HOMEROOM

Thank you to everyone who came out to Homeroom's Summer Salon this past Sunday. Special thanks to Compound Yellow for hosting this event and to Katinka Kleijn and Bill MacKay for sharing a wonderful performance with us!

📸 by Paul Giallorenzo & Adam Runkle

As we prepare to kick off Homeroom's 2024/2025 season, we're taking a moment to celebrate all the amazing art created during 2023/2024!

Here's a short video highlighting some of our favorite moments:

Homeroom's 2023/2024 Season Special thanks to:Suzanne Scanlon, Jessica Anne, Amanda Goldblatt, Deidre Huckabay, Storm D’Angelo, Matthew Muller, Joshua Bohnsack, Joe Cavilere, Hart Lang,...

Can't make it to Homeroom's Summer Salon this Sunday from 5-8 PM at Compound Yellow? You still have a chance to win six amazing raffle prizes!

Homeroom is offering $5 digital raffle tickets, available until Sunday, June 23rd at 5 PM. Buy as many tickets as you like, and you'll be entered into the raffle drawing at the conclusion of our fundraising event. Winners will be announced at the event and notified via email by Monday, June 24th. When you buy your tickets, you can specify which prizes you’d like to enter to win!

Prizes include:
- A pair of 3-Day PLUS passes to Pitchfork Music Festival 2024 ($1000 value)
- Two tickets to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($250 value)
- Two tickets to Joffrey Ballet's "Golden Hour" performances ($200 value)
- Two hours of audio recording/mixing/mastering at Experimental Sound Studio ($150 value)
- Two tickets to Court Theatre's upcoming season ($110 value)
- Two tickets for the Shoreline Sightseeing River Architecture Tour ($95 value)

Get your digital raffle tickets here! https://homeroomchicago.org/store/5-virtual-raffle-ticket

We're excited to be back at Compound Yellow this coming Sunday 6/23 from 5-8 PM for our annual Summer Salon: Party & Fundraiser! This year's event includes light food and drinks, raffle prizes, and a performance by Katinka Kleijn (cello) & Bill MacKay (guitar).

RSVP to reserve your spot! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/homerooms-summer-salon-party-fundraiser-tickets-917559905377?aff=oddtdtcreator

📸 Jason Stein performing at Compound Yellow during Summer Salon 2023

THANK YOU to everyone who came out and participated in "Exquisite Literary Crawl," presented in collaboration with MAKE Literary Productions. What a great afternoon of art!

Special thanks to the artists, curators, and venue hosts for making it all happen.

Cole's Bar
City Lit Books
The Whistler

📸 by Scott Teresi, featuring (Photo 3, left to right) Storm D’Angelo, Matthew Muller, Joshua Bohnsack, and Joe Cavilere, (Photo 4, left to right) Suzanne Scanlon, Jessica Anne, Amanda Goldblatt, and Deidre Huckabay

Homeroom's "Summer Salon: Party and Fundraiser" is back at Compound Yellow on Sunday, June 23rd, with a special performance by Katinka Kleijn and Bill MacKay!

Join us for an early evening of music, art, and community to support Homeroom's 2024/25 season. All proceeds from this event will go toward artist fees for future programming.

- $20-50 Suggested Donation
- Special Merch & Giveaways
- Food & Drink
- Live Performance (6:30 PM) by Katinka Kleijn (cello) & Bill MacKay (guitar)

Learn more & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/homeroom-summer-salon-party-fundraiser-tickets-917559905377?aff=oddtdtcreator

(RSVP not required, but will help us plan food & drink)

Homeroom Summer Salon: Party + Fundraiser Join us for an early evening of music, art, and community at Compound Yellow to support Homeroom's 2024/25 season!

More photos from Comfort Music + in April at Comfort Station Logan Square: “Pax in the Frozen Time” featuring Gordon Fung, Sam Anthem, Lorenzo Osterheim, and Omnia Sol. Photos by Ricardo E. Adame

Moments from Comfort Music + “Image of Thought” at Comfort Station Logan Square back in April, featuring Liv Mershon (electronics/voice/flute), Luc Mosley (electronics/sax), Rin Peisert (voice/movement/objects) and RA Washington (electronics/voice). Photos by Ricardo E. Adame

Exquisite Literary Crawl is back on Saturday, May 25th in Logan Square! ⚡️

Homeroom and MAKE Literary Productions present the fourth annual Exquisite Literary Crawl featuring three multidisciplinary performances created by three curators at Cole's Bar, City Lit Books, and The Whistler in Logan Square. Join us for an exciting afternoon/evening of writers, artists, musicians, comedians, and more!

