FRIDAY | SATURDAY | SUNDAY | ALL WEEKEND



Friday, October 14 – Night of 100 pARTies

Andersonville comes alive as we kick-off our 14th annual Andersonville Arts Weekend with a fabulous night of parties throughout the neighborhood featuring nearly 100 artists and over 30 locally owned businesses! See below for participating business events:

5-10pm

Chicago Mindful Psychotherapy

A party celebrating creative expressions of self, emotion, relationships and the rich vibrancy of being in the moment. Sweet and salty snacks, wine, beer and beverages provided, along with free, self-guided mindfulness exercises to enhance your experience of the art and and the party. Plus, $40 coupons to enroll in the More Mindful Parenting and/or Mindfulness for Couples workshops.

6-10pm

Art Pop at 5438 – Andersonville Arts Weekend Hub

Kick off Andersonville Arts Weekend by visiting our first pop-gallery at 5438 N Clark. The pop-up serves as the Arts Weekend Hub, a place to grab brochure/maps, meet friends and enjoy the seven artists on display, along with live music, and samples from Chutney Devies and True North Cafe!

6:30-7:30pm: Broken Current band

8-10pm: Gome jazz trio

6-10pm

Candyality

Join Candyality for a night of wine pairing with jelly belly beans!

6-10pm

Cassona Home Furnishings and Accessories

Reception with music, wine, and cheese

6-10pm

Chiropractic for Life

Reception with music, wine, and cheese

6-9pm

City Olive

Wine, food tastings. Free mini whisk with purchase of oil & vinegar

6-10pm

Early to Bed

Early to Bed will celebrate their 15th Anniversary with an art opening and a Benefit for Scarleteen.com with drinks, snacks and giveaways!

6-10pm

Fireside Restaurant and Lounge

Appetizer reception in the bar area.

6-10pm

First Free Chicago’s “Free Stage” block party

7-8pm: The Color Green, music performance on Free Stage

8:30-10pm: Variations Trio, music performance on Free Stage

6-10pm

First Slice Pie Cafe

Pie flights for sale, and bite-sized free samples of First Slice dessert bars.

6-10pm

Foursided

Featured artist demonstrations.

6-10pm

Berman Architecture & Designs, LTD

Wine and small bites reception.

6-10pm

Kopi Cafe

Offering $5.00 Organic margaritas

6-10pm

Las Manos Gallery

Arts Weekend opening reception with cocktails.

6-10pm

Martha Mae: Arts Supplies + Happenings

Guests can test out art supplies and unique writing instruments as well as sample Andersonville-made cupcakes from deFloured Bakery!

6-10pm

Milk Handmade

6-10pm: Venture to Milk Handamde for an interactive/collaborative project (hammer metal on an anvil!) with special tastings from KOVAL Distillery.

7:15pm: Artist Demonstration

6-10pm

Murray & White

Reception with treats, champagne and Misericordia artists meet & greet

6-10pm

Norcross and Scott

Reception to meet the artist with wine, food provided by Ban Bang Pie & Biscuits and music by DJ Mark Grusane.

6-10pm

Notice

Sips and snacks.

6-9pm

Painted Light Photography + Framing Gallery

Signature punch, hearty nibbles, music, and an outdoor fire (weather permitting!)

6-10pm

Philadelphia Church

Come enjoy refreshments, music, socialize with the featured artists and bring your voice to sing along with The Garage Band Beatles Jam!

6-10pm

Pork Shoppe

Open for dinner and art viewing

6-10pm

Raven Theatre Company

6pm: In conjunction with their local Neighborhood Night, Raven Theatre invites guests to an open wine and cheese reception in the theatre lobby with cast and crew of their play, Red Velvet

7:30pm: performance of Red Velvet

About Red Velvet: In 1833, there was an unwritten rule against black actors performing on London’s stages, but when Edmund Kean collapsed on the stage of the Theatre Royal while playing Othello, to the shock of audiences and critics, a young African-American actor was called in to take over the role. Outside the theatre, the public was rioting in the streets over the abolition of slavery. Inside, another revolution was about to begin.

6-10pm

Sidewinder Gallery

Opening reception and kick-off for Tim Furey exhibit

6-10pm

Swedish American Museum

Free admission to see the museum’s special exhibit: “Sacred & Secular: Paintings of Stuart Carlson” on display between Oct. 6 and Nov. 27, 2016.

