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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.
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 )
Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar and Mash Tun Journal are teaming up with Chef Won Kim of Brew Ha Ha and a bunch of brewers to bring you a new visual and culinary arts happening called Under The Influence: The Art of Beer. This counter-cultural culinary and art event takes place Saturday, November 3, from 5-10pm, at our gallery, the Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219 S Morgan Street). You can read about the underground craft beer scene in Chicago in the current issue Mash Tun Journal.
The Under the Influence show features work from artists and designers inspired by the aesthetics of craft beer and how it intersects with food, culture, and society. The exhibition comes paired with unlimited pours of over 2 dozen beers including brews from Revolution Brewery, Great Lakes, Founders, Firestone Walker, Sixpoint Brewery, Duvel, Ommegang, and 6 secret guest brewers.
This curated selection of art, food and beer is our first foray into experiencing ways artists of all stripes are influenced by craft beer. The exhibition features mixed media, photography, painting, live painting and live silk screen printing.
Visual Artists include:
Michael Kiser, Ben Laskov, Sixpoint, Peter Boutsikakis, Sam Alcarez, Nathan West, Eric Olson, Scott Marvel, Chris Hammes, Revise cmw, Joey Potts, Shawnimals, Ruben Aguirre jr., Veggiesomething, Czr Prz, Solo rm, Uriel correa and others
Liquid Artists: Sixpoint, Duvel/Ommegang , and 6 secret guest brewers.
Culinary treats are prepared by Food For Flesh.
You must RSVP for this event. Tickets for this one day event are $25 and include unlimited pours of beer.
Please purchase tickets online by going directly to this link to paypal. Or visit the Under the Influence website
You may also purchase tickets in person at Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar.
Friday, May 11, 5pm – 11pm
http://www.versionfest.org/may11.html
Join us at the SMALL Showroom for our Friday Night openings in Bridgeport.
We are featuring tastings and samplings by these local manufacturers:
Bee’s Knees, Great American Cheese, Baby Cakes, Hot Temper Sauce, Sampling of Bridgeport Coffee, Katherine Anne Confections, Bridgeport Pasty.
These other spaces will be open for business too:
Paratext Books, Bridgepop Springpop, Ray Emerick’s Studio, Research House for Asian Art, Enoch’s Donuts and Quimbys!
Join us afterwards at First Trinity for live music by Onyou and J+J+J as well as a screening of Kick, by Clara Alcott.
Although we are opening Version Festival 12 this Tuesday, May 1, with a bookstore opening on May 2 and some other jams on May 3, we think you should come on over to our first big weekend of events on Friday, May 4. Eight new pop up and remixed spaces will open their doors for an evening of action. This will be a good introduction of some of what we have planned for the month of May. Here are some highlights:
SMALL Showroom Opening Party • 5-10 pm
3219 S. Morgan Street • free
Our big project for 2012 is the Small Manufacturing Alliance (SMALL). This is a showroom that will display over one hundred vendors’ wares. Stop in for some tastings and samplings. Featuring Half Acre, Virtue Cider, Koval Distillery and Few Distillery and many others
Bridgepop SpringPop • 6-9 pm
3143 S Morgan Street • free
BridgePop is a group of resident Bridgeport artists and entrepreneurs who have banded together in a collaborative Pop-up Shop on Morgan Street since November 2011. Their goal is to revitalize the community with exposition of new art, as well as reclaimed and reused articles, in a curated, performative, and eclectic environment.
Ray Emerick Studios Opening • 6-10 pm
3149 S. Morgan Street, #1 • free
Artist Ray Emerick is a veteran Morgan Street artist. He joins Version festival by reopening his studio to the public this Ma
Research House for Asian Art • 6-9 pm
3217 S Morgan Street • free
The Research House for Asian Art (RHAA) is a non-for profit organization whose goal is to promote art that is becoming more global and to provide a platform for the ongoing cultural exchange between East and West, in particular with China. This is their first ever show in their brand new gallery.
Dusty Groove Records Party • 7-9 pm
755 W 32nd Street • free
Chicago’s premier record store for all things groovy — making a pop-up weekend appearance in Bridgeport! They’re having a Preview Night on Friday, May 4th, from 7pm to 9pm — open to the public, and with refreshments and music too!
Maria’s Community Bar • 3pm -2 am
960 W 31st Street • free
Join us for our after party for the SMALL Showroom opening.
“Can’t Grow Up!”
Saturday March 3rd from 7-11pm
@ the Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219 S Morgan St
Ever since So-Cal artist Wes Humpston started drawing on skate decks back in the 70’s, skateboarding and art have become inseparable. Wes Humpston helped create an aesthetic that skateboarders and adolescents could identify with. Since then, nearly every skateboard has been printed with art that varies in both content and style. From designers and printmakers to videographers and painters, skateboarding has attracted a variety of young and creative minds that push boundaries and create new things with raw and unfiltered enthusiasm.
“Can’t Grow Up!” is a ‘zine release exhibition of artists that are involved in skate culture.
Artists:
Wes Humpston
Michael Sieben
Jimbo Phillips
Dennis McNett
Bart Saric
Chris Silva
Jourdon Gulett
Darin Bendall
Bryan De La Garza
Luke Pelletier
Carson Cornett
Bryan Peterson
Ben Jensen
Nathan Friedman
Tim Pigot
Dan Ezra Lang
Ryan Ady Putra
Ican Harem
Alex Cohen
Curated by:
Luke Pelletier
The show will only be up for one night.
