Blue Alice
2022-10-07 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | 21c Museum Hotel Chicago, 55 E Ontario, Chicago, IL, 60611
Performance by Irene HsiaoCostume by Vin Reed
Oct. 7, 6:00pm
RSVP here
“Only the light that falls continually from the sky gives a tree the energy to push powerful roots into the earth. The tree is actually rooted in the sky.” — Simone Weil

Blue Alice (by 21c’s first artist in residence, Irene Hsiao) is a response to the Pop Stars! exhibition, Oct 7 is the third in a series of Blue Alice performances at 21c Chicago, and the April 8, 2022 performance of Blue Alice was the first performance presented at 21c Chicago.

Pop Stars! - Guided Exhibit Tour with Juli Lowe, 21c Museum Manager
2022-10-14 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-21 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-28 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-01-20 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-01-27 16:00 - 17:00
Curious about contemporary art? Learn about 21c Chicago’s current exhibition, Pop Stars!, and the artists behind all of the works on a guided tour from 21c’s Museum Manager, Juli Lowe.
Meet us in the lobby at 4 pm to explore. Tours are free and open to the public.

Curatorial Conversations with Kristin Taylor, Museum of Contemporary Photography Curator of Academic Programs & Collections and Chicago based artist, Guanyu Xu 徐冠宇
2022-10-14 18:30 - 20:30
Friday, October 14th – 6:30pm
Wine reception to follow 7:30-8:30pm
Free and open to the public
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21c Museum Hotel Chicago is honored to collaborate with Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) on this month’s Curator Conversation. MoCP’s Photography Curator of Academic Programs & Collections, Kristin Taylor will be in conversation with artist Guanyu Xu 徐冠宇who currently has work on view in MoCP’s exhibition Beyond the Frame curated by Taylor spotlighting MoCP’s permanent collection of more than 16,500 works as a rich resource for harnessing visual literacy skills.
Curator Conversations at 21c Museum Hotel Chicago is a bimonthly series that asks a local art curator to chat with an artist of their choice with ties to the Chicago arts community. Each month those pairing switch up to give viewers a look into the rich arts community in the city.
Join Museum of Contemporary Photography and 21c Museum Hotel Chicago for this free program on Friday, October 14th at 6:30pm.

Brendan Fernandes Performance, Book Signing, and Dance Party!
2022-10-21 18:00 - 22:00
Join 21c and Brendan Fernandes for an immersive museum program featuring an artist talk, performance, book signing, and dance party! The night will commence with a conversation between Fernandes, 21c Chicago Creative Ambassador, Nigel Barker. Immediately following will be a special performance of Révérence performed by Joffrey Academy Dancers alongside a book signing of Fernandes’ forthcoming monograph, Brendan Fernandes: Re/Form. The dance party will kick off at 8pm with DJ Harry Cross!

