Saturday, September 6th (3-5 p.m.)

Mozart Park
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL  60647

free and open to the public, all ages

Want to make a flag and make some moves flag corp style?

Opera-Matic will host a flag-making and flag corp/parade style movement workshop during the Armitage Arts Festival. We'll provide materials and choreographic inspiration; you provide your unique personality and knowledge of Logan Square history. Find out what it feels like to wave a flag of your own and invent simple moves as a group. 

We'll have fabric that you can design and color with dyes made from plants that are native to the Mozart Park surroundings. And we'll have improvised and semi-directed flag corp practice-time led by an Opera-Matic dance choreographer. Discover your creative self and experience how making together and moving together revive the spirit. 

A Living Work of Art
(part of The 606 Trail Mix Series)

Tuesday, September 9 (6:30-8:00 p.m.)

The Silver Room
1442 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 

A solar observatory, a wheel-friendly event plaza, and miles and miles of walls make up a vibrant world of art, both present and possible on The 606. Hear all about it from the artists who will be part of this local and global cultural asset. Click here to RSVP for "A Living Work of Art." 

Links: 

• The 606
• The Silver Room

Dance Libs with MRMP

Friday, August 8 (7:00-8:30 p.m.)

Mozart Park
2036 N. Avers Ave.
Chicago, IL  60647

"Dance Libs with MRMP" is an interactive dance concert by Matter of Reaction Movement Project. This evening of dance and entertainment is inspired by Mad Libs, choose your own adventure books, improvisation, and games. Music and dance will come together to create each night's dance lib. Click here for more info.

Friday, September 19th (7:30 p.m.)

Monthly Drum Circle

Mozart Park 
2036 N. Avers Ave.

$4 drop in fee

Mozart Park hosts a drum circle on the third Friday of every month. Percussion instruments are provided, and participants can bring their own instruments as well. Visit the Rhythm Revolution website for more info. 

Sunday, August 3 (11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.)

Quilombo Cultural Center
1757 N. Kimball Ave. 
Chicago, IL 

"Making History: Toys and Tinkering" is presented by the Trust for Public Land; it is part The 606 Trail Mix series. Click here to register for the event. 

Links: 

• Chicago Sinfonietta
• Grant Park Music Festival
• Project Inclusion

El Antillano Documentary Screening  
& Fundraiser for SRBCC and Caserío Films

Saturday, June 28 (7:30 p.m.)

Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
4046 W. Armitage Ave.
Chicago, IL  60639

El Antillano, a film documentary on the life of Ramón Emeterio Betances, is coming to Chicago for a screening and conversation with director Tito Román Rivera. Like Segundo Ruiz Belvis, Betances was an abolitionist and founded the secret society that bought and freed slave children. He was the primary instigator of the Grito de Lares Revolution.

All proceeds of these events will benefit SRBCC programs and Caserío Films, the independent production house behind Román Rivera's El Antillano. There will be only two screenings on June 28, 2014 at SRBCC. Don't miss the critically acclaimed documentary that has been showing at commercial theaters in Puerto Rico since early May 2014. Director Tito Román Rivera will be present to discuss the film and engage the audience in a Q & A session.

Click here to register for the event. 

Come join the circle!

John Yost of Rhythm Revolution will be hosting a Drum Circle in Mozart Park from 4:00-5:30pm as part of Make Music Chicago. Bring your own percussion instrument, or use one that’s provided.

Links: 

• Monthly Drum Circles at Mozart Park
• Event listing on the Make Music Chicago website
• Rhythm Revolution

From The Trust for Public Land's website -- "The 606 is an innovative project on Chicago's Northwest side that will transform nearly three miles of unused rail line into the elevated Bloomingdale Trail, which will be linked to five ground-level neighborhood parks. When complete, it will also feature an observatory, skate park, art installations, educational programming, and other amenities." 

Here's info about The 606 Trail Mix's next event --

Bikes: Gear-up & Get Ready
+ Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail Potluck

Saturday, June 7 (11 a.m.-2 p.m.)

McCormick Tribune YMCA
1834 N. Lawndale

Click here to RSVP

The 606 will be a 2.7 mile long park that is just south of, and parallel to, Armitage Avenue -- so it's very close to where the Armitage Arts Festival will be happening! 

Above: The Bloomingdale Trail (from the606.org)

Links: 

• The 606
• "The 606: Recycling A Train Line To Connect Neighborhoods" by Mike Habschmidt
• "The 606's Western Avenue Bridge Demolition Before And After" by AJ LaTrace (Chicago Curbed, 3/10/2014)
• "Accessing The 606/Bloomingdale Trail: The Western Trailhead" by Joe Robinson (Bike Walk Logan Square, 1/14/2014)
• "The Bloomingdale Line" by Terence Banich (Forgotten Chicago)
• Chicago Park District
• Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail
• The Trust for Public Land