next event: artists need to find a new space
The St Paul's Church building has reverted back to being a church and the new owners keep the building closed to the public. NNWAC produced almost four years of programs in the space from August 2008 until April 2012. It was a great run, presenting film, visual arts, music and theater.
NNWAC is directed by artists, and managed an artist friendly environment, hosting a place to experiment, to collaborate, and to invite new audiences. NNWAC hosted benefits for local schools, film events for international film directors and production facilities for filmmakers. NNWAC hosted recording sessions for musicians offering truly amazing acoustics.
The church space offered affordable, below market space for the performing and media arts. yet it lacked ADA accessibility which has become critical for both artists and their audiences. The new space should also provide above ground space, with sufficient flexibility to serve as studio, rehearsal, meeting room and workshop space. We require that the new space is a minimum of 16,000 square feet, be convenient to public transportation and provide a ground level theater space with capacity for 150 audience.
The feasibility study commissioned by the NNWAC Board of Directors is available to download.
Subscribe to the NNWAC newsletter for progress reports on our space making endeavor.
Research studies Include:
2011 Creative Community Artist Work/Live Condominium Project
2008 Neighborhood Cultural Center feasibility study
2006 Creative Community, Wicker Park Bucktown
2003 Critical Issues Chicago Artists
1996 Arts as Business, Artists Survey
1995 Working Together, West Town Arts Economic Impact Study
NNWAC is directed by artists, and managed an artist friendly environment, hosting a place to experiment, to collaborate, and to invite new audiences. NNWAC hosted benefits for local schools, film events for international film directors and production facilities for filmmakers. NNWAC hosted recording sessions for musicians offering truly amazing acoustics.
The church space offered affordable, below market space for the performing and media arts. yet it lacked ADA accessibility which has become critical for both artists and their audiences. The new space should also provide above ground space, with sufficient flexibility to serve as studio, rehearsal, meeting room and workshop space. We require that the new space is a minimum of 16,000 square feet, be convenient to public transportation and provide a ground level theater space with capacity for 150 audience.
The feasibility study commissioned by the NNWAC Board of Directors is available to download.
Subscribe to the NNWAC newsletter for progress reports on our space making endeavor.
Research studies Include:
2011 Creative Community Artist Work/Live Condominium Project
2008 Neighborhood Cultural Center feasibility study
2006 Creative Community, Wicker Park Bucktown
2003 Critical Issues Chicago Artists
1996 Arts as Business, Artists Survey
1995 Working Together, West Town Arts Economic Impact Study
programs offered in previous space 2008 - 2012
youth workshop
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celebrate author
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State Theatre Chicago presents The Winter's Tale
An explosion of Shakespeare's
The Winter's Tale
Sparked by Taylor Bibat
February 10, 11, 17, & 18.
Multiple "seatings" between 6:30-9:30 PM
A Crowded House is an explosion of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Audience members will freely explore an environment of jealousy, rage, death, love, and life. This experiential "translation" assaults Shakespeare's original story by means of sound, object, bodies, and creative juiciness.
A directing ensemble of 9 of the top young directors in Chicago welcomes you into this extraordinary theatrical event. Get affected, excited, inspired, take a breather, and finally party your ass off at A Crowded House.
This event begins at the Blue Line Lounge in Wicker Park and travels to the Wicker Park Art Center just a few blocks away! The venue is not handicap accessible.
Purchase Tickets Here
The Winter's Tale
Sparked by Taylor Bibat
February 10, 11, 17, & 18.
Multiple "seatings" between 6:30-9:30 PM
A Crowded House is an explosion of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Audience members will freely explore an environment of jealousy, rage, death, love, and life. This experiential "translation" assaults Shakespeare's original story by means of sound, object, bodies, and creative juiciness.
A directing ensemble of 9 of the top young directors in Chicago welcomes you into this extraordinary theatrical event. Get affected, excited, inspired, take a breather, and finally party your ass off at A Crowded House.
This event begins at the Blue Line Lounge in Wicker Park and travels to the Wicker Park Art Center just a few blocks away! The venue is not handicap accessible.
Purchase Tickets Here
special event
February 24th, 6:30pm-12am
Do you enjoy, make, or want to make revolutionary art? JOIN US for the launch of the Rebel Arts Collective. Discover the possibilities throughout this incredible art-packed night! Featuring homegrown rebel music acts: Captain Captain Snake Oil Salesmen The Kuhls Theatrical performances from: Twenty Percent Theater Company Theatre of the Oppressed Cutting Edge Art and Poetry ...plus plenty more that gives Rahm Emanuel nightmares! Connect with other politically motivated artists, find the resources you need to get your ideas off the ground, and collaborate with other artists to make the most world-changing art you've never imagined! Another world is possible! "The goal of the revolutionary artist is to make the revolution irresistible." http://artsoccupychi.tumblr.com/ theater main stage
 A Christmas Carol
Silent Theatre brings bah humbug! A Christmas story, let it not fool you…This is a ghost story, a story of awakening the senses, a story about the human spirit finding its path.
