and Ed Roberson (Mozart Park, 2014)
• Captain Walter Henri Dyett (Jazz Institute of Chicago) 
• "Dinah Washington: A Queen in Turmoil" (NPR)  
• Dorothy Donegan (NEA Jazz Masters)  
• "Dorothy Donegan, 76, Flamboyant Jazz Pianist" -- obituary by Ben Ratlif (The New York Times)
• Dorothy Donegan Live at the White House (1993) 
• Dorothy Donegan with Cab Calloway and His Band (from Sensations of 1945)  
• "Dyett is saved. Now what about CPS?" -- Editorial (Chicago Tribune, 9/13/2015)
• John Gilmore (Blue Note Records) 
• Marian McParland's Piano Jazz -- with Dorothy Donegan
  
• "Saxophonist Von Freeman, A Chicagoan From Beginning To End" by Patrick Jarenwattananon (A Blog Supreme)
  
• "The Secret History of Chicago Music: Captain Walter Dyett" by Plastic Crimewave (Chicago Reader) 
• "A shame about the girl: When she died in 1963, Dinah Washington was the self-appointed 'queen of the blues'..." - by Anthony Denselow (The Independent)
• "Street named for singer Dinah Washington" by Howard Reich (Chicago Tribune, 8/26/2014)
• "Sun Ra: Stranger from Outer Space" by Mike Walsh (Mission Creep)  
• "Violinist Leroy Jenkins' Expanding Perspective" by Kevin Whitehead (Wondering Sound)  
• Windy City Pianist, Dorothy Donegan (African American Registry)