Berwyn's Arts Blog
Friday, October 29, 2010
 
Zombies

THE NEW ROOSEVELT ROAD PASSES ITS FIRST BREATHS OF LIFE INTO ZOMBIES…WITH A TASTE FOR FUNDRAISING FOR THE 16TH STREET THEATER!

BERWYN, IL October 29, 2010 – The Berwyn Development Corporation (BDC) will partner with the Roosevelt Road Business Association (RRBA) and Horrorbles to present theInaugural Roosevelt Road Zombie Walk and Pub Crawl on Saturday, October 30 from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The event will feature zombie make-up, a pub crawl, food and an after-party designed to rival even your fondest memories of Thriller. Participation in the event is $10, which includes admission, make-up and food provided at the after-party. All proceeds from the event will be donated to Berwyn ’s acclaimed 16th Street Theater.

The Zombie Walk is founded on the participation of Halloween-lovers willing to take their zombie motif to the limit. To help with this endeavor, Horrorbles will sponsor make-up and costume staging from 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. at Homescape Custom Builders & Designers, Inc., located at 6823 West Roosevelt Road , and Citizens Community Bank, located at 7025 West Roosevelt Road . Once properly attired, zombies will be led on a pub-crawl that will overtake the 12th Street Rag (6943 W. Roosevelt Rd), Friendly Tap ( 6733 W. Roosevelt Rd ) and FitzGerald’s ( 6615 W. Roosevelt Rd ). FitzGerald’s will host the catered after party with films and other un-deadly fun. In the true spirit of the un-dead, zombies will proceed between venues in silence. Once the crawl is over, zombies can resume their search for brains at their favorite Berwyn haunts until the late hours of the evening!

Paul Zimmermann, President of the BDC and RRBA, stated, “ Roosevelt Road strives to be one of Chicagoland’s finest entertainment destinations. There is a lot of creativity brewing between our businesses. The Zombie Walk promises to awaken our spirits for a night of revelry.” John Aranza, owner of Horrorbles, continued, “I think it is wonderful that so many businesses pulled together for the 16th Street Theater. There really is positive motion happening here on Roosevelt Road . All of our event sponsors have graciously brought their expertise to the table to make this happen!”

Additional information on the Roosevelt Road Zombie Walk and Pub Crawl in Berwyn , IL can be obtained through the Berwyn Development Corporation at (708) 788-8100 or athttp://www.facebook.com/BDCorp#!/event.php?eid=153103928056394&ref=mf.


Friday, October 22, 2010
 
Saturday Night
Tamale Hut Cafe 8300 W. Cermak Owned and operated by a Berwynite.

Last time Mercedes Buck sang at THC there was standing room only .... come hear her new songs this Saturday 7:00 - 10:00 PM. First come first serve on seating. YES , some open mic on hand!

2 for 1 tamales. BYPB.

Accompanied by Berwynite Tommy Marshall on guitar.

Check it out. Should be a fun night!



Wednesday, October 20, 2010
 
Mutts and Monsters
Join The Urban Mutt as it presents the inaugural Mutts and Monsters Halloween block party! Do you have a Frankenpup? Count Dogula? Maybe just a good old fashioned Devil Dog? Well then, be sure to make it over to Grove Avenue on Sunday and get ready to have some fun with all the other furry Trick-or-Treaters.

The Urban Mutt will have activities, a costume contest, a raffle, and a Mini Pet Parade so you can show off your dog's costume (owners are encouraged to wear a costume too!).

You can buy a hot dog or chili (or both!) from Cabin Fever, get a free souvenir photo, pick up some hot cocoa from The Urban Mutt, and have a good laugh at all the other costumes. What more could you ask for?


Picture Area

Be sure to get your FREE souvenir photo sponsored by Harris Bank. We'll have a scary back drop and once the pictures are printed, you can pick up your official Mutts and Monsters frame at the Harris Bank table.
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Contests and Pet Parade

The Urban Mutt will be doing two contests, the Best Dog Costume contest at 2pm, and the Best Dog and Owner Theme Costumes contest at 2:30. Winners in both contests will receive prizes from The Urban Mutt. Be sure to sign up at the registration table. Both contests are FREE!

At 3:15, start lining up for the Pet Parade. At 3:30, start making your way around the Harris Bank and condo buildings. Will be staying on the sidewalk, so you don't have to worry about crossing any streets. Be sure to tell all your friends and family to show up for the parade so they can cheer you on. The Urban Mutt would like to make this a yearly event, and hopefully make the parade into something big!


Other Fun Stuff

A raffle, bobbing for tennis balls, doggie popcorn, some tables set up with items for sale, Marlies with her BowZer Buddy bag dispensers, and some representatives from the Dog Scouts of America.

