DevCorp North What's Now: Rogers Park, Chicago

Rogers Park Garden Walk

The Rogers Park Garden Walk is Sunday June 25 - noon til 5 pm - starting at Leone Beach at Touhy and Sheridan....$10 fee for map of the Gardens. This event is organized by volunteer committee and supported by the Rogers Park Community Council.

For more information, call (773) 338-7722.

Artist of the Wall Festival

Celebrate Community! Experience Art!

Sat. June 17 and Sun. June 18 from 11am to 6pm

The 13th Annual Artists of the Wall Festival will take place at Loyola Park, by the lake.  The theme is, "Nature's Canvas: The Shoreline and Us."

Paint a square of the 500 foot long mural, hear music, browse and buy from vendors, visit the information tables and participate in the Art-Making Tent for Families and Seniors.  The Art making area is directed by Sharon Hyson, with demonstrations at 1:00 / Create a Mixed Media Garden, and 2:30 / Studio Arts including Collage and Painting with Sharon.

For more information, call (312) 409-3258.

Blues Fest this weekend in Rogers Park

DUKE’S BLUES FEST - 6920 N. Glenwood

FRI, June 9th - MR G AND THE MYSTERY BAND

SAT, June 10th - TOM HOLLAND DUO, W/ HARMONICA HINDS

SUN, June 11th - RUBY HARRIS, KING OF THE BLUES VIOLIN

“WHY GO DOWNTOWN FOR BLUES FEST?”....COME TO DUKE’S !!!

ALL SHOWS 9PM – MIDNIGHT

NO COVER CHARGE
PARKING AROUND THE BACK

For more information, call 773-764-2826.

Touhy Park Celebrates New Trees at Arbor Fest

The Chicago Park District and the Touhy Park Advisory Council announce the Touhy Park Arbor Fest, a celebration for the 27 new trees in the park.  Please come to Arbor Fest on Saturday, June 3, 2006, from 10 am to 12 noon at Touhy Park, 7348 N. Paulina Street. 

Through a generous grant from the Irvin Stern Foundation for the beautification of Touhy Park, the Touhy Park Advisory Council purchased and planted 27 new trees and also installed a variety of perennials and shrubs for the park’s three large planters.

The Arbor Fest opens with a Fun Run; continues with an “identify the tree” scavenger hunt; “Poetrees,” in which participants write poems on ribbons that are then tied to the new trees; the planting of annuals in Touhy Park’s flower boxes and a chance to pot one for each participant to take home.  All will thrill to the sounds of El Gallo de Jalisco mariachi band.

Touhy Park recently lost several trees to Dutch Elm disease.  Once the Touhy Park Advisory Council realized that several more trees will eventually succumb to age and disease, it sought ways to replace the lost trees and install more for the future.  “When you plant a tree, you do it more for the next generation than for yourself,” says Advisory Council member Bernard Graham-Betend. 

Arbor Fest is free and open to children and adults of all ages.  For more information, please call Touhy Park Advisory Council President Anne Marie Lewis at 773.761.1314 or Touhy Park Supervisor Marc Hebert at 773.262.6737.

Bike the Drive this weekend

The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and Mayor Richard M. Daley invite you to one of the nation’s biggest bicycle rides, Bike The Drive on Sunday, May 28, 2006, presented by Schwinn.

Enjoy a morning of peaceful, car-free Lake Shore Drive with amazing views of Chicago’s lakefront and skyline.

Choose your own pace and distance.  Bike The Drive registration includes a great ride, event T-shirt, access to three rest stops and a fun festival after the ride.

Bike The Drive benefits the nonprofit Chicago Bicycle Federation's efforts to make communities better for bicycling and thereby improve the quality of life in the region.

For more information or to register, click here.

Due to the Bike the Drive event, Lake Shore Drive will be closed to car traffic from 5 to 10:30am on Sunday, May 28, 2006.  No cars will be allowed on Lake Shore Drive from Hollywood Avenue to 57th Street.  For more information, call (312) 427-3325, x287 or ethan@biketraffic.org.

City Service Fair this weekend

The City of Chicago, Department of Human Services, will be hosting a Service Fair on Saturday, May 20th from 9am to 5pm at Truman College (1145 W. Wilson).

The free events feature a range of on-site services and workshops to bolster your family’s economic security and enrich other aspects of daily life. Discover on-site services including:

• Enroll in youth activities
• Screen for blood pressure, prostate cancer, HIM/AIDS
• Receive tax assistance
• Learn about home ownership opportunities
• Create and post a resume
• Open an e-mail account
• And much more!

For more information, call 311, or visit www.cityofchicago.org/humanservices.

Attend an event for a worthy cause this weekend in Rogers Park

A Taste for NCA is a fundraising event created by the NCA Parents Organization to help support the great educational programs currently offered at Northside Catholic Academy.  The event will feature a wine tasting, an open bar including beer and spirits, hors d’ouvres from local restaurants, a silent and live auction, and entertainment from a live Jazz band.

