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Register Online or call 773.281.0824. Advance registration strongly encouraged.
Links Hall’s workshops are dedicated to nurturing the
unique creativity of your own expression, through the exploration
and practice of contemporary methods with passionate, intelligent,
and informed artist-instructors.
Links Hall is located at 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Chicago.
CTA Trains/Buses: Red Line to Addison or Belmont, Brown line
to Belmont, Clark Bus to Clark/Newport.
Driving: parking is a challenge, there are meters and residential
codes apply. Pay lots are available up to $20. Please call
us for directions,
suggestions.
Links Hall is a second floor walk-up; there is no elevator
or escalator.
CLASS POLICIES
Classes are usually open to all participants with at least
beginning/intermediate skills in body/mind awareness (such
as those developed through dance, yoga, martial arts, etc.)
Please wear bare feet and comfortable clothing for movement
classes, and arrive at least 5 minutes prior to all classes
to sign in and change. Refunds only in cases of illness or
injury.
Visit the Study
Groups and Jams page for independent dance and movement
classes that occur regularly in the studio.
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Studies N Black
A multidisciplinary, month-long festival of performances, city-wide communal exchanges, workshops, and dialogue
co-presented by D UNDERBELLLY.
Curated by Baraka de Soleil, Links Hall Artistic Associate
About the Artistic Associates Program
North Side/South Side
Studies N Black artists create consciousness and share practices around issues of communication, affirmation of cultural roots, and risk taking. Events take place at Links Hall unless otherwise noted.
Discussion Events: Shifting Cultural Landscapes
Mondays, September 29, October 6 & 13, 7-9pm
Insight Arts/Center for New Possibilities, 1505 W. Morse
Free
Insight Arts sponsors three community discussions, exploring Links Hall’s Studies N Black series with curator Baraka de Soleil.
Studies N Blackness: Black Male/Female With ____
Site Specific Events Featuring artists from Studies N Black
Wednesdays in October
Free
Throughout October, explore the changing cultural landscape of Chicago’s North and South sides through performative experiences at locations in Hyde Park, Woodlawn, Lakeview, and Rogers Park. See black male/female with __ [watermelon, fried chicken, doo-rag, afro, dreadlocks, etc] try to hail a cab, wax poetics on koool-aid, do the hustle, etc. as he/she interacts with the local community. Documentation of the happenings will be exhibited during the closing event of Studies N Black on October 26.
Wednesday, October 1, 3:30-4:30pm
Insight Arts/Center for New Possibilities, 1505 W. Morse
Wednesday, October 8, 4:30-5:30pm
Little Black Pearl, 1060 East 47th Street
Wednesday, October 15, 3:30-4:30pm
Japanese-American Service Center (JASC), 4427 North Clark Street
Wednesday, October 22, 3:30-4:30pm
Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Community Koool-Aid Stand
Saturdays, October 4, 11, & 18, 10am-12pm
61st street Farmer's Market, 6100 S. Blackstone
Free
Studies N Black artists incite discussion and quench thirst on Saturday mornings before weekly artist-led workshops and events.
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Fertile Black Roots
Saturday, October 4, 3-5pm
FREE
Participate in an artist-led dialogue facilitated by Links Hall’s Brooklyn-based festival curator Baraka de Soleil about Chicago’s rich cultural history and investigation of experimental music rooted in “black” traditions. With New York-based Daniel Givens, an internationally acclaimed DJ, electric sound, and multimedia artist, and founder of the legendary Chicago-based Age Ensemble; and Chicago-based Nicole Mitchell, an avant garde jazz artist, creative flutist, composer, and bandleader with Black Earth Ensemble and AACM.
myspace.com/danielgivensmusic; nicolemitchell.com |
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