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Hi guys. Some of you might know that we have had liquid dreams about opening our own brewery here in Bridgeport. We are now on our way. Marz Community Brewing is a close–knit group of creatives, brewers, artists, doers, makers and friends. We all met at Maria’s and we’re launching this brewery to bring something new to Chicago and beer. We hope to blow yer minds.
Besides making amazing liquid, Marz Community Brewing will be brewing and selling beers ( Community Brews) to help fund artist organizations, non profit groups and community activists in Chicago. We are also starting a Brewers Exchange program, offering residencies and collaborations with brewers overseas. MCB will also be sending American brewers to our partner brewery in The Netherlands and they will be sending brewers here to collaborate with local brewers in Chicago. We have other plans and surprises in store. And we will unveil them when we open some time later this year.
We really have no idea when our final paperwork will be approved, but we are in R & D mode and wigging out. In the meantime do us a favor: be part of the tasting team!
If you have a minute please visit our website and sign up to our newsletter. Please “Like” us on Spacebook , too! And while yer at it become our twitter friend. You will be the first people invited to our private tastings and events before we open to the public.
Version 13: An Urban Operating System
June 14 through June 22, 2013
For the past twelve years, Version Festival has introduced innovative projects that tackle local, social, and urban issues. Every year, the festival highlights socially engaged projects and people, and promotes the cultural use of public space.
This year, Version will focus on beta testing a collectively-produced open source operating system for our urban environment. We call it Urban OS. It’s not just technology based, It’s a human network. We will present works and projects that serve the common good, and connect us to services that everyone can use in our neighborhoods and cities. This collection of real world software can help us manage the hardware of our urban environment, and create even more opportunities for renewing our public space.
Version Festival 13 will present projects by cultural workers, community developers, social entrepreneurs, artists, designers, boutique manufacturers, food interventionists, public space hackers, service mediaticians, urban planners, cultural geographers, and adventure capitalists, all sharing ideas towards a collective hack of the current urban operating system.
This June 14 through June 26 2013, we’re inviting you to demonstrate your skills, share your ideas, and build your visions of a better city. Best, we will be utilizing public spaces in Bridgeport to demo a version of an Urban Operating System. Highlights include Above The Pavement: A City Fair, a new outdoor festival/ block party, and other events that promote social engagement in our communities. The Urban OS will continue throughout the year, with a series of projects and platforms.
To Participate:
Deadline for Submissions: May 10, 2013
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Please look at the platforms for Version below. Send a one-paragraph description, along with any relevant urls and contact addresses and phone numbers, in an email addressed to Versionfest13 (at) Gmail.com. Attach one 500 wide X 375 pixel high JPEG image along with your proposal. We will respond to your submission a few days after receiving it.
PLATFORMS
1. Urban OS Group Show
We are planning an exhibition that will showcase Chicago-based projects representing the best practices of our urban operating system. You make beautiful things happen? Tell us what you or your organization does. The show will be informational in nature, and not necessarily object based.
2. Above the Pavement: A City Fair
Our day-long City Fair is a new outdoor festival which will invigorate and celebrate positive living in the neighborhood of Bridgeport. It takes place June 22, 2013 between noon and 8pm. We are curating some of the best food, drink and boutique manufacturers in the city to join us for the City Fair. Be one of them.
The fair will feature:
Food: Chefs, restaurants, and food vendors of all stripes will be able to sell their food to the public. There will be very limited food vending opportunities.
Drink: Fruit juices, natural sodas, kombucha, water, and craft beer will be served and sold to the public. There will be very limited beverage vending opportunities.
The Flea Market: This artist-run flea market brings together artists, groups, and organizations to exchange art, information, and ideas. Artists, designers and Boutique Manufacturers are invited to apply for pavement space or tables, to present and sell or share their products to the public.
Farmers Market: Urban farmers, country farmers and food co-ops will be able to sample and sell their produce and products to the public.
The NFO XPO: We invite groups and organizations to exchange art, information, and ideas. Community Orgs, clubs, and skill sharing groups are asked to table and/or organize demonstrations, presentations and info/skill sharing.
Live music: Live performances and music.
3. The Art Bowl
Take part in the Art Bowl. Artist Dan Pugh asks Chicago-based ceramic artists to donate hand-crafted soup bowls for The Art Bowl, benefiting the Benton House Food Pantry.
4. Performance/ Interventions/ Mobile Projects
Live art in site-specific locations, picnics, tours, public interventions, asphalt canoeing, anarchist marching bands, and creative disturbances in public space are all important components of the festival. Initiatives by public space hackers and performance artists of all stripes welcome. Artists are especially encouraged to propose projects and performances in Bosley Park during the City Fair on June 22, 2013.
5. APPs
Location-aware apps emphasize different dimensions of the city and enhance the urban experience through psychogeography and augmented realities. Send us yer APP, we will share it!
