CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER MICHIGAN AVE Programs GALLERIES 78 EAST August 2013 WASHINGTON ST MAY 24 TO SEP 01 2013 THROUGH AUGUST Branch Projects in Albany Park, will train partic- interview residents, and visit other locations ipants on the spot! For more information, write around the city to better understand pedestrian to: [email protected] or call behavior and how we can support and direct >>INSTALLATION AND WORKSHOPS 917 796 5370. it. cityLab will make design recommendations SHACKS & SHANTIES to assist Landon Bone Baker Architects in a suc- Locations Sacred Keepers Sustainability Lab, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 cessful redevelopment project at Parkside. located at 48th and King Drive; and corner of >>WORKSHOP/PERFORMANCE 71st Street and Stony Island Avenue >>EVENT Leaders Leaders Faheem Majeed with Andres 6:00-9:00pm Songs and Sounds for Cars 3:30-4:30pm Songs and Sounds for Cars Hernandez, Frankie Brown, Rashayla Marie Location North Branch Projects, 3550 W. Location Brown, James Britt, Ava St. Claire, Natalie Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Lawrence Avenue, Albany Park Avenue Galleries workshop/reading room Moore, N. Masani Wisewaters, Toni Anderson, Leaders Nick Tobier and Regin Igloria Liliana Angulo, Samantha Hill, Benyamin Participants Nick Tobier and Regin Igloria Come to Albany Park’s North Branch Projects for Maccabee, Abbéy Odunlami, Krista Franklin, Artists Nick Tobier and Regin Igloria will lead a a music box and street sound workshop. Have Lashana Jackson, and Alexandria Eregbu discussion about the role of cultural spaces that fun building sound devices by deconstructing The Shacks & Shanties project is a multifaceted operate in the arenas of everyday life. What are musical greeting cards. We will use these to South Side installation initiative that will serve the distinctions to be made between museums accompany the 8 pm performance of Songs and as a collaborative platform for artist interven- and cultural centers as destination points and Sounds with/for Cars that will take place at the tions, civically engaged community members, places inextricably linked to the daily lives of corner of Central Park and Lawrence Avenue and organizations to temporarily inhabit. Artist communities? Rather than limiting ourselves to (outside grassy lot with fence), four blocks west Faheem Majeed has built shack-like structures separate specialized arenas of cultural spaces of the Kimball stop on the Brown Line. from found and recycled materials at two loca- can we enrich lives and work through cultural tions in Chicago, and throughout the month of practices adjacent to the stuff of daily life? The FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 August, these structures will act as platforms artists will discuss their own work, which acti- for artistic interventions and temporary inhab- vates public spaces and engages unsuspecting itation by community members and local civic participants, and discuss how these practices >>EVENT organizations. Please check the online calendar play a key role in provoking new imaginative 5:00-6:00pm Interventions in Rural Space regularly for updates on happenings! visions of public life through the unlikely alli- Location Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan ances between art and commerce, civic life Avenue Galleries workshop/reading room TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 and its citizens. Participants Richard Saxton, M12 >>WORKSHOP Collective; Matthew Fluharty, Art of the >>EVENT Rural; Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross, Regional 5:00-6:30pm cityLAB at Spontaneous 7:00-8:45pm Songs and Sounds for Cars Relationships Interventions Location Corner of Central Park and Richard Saxton of the M12 Collective, whose Location Chicago Cultural Center, Lawrence Avenue, Albany Park Campito project is featured in Spontaneous Michigan Avenue Galleries workshop/reading Interventions, will be on site to discuss the Leaders Nick Tobier and Regin Igloria room notion of interventions in rural space. Though Even dream of joining a vocal ensemble? Leader Landon Bone Baker’s cityLAB much has been written about urban interven- Participate in Songs and Sounds with/for Cars, a Join Landon Bone Baker Architects for the final tions, Saxton, who lives in Boulder, Colorado, vocal ensemble that accompanies the sound of presentation of cityLab, a summer workshop and is the author of A Decade of Country Hits: passing traffic. Detroit-based artist Nick Tobier, studying pedestrian behavior at Parkside of Old Art on the Rural Frontier (Jap Sam Books), has whose work deals with the social lives of public Town, the former Cabrini-Green public housing been engaged in projects such as that address places, and Chicago artist Regin Igloria, who site in Chicago. The 6-week program has led the social and working conditions of rural runs the community arts organization North cityLab interns to observe and survey the