Friday 24
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For its Exquisite Corpse Show, Chicago Filmmakers asked nearly two dozen Chicago artists to create one-minute films illustrating the title theme. Participants include: Susan Anderson, Dan Dinello, Tatsu Aoki, and Filmmakers’ own Ines Sommer and Johnny White. The shorts will be randomly strung together and screened tonight at 8. Also on the bill: Man Ray’s Les Mysteres du Chateau du De. Filmmakers is at 1543 W. Division; it’s $5, $2.50 for members. Call 384-5533.
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An hour later–trouble if you want to see both–Placido Domingo warbles in Grant Park with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It’s at the Petrillo Music Shell, Columbus and Jackson. It’s yet another effervescent free event in Chicago’s celebrations honoring that dreary little game with the black-and-white ball. Call 744-3370 for details.
When Ireland Starved, a documentary from Irish TV, makes the argument that the British have participated in genocide. The film says that the famine of 1845–which along with disease and emigration reduced the country’s population by a third over five years–was the product of deliberate depletion of the food supply and accompanying rapacious economic pressures from England. The film, which also includes excerpts from some moving contemporaneous reports on the disaster, shows for free at 6:30 tonight at the Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln. Call 296-6377 for more.