Opens Friday Nov 25 continuing thru Dec 30. Thurs, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM Tickets $15 - $25 For more information 773.544.1749 www.silenttheatre.com The characters are all decked out in pasty white mime make up and the lighting is minimal, all creating the effect that we’re seeing flickering images on a screen, and particularly creepy ones at that. .Director Tonika Todorova gives us a dark and otherworldly take on the material that often has a surreal nightmare quality. There’s no dialogue, or even narration beyond the very beginning, but we get a soundtrack of some enjoyably cracked takes on traditional Christmas songs and some original material from composer/pianist Isaiah Robinson. film
In Mario Caiano's NIGHTMARE CASTLE (1965), a scientist of the mad variety learns that if you torture and murder your wife and her lover and then use their blood for your youth serum, their spirits are bound to come back and haunt you, especially if you then marry your wife's mentally fragile step-sister, and especially if she's played by the same actress--even if it's the luscious Barbara Steele. Got it? Good.
Then, the archaeologists in Mario Bava's uncredited directorial debut, CALTIKI THE UNDYING MONSTER (1959), discover the dangers of messing around with Mayan ruins when they unwittingly awaken a gigantic blob-god whose mere touch eats the flesh from your bones. As usual, this mayhem comes at the low-low price of $5, and if you wear a Halloween costume, you get in free! Come in for cheap concessions, real 16mm film, fun prize giveaways, and a chance to tell your friends "I watched cheapo Italian horror films in a church basement." Shock Theater from the Cinema Dementia Collection! special events
The Enigma Machine:
A Launch Party for The Agency Theater Collective Friday Oct 21 at 8 PM An underground affair organized around codes and secrets. The evening will feature drinks, interactive live entertainment, food, prizes and more. All proceeds will make possible the Agency's upcoming docket of events. Come solve the riddle. You have the password. Tickets $10 entrance fee includes 1 drink. Holiday Craft Fair 2010
Handcrafted Gifts from 35 Countries
Fairly Traded Chocolate, Nativity Sets, Toys, Jewelry, and Accessories Saturday Nov 20 12 PM - 6 PM Sunday Nov 21 12 PM - 6 PM Bruised Orange Theater presents
Tickets $18 dollars, cash only at the door. Credit card purchases: bruisedorange.org. Reservations call 773.336.2682 |
theater late night
No Shame Theater
The Agency Theater group has moved No Shame Theatre permanently to 3914 N Clark Street to Luna Central.
http://www.noshame.org theater
Following its critically acclaimed Steppenwolf Garage debut production of Jose Rivera's Sonnets for an Old Century, Urban Theater Company begins its 6th season with the midwest premiere of Pulitzer Prize Winner Nilo Cruz's Beauty of the Father, directed by Teatro Vista Producing Artistic Director, Cecilie Keenan. This riveting family drama features Ivan Mega and Madrid St. Angelo. Tickets $20 www.UrbanTheaterChicago.org Discounts available for group/seniors/industry special events
Nelson Algren:
The Original Wicker Park Hipster More than 120 poets, musicians, activists, writers, actors, and well read Algren celebrants attended the 22nd Birthday Party on Saturday March 26. The Nelson Algren Committee hosted the event. www.nelsonalgren.org special events
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Acme Art Works Gallery
imagine :: observe a group exhibit with photography and three video poems. Writer and photographer, Jennifer Bisbing brings a selection from her recent series of powerful portraits of Wicker Women. Photographer Michael Smith exhibits photographs made with a toy camera that reflect his contemplative meditation about loss and memories of his childhood home. Curated by Laura Weathered, the exhibit of work by inter-generational artists includes Tasan Hardy, Andres Alvarez, and Frederic Bruly Bouabré, Warren Leming and Carmine Cervi present Algren's Last Night.
The artwork reflects on place, people and memories, to demonstrate unique ways and styles of knowing.
Gallery hours Thu, Fri and Sat from 12 to 5 PM
and by appointment tel 773.278.7677 or email: laura@nnwac.org
The artwork reflects on place, people and memories, to demonstrate unique ways and styles of knowing.
Gallery hours Thu, Fri and Sat from 12 to 5 PM
and by appointment tel 773.278.7677 or email: laura@nnwac.org
art moving west 2010
Experience a creative fusion of artists, galleries and performances extending the arts district west of Western.
