MESS HALL Programming 2003
Below are details of our programming in 2003 since opening on August 9, 2003

Categories:

MEETING
EXHIBITION
PRESENTATION
EVENT
SKILL-SHARING WORKSHOP
MUSIC
VIDEO SCREENING
 
 
EXHIBITION
Open House
August 9, 2003
Food, music, and a wall of posters from initiatives in other cities. Unveiling of the printed material archive, and neighborhood useful waste collection and redistribution using Dan Peterman's Vertical Storage System
Documentation
 
 
PRESENTATION
Field Trip
By Nance Klehm
July 20 - August 28, 2003
A shopping cart planted with pre-Depression era corn traveled from 25th & Kedzie, in Little Village, to Mess Hall in Rogers Park, Chicago. Nance made a presentation and roasted corn when it arrived.
Details and Documentation
 
 
PRESENTATION
Recent Developments in Public Space Creation
Presentation + Dinner
Ava Bromberg
September 2, 2003
Details and Documentation
 
 
SKILL-SHARING WORKSHOP
Knitting with Robin Richman
September 24, 2003
Details and Documentation
 
 
EXHIBITION:
Smoking Room: The Harold Jefferies Show
October 4 - 25, 2003
The work in this show was picked from over 100 hundred pounds of drawings. Harold Jefferies works every day with other developmentally disabled persons at the Multi-Disciplinary Art Center at Little City, Palatine, IL. He has lived there for 33 years
 
 
EVENT:
Zena Sakowski & Rob Kelly (during the Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest)
October 4, 2003. Noon - 6 PM
Details and Documentation
 
 
EVENT:
Free Trade
October 19, 2003. Noon - 6 PM
An afternoon of barter, negotiation, and non-competitive trading. Organized by Salem Collo-Julin
Details and Documentation
 
 
SKILL-SHARING WORKSHOP:
DJ-ing with DJ Chavez
DJ-ing part I - Monday, October 27th
DJ-ing part II - Monday, November 3rd
Details and Documentation
 
 
EXHIBITION:
Mapping Part I
November 7 - December 12, 2003
The first in a multi-part series of exhibitions, discussions, presentations, tours and initiatives of creative mapping by artists, scientists, activists, amateurs and others.
Details
 
 
SKILL-SHARING WORKSHOP:
Bookmaking with Susannah Strang and Andy Hall
November 12, 2003
Details and Documentation
 
 
MUSIC:
SELECTIONS: A Set List of Recorded Music
Mike O'Flattery
November 20, 2003  
A thematic set of 80's rock music. Mike regularly writes historically informed music criticism for the Baffler and other magazines.
Details
 
 
EXHIBITION:
Alternative Exhibition Making Projects
December 12, 2003
 
 
EXHIBITION
Red76 - The Ministry of Small Things - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
December 15, 2003 - January 31, 2004
 
 
 
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See Mess Hall Calendar for 2003