Events
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05 / 17
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Columbia College MFA Music Composition for
the Screen students accompanying silent films from the
late 19th/20th century $5 donation
THE ACTUALITY SHOW
Fundamentals of Cinema in Tracking Shots, Nature and
Kissing (1893 - 1905).
With live musical accompaniment by students of
Columbia College's MFA Music Composition for the
Screen program.
'Actuality film': the crude, unorganized footage of a
real place, event, thing, etc., generally referring to
the first decade of cinema's creation, when filmmakers
weren't filmmakers but "operators" who captured nature
and the modern world using hand-cranked cameras.
Hovering between the mundane (workers leaving a
factory) and the extraordinary (President McKinley
makes a personal appearance), these fragments often
reveal inadvertent truths about the manipulations
inherent to both documentary and fiction filmmaking.
Actualities are thought of as static, grainy, boring,
primitive (Gorky's "Kingdom of Shadows"); taking a
closer look, they contain the ambition of a modern
cinema that finds virtue in the simple observation of
the world's splendor (contemporary masters such as Hou
Hsiao-hsien and Abbas Kiarostami come to mind).
THE ACTUALITY SHOW takes a look at three phenomenon of
actualities from 1893- 1905: the invention of the
tracking shot by mounting cameras to trains and other
movable machinery; the unpredictable, astonishing
presence of nature and wildlife that found its way
into the early cinema frame as a testament to the
power of documentary; and the human kiss as an
electrifying presentiment of the potential of a new
art form to inspire love and change.
Original music composed and performed by:
Elon Arbiture
Jordan Balagot
Duncan Blickenstaff
Joseph Cooper
Mae Crosby
Andrew Edwards
Victor Hernandez-Sumpfhauser
Robert Ramos
Marjorie Rusche
Nathaniel Smith
Michelle Tyler
Program runs approximately 90 minutes with brief
pauses between films. DVD projection.
Start: 10:00 pm
Saturday May 17th, 10pm:
Steve Fors, solo lap steel guitar
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Andrew Scott Young Ensemble (piano/bass/sax/cello/violin)
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Holsum (Jaimie Branch, trumpet; Jeff Kimmel, bass clarinet)
Heaven Heaven Heaven!
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
10pm - $5 suggested donation
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05 / 18
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05 / 19
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05 / 20
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05 / 21
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05 / 22
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05 / 23
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
RERUN:
the relation between a symbol and a symptom
"The symbol, ordinarily made to be understood, becomes symptom the moment it displaces itself and loses its primary identity, when its proliferation suffocates its signification."
-Freud, 1916
A common tool of advertising, repetition is known to be effective and persuasive. The fifteen artists presented here explore the point where repetition looses its persuasive power and becomes decorative and pleasing as it does in the tradition of wallpaper.
These wallpapers are mostly created using pre-existing media derived imagery that has been appropriated, re-contextualized and multiplied further. All are achieved through the process of screen-printing, a medium traditionally associated with multiplication and commodity.
This project was designed to challenge artists to create imagery that focused on repetition and simultaneously addressed the multiples role within printmaking, decoration, advertising and design.
The participating artists are (currently local to Boston, MA):
Alexis Adams
Rebecca Bird Grigsby
Ben Smart
Diego Guzman
Hilary McBride
Maggie Haas
Melinda Go
Nahna Kim
Nicole Kita
Rhonda Rat-ray
Wayne Kleppe
Bob Shane
James Nardone
Janine Biunno
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
HAROLD ARTS presents "RE RUN" a show curated by Harold Residency Alum Janin Biunno.
Rerun- the wallpaper show- Friday May 23 @ Heaven Gallery
RERUN
the relation between a symbol and a symptom
An exhibition of subversive wallpapers created by 15 different artists.
Curated by Janine Biunno
Organized in affiliation with Harold Arts
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, May 23
7-11pm
Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL
Open through June 21.
Gallery hours: 1-5p Saturdays
or call 773.342.4597 for appointment
janinebiunno.com
heavengallery.com
haroldarts.org
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PROTEST HEAVEN: MATANA ROBERTS!!!
Music starts at 10 -
First Set:
Matana Roberts Solo Saxophone
Second Set:
BRANCH/HERNDON/ROBERTS + Surprise Guests!
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Get your culture in for the month this friday at heaven.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
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05 / 24
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05 / 25
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05 / 26
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05 / 27
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05 / 28
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05 / 29
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05 / 30
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05 / 31
Start: 10:00 pm
Saturday, May 31st at 10pm
Patrick Breiner, solo saxophone
www.myspace.com/PatrickBreinerMusic
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Breakway
Paul Giallorenzo, piano/electronics
Brian Labycz, electronics
Marc Riordan, drums
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Sonic Circus (East Coast)
Currently fixated somewhere along the East Coast, Sonic Circus consists of Dana Jessen (bassoon) and Michael Straus (saxophones). Dedicated to today's music, their combined individual efforts include the premiers of over forty new works with performances at New York City's The Stone, Boston's Jordan Hall and Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center. Always looking to collaborate with non-traditional artists and musicians, they will be joined this show by turntablist DJ Dubble8. These three musicians, having all dabbled in the institutionalized world, hold graduate degrees in music from the likes of Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and the New England Conservatory of Music. New music performed tonight will fuse electronics with live acoustic instruments and visual projections.
More Artist Info: www.mstraus.net, www.danajessen.com, www.dubble8productions.com
Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
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06 / 1
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
HEAVEN GALLERY LAST SUNDAY SERIES
Sunday, June 1, 3pm
The Cascades- Scott Joplin
Andrew Sinko, piano
Pastiche- Jonathan Schang
Jennifer Swanson, flute; Jonathan Schang, percussion and keys
Sonata 1963- Frank Proto
Dan Thatcher, double bass; Rachel Shaftman, piano
Charanga- Colquhoun
Allie Deaver, flute
French Suite in E- J.S. Bach
Prelude, Allemande, Courante
Three Fantastic Dances, Op. 5- Dmitri Shostakovich
Stephen Hill, piano
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06 / 2
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06 / 3
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06 / 4
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06 / 5
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06 / 6
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06 / 7
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Documentary by Maya Jensen $5 donation
Solidarity in Saya: An Afro-Bolivian Cultural Music Movement
Abstract:
This documentary examines the Afro-Bolivian urban youth movement of Saya music in La Paz, Bolivia that uses this traditional music to pursue their social and political needs. As migrants from villages in the rural, semi-tropical Yungas, this community of youths faces alienation in dealing with the foreign urban environment in which they also cope with racial discrimination on a daily basis. These urban youth build a supportive community around the Saya music group, which serves as a refuge from marginalization in mainstream Bolivian society. The social cohesion and unity cultivated within the Saya group has become a platform for political activism to confront the invisibility of the Afro-Bolivian minority. Rather than standing idle while the colonial hegemonic system of racial hierarchy defines them, the Afro-Bolivian Saya group members empower themselves by defining their own history and identity through these music performances. The Afro-Bolivian youths in La Paz use the musical expression of their history and identity to pursue their current goals of increased respect within society and official recognition by the state.
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