6-10pm

SIR Spa

Open for art viewing

6-10pm

Transistor Chicago

Open for shopping and viewing of featured artists

6-10pm

Turley Road

Wine, cheese, and a store wide sale

6-10pm

Women & Children First Bookstore

7:30pm: Poetry reading featuring contributors to Ricochet Review. The poets are high school, college, and professional poets.

6:30-9:30pm

GreenSky

6-9:30pm: Artist opening reception with wine and snacks.

6:30-8:30pm: Featuring an ‘Art of Chocolate’ tasting event and demo of deliciously homemade dessert sauces produced in Evanston.

7-9pm

Appellation Wine Bar & Restaurant

Artist Darren Jones will be at Pastoral/Appellation to discuss his art and mingle with guests. Special drink offer inspired by his work: Apple/Brandy Old Fashioned: $8

7-10pm

The Coffee Studio

“Drink + Draw” with artist Carol Jarvis and the designers/owners of The Coffee Studio

8-Midnight

The pHComedy Theater

Performances all night. Mention Arts Weekend for ½ price tickets to any Friday night performance:

8pm | Bad Advice: pH is starting your Arts Weekend off with some Bad Advice. Four players take your suggestion and spin it into three acts full of memorable characters, madcap situations and unbelievably horrible advice. At the end of each act one of the characters from the show will offer you their unique takes on anything and everything.

9:30pm | Election!: As our nation hurtles into uncertain doom, The pH Comedy Theater is obliged to take a step back and make fun of this entire process. Election!, an improvised debate and election will take place every Friday from Sept 30 right up through Election Day itself!

Midnight | Midnight Oil: Dan Wright hosts a late night session of up and coming improv teams, all headlined by a group of pH veterans. $5 and BYOB lets you start your weekend off by burning the midnight oil.

FRIDAY | SATURDAY | SUNDAY | ALL WEEKEND



Saturday, October 15

9-11am

Chicago Mindful Psychotherapy

More Compassionate Parenting (part of Mindful Parenting series): Preregistration required on website; education around the neuroscience of compassion, and real-life, take-home exercises to promote self-compassion and teach children compassion.

11am

The pH Comedy Theater – Adventure Library Improv for Kids

Kids are amazing! Books are amazing! The pH Comedy Theater has decided to combine both! Join them at the Adventure Library, where kids vote on their favorite book. Then, with their help, we slowly start re-writing the story using imagination and a whole lot of laughter.

11am-6pm

Self-guided Art Walk

Take a stroll through neighborhood businesses and view the amazing art on display during Andersonville Arts Weekend! Pick up a brochure with a map from any participating business. Note: Some businesses keep different hours for the Art Walk.

11am-5pm

Andersonville Antiques

Oil painting demonstration in shop

Noon-6pm

Candyality

DIY artwork: Spend $10 and receive a 9 x 12 canvas. They’ll supply the paint and some sweet treats for you to paint your sweetest inspirations. Your art is yours to keep!

1-3pm

City Olive

Veruca chocolate tasting in store

1-3pm

Murray & White

Artist Demonstration: All proceeds from Misericordia Artwork Sales & Creative Arts Merchandise go directly to Misericordia Home.

3-10pm

First Free Chicago’s “Free Stage” block party

3-5pm: Family actives such as kids crafts, family dance workshop, and Caricutre drawings with Jeff Lassiter

5-7pm: Live music on Free Stage

7pm: The pH Comedy Theater presents the Berwyn Bunch, performance on Free Stage: – FREE SHOW

Here’s the story of some lovely improvisers all talented with hair of gold…

OK, so maybe not all hair of gold, but completely lovely and completely hilarious veteran improvisers are ready to kick off your Saturday night with some all-star improv. The pH Comedy Theater’s new free showcase, The Berwyn Bunch, puts together some of pH’s most veteran players to experiment and thrill with pH’s signature style of play – faster, smarter, funnier.

8:30pm: She’s Folks, performance on Free Stage

4-6pm

Appellation Wine Bar & Restaurant

Join Appellation and Pastoral as they welcome Darren Jones! Guests are invited to meet the Ravenswood-based artist, view his award-winning works, and have a glass of wine and bite of cheese. There will also be a special drink offer inspired by his work: Apple/Brandy Old Fashioned: $8. Free to attend.

