FRIDAY 8/7
Lake Street Collective at Darkroom!
FREE before 11pm, and all night with Lolla wristband!
$5 after
21+
Source: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=98774853591
For years the epicenter of Chicago’s underground party scene was on one block of Lake Street. Revolutionary Music’s Safe House was on the north side of the street and the illmeasures loft was on the south side. DJs, performers and party people from all over the world found their way to the now legendary illicit parties. Revolutionary Music and illmeasures have joined forces as the Lake Street Collective to bring that vibe back to venues around Chicago. On August 7th, 2009 we bring it to Chicago’s Darkroom (2210 W. Chicago Ave.).
ALSO FRIDAY 8/7
Debonair
Source: http://debonairsocialclub.com
10pm – 2am
Bjorn Yitling (Beter Bjorn and John)
Chris Thompsan (Vampire Weekend)
Yellow Fever
Jonboy
ALSO FRIDAY 8/7 (AND SATURDAY 8/8)
Join URB and ASICS in presenting two nights of pure anarchy following Lollapalooza.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108361058118
344 North Ogden
Friday, Aug 7 with:
Kid Cudi (special appearance)
The Knux
Amazing Baby (DJ set)
Hood Internet
Rob Threezy
Saturday, Aug 8 with:
Bassnectar
Daisy O’Dell
Willy Joy
Moneypenny
Members Only AV
21+ / 10PM-2AM / Hosted Bar ALL NIGHT
no cover
Photo booth by Rolling Blackouts + we’ll print your picture out right then and there for you!
you MUST RSVP to attend: chicago@urb.com
ALSO FRIDAY 8/7 (AND SAT AND SUN)
Hard Rock Hotel Base Bar
Source: http://www.hardrockhotelchicago.com/lollapalooza
Friday, August 7
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM – John Dugan
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Bright Lights
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM – TBC
10:00 PM to 12:00 PM – Amazing Baby
12:00 PM to 2:00 AM – Daisy O
Sunday, August 9
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Esser
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM – Hollywood Holt
10:00 PM to 12:00 AM – Moneypenny
12:00 AM to 2:00 AM – Yello Fever
Saturday, August 8
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM – Hey Champ
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM – Members Only AV
9:00 PM to 11:30 PM – DJ Berrie
11:30 PM to 2 AM – DJ White Shadow
SATURDAY 8/8
Experimental Garage Sale
Source: http://www.exsost.org
noon – 8pm
5935 N Ravenswood
Midwest circuit benders and DIY artists will be unloading piles and
piles of thrift store treasures like keyboards, Speak and Spells, and
oddity kids toys.
The sellers will also be demonstrating and selling LoFi Synth
prototypes, kits, handmade contact microphones, and completed circuit
bent works of art. Bring wads of cash to snag some awesome deals,
otherwise this is a great chance to experience circuit bent devices in
person and make new friends.
The list of sellers has been finalized to include a wide geographic
variety of Midwestern Artists.
Including a very special guest appearance by Reed Ghazala! The man
himself will be mingling and signing copies of his Circuit Bending:
Build Your Own Alien Instruments Book. Last year’s round up from the
event can be found here. Music through out the day and the sale is
Free to get in.
Sellers:
GetLoFi.com/shop – Alex Dyba ( IA )
Roth Mobot – Patrick McCarthy ( IL )
Roth Mobot – Tommy Stephenson ( IL )
Creme Dementia – Austin Cliffe ( IL )
Thejunkyard Catalyst – Karl ( OH )
Spunky Toofers – Daniel Park ( MO )
Properboy – Steve Stoll ( IN )
Pelzwik – Nick Heimer ( MN )
Datura 1.0 – Matt Cisler ( MN )
Mike Una – ( IL )
ALSO SATURDAY 8/8
Brazillian Girls DJ Set (Didi Gutman)
Sonotheque
9pm – 2am
Source: http://www.sonotheque.org/archives/000983.php
Source: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=111864554263
$5 advance | $10 at door
ALSO SATURDAY 8/8
Debonair
Source: http://debonairsocialclub.com
Cold War Kids
Mic Beck & Cory Becker (The Living Things)
Dahni Harrison (The New N02)
Likke Li
Adam 12 (She wants revenge)
The Virgin Tears
ALSO SATURDAY 8/8
Loft Party Sessions (18+ Sat. 12-6am)
Source: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=225236825014
1357 N Milwaukee Ave
18+ 18+ 18+
Midnight till 6am
with:
Members Only AV (KHA + Mikul Wing)
Dave Britton (dusttraxx/lefreQ,minimalizm records)
Dicky C (rehab)
Weaponry (www.weaplovesyou.com)
Jordan Fields (lefreQ/minializm records)
$$$$ BAR . NO BYOB . IDS MANDATORY
$10 Cover, Girls $5 till 1am
www.membersonlyav.com
eclecticsociety@yahoo.com
WEDNESDAY 8/12 – SUNDAY 8/16
Bicycle Film Festival
Source: http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/?p=chicago
The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle in all forms and styles. If you can name it – Tall Bike Jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Road Cycling, Mountain Biking Recumbents – we’ve probably either ridden or screened it. What better way to celebrate these lifestyles than through art, film, music and performance?