Peroni, Casa Dragones and Jarritos will provide beverages alongside a champagne and wine bar.
ONLY 50 COPIES of Re/Form will be available during the event, however, you will be able to pre-order the book during the event. Payment can be made via Venmo during the event.
Date: Friday, October 21st
Time: 6:00 – 10:00pm
Location: 21c Chicago Main Gallery (55 E Ontario St. Chicago, IL 60611)
About Brendan Fernandes
Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya) is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Currently based out of Chicago, Brendan’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest and other forms of collective movement. Always looking to create new spaces and new forms of agency, Brendan’s projects take on hybrid forms: part Ballet, part queer dance hall, part political protest…always rooted in collaboration and fostering solidarity. Brendan is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2007) and a recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Fellowship (2014). In 2010, he was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, and is the recipient of a prestigious 2017 Canada Council New Chapters grant. Brendan is also the recipient of the Artadia Award (2019), a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2020) and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant (2019). His projects have shown at the 2019 Whitney Biennial (New York); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Museum of Modern Art (New York); The Getty Museum (Los Angeles); the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); MAC (Montreal); among a great many others. He is currently Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago. Recent and upcoming projects include performances and solo presentations at the Noguchi Museum, New York, NY; Munch Art Museum, Oslo, Norway; The Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC; and The Girl’s Choir + Danish National Radio, Copenhagen, Denmark.
About Re/Form
In an ambitious new monograph, Kenyan-born, Chicago-based Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes (born 1979) chronicles his two most recent exhibitions, Contract and Release at the Noguchi Museum (2019) and Master and Form commissioned by the Graham Foundation in 2018, which was later expanded for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. These performance-based installations feature live dancers interacting with Noguchi’s colorful, unstable sculptures and a collection of architectural steel cages resembling ballet barres. The objects in both exhibitions act as training devices and physical constraints, both aiding and encumbering the dancers, and encouraging poses that test their endurance in overt displays of physical tension and self-control. The work engages with notions of discipline and mastery, pain and pleasure, and aims to disrupt and consolidate ballet and modern dance traditions. Alongside documentation of the performances, this book includes insight into Fernandes’ work with texts by Juliet Bellow, Andrew Campbell, Hendrik Folkerts and Dakin Hart.
Brendan Fernandes: Re/Form is published by Skira in partnership with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
About Révérence
Révérence is a performance that intervenes at cultural events and in public spaces where the dynamics of watching and being watched take place. The piece consists of a team of Ballet dancers, who preform a choreographed routine of bowing. Based on “the révérence” the traditional end to a Ballet where dancers make a procession of bows to each other and the audience, this performance breaks the fourth wall and puts the audience in the ambiguous position of being bowed to by dancers who move through and occupy the same space as the audience does. In this way the performance questions notions of social hierarchy; class; privilege; and the often tense relationship between art worlds and their audiences.

The Chronicles of Fabulous Freddie
2022-10-22 19:00 - 21:00
The Chronicles of Fabulous Freddie
Oct. 22, 7:00-9:00pm
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Fabulous Freddie invites you to experience a new dance work that takes the audience into an autobiographical journey chronicling his life as a young Black Gay man coming into self-claimed greatness. Through his three superhero variant identities, Fabulous Freddie brings his lived experience to the stage for an unforgettable night of dance, soundscapes and wearable design. This multi-practice and multi-media performance weaves a story of healing, heroism and humor into a FABULOUS tale of alchemizing surviving into thriving and shining. The Chronicles of Fabulous Freddie is the capstone work emerging from Fabulous Freddie’s Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Year.
Frederick “Fabulous Freddie Prodigy” Leroy is a Voguer/Bboy in the community. He has been dancing for 12+ years, starting with breaking in high school. Throughout his career, Freddie has learned to grow and adapt with who he is as a dancemaker, experimenting with femininity and masculinity in the artist’s own lexicon of movement. Freddie’s dance journey is a self-exploration and healing practice in claiming himself whole through embodying his masculine and feminine energies as a Black Gay artist. By choosing to express himself through both Breaking and Vogue Femme movement foundations, he has opened a new space for an important conversation to happen through his body.
Partners/Sponsors: Chicago Dancemakers Forum
Social Hashtags:Instagram:@Fabulous_Freddie_Prodigy@chicagodancemakersforumFacebook: Freddie Leroy (Fabulous Freddie Prodigy)#fabulousfreddieprodigy #innovativeiconichouseofprodigy #Chicago #21cmuseumhotel #chicagodancemakersforum #bboy #voguing

Art and Wine Tour
2022-11-04 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-12-02 17:00 - 18:30, 2023-01-06 17:00 - 18:30
Sip on a glass of wine and enjoy a guided tour of our current exhibit, Pop Stars!. Learn all about contemporary art and the artists behind the work.

Meet in Gallery 5 + 6 on the 2nd Floor.

Tour starts at 5:00pm and is free and open to the public

RSVP via Eventbrite here.