Contact Information: The Urban Mutt, 3212 S. Grove Ave, Berwyn | 708-913-825

Sunday, October 17, 2010
 
October Chicago Magazine

The Business of Small Theatre, Explained

PENNY-PINCH: Ann Filmer of Berwyn's 16th Street Theater Discusses Her Budget for "Menorca"


“I’m doing everything from stocking the bathrooms to writing all the grants and doing all the marketing,” says Filmer, the theatre’s founder and artistic director. Judging from the overstuffed trunk of her car, she also schleps posters, office supplies, and tools. With a projected operating budget of approximately $100,000 for the three-play 2011 main season, 16th Street is representative of dozens of scrappy Chicago theatres that excel in the art of stretching dollars as well as audiences’ imaginations.Ann Filmer just received good news. She’s learned that the house carpenter for Steppenwolf Theatre has offered to fix a severed $150 sound cable for free. In a universe where the budget for Bono’s much-delayed Broadway musical, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, can balloon past $50 million, $150 sounds like pocket change. But it represents about 1 percent of the average budget for a production at 16th Street Theater, a 49-seat operation in Berwyn that champions plays by underappreciated Illinois writers.

For her next production, Menorca, by the Chicago playwright Robert Koon (running through October 16th), Filmer must figure out how to stage dueling locations: an archaeological dig on a Spanish island and the desert border between Southern California and Mexico. “A lot of times a small budget enhances creativity,” she says. The set designer Kurt Sharp’s particular challenge will be representing the interior of a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle onstage for $500 or less. On the day we talk, Sharp doesn’t know yet what he’ll do.

“Buying is never the first choice, ever,” says Filmer, who draws a salary of $31,000 a year. “It’s like, where can we borrow this?” One of her board members runs an antiques business, and that’s the company’s first stop for period-specific furniture and props. Directors, designers, playwrights, and actors (even non-Equity performers) all receive small, but consistent, checks. Resident playwrights, such as Koon, earn a flat rate of $1,500—a better deal than the standard 5 percent of box-office receipts.

The company keeps ticket prices low ($16) to encourage non-traditional theatregoers in culturally diverse, working-class Berwyn. Still, 16th Street generates half of its income from box office (subscribers number around 170), with corporate sponsorships, grants, and individual donations making up the rest. But Filmer has one big financial advantage: She doesn’t pay rent, usually the biggest budget buster for most small theatres. Instead, 16th Street resides in a basement black box in the Berwyn Cultural Center. Lately, some shows have started here and moved on: In a coup for Filmer and her actors, their most recent effort, This Train, sold out a summer run in Steppenwolf’s Garage Theatre.

GO: Menorca runs September 9th through October 16th at 16th Street Theater, Berwyn; 708-795-6704,16thstreettheater.org.

RELATED: FALL THEATRE PREVIEW 2010 »


Friday, October 15, 2010
 
Last Weekend/Menorca
2010 has been such an amazing year for 16th Street so I hate to see our Season of Home end. But it’s true: this week is the final week to see a play at 16th Street until 2011! Robert Koon’s “stunning” "captivating" "thought-provoking" “intriguing” "vital and timely" "engrossing" Menorca closes this Saturday. You can still buy tickets here for this weekend (Thurs & Fri at 7:30, Sat at 5:00 PM and 8:30 PM) if you get on it now. We will not be back with another play until our 2011 Season Four begins in January! So we need to see you in Berwyn for Menorca. You make the theater live.

Of course we will not go out quietly: we will go out with zombies! Yes, on Sat Oct 30 before you start any other Halloween tricks, begin with us for the inaugural Zombie Walk and Pub Crawl. Thanks to Horrorbles, Berwyn Development Corporation and Roosevelt Road Business Association for creating this zombie-licious fundraiser. The crawl will start at the 12th St. Rag and end at FitzGerald’s, where the after-party includes food, films and scary fun! $10 includes admission, zombie make-up and food!. With all proceeds being donated to 16th Street Theater!

See below for info on how to get your zombie on.

Speaking of our friends on Roosevelt Road. 100 Club members, this weekend is your last to use your 10% discount at both Wishbone and Bodhi Thai. Eat up!
Also did you see Friday’s Chicago Tribune with the HUGE story on Berwyn being a “better ‘burb for entertainment.” Read the awesome story here.

Friday, October 08, 2010
 
Saturday/Canine
A good friend of mine is a foster person for dachshunds and there is a great black and tan 6 year old that gets along with other dogs that needs a home! If you would like to meet the dog, write me: markweiner1@hotmail.com

Not to be outdone, tomorrow, Saturday, October 9th 7-10pm; hosted by the nexus of art gatherings in the near-west suburbs The Tamale Hut Cafe, 1st and Cermak:

Tamales will be for sale(two for one), so bring cash and an appetite (the restaurant is BYOB, however some wine and beer will be provided). Guaranteed great time!

Tamales and tinga(yummy!)

Paintings and Drawings by Robyn T. Oliver, Berwyn Resident, at the Tamale Hut Cafe, 8300 W. Cermak Rd, North Riverside, IL 60546

Thursday, October 07, 2010
 
Menorca/Zombie
Do not forget there are just two more weeks to see Menorca at the 16th Street Theater. www.16thstreettheater.org

THE NEW ROOSEVELT ROAD PASSES ITS FIRST BREATHS OF LIFE INTO ZOMBIES…WITH A TASTE FOR FUNDRAISING for the 16th street theater!