site, inhabitants of the American West. Matthew Calendar and more information: spontaneousinterventions.org Fluharty, an expert on the state of contemporary Space is limited; those wishing to Location Meet at the Chicago Cultural rural arts and culture, will take part in a dia- attend must register in advance at: Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries workshop/ logue moderated by Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross http://aug20rethinkingsoup.eventbrite.com/ reading room of Regional Relationships, an organization that This event is a collaboration with the Jane Leaders Jon Cotner and Justin Allen commissions artists, scholars, writers and activ- Addams Hull-House Museum, which explores New York artist and poet Jon Cotner revives the ists to create works that investigate the natural, concerns about labor, women’s rights, and other ancient, endangered practice of walking and industrial and cultural landscapes of a region. social concerns. talking. His interactive walks combine dialogue, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 movement, and observation for the sake of WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 worldly encounter. Cotner will lead Spontaneous Society walks that center on a series of one-line >>WORKSHOP utterances that spontaneously unite partici- >>EVENT 10:00am-12:00pm Territory Urban Design pants with people encountered along the way. 5:30-7:00pm Unfurling the Archive Team These ordinary phrases are addressed to women, Location Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan men, and children involved in ordinary activities, Location Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries workshop/reading room and are aimed at highlighting experiences of Avenue Galleries workshop/reading room Leader Daniel Tucker fleeting urban realities while offering tools to Leaders Helen Slade, Rashmi Ramaswamy, build fleeting social connections, intensifying Daniel Tucker will share some gems from the and Mike Newman the joy of daily life. Never The Same archives, which document Chicago S.I. participant Territory Urban Design social, public and political art in Chicago. Cotner will lead two walks, one Team is on site Saturday mornings in July and Unfurlings are show-n-tell events that Never starting at noon and another at early August as part of its 6-week summer de- The Same uses to highlight portions of their 3:00 pm each day. Groups will be sign studio, in which 30 teenagers work togeth- collections. In this instance, Tucker will share limited to five participants who er to envision and build site-specific solutions materials, selected specifically for Spontaneous will be taken on 90-minute walks in to problems with public spaces. This summer Interventions, that show ways artists in Chicago the neighborhood to participate in studio focuses on the issue of safety and safe have dealt with the politics of public space over an experiment to engage with every- spaces for teens. While the core participants the last 15 years. For more information, visit day citizens doing everyday things. have already been selected, feel free to stop by never-the-same.org. Space is limited; Reserve in ad- and see what they’re working on! vance: [email protected]. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 TUESDAY, AUGUST 20 SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 >>EVENT >>EVENT >>WORKSHOP 6:00-7:30pm Promenading Public Space 12:00-1:30pm Re-thinking Soup: Designing 2:00pm Brownfields to Greenfields for Social Change Location Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries workshop/reading room Location Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Location Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries workshop/reading room Avenue Galleries workshop/reading room Leaders Jon Cotner, artist and poet; Terry Guen, master landscape architect of Leader Kaja Kühl, youarethecity Participants Allie O’Neil, Dream It. Grow Millennium Park, Terry Guen Design Associates; Featured S.I. artist Kaja Kühl of Brooklyn-based It; Ric Valicenti, Moving Design; Orrin Williams, Suzanne Carlson, manager of CDOT’s Chicago youarethecity will share her research at the See Potential; Samantha Topol, S.I. curatorial Pedestrian Plan; moderated by Justin Allen, SOA Field Lab for Phytoremediation. At the field lab, team; organized by Lisa Junkin, Jane Addams Culture a community garden in the South Bronx, archi- Hull-House Museum Join New York artist and poet Jon Cotner and tect and planner Kühl used a variety of plants to The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum pres- special guests in a discussion on the role of clean contaminated soil and to educate urban ents its flagship program, Re-thinking Soup, citizens, architects, and city officials in creating gardeners about contamination. Participants at the Chicago Cultural Center. We’ll peruse rewarding pedestrian experiences. Encounters will be able to learn about the process and will Spontaneous Interventions,