Venues & Maps
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DuSable Museum, 740 E. 56th Place
Young Musician Workshop with Orbert Davis 11 a.m.
Orbert Davis Opening Concert 12 noon
The DuSable Museum began in 1961 as the Ebony Museum of Negro History and Art, founded in order to correct the apparent institutionalized omission of black history and culture in the education establishment. As the oldest museum of its type in the country, the DuSable Museum is the only major independent institution in Chicago established to preserve and interpret the historical experiences and achievements of African-Americans. It is a community institution dedicated to serving the cultural and educational needs of its members, as well as the ever-increasing demands of art and cultural historians nationwide. The DuSable Museum offers a variety of exhibitions and programming, including workshops for families, youth, and children, and courses, films, and lectures.
www.dusablemuseum.org
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Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th Street
Muntu Dancers 2:00 p.m
The Oriental Institute is a research organization and museum devoted to the study of the ancient Near East. Founded in 1919 by James Henry Breasted, the Institute, a part of the University of Chicago, is an internationally recognized pioneer in the archaeology, philology, and history of early Near Eastern civilizations and a world-renowned showcase for the history, art, and archaeology of the ancient Near East. The Oriental Institute sponsors both archaeological and text-based research projects to understand the development and functioning of the ancient civilizations. Also providing education initiatives for all ages, the Oriental Institute offers hands-on workshops and free festivals for children and their families throughout the year, as well as a wide variety of educational experiences for adults.
oi.uchicago.edu
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Quadrangle Club, 1155 E. 57th Street
Musical Performance by Dee Alexander 2:30 p.m
Speaker Travis Jackson 3:30 p.m.
Musical Performance by Mwata Bowden and the Jazz X-tet 4:00 p.m. and Saalik Ziyad from AACM
The Quadrangle Club of the University of Chicago was built in 1922 by noted Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. It is a social and cultural club for the university, and has a long history in Hyde Park. The club is open to non-university members, and is dedicated to upholding a strong sense of community in the Hyde Park area.
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Smart Museum, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Musical Performance by Reginald T. McCants 3:00 p.m.
The Smart museum was founded in 1974 and endowed by David A. Smart and his brother Alfred Smart. The permanent collection includes over 10,000 objects and works by Francisco Goya, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Ansel Adams, Mark Rothko, and others.
smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
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Robie House, 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Musical Performance by Two For Brazil 4:30 p.m.
The Frederick C. Robie house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908, and built in 1910. The house was given to the University of Chicago in 1963, and became a gathering place for alumni. It is now a museum operated by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.
www.wrightplus.org/robiehouse/robiehouse.html
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Midway Plaisance Park
(Skating Rink, between Woodlawn & Ellis Avenues)
Stage 1
Drumming with Charles “Rick” Heath and tap dancer Jumaane Taylor 1:30 p.m.
Tony “Toca” Carpenter with Ari Brown, Robert Irving III 4:00 p.m.
Stage 2
Musical Performances by Bill McFarland and the Chicago Horns 3:00
Chicago Sax in the City 6:00 p.m.
The Midway Plaisance was the vision of Frederick Law Olmsted (architect for New York’s Central Park,) used as the center stage for the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Its name is an antiquated spelling of “pleasance,” its original intent to be a get-away for the affluent Chicagoans. It now plays host to numerous activities, from musical acts, film screenings, ice skating and sports events.
www.hydepark.org/parks/midway/midway.html
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Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Jazz Fete: Willie Pickens, Maggie Brown, Jimmy Ellis, Corey Wilkes and EMCEE Richard Steele 8:00 p.m.
Since its inception in 1939, the Hyde Park Art Center’s mission has been to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in Chicago. To fulfill this mission, the Center actively pursues arts mentorship within the community it serves, fostering a collective spirit among artists, teachers and students, children and families, collectors, and the general public. The Center’s exhibition program showcases innovative work by primarily Chicago-rooted artists; the Center also fosters appreciation for and aptitude in the visual arts through an extensive on-site studio art program, as well as off-site community outreach initiatives. The Center moved to a state-of-the-art new facility in April 2006 and has since welcomed over 50,000 people through its doors. The Center’s audience is racially and geographically diverse, and the Center strives to be a place where people from all backgrounds can feel welcome and can come together in new and interesting ways.
www.hydeparkart.org
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Checkerboard Lounge, 5201 S. Harper Avenue
Late night jam session with Derek Henderson 12 midnight
The Checkerboard Lounge is a legendary institution for blues. It was one of the first racially integrated music venues in Chicago and has hosted such blues greats as Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones. The club re-vamped itself in 2005 with its new location in Hyde Park and with an added focus on Jazz music.
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