BERWYN, IL October 6, 2010 – The Berwyn Development Corporation (BDC) will partner with the Roosevelt Road Business Association (RRBA) and Horrorbles to present the Inaugural Roosevelt Road Zombie Walk and Pub Crawl on Saturday, October 30 from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The event will feature zombie make-up, a pub crawl, food and an after-party designed to rival even your fondest memories of Thriller. Participation in the event is $10, which includes admission, make-up and food provided at the after-party. All proceeds from the event will be donated to Berwyn ’s acclaimed 16th Street Theater.

The Zombie Walk is founded on the participation of Halloween-lovers willing to take their zombie motif to the limit. To help with this endeavor, Horrorbles will sponsor make-up and costume staging from 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. at Homescape Custom Builders & Designers, Inc., located at 6823 West Roosevelt Road , and Citizens Community Bank, located at 7025 West Roosevelt Road . Once properly attired, zombies will be led on a pub-crawl that will overtake the 12th Street Rag (6943 W. Roosevelt Rd), Friendly Tap ( 6733 W. Roosevelt Rd ) and FitzGerald’s ( 6615 W. Roosevelt Rd ). FitzGerald’s will host the catered after party with films and other un-deadly fun. In the true spirit of the un-dead, zombies will proceed between venues in silence. Once the crawl is over, zombies can resume their search for brains at their favorite Berwyn haunts until the late hours of the evening!

Paul Zimmermann, President of the BDC and RRBA, stated, “ Roosevelt Road strives to be one of Chicagoland’s finest entertainment destinations. There is a lot of creativity brewing between our businesses. The Zombie Walk promises to awaken our spirits for a night of revelry.” John Aranza, owner of Horrorbles, continued, “I think it is wonderful that so many businesses pulled together for the 16th Street Theater. There really is positive motion happening here on Roosevelt Road . All of our event sponsors have graciously brought their expertise to the table to make this happen!”

Additional information on the Roosevelt Road Zombie Walk and Pub Crawl in Berwyn , IL can be obtained through the Berwyn Development Corporation at (708) 788-8100 or at http://www.facebook.com/BDCorp#!/event.php?eid=153103928056394&ref=mf.



Wednesday, October 06, 2010
 
Two Events
Check out, beginning October 7, 2010 to October 11, 2010, Artrageous Oak Park:
http://www.artoakpark.com

And, if you go to the site, you will see myself and my wife in the second photo/slide from last
year; pure coincidence.

And, at Tamale Hut Cafe on Saturday, October 9, 2010: 7-10pm:

hosted by the nexus of art gatherings in the near-west suburbs. Tamales will be for sale, so bring cash and an
appetite (the restaurant is BYOB, however some wine and beer will be provided). Look forward to
seeing you there.Or not. The artist lives in Berwyn.

Paintings and Drawings

by

Robyn T. Oliver

at the

Tamale Hut Cafe

8300 W. Cermak Rd, North Riverside, IL 60546

Opening 7-10pm, Oct 9th -- All are welcome


"We’ve reached a point in time when people talk on their cell phones even while they walk from meeting to meeting. Spending time alone reflecting is becoming a somewhat rare event, so much so that I worry it is becoming a lost art. As a result, many of my paintings feature individuals spending time alone reflecting. While these paintings are intended to be positive or neutral, some individuals interpret them in a melancholic way or as indicative of a sense of impending doom. As a cognitive psychologist, I can’t help but be fascinated by how individuals’ personal backgrounds and histories affect their interpretations of these paintings and others." -- Robyn T. Oliver, Artist Statement.

Robyn T. Oliver has exhibited at the Philomathean Society at the University of Pennsylvania, Art-O-Matic in Washington D.C.. She is a graduate of the University of San Deigo where she received a degree in Psychology with a minor in Art and the University of Pennsylvania where she received her PhD in Psychology. Robyn T. Oliver has studied painting at the Cocoran School of Art in Washington D.C. and the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Her interest in art has inspired her scholarly research in color vision, color memory and long-term memory for object appearances.




Saturday, October 02, 2010
 
Cook Off and Posters
Many have asked where can they get a Berwyn Historical Society Poster?

Answer: at the Berwyn Public Library for five dollars. Such a deal!

A cause near and dear to me, CARES(Citizens Aligned to Renew Education for Citizens) will be benefiting from the Chili cook-off at Garv's:

This Sunday, October 3rd, the Garv Inn (6546 West Windsor) is hosting a Chili Cook-Off with proceeds benefiting Berwyn CARES.
For $10 you will receive a BOTTOM-LESS bowl of chili, a T-Shirt and the great feeling that comes from helping improve education in Berwyn. Another, such a deal!
If you would like to enter your chili into the contest you can sign up at Garv's.
The entry fee is $25 ($35 if you need them to provide you with a propane tank). Everything has to be made on site, set-up is 12:30 PM and cooking time is 1:00-3:00 PM. Prizes will be awarded.
For more information call 708-317-5892.


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