Our Next Workshop: Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie & Howlin' Wolf

Monday, February 23rd
(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 lives and legacies of the great Blues artists Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie and Howlin' Wolf. 

• Talk about those artists' work, including their connections to Chicago;
  
• Listen to and discuss some of those Blues artists' music; 
  
• Make music and write poetry inspired by those Blues artists' work.
  

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. 
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:

• Arts Workshop About Jimmy Yancey and Albert Ammons (Mozart Park, 2014)
  Arts Workshop About Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy and Etta James (7/2014)
  

• "Big Bill Broonzy" by Ellen Harold and Peter Stone (Cultural Equity)
  

• "Blues Museum In Chicago? Muddy’s House?" Blues Breakers Playlist For 2/9/2015 (WXRT)
  

• Chicago Blues Experience
  

• "For Chicago blues, sweet home is hard to find" by Yolanda Perdomo (WBEZ, 2/9/2015)
  

• His Story - Big Bill Broonzy Interviewed by Studs Terkel (Smithsonian Folkways)

• Howlin' Wolf
  

• "Maria Muldaur pays tribute to Memphis Minnie" by Jim White (Post Gazette, 10/9/2012)
  

• Memphis Minnie

• "Memphis Minnie, Genocide, and Identity Politics: A Conversation with Alex Stein" by Lorna Dee Cervantes (Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2003)

• Rosa's Lounge

• "The vibrant joy of Robert Crumb's album covers" by Laura Barton (The Guardian, 11/20/2011)

• "When The Levee Breaks: Ripples Of The Great Flood" (NPR)

• Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues by Paul & Beth Garon (City Lights Books)