Join us for on May 24 and 25 at Augustana Lutheran Church or Wicker Park Lutheran Church for an evening of works by living female composers exploring the Pygmalion myth. Once upon a time, Pygmalion, disgusted with the unbecoming women who surrounded him, carved his own perfect embodiment of femininity. That domineering hand continues to […]
Abundance, Diversity, Austerity, Exclusion: A day-long symposium on HPSCHD Room 208, Deering Library Northwestern University 1979 Campus Drive, Evanston Experts on HPSCHD, Chicago, and the 2020 production, will discuss the social and artistic history, impact, and continuing relevance of John Cage’s monument to abundance and diversity in the current era of austerity and exclusion. Panelists […]
HPSCHD@50: Every Neighborhood Is a Universe HPSCHD Performances 1 & 2 February 29 & March 1, 1-4pm Preston Bradley Hall @ The Chicago Cultural Center 78 E Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602 FREE! Registration recommended: Saturday Sunday Immerse yourself in a universe of sound and light, and celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Cage and […]
Food, art, entertainment – this entire Salon experience celebrates the unexpected, and it happily engages with John Cage's habit of employing random procedures in his making of music compositions (including, most spectacularly, HPSCHD). Upon entering, a chance procedure will determine where, and next to whom, you will be seated. Eric May and Easy Eats will […]
Deadline for submission of video readings of persons killed in the 1919 Chicago Race Riot.
Deadline for submission of TikTok videos for The Gas Heart video.
A moderated conversation with the artists and their communities Conversations with Three Illinois Communities brings together all of the Viral Silence commissioned artists and communities for a moderated conversation. Each artist/team will present a brief excerpt from their performance and discuss the participatory processes, community response and engagement over the past year, and their community’s […]
$20 in person | $10 live stream: PURCHASE TICKETS WORDS : MUSIC : ACTION Western popular culture has historically identified those who are not members of the privileged class as “others” or ”outsiders”, going so far as to cast men to play women’s parts, whites to perform in blackface, redface, and yellowface, and casting non-disabled actors in […]
$20 in person | $10 live stream: PURCHASE TICKETS WORDS : MUSIC : ACTION Western popular culture has historically identified those who are not members of the privileged class as “others” or ”outsiders”, going so far as to cast men to play women’s parts, whites to perform in blackface, redface, and yellowface, and casting non-disabled actors in […]
for Keith Cooper and Chicago’s 793 Homicide Victims in 2021 Memoria de Memoria—loosely, “Memory of the Heart”—is an hour-long meditative composition for twelves voices. The memoria de memoria text is sung on troubadour melodies, which are based on the church modes and are related to jazz scales. All 793 names will be spoken in time—January […]