In an effort to expand the opportunities available to its alumni artists, Marwen and Around the Coyote have partnered to present a month-long exhibition highlighting painters, photographers, installation artists and graffiti artists from Marwen's recent alumni.
Participating artists include Sadie Woods, Orlando Camacho, Ricardo Gamboa, Pater Pacheco, and Jennifer Lynn Hall. Marwen provides high quality visual arts education, college planning, and career development programs—all completely free of charge to Chicago’s under-served youth in grades 6-12.
Around the Coyote supports, promotes and makes accessible Chicago 's multidisciplinary arts community.
Oasis is a site-specific sculptural installation fashioned out of discarded clothing to create a fantasy landscape.
Miami-based artist team Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz simulate a mini eco-system stylistically reminiscent of an impressionist painting, in which wearable items become brush strokes and juxtapose a variety of colors and textures to create a three dimensional representation of a vibrantly painted landscape.
The late Chicago Artist Joseph Conlon’s series “101 Talismans for a happy death” will be on display at Aron Packer Gallery. Conlon, who was HIV positive for over 20 years, created the work in the last five years of his life and passed away in 2005.
The word Talismans is defined as an amulet or charm; anything with almost magical power. With this idea in mind, 101 Talismans for a Happy Death can be viewed as the artists attempt to confront mortality using the talisman of his art. The 101 reference in the talismans project was inspired by the Japanese story of 1000 cranes about the story of the girl in Hiroshima, Japan who thought if she could fold 1000 paper cranes it would free her from the suffering brought to her by the Atomic Bomb.
Sound also plays into Conlon’s representation of death. The video images are accompanied by an abstract soundscape by Sally Station. The soundtrack compels you to breathe deeply and rhythmically. The measured soundtrack and repeated visuals suggest something more than the distancing of trauma-they suggest an acceptance of meditation on the cycle of life and death.
Gay Games Online Art Gallery Sponsored by Around the Coyote
Host
Around the Coyote
Time
12 pm - 12 am
Location
www.aroundthecoyote.org
Address
www.aroundthecoyote.org
Event Description
Around the Coyote and the Gay Games have partnered to bring an online exhibition of fine art to an online art gallery to the myriad of events offered througout Chicago during the Gay Games.
The online exhibition features images from some of Chicago's best emerging sculptors, painters, printmakers and photographers along with images from artists from other parts of the world who come to Chicago for the Gay Games.
Around the Coyote is Chicago's preeminent emerging arts organization, now in its 18th year of programming.
Artwork from the online gallery can be seen in person at the 2006 Around the Coyote Fall Festival September 8-10 in Chicago's beautiful Wicker Park art neighborhood.
Cost
$0
Arts Festival Event
Chicago SummerDance
Host
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Chicago Office of Tourism
Time
4 pm - 7 pm
Location
Spirit of Music Garden
Address
601 S. Michigan Avenue
Event Description
Chicago SummerDance is an eleven-week festival featuring one-hour dance lessons by professional dance instructors, followed by two hours of live music and dancing, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening, 6 to 9:30 pm, and Sunday afternoon, 4 to 7 pm, weather-permitting.
Chicago SummerDance is formatted into themes featuring the DJ series of electronic dance music on Mondays and Wednesdays, world music ensembles on Thursdays, "popular nights" featuring jazz, Latin, country and funk on Fridays and Saturdays, and ballroon/big band on Sundays.
The Chicago SummerDance Nomadic DJ series continues for its third year, June 19-August 23, 2006. This roaming series
will now be held once a week at various downtown locations in the city, including Daley Plaza, Millennium Park, Grant Park and more.
The DaVinci GayCode: 10 Years of Heresy - The Best of GayCo
Host
Time
7 pm - 9 pm
Location
Theatre Building Chicago
Address
1225 West Belmont Avenue
Event Description
Ten years of award-winning sketch comedy from GayCo Productions.
Born from Chicago’s famous Second City theater, GayCo mixes a homolarious cocktail of comedy and song as they dismantle gay marriage, gay panic and gay life in a post-Brokeback America.
No element of gay and lesbian life goes unscathed: The Queer-eye guys transform into pink-faced minstrels; Gay couples time-share a baby; A pair of lesbians mourn their lesbian death bed; A fag-hag support group spins out of control.
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through August 27th. Call Box Office for showtimes
From the opening number that introduces six naked singers with their (clothed) female cohort, to a beautifully sung finale that celebrates the human body in all its imperfections, BARENAKED LADS is an upbeat and engertic evening full of colorful characters.
We see a taping of the nude gourmet's TV show, and meet a Reverend who casts aside both sins and clothes in a grand revival scheme. We meet a married celebrating an anniversary on a nude beach Provincetown, a gonzo personal trainer on Montrose Beach, and a group of grade school children who get an unexpected lesson at the zoo. And we meet Troop Randolph, the glamorous 1930's Hollywood Star whose mansion and pool are overflowing with male beauty.
You’ll be inspired to cheer for Sherry Horman’s hilarious sports-themed comedy.
Ecki is a young man who works in a bakery and plays soccer on his local team. Already under pressure for playing badly, his homophobic teammates find out that he is gay and throw him off the team. Ecki then tries to form an all-gay soccer team to challenge his old team in a grudge match.
Ecki’s journey of self-realization is filled with wonderful surprises and colorful characters in this delightful romantic hit. Toast the Closing of the Games at the cocktail reception immediately preceding the 9:00 PM screening.
For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit www.reelingfilmfestival.org or call 773-293-1447.
Out of the Closet, Lisa Nordstrom and guest artists, from bowling balls, luggage, altered clothing and board games to life-altering proclamations and secrets big and small, this mixed media group show features all manner of things formerly closeted.
