Garage Sale

Wrigley Field
1060 W. Addison St.

Grab a piece of history and browse bricks from the stadium, bleacher benches and flags (flown from the roof, scoreboard and foul poles). Other items for sale include discounted Cubs merchandise, game-used equipment and autographed memorabilia.

Enter through Gate D (corner of Sheffield and Addison Streets) and Gate K (on Waveland Avenue).

Apr. 22: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Price: Free. A portion of sale proceeds benefit Chicago Cubs Charities
Phone: 773-404-2827

Starbucks Saturday Morning Gallery Tour

Meet for coffee at the River North Gallery District's Starbucks at 750 N. Franklin and join the weekly complimentary gallery tours, led by local experts.

Every Saturday morning, starting at 11:00 AM – a different gallery owner or director will meet you at Starbucks Coffee and guide you through four River North Galleries. The tour lasts until about 12:30 pm. Tours do not take place on major holiday weekends. Please check our website for upcoming tour schedules.

*Please note the new start time of 11:00 am, as of November 5, 2005.

Organized by the CADA, the tours will take you on a different journey to some of Chicago's finest art galleries each week. Maps will be provided and the gallery owners will be delighted to answer questions and offer insights into the latest exhibits.

Upcoming Tours
April 22, Led by Rhonda Bacus of Byron Roche Gallery
Galleries on the Tour:
1) Nicole Gallery
2) Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
3) Roy Boyd Gallery
4) Byron Roche Gallery

April 29, Led by *ART CHICAGO WEEKEND* Tour led by Bob Heibert, Printworks Gallery
Galleries on the Tour:
1) Schneider Gallery
2) Melanee Cooper Gallery
3) Habatat Galleries
4) Printworks Gallery

May 6, Led by Ivan Bordas, Roy Boyd Gallery
Galleries on the Tour:
1) Catherine Edelman Gallery
2) Jean Albano Gallery
3) Perimeter Gallery, Inc.
4) Roy Boyd Gallery
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Urban Gardening and Exterior Decorating Opening
April 22, 2006

Location: Version kunsthalle at Iron Studios 3636 S Iron St. 4th Floor (enter through side)
Hours: 5pm - 2am
Tickets: $10/$5 students

Tonight's program includes a full evening of talks, workshops, fahion show, performances and video screenings. Come early to catch dinner. The Group Group Show will also be open all night.

Urban Gardening and Exterior Decorating (UGED)
How can urban environments become areas for personal and ideological transformations? How can artists create charged public space? In this show we expose the dynamics and aesthetics of street art and recent guerrilla communication. We consider public space in urban environments as a forum for change, and explore, visually, ways of altering and reclaiming our surroundings. At the opening we complement the UGED show with a special DIY Publishing workshop, Instant Printing silk screening, live drawing/illustrating duels and more. Complementary issues of the new Select 9 Agit Prop Poster Magazine will be given away as well as Urban Gardening Kits made of cut outs, stickers, stencils and other ephemera created by this years selected participants.

Exhibition Hours are Saturday and Sundays noon to 5pm.

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Free University Talks and Workshops
Saturday April 22, 2006

Our first installment of talks, workshops and presentations includes a wide range of publishing and printing workshops and demonstrations during the opening of the Urban Gardening show. Featuring:

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7pm Instazine!: Participants will be able to help create a zine at this special collaborative event presented and organized by Gutters. Zines will be made and distributed at the event. Gutters is a free workshop for independent printed media. If it's on paper, and there's more than one of them, they'll show you how to do it.

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9pm Comic Art Battle. Gutters rocks out a drawing battle Royale with local Chicago Artists.

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10pm Instant Silk Screening with Mikul and Myles : Bring clothes to have remixed or modified by local silk screening heroes. Version>06 graphic elements and a wide range of work will be available for you to choose from.

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Special!
See the UGED exhibition, then go on a Street Art Walking Tour by Elisa Harkins on April 29th (one week after the opening).
Location: Iron Studios 3636 S Iron St (1st floor dock)
Time: 3pm
Elisa Harkins will give a tour of recent street art activity within the neighborhood of Bridgeport.

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