Friday Oct 1 from 5 to 9 PM DreamBox Gallery 2415 W North Ave Retrospective exhibit and new portraits by Iwona Bierdermann Containment, new paintings by Ewa Bloch iwonabiedermann@sbcglobal.net Tom Robinson Gallery 2418 W North Ave Twins and Girls, an exhibit for one night only. Later in the month, Chicago Art-Pulse, organized by members of the Chicago Woman Caucus for Art, reception is Saturday, Oct 9 from 4 to 8 PM. www.http://tomrobinsonartist.com/ |
chicago guitar festival
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 The Noble Fowl Trio (Claire Happel, Jeremy Harting, James Moore) will present a concert of new and classic works for harp, mandolin and guitar/banjo.
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 A Year in Humboldt Park is the naturalist photo essay of the year 2009 by Dina Petrakis, curated by Candice Martens in collaboration with Gerald Ritchie.
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Plasticene Physical Theatre new site specific work
From a Fading Light
May 12 - 22 only 10 performances
...an immersive and breathtaking promenade physical theater performance that travels through the entirety of a 100-year-old church in Wicker Park created by Chicago's 15-year-old pioneer physical theater company.
"Plasticene's work is not to be missed..." - Chicago Tribune
"Plasticene's work is never to be missed..." - Chicago Sun-Times
Only Ten Performances and only 48 Audience Capacity per Performance!
Tickets are $20 ($12 Student, subject to availability one hour before performance at the door)
Reservations may be made at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/110242
More info at www.plasticene.com or 312.409.0900
Please note: audience must be able to negotiate stairs to experience this performance.
Plasticene creates original theater inspired by a unique process of research and construction developed over the past fifteen years. Plasticene assembles high-impact theater from the most plastic elements of theatrical creation: the body in action, objects in motion, light as revelation, and sound as sensation. Plasticene performance and education work offers our community an experience that is playful, visceral, poetic, athletic, evocative, brave and endlessly creative.Plasticene creates original theater inspired by a unique process of research and construction developed over the past fifteen years. Plasticene assembles high-impact theater from the most plastic elements of theatrical creation: the body in action, objects in motion, light as revelation, and sound as sensation. Plasticene performance and education work offers our community an experience that is playful, visceral, poetic, athletic, evocative, brave and endlessly creative.
Follow the creative process in research, pictures and recordings.
plasticene.blogspot.com
May 12 - 22 only 10 performances
...an immersive and breathtaking promenade physical theater performance that travels through the entirety of a 100-year-old church in Wicker Park created by Chicago's 15-year-old pioneer physical theater company.
"Plasticene's work is not to be missed..." - Chicago Tribune
"Plasticene's work is never to be missed..." - Chicago Sun-Times
Only Ten Performances and only 48 Audience Capacity per Performance!
Tickets are $20 ($12 Student, subject to availability one hour before performance at the door)
Reservations may be made at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/110242
More info at www.plasticene.com or 312.409.0900
Please note: audience must be able to negotiate stairs to experience this performance.
Plasticene creates original theater inspired by a unique process of research and construction developed over the past fifteen years. Plasticene assembles high-impact theater from the most plastic elements of theatrical creation: the body in action, objects in motion, light as revelation, and sound as sensation. Plasticene performance and education work offers our community an experience that is playful, visceral, poetic, athletic, evocative, brave and endlessly creative.Plasticene creates original theater inspired by a unique process of research and construction developed over the past fifteen years. Plasticene assembles high-impact theater from the most plastic elements of theatrical creation: the body in action, objects in motion, light as revelation, and sound as sensation. Plasticene performance and education work offers our community an experience that is playful, visceral, poetic, athletic, evocative, brave and endlessly creative.
Follow the creative process in research, pictures and recordings.
plasticene.blogspot.com
Trouble Begins at 8!
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theater
20% Theatre
April 8, 9, 10 and 11 www.twentypercentchicago.com Producing thought-provoking classics and fresh original works — all of them written, directed and designed by women. High atop a railroad trestle that spans a bone-dry creek, two small-town teenagers come up with a plan – to race across the bridge against an oncoming train. It’s a dangerous plan, but these are dangerous times, and they are starving for something – anything – new. A beautiful and haunting play, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek takes us inside a nation turned upside down by the Great Depression, as people struggled to come to terms with the changing world around them. |
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Bruised Orange presents
Determination_The Reboot a play by Clint Sheffer April 14 - 30th on Wed and Fridays at 7:30 PM "Hilarious..deadly robots against teenage angst with a touch of Lady Gaga...belly laughs throughout." Marissa Oberlander, Reader www.bruisedorange.org contact 773.336.2682 |
movies about music
Chicago International Movies and Music Festival
http://www.cimmfest.org/ Film On Music/Music On Film The Chicago International Movies and Music Festival brings together movies about music, music for movies, and movies capturing music as it is made. CIMMFest 2011 You missed it! We hosted premieres by new and established film and video directors, as well as retrospectives, classic films and videos will fill the days; genre-bending musical performances will rule the nights, at participating venues around the great music and film town that is Chicago. A big thank you to our sponsors: Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Bulletproof Film, Inc. www.cimmfest.org www.wickerparkbucktown.org |