January 2010
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On reflection...
I was VERY right about that probability of alot of cold weather. Boooooooooom!
Real CHI-Town reflections coming soon.
December 2009
9 posts
AREA Report
AREA Chicago | PO Box 476971 Chicago IL 60647 | areachicago.org | areachicago@gmail.com December 14th, 2009 Dear Concerned Peoples of Chicago: Do you ever wonder who does the important and challenging work to confront the status quo in this city? We wonder that too, and that’s why we started AREA Chicago, to document the Art/Research/Education/Activism happening here. For more than four...
Things that I will miss in Chicago
This list isn’t comprehensive but will give y’all a general idea:
My new friends
Getting up and seeing the beautiful skyline of Chicago. Chi-town defo has one of the most beautiful skylines in America.
The CTA L train. We’ve had some fun.
The south side
Getting butterflies when I’m Downtown at night. It’s just kind of magical.
Being surrounded by motivated, and...
AREA Chicago 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction ...
AREA Chicago 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction Friday, 11th December 7-12pm - Auction @ 930pm - @ UE Hall - 37 S. Ashland $10 Donation at the door, $20 Donation for admission and a tote bag. ALL proceeds from AREA’s Wants and Needs Party will benefit the Summer 2010 issue of AREA. Photos from 2007: Link Photos from 2008: Link MC Ryan Hollon will host the event while DJs Dave...
smizz's real first NYC Chelsea gallery group show!
December 11th – 23rd 2009
DON’T FLEE THE ART MARKET!
organized by Paulina Bebecka
opening reception Friday, December 11th, 2009 6 – 10pm with DJ Ivan Sunshine
We will feature works, big and small made by
very bright young artists. Whatever your desire for a perfect gift, we will have it:
you want a piece of hair with your collage? We got it. You want a dog’s mouth?
We got it. You want a...
Abrupt end near for Chicago's mild weather
A cold last half of the week
The first Arctic air mass of the season will ride a strong northerly flow out of the Canadian Tundra directly into the western Great Lakes Thursday and Friday. In Chicago temperatures will fall into the 20s Wednesday night and stay there for the next two days. With strong northwesterly winds gusting as high as 30 mph, Chicago’s daytime wind chills will probably...
November 2009
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happy thanksgiving too!
from a uK kid, chillin’ in the state of Illinois - Springfield!
AREA Chicago Won a MacArthur Grant
Opening Paragraph about AREA Chicago in this article below: “I want to make sure that everyone knows how awesome AREA Chicago is….”
http://gapersblock.com/ac/2009/11/23/area-chicago-wins-a-macarthur-grant/
CHECK IT YALLLLLLLLL
The Sheffield Landscape [working title]
PUBLICATION
{ COMING SOON }
Interested? Apply within smizz.fo.shizz@gmail.com
or FACEBOOK conversation:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=178948835722&ref=ts
Let's see where this goes.
Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.
“Structures do not take to the streets”
“It is never structures that make history; it is men.” - Goldmann
Whilst this text starts in a place relatively remote from Chicago, its real focus is on how alternative institution collective learning is more autonomous using the Chicago Freedom School (CFS) as a case point.
There is a pleasure...
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Moments
There are moments in life that should be treasured. I’m a glass half full person, unless i need a drink, but at the same time I’m being a bit of a half-empty kinda person - which means the glass is equally full as it is empty. But I need to take the time to remind myself to appreciate these things; to remind myself that the world isn’t all bad. Things like the first bite of a...
the small big city
travelling to the bigger city always make me feel calmer, especially at nite. the city looks more alive and you can see the creations of man with checkered lights that are erected and displayed throughout the nite for the people. the little specs that make the soaring buildings move as if to hold a thousand and two different stories of (probably twice that many) single people living in the world....
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Never Let Schooling Interfere with your Education
Historically, industrialisation triggered the end of craft and design that in turn divided the makers from the thinkers. Modernism allowed this transition. As a result it made the concept of an arts education complicated. With Modernism ruling the market, a college education dominated this thinking, allowing years of psychological self regard to reaffirm the individual but unfortunately created...
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Events throughout the CHI that I compiled - for...
There are many, many great events happening this holiday month starting with the exciting RELEASE PARTY for AREA issue 9: Peripheral Vision at the South Side Community Arts Center and then ending with AREA Chicago’s 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction!
We look forward to see you checking these out!
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Not Chicago related but
I’m a finalist in the International Aesthetica Creative Works!
Which means I’m going to be published in Aesthetica’s creative work Annual. Which you can all buy from Borders worldwide from the 1st Dec
Last year, some of the people featured in that book was Leni Kae, who will be representing Australia in the Florence Biennale; Neale Howells, who has go on to exhibit alongside Tracey...
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AREA CHICAGO ISSUE 9 RELEASE PARTY
TOMORROW (1ST NOV) 2PM- 5PM
South Side Community Arts Center, because we’re all about the Periphery! Word?