The Art of Cinema: Dinner & Movie Night at 21c Chicago
2022-11-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-11 19:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-18 19:00 - 22:00
Throughout the month of November, 21c Chicago will screen films by artists whose work is currently on view as part of and highlights a trope within 21c’s current exhibition, Pop Stars!.
Friday, November 4th: The first feature film, Nowhere Boy, is a 2009 British biographical drama film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson in her directorial debut. Photographer and filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson’s video piece, After Van Halen, is on view in Gallery 6.
Friday, November 11th: The second screening will feature Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace. This film follows the artist, Kehinde Wiley, as he steps out of his comfort zone to create a series of paintings of women for the first time. Wiley, known for having painted President Obama’s portrait in 2018 for the National Portrait Gallery, has two artworks on view in 21c Gallery 1, Akilah Walker a bronze sculpture and Portrait of Bintou Fall, a painting from the series profiled in the documentary.
Friday, November 18th: The third screening is Portrait of a Lady on Fire (winner of Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay), a 2019 French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma, starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel. Set in France in the late 18th century, the film tells the story of a lesbian affair between an aristocrat and a painter commissioned to paint her portrait.
Join 21c Chicago’s Museum Manager, Juli Lowe, at 5pm for a tour of the exhibition and learn more about the artists and their artworks prior to the screening. Wine be served. Lure Fishbar will offer special menu items in conjunction with this event (advance purchase not required, but encouraged).
Nov. 4 Nowhere Boy
Nov. 11 Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace
Nov. 18 Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Jazz Jam Session with The Matt Jarosch Quintet
2022-11-15 19:00 - 22:00
Jazz Jam Session
Tuesday, November 15th, 7-10pm
RSVP here
Free and open to the public.
21c’s Jazz Jam Sessions continue bimonthly!
Jazz jam sessions have long been the place where musicians gather to connect and perform together while honing their skills. The Matt Jarosch Quintet will kick off the night with a 30 minute set before opening the evening to Jazz musicians in the audience to come sit-in!
Musicians can sign up on-site, and fill out a jam session info card listing three to five tunes they can play and improvise on from memory. The jam session host will call on musicians to perform and improvise together in front of an enthusiastic live audience. A vocal microphone, drum set, bass, bass amp, and piano will be provided, otherwise bring your axe!
The evening will feature a fundraiser for BandWith Chicago. Suggested donation is $10 (collected at the door).Wine be served. Lure Fishbar will offer special menu items in conjunction with this event (advance purchase not required, but encouraged).
About BandWith ChicagoFounded in the Fall of 2015 by Annie Palomino, BandWith is a Chicago-based non-profit organization whose mission is to provide lasting access to high quality performing arts instruction to underserved Chicago communities.
Since its inception, BandWith has addressed the need for access to music and creativity in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood. Annie Palomino launched BandWith when the band program was dropped from LEARN Campbell Charter School due to budget cuts. Starting a nonprofit allowed Annie to continue providing free access to music instruction to students at the LEARN Campbell Campus while increasing reach to new students.
Since then, BandWith has developed into a stable organization offering individual and small group instruction, weekly ensemble play and performance opportunities to participants throughout the year. BandWith’s free in-school and after-school programs are located in East Garfield Park. They include our longest standing in-school band program, the Titan Band, within LEARN Charter School. BandWith also provides an after-school performing arts program at Marillac St. Vincent’s Hope Jr. Youth Center, which includes Drumline, WestDance, Studio-Engineering and Vocal Training/Choir. This summer, we partnered with After School Matters to support our growing Drumline Program as well as Chicago West Community Music Center to launch the WestDance Program.
BandWith offers instrumental music programs at 3 additional sites that are fee-for-service. The sites of these are St. Procopius School in Pilsen, St. Helen School in Ukrainian Village, and St. John Berchmans School in Logan Square. The three fee-for-service programs ensure BandWith’s financial viability and stability, and help subsidize the cost of our free programs. All other fundraising efforts are used to support free programs.

