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TODAY
Friday, April 19
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BY DAY
Friday, April 08 2011
A Variety of Fits @ Jolhalla Projects
A Variety of Fits opens tonight at Jolhalla Projects (1561 N. Milwaukee Ave.), featuring the image-heavy, convention-configuring, almost watercolor-like drawings of Adam Grossi. 6pm-9pm. Free.
Over the Rhine @ Lincoln Hall
Cincinnati's Over the Rhine and Lucy Wainright Roche play an 18-and-over show tonight at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave. Tickets are $22, doors open at 8pm.
Never Been to Paris @ CCPA
Sean Flannery's one-man show, Never Been to Paris, follows up a sold-out run last fall with a second run this spring at the Chicago Center for Performing Arts, 777 N. Green St. Catch him every Friday in March and April at 9pm; tickets are $12 and can be purchased here. Read an interview with Flannery in A/C.
The City in Which @ The Nightingale
Joshua Dumas and Christy LeMaster gave brand-spankin' new rolls of 16mm film to 12 Chicago-based experimental filmmakers, and then asked these filmmakers to respond to Chicago poet Li-Young Lee's "The City in Which I Love You," while adding in their own creative experiences in Chicago. The end result is The City in Which, a Chicago cine-poem, a short film made from splicing all of the filmmakers' work together. The film's premiere is tonight at 8pm, with a second showing tomorrow, April 9, at The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee). Lee's poem will be read live to accompany the film, and a cine-poem program, curated by LeMaster, will follow.
ACRE Scholars Party @ Rodan
Rodan, 1530 N. Milwaukee Ave., is the setting for an evening of art and music to help fund a scholarship for ACRE's summer residency program. Money raised at this event will go directly to this scholarship fund. The party will feature photographs, paintings, and video by 2010 residents, including Tony Balko, Thorne Brandt, Benjamin Funke, Lydia McCarthey, Aliza Morell, Jennifer Ray and Michael Sirianni, as well as DJ sets by a number of ACRE affiliated musicians and artists. Party with ACRE and help raise funds to send needy emerging artists to art camp! 9pm to 2am. 21+
Super with Guest Michael Rooker @ the Music Box!
Michael Rooker, actor and star of the new film Super, will be in attendance tonight to introduce the 7:20 show at the Music Box Theatre. Advance tickets are on sale here! The Music Box Theatre is located at 3733 N. Southport Ave., (773) 871-6607.
