We are excited to invite you to an early evening of music, art, and community at Compound Yellow on Sunday, June 23rd! Your presence and support will help kickstart Homeroom's 2024/25 season.
Homeroom challenges local artists to step outside their usual practice and create new, innovative work that sparks meaningful interaction and has far-reaching impact. All proceeds from this event will support artist fees in the 2024/25 season. We hope to see you there!
$20-50 Suggested Donation
Special Merch & Giveaways
Food & Drink
Live Performance (6:30 PM) by Katinka Kleijn (cello) & Bill MacKay (guitar)
RSVP not required, but will help us plan food & drink
Can't Attend? You Can Still Support Homeroom!
If you're unable to attend but still want to make an impact, please consider making a tax-deductible donation. Your contribution will go directly towards paying local artists and enabling the creation of new multidisciplinary work.
About the Artists
Photo credit: Katinka Kleijn performing during Homeroom Residency at Elastic Arts on March 7, 2023, photo by Ricardo E. Adame
Hailed by The New York Times as “a player of formidable expressive gifts,” Dutch-born cellist Katinka Kleijn enjoys a genre-defying, interdisciplinary career. Classically trained, she has since cultivated an exploratory, interactive creative practice at the fertile intersection of improvisation, composition, and performance art.
Learn more about Katinka: www.katinkakleijn.com
Photo credit: Bill MacKay at the Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN - July 6th, 2019, photo by Adam Bubolz
Bill MacKay is a guitarist, composer, singer and improviser based in Chicago. A renowned solo artist and accomplished collaborator with projects that include solo albums Esker (2017), Fountain Fire (2019) and Locust Land (2024), and recordings with cellist Katinka Kleijn (Stir, 2019), Nathan Bowles (Keys, 2021), and Ryley Walker (SpiderBeetleBee, 2019), all released on Drag City Records, MacKay has pursued his musical investigations with obsessive rigor. MacKay is also a poet, visual artist and polyglot, and is a member of both the avant-garde rock outfit Black Duck (with Douglas McCombs) and the experimental groove-drone project BCMC (with Cooper Crain). Among other publications, his work has received praise in the Chicago Reader, New York Times, Mojo, Uncut, Downbeat, Paste, Pitchfork, Washington Post and NPR.
Learn more about Bill: www.billmackay.com