Silent Theatre brings bah humbug! A Christmas story, let it not fool you…This is a ghost story, a story of awakening the senses, a story about the human spirit finding its path. Opens Friday Nov 25 continuing thru Dec 30.
Thurs, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM Tickets $15 - $25 For more information 773.544.1749 www.silenttheatre.com
The characters are all decked out in pasty white mime make up and the lighting is minimal, all creating the effect that we’re seeing flickering images on a screen, and particularly creepy ones at that. .Director Tonika Todorova gives us a dark and otherworldly take on the material that often has a surreal nightmare quality. There’s no dialogue, or even narration beyond the very beginning, but we get a soundtrack of some enjoyably cracked takes on traditional Christmas songs and some original material from composer/pianist Isaiah Robinson.
workshops for youth
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The NeuroKitchen Club is a curiosity project for 8-11 year olds to delve into arts and science. The development of curiosity as a driving force for learning and happiness; which is what the NeuroKitchen Club is all about. One topic will be explored throughout the session and each art project, science experiment, and investigative field trip will make deeper connections - like peeling an onion. The two week winter 2011 school break Dec. 26 - Jan 6 Mondays - Fridays from 9:00 - 3:00 $200 per week
In Mario Caiano's NIGHTMARE CASTLE (1965), a scientist of the mad variety learns that if you torture and murder your wife and her lover and then use their blood for your youth serum, their spirits are bound to come back and haunt you, especially if you then marry your wife's mentally fragile step-sister, and especially if she's played by the same actress--even if it's the luscious Barbara Steele. Got it? Good. Then, the archaeologists in Mario Bava's uncredited directorial debut, CALTIKI THE UNDYING MONSTER (1959), discover the dangers of messing around with Mayan ruins when they unwittingly awaken a gigantic blob-god whose mere touch eats the flesh from your bones.
As usual, this mayhem comes at the low-low price of $5, and if you wear a Halloween costume, you get in free! Come in for cheap concessions, real 16mm film, fun prize giveaways, and a chance to tell your friends "I watched cheapo Italian horror films in a church basement." Shock Theater from the Cinema Dementia Collection!
The Enigma Machine: A Launch Party for The Agency Theater Collective
Friday Oct 21 at 8 PM
An underground affair organized around codes and secrets. The evening will feature drinks, interactive live entertainment, food, prizes and more. All proceeds will make possible the Agency's upcoming docket of events. Come solve the riddle. You have the password. Tickets $10 entrance fee includes 1 drink.
Holiday Craft Fair 2010
Handcrafted Gifts from 35 Countries Fairly Traded Chocolate, Nativity Sets, Toys, Jewelry, and Accessories
Saturday Nov 20 12 PM - 6 PM Sunday Nov 21 12 PM - 6 PM
Bruised Orange Theater presents
Tickets $18 dollars, cash only at the door. Credit card purchases:bruisedorange.org. Reservations call 773.336.2682
theater late night
No Shame Theater
The Agency Theater group brings No Shame Theatre with a focus on immediacy, originality and brevity. The Agency creates an open forum, allowing creativity to flourish without judgment and with no intermission.
Saturday nights Doors Open 10 PM show starts at 10:30 PM
There are only three rules: Pieces must be original. No more than five minutes in length. You can't break anything--not yourself, not the audience, not the theatre--and you can't break any laws.
Tickets $7 for audience and performers $6 if you show proof of updates to Twitter or Facebook telling everyone you’re at No Shame
Following its critically acclaimed Steppenwolf Garage debut production of Jose Rivera's Sonnets for an Old Century, Urban Theater Company begins its 6th season with the midwest premiere of Pulitzer Prize Winner Nilo Cruz's Beauty of the Father, directed by Teatro Vista Producing Artistic Director, Cecilie Keenan. This riveting family drama features Ivan Mega and Madrid St. Angelo. Tickets $20www.UrbanTheaterChicago.org Discounts available for group/seniors/industry
special events
Nelson Algren: The Original Wicker Park Hipster More than 120 poets, musicians, activists, writers, actors, and well read Algren celebrants attended the 22nd Birthday Party on Saturday March 26. The Nelson Algren Committee hosted the event. www.nelsonalgren.org
special events New Years Eve 2010
Acme Art Works Gallery
imagine :: observe a group exhibit with photography and three video poems. Writer and photographer, Jennifer Bisbing brings a selection from her recent series of powerful portraits of Wicker Women. Photographer Michael Smith exhibits photographs made with a toy camera that reflect his contemplative meditation about loss and memories of his childhood home. Curated by Laura Weathered, the exhibit of work by inter-generational artists includes Tasan Hardy, Andres Alvarez, and Frederic Bruly Bouabré, Warren Leming and Carmine Cervi present Algren's Last Night. The artwork reflects on place, people and memories, to demonstrate unique ways and styles of knowing. Gallery hours Thu, Fri and Sat from 12 to 5 PM and by appointment tel 773.278.7677 or email: laura@nnwac.org
art moving west 2010
Experience a creative fusion of artists, galleries and performances extending the arts district west of Western. Friday Oct 1 from 5 to 9 PM DreamBox Gallery 2415 W North Ave Retrospective exhibit and new portraits by Iwona Bierdermann Containment, new paintings by Ewa Bloch iwonabiedermann@sbcglobal.net
Tom Robinson Gallery 2418 W North Ave Twins and Girls, an exhibit for one night only. Later in the month, Chicago Art-Pulse, organized by members of the Chicago Woman Caucus for Art, reception is Saturday, Oct 9 from 4 to 8 PM. www.http://tomrobinsonartist.com/
chicago guitar festival Paul Galbraith 2010
Internationally renowned artist, a brilliant innovator of the classical guitar, presented by Goran Ivanovic of Eastern Blok.