THURSDAY 8/13
Cumbia @ Sonotheque
A celebration of Colombian music & culture with live Afro/Colombian percussion and songs by “NGOMA ALEGRE”
Source: http://chicago.going.com/event-627551;AROMA_presents_Cumbia
Doors open 9pm – 2am
$5 Cover (Free before 10PM with RSVP)
Food provided by MACONDO CHICAGO a fair trade Colombian coffee and Empanada cafe
FRIDAY 7/31
Critical Mass
Source: http://chicagocriticalmass.org
5:30pm | Free
Chicago Critical Mass bike rides start from Daley Plaza, Dearborn & Washington at 5:30 pm on the last Friday of each month, regardless of season or weather. They are free and fun. All you have to do is show up with your bike.
ALSO FRIDAY 7/31
Members Only AV Dance or Die Loft Party
(if they find a new location in time)
Source: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120830578328
Live:
Vyle – http://www.myspace.com/vyle
Yawn – http://www.myspace.com/metrovoxmusic
Junk Solo – http://www.myspace.com/junksolo
DJ Sets:
Members Only AV (KHA + Mikul Wing) – http://membersonlyav.com
Heaven Malone
Dicky C
A-Dapt
Vapor Eyes
Address sent day of
18+ | 9pm-?
Girls $5 | Guys $10 – w/ RSVP on Facebook
Cash Bar
SATURDAY 8/1
DIESEL:U:MUSIC
Source: http://urchicago.com/urevents/saturday-august-1st-2009-9pm-lasalle-power-co
LaSalle Power Company | 500 N. Lasalle | 21+
9PM-3AM Free with wristband
dark wave disco
moneypenny (LIVE)
he say she say
yello fever
and special guest Lolla 2008 alumnus
flosstradamus
hosted by UR Chicago + Team Bayside High
visuals by Hey! Cliché!
photos by everyoneisfamous.com
photobooth by Glitterguts
FREE with WRISTBAND! Pick up at the Diesel Store at
923 Rush St. between July 24th and August 1st!
ALSO SATURDAY 8/1
El Circo Cheapo Cabaret
Source: http://www.elcircocheapo.com
7-10pm | Free (RSVP req’d)
El Circo Cheapo is the poor man’s Cirque du Soleil, with world class acrobats, jugglers, puppeteers, aerialists, clowns, side show freaks and more. Every month is a different show, and you never quite know what to expect other than a great time with fun people.
The show was designed to give emerging and professional, local and international circus artists a place to try new things out, take risks in a supportive environment and receive hi-quality professional footage of their act for promotional use. During a recession, the arts are often first to get the ax, so this show gives us incentive to keep working on innovative circus and variety arts.
Aloft is welcoming interested circus artists from all over to come share our stage. The main purpose of this show us purely one of self-interest. You see, good performance footage of a circus act is awfully hard to come by, so by having a cheap show we can get a fun supportive audience in to clap and cheer as we film our acts to use for promoting ourselves to agents and clients. You never know what you’ll get at the cabaret…you might see 5 silks acts from 5 different companies, or you might see a 6-year-old Russian trapeze artist, or an inner-city juggling superstar from the Chicago Youth Circus, or someone trying their act in front of an audience for the first time and asking for feedback, or someone who has done their act so many times they’re going to try it blindfolded this time.
ALSO SATURDAY 8/1
Open Streets
Source: http://www.activetrans.org/openstreets
See what it’s like when streets are filled with people and the street becomes your playground.
8am-2pm | Free
This year’s Open Streets event will cover 8 miles of some of the most beautiful boulevards in Chicago, from 8.30am to 2pm on August 1st. That means that for half the day you’ll be able to ride the broad, leafy boulevards from Logan Square to Little Village with hundreds of other cyclists AND NO CARS.
There are lots of side events happening along the route, so get out there and ride your bike. It’s free, and all thanks to the hard work of the people at the Active Transportation Alliance.
