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Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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Tuesday, April 26 2011
CIF: WNEP Theater's Postmortem; If You're Not Sitting at the Table, You're on the Menu
As part of this year's Chicago Improv Festival, WNEP Theater's Postmortem and If You're Not Sitting at the Table, You're on the Menu perform at Act One Studios (604 N. LaSalle). Show starts at 8pm, tickets are $8 and can be purchased at the Act One box office or online. For more information visit Chicago Improv Festival.
Rap Sessions @ Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago's Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media hosts "Rap Sessions, From Precious II For Colored Girls: The Black Image in the American Mind," tonight at 6:30pm. This panel discussion, led by acclaimed author and activist Bakari Kitwana, will examine early definitions and perceptions of various aspects of black culture--from both an internal and external standpoint--and how they both have affected the way blacks are perceived today. Other members of the panel include authors Mark Anthony Neal, Joan Morgan, Vijay Prashad and Elizabeth Mendez Berry. This event, held at the college's Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash, is free and open to the public. Call (312) 369-8829 for more information.
"Important American Paintings" @ JW Marriott
"Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture," an exhibition from Christie's New York featuring works by John Singer Sargent, Frank Weston Benson, Maxfield Parrish, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and more will be on display at the JW Marriott Chicago, 151 W. Adams St., from 10am to 5pm today and tomorrow, April 26 & 27. Free.
"Too Young To Die" Fundraiser @ Maria's
Carlos Javier Ortiz holds a fundraiser for his project To Young To Die at Maria's Package Goods & Community Bar, 960 W. 31st St., tonight from 8pm to 2am. Part of Version Fest. If you can't make it, you might still want to pitch in via Kickstarter.
