Friday 6
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El Teatro de la Esperanza, the bilingual-bicultural all-Latino California theatrical troupe founded in 1970, has performed throughout this country and Europe, offering its unique perspective on Hispanic life in America. Today’s show is Teo’s Final Spin: Bullet Dancing in Times of War, