Free SUN RA related events in October, November and December at the Hyde Park Art Center
Supported in part by the Illinois Humanities Council and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
A prophetic jazz bandleader, composer and pianist and a self-proclaimed extraterrestrial, Sun Ra was also a visionary thinker whose powerful early writings were influential on Chicago’s South Side African-American intelligentsia in the ’50s. Join us as we explore the extended reach of Sun Ra (1914-1993) - his aesthetic and ideas- on contemporary art and culture with exhibitions, film screenings, concerts, tours and a symposium open to the public.
Titled Traveling the Spaceways: The Astro Black and Other Solar Myths, the program includes many free events that take place at the Hyde Park Art Center unless otherwise noted.Here is a quick reference guide of dates, times and locations:
Oct 15, 3-5 pm: Public Reception for Pathways to Unknown Worlds, Interstellar Low Ways , and Le Conqueroo
Oct 17, 6 pm: Film Screening with discussion: Space is the Place (1974) directed by John Coney
Oct 23, 6 pm: Talkingpoint artist talk: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Chicago-based cellist, bandleader and improviser.
Oct 26, 6 pm: Tour with the Curators: Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68
Nov 1, 6 pm: Tour with the Curators: Interstellar Low Ways
Nov 10, 9 pm: Live Concert: Thurston Moore/Rollo Radford/Avreeyal Ra/Jim Baker and My Barbarians at The Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia Avenue, Chicago
Nov 11-12, 10 am-5 pm: Traveling the Spaceways Symposium
Nov 28, 6 pm: Film Screening with discussion: The Cry of Jazz (1959) by Edward O. Bland
Dec 3, 3 pm: Live Concert: Featuring original members of the Arkestra and other Ra associates at the Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater
Dec 5, 6 pm: Film Screening with discussion: (double feature) Sun Ra: The Magic Sun (1966) by Phill Niblock and Last Angel of History (1995/6) John Akomfrah
*Dec 10, 2 pm: Phil Cohran, trupteter, founder of the Artistic Heritage Ensemble, and one of Sun Ra’s key associates in the late ’50s will discuss Ra and narrate a slide show of rarely seen Arkestra photos.
*Dec 17, 3 pm: AACM programs music by Deshun Mosley in Gallery 1.
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