Silent Funny

Silent Funny is a living and breathing arts space and community hub in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood. The 5,000 square foot building inspires and informs the work created and shown by the artists who work with us. Our neighbors and Chicago at large have been part of making us a distinct space with a dynamic and evolving impact. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Please say hello.

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Come by #silentfunny tonite till 10 or Sunday from 1-6 for @theateroobleck's A Memory Palace of Fear (at Silent Funny)

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https://www.facebook.com/events/274683162931350/

What haunts your house? Eviction? Foreclosure? Mice? Ghosts?

A MEMORY PALACE OF FEAR is a haunted house about housing -- an immersive theater installation exploring the ways the spaces we call home can turn from refuge to menace, and back again.

Workshop performances October 29, 6-10 pm October 39, 1-5 pm

Tours start every 15 minutes, with a running time of approximately half an hour. Timed advance tickets are strongly recommended, and available here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2638657. A limited number of walkup tickets will also be available, first come, first served.

May not be appropriate for kids under 12.

Created by: Martha Bayne, Billie Howard, Sara Heymann, Andrea Jablonski, Charlie Malawe, and Lily Emerson Malawe

With: Emmy Bean, Jean Carlos Claudio, Sharon Lanza, and Kat McJimsey

Produced by Theater Oobleck, with support from the Social Justice News Nexus program at Medill School of Journalism.

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Please join us for this very special engagement!

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Rooftop view of @jdelamorajr painting his epic mural #bringmayflowers. Only a couple more days' worth of work before it's finished. Come by the alley behind #silentfunny and say hi during the day today and tomorrow. (at Silent Funny)

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Coppice Turning Concert August 26 and 27, 2016 Both shows start at 8:00 p.m. Facebook Invite

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Thursday night concert Doors at 8:30 Open Sex at 9:30 Jackie Lynn (@circuitdesyeux + Bitchin Bajas) at 10:30 $10 (at Silent Funny)

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#golembogallery at #silentfunny - prepping for #artbbq this Sunday from 1-6 p.m. This work was made by @presleyjoypaget. (at Silent Funny)

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Sunday July 31st from 1:00 - 6:00 p.m. Join us at Silent Funny for an afternoon of summer eats and artistic treats $10 gets you a plate of BBQ (vegan options included), cooked by the one and only Chris Gay of Doc and Sons BBQ, and an open gallery of Chicago's most glorious DIY artists and musicians. Live music all day:  MICHA (Chicago debut!): www.michellejrodriguez.com The Predictions : https://soundcloud.com/thepredictions Syren (Chicago live debut!): https://soundcloud.com/syrensongs Black Athlete: https://soundcloud.com/black-athlete Signal-to-Noise: https://soundcloud.com/signal_to_noise YFEE https://soundcloud.com/y_fee

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Come here on Sunday! Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/1341624779199797/

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Photographs from May 22, 2016

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Photos from BRAID / WORK, hosted by Sarah Beth Woods and Fatima Traore. Photographs by Brian VandenBos.

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This is a free event. There will be paint and art supplies available for anyone to help contribute to our mural. Hope to see you there!

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The Glow Up is an exhibition + celebration of Chicago-based artists that are queer, of color, underserved, and otherwise unrecognized. A platform for shedding light onto the creative community that I have come to know, The Glow Up is a way of creating camaraderie and unity between these artists and the public. Curated by Luis Mejico.

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Thanks to Brian VandenBos for photographing AMNMA (To Honor The Rios Family) by Jake Harper. 

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A beautiful event ensued this past Sunday at Silent Funny. Jake Harper led a wonderful installation piece and included and honored our neighbors, the Rios Family. In turn, José Rios made a beautiful piece of work, which is now on display in our space. 

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AMNMA feat. The Rios Family on February 21, 2016 @ 6:00 p.m.

Jake Harper is an artist who asked Silent Funny to host an event that he’s created as part of a series called AMNMA. He wanted to include the Rios Family, our neighbors who are artists, to be the guests of honor. Please join us to witness this eclectic, thoughtful, and dynamic event.

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AMNMA is a site-specific performative interaction. In a sonic environment of stillness and space, one’s own shape becomes audible as if a bell that rings easily with no need of judgement.  

An audience-driven ritual is enacted on a stage made of bubble wrap. Names are broken apart and algorithmically woven into a chant-like song. The names are pulled from the participant’s own family tree, activating genealogy as a material in the work. Environmental recordings become percussion instruments that beat to modular patters. Micro duration sounds and generational information work hand in hand, a diversity of timescales overlapping to create a multi-dimensional portrait of its subjects.

AMNMA has an optimistic goal, ultimately seeking to break apart the notion of the living being as a discreet object. The ritual draws the participant out, to rediscover themselves as a vibrating fabric containing multitudes.

Sounds by Banrei

Banrei is a composer and media artist based in Chicago. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, Banrei’s work prompts questions of field, perception and duration. Live performance and installation are used to frame ritualistic encounters. Audiences are asked to interpret subtle transformations of space and become aware of that which exists at the edge of perception. Ultimately, Banrei seeks to break apart the notion of the living being as a discreet object. The ritual draws the listener out, to rediscover themselves as a vibrating fabric containing multitudes.

Born in Washington DC in 1988 and formerly of New York and Berlin-based Soundwalk Collective, Banrei has performed and exhibited work at venues around the world including the New Museum, the Centre Pompidou, Lille Fantastique, MuCEM, and the National Gallery of China.