6. The Other
We are an open-minded festival, so if you feel your project does not fit within one of the platforms we currently offer, then please: explain what you have in mind.
The East Middle West Tour
March 22nd-23rdJoin us:
Friday, 3/22:
8 pm -12 am opening party w/live sets from Yellow Dogs
Saturday, 3/23:
1-4 pm Exhibition hours
5-7 pm Meet the artists & happy hour hosted by Pasfarda Arts & Cultural Exchange.
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Call for Participation: Over The Influence: The Art of Beer
Mash Tun Journal and Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar are are teaming up with Chef Won Kim of Brew Ha Ha to bring you another visual and brewery arts exhibition and happening. This edition, called Over The Influence: The Art of Beer, takes place May 18, 2013 at the Co-Prosperity Sphere ( 3219 S Morgan Street).
We are seeking work from artists and designers inspired by the aesthetics of craft beer and how it intersects with food, culture, and society. We are looking for work in any media. Please email edmarlumpen(at)gmail.com if you would like to submit to the show. Please send a description of the of the work and enclose 1-3 jpegs of previous work. Deadline is 4/20/13 for proposals.
Words and photos about the previous show:
Join us for a potluck edition of Proximity Magazine Number 11, wherein we investigate the intersections of art, food, politics and social practice. We are following our noses and inhaling the increasing preoccupation of food being used in contemporary art. Our engagement with projects that have inspired us in recent editions of Proximity, Version Festivals and MDW fairs, and romps throughout our city’s art ecology has lead us to this inevitable feast. And of course the increasing collaboration between chefs and brewers with community groups and social causes has given us a pause to further consider this blossoming movement of culinary social art practice.
Please prepare a course, a dish or an aperitif and send us your thoughts in a one paragraph pitch. We are seeking short and long form essays, briefs on historical artworks (we hope someone will create a directory of historical works), visual imagery, and your investigations into how the boundaries of art and food have been blurred, smoothed out and ingested.
Reservations at edmarlumpen at gmail dot com. Our pitch deadline is March 15, 2013. Completed texts and works are due by April 15, 2013. We will release the issue at a new endeavor to be unveiled this Spring at Version Festival 13.
( Photo of Stefan Gross Sculpture at Re: Rotterdam 2013 )
The Co-Prosperity School is an Artist-Run School for and about the advancement and understanding of contemporary Chicago Art. Through guest speakers and class member presentations we will shine a light on the contemporary art scene of Chicago.
One of our goals is to break down the panel discussion dialogue of Chicago’s art and bring it to a more informal group discussion format in which shapers of Chicago’s Art World themselves tell of the contemporary scene. Members can discuss their own work, or the work of others.
Spring 2013 session begins March 3, 2013 at 630pm. $150 is the cost for the Spring session.
3/11 ORIENTATION
3/18 Claire Molek:
Curator and writer Claire Molek runs River North’s Hauser Gallery. Molek formerly co-ranThis Is Not The Studio, a storefront gallery in residential Bucktown focused on experimental, installation- and performance-based artwork.3/25 Joe Jeffers:
Joe Jeffers likes to organize art projects. He founded Harold Arts in 2006 in a nearly fatal attempt to educate himself. While he still spends most of his time looking after the interests of the organization, he occasionally moonlights as a writer, electronic musician, and independent curator.
4/1 BREAK
4/8 Anna Shteynshleyger:
Shteynshleyger belongs to a generation of photographers whose work is notable for its formal beauty and technical execution. She is a rising star in the elite world of contemporary art photography.4/15 Temporary Services (Marc Fischer ):
Temporary Services is Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer, and it is based in Chicago, Copenhagen, and Philadelphia. They have existed, with several changes in membership and structure, since 1998. Temporary Services produces exhibitions, events, projects, and publications. The distinction between art practice and other creative human endeavors is irrelevant to them.
4/22 Anne Harris:
Painter Anne Harris has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery, DC Moore Gallery and Nielsen Gallery, to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship. Harris currently teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
4/29 Abraham Richey:
Social Media Coordinator at the MCA Chicago. Abe gets involved in all things Art
5/6 Judy Hoffman
Judy Hoffman has worked in film and video for over 25 years. She was active in the Alternative Television Movement of the early 1970′s, experimenting in the use of small format video equipment. She presently holds an appointment at the University of Chicago, as Lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and Department of Visual Arts.
Past guests have included Daniel Tucker, Juan Angel Chavez, Hamza Walker, Paul Klein, Duncan MacKenzie, Stanley Tigerman, Abigail Satinsky, Shannon Stratton, Bill Ayers, Jason Lazarus, Mary Jane Jacobs, Eric Brown and Catie Olson, Mindy Rose Schwartz Cody Hudson, Carolne Picard, Carrie Gundersdorf, Tom Torluemke, Tom Burtonwood, Aron Packer, James Duignan, Nandipha Mntambo, and Barbara Koenen.
