Soundwalk and Performance at Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site

Saturday, October 3 (10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.)

Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site
11057 S. Cottage Grove Ave.
Chicago, IL  60628

free and open to the public

You're invited to come to a program at Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site that includes a soundwalk and performance. This program, which happens during the Tenth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival and Chicago Artists Month, is co-presented by Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site, Outdoor Afro, Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and Borderbend Arts Collective.

“A soundwalk is any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment. It is exposing our ears to every sound around us no matter where we are.” — Hildegard Westerkamp (Soundwalking)

Program:

• We will meet in front of the historic Pullman factory clock tower, with introductory talks by Linda Beierle Bullen, Curator at the Pullman State Historic Site; Susan Bennett, Park Ranger at the Pullman National Monument; and Yolanda Bradley-Crocker, from Outdoor Afro.

• The soundwalk will happen outside the historic Pullman administration building, along a route whose soundscape will include sounds of nature and the built environment. Click here to download the soundwalk map.

• Following the soundwalk will be a performance that includes Chicago Phonography and readings of texts that pertain to this site and the Pullman Porters. The readers include Camille Ann Brewer, Toni Asante Lightfoot and Yolanda Bradley-Crocker, and the texts include Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye; "FDR, A. Philip Randolph, and the Desegregation of the Defense Industries"; and A. Philip Randolph's speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
  

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This program at Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site happens during the Tenth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. Chicago Calling is a multi-arts collaboration festival; during the Tenth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival people in Chicago work with people outside of Chicago — both here in the U.S. and abroad. These collaborations include a range of art forms, such as music, dance, film, literature, and intermedia — and they are prepared or improvised. Some Chicago Calling events involve live feeds between Chicago and other locations.

The 2015 Chicago Calling Arts Festival is part of the 20th Annual Chicago Artists Month, which highlights the work of hundreds of artists throughout Chicago with performances, exhibitions, open studios, tours and neighborhood art walks. The 20th annual Chicago Artists Month (CAM) celebrates the City as Studio: from October 1 – November 15, 2015. Join this community-contributed showcase of Chicago's artists and creatives and experience art in the parks, dance in the neighborhoods, installations in the alley, and concerts on the front porch. CAM is presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in collaboration with the Chicago Park District and numerous community partners.

Links:

• arts workshop inspired by the Pullman Porters (Mozart Park, 9/28/2015)
• A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
• Chicago Artists Month
• Chicago Calling
• Chicago Phonography
• Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
• Morning Edition conversation with Eric Leonardson (audio pending, WBEZ)
• "Obama Makes Chicago’s Pullman District a National Monument" by Jenn Stanley (Next City, 2/16/2015)
• Outdoor Afro
• Outdoor Afro Chicago (meetup group)
• "A Proud Preservation: The Pullman Porters Role in Creating Chicago’s First National Park" by Viva Yeboah (Outdoor Afro Chicago)
• Pullman National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
• Pullman State Historic Site