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Thursday, March 28

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The Time We Killed @ Film Center

As part of the Conversations on the Edge series, avant-garde filmmaker Jennifer Reeves presents her first feature, a fiction film about a Brooklyn agoraphobic after 9-11. 6 PM. Tickets are $9, or $5 for Film Center members. 164 N. State St. For more information, call 312-846-2600 or visit the website.

Collecting Chicago @ Cultural Center

Local art collectors discuss their collections with Greg Cameron, a deputy director of MCA Chicago, at 6 PM in the First Floor Garland Room. 78 E Washington Street. For more information, call 312-744-6630 or visit the website.

Define or Be Defined @ Cultural Center

Part of Bodies of Work: The Chicago Festival of Disability Arts and Culture, which runs from 20 through 30 April, this forum centers on "the language of disability and its relationship to personal identity." The event starts at 5 PM in the Millennium Park Room. 78 E Washington Street. For more information, call 312-744-6630 or visit the website.

Neo Solo @ Neo-Futurarium

The Neo-Futurists present Neo Solo, a series of solo performance pieces by ensemble members, alumni, and guest performers. This week's plays: "It Ain't No Fairy Tale" by Lusia Strus; and "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" by Chloë Johnston. This particular performance ends this weekend, to be replaced by another performance on April 27. Neo Solo runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $15, $10 for seniors & students with ID, and "pay what you can" on Thursday nights. For more details and to purchase tickets, see the Neo-Futurist Website. Neo-Futurists: 5153 N. Ashland (at Foster). (773) 275-5255.

Rebuilding and Re-envisioning the Gulf Coast @ Archicenter

As part of its special series After Katrina, the Chicago Architecture Foundation presents a panel that includes representatives of the Tulane University School of Architecture; the Congress for the New Urbanism; Architecture for Humanity; and the Urban Land Institute. In the John Buck Company Lecture Hall Gallery, 224 S. Michigan, 6 PM. Tickets are $10 to $20, or less if you purchase tickets for the whole series. For more information and to make reservations, call 312-922-3432 x225, or visit the website.

Joseph Lelyveld @ Newberry Library

The former New York Times executive editor discusses his new memoir, Omaha Blues, at 6 PM this evening. Free, but reservations are recommended: call 312-494-9509. 60 W. Walton St. For more information, visit the Chicago Humanities Festival website.

Powell's North Reading Series Anniversary Party

Powell's North celebrates the first anniversary of their reading series tonight, with readings from Peter O'Leary, John Tipton, and a selection of readers from the past twelve months. 7 PM, 2850 N. Lincoln Ave. Call 773-248-1444.

Atomic @ Elastic

See Atomic, a critically acclaimed, high-voltage Scandinavian jazz quintet at Elastic in Logan Square (2803 N. Milwaukee) . This evening at 9:30pm. Presented as a part of a Thursday night improvised music series curated by musician Dave Rempis. For more information call 773-772-3616 or visit the website.

C.K. Williams Reading @ UChicago

Poet C.K. Williams makes a visit this week to the University of Chicago where he'll give a reading tonight in Social Sciences 122 located at 1126 E. 59th Street starting at 5:30pm. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Singing (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003) and Repair (1999), which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize; among many many others. Among his many awards and honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris.

Version >06 Festival Opening Party

Focusing on emerging art, technology and social activism, Version is an annual festival that "examines local systems and external networks that use visual and conceptual art strategies, innovative social practices, creative uses of new technologies, effective organizing structures, emerging activist/artist initiatives, campaigns, public interventions and DIY projects." The festival runs through May 7 and while admission to events is accepted at the door, you can also purchase a $25 event pass that covers entry fees to all screening and events or a $50 Version pass that allows you entrances to all events and programs, as well as food and various goodies. Call 773-837-0145 for more information.

Tonight's opening party is at Sonotheque, 1444 W. Chicago Ave, from 9pm-2am. Featuring performances from Warhammer 48K, Jerusalem & the Starbaskets, The Mummy and DJ Kyle Dade. $8 general admission, $5 with a flier. 21+.

Hewhocorrupts Benefit for Punk Planet

The folks at Hewhocorrupts Inc. are holding a benefit for Punk Planet tonight at 8pm at the South Union Arts Center, 1352 S. Union Ave. It'll feature performances by Unlucky Atlas and What's Missing from Your Life (featuring Paul Degan of the defunct John Brown Battery), several videos by Hewhocorrupts acts, and a silkscreen art show. Admission is $5, and it's all ages.

 

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