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LVL3 interviews this week featuring Aay Preston-Myint and Diamond Cafe
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LVL3 interviews this week featuring:
Artist of the Week: Julie Weber Spotlight: Chances Dances Looks: Sankuanz
Gnat Madrid Brilmyer Please, Plaything Laminate block, glittery vinyl restraints, steel tie downs 2015 In A Plain Brown Paper Wrapper: part of PLATFORMS, the Chances Dances 10 year retrospective Chicago, IL At the Gray Center of Art and Inquiry, University of Chicago Showing September 3-18, 2015
Join us THIS FRIDAY as we prance on over to the Old Town School of Folk Music. We'll be learning some fresh new moves from BOOGIE McCLARIN and then practicing said sickening moves. It's gonna be a HOOT.
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Thursday, March 27: CRIMSON GLOW presents LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX w/ BROOK SINKINSON WITHROW
For the March edition of CRIMSON GLOW, Chicago artist Brook Sinkinson Withrow will showcase the music of women in hip-hop who deal with sex in frank terms — rapping and singing about consent, respect, desire, nicknames and moves explicitly in the 1990's and since. Brook had the privilege of an inclusive and real sexual education called Our Whole Lives in her formative years, and she wants to present this same attitude of respect and openness while letting women's words about wanting dick tickle our ears. Expect to hear from Salt-n-Pepa, Bytches With Problems, En Vogue, Khia, TLC, Missy Elliott and more.
Brook will provide a free mix and other goodies (ahem) for y'all's taking. So come in and get down!
Brook Sinkinson Withrow is an artist with a varied writing practice who organizes and programs, especially moving image and sonic material. She selects songs at bars from time to time, co-directs a project space in Pilsen called Forever & Always, and collaborates often.
CRIMSON GLOW creates a space for femminess and feminists who want to dance to, and sing along with, amazing woman-made music from all genres. CRIMSON GLOW is committed in equal measures to allowing engagement with the work of innovative musical pioneers and fostering dance party enjoyment.
CRIMSON GLOW is inspired by queer dance parties like Chances Dances and feminist music movements like Riot Grrrl. We welcome women, girls and all other gender expressions. We use GENDER NEUTRAL bathroom signs. The Whistler is ADA accessible.
When we put out a call to readers to nominate the most inspiring power couples they know to be featured in our Valentine's Day issue, the question on everyone's lips seemed to be, "What the hell's a power couple?" We specifed that we didn't mean like "Michelle and Barack or Rahm and the City Council (hoo-ah!)," but to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure we knew exactly what we were looking for until the nominees started rolling in.
In the past, we've celebrated Valentine's Day in pretty predictable alt-weekly fashion: relying on snark and suspicion of consumerist holidays. (You should totally still come to our Anti-Valentine's Day Party!) This year, we said screw it, let's show some love to love, or at least to the people who make being in love seem less gruesome.
We received nearly 200 nominations, which sort of validated our suspicion that people don't hate love so much after all; in fact, they're pretty thrilled for friends who've found it. The nominated couples had one thing in common: awesome individuals who were lucky enough to find one another—something we asked each couple to recall by writing an I Saw You based on their first meeting.
It was tough to winnow our choices down to four . . . well, actually, we'd selected five couples, but one of them broke up a week before publication (which maybe makes our judgment suspect). Still, we think we've picked perfect partners who embody what it means to be powerfully in love in Chicago.
Read our Valentine's Day issue here.
"moments from Chances Dances: Summoning A New Queer Reality (MCA, 12-06-13)" documentary footage Chances Dances: Summoning A New Queer Reality Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago December 6th, 2013 The MCA presented a night of dancing, performance, and radical potential, cocurated by Chances Dances, a queer dance party and collective dedicated to building safer spaces for the varied LGBTIQ communities in Chicago through collectively shared moments of pleasure, inquiry, and resistance. For more about Chances Dances, visit their website at: www.chancesdances.org Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: www.mcachicago.org "moments from Chances Dances: Summoning A New Queer Reality (MCA, 12-06-13)" documentary footage shot and edited by Derek Quint. Enjoy extended cuts of the performances by Mister Junior and Darling Shear by Youtube searching "Mister Junior at the MCA" and "Darling Shear at the MCA". For more information about this footage, the artists featured, and the event itself, visit the "moments..." documentary project page at: http://addovolt.blogspot.com/2013/12/...