Improvised Music Series, 10 years
This spring marks the 10th anniversary of the Thursday night Elastic Improvised Music Series!! To celebrate, we’ll be taking the month of April off to recuperate. But when we return in May, the series moves to its new 9pm start time, so don’t be late!

May Calendar posted
May at Elastic

Hairpin Lofts Arts Center now open for booking/renting!
Formerly know as "Arts Center, Logan Square/Avondale", the Hairpin Lofts Arts Center is located in the Sachs building at 2800 N Milwaukee. 8000 sq ft, 275 person capacity, multi-use art/performance/gathering space. Contact us by email for booking, renting and general info.

Elastic on Sixty Inches from Center
Check out an interview of Elastic co-directors Sam Lewis and Paul Giallorenzo by local arts archivists Sixty Inches From Center.

New Website!
Big thanks to Karim McCall for re-designing our new site!  Take a look around!

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International Arts Outreach
Elastic Cambodia facilitates arts preservation projects in Cambodia, and increases awareness and support in Chicago and other Khmer-American communities in the United States. Through performance, teaching, documentation, and exhibition, Elastic Cambodia unites art, education and public service for the preservation and advancement of Cambodian traditional arts and culture. Created and directed by Elastic co-founder Dan Schwarzlose.

Elastic Hip-Hop Series
The Elastic Hip-Hop Series, curated by EAF cofounder Sam Lewis, was created to provide “underground” local, regional, national & international hip-hop artists a quality venue in which to perform in the Chicago area. . . more

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home of the Elastic Arts Foundation

Our mission is to foster the local community of art and culture through developing, hosting and producing creative, non-commercial performances and arts events.

THURSDAY 5/10/12

6PM - FREE

JON BOLLO

*9PM - $7

FRIDAY 5/11/12 - 7PM - FREE

WAVEFORMS

SATURDAY 5/12/12 -6PM - *$45/$30 w/ student ID

ELASTIC and ENSEMBLE DAL NIENTE PRESENT
THE PARTY

*Tickets: $45/$30 students in advance, $55/$35 at the door. Food and drinks included.

Pianist, conductor, and curator Marino Formenti has distinguished himself as one of the most compelling and original interpreters of his generation, particularly for his performances of contemporary music and for developing unusual and experimental concert formats. With Dal Niente, he will produce The Party, a communal experience that casts away some of the concert hall’s conventions in order to bring listeners together in a brand new way. During The Party, people can sit where and how they want; they can stand, lie down, choose what to listen to at any particular moment, relax, move, talk, drink, eat… and they can listen to music together. This experience will be the antithesis of listening to music through earbuds plugged into your head as you sit alone staring at a computer screen. Forget social media – this is social listening, a global event like walking through a gallery and finding Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Cy Twombly all in the same room. The Party brings together stylistically diverse and uniquely brilliant composers’ music for you to experience, examine and share in one unforgettable evening. The evening-length event features culinary creations by Chicago-based food artist Nick Jirasek, owner of Guerilla Smiles, whose food will be inspired by the musical program, as well as drinks by Goose Island Beer Company and Koval Distillery of Chicago. A silent auction will offer the opportunity for audience members to bid on hand-written manuscript by renowned composers Chaya Czernowin, Augusta Read Thomas, and Marcos Balter, amongst others.

Click here for program details

SATURDAY 5/12/12 - 7:30PM - $12
SUNDAY 5/13/12 - 7:30PM - $12
MONDAY 5/14/12 - 7:30PM - $12

ELASTIC AND NEW BEAST THEATRE WORKS PRESENT
HERE ARE LIONS
A Semi-Opera

Directed, written and created by David Amaral
Composed and created by Joshua Dumas
Starring Lucy Carapetyan, Anthony Courser, Jason Economus, Carla Kessler, Shaw Nigro, Nicole Ripley, James Whittington
Production Assistance by Isaac Fosl-van Wyke, Katy Collins
Additional support by High Concept Laboratories and Elastic Arts

Performance dates: May 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, June 1, 2.
Performance times: All shows at 7:30pm. Approximately 80 minutes, no intermission.
Tickets: Visit newbeast.com or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/239508 or email newbeastworks@gmail.com.
Info: More information at newbeast.com, facebook.com/HereAreLions, highconceptlaboratories.org,

About the Play: In June 1968, a young salesman returns home to Chicago to care for his mother who is suffering from dementia. As she drifts between confusion and clarity, we see glimpses of her past, her son’s future, and the social change sweeping Chicago and the nation in the late 60s. Our guide on this journey is the man’s father, killed in WWII, but whose ghost is shunted through time and space whenever a story is told. He tumbles through the twentieth century, witness to wars, counter culture, corruption, and the mundane. Prodded by his mother’s social worker, a peace activist, the son begins to engage in the turmoil surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention. His mother deteriorates. The protest movement explodes. The ghost finds his family. The son begins to discover a place at home and in nation, until plucked from both to serve in Vietnam. Years later, drifting, turned onto the streets, we find him still searching.