October 2009
23 posts
greenwriter.org launched, at long last
Thank you so much for your patience. We’ve been working very hard to create a great experience for both writers and producers, and we’re very excited to be able to open the very first version of Greenwriter to the public. Check it out: http://greenwriter.org There will be plenty of iteration and improvement in the coming weeks, and we can’t wait to get your feedback as we go...
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Revolt On Goose Island - Panel Discussion
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm Location: The Chicago Cultural Center, The Claudia Cassidy Theater
It has been one of the most closely watched U.S. labor struggles in recent memory: Ten months ago, 200 workers at Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors occupied their factory for nine days after owners gave workers just three days’ notice of the plant’s closure. The...
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Show Down in Chicago, Put People First! →
We are everyday people – retirees, farmers, workers, homeowners, renters, students, clergy, and small business owners from across the United States. We are coming together in Chicago because there is so much at stake and no time to waste. It is clear that our financial system is a mess and the American people are paying the price for it. Whether it be shrinking pensions, rising foreclosures,...
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South Side Community Arts Centre Events
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Actions: What You Can Do With the City
http://cca-actions.org/about www.grahamfoundation.org
Thursday, October 15, 2009 Private Walk-Through with Mirko Zardini 5:30pm Opening Reception 6pm – 8pm Graham Foundation Madlener House 4 West Burton Place Chicago, Illinois
Please RSVP to rsvp@grahamfoundation.org or 312-787-4071.
Actions: What You Can Do With the City presents 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities...
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AREA Chicago: Heartland South Study Day on Oct...
Upcoming events for AREA #9 Peripheral Vision includes the Heartland South Study Day on Oct 17. Our release party will be held Nov 1 at the South Side Community Art Center (details to come). Heartland South Study Day Saturday, October 17, 12-6pm Co-organized with the Smart Museum of Art’s Heartland exhibition, a co-sponsor of AREA #9. Visit far South Side neighborhoods and learn about local...
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Cantilevered Milk Crate Storage Bench
Charlie Vinz of Chicago built this cantilevered bench himself for next to nothing. The milk crates provide a storage base and he used 2x4’s from left over from framing his house to mount it all to the wall. The idea’s pretty industrious…
And while this particular execution wasn’t done with prettiness as a priority, we could see this exact same idea built with more...
Quick Thought of the day: '"Ghetto" Space'
Through my travels around Chicago, I have really begun to notice a strange use of space within the “lower income” areas. Houses are left vacant and empty, and boarded up. And then huge plots of land left unused and in hopeful real estate profit.
I have noticed a mere 7 empty plots of land surrounding just a 2 block radius of my house. And I got to thinking. These are places that are...
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"STOLEN" COME ONE COME ALL exhibition
Exhibition Reception: Friday October 9, 5pm-10pm
Hours: Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:00pm - 5:00pm ,Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:00pm - 5:00pm, Friday, October 30, 2009 5:00pm - 10:00pm and by appointment.
Dinner Performance: Sunday, October 18 Details Here
Chicago,Il-From October 9th to October 30th 2009, Garage Spaces, an alternative art space, premieres with Stolen an art...
ORGANIZING UPGRADE WEB-FORUM LAUNCHES →
We are living in amazing times. Between the groundbreaking election of President Obama and the onset of the largest economic crisis that this country has seen in decades, the terrain of politics is rapidly shifting beneath our feet. We need to do some serious work to upgrade our vision and our organizing practices if we are going to take advantage of this historic moment.
Organizing Upgrade is...
Few days of CHI
My past few days in Chicago have been ultimately, amazing. Here are some rambles. Firstly, today I went to the AREA advisors meeting. This is the meeting that resembles something that C.A.a.D. puts on. An autonomous discussion of many peoples visions of what AREA could be in the future, and kind of abandoning the reality of what AREA is and it’s immediate needs. Now, I of all people, should...
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SMIZZ’S AREA /CHICAGO CALENDER.
Friday 2nd October: AREA orientation meeting. ALL Day. Brown Rice experimental performance night 10pm onwards. UPTOWN.
Saturday 3rd October: School Institute of Art, Chicago – Accidental Publics Symposium.
- Mexican Food downtown + Karokee bar in Wickerpark.
Sunday 4th October: AREA Chicago advisorary panel monthly meeting.
AREA office with InCUBATE and the Chicago library finance meeting. ...
oh well chi, better luck next time!
Chicago is the 1st to loose the Olympics 2016 bid to Rio. Word.
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Smart Museum of Art presents Heartland - Tonight -...
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chicago: the first few days
Chicago. It is the “windy city” not for reasons that you’d expect - like cuz it’s windy? It is, but that’s not why it’s called the Windy City - Wikipedia it!
The mid-west accents are the accents that you hear on TV. They are soft and understanding. Although, sometimes a lil’ hard to understand. I’m currently finding my feet so I feel real nervous...
September 2009
13 posts
CHI - to - NYC
Imagine Chi and NYC at Christmas time. Oh I am seduced by the magical neon just thinking about it!
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