Saturday, May 25, 2024
2pm @ Cole’s Bar 2338 N Milwaukee Ave, 21+, free
4pm @ City Lit Book Store 2523 N Kedzie, all ages, free
6pm @ the Whistler 2421 N Milwaukee Ave, 21+, free

More info: https://homeroomchicago.org/events/2024/25/5/exquisite-literary-crawl

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Hey everyone, our good friends and colleagues at Elastic Arts have their annual benefit this Saturday 5/18, and aside from being a great party, it's a good cause to support this important grassroots arts org! And celebrate Chicago legend Marvin Tate while you're at it!

Elastic Arts 6th Annual Benefit Join us for our annual fundraiser to support Elastic Arts!

Moments from "Comfort Music +" at Comfort Station Logan Square on 4/4/24 featuring Kim Alpert (video/voice), Lia Kohl (cello), and Ben Hall (percussion). Photos by Ricardo E. Adame

Our Comfort Music + series continues at Comfort Station Logan Square this Thursday with the "Praise House: Language Workshop" featuring Keisha Janae (Create Care Artistic Facilitator), DJ Mar (Music), Izzy Brown (Movement Therapist), and Gloria Parker (Music Therapist).

7 PM Doors/Show
Comfort Station, 2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
$ Suggested donation at the door

📸: Omar Cardenas

Comfort Music + : Praise House: Language Workshop — Homeroom Keisha Janae - Create Care Artistic Facilitator DJ Mar - Music Izzy Brown - Movement Therapist Gloria Parker - Music Therapist

Comfort Music + is back Thursdays in April at Comfort Station Logan Square!

Comfort Music + presents music acts combined with another performative medium, including video, dance, spoken word, and puppetry! This unlikely curatorial presentation allows artistic communities to commingle in the hopes of future collaboration and connection.

Join us for the first Comfort Music + performance this Thursday, April 4th featuring Kim Alpert (video/voice), Lia Kohl (cello), and Ben Hall (percussion).

7 PM Doors/7:30 PM Show
Comfort Station, 2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
$ Suggested donation at the door

📸 Kim Alpert’s photo by Peter Gannushkin, Lia Kohl’s photo by Ash Dye, Ben Hall’s photo by Sean Meehan

Comfort Music + is back with multidisciplinary performances at Comfort Station Logan Square every Thursday in April!

Join us next Thursday, April 4th, for the first performance featuring Kim Alpert (video/voice), Lia Kohl (cello), and Ben Hall (percussion).

7 PM Doors/7:30 PM Show
Comfort Station, 2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
$ Suggested donation at the door

Tuesday, March 26th join us for the ✨final evening✨ of Homeroom Residency at Elastic Arts featuring SPECTRALINA and special guests Chér Jey / Mabel Kwan $15 at the door + BYOB. Doors open at 8 PM, performance at 8:30 PM.

📸 Poster by Selina Trepp

Homeroom Residency with SPECTRALINA and special guests has been nothing short of spectacular ✨ Don’t miss the last evening of the series next Tuesday at 8 PM at Elastic Arts with special guests Chér Jey / Mabel Kwan.

📸 Homeroom Residency on 3/19/24 at Elastic Arts featuring SPECTRALINA and special guests Amalea Tshilds / Lia Kohl. Photos by Scott Teresi

Next Tuesday: Join us for the third evening of Homeroom Residency at Elastic Arts featuring SPECTRALINA and special guests Amalea Tshilds / Lia Kohl. All shows are $15 at the door + BYOB. Doors open at 8 PM, performance at 8:30 PM.

📸 Poster by Selina Trepp

Another evening of magic created by SPECTRALINA during Homeroom Residency at Elastic Arts. ✨

There are only two more Tuesday evening performances during this series. Join us next Tuesday for SPECTRALINA and special guests Amalea Tshilds / Lia Kohl. All shows are $15 at the door + BYOB. Doors open at 8 PM, performance at 8:30 PM.

📸 by Scott Teresi

Tomorrow! Join us for the second evening of Homeroom Residency at Elastic Arts featuring SPECTRALINA and special guests Norman Long / Ayako Kato / Jason Roebke.

All shows are $15 at the door + BYOB. Doors open at 8 PM, performance at 8:30 PM.

