Do Division Family Fun Fest Details

DO DIVISION FAMILY FUN FEST – BEE THERE! JUNE 4-5
Pony rides, face painting, rocking kids' music

Chicago, IL – This year the Do Division Family Fun Fest has expanded to two blocks on Hoyne between Division and Potomac. New this year, come and learn about bees. We'll have fun bee facts throughout the event. For example, did you know bees can fly up to 15 miles an hour and honey never spoils? Visit the Christy Weber Urban Bee Hive tent where you'll get to observe bees – behind plexiglass, of course. Plus answer questions in a quiz about bees and win a prize from Building Blocks. (Hint: you'll find the answers on our activity tents.)

Also new is the Cat n Mouse Game Store's Game tent including a yo-yo demonstration on Saturday. And the Building Blocks famous Carnival Wheel with fabulous prizes.

We're bringing back many of the popular activities including The Easel Art Studio Craft Tent, punk rock hair styling by Psycho Baby with nail polishes by Juko nails (nails Saturday only), face painting, cookie decorating, a dunk tank, the Children's Learning Place Toddler Zone (with a changing station and nursing zone), a bounce house, and pony rides (both Saturday and Sunday).

Plus non-stop entertainment on the family stage along with super fun exhibitors.

Cheetah Gym Family Stage Schedule
Saturday, June 4:
12pm: Laura Doherty
1pm: Jeanie B!
2pm: Mad Science
3pm: Karen 4 Kids!
4pm: Mary Macaroni
5pm: The Hamburglars

Sunday, June 5:
12pm: Mary Macaroni
1pm: Super Stolie
2pm: Sarah Jayne Parker
4pm: Gorilla Tango Theater
4:20pm: Baby Take a Bow Hip Hop Workshop

Dunk Tank highlights:
Saturday, June 4
12pm: Alderman Waguespack, 32nd Ward
1pm: Dr. Reese, Pritzker Principal
2pm: Norm Cherrett, Childrens' Learning Place

Sunday, June 5
1pm: Alderman Moreno, 1st Ward
3pm: Mr. Edwards, Kindergarten teacher for LaSalle II

Proceeds from Do Division Family Fun Fest go to Friends of Pritzker School and the LaSalle II PTO, public elementary schools in Wicker Park.

Tune into The U on WCIU between 6-8am this Friday, June 3rd to get a taste of the Family Fun Fest!

The Week Past, the Week Ahead

Just sharing a link to the May 31st Issue

If there's a theme in this one, it's hats.

WPC Meeting, Wed. June 1, 7PM

WPC Membership Meeting

Field House, Wednesday, June 1, 7:00 pm

P&D Presentation: 1366 N Milwaukee

Proposed Bloomingdale Trail

“Friends of Bloomingdale Trail” will present latest design proposals for the

world class linear park in the elevated train right-of-way

running along Bloomingdale Ave. This is a truly exciting urban design

concept which will provide a tremendous neighborhood amenity along the northern edge of Wicker Park. Don’t miss this!!



July Meeting: Canines in the City…Learn about pet practices for

your dog or your neighbor’s dog

Beat Cop's Guide to Chicago Eats Pops in at Quimby's

Sgt. David Haynes & Christopher Garlington Discuss
The Beat Cop's Guide to Chicago Eats at Quimby's 6/14

Join Sgt. David J. Haynes of the Chicago Police Department, and his partner-in-crime, blogger Christopher Garlington as they talk about the places where they take a bite out of crime and also bites out of donuts, polish sausage, fried chicken, enchiladas, and omelettes. Peppered with outrageous stories from working cops, Chicago cop lore, and even a few recipes, The Beat Cop's Guide To Chicago Eats takes you on a gustatory journey through all five Chicago areas, including some of the toughest neighborhoods in the nation.

Sgt. David J. Biscuit Haynes has spent the past 15 years dodging bullets and chasing down gang bangers on the city's West Side, running Chicago's first ever Homeland Security Task Force, and supervising squads in the 19th District at Belmont and Western. Christopher "The Bull" Garlington is a blogger and author, known for his stories of raising highly intelligent (devious) children published on the blog Death by Children. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Another Realm, Bathhouse, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and more. Together Haynes and Garlington have hosted the radio program The Dave & Chris Show! since 2007, during which they cultivate and maintain a long-standing argument about...everything. From politics and video games to the importance of cool nicknames and secret societies, they cover it on their live weekly broadcast from cigar stores, bars, and other manly locales around Chicago. Their show first aired on WJJG and is now broadcast online on blogtalk radio.

The book retails at $15.95 and includes $34 in coupons. It's like being buddies with your alderman. For more info: lakeclaremont.com

The Week Past, the Week Ahead

Here is a link to the May 24 pipeline...

As for the week ahead, we will be very busy working on the We're in the Neighborhood booklet.

It is very exciting yet very scary at the same time. Lots to do, lots already done, and way more to go.

Inside BuckWick Organix Convenience

Buckwick Organix Convenience is Opening Soon, at 1563 N. Milw. More in the Next Pipeline!

'Liberation Summer' Breezes into Monique Meloche Gallery, Bringing Messages and Markings, with Boots, too!

How can you create a painting, without using paint? For artist Kendell Carter, the answer was shoelaces, which, when layered together, look like three dimensional paint strokes.

How can you create a painting without painting on a canvas? Could you paint heavy layers onto a canvas, and then carefully peel the paint off, and then cut it into strips and weave it together, so that the paint itself serves as a canvas, case in point being this extremely intriguing piece which hangs on the gallery's front-door-facing wall, greeting you as you walk inside of Liberation Summer?

Liberation Summer, occurring all summer long at Division Street's Monique Meloche Gallery (well, actually just until July 30) is full of color, and labels, and gold hip hop chains splayed out among silhouettes, comprising a myriad of references that have "marked" elements of what artist Kendell Carter refers to as "Subjective Blackness." When juxtaposed against casual cultural markings and literal interpretations of 'mark,' as in a perhaps tongue-and-cheek illustrative shout out to white hip-hopper, Mark Wahlberg, the result is an exhibit that feels as fresh and striking to the viewer as it likely did for its creator, whom, per gallery curator Monique, reported that he was most inspired by challenging traditional art making during the making of Liberation Summer.



Indeed, "How do you make a painting without paint?" is only the beginning of the dialogue one imagines having occurred between the artist and himself during the creative process.



The work of Kendell Carter (American, born New Orleans 1970) has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtFoum.com, and the Los Angeles Times among other esteemed publications. Thus, we will not pretend to pretend we know anything about writing about serious art like Carter's, though we suggest anyone reading this seriously check out the show soon! You might never see gleaming copper cast work boots shining in the summer sun anywhere else. Regardless of whether or not you've got the dough or desire to purchase fine art, it's not about the money when you are standing in front of something that someone else has gone to great lengths to create and you're just fortunate to be able to marvel at it, and then move along, a bit calmer than you were when you walked in. Great art, like Carter's, soothes the nerves of a driftless griot.

-ah