Small Manufacturing Alliance (SMALL)
SMALL is a new organization that promotes companies and individuals who make locally manufactured products.
The goal of the organization is to amplify awareness of products made in the Chicago Metropolitan area through events, promotions, media and trade shows. SMALL will emphasize that sustainable businesses are the key to our economic well being. The organization will assist these local manufacturers with legal aid, seminars, marketing services, incubation services and other resources to help grow their business endeavors.
SMALL will be launched this May during Version Festival. We will create a department store like space called the SMALL Showroom at the gallery Co-Prosperity Sphere located at 3219 S Morgan Street in Chicago that will be open for the entire month of May. Think of it as the People’s Macy’s. Products will be displayed in the showroom for one month. During promotional events at the SMALL Showroom the creators of these local products will be able to demonstrate or present them to the public.
If you are interested in being a big part of SMALL please email edmarlumpen(at)gmail.com. We are currently focused on identifying manufacturers and producers to create a directory of Made in Chicago products. We will then contact interested parties to join us for the launch of the event at the SMALL Showroom that opens May 1, 2012 at the Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago.
Product categories featured in SMALL’s Directory include:
Auto & Bike
Apparel
Body Products
Children & Maternity
Contract Manufacturers
Food & Beverage
Furniture
Hospitality/Entertainment Products
Home & Garden
Jewelry/Accessories
Pet Products
Print & Media Production
Other artisan made and hand crafted items.
SMALL is being incubated by Public Media Institute (PMI). PMI is a non-profit 501(c) 3, community based, arts & culture organization located in Chicago, Illinois. Our mission is to create and incubate innovative arts programming and cultural infrastructures to transform people – socially and intellectually – through the production of festivals, art spaces, events, exhibitions, community projects, artifacts and media. Public Media Institute is committed to the region’s cultural ecology and is evident through our series of programs, spaces and projects. http://www.publicmediainstitute.com
Maria’s & Co-Prosperity Sphere invite you to a Craft Beer New Year’s Eve Party.
Saturday, Dec 31, 9pm – 3am.
Co-Prosperity Sphere • 3219 S Morgan Street.
$40
This will be an Epic All You Can Drink Craft Beer Party featuring flagship beers from Dogfish Head, Three Floyds, Half Acre and Stone Brewing. It includes the best beers of the season, an all you eat banquet of food catered by Maria’s, a bubbly toast, and a rare draft bar along with some other secret stuff. Enjoy live musical performances by the Chandeliers, Valis, Deep Sleep, Beats, and Sich Mang. And dance with the sonic libations of the Sonorama DJ Collective and DJ Le Deuce.
Admission to the party is $40. Admission can be paid via paypal, at Maria’s, or at the door.
Featured Beers at Co-Prosperity Sphere:
Dogfish Head Bitches Brew
Dogfish Head 120 Minute
Dogfish Head Burton Baton
Dogfish Tahenket
Dogfish Head Immort Ale
Half Acre Avena Sativa
Dogfish Head Chicory Stout
Dogfish Head Raison D’Etre
Three Floyd’s GumballHead
Three Floyd’s Alpha King
Half Acre/Lumpen The Chairman
Half Acre Daisy Cutter
Stone IPA
Stone Vertical Epic 11.11.11
Maria’s will be also open for a sister party with no cover charge.
We will enter the new year with an insane tap line-up.
Maria’s will be serving:
Dogfish Head Bitches Brew
Dogfish Head Hellhound
Dogfish Head Fort
Dogfish Head Immort Ale
Half Acre/Lumpen The Chairman
Founder’s Backwoods Bastard,
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti
Three Floyd’s Jinx Proof
Stone Double Bastard
Stone Russian Imperial Stout
Jolly Pumpkin La Parcela
and more
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Buy a ticket to the Party via pay pal. We will keep your name on the RSVP ticket list. You must be 21 or over and show your ID for entry.
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On 11/11/11 in collaboration with Half Acre Brewing Company, we are releasing a commemorative Lumpen 20th Anniversary beer called The Chairman.
The Chairman is a very limited release. It’s an Imperial Red Ale created to remember the men and women who worked on Lumpen magazine and became Chairmen of the Boring Theoretical Party (BTP). The Boring Theoretical Party began in the 1990’s. It was Lumpen magazine’s response to the boring, and uh, theoretically inclined armchair lefties. We started a “Worker’s Newspaper” edited by Chairman Thar, our beloved leader. Our symbols were the Armadillo and the Hoe. We had a theme song, a salute (raised fist while yawning), and we promoted that everyone should be the Chairman of their own Party.
You have a chance to bring a Chairman to the Party. Get a bottle (or three) at Half Acre Brewing Company or Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar on November 11, 2011.
We will celebrate at Maria’s with a Half Acre Tap Takeover including the super delicious The Chairman! (In fact this day will be the official day of Maria’s getting Half Acre beers here for forever)
The Half Acre tap line up will also include:
Lagertown Novemberfest
Barrel Aged Small Animal Big Machine
Mr. Ouroboros
Daisey Cutter
Over Ale
Bottle Sales begin at 11am, when the store opens.. Join us for Korean Polish BBQ at 5:30pm ! With guest kimchee by Bill Kim of Belly Shack!
We will be partying all night long…
Thanks for joining us on this historic occasion..!
The three different labels for the beer were designed by Michael Freimuth and collaborators:
Thin line illustration – Michael Freimuth
Big Armadillo – Jing Wei
Chinese Characters – Michelle Villasenor