Curatorial Conversation: NFTs as a medium
2022-11-16 18:00 - 20:00
NFTs as a mediumWhy, when and how to use NFTs in art – a discussion led by Chicago artists
RSVP here.
21c Museum Hotel is excited to host an in-person conversation led by Chicago based artists and makers who utilize the new technology of Web3 and NFTs to further their conceptual ideas and discourse. Anyone curious about art and NFT’s are encouraged to join in this open discussion about the use of NFTs as a medium within an artist’s practice. Leading minds in Chicago’s art NFT scene will share their work before participants break out into smaller groups to discuss the many facets of NFT’s within the art world.

Introduction and small group discussions run from 6-7pm with a wine reception to follow.

Exclusive viewing of Holding Rhythm with the artist, Colleen Plumb
2022-11-18 18:00 - 19:00
Colleen Plumb’s newest experimental video, Holding Rhythm, 2022, is the first commission made for Elevate: Rm 921. This site-specific video projection is viewable after dusk from the windows of 21c Chicago guests with interior-facing rooms. Join the artist, Colleen Plumb, and 21c Museum Manager, Juli Lowe, for a private viewing of the projection and learn more about the video and artist behind the work!
Read more about Holding Rhythm and Elevate: Rm 921 here.
Meet in the lobby at 6:15pm. Tours are free and open to the public, RSVP is required.
RSVP via Eventbrite here.

SoFar Sounds Concert @ 21c Chicago
2022-11-19 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-12-18 19:30 - 22:00, 2023-01-27 19:30 - 22:00
Attn: Live music lovers!
This month, we’re bringing another SoFar Sounds show to YOU! ICYMI, they transform everyday spaces into captivating venues for secret, live music shows. Expect three local and diverse artists, great vibes, and a whole lot of magic– get your tickets here.
Use promo code SOFARSPACES15 for 15% off the show.
Located in the Main Gallery on the 2nd Floor.
Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8:00pm.

Artist Reception Tanya Lunina: Rhythm of the Lake
2022-12-02 18:00 - 19:30
Please join us for an artist reception of Tanya Lunina: Rhythm of the Lake on December 2 from 6:00-7:30pm. The artist will be present and will speak about the work at 6:30pm in Gallery 3. Rhythm of the Lake will be on view December 1, 2022 – January 31, 2023.
RSVP here.
In her ongoing series, Rhythm of the Lake, photographer Tanya Lunina directs her camera at Lake Michigan in Chicago. Solitude within the open space and the various moods of the lake draw Lunina to the expanse of this body of water. Her frequent visits to the lakefront reveal a personal interpretation of a place in the city where the built environment meets the natural landscape. Water, sky, and concrete dissect each photograph into simple forms while the repetition of these elements are visual evidence of change and the passage of time.
Tanya Lunina (b. 1973, Russia) is a fine art photographer based in the Chicagoland area where she settled in 2006. In 2019, Lunina completed the Photo Program at the College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, IL).
Lunina’s current work is related to the urban and its neighboring waterfront space of the city of Chicago. Her photographs have been exhibited at several galleries including the Perspective Gallery in Evanston and the Cleve Carney Gallery in Glen Ellyn. One of her series was the juror’s choice at the Filter Photo IV Annual Members Exhibition. Lunina’s works have been published in several juried publications by LensWork Publishing. Her photographic projects also received recognition at the 13th – 16th International Julia Margaret Cameron Awards in the architectural and landscape/seascape categories.

Elevate at 21c presents temporary exhibitions of works by artists living and working in the communities surrounding each 21c Museum Hotel Chicago. Elevate provides hotel guests and visitors with unique access to the work of notable regional artists, while featuring their work in the context of 21c’s contemporary art space.

