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THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 COME TO "A Night of Sight & Sound" - An eclectic art exhibition and concert designed to foster local art community and raise funds for non-profits.This mini festival of arts brings together a diverse group of Chicago-based artists. These include live painters, musicians/bands, performers, visual artists, dancers, and more. Be it a power-pop group, or an abstract photographer, or an accordion player, or a contemporary classical quintet, one is sure to find something fun to enjoy. Every "Night" is different as newer artists join in to show and promote their work, meet new people, build and diversify their audiences, and most importantly, have a good time doing something exciting and worthwhile. A portion of proceeds from the event will go to 826 Chicago - A Nonprofit Tutoring / Writing Center.This event will take place on February 27
7 PM at Quennect 4 Gallery (2716 W. North Ave., Chicago, in Humboldt Park).
PRE-PURCHASE TICKETS NOW FOR $5 ONLINE: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55055 , or $8 @ door.
Presented and Hosted by LETHAL POETRY: www.lethalpoetry.com
PERFORMING: The Mojdeh Project is a folk-alternative-indie group. Their music is a healthy mixture of acoustic/electric, melodic/thrashing, light/heavy, ambient/rhythmical songs & poems, performed with traditional rock and unconventional instrumentation. They seek to incorporate and re-interpret such genres as alternative rock, folk, hardcore, art rock and industrial and create something new that's eclectic & more engaging. In addition to songs, they perform poetry set to music. They like to call it "Folkcore" and "Performance Poetry." Together they have conquered such venues as Museum of Contemporary Art, The Darkroom, The Rave (Milwaukee), Beat Kitchen, etc.
The Zhu Blue Shift has performed since 2001 at Around The Coyote Festival, The Double Door, The Hideout, and at the Cornservatory Theatre. Their music is a mixture of hip hop and experimental electronica.
Venice Gas House Trolley is a three-piece Madison, WI "Beat Freak" music driven poetry ensemble. However, to label what they do simply as "Beat" would be to miss the mark. The band initially hearkens back to the time when hipsters and cool-cats would chill out in jazzy coffeehouses digging ecstatic poets and musicians and then explode through the present and into the future with vocal effects, driving bass, and tight rhythms. The group's sound and content runs the gamut from groovy funk to aggressive garage, to high and lonesome country, to avant-garde jazz, to ambient chill. This is the next step in the spoken word revolution happening right now.
VISUAL:Laura Pawson is an interdisciplinary artist originally from New York. She recently graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA with a primary focus in photography and fibers. Her work deals with representations of stereotypes and issues of race & prejudice. She works primarily with photography and graphic arts. Laura is currently our resident artist.Sarah Lensink creates multimedia paintings that explore subjective experiences of people with mental illness. She explores the effects that institutions have on the healing process, as well as the preceptions the public has on these individuals. Sarah is currently our resident artist and has recently exhibited at ART ON TRACK, August 2008 - a mobile art exhibition on CTA train.POETRY/SPOKEN WORD:Gregory Pickett is an award winning slam poet and writer! He won the 2005 Creative Writer's Society Award for Poetry at Western Illinois University. He won 2nd place at the 2nd Annual Rootabaga Poetry Slam in Galesburg, Illiois. He’s a 2x consecutive winner of the ACUI Region 9 Poetry Slamsin ’05 & ’06. He's a 3x consecutive winner of the Online Virtual Poetry Slam held by Citizens for Global Solutions ’06-’08, and a Poet’s Choice Award at the 2008 Rust Belt Regional Poetry Slam in Columbus, Ohio.
AND MANY MANY OTHER ARTISTS!!!
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On a trip to Death Valley over the New Year's holiday I took this photo of Zabriskie Point, a classic desert vista and also the name of a critically maligned Antonioni film -- sort of the European take on the 60s counterculture in California.
Death Valley is, of course, one of the hottest places on earth, and is certainly the hottest place in North America. It's vast and more than a little weird. With much of it below sea level, it's perhaps not surprising that the underworld seems to hold sway here -- you'll find the 'devil's racetrack', a place where stones slide unseen across a dry lake bed, and the tortured shrubs of the 'devil's cornfield' (a surefire attraction for the treking midwesterner). The devil left some other stuff strewn around the valley too, but enough said on the point.
International tourists have seemed scarce in the US in the past few years, but with Bush's era waning, perhaps they are feeling more comfortable here. Or perhaps the shrinking dollar has simply made the US a more economical destination. Either way international tourists seemed to make up the majority of people in Death Valley (now the US's biggest national park outside Alaska). Japanese, Chinese, German, British, Australian, like Antonioni they come to experience what they -- more, it seems, than Americans -- imagine as the quintessentially American scene. Nobody seems to drive there from home;all the cars have that distinctly awkward rental look.
In January, at least, Death Valley is beautiful. In a deathy kind of way.
Feel free to download a larger, much prettier version of this photo from my web site.
