Free Shit
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Film, Music, Free Shit Oddsac
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- "Oddsac"
Danny Perez's 57-minute audiovisual freakout Oddsac, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, looks to be about as weird as one might hope from a collaboration with Animal Collective, with an original score by the band that reportedly will only be released with the film.
Perez and members of Animal Collective appear at two sold-out shows Wednesday 3/17 at the Music Box Theatre. Oddsac tweeted this morning that tickets were available for volunteers.
Also from Twitter, via Stereogum: "ODDSAC, the Animal Collective film, makes Matthew Barney look like Matthew McConaughey. Trippy, dense, intense, atonal, dark, fractured” -@jamesrocchi
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Free Shit, Food & Drink, Environment, Other Stuff 3/18 — Free Talk on Women and Conservation
Posted by Sam Worley on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- http://www.uic.edu/depts/anth/faculty/wali.html
Monday, March 15, 2010
Food Chain, Free Shit 3/15 — Free Coffee at Dunkin' Donuts on March Mondays
Posted by Sam Adams on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:09 AM
A list of Chicago locations is here.
Film, Free Shit Our Trip to Africa
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- "Unsere Afrikareise"
Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka spent five years scrambling and reassociating images and sounds from a 1961 African hunting trip into the 12-minute Unsere Afrikareise, screening Monday 3/15 in a free program of landscape films at the School of the Art Institute.
"There is often a temptation to read direct thematic statements in many of the film's articulations. Editing connections are continually made on the white hunters' gazes, hand gestures, and gun-pointing, linking those actions to suggest the Europeans' aggression toward their surroundings," Fred Camper writes in Film Reference.
"Kubelka's cuts often suggest that a European has just 'shot' an African, or the forest itself. The Africans, by contrast, appear as part of nature, rather than separate from it. It would be a serious mistake, however, to limit one's perception of the film to such themes...The viewer is ultimately led out of time, to contemplate these connections in memory, and to regard the film as if it were a monument erected as a record of civilization, not as a statement on it but as a kind of totem for it."
Friday, March 12, 2010
Visual Art, Free Shit, Other Stuff 3/13— Free Open House at Lillstreet Art Center
Posted by Sam Worley on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- pinmonkeypress@Flickr
Lillstreet Art Center (4401 N. Ravenswood) hosts its spring open house on Sat 3/13 from noon to 5 PM, with free workshops in jewelry-making, embroidery, drawing, and other arts and crafts. Free tours of the facilities, art activities for kids, live music, and snacks from First Slice Pie Cafe will also be available. A detailed schedule of the day's events is here.
Free Shit 3/13 — Free Shuttles for St. Patrick's Day
Posted by Sam Adams on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:50 PM
Bus stops include:
Loop and River North: the Clark and Lake el, Merchandise Mart, Mother Hubbard's (5 W. Hubbard), and O'Callaghan's (29 W. Hubbard).
Old Town: Corcoran's Grill (1615 N. Wells).
Lincoln Park: Fullerton el, Kincade's (950 W. Armitage), McGee's Tavern (950 W. Webster), Kendall's Pub (2263 N. Lincoln), and Victory Liquors (2610 N. Halsted).
Wrigleyville: Addison red line el, Harry Caray's Tavern (3551 N. Sheffield), Murphy's Bleachers (3653 N. Sheffield), the Cubby Bear (1059 W. Addison), and Rebel Bar & Grill (3462 N. Clark).
Free Shit, Other Stuff 3/13— Free Health Screenings at Englewood Community Center
Posted by Sam Worley on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:17 PM
Free Shit, Food & Drink, Other Stuff 3/13 — Free St. Patrick's Party at Faith and Whiskey
Posted by Sam Worley on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:56 PM
- k4dordy@flickr
Faith and Whiskey (1365 W. Fullerton) hosts a daylong party Sat 3/13 from 11 AM to 10 PM with free corned beef sandwiches and green eggs and ham. The food will flow until the party ends, or until it runs out — whichever comes first. There's no cover for the party, which also features Irish music and drink specials.
Onstage, Music, Free Shit, Other Stuff, Performing Arts, Dance 3/13— Free Reception with Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago
Posted by Sam Worley on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Before their 6:30 PM performance tomorrow at the Harris Theater (205 E. Randolph), Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago will host a free reception featuring company dancers and the associate board of directors. Guests will enjoy free wine, a live performance by singer-songwriter Kevin Mileski, and the chance to purchase half-price tickets to that night's show, Ovations — a showcase of their greatest hits. Tickets can be purchased at the door, at 312-334-7777, or online— use promo code AB01 to get the discount.
Film, Free Shit, Environment School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama
It's an opportune time to explore Japan's relationship to nature, what with The Cove's Oscar win and yesterday's arrest in Tokyo of New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune.
Surely this isn't the kind of profile the Japan Information Center is going for with its Japan and Nature Film Series, concluding Friday 3/12 at Columbia College with a free screening of Masaki Haramura's documentary School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama.
“Children will not grow unless they are put in a risky environment. They will not grow healthily unless they get injured, covered in mud and play rough and physical games," Eijyu Miyazaki says in the film. Haramura examines Miyazaki's iconoclastic pedagogy and its impact at the Kisarazu Community Nursery School in Satoyama, Chiba.
