SEPTEMBER
Saturday 9
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Performance artist Joan Dickinson goes to great lengths tonight to premiere her new piece Hunter’s Moon. And if you want to see it, you’ll have to do the same. She’s asking her audience to take a bus trip from Randolph Street Gallery to a spot in McHenry County where a bog, a hay field, and a pine forest intersect. (The $10 ticket covers the cost of the bus ride.) According to a press release, the performance features seven people and one horse and (brace yourself for this one) “takes as its starting point the relationship between cyclical phenomenon and its quality of being uncontrolled and perhaps uncontrollable and an artist’s expression or attempt to control the expression of cyclic phenomenon.” The bus leaves from the lot across the street from the gallery, 756 N. Milwaukee, at 4 and will return by 10. Call 506-1375 for more.
Jim Brady–the Reagan press secretary who took a bullet in the head during a 1981 assassination attempt–heads up the annual Walk Against Handgun Violence on North Michigan today. The walk, sponsored by the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, starts at 1 at Pioneer Court, 435 N. Michigan, and heads down to the Dirksen Federal Building and the Lincoln statue in Grant Park before returning to the starting place. It’s free to participate, though obviously the point is to raise money for the campaign against handguns. Call 341-0939 for details.
In the southwest Paolo Soleri is almost a household name, having caught the imagination of the populace with his plans for a futuristic desert city in the plains north of Phoenix. Based on a philosophy he calls “arcology”–which puts architecture in the service of ecology–he’s been building the city known as Arcosanti for 25 years. (Large contingents of volunteers have actually paid for the privilege of helping.) Tonight Soleri, who’s Italian by birth and apprenticed under Frank Lloyd Wright, makes his first appearance in Chicago in 30 years. Under the aegis of the museum of architecture and design known as the Chicago Athenaeum, he lectures at 6 at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington. Tickets are $10, $5 for Athenaeum members. Call 251-0175 for reservations. Admission to the Athenaeum’s accompanying exhibit Paolo Soleri: 25 Years at Arcosanti, which opens today and remains on view at the museum, 6 N. Michigan, through December 17, is $3.
Sick of hearing about what happened the last time Chicago hosted a national political convention? If you’d like to start hearing about what will happen this time around Democratic National Convention CEO Debra DeLee, a Chicago native, will explain the party’s plans for the affair at a luncheon meeting of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association this afternoon. The talk is open to those who’ve got $40 to blow and includes lunch in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Marriott, 540 N. Michigan Things get under way at noon. Call 642-3570 for reservations.