ALSO SATURDAY 8/1
Superhero and Supervillin Bike Ride Benefit and Parties
Source: http://www.thechainlink.org/events/superhero-bike-ride
Source: http://www.thechainlink.org/events/supervillain-bike-ride
You are invited to a Costume Ride and Benefit- SuperHero style!!
So dress as your favorite SuperHero, protect the city and kick some ass! You must channel your inner Super Power because there will be a little villain action that we might have to tend to!
SuperHeroes assemble at the Humboldt Park Boathouse.
4pm
—
Why you little devil you.
I saw that villain glow in your eye and want you!
yes you!
To be a part of the Villain Costume Ride and Benefit!
Stir up that alter ego in your heart because there will be these so-called heroes-s-s-ss that might need to be taught.
Villains gather at Wicker Park Fountain.
10 buck donation for the Alzheimer’s Association.
Games, Costume Contest, Beer and Afterparty!
POW! BAM! CLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MONDAY 8/3
CINEMATHEQUE SONOTHEQUE + SENSORY OVERLOAD
Source: http://www.sonotheque.org/archives/000963.php
Films 6-9pm, DJ’s 9pm – 2am
KURUTTA IPPEIJI/A PAGE OF MADNESS/A PAGE OUT OF ORDER (1926) 60 MINUTES – DIRECTED BY TEINOSUKE KINUGASA
MONSIEUR FANTOMAS (1936) 17 MINUTES – DIRECTED BY ERNST MOERNAN
CINEMATHEQUE SONOTHEQUE: FROM ARTHOUSE TO GRINDHOUSE
EVERY FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH
FILMS SELECTED BY JOE BRYL
NO COVER
21+
TUESDAY 8/4
Movies In The Park
Source: http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/3029_0_3_0_C/
Every Tuesday after sunset in 2009 from July 14 to August 25, Chicago will show free movies on a 50-foot by 34-foot screen in Chicago’s downtown Grant Park at 100 S. Lake Shore Drive. (It’s south of Millennium Park, and north of the Art Institute).
August 4, 2009 @ 8:37 pm: Born Yesterday (1950)
FRIDAY 7/24 (and SATURDAY 7/25)
Assemblage Collage and Collaboration
Source: http://getittogethershow.com
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219-21 South Morgan St.
Friday 7-11:30pm
Saturday 2-5pm
Join us July 24th and 25th for a three dimensional freak out of color, form and material. Walk the aisles of a hand-made grocery store created completely out of paper, shoot hoops on a 3 story high basketball net, or just sit down at our collage table and create some work of your own. After the opening and subsequent hangover, come back on July 25th for an art-making BBQ throw down as we combine our creative energies to make collages which we will hand-deliver for free to the people walking around this great city. So drop on by, check out some good stuff and make some of your own. We will have magazines, scissors and glue on hand but feel free to bring your own collage materials to throw down.
OTHER GALLERY OPENINGS 7/24:
http://proximitymagazine.com/2009/07/bridget-bolger-retrospective-south-halsted-gallery/
http://proximitymagazine.com/2009/07/mary-maughelli-arc-gallery/
http://proximitymagazine.com/2009/07/margaret-lejeune-sabba-saleem-syal-arc-gallery/
http://proximitymagazine.com/2009/07/sally-graves-machlis-arc-gallery/
http://www.ambushu.com/blog/ambush/eventsinchicago/run-blago-run-group-show-ray-noland/
SATURDAY 7/25
Freakeasy
Source: http://www.freakeasy.net
10 p.m. until 8 a.m. | $20
rooftop view
dress to kill
Live Video and Lighting
Art, Fire, Rooftop Stage, and More!
The Freakeasy returns back to Chicago after a fabulous romp at the ‘most awesome’ Lakes Of Fire Burningman regional this past June in Michigan.
This one is gonna be a whopper alright… July 25th’s line-up is Super DOPE and The Freakeasy will not happen again until the end of September, so let’s get it on while the gettin is good this Summer.
Also, we are celebrating DJ Dhakfu’s birthday and bidding farewell to our awesome friends Ixnee’ and Hax, who are makin the move out to Portland following this year’s burn. xxoo (Freakeasy represent!)
Presales are nearly sold out and you will need a presale ticket to get in. Ticket sales cut off Saturday at 5pm.
ALSO SATURDAY 7/25
VOLATL underground party
Source: http://volatlinfo.com/
Source: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117021614898
VOLATL tm, along with the notorious San Francisco based listed Productions, are taking Chicago parties to the next level – the weekend of July 25th and 26th. The weekend will feature two days of high caliber dance music – from artists from around the globe, positive vibes, debauchery and top notch sound
Featuring Pheek, Stefny, Kate Simko and more
ALSO SATURDAY 7/25 (and SUNDAY 7/26)
Wicker Park Fest
Source: http://www.wickerparkbucktown.com/play/wicker_park_fest
noon – 10pm | $5
Milwaukee Ave. between North Ave. and Wood St.
