Friday, July 8th - Aug 26th, 2022

We are proud to present a gallery exhibition at Chicago Art Department of TenxTen2020/2, the sixth iteration of the artist-musician collaboration, in partnership withChicago Composers OrchestraandSpudnik Press. Alltencompositions were performed and recordedbyChicago Composers Orchestra between 2020 and 2022, and all (but one) screen prints were printed at Spudnik Press.

Gallery Opening (2nd Friday in Pilsen) – July 8th, 6-10pm, featuring the ten screen prints and a listening station to hear the music. The exhibition runs July 8th-Aug 26th (with visits by appointment on weekdays, 12-6pm) and a closing party on August 26th featuring a live performance and book debut. More information

Saturday, June 4th, 2022

Ten x Ten 2020/2

Nature | Human

St James Cathedral, 7:30pm CT

Music performed by Chicago Composers Orchestra
and Beyond This Point

premiering works by:

Brian Baxter + Katherine Lampert
Luis Fernando Amaya + Rodrigo Lara Zendejas

Purchase tickets here.

Sunday May 22nd @ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave 2nd Fl, Chicago IL
8pm doors, 8:30pm show, $15

Blank Box:
New Dimensions in Sense-uality

Composition for multimedia ensemble

Sara Zalek - movement
Hyun Kim - movement
Sam Lewis - lighting/tech
Tselanie Townsend - video projections
Paul Giallorenzo - piano/electronics/composition/direction
Macie Stewart - violin
Hunter Diamond - reeds/percussion

more info

Join us for Homeroom’s first in-person fundraiser in three years!

Come celebrate Homeroom’s 14-year history of uplifting Chicago artists through multidisciplinary performances, new collaborations, and unique presentational formats.

With your support, Homeroom challenges local artists to produce new work outside their standard practice and create an artistic dialogue with far-reaching impact.

We hope to see you there!

Food + Drink

Giveaways + Silent Auction

Live Performance

Community

Special solo performance by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm!

Homeroom and Comfort Station present

Comfort Music +
Thursdays in April at Comfort Station
7PM Doors, 7:30PM Show, $ donation

April 7th
Emily Beisel - reeds
Bill Harris - percussion
Hyun Kim - movement
Ibrahim Sabbi - movement
Duos and quartet

April 14th
Logan Lu - spoken word
Lester Rey - computer
+ company perform pieces of “Raíces to Roots”

April 21st
Kim Alpert - video
Paul Giallorenzo - electronics
+ special guest TBA

April 28th in conjunction with The Bridge
Damon Locks - voice/electronics
Fanny Lasfargues - electroacoustic bass
Elsa Noyons - visual art

Past Events

Homeroom Residency is a new initiative to provide reliable, paid performance work to Chicago artists. The residency gives artists space to develop existing collaborations and explore new ideas. Residency is directly supported by individual donors.

Saturday, January 22nd, 2022

POSTPONED

Ten x Ten 2020/2

Nature | Human

Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University, 7:00pm CT
Music performed by Chicago Composers Orchestra
and Beyond This Point

premiering works by:

Brian Baxter + Katherine Lampert
Luis Fernando Amaya + Rodrigo Lara Zendejas

Purchase tickets here.
POSTPONED

Saturday, October 16th, 2021
4:30*-7:00pm in Logan Square

The Third Annual

Exquisite Crawl

presented by MAKE Literary Productions and Homeroom with
guest curator The Guild Literary Complex

Join us for an in-person venue crawl on Logan Square's storied Milwaukee Avenue, featuring exquisite corpse performances from Chicago-based writers, musicians, filmmakers, and interdisciplinary artists and performers.

* Cafe Mustache will be closed on 10/16 so the crawl will kick off at Galerie F, 2415 N Milwaukee Ave*

Saturday, September 25, 2021
Ten x Ten 2020/2: Tactile | Spaces

Music performed by Chicago Composers Orchestra

St. James Cathedral, 65 E Huron St, Chicago

6:30pm Discussion and Q&A | 7:30pm Concert

For the second iteration of Ten X Ten 2020/2, composers Ben Lamar Gay, Jonathon Hannau, Andrew McManus, and Amy Wurtz will debut compositions for orchestra created in collaboration with visual artists Carlos Matallana, Yoonshin Park, Michelle Nordmeyer, and Susan Giles, respectively. More info

Streaming Thursday May 13th, 8pm
in collaboration with Elastic Arts

BLANK BOX: New Dimensions in Sense-uality

composition for abstract cinema

Tuli Bera - movement
Hunter Diamond - sound
Paul Giallorenzo - sound, composition
Samuel Lewis - lighting, cameras
Tselanie Townsend - video projections

more information

click here for video replay

Comfort Music +

Thursday April 22nd 7PM @ ESS’s Quarantine Concerts

set one : Hunter Diamond - woodwinds +
Irene Hsiao - movement

set two: Ben Zucker - vibraphone +
KT Shivak - puppetry

set three: Katinka Kleijn - cello +
Jasmine Mendoza - movement

Comfort Music + returns with *live sets filmed at Comfort Station and streamed through Experimental Sound Studio’s Quarantine Concerts.

Click here for the video replay

In collaboration with Chicago Composer’s Orchestra

Ten x Ten sneak peeks

Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 7pm:
Katherine Lampert + Brian Baxter
Rodrigo Lara Zendejas + Luis Fernando Amaya
Yoonshin Park + Jonathan Hannau

Watch the video from February’s live broadcast here.

Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 7pm:
Susan Giles + Amy Wurtz
Carlos Matallana + Ben LaMar Gay
Michelle Nordmeyer + Andrew McManus

Watch the video of January’s live stream here .

streaming Tuesday 12/1 7pm CT
in collaboration with Hideout Chicago
$10 purchase advance tickets here to support Homeroom!

Within Our Gates film screening + conversation

featuring original score by Paul Giallorenzo with Ben LaMar Gay

Join us for a screening of the silent film Within Our Gates(1920) by Oscar Devereaux Micheaux. Thisfilm was first presented by Comfort Station,Homeroom, and the Hyde Park Art Center as part of Comfort Station’s Silent Films and Loud Music Series in 2017, with a live score by Chicago composer Paul Giallorenzo with cornetist Ben LaMar Gay.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of this film, we are presenting the film with Giallorenzo and LaMar Gay’s score, recorded during a live screening at Elastic Arts in 2018. This screening will be introduced by Floyd Webb, curator of Black World Cinema, followed by a conversation with Webb, Giallorenzo, and LaMar Gay. More information

SCHOOL NIGHT - Let’s Chill ….

Are you tired of fighting? Is everything too much all the time and is hope too hard to hold on to? Let’s chill... Join School Night hosts Keidra Chaney and Fred Sasaki and a discussion panel of diverse Chicagoans with different approaches to relaxation, quality time, and fun. It’s never a bad time to chill.

Please tune in on Thursday October 29th at 7pm on Hideout Online.

Featuring guests:

Join our friends at 6018 North Kenmore Ave at 3 PM on Saturday, October 3rd to view their current outdoor exhibition Windows to the World outside and then walk together (socially distanced), led by Alexander Massa and his band, to the water at Bryn Mawr Ave in a New Orleans-style funeral procession to honor the dead from COVID-19 and the Black and Brown lives lost to police brutality.

**If you miss this portion, please note there is NO parking at the beach. You have to walk or ride a bike. The performance will take placeherenear the NaturePreserve. You will see AJ McClenon's black holes to sit upon.

At 4 PM we will begin Water Music on the Rocks – an annual series of live performances initiated in 2012 that highlights Chicago’s proximity to Lake Michigan – at Bryn Mawr Ave where it meets the water. Due to the Coronavirus, Water Music on the Beach has been relocated and renamed Water Music on the Rocks, since the performances will take place on the rocks next to the water.

Performances by Simon Anderson, Ben Lamar Gay and Rob Frye, AJ McClenon, and Anna Martine Whitehead. Compositions and scores reflect, react to, or personify the sounds of water.

**If you cannot attend, join us on Instagram Live!

Programming is a collaboration between Homeroom and 6018North.

Throughout the event, we request that visitors wear a mask. At the water’s edge, socially distanced spacing, is made of black fabric to represent black holes. Designed by AJ McClenon, they provide 6 feet social distancing measures to ensure the safety of everyone. In addition, we ask that you sign up here to limit attendance.

Homeroomis an independent, nonprofit resource for creative Chicagoans to develop and produce original arts programming. Homeroom designs artistic projects and programs with two core values: conversation and collaboration. By bringing together artists, audiences, curators, and venues, focusing on what we all have in common, Homeroom creates space for generating and exploring fresh ideas and shared practices of art and community-making.

6018North is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of culture and the arts in Chicago. This program is funded in part by Illinois Humanities and an anonymous donor advised fund at The Chicago Community Foundation. 6018North projects are supported by the Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Graham Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, Terra Foundation for American Art, the Illinois Arts Council, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, the Field Foundation of Illinois, and individual donors like you. Windows to the World is supported by an anonymous donor and the Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation. For more information please visit us online at 6018NORTH.ORG.

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

Image: AJ McClenon performing for Water Music on the Beach at Lane Beach in 2018

6018north.org/water-music-on-the-beach

Homeroom does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring and firing of staff, selection of artists, volunteers, and vendors, and provision of services.We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, artists, audiences, volunteers, subcontractors, and vendors.