Past Events

    Sun August 3rd 7 PM - The Tragical Ballad of Black Bonnet

  • ON TOUR FROM NEW ORLEANS

    a gem of entertaining madness by The Black Forest Fancies The singing puppeteer duo of Pandora Gastelum and Nina Nichols reprise their November Fringe show, The Tragical Ballad of Black Bonnet, an audience favorite. Black Bonnet is a mysteriously sexed biological anomaly who works as a housemaid in the home of a 16th century Scottish noble. She stumbles into love with the lord s sequestered daughter Lilliana. Gastelum and Nichols work the marionettes, at times play Black Bonnet and Lilliana themselves, and sing throughout the three-act puppet musical. It s a vividly clever and fun fairy tale. - The Gambit Weekly- Best of New Orleans- July, 2009 www.theblackforestfancies.com

    Saturday December 13 - Films, Animations, Bomb Banks at Cozy Time - $5 - 8 pm sharp

  • I^3 Hypermedia's latest film Greater Than Less Than: Level 2
  • Films of Scott Banning
  • Animation of Matt Marsden
  • music of BOMB BANKS
  • Greater Than Less Than: Level 2

    Greater Than Less Than: Level 2 is a recently completed 'adult edutainment' film is based on a performance piece developed by Sarah Weis with Kathryn Korosi for their performance art group, The Super-Cool Sluuts of America!, early in 2006. The idea was inspired by conversations between Arturo and Sarah about the petro-dollar and the hidden agendas behind the war in the Middle East concerning currency dominance.

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  • Scott Banning currently works in the Denver County Intensive Care Unit as an EMT, at least that's his day job, by night, with his crew of collaborators he creates audio/visual work under the name Itchy-O. Combining Guitar, Accordion and samples of a wide variety of sounds ranging from the mundane to the highly unusual with handcrafted, distorted and distressed films, Itchy-O creates work that evokes both the mysterious and the ridiculous.

    Banning's musical career includes working with Crash Worship, Super Collider and Alpha Jerk among many others. He's worked in the LA Movie world and the San Francisco Art world at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and was the proprietor of San Francisco music venue The Ptomaine Temple.

    Itchy-O has participated in numerous film festivals including The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE) in Montreal and The Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Lausanne Switzerland. They have several albums out including Pulmonic and Tosspot/Linchpin

  • Matt Marsden

    • Matt Marsden is a teacher at the School of the Art Institute in Film, Video, and New Media. He has had screenings and showings at the following: Contemporary Short Animation Series, University of Chicago Film Studies Center; Chicago Underground Film Festival, Three Penny Cinema; Millennium Park; Undershorts Film Festival, Chicago; Z Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center; Euro Underground Film Festival, The Lab, Los Angeles. Exhibitions/ Performances: Gwenda Jay Addington Gallery; Links Hall; The Spellcasters Lodge, New Orleans; The Butcher Shop, Chicago; Nobel Fool; Redmoon Theatre at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Peter Jones Gallery; The Viaduct; Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago. Juror: The Chicago International Film Festival.

    September 19th

  • Flaming Fire
  • Velcro Lewis 100 Proof Band
  • Lovely Little Girls
  • Magic is Kuntmaster
  • DMG

    Monday July 7 at 9 PM - $5

  • Loto Ball Show
  • Eagle Ager
  • Religious Girls (Oakland)
  • DJ Rotten Milk

    the Last Rock Show at RevEye
    Saturday November 10th at 8 PM - $7

  • Velcro Lewis and his 100 Proof Band
  • Flaming Fire (from Brooklyn)
  • Magic is Kuntmaster
  • Loto Ball Show

    Closing Reception 7 PM to 10 PM
    Triangulation: Mapping Community

  • Closing of collaborative exhibit about community and Humboldt Park
  • includes live performances

    November 22 - Reversible Eye Thanksgiving Feast and Winter Shutdown Fest - $12

 

ART OPENING RECEPTION
NICHOLAS KASHIAN - Monoprints and Paintings
Friday March 9th, 7 to 10 PM -$6

nicholas kashian printMusic by Lamajamal at 8 and 9 PMLamajamal





jan 19 - brut pop mid reception with spires that in the sunset rise

    Friday August 4 - 8:30 PM - $6 to $10

  • BLOODYMINDED
    (Power-electronics/noise from CHICAGO
  • No Fucker
  • Graveyards
    (An avant-garde/free-jazz trio featuring John Olson from
    Wolf Eyes - Detroit)
  • Lambsbread
    (An experimental/instrumental "free" hardcore band,
    a la Black Flag's "The Process of Weeding Out EP"
    - Columbus, Ohio)
  • Demons
    (A synthesizer trio featuring Nate Young from Wolf Eyes
    - Detroit - LP on No Fun Records)