3rd Annual Holiday Cabaret Roosevelt University students
2022-12-07 19:00 - 20:00
Join 21c Chicago and Roosevelt University for a night of merriment and cheer as CCPA students sing and dance to favorite holiday songs! The Holiday Cabaret will include favorite classics such as The Christmas Waltz, Mistletoe and Holly, and more, to get you in to the holiday spirit. RSVP online here

Exclusive viewing of Holding Rhythm with the artist, Colleen Plumb
2022-12-14 17:00 - 18:00
Colleen Plumb’s newest experimental video, Holding Rhythm, 2022, is the first commission made for Elevate: Rm 921. This site-specific video projection is viewable after dusk from the windows of 21c Chicago guests with interior-facing rooms. Join the artist, Colleen Plumb, and 21c Museum Manager, Juli Lowe, for a private viewing of the projection and learn more about the video and artist behind the work!
Read more about Holding Rhythm and Elevate: Rm 921 here.
Meet in the lobby at 5 pm. Tours are free and open to the public, RSVP is required.
RSVP via Eventbrite here.

Blue Alice performed by Irene Hsiao
2022-12-21 17:30 - 18:00
Blue Alice (by 21c’s first Artist in Residence, Irene Hsiao) is a response to the Pop Stars! exhibition, Dec. 21 is the fourth in a series of Blue Alice performances at 21c Chicago, and the April 8, 2022, performance of Blue Alice was the first performance presented at 21c Chicago. Learn more about Irene Hsiao and the Artist in Residence program here.
Blue Alice
Performance by Irene HsiaoCostume by Vin Reed
Wednesday, Dec. 21, 5:30pm

Exclusive viewing of Holding Rhythm with the artist, Colleen Plumb
2023-01-06 18:15 - 19:15
Colleen Plumb’s newest experimental video, Holding Rhythm, 2022, is the first commission made for Elevate: Rm 921. This site-specific video projection is viewable after dusk from the windows of 21c Chicago guests with interior-facing rooms. Join the artist, Colleen Plumb, and 21c Museum Manager, Juli Lowe, for a private viewing of the projection and learn more about the video and artist behind the work!
Read more about Holding Rhythm and Elevate: Rm 921 here.
Meet in the lobby at 6:15 pm. Tours are free and open to the public, RSVP is required.
RSVP via Eventbrite here.

