Heaven Gallery

Patterns of Affect consists of Jonathan Chen (banjo, electronics, guitar), Jamie Kempkers (cello), Joe Mills (hurdy-gurdy), and Peter Rosenbloom (violin). The group will perform two works: Patterns of Affect & To Be Continued. Plus opening sets by Chen (solo electronics) and Kempkers (solo cello).

PROTEST HEAVEN jazz and improvised music series

We are very pleased to host drummer Nori Tanaka for the second time during his Chicago visit from Japan. This show starts promptly at 10pm!

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Josh Abrams, bass
Jason Adasiewicz, vibes
Nori Tanaka, drums

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Dan Bitney, bass/synthesizer
David Daniell, guitar
Brad Loving, laptops/electronics
Nori Tanaka, drums

From the Chicago Reader: http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/post-no-bills/2008/04/30/nori-tanakas-bac...

Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
$5-10 suggested donation

Don't book any shows today. Thanks

Columbia College MFA Music Composition for
the Screen students accompanying silent films from the
late 19th/20th century $5 donation

THE ACTUALITY SHOW
Fundamentals of Cinema in Tracking Shots, Nature and
Kissing (1893 - 1905).

With live musical accompaniment by students of
Columbia College's MFA Music Composition for the
Screen program.

'Actuality film': the crude, unorganized footage of a
real place, event, thing, etc., generally referring to
the first decade of cinema's creation, when filmmakers
weren't filmmakers but "operators" who captured nature
and the modern world using hand-cranked cameras.
Hovering between the mundane (workers leaving a
factory) and the extraordinary (President McKinley
makes a personal appearance), these fragments often
reveal inadvertent truths about the manipulations
inherent to both documentary and fiction filmmaking.
Actualities are thought of as static, grainy, boring,
primitive (Gorky's "Kingdom of Shadows"); taking a
closer look, they contain the ambition of a modern
cinema that finds virtue in the simple observation of
the world's splendor (contemporary masters such as Hou
Hsiao-hsien and Abbas Kiarostami come to mind).

THE ACTUALITY SHOW takes a look at three phenomenon of
actualities from 1893- 1905: the invention of the
tracking shot by mounting cameras to trains and other
movable machinery; the unpredictable, astonishing
presence of nature and wildlife that found its way
into the early cinema frame as a testament to the
power of documentary; and the human kiss as an
electrifying presentiment of the potential of a new
art form to inspire love and change.

Original music composed and performed by:
Elon Arbiture
Jordan Balagot
Duncan Blickenstaff
Joseph Cooper
Mae Crosby
Andrew Edwards
Victor Hernandez-Sumpfhauser
Robert Ramos
Marjorie Rusche
Nathaniel Smith
Michelle Tyler

Program runs approximately 90 minutes with brief
pauses between films. DVD projection.

Saturday May 17th, 10pm:

Steve Fors, solo lap steel guitar

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Andrew Scott Young Ensemble (piano/bass/sax/cello/violin)

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Holsum (Jaimie Branch, trumpet; Jeff Kimmel, bass clarinet)

Heaven Heaven Heaven!
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
10pm - $5 suggested donation

RERUN:

the relation between a symbol and a symptom

"The symbol, ordinarily made to be understood, becomes symptom the moment it displaces itself and loses its primary identity, when its proliferation suffocates its signification."
-Freud, 1916

A common tool of advertising, repetition is known to be effective and persuasive. The fifteen artists presented here explore the point where repetition looses its persuasive power and becomes decorative and pleasing as it does in the tradition of wallpaper.

These wallpapers are mostly created using pre-existing media derived imagery that has been appropriated, re-contextualized and multiplied further. All are achieved through the process of screen-printing, a medium traditionally associated with multiplication and commodity.

This project was designed to challenge artists to create imagery that focused on repetition and simultaneously addressed the multiples role within printmaking, decoration, advertising and design.

The participating artists are (currently local to Boston, MA):

Alexis Adams
Rebecca Bird Grigsby
Ben Smart
Diego Guzman
Hilary McBride
Maggie Haas
Melinda Go
Nahna Kim
Nicole Kita
Rhonda Rat-ray
Wayne Kleppe
Bob Shane
James Nardone
Janine Biunno

HAROLD ARTS presents "RE RUN" a show curated by Harold Residency Alum Janin Biunno.

Rerun- the wallpaper show- Friday May 23 @ Heaven Gallery

RERUN
the relation between a symbol and a symptom
An exhibition of subversive wallpapers created by 15 different artists.
Curated by Janine Biunno
Organized in affiliation with Harold Arts

OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, May 23
7-11pm
Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL

Open through June 21.
Gallery hours: 1-5p Saturdays
or call 773.342.4597 for appointment

janinebiunno.com
heavengallery.com
haroldarts.org

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PROTEST HEAVEN: MATANA ROBERTS!!!

Music starts at 10 -

First Set:

Matana Roberts Solo Saxophone

Second Set:

BRANCH/HERNDON/ROBERTS + Surprise Guests!
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Get your culture in for the month this friday at heaven.

In the front gallery we are showing work of past, present and future shows.

Tense, featuring the work of
Aay Preston-Myint (http://www.illcutyou.com/aay)
Alvaro Ilizarbe (http://freegums.com)
Chris Uphues (http://theheartsproject.blogspot.com)
Clayton Hauck (http://everyoneisfamous.com)
Elisa Harkins (http://pooptronica.com)
Hisham Bharoocha (http://myspace.com/hisham)
Logan Bay (http://loganbay.org)
Justin B. Williams (http://justinbwilliams.blogspot.com)
Raphael Lyon (http://www.mudboymusic.com)
Ryan Brennan (http://www.ryanvbrennan.com)

Saturday, May 31st at 10pm

Patrick Breiner, solo saxophone

www.myspace.com/PatrickBreinerMusic

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Breakway

Paul Giallorenzo, piano/electronics
Brian Labycz, electronics
Marc Riordan, drums

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Sonic Circus (East Coast)

Currently fixated somewhere along the East Coast, Sonic Circus consists of Dana Jessen (bassoon) and Michael Straus (saxophones). Dedicated to today's music, their combined individual efforts include the premiers of over forty new works with performances at New York City's The Stone, Boston's Jordan Hall and Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center. Always looking to collaborate with non-traditional artists and musicians, they will be joined this show by turntablist DJ Dubble8. These three musicians, having all dabbled in the institutionalized world, hold graduate degrees in music from the likes of Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and the New England Conservatory of Music. New music performed tonight will fuse electronics with live acoustic instruments and visual projections.

More Artist Info: www.mstraus.net, www.danajessen.com, www.dubble8productions.com

Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)

HEAVEN GALLERY LAST SUNDAY SERIES

Sunday, June 1, 3pm

The Cascades- Scott Joplin

Andrew Sinko, piano

Pastiche- Jonathan Schang

Jennifer Swanson, flute; Jonathan Schang, percussion and keys

Sonata 1963- Frank Proto

Dan Thatcher, double bass; Rachel Shaftman, piano

Charanga- Colquhoun

Allie Deaver, flute

French Suite in E- J.S. Bach

Prelude, Allemande, Courante

Three Fantastic Dances, Op. 5- Dmitri Shostakovich

Stephen Hill, piano

with Pillars & Tongues, Meander, and John Bellows

http://www.myspace.com/darkdarkdarkband
http://www.myspace.com/pillarsandtongues