The Noble Fowl Trio (Claire Happel, Jeremy Harting, James Moore) will present a concert of new and classic works for harp, mandolin and guitar/banjo.
A Year in Humboldt Park is the naturalist photo essay of the year 2009 by Dina Petrakis, curated by Candice Martens in collaboration with Gerald Ritchie.
Plasticene Physical Theatre new site specific work
From a Fading Light May 12 - 22 only 10 performances
...an immersive and breathtaking promenade physical theater performance that travels through the entirety of a 100-year-old church in Wicker Park created by Chicago's 15-year-old pioneer physical theater company.
"Plasticene's work is not to be missed..." - Chicago Tribune "Plasticene's work is never to be missed..." - Chicago Sun-Times
Only Ten Performances and only 48 Audience Capacity per Performance!
Please note: audience must be able to negotiate stairs to experience this performance.
Plasticene creates original theater inspired by a unique process of research and construction developed over the past fifteen years. Plasticene assembles high-impact theater from the most plastic elements of theatrical creation: the body in action, objects in motion, light as revelation, and sound as sensation. Plasticene performance and education work offers our community an experience that is playful, visceral, poetic, athletic, evocative, brave and endlessly creative.Plasticene creates original theater inspired by a unique process of research and construction developed over the past fifteen years. Plasticene assembles high-impact theater from the most plastic elements of theatrical creation: the body in action, objects in motion, light as revelation, and sound as sensation. Plasticene performance and education work offers our community an experience that is playful, visceral, poetic, athletic, evocative, brave and endlessly creative. Follow the creative process in research, pictures and recordings. plasticene.blogspot.com
Trouble Begins at 8! Mark Twain
A one man show with Chick Richards Fifteen separate skits presented in two acts. Mark Twain died 100 years ago, but his humor and wit is still relevant.
May 27, 28 and 29 at 8:00 PM May 30 matinee at 3:00 PM Tickets $12 seniors/students $9 Reservations: 773.682.2354 Advance Tickets www.brownpapertickets.com/event/110310
first friday poets
May 7 at 7 PM Waiting4Bus Collective
Nelson Algren Party
Saturday March 27 8 PM $10 at door/ $5 seniors Acme Art Works St Paul's in the Algren tradition, poets, music and new media. Nelson Algren Community Awards: Erika R Allen, James Bond and Erwin Helfer. www.nelsonalgren.org
Anarchist Film Festival
2010 is the 10th Anniversary of the Chicago Anarchist Film Festival (CAFF). As we have for ten years, CAFF invites anarchists, anti-authoritarians, the anarcho-friendly and the anarcho-curious to experience radical cinema from around the world with features, shorts, documentaries, animation, and found footage. Wednesday May 5, Friday May 7 & Saturday May 8 7pm-10pm each night
theater
20% Theatre April 8, 9, 10 and 11 www.twentypercentchicago.com Producing thought-provoking classics and fresh original works — all of them written, directed and designed by women. High atop a railroad trestle that spans a bone-dry creek, two small-town teenagers come up with a plan – to race across the bridge against an oncoming train. It’s a dangerous plan, but these are dangerous times, and they are starving for something – anything – new. A beautiful and haunting play, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek takes us inside a nation turned upside down by the Great Depression, as people struggled to come to terms with the changing world around them.
theater
Bruised Orange presents Determination_The Reboot a play by Clint Sheffer April 14 - 30th on Wed and Fridays at 7:30 PM "Hilarious..deadly robots against teenage angst with a touch of Lady Gaga...belly laughs throughout." Marissa Oberlander, Reader www.bruisedorange.org contact 773.336.2682
movies about music
Chicago International Movies and Music Festival http://www.cimmfest.org/ Film On Music/Music On Film
The Chicago International Movies and Music Festival brings together movies about music, music for movies, and movies capturing music as it is made.
CIMMFest 2011 You missed it! We hosted premieres by new and established film and video directors, as well as retrospectives, classic films and videos will fill the days; genre-bending musical performances will rule the nights, at participating venues around the great music and film town that is Chicago.