(yet another chicago summer festival)
Featuring the best in up and coming indie music, local eateries, arts, handcrafts – all celebrating the uniqueness of one of Chicago’s vibrant and eclectic city neighborhoods. Voted one of the best neighborhood festivals by the Chicago Tribune for its music scene, the Wicker Park Fest attracts over 25,000 music lovers. Family activies will also be featured and complimentary bike valet will be offered. Check out the details on Wicker Park Fest MySpace. Cool fest t-shirts, bags and hats are available at Wicker Park Fest Swag.
ALSO SATURDAY 7/25
Michael Jackson Thriller Zombie Walk
Wicker Park
Source: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=98459584689&ref=ts
Source: http://www.chicagohorror.com/?q=node/202
Saturday July 25th we dedicate this Zombie Walk to the King of Pop “Michael Jackson” This date marks the one month anniversary of his passing and in his memory we will honor him by being the best damn Thriller Zombies we can be! Remember this walk is to honor Micheal Jackson and one of the Greatest Song/Album and Best Choreographed Dance Ever!
- We will be meeting at 9:00pm sharp at the east side of Wicker Park (the actual park)
- From here you will get your flier with the map & info for the Zombie Walk
- If your good with makeup help out your fellow Zombie if needed
- We will also be teaching people last minute Thriller Moves (if you know them well contact us)
- At 10pm we will start the Zombie Walk and the Rest is History!
ALSO SATURDAY 7/26
3rd Annual Ride to Pierogifest
Source: http://www.thechainlink.org/events/3rd-annual-ride-to-pierogifest
Starts: Buckingham Fountain, Chicago
Ends: Whiting, Indiana
9am
Located in Whiting, Indiana, Pierogi Fest is a celebration of that darling dumpling originating in eastern Europe. It was started by a group of friends while eating breakfast (probably vegan-style) at Dimitri’s Cake and Steak. They didn’t choose the Kielbasa, and (luckily) they didn’t choose Charnina (aka. ducks blood soup); instead, they chose the lonely dumpling in an effort to promote good, healthy eating throughout the environmentally friendly town of Whiting, Indiana. So come join us at Buckingham Fountain on Saturday, July 25, 2009. We will take the following route at a “touring” pace (average 12-14mph) that follows this route http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Buckingham-Fountain-Chicago-IL-Whiting-Indiana
SUNDAY 7/26
Varsity All Stars BBQ
Source: http://varsityallstars.com
noon – late | $10 presale @ varsityallstars.com
Moretti’s
inside & outdoor patio
1645 W. Jackson
Come join us for our 12 hour summer blowout! A gathering of music freaks, scenesters, klub kids, and party pants wearers. Come prepared to get down in Chi-town!!
The Varsity Allstars krew was formed in 2007, bringing together some of the most promising DJ talent from across the country. These artists from Chicago, NYC, LA, & SF are locally famous for their abilities on (and off) the decks and bring the PARTY like no other! Expect cutting edge beats that span genres. We rocked it out at our launch party in Miami for WMC ‘07 so now join us this July for the Allstars third trip to Chicago!
THURSDAY 7/30
Dorkbot Chicago
Enemy Sound
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl.
7pm | Free
Source: http://dorkbotchicago.blogspot.com
Sandra Rosas Ridolfi rips open some audio circuits and leads a hands-on workshop building Voltage-Controlled Envelope generators from scratch at July’s dorkbot Chicago. Grab a soldering iron, wire strippers and some components and get ready to hear yourself audio processing!
What is a “dorkbot”?! The idea of the international dorkbot network is “people doing strange things with electricity” and meeting in informal, friendly environments to discuss their projects. These projects could include hardware hacks, New Media Art projects, creative code, circuit bent musical instruments or wild DIY garage science!
ALSO THURSDAY 7/30
Atomic Sketch 1 Year Anniversary
evilOlive
1551 W. Division St
6pm – 9pm | Free
Source: http://atomicsketch.blogspot.com
The 13th installment of the Atomic Sketch Event will have 13 panelists of returning artists, continuing its tradition of showcasing emerging artists with an evening of live art-making that allows a unique look into the process for artists and patrons of the Chicago community.
Atomic Sketch Event is a monthly event that brings together established and emerging artists of various disciplines. The artists create a variety of original new works each night and sell them for extremely affordable prices. In many cases, artists whose studio work sells for hundreds or even thousands of dollars will sell pieces for less than $50.
