Past Events

7:00 PM, Free

Homeroom Fundraiser at House Red in Forest Park

Homeroom will be hosting a fundraiser at House Red (7403 W Madison in Forest Park.) The event will feature a silent art auction, music and plenty of information about Homeroom. Also, Homeroom will receive 10% of all wine sales. After House Red, we’ll head down to Molly Malone’s at 10 pm for sets by the Wheels, Love Raid and the Get.

We’ll be raffling a Trek 7200 at Molly Malone’s. Tickets are $5 or 5 for $20.

9:00 PM, Free

The Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont

101: Juggalos

Derek Erdman and Jenny Benevento will discuss Juggalo culture and Insane Clown Posse, the hip-hop group that inspires the phenomenom. Derek Erdman is a writer, painter and battle rapper.

101 is a monthly lecture series organized by Homeroom in partnership with youmethemeverybody (a Chicago arts and music podcast). Each event features a different speaker who, in open dialogue with the audience, will give a short talk about not just what they do, but how and why they do it. Occasionally, 101 speakers also discuss other arts and culture makers that inspire and influence them.

8:00 PM, $7 suggested donation

The YouTube Assembly featuring Mike Wolf

The YouTube Assembly consists of screening web-based video for a live and participating audience. Each event features a guest host presenting a collection of YouTube clips that elaborate on a project or theme in which they have some expertise or interest. In the spirit of the popular YouTube interface, audience members are encouraged to comment on the videos they watch, except out loud and in real time with no anonymity. After the presentation the host then invites audience members to share their own clips. Like karaoke or an open mic, the YouTube Assembly creates a situation in which people take turns entertaining each other, thus bypassing the arguably isolating aspect of online networks like YouTube and encourage real, face-to-face interaction.

The YTA is sponsored by Homeroom Chicago and is hosted by the Nightingale. 1084 N Milwaukee.

Mike Wolf presents: YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE LANDSCAPE! (LANDSCAPE IS ALWAYS PEOPLE!)

To ask the question “what is my relationship to the landscape?” is to do better already. To know that the landscape is inextricable from people and that nothing is pristine is to do better still. The outlandish dreams of imperial capitalism only obscure the connections between people and land. When we each work for our own outlandish dream and find the wisdom to reconcile it with our neighbors the nightmares of imperialism will finally wither away. There is a lot of good collage material for these dreams on YouTube.

Mike Wolf is a Midwestern itinerant cultural worker trapped in modern bohemian fantasies. At the moment he is in the early, agonizing stages of grasping the wisdom of de-colonization.