The Company: New Beast Theatre Works creates dynamic and boldly new theatrical experiences aiming to explore innovative methods of storytelling. The company has produced two semi-operas, Light Waves & Their Uses (Spring 2011) and One Thing & Everything Else (Spring 2010), a semi-opera named Best New Theatrical Form by the Chicago Reader. In Summer 2011, New Beast collaborated with Vintage Theatre Collective to create Oedipus Rex Play, a meta-theatrical retelling of Oedipus.

The Artists: David Amaral (director and co-creator) is the founder of New Beast Theatre Works, and has directed the company’s previous productions. He has worked extensively with The Building Stage (Dustbowl Gothic, Moby-Dick, Noir, Master Builder, The Franklin Expedition) and wrote and directed Oedipus Rex Play for Vintage Theatre Co. Joshua Dumas (composer and co-creator) is an artist and composer. He is a New Beast company member, he participates in Vintage Theater Collective, and he co-founded the Summer is for Fireflies. He recently worked on the Plagiarist’s I Am Saying This Right Now, scored Jerzy Rose’s feature film Some Girls Never Learn and is finishing work on a dance film, Mirrors Are Just Water Specified. www.quieterrors.com

THURSDAY 5/17/12 - *9:00PM - $8

FRIDAY 5/18/12 - 10:00PM - $7

ELASTIC PRESENTS
REAL TALK LIVE!
Open Mic with featured guests

Doors at 7:30PM 18+


realtalkavenue.com

SATURDAY 5/19/12 - 9:00PM - $10/$8

ELASTIC INTERSECTIONS

SUNDAY 5/20/12 - 7:30PM
MONDAY 5/21/12 - 7:30PM
$12

ELASTIC AND NEW BEAST THEATRE WORKS PRESENT
HERE ARE LIONS
A Semi-Opera

Directed, written and created by David Amaral
Composed and created by Joshua Dumas
Starring Lucy Carapetyan, Anthony Courser, Jason Economus, Carla Kessler, Shaw Nigro, Nicole Ripley, James Whittington
Production Assistance by Isaac Fosl-van Wyke, Katy Collins
Additional support by High Concept Laboratories and Elastic Arts

Performance dates: May 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, June 1, 2.
Performance times: All shows at 7:30pm. Approximately 80 minutes, no intermission.
Tickets: Visit newbeast.com or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/239508 or email newbeastworks@gmail.com.
Info: More information at newbeast.com, facebook.com/HereAreLions, highconceptlaboratories.org,

About the Play: In June 1968, a young salesman returns home to Chicago to care for his mother who is suffering from dementia. As she drifts between confusion and clarity, we see glimpses of her past, her son’s future, and the social change sweeping Chicago and the nation in the late 60s. Our guide on this journey is the man’s father, killed in WWII, but whose ghost is shunted through time and space whenever a story is told. He tumbles through the twentieth century, witness to wars, counter culture, corruption, and the mundane. Prodded by his mother’s social worker, a peace activist, the son begins to engage in the turmoil surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention. His mother deteriorates. The protest movementexplodes. The ghost finds his family. The son begins to discover a place at home and in nation, until plucked from both to serve in Vietnam. Years later, drifting, turned onto the streets, we find him still searching.

The Company: New Beast Theatre Works creates dynamic and boldly new theatrical experiences aiming to explore innovative methods of storytelling. The company has produced two semi-operas, Light Waves & Their Uses (Spring 2011) and One Thing & Everything Else (Spring 2010), a semi-opera named Best New Theatrical Form by the Chicago Reader. In Summer 2011, New Beast collaborated with Vintage Theatre Collective to create Oedipus Rex Play, a meta-theatrical retelling of Oedipus.

The Artists: David Amaral (director and co-creator) is the founder of New Beast Theatre Works, and has directed the company’s previous productions. He has worked extensively with The Building Stage (Dustbowl Gothic, Moby-Dick, Noir, Master Builder, The Franklin Expedition) and wrote and directed Oedipus Rex Play for Vintage Theatre Co. Joshua Dumas (composer and co-creator) is an artist and composer. He is a New Beast company member, he participates in Vintage Theater Collective, and he co-founded the Summer is for Fireflies. He recently worked on the Plagiarist’s I Am Saying This Right Now, scored Jerzy Rose’s feature film Some Girls Never Learn and is finishing work on a dance film, Mirrors Are Just Water Specified. www.quieterrors.com

March 2012 - April 2012

Jon Bollo, 1.17 Decades of Fuzz: Dogs, Cats, Martens, Dragonflies, and other Mammals

Elastic Vision Gallery exhibits work by Chicago-based 2-D artists at all levels in their careers.

To submit an exhibition proposal, click here.