Friday, May 20, 2011

May 20-22: To Art & Profit Festival

TO ART & PROFIT:
Creative Labor, Collective Action & Conscientious Capitalism

Interdisciplinary performance series
arts-focused dialogues & street spectacles

Curated by Links Hall Artistic Associates
Abra Johnson & Meida McNeal

MAY 20-22
Come As You Are:
Re-Imagining Art with a Conscience

Collaborating Artists:
Silvita Diaz Brown, Nicole Garneau & Lani Montreal;
Nicole LeGette; The Ladies Ring Shout, Ayako Kato & David Boykin;
and with Special Guests Joel Valentin-Martinez & Liz Zastrow

PERFORMANCES
8pm Friday & Saturday
at Links Hall, 3435 N.Sheffield

COMMUNITY SPECTACLE & DISCUSSION
Sunday, May 22 from 2-5pm
at the Southside Community Art Center
3831 S. Michigan Avenue

With Panelists:

Henry Cervantes, Youth Peer Organizer at Telpochcalli Community Education Project

Roell Schmidt, Director, Links Hall

Lisa Biggs, Performer, playwright and director researching theatre programs for incarcerated women

Evin Marie, playwright and owner of The Maekeen Room

FATHOM DJ, Music Stylist and Producer

Discopoet Khari B., Poet, Arts Educator, Lead Member of The Rockstar Poetry Project

Janice Bond, Artist Representative and Brand Strategist at SAVANT|SAVANT