May 2005 Doings
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Listening

  • AACM Chamber Ensemble [Ari Brown, Mwata Bowden, Douglas Ewart, Nicole Mitchell, Ann Ward, Rita Warford, Edward Wilkerson Jr.] + Joseph Jarman @ Chicago Cultural Center
  • AACM 40th Anniversary Concert @ MCA:
    • Fire Duo:  Ari Brown & Reggie Nicholson
    • George Lewis & Ann Ward
    • 8 Bold Souls with Fred Anderson & Oliver Lake
    • Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble with James Newton & Dee Alexander
    • Douglas Ewart, Mwata Bowden, Edward Wilkerson, Rita Warford & Oliver Lake
    • Isaiah Jackson, Corey Wilkes, Vincent Davis, Art 'Turk' Burton, et al
    • Great Black Music Ensemble conducted by Mwata Bowden, feat. Joseph Jarman, Oliver Lake
  • Velvet Lounge benefit

Reading

  • A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 - Orlando Figes

Watching

  • Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965) @ Film Studies Center
  • "Out of the Vault" programs @ Chicago Cultural Center:
    • The Detached Americans (Dan Matticks, 1964)

    • Future Shock (Alex Grasshoff, 1972, 42m)

    • Game (Abigail Child & Jon Child, 1972, 38m)

    • The Badge and the Bottle (Max Miller & Jeff Miller, 1977, 20m)

    • Chuck Hansen - One Guy (Olle Comstedt & Maurice Groen, 1959, 27m)

    • I Was a Ninety Pound Weakling (George Dufaux & Wolf Koenig, 1960, 25m)

    • Runner (Don Owen, 1962, 11m)

    • Contouring Your Figure (Patricia White, Cynthia Chapman, & Fred Chapman, 1962, 10m)

    • Ski the Outer Limits (Roger Brown & Barry Corbet, 1968, 25m)

    • Carnivorous Plants (Thomas Stanton, 1979, 10m)

    • Elsa and Her Cubs (Joy Adamson & George Adamson, 1970, 35m)

    • Secrets of the Underwater World (James Algar, 1956, 16m)

    • Baobab: Portrait of a Tree (Alan Root, 1973, 30m)