Art of Cinema: Shut Up and Paint, A Film by Titus Kaphar & Alex Mallis
2023-01-10 18:30 - 19:30
Painter Titus Kaphar looks to film as a medium in the face of an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism.
SHUT UP AND PAINT
A Film by Titus Kaphar & Alex Mallis
Produced by Chloe Gbai
Executive Produced by Matthew O’Neill & Perri Peltz
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Called “a fascinatingly layered piece…unusually occupied by questions of process and power,” SHUT UP AND PAINT (20 minutes, 2022) is a new documentary short about the Painter Titus Kaphar as he looks to film as a medium in the face of an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism. SHUT UP AND PAINT was recently recognized as one of fifteen films to advance in the Documentary Short Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. This award-winning film received the Grand Jury Prize at both the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and Independent Film Festival Boston. It was also selected for DOC NYC’s “Shortlist: Shorts” and is a Cinema Eye Honors nominee for Outstanding Nonfiction Short. A co-production of DCTV and Revolution Ready, SHUT UP AND PAINT is directed by Titus Kaphar and Alex Mallis, produced by Chloe Gbai, and executive produced by Matthew O’Neill and Perri Peltz.
DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT
Most non-fiction storytelling severs author from subject and brings into question the nature of power and representation. This is especially true of Black stories told through the lens of white storytellers. From the inception of this project, which is at its core an artist profile, we made the conceptual and political decision to include the Artist as co-director. This film centers the agency of a successful Black artist to protect his creative process and guard against the corrosive influences of the market. We wanted our process as filmmakers to be part of that journey.
We decided not to use traditional interviews. This presented an exciting challenge: to capture authentic and observed moments with a subject who would remain acutely aware of the role and goal of the camera. To do this, we chose to break the fourth wall both on screen and off. We drew a lot from formally expansive films such as William Greaves’ Symbiopsychotaxiplasm and Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, even creating our own take on the famous “Radio Raheem” scenes from the latter – collaborator Reginald Dwayne Betts performs original poetry directly to the camera, serving as our guide. For Alex, co-directing with the subject meant examining ethical approaches to altering and editing of words and ideas, i.e. when that person is in the edit room and pushing back on the way they are being represented…you have to listen!
As directors, we hope that this film is experienced by our viewers not just as entertainment but as an expression of art itself.
— Titus Kaphar and Alex Mallis, Directors
**NOMINEE – Cinema Eye Honors 2022 – Outstanding Nonfiction Short**
**DOC NYC Shortlist: Shorts – Official Selection**
**WINNER – Grand Jury Prize Short Competition**
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2022
**WINNER – Grand Jury Prize Documentary Shorts**
Independent Film Festival Boston 2022
**Tribeca Film Festival 2022 – Official Selection **
**BAMCinemafest 2022 – Official Selection**
About Titus Kaphar (Director, Producer)
Titus Kaphar (b. 1976, Kalamazoo, Michigan) received an MFA from the Yale School of Art and is the recipient of a 2016 Robert R. Rauschenberg Artist as Activist grant, a 2018 Art for Justice Fund grant, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship, among others. Kaphar’s painting was featured on the cover of the June 15, 2020 issue of TIME. His lauded 2017 TED talk has received 2.8 million views to date. Kaphar’s work is included in the collections of Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, amongst others. Kaphar founded his production company Revolution Ready in 2019 and is currently working on two feature length films.
About Alex Mallis (Director, Producer)
Alex is a Cuban-American, Jewish filmmaker raised in New Hampshire now living in Brooklyn, NY. His films have been selected for multiple festivals internationally. Online, his work has been featured by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, The Huffington Post, and Vimeo Staff Picks. His documentary series AMERICAN BOYBAND (2017) was broadcast on ViceTV. His short documentary SHUT UP AND PAINT (2022) was awarded the Grand Jury Prize Documentary Shorts at IFFBoston and the Grand Jury Prize Short Competition at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Alex received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and is an active member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and the Meerkat Media Collective.

Blue Alice performed by Irene Hsiao
2023-01-19 16:00 - 17:00
Please join us for Blue Alice’s last appearances in Pop Stars! at 21c Museum Hotel Chicago. Blue Alice is performed by 21c’s first Artist in Residence, Irene Hsiao, and is a response to the Pop Stars! exhibition. Learn more about Irene Hsiao and the Artist in Residence program here.
Blue Alice
Performance by Irene HsiaoCostume by Vin Reed
Final Performances
Thursday, January 19 at 4PM, with post-performance discussion moderated by Roell Schmidt
Monday, January 23 at 4PM, with post-performance discussion moderated by Jenn Freeman | Po’Chop
Friday, January 27 — final tour of Pop Stars! with Museum Manager Juli Lowe at 4PM, Blue Alice at 5PM
All performances and discussions are free and open to the public.