Through the generous donations of many businesses and parents, we are hoping to raise over $30,000.

Saturday, April 29, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. at Loyola University’s Simpson Living-Learning Center
(6333 N. Winthrop Avenue)

The Live Auction will begin at 9:30 p.m. and the Silent Auction will close at 10:00 p.m.  All auction items must be paid for on the night of the event. Credit cards will not be accepted, so please remember to bring your check book.

The cost per person is $50.00.  To reserve your tickets please call NCA at (773) 743-6277 or (773) 271-2008.  Tickets are limited so reserve yours soon!

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Join Mess Hall this weekend for more messing around!

Friday, April 21, 5:30 pm

Beyondmedia Education is screening "Can LGBTQ + School = Safe?", a video that explores the problems that queer youth face in school settings and offers proven solutions, including how to start a Gay-Straight Alliance in your school.

This event is geared to high school students and their teachers and allies. After the screening, the GSA's (Gay Straight Alliances) from Sullivan and Senn High Schools will help lead a discussion and talk about their experiences. All teens and their teachers and other allies are welcome.

Sunday, April 23, 7 pm

Nicolas Lampert talks about abolitionist art practices in the U.S.

Nicolas Lampert will present a talk and slideshow on the history and art of the Abolitionist Movement. The talk will focus on how artists were instrumental in impacting public opinion with graphic images, performances, moving panorama's, photography and other methods to counter slavery and the slave trade. This will be followed by a group discussion that will attempt to draw attention to the threads between the abolitionist art and contemporary practices, where artists have alligned themselves with political struggles and used similar tactics to reach a large audience, with a varying degree of success.

Nicolas Lampert is a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he teaches seminar courses on radical art history. He is co-editor of "Peace Signs: the Anti-War Movement Illustrated"(Edition Olms/Gustavo Gili) and is currently working on a radical art history text with Gregory Sholette, Janet Koenig and John Couture. See http://machineanimalcollages.com/ for some of his work and writing.

What's Mess Hall?

Mess Hall is an experimental cultural center in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. We host film screenings, music events, art exhibitions, community meetings, potlucks, and more. Mess Hall has a library of small press and artist books and periodicals for visitors to enjoy, a small kitchen space, and bins filled with free items for our visitors to take home. All events and projects hosted at Mess Hall are free to attend.

Mess Hall
6932 N. Glenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60626
(773) 465-4033
messhall8@yahoo.com
www.messhall.org

See Shakespeare's "As You Like It" this weekend

CHASE PARK PRESENTS SHAKESPEARE’S “AS YOU LIKE IT” APRIL 7- MAY 6

The Chase Park Theatre Group invites community members of all ages to their spring production of William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” at Chase Park, 4701 N. Ashland, for performances April 7, 8, 14, 15, 17, 21,22, 28,29 and May 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays April 9 and 23 at 1:30 p.m.  Tickets are $10, children, seniors actors, groups of 20 and students $8, and may be reserved by calling the box office at 312.742.4701 and purchased at Chase Park prior to the show.

For more information, contact the Chicago Park District at (312) 742-PLAY.

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Experience a taste of Rogers Park this weekend

The Rotary Club of Chicago Far North announces its fifth annual fundraiser, the Taste of “Rotary” Far North on Friday, March 31, 2006.  This event supports all of the local and global community service projects of the club.

The event will take from 6 to 10 pm, at the Simpson Multi-Purpose Room, Loyola University, located at 6333 N Winthrop (and Sheridan), Chicago (parking at Loyola’s main lot).  Tickets are $30 per person or $50 per couple. For tickets call 773.338.5385 or theharvest1447@earthlink.net.

Master Sommelier Alpana Singh, Host of Channel 11’s Check, Please! and Director of Wine and Spirits for Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, will be the Special Guest. Live entertainment, a raffle and a silent auction will also take place. Fine foods will be provided by an outstanding group of local restaurants. This unique event has received much media attention and is a fantastic celebration of the diverse ethnic communities in northern Chicago.

During the last five years, this event has raised funds for the Rotary Club of Chicago-Far North to serve the local and global community through the following projects:

• Preserving historical photos of Rogers Park and West Ridge in a joint effort with the Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society;
• Providing dictionaries to third grade students at Gale, Jordan, Stone, Boone and New Eugene Field Elementary Schools;
• Partnering with the Rotary Club of Karachi, Pakistan to provide prosthetic limbs made in India for 1000 people, some affected by the earthquake in northern Pakistan;
• Collecting and sending humanitarian supplies to AIDS orphans in Nairobi, Kenya;
• Providing an ambulance for the community of Aroor, India;
• Collecting and sending clothing for victims of the Katrina disaster;
• Raising funds for global Polio eradication with help from High Ridge YMCA and St. Scholastica Academy.

For more information, contact James Robinson, Past Club President at 773 960 5966 or James.robinson5@comcast.net.