PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE elastic arts 6th annual benefit!
May 18, 2024 @ 7pm
The organization needs community support to remain a sustainable space for creative music, art, and performance. This event will highlight many of the things that make Elastic Arts what it is, but most importantly we will celebrate togetherness.
If you’d like to chat, click on the YouTube logo on the video to head over to the Elastic Arts YouTube Page.
Schedule
7:00pm - Doors / Sam Clapp CLEAT Performance
7:30pm - Welcome to the Elastic Benefit from Executive Director Adam Zanolini
7:40pm - Silent Auction Slideshow - Place your Bids!
8:00pm - Yaw Agyeman w/ Sharon Udoh
8:45pm - Elastic Achievement Award Ceremony w/ Marvin Tate
9:30pm - Marvin Tate / Hunter Diamond Duo
10:45pm - End of Silent Auction Announcement (Ends at 11pm)
11:00pm - END
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2024 Elastic Arts Achievement Award
Marvin Tate
It is our honor to award our friend Marvin Tate with the 2024 Elastic Arts Achievement Award!
Each year we present the Elastic Achievement Award to an individual who embodies the qualities that the organization stands for – artistic excellence, innovation, the defiance of boundaries, contributions to the broader creative community – and whose achievements represent the best of what we hope to make possible by creating space to present creative, adventurous music, art and performance.
Marvin has been such an integral part of the Chicago arts community for so many years. From D-Settlement in the 90’s to weekly 2024 appearences around town in projects with Hunter Diamond, The Separatist Party (w/ Mike Reed + Bitchin Bajas, Ben LaMar Gay), Theaster Gates’ Black Monks, and so much more. We're looking forward to more inspiring work from Marvin on our stage, but for this event we're excited to celebrate him by giving him our annual award!
SILENT AUCTION
Head to this link to bid! Browse items below! art, records, experiences, food, drinks, highest bid wins!
Big thank you to record store/ label donors: Amalgam Bundle (4 CDs, 1 LP), Corbett vs. Dempsey Bundle (10 CDs), Curio Bundle (6 CDs), Drag City Bundle (4 LPs, 2 Books), Hausu Mountain Bundle (3 LPs), Intakt Records Bundle (10 CDs, 1 Book), International Anthem Bundle (5 LPs), Notice Recordings Bundle (4 Cassettes), Numero Group Bundle (5 LP Box Set, Tote, Hat), Orange Milk Records Bundle (19 LPs, 1 Double LP, 2 Test Pressings), Pleasure of the Text Bundle (5 CDs, 3 Books), Pyroclastic Records Bundle (7 CDs), Relative Pitch Records Bundle (1 of 2, 64 CDs), Relative Pitch Records Bundle (2 of 2, 64 CDs), Relay Recordings Bundle (7 CDs)
Big thank you to our silent auction donors: 14K Gold Filled Earrings by Lisa Slodki Design, Green Reversible Wool Triangle Scarf by Anke Loh, Autumn by Gudrun Wendler, Big Sky by David Lozano, Blick Art Materials Gift Certificate, Decal Mug of Douglas R. Ewart by Cristal Sabbagh, Digital Print of Marvin Tate Portrait Mug by Cristal Sabbagh, Jamaica Rising Digital Print by Douglas R. Ewart, Labyrinth Gift Package by Catherine Schwalbe, Luv and Hayt by Allen Moore, Marvin Tate, Alex Wing, and Cher Jey by Lewis Achenbach, Meditation Cloth by Vince Smith, Musang Ceramic Cup by Helen Lee, Original Grace Jones Decal Mug by Cristal Sabbagh, Sig Mic by Jordan Martins, Untitled Works by Jeffrey Sanderson, Woman with Flower Seasons (Series): Spring by Juliann Wang, Graham Foundation Bookshop Bundle, Graphic Arts Future by Sonnenzimmer, MCA Chicago Circle Fellow Membership Bundle, Bang Bang Pie Gift Card, Taxim Gift Certificate, Movement Rental at Bim Bom Studios, Wolfbait & B-girls Gift Card, Noodlebird Gift Card, Sleeping Village Gift Bundle, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Tickets, Field Museum Passes, First Ascent Climbing & Fitness Passes, King Spa & Sauna Pass, Kohl Children's Museum Family Pass, LookingGlass Theatre Company Tickets, Music Box Theater Ticket Bundle, TINARIWEN at Old Town School of Folk Music Tickets, A Night at the Lamberson House Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Composition Workshop with Sebastian Huydts
Performers
Marvin Tate + Hunter Diamond
Marvin Tate + Hunter Diamond
Tapping into his upbringing on the west side of Chicago in the 1970s, Marvin paints with poetry, avant-operatic declarations, and visceral monologue. For the past several years, Marvin has been accompanied by Hunter Diamond, a veritable one-man orchestra. An unpredictable pallet of woodwinds, percussion, electronics, and sound samples set the stage for Marvin to break open his most instinctual medium of spoken-word.
Yaw Agyeman
Yaw Agyeman
Yaw Agyeman is an interdisciplinary performing artist born in Chicago. He works primarily as a musician/sound designer but also has an extensive theater background (actor) and makes work as a photographer. Yaw's work addresses language and sound as cultural currency. He is also interested in the documents and legacies of families, particularly his own.
Tonight the performance will feature some new work centered around a conversation Yaw had with Marvin Tate called Three Piece Spicy. Yaw will also be performing work from his research at the Stony Island Arts Bank as a Mellon Fellow. The name of that project is called, Dear Old Thing.
Ensemble:
Yaw - voice
Sharon Udoh - Piano
Caitlin Edwards- violin
Lindsey Sharpe - cello
Leroy Bach - guitar
Yaw Agyeman Ensemble:
L to R, Caitlin Edwards (photo by Orel Chollette), LeRoy Bach (photo by Robert Loerzel, 2014), Lindsey Sharpe, Sharon Udoh (photo by Kate Sweeney),
Gordon Fung + Omnia Sol Present camera lūminōsa
camera lūminōsa (2024) creates an ever-changing visual space with cameras, televisions, video effect generators, and projections. This interactive installation invites visitors to manipulate their visual existence with various interfaces to increase their bodily and otherworldly awareness. This installation will be in the back hallway of Elastic Arts.
A huge thank you to our beverage sponsors Star Union Spirits and OLD IRVING BREWING!
Food from D’s Roti & Trini Cuisine!