Tuition is $150 for 8 classes. email coprosperityschool@gmail.com if you are interested in joining us.
Members will be able to check out periodicals from the Public Media Institute Research Library.
Visit: http://quitefranklyn.com for contact
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3566 S. Cottage Grove. West Point Missionary Baptist Church
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This is the time each year when we celebrate the legacy of Dr. King and continue his work through community organizing. Some of the issues we will address include funding for an arts & recreation center in Bronzeville, restoring bus service on 31st Street, closing state corporate tax loopholes so we can avoid massive budget cuts to Medicaid and education, and addressing the vacant property epidemic through a land bank that will create both affordable housing and jobs.
We will be asking elected officials to make commitments on issues affecting our communities. We need to show our elected officials that their constituents are watching and that people care about these issues. Please come out and bring your friends, neighbors, and fellow congregants! Musical celebration and sign-in will take place from 2:30 – 3:00, with the public meeting starting promptly at 3:00. Visit the spacebook page. http://www.facebook.com/events/516122381741229/ |
Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar presents
Monday, December 31 – 9PM-2AM – Free, No Cover
Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar – 960 w 31st street
Featuring DJ Jennifer Burns (aka B-Side)
With the Presidential election settled (try telling that to those states who want to secede), discussions for a possible compromise between both Democrats and Republicans are taking place within the beltway on the looming “fiscal cliff”. This crisis is scheduled to go in effect on midnight of December 31, 2012 (New Years Eve) due to the enactment of the Budget Control Act of 2011 which features a number of tax increases and spending cuts that are expected to weigh heavily on growth and possibly drive the economy back into a recession. “Say it ain’t so, Joe (Lieberman)?”
We here at Maria’s are taking a stand against this impending “Thelma & Louise” economic crisis by hosting a fiscally responsible, cost-cutting “New Years Eve of Destruction (?)” party on Monday, December 31 (9PM – 2AM). To protect against any budget deficits that might impact your personal economy our “New Years Eve of Destruction” will be free to one and all with no exorbitant cover charge that is the norm on the holiday. Let the tavern ring out, “Free at last, free at last!”
The event will also feature a complimentary glass of champagne at midnight, another budgetary concern to cut unneeded spending during these precarious financial times, free party favors, appetizing appetizers and $1 off all draft beers. We will of course offer our vast selection of craft beers, community cocktails and whiskeys and spirits to ring in the new year. These GDP’s (Good Damn Pours) if taken in too quickly may lead to a more difficult next-day recovery that is predicted by economists and bartenders alike.
Another leading indicator for a better overall recovery will be the “deep cuts” of DJ B-Side (Jennifer Burns). She will raise the roof, therefore protecting us all from the debt ceiling, with hard-hitting non-partisan measures including Chicago House, 80′s jams, disco, funk and soul.
December 8, 2012 12:30-3:30 pm
Chicago Cultural Center
Claudia Cassidy Theater and Gar Rotunda / Second Floor
Presentations: 12:30-2:30
Tasting: 2:30- 3:30
In Chicago there are thousands of people who have started their own small companies to share their artisan made products as well as food and beverages to the public. Some of them started out as artists who used their skills to create hand crafted products. Others are trained chefs and designers who left their day job to pursue their dreams. To share these stories and to inspire you to join the growing movement of localism the Small Manufacturing Alliance is organizing our first SMALL Symposium.Using the Pecha Kucha style format of presenting a dozen members of the Alliance will share their stories in the Claudia Cassidy Theater. The Symposium is followed by a tasting of some of the great stuff being made here in Chicago.
Participants include:
Matthew Hoffman • Duncan MacKenzie/ Citizen Brick • RX Made • Betty Bot • Working Bikes • Mayana Chocolate • Pleasant House Bakery • Pear Tree Reserves • Morgan Martins • Twisted Hippo • Strand Design • Envision Arts • 22 Berwyn • Flesh for Food • Legacy Frameworks • Zak Rose / DOCK 6 • CALM • + more
Tastings at 2:30pm by: Betty Bot • Twisted Hippo • Mayana Chocolate • Pear Tree Reserves • Flesh for Food • Great American Cheese Company
Please join us. And stop by the SMALL Ordinary Shop to see what we are up to.
SMALL is an organization that promotes companies and individuals making locally manufactured products and it was created by the Public Media Institute. The goal of the organization is to amplify awareness of products made in the Chicago Metropolitan area through events, pop up shops, media, showrooms and trade shows.
SMALL recently opened the SMALL Ordinary Shop which is part of the Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Industry of the Ordinary show taking place in the Chicago Cultural Center. The Shop is located on the first floor, re-imagining the former Cultural Center gift shop.