5pm

The pH Comedy Theater: pHusion

pHusion fuses pH Comedy Theater’s hilarious brand of improv comedy with the work of different guest artists from Chicago’s talented theater, dance, music, and writing communities. The guest artists will showcase their work on stage and the cast of pH will use that performance as inspiration for an improvised show. It’s two shows in one!

7:30pm

Raven Theatre Company: Red Velvet

In 1833, there was an unwritten rule against black actors performing on London’s stages, but when Edmund Kean collapsed on the stage of the Theatre Royal while playing Othello, to the shock of audiences and critics, a young African-American actor was called in to take over the role. Outside the theatre, the public was rioting in the streets over the abolition of slavery. Inside, another revolution was about to begin.

8pm

The pH Comedy Theater: Phamily The Musical

Family dynamics get thrown in the blender and whipped up in delicious melodies, in this completely improvised musical. You help create the characters, the plot and you even tell us how the songs are going to sound. You could pay over $100 for those fancy pants downtown musicals, or $15 to create your very own! Live music, dancing and laughing – now that’s a night out.

9:30pm

The pH Comedy Theater: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

pH is thrilled to bring The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee to Chicago. In the spirit of The pH Comedy Theater’s emphasis on audience participation, four audience members will be brought up on stage as part of the show each and every night in order to try to wrest the title of Spelling Bee Champ away from our adorably quirky cast of characters.

FRIDAY | SATURDAY | SUNDAY | ALL WEEKEND

Sunday, October 16

9am-Noon

Chicago Mindful Psychotherapy

Mindfulness for Couples: Preregistration required on website; fun, engaging exercises and discussion with your partner that enhance compassionate, accepting, and fully present communication.

11:00am-6:00pm

Self-guided Art Walk

Use the map on the back of this brochure to take a stroll through neighborhood businesses and view the amazing art on display during Andersonville Arts Weekend! Note: Some businesses keep different hours for the Art Walk.

Noon-4pm

Candyality

DIY artwork: Spend $10 and receive a 9 x 12 canvas. They’ll supply the paint and some sweet treats for you to paint your sweetest inspirations. Your art is yours to keep!

Noon-2pm

City Olive

Sherman Fracher/Abiding Grace Farms tasting in store of pickles, dilly beans, and hot pepper relish

1-3pm

Murray & White

Artist Demonstration: All proceeds from Misericordia Artwork Sales & Creative Arts Merchandise go directly to Misericordia Home.

3pm

Philadelphia Church

Join Lia Nicine McCoo and Keryn Moriyah on a wonderful faith musical journey in a sound tapestry of gospel, spiritual and jazz songs. The dynamic duo, with rich vocal harmonies takes you to heights that you’ve never been before.

3pm

Raven Theatre Company: Red Velvet

In 1833, there was an unwritten rule against black actors performing on London’s stages, but when Edmund Kean collapsed on the stage of the Theatre Royal while playing Othello, to the shock of audiences and critics, a young African-American actor was called in to take over the role. Outside the theatre, the public was rioting in the streets over the abolition of slavery. Inside, another revolution was about to begin.

4pm

Swedish American Museum

Performance from the Elevator Nobody Choir from Gothenburg Sweden.

7pm

The pH Comedy Theater: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

pH is thrilled to bring The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee to Chicago. In the spirit of The pH Comedy Theater’s emphasis on audience participation, four audience members will be brought up on stage as part of the show each and every night in order to try to wrest the title of Spelling Bee Champ away from our adorably quirky cast of characters.

FRIDAY | SATURDAY | SUNDAY | ALL WEEKEND

ALL WEEKEND

Andersonville Galleria

Many of the artists at the Andersonville Galleria will be doing demonstrations throughout the weekend. Check with the store for a complete schedule.

Heather Riordan

Accordion music from around the world. Look for Heather playing impromptu concerts around the neighborhood.

Swedish American Museum

Free admission all weekend! Saturday, 11am-5pm; Sunday 11am-4pm

Women & Children First

Throughout Andersonville Arts Weekend, if you “Like” Women & Children First on Facebook or follow them on Twitter or Instagram (@wcfbook), you’ll receive a $5 off coupon for any purchase of $25 or more.

Andersonville Arts and Design Weekend is generously sponsored by:

Art Pop at 5438 is supported by: