Midwest Bookhunters Book Fair
The
Midwest Bookhunters are having their spring book fair this weekend at the Joseph J. Gentile Center on the campus of Loyola University at 6565 N. Sheridan Road. The gym will be packed with vendors selling used, rare and antiquarian books along with maps, ephemera, prints and more. The book fair is open 4pm to 8pm on Saturday, May 22 and 10am to 4pm on Sunday, May 23. Admission is $6 but $4 if you can scrounge up a student I.D. For more information call 773-989-2200 or
check out their website.
Andersonville Celebrates Bike Week
The Andersonville Chamber of Commerce likes bikes. They like bikes so much they're throwing their Second Annual
Bike Week Celebration May 23–29. Activities range from a bike maintenance 101 clinic, visits from
Mayor Daley's Bicycling Ambassadors, bike decorating, and a historic Andersonville/Edgewater bike tour. If you ride your bike, you can get a free bottle of water and a raffle ticket, and if you regularly commute to work by bike, you can pick up a t-shirt to boot!
April Sheridan and Simon Pettet at Myopic Books
Tonight’s Myopic Reading Series features two writers: April Sheridan and Simon Pettet. Sheridan is an MFA student at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. She studies and teaches letterpress printing and is the broadside coordinator for the poetry program. Her work has been published in “Crayon.” Pettet is a long-time resident of New York’s Lower East Side. His “Selected Poems” is available from Talisman House. A limited edition of his work, “Abundant Treasures,” which are poems accompanying hand-colored drawings by New York artist Duncan Hannah, was recently published by Granary Books. For more information check out
Myopic Books. The reading begins at 7 p.m. at 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Wicker Park.
Neo-Futurist auditions
If you're a male theater actor living in Chicago, and you're looking for a theater company with which to align yourself, consider
The Neo-Futurists, who are having auditions for their long-running show
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind today. Be forewarned that this is a long-term gig, and your weekends will pretty much be filled with this commitment (TML runs late nights on Fridays and Saturdays, and in the evenings on Sundays). But hey, you'd be a Neo-Futurist. How cool is that? More info and audition scheduling: (773) 275-5255 x3 or e-mail auditions@neofuturists.org.
Speak Easy: Senseless!
Write Club Chicago Presents "Speak Easy: Senseless!" the quarterly writers' showcase featuring stories, one-act plays and essays from local authors. Readers include GB's own Ramsin Canon, Mike Zapata, Sarah Dodson, Jeff Geiger, Paul Barile, Mark Tweedy, Rebecca David and Chuck Sudo. Music guest Ari Lauren. Hosted by Mario of "News From The Service Entrance" fame on WHPK 88.7 FM. 8pm at
HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo. 21 and over, $5 suggested donation.
