Friday, October 1, 2010 (8 p.m.)
Happy Dog Gallery
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60622
You are invited to attend “Bicycles and the Arts," a multidisciplinary performance event that creatively explores connections between bicycles and the arts. This event, which is part of the Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival and Chicago Artists Month, includes:
$7 suggested donation, all ages and open to the public.
Chicago Calling is organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective, a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to promote the arts, to create opportunities for artists to explore new directions in and between art forms, and to engage the community. Annual Borderbend projects include Chicago Calling and the Mingus Awareness Project. Other organizations partner with Borderbend to enrich and extend the reach of its project, such as the Experimental Piano Series, which is co-produced by the Chicago Composers Forum and Borderbend, in partnership with the PianoForte Foundation.
2010 Chicago Calling Arts Festival
During the 2010 Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, Chicago-based artists collaborate with artists in other locations—both here in the U.S. and abroad. These collaborations involve a range of art forms—including music, dance, film, literature, and intermedia—and they are prepared or improvised. Some Chicago Calling events involve live feeds between Chicago and other locations. 2010 Chicago Calling events include “Bicycles and the Arts" at Happy Dog Gallery, “Translations 2010" at the Reconstruction Room, “Seda Röder / Burton Greene—Harrison Bankhead Duo Concert" at Curtiss Hall, “Temperatures and Shapes / Arctic Live" at Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery, “I Remember Fred" at the Velvet Lounge, “Chicago Calling and Waiting for the Bus" at Café Ballou, “Two Way Tarot Mirrors" at Myopic Books, “My Favorite Banned Books Abecedarian Read-Out" at the Logan Square Library, “Aural Architecture" at WNUR, and other events.
Chicago Artists Month
Throughout October, you are invited to meet hundreds of Chicago visual artists at exhibitions, workshops, open studios, tours, neighborhood art walks and more in venues across the city. Presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with more than 200 program partners, Chicago Artists Month aims to showcase the extraordinary talent and vibrancy of Chicago's art community.
This year's theme, “The City as Studio," explores the impact of the urban environment on Chicago artists and their work, and the contributions that artists make to the vitality of our city. The place where art is imagined and made, whether in a physical or virtual space, affects the idea, the process and the final product. And the art, once created, leaves a mark on the place it occupies. Chicago Artists Month 2010 looks at how the city influences art and artists, and how artists transform the city by contributing to civic dialogue and quality of life.
Happy Dog Gallery
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60622
You are invited to attend “Bicycles and the Arts," a multidisciplinary performance event that creatively explores connections between bicycles and the arts. This event, which is part of the Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival and Chicago Artists Month, includes:
- A group art show called Wheels on the Ground and in the Sky, with 2D and 3D artworks by Andy Delarosa, Alpha Bruton, John Bambino, Janina Ciezadlo, Regin Ingloria, Matt Weber, and other TBA artists;
- John Greenfield reads an excerpt from his new book Bars Across America: Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast;
- A Pop Up Library presented by the Chicago Underground Library;
- A musical ensemble performs—Derek Repsch (electronics), Andrew Royal (violin), Jimmy Bennington (drums), Dan Godston (trumpet), and other TBA performers
- a telematic / networked performance using Skype during which a musical ensemble in Chicago performs with an ensemble in Detroit (including Christopher Skebo, James Cornish, and other TBA individuals);
- a performance that pays homage to Frank Zappa's 1963 appearance on The Steve Allen Show—when Zappa taught Allen how to play a bicycle and the Steve Allen Orchestra performed with the musical bicycles;
- A project which pays homage to Jean Tinguely's Homage to New York (1960);
- Other TBA activities
$7 suggested donation, all ages and open to the public.
Chicago Calling is organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective, a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to promote the arts, to create opportunities for artists to explore new directions in and between art forms, and to engage the community. Annual Borderbend projects include Chicago Calling and the Mingus Awareness Project. Other organizations partner with Borderbend to enrich and extend the reach of its project, such as the Experimental Piano Series, which is co-produced by the Chicago Composers Forum and Borderbend, in partnership with the PianoForte Foundation.
2010 Chicago Calling Arts Festival
During the 2010 Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, Chicago-based artists collaborate with artists in other locations—both here in the U.S. and abroad. These collaborations involve a range of art forms—including music, dance, film, literature, and intermedia—and they are prepared or improvised. Some Chicago Calling events involve live feeds between Chicago and other locations. 2010 Chicago Calling events include “Bicycles and the Arts" at Happy Dog Gallery, “Translations 2010" at the Reconstruction Room, “Seda Röder / Burton Greene—Harrison Bankhead Duo Concert" at Curtiss Hall, “Temperatures and Shapes / Arctic Live" at Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery, “I Remember Fred" at the Velvet Lounge, “Chicago Calling and Waiting for the Bus" at Café Ballou, “Two Way Tarot Mirrors" at Myopic Books, “My Favorite Banned Books Abecedarian Read-Out" at the Logan Square Library, “Aural Architecture" at WNUR, and other events.
Chicago Artists Month
Throughout October, you are invited to meet hundreds of Chicago visual artists at exhibitions, workshops, open studios, tours, neighborhood art walks and more in venues across the city. Presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with more than 200 program partners, Chicago Artists Month aims to showcase the extraordinary talent and vibrancy of Chicago's art community.
This year's theme, “The City as Studio," explores the impact of the urban environment on Chicago artists and their work, and the contributions that artists make to the vitality of our city. The place where art is imagined and made, whether in a physical or virtual space, affects the idea, the process and the final product. And the art, once created, leaves a mark on the place it occupies. Chicago Artists Month 2010 looks at how the city influences art and artists, and how artists transform the city by contributing to civic dialogue and quality of life.