Ladies Only Sip & Talk
2023-01-19 19:00 - 21:00
Ladies Only Sip & Talk!
An enjoyable night at the one and only 21c Museum Hotel, intended for women to network, release thoughts and emotions while drinking wine.
We are creating a safe space for women to be able to come together and freely express perspectives during our discussion segments, which can lean towards sisterhood and healing. Doesn’t matter your age, background or ethnicity, come have a fun time and elevate self. The first step towards growth and gaining overall newness is becoming self-aware. And the best way to gain self-awareness is through conversations!
Complimentary red and white wine will be provided. Upon request, food options will be available for purchase.
Don’t drink wine but still interested in coming for great conversations? You’re welcome to attend as well!
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DRESS CODE: Come dressed as your highest self. Be you, express who you are through your attire.
No children
No smoking
ON TIME ARRIVAL, DOORS WILL BE CLOSED AND EVENT WILL BEGIN AT 7:15PM
***PARKING: Valet, Spothero, (other discounted parking apps) Uber, pay street parking.
Main Gallery 2nd FL
Hosted by Chadon M’Be and D’nia Defrance
Special Thank you to 21c Museum Hotel Chicago and S.T.E.P Self Love Services
@s.t.e.p__
@21chotelchicago
@chvdon
@_defrance
An enjoyable night at the one and only 21c Museum Hotel, intended for women to network, release thoughts and emotions while drinking wine.
We are creating a safe space for women to be able to come together and freely express perspectives during our discussion segments, which can lean towards sisterhood and healing. Doesn’t matter your age, background or ethnicity, come have a fun time and elevate self. The first step towards growth and gaining overall newness is becoming self-aware. And the best way to gain self-awareness is through conversations!
Complimentary red and white wine will be provided. Upon request, food options will be available for purchase.
Don’t drink wine but still interested in coming for great conversations? You’re welcome to attend as well!
———-
DRESS CODE: Come dressed as your highest self. Be you, express who you are through your attire.
No children
No smoking
ON TIME ARRIVAL, DOORS WILL BE CLOSED AND EVENT WILL BEGIN AT 7:15PM
***PARKING: Valet, Spothero, (other discounted parking apps) Uber, pay street parking.
Main Gallery 2nd FL
Hosted by Chadon M’Be and D’nia Defrance
Special Thank you to 21c Museum Hotel Chicago and S.T.E.P Self Love Services
@s.t.e.p__
@21chotelchicago
@chvdon
@_defrance

Jazz Jam Session with the Matt Jarosch Quintet
2023-01-24 19:00 - 22:00
Jazz Jam Session
Tuesday, January 24th, 7-10pm
Free and open to the public
21c’s Jazz Jam Sessions continue bimonthly!
Jazz jam sessions have long been the place where musicians gather to connect and perform together while honing their skills. The Matt Jarosch Quintet will kick off the night with a 30-minute set before opening the evening to Jazz musicians in the audience to come sit-in!
Musicians can sign up on-site and fill out a jam session info card listing three to five tunes they can play and improvise on from memory. The jam session host will call on musicians to perform and improvise together in front of an enthusiastic live audience. A vocal microphone, drum set, bass, bass amp, and piano will be provided, otherwise bring your axe!
The evening will feature a fundraiser for BandWith Chicago. Suggested donation is $10 (collected at the door).
Wine be served. Lure Fishbar will offer special menu items in conjunction with this event (advance purchase not required but encouraged).
About BandWith ChicagoFounded in the Fall of 2015 by Annie Palomino, BandWith is a Chicago-based non-profit organization whose mission is to provide lasting access to high quality performing arts instruction to underserved Chicago communities.
Since its inception, BandWith has addressed the need for access to music and creativity in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood. Annie Palomino launched BandWith when the band program was dropped from LEARN Campbell Charter School due to budget cuts. Starting a nonprofit allowed Annie to continue providing free access to music instruction to students at the LEARN Campbell Campus while increasing reach to new students.
Since then, BandWith has developed into a stable organization offering individual and small group instruction, weekly ensemble play and performance opportunities to participants throughout the year. BandWith’s free in-school and after-school programs are located in East Garfield Park. They include our longest standing in-school band program, the Titan Band, within LEARN Charter School. BandWith also provides an after-school performing arts program at Marillac St. Vincent’s Hope Jr. Youth Center, which includes Drumline, WestDance, Studio-Engineering and Vocal Training/Choir. This summer, we partnered with After School Matters to support our growing Drumline Program as well as Chicago West Community Music Center to launch the WestDance Program.
BandWith offers instrumental music programs at 3 additional sites that are fee-for-service. The sites of these are St. Procopius School in Pilsen, St. Helen School in Ukrainian Village, and St. John Berchmans School in Logan Square. The three fee-for-service programs ensure BandWith’s financial viability and stability, and help subsidize the cost of our free programs. All other fundraising efforts are used to support free programs.
