near northwest arts council
      Wicker Park Art Center


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At 7:30 pm on Saturday, Aug. 21,
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.  The music on the program will range from beautifully sparse to unconventionally melodic, with elements of folk, experimental and minimalist music, and will include the works of Hans Werner Henze, the world premiere of a piece by local Chicago composer Nomi Epstein, and the works of New York composer Lainie Fefferman. It also will feature a special workshop performance of a little-known collaborative composition by John Cage, Firgil Thomson, Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison. 
For more information www.noblefowl.com.
Sponsored by wickerparkbucktown.org and
raysbucktownbandb.com
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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.

The exhibition is at the Humboldt Park Boathouse, 1359 N. Sacramento in Chicago, August 11 through October 29, 2010.
Gallery hours: Fri 6-8pm and Sat 1-4pm. 


More info at http://streetsofwicker.blogspot.com/2010/07/year-in-humboldt-park-by-dina-petrakis.html

Plasticene Physical Theatre new site specific work

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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!

Tickets are $20 ($12 Student, subject to availability one hour before performance at the door)
Reservations may be made at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/110242
More info at www.plasticene.com   or 312.409.0900

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

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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

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May 7 at 7 PM

Waiting4Bus Collective

Nelson Algren Party

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 2010  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.

A big thank you to our sponsors:
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Bulletproof Film, Inc.
www.cimmfest.org

www.wickerparkbucktown.org


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