Music: [oddmusic] Bicycles and the Arts / Chicago Calling

Bicycles and the Arts

Friday, October 1, 2010 (8 p.m.)

Happy Dog Gallery
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60622

You are invited to attend Bicycles and the Arts, a multidisciplinary event
that happens during Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival and Chicago
Artists Month. Bicycles and the Arts creatively explores connections between
these two vital elements of culture and society --
• "Wheels on the Ground and in the Sky," a group show with paintings,
sculptures, and videos by Andrew DelaRosa, Janina Ciezadlo, John Bambino,
Alpha Bruton, Regin Ingloria, Catie Olson, and Matt Weber;
• John Greenfield reads from his new book "Bars Across America: Drinking and
Biking from Coast to Coast";
• Chicago Underground Library presents a Pop Up Library;
• a musical ensemble performs -- Derek Repsch (electronics), Andrew Royal
(violin), Robin Boudreaux (tenor saxophone), Dan Godston (trumpet), and
Jimmy Bennington (drums) -- including a telematic performance with an
ensemble in Detroit and an homage to Frank Zappa's 1963 appearance on The
Steve Allen Show (when Zappa taught Allen how to play a bicycle and the
Steve Allen Orchestra performed with the musical bicycles);
• a project which pays homage to Jean Tinguely's "Homage to New York."
"Bicycles and the Arts" involves a partnership with the Copenhagen Cyclery.
$7 suggested donation, all ages and open to the public.

During the Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, Chicago-based artists
collaborate with artists in other locations -- both here in the U.S. and
abroad. These collaborations involve a range of art forms -- including
music, dance, film, literature, and intermedia -- and they are prepared or
improvised. Some Chicago Calling events involve live feeds between Chicago
and other locations. 2010 Chicago Calling events include "Bicycles and the
Arts" at Happy Dog Gallery, "Translations 2010" at the Reconstruction Room,
"Seda Röder / Burton Greene - Harrison Bankhead Duo Concert" at Curtiss
Hall, "Temperatures and Shapes / Arctic Live" at Elastic Sound & Vision
Gallery, "I Remember Fred" at the Velvet Lounge, "Chicago Calling, Waiting
for the Bus" at Café Ballou, "Two Way Tarot Mirrors" at Myopic Books, "My
Favorite Banned Books Abecedarian Read-Out" at the Logan Square Library,
"Aural Architecture" at WNUR, and other events.