The Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) was created in 1987 through funding provided by the Illinois Arts Council Access Program. The goals of CAAP are to discover, nurture and expand Chicago’s multi-ethnic artists and nonprofit arts organizations, and to foster new and emerging individual artists and arts groups by providing grants for professional, artistic...
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Along a frozen Michigan Avenue, amongst towering skyscrapers, a Bird’s somber whistle fills a golden trimmed wood cathedral. This Bird, however, is not of the feathered flock.
Just a few years ago you may have heard him whistling down a Logan Square street, yet this year alone he’s played grandiose venues around the city, from the Civic...
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At this point in their eight year career, Pelican has spent more time being known for playing their blend of lumbering, brooding drone-metal than they have actually playing it. As heavy instrumental acts go, they’ve always seemed like a one-trick pony, albeit a satisfying one, in a genre that never strays far from its...
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Chicago music fans will have three opportunities to experience live world music this week as Fra Fra Sound will perform in concert.
Based in the Netherlands, Fra Fra Sound, the Suriname-Caribbean septet, plays music of the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, Africa and Europe. Hear them on the northside at Old Town School of...
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There are only two more performances of the unique gem of music theater. The venue is cool, and we parked on the street for $1.25. The musicians and singers and all of the other people involved are talented and sure of what they are doing. Don’t miss this “guerilla opera.”
NO EXIT is a contemporary...
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This is not your father or your mother’s opera. Get out of your comfort zone and give this form of multimedia entertainment a try: Chicago Opera Vanguard reimagines Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential play “No Exit” as an opera.
For this modern morality play, director George Cederquist has gathered an impressive ensemble of singing actors, musicians and visual...
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ESTILO HIP HOP, a documentary film by Loira Limbal and Virgilio Bravo, chronicles the lives of three hip hop enthusiasts from Brazil, Chile and Cuba who firmly believe that hip hop can change the world. These three inspirational leaders mobilize young people to become politically active. However, as the stakes grow larger, the leaders...
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Pakistan is frequently in the news because of violence and regional tensions. Pakistani nationals and supporters in Chicago will put these problems aside on Sunday, August 16 to celebrate the Independence of Pakistan. There will be a parade that takes place between 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. It begins on W. Devon Avenue,...
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It isn’t rain alone that will keep me at home instead of in Grant Park for Lollapalooza. Consequenceofsound.com has provided me, and anyone...
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The eight blocks of Roscoe Street, between Damen and Oakley, make up the heart of the Roscoe Village neighborhood. The two-lane street sits comfortably somewhere between quaint and modern, with gift and stationary shops, a shoe store, a barber shop, a salon and a Starbucks. The neighborhood center is marked by two posts meant...
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