📸 Poster by Selina Trepp

Moments from SPECTRALINA’s Homeroom Residency at Elastic Arts (3/5/24) featuring Ben LaMar Gay & Frederick Wells. Photos by Scott Teresi

Every Tuesday in March, Homeroom Residency presents SPECTRALINA: The audio-visual performance project of Dan Bitney and Selina Trepp. All shows at Elastic Arts are $15 at the door + BYOB. Doors open at 8 PM, performances at 8:30 PM.

Next Tuesday, March 5th! Join us for the first evening of Homeroom Residency at Elastic Arts featuring SPECTRALINA and special guests Ben LaMar Gay + Frederick Wells.

All shows are $15 at the door + BYOB. Doors open at 8 PM, performance at 8:30 PM.

📸 Poster by Selina Trepp

Homeroom is pleased to present SPECTRALINA as our 2024 Residency artist!

Spectralina is the audio-visual performance project of Dan Bitney and Selina Trepp. In Spectralina, Dan uses a computer, synthesizers, drums, voice, and analog processors to create sounds. Selina sings, animates, and plays the videolah, an instrument that creates real-time animated projections. Working in an improvised format, Spectralina creates an image-sound relationship that treats each medium equally, resulting in performances in which projection and sounds come together as visual music.

Special guests will join Spectralina for four multidisciplinary performances at Elastic Arts every Tuesday in March.

March 5th Ben LaMar Gay, Frederick Wells
March 12th Norman Long, Ayako Kato, Jason Roebke
March 19th Amalea Tshilds + Lia Kohl
March 26th Chér Jey, Mabel Kwan

All shows are $15 at the door + BYOB

Swipe to see what we have planned in 2024... We hope to see you at one or more of our upcoming events!

• In March, Homeroom Residency is back with weekly performances at Elastic Arts featuring Spectralina, the audio-visual duo of Selina Trepp and Dan Bitney.
• In April, Comfort Music + returns to Comfort Station with live multidisciplinary performances throughout the month.
• In May, we’re partnering with Make Lit Productions again to present a literary bar crawl featuring authors and multi-disciplinary performers.
• In June, Homeroom will present another iteration of Blank Box. Chicago artists - stay tuned for an open call for proposals!

Support our 2024 programs by making a tax-deductible donation before December 31st. Every donation creates a bridge for individuals from diverse perspectives to come together, collaborate and connect. Thank you!

Donate: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVS5GMCYNJVRU

📸 Photo 1: Spectralina performance during Experimental Sound Studio’s Quarantine Concert Series, June 11, 2021, Credit: Selina Trepp. Photo 3: “Lit & Luz Presents: Arte + Sonoro + Poesia” featuring Rocío Cerón, Krista Franklin, Bill MacKay, and Paul Giallorenzo on September 9, 2022 at The Hideout

We're thrilled to announce our 2024 Homeroom Residency artists - Spectralina, the mesmerizing audio-visual duo of Selina Trepp and Dan Bitney. Every Tuesday in March, Spectralina and invited collaborators will share immersive performances that experiment with projection, mirrors, music, movement, and image to create visual music. Mark your calendars - more details to come!

Homeroom Residency (2022-present) is an annual program that provides reliable, paid performance work to Chicago artists. The residency gives artists space to refine existing collaborations and explore new ideas. Each performance is captured on video, culminating in a short film edited by Rhizomes Films.

Spectralina_ ESS Quarantine Concert July 15th 2020 Spectralina_ ESS Quarantine Concert July 15th 2020 Dan Bitney and Selina Trepp performing in the living room Dan audio Selina video and vocals

Screening now!

Homeroom Residency: Katinka Kleijn Film Screening Please Donate: www.donorbox.org/elasticartsJoin us on Tuesday, December 12th at Elastic Arts for the premiere of a short film created by Mexico City-based Rh...

Tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 8 PM at Elastic Arts, we're excited to share the premiere of "Body Resonances," a short film created by Mexico City-based Rhizomes Films featuring footage from Homeroom Residency with Katinka Kleijn in March 2023. 🎥 Join us!

Tuesday, December 12
8 PM - 9:30 PM FREE/suggested donation
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave #208
Chicago, IL 60647

"Body Resonances" Short Film Trailer "Body Resonances" is a short film created by Mexico City-based Rhizomes Films featuring footage from Homeroom Residency with Katinka Kleijn in March 2023.Abo...