    Reversible Lens:
    Photography Exhibit Opening
    7 to 10 PM - Friday July 14

      May 19 - art opening - RED/WHITE/BLUE

      May 25 - Mykel Board/ David Tortuga/ The Glow

      June 3 - Avenpitch/Tel Aviv/ Jack Seven

      Thur May 4 - 8:30 PM

      $5-8 donation
    • Metermaid
    • Noise Revival
    • Locrian

    Friday May 12 - 7 PM ART CLOSING RECEPTION

    Anthony Weber

      Friday May 12 - 9 PM

      $6 to $8 donation
      the pussy pirates the pussy pirates
    • Black Bear Combo
    • Pussy Pirates
    • Forsake Ya To The Snakes
    • Program (Houston, TX)

      • BLACK BEAR COMBO is our local fave gypsy band they ramble through the crowd with sax and drums. THE PUSSY PIRATES are young women influenced by the genius of bands such as Au Pairs, The Slits. FORSAKE YA TO THE SNAKES is Art-Noise Madness! PROGRAM is the infectious synth rhythmic new-wavey stuff you love.



    Friday April 7 - ART OPENING

    Free Admission - 7 to 10 PM

    Anthony Weber - mixed media - opening reception



















    Thu Mar 30 - ART SHOW CLOSING

    Free Admission - 7 to 10 PM

    Nicholas Kashian art show closing reception







    Friday, March 3rd - 7 to 10 PM - Art Opening - Nicholas Kashian

    nicholas kashian




















    Monday Feb 27 - 9 PM - $5 donation requested

    baby dee

    Performance artist, songwriter, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and transgender street legend Baby Dee was born in 1953 in Cleveland, OH. She spent ten years as music director and organist for a Catholic church in the Bronx before joining the circus as the bilateral hermaphrodite at Coney Island. This landed her a gig as the bandleader for performance art group the Bindlestiff Family Circus and a tour with the Kamikaze Freak Show in Europe. After moving back to New York City, she became a fixture in lower Manhattan with a street act on a high-rise tricycle with a concert harp. She recorded her first record, Little Window, on the Durtro label in 2000, a four-track EP in 2001, and her second full-length, the double-disc Love's Small Song, in 2002. Dee returned to Ohio during the latter record's recording, taking vows as a novitiate of the Little Sisters of Crabby Doom (a Cleveland-based order dedicated to the care of smelly old men), vows that she has since forsaken.

      LOTO'S BALL variety show - Thursday Feb. 23 - 8:30 PM

      erin jones performance artist
    • Erin Jones Tutu Torture
    • Featuring The Amazing Acro-Cats
      Cats start at 9 PM
    • hosted by Loto Ball











    critical mass art show chicago

    Friday, Feb. 24th - Art Show Closing and Chicago Critical Mass Celebration, 7:30pm-11pm and a warm welcome to the Chicago Cruisers Bike Club! featuring Cats N Jammers, Parsley Flakes, DJ Anagram Daydream !! bring a blank T-shirt and leave with bikey propaganda from Dark Strobe Design !!



    CRITICAL shake your m-ASS

    Critical Mass Dance Party with DJ Hunter Husar
    11 PM to LATE - $5 to $10 suggested.

    Friday, Feb. 10 - Show opening and Chicago Critical Mass Happy Hour, 7pm-11pm
    featuring TheElectricSet, Right Eye Rita, The Minotaur
    !! bring a blank T-shirt and leave with bikey propaganda from Bike Freeek !!

    more info on Bike Winter Art Show HERE


    Saturday, Feb. 11 - Gallery hours, 1pm-5pm

    Friday Jan. 20
  • Thursday Dec. 15 2005
    an evening with Dame Darcy
    Also appearing:
    • Pedunculated Scraps puppet show
    • Mecanique Soap Opera
    • DJ Hunter Husar - !
  • Puppet and Doll Show Reception
    Friday, Dec. 9th
    6 to 11 pm
    • Bobby Conn
    • Pedunculated Scraps
    • Kayce Bayer
    • Mecanique Soap Opera
  • Sunday, November 6th - Film Night
    presented by Odd Obsession Video
  • Saturday, October 29th, 2005 - Artists and Children Create Together
    halloween party
  • First Show
    - Receptions Sept 22, and 23
    Show - Sept 22 through Dec. 1st.
    Jayme Kalal, R.K. Shuquem, Ben Hirschkoff.
    Music was provided by bands from Chicago's indie-rock and burgeoning cabaret-rock scene (Thin Man, Walkie Talkies, Black Bear Combo, Schizowave)
    as well as hip-hop artists from all over the country. On both nights, the DJ opened up the mic for MCs in the audience.