Wednesday, April 25, 2007
From the dude - Jon Monteverde:
xyzr_kx @ morseland Fri 5/4 11PM $5
1218 W Morse Ave, Chicago, Illinois - 5.00
xyzr_kx
w/ SPARK*SHOP and other artist TBA
From the chick - Dipali:
Hey Guys!
I'm part of an acapella group in Chicago called Enigma Acapella. We do a fusion of Indian/English music, and we have a show this friday at UIC from 8-10pm along with another group from Champaign called Chai Town! Tickets are$3 with a student ID (any school) and $5 for general public. It should be a really good show and we've put a lot of work into it so try and come out!!!
We also have a fundraiser after party at PS Chicago. There are 2 deals for the night: $10 cover and reduced drinks all night, OR $30 open bar all night! We could really use the help so come out get tipsy and help us out :)
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
From Ms. Cynthia Lin:
hey everyone!
i hope you can make it this week or next for the last 2 shows in my residency at uncommon ground. we've been having full crowds - so full that people were turned away last week! so if you are planning to come, it's a good idea to reserve!
this wednesday, april 18th, the show will feature:
8pm: ryan suzuka
8:30pm: yours truly, with john on cello and kapi on vocals
9:20pm: lanialoha lee and pacific soundz (hawaiian music - i'll be singing backup!)
the show is free (there will be a tip bucket), and there is some standing room. if you want to reserve a table, it's $20 min/pp. uncommon ground has tasty food and a nice drink selection, so plan on dinner if you like.
also, parking in wrigleyville can be a pain. watch for permit signs, look further north on clark, and give yourself some extra parking time.
see you there!
cynthia.
From Miss Mia:
THE WIND CRIES MARY staged reading
A-Squared Theater Workshop, a collective of Chicago-based Asian
American theater artists, presents a staged reading of the play The
Wind Cries Mary by Phillip Kan Gotanda, a reworking of Henrik Ibsen's
Hedda Gabler.
The Wind Cries Mary explores Ibsen's timeless themes of power and
gender politics set against the backdrop of San Francisco's rock scene
and the Civil Rights Movement. Philip Kan Gotanda transforms Ibsen's
"Hedda" into "Eiko," a Japanese American woman of vast gifts and
intelligence burdened by the constraints of gender and tradition in
1968.
Monday, April 30
8 pm
Japanese American Service Committee
4427 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL
773-275-0097
$2 donation at the door
Ghuon "Max" Chung directs a cast that includes Jennifer Liu, Marssie
Mencotti, Dave Mendes, Marc Rita, Theresa Ro, and Allen Hope Sermonia.
A-Squared Theater Workshop
asquaredtw@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/asquaredtheaterworkshop
From Ms. Soni:
The Neighborhood Writing Alliance, in partnership with Jane Addams Hull-House invites you to attend the film screening of
Matewan
Directed by John Sayles.
Monday, April 16, 5-8:30 pm, Jane Addams Hull-House, 800 South Halsted, Residents Dining Hall.
Free Dinner Provided
Seating is limited. Reservations are required. Please R.S.V.P to Rupal Soni at 773-684-2742 or email rsoni@jot.org. For more information visit the Hull-House Museum website.
After the film, Bill Ayers, Professor of Education at UIC, will lead a discussion around issues of labor education, unionization, race, and immigration.
This film screening and discussion is part of NWA's on-going project "Learning Curves," which focuses on the theme of formal and informal education.
Matewan is about the well-intentioned labor leader Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper) who arrives in Matewan, West Virginia, to unionize the coal mine workers. But his efforts to organize the coal company workers spark one of the most violent incidents in the history of the 1920-21 Coal Wars. Tensions grow between the miners and the company men, igniting a powder keg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal. Matewan was nominated for an Academy Award and was the winner of the Independent Spirit Award, 1988.
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is part of the College of Architecture and the Arts at UIC and serves as a dynamic memorial to social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jane Addams (1860-1935) and other resident social reformers whose work influenced the lives of their immigrant neighbors as well as national and international public policy. The Museum and its programs make connections between the work of Hull-House residents and important contemporary social issues.
This series is curated by JAMES THINDWA, Executive Director of Chicago Jobs with Justice; labor historian and UIC Professor LEON FINK; and HELENA WORTHEN, Assistant Professor in the Chicago Labor Education Program at UIC.