Art Gecko, 19 Harrison Street, Oak Park More info: 708-358-1950.
Rediscover the art of Sunday brunch at the MCA. Indulge yourself with delicious specialties created by Wolfgang Puck while overlooking the MCA sculpture garden and Lake Michigan.
$22.50 Adults/$13.50 Kids
Cost
$22
Music Events
Music Event
MOVE!...The 2006 Chicago International House Music Festival
Host
CDM Chicago, NFP
Time
1 pm - 11 pm
Location
Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island
Address
1300 S. Lynn White Dr., Chicago
Event Description
MOVE!
Featuring some of the most renowned performers including three GRAMMY Award
winners: Frankie Knuckles, Maurice Joshua and David Morales.
The festival will introduce South African DJ Glen Lewis along with the legendary singers Jocelyn Brown, Barbara Tucker
and Chicago's own Jamie Principle and Dajae. Danny Tenaglia will be celebrating Saturday evening with an extended set in support of the closing of Gay Games VII on the International stage.
Also featured are Chicago-born Ralphi Rosario, Derrick Carter, Terry Hunter, GRAMMY nominee Steve "Silk" Hurley, Djeremy, Lady D and Andre Hatchett.
Special celebrity hosts are Lady Bunny, Phillip Bloch and Lee Ann Trotter.
The Official L Word Gay Games Closing Party. Hosted by Ilene Chaiken, Creator and Executive Producer of The L Word. Featuring BETTY in concert with special appearances by L Word cast members: Pam Grier (Kit), Daniela Sea (Moira), and Marlee Matlin (joining the cast this season).
Additional performances by Bitch and Daniela Sea (The L Word's "Max") plus God-des and She.
The Official L Word Gay Games Closing Party. Hosted by Ilene Chaiken, Creator and Executive Producer of The L Word. Featuring BETTY in concert with special appearances by L Word cast members: Pam Grier (Kit), Daniela Sea (Moira), and Marlee Matlin (joining the cast this season).
Additional performances by Bitch and Daniela Sea (The L Word's "Max") plus God-des and She.
For seven years, About Face has created its most powerful, innovative, and celebrated work in collaboration with Chicago's extraordinary community of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trangender) young people. Our audience jumps to its feet in joyful recognition each season at the curtain call of the Youth Theatre production.
This year, About Face is proud to premiere the most powerful Youth Theatre production yet -- The Home Project.
Based on interviews with hundreds of LGBT youth about their experiences with home and homelessness, The Home Project is filled with astonishing, disturbing, and ultimately triumphant stories of young people who struggle to create a perfect society while battling complacency, violence, and apathy. It is the most thrilling, exciting, and important new play to emerge from the talented adult artists and young people of the nationally celebrated About Face Youth Theatre.
Jeffrey, a gay actor/waiter has sworn off sex after too many bouts with his partners about what is "safe" and what is not. In gay New York, though, sex is not something you can avoid. Just after he's reconciled himself to celibacy, Jeffrey's flamboyant friends introduce him to the man of his dreams, who also happens to be HIV-positive. What follows is a moving and audacious romantic comedy with a difference- one in which the quest for love and really fabulous clothes meet, and where unflagging humor prevails even when tragedy might be just around the corner.
Pilgrim Church will present a church service that featuring special music and speaker honoring the Gay Games.
Cost
$0
Worship Event
Welcoming Worship Service
Host
Bethlehem United Church of Christ
Time
10 am - 11 am
Location
Bethlehem United Church of Christ
Address
2750 N. Magnolia Ave.
(approx. 1200 W. Diversey Ave., 1/2 block from Racine/Lincoln/Diversey Intersection)
Event Description
An Open & Affirming, multi-generational/cultural congregation inviting all to a possitive and welcoming worship service.
For more information contact:
773.281.6480 or www.bucc-chicago.org
Cost
$0
Worship Event
Worship Service
Host
Beverly Unitarian Church
Time
10 am - 12 pm
Location
Beverly Unitarian Church
Address
10244 S. Longwood Dr., Chicago
Event Description
Worship Service
www.beverlyunitarian.org
773-233-7080
Cost
$0
Worship Event
Dynamic Worship Service
Host
Broadway United Methodist Church
Time
10 am - 12 pm
Location
Broadway Church
Address
3344 N. Broadway (Corner of Broadway and Buckingham in Lakeview area)
Event Description
Worship with a diverse community that celebrates God's good gifts of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Cost
$0
Worship Event
Worship Service
Host
Second Unitarian Church (UUA)
Time
10 am - 12 pm
Location
Second Unitarian Church (UUA)
Address
656 W. Barry Ave, Chicago
Event Description
Worship Service
www.secondunitarian.org
(773) 549-0260
Cost
$0
Worship Event
Worship Service
Host
St. Paul's United Church of Christ
Time
10 am - 11 am
Location
St. Paul's Church
Address
2335 N. Orchard Street (Corner of Orchard Street and Fullerton Parkway in the Lincoln Park neighborhood)
Event Description
Our regular Sunday morning worship service. We are an open and affirming congregation of the United Church of Christ. No matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here.
Cost
$0
Worship Event
Forum
Host
Third Unitarian Church (UUA)
Time
10 am - 12 pm
Location
Third Unitarian Church (UUA)
Address
301 North Mayfield, Chicago
Event Description
Forum: religious discussion
www.thirdunitarianchurch.org
(773) 626-9385
Cost
$0
Worship Event
Worship services followed by a Social Hour
Host
University Church
Time
10 am - 12 pm
Location
University Church
Address
5655 S. University Ave.
Event Description
Our worship services reflect our congregation which is multiracial, open and affirming.
We are affiliated with the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the Disciples of Christ.
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