Opening of SMALL Showroom, Enoch's Donuts, Dusty Groove Records & Kevin Heisner's Tool Story + more
Friday, May 4, 2012 5pm
Opening of SMALL Showroom
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan Street
smallma.org
Hours: 5-9pm
Admission: Free
Join us on the opening day of the SMALL Showroom for tastings and demonstrations of some products made by some of the over 100 members of the Small Manufacturing Alliance. Few Spirits, Half Acre Beer Company, Koval Distillery, Bridgeport Coffee, Urban Belly Foods, and other companies will be sampling their wares all night long.
The Small Manufacturing Alliance (SMALL) is being launched during Version Festival 12. SMALL is a new organization that promotes companies and individuals that make locally manufactured products and provide services to small businesses and creators. To showcase these products The SMALL Showroom will open from May 4th to May 27, 2012 in the Co-Prosperity Sphere. We think of the Showroom as a People’s Macy’s. Each Friday during May we will host promotional events, supper clubs and tastings. Creators of these local products will be demonstrating and sampling out their wares to the public.
With the opening of Cast-offs by Deirdre Colgan:
“Future Relics – Cast-offs” are an attempt to monumentalize the throwaway objects we usually discard. Taking the void space of a variety of ordinary household objects, Colgan uses concrete to freeze them in time while retaining their lids - reconnecting each with its past life. In this ongoing series of work, “Future Relics,” Colgan seeks to lift ordinary household containers out of their generic disposable condition and into the realm of the precious and relic.
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Opening Day at Enoch's Doughnuts
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 6pm- 9pm
Enoch's Doughnuts
751 W 32nd St
Hours of operation: 9am- 9pm
Sunday 9am-3pm
Enoch's Doughnuts is a family operated establishment combining outstanding ingredients, artistry, and playfulness to make incredibly delicious doughnuts. You can stop by any time today to sample some of the best doughnuts in town.
Opening Exhibition for Kevin Heisner's Tool Story
Friday, May 4, 6-9pm
Enoch's Donuts
751 W 32nd St
Reception 6-9pm
Admission: Free
Join artist, Kevin Heisner, for the opening reception of
his Tool Story Series of works.
In the beginning, there was technology and man. One utilized/employed the other as a TOOL, a catalyst towards the evolution of the other. Combining found objects and electronic media, these tools become the characters in the third chapter of a story about the circular cause of reference in the evolution of man & technology. LED lights evoke a visual simulation of the physical pattern
of the tool(s), actuated by the rhythm of man. Their
co-existence is fundamental in preventing a flatline in the pulse of evolution…
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Friday, May 4, 2012 6-9pm
Gang of Nine Exhibition
Research House for Asian Art
3217 S Morgan Street
Hours: 6-9pm
Admission: free
The Research House for Asian Art (RHAA) is a non-for profit organization founded in the summer of 2008.. The goal of RHAA is to promote art that is becoming more global and to provide a platform for the ongoing cultural exchange between East and West, in particular with China. RHAA organizes symposiums on various themes of art and other cultural activities such as art exhibitions, and art publications.
On Friday, May 4, the new RHAA's gallery in Bridgeport will feature the exhibition "Gang of Nine" on Friday, April 20th . This exhibit features four prominent Shanghai artists (Zhang Haitian, Chai Yiming, Cai Xiaosong and He Saibang) who still work with the traditional medium of ink a\painting on rice paper under tremendous pressure of globalization to embrace the contemporary, and five Chicago artists (C.C. Ann Chen, John Henley, Maria Gaspar, Jason Dunda, and Laura Hsieh) seeking common linkages in terms of the cultural context, form and craft and the path in which tradition and the modern could come together.
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Friday May 4, 2012 7-9pm
Dusty Groove Opening Party
Dust Groove Pop Up
755 W 32nd Street
Hours: 7-9pm
Admission: Free
Chicago's premier record store for all things groovy is making a pop-up weekend appearance in Bridgeport! Check out the preview night on Friday, May 4th, from 7pm to 9pm -- open to the public, and with refreshments and music too!
Named one of the best record stores in America by Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets -- Dusty Groove America has a global reputation for unusual music in a wide variety of styles -- jazz, funk, soul, Latin, Brazilian, African, and more -- as well as a smattering of hard-to-find rock titles as well. We'll be bringing a great sampling of our best for the Bridgeport store -- lots of great music you'll be hard pressed to find at any other record store in town -- all served up at some special pricing for the event!
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Friday, May 4, 2012 7-9pm
Book Swap / Paratext Opening Party
Paratext Books
755 W 32nd Street
Hours: 7-9pm
Admission: Free
For the opening of Paratext, in conjunction with the kick off of Version Fest 2012...
We're book swapping! So bring a book! Take a book! Learn things! Make friends! We'll be serving food and drinks from 7-9. We will also be asking people with book suggestions to write them on the wall.
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Friday May 4, 2012 7-9pm
Ray Emerick Opening
Ray Emerick Studios
3149 S. Morgan St. #1
Hours in May:
Friday: 6-10pm
Saturday: 6-9pm
Saturday: 2 & 4pm Children's Movies
Artist Ray Emerick is a veteran Morgan Street artist. He joins Version Festival by reopening his studio to the public. Each weekend he will share his new art works. And on Saturday afternoons he will host a Children's Movie Series at 2pm and 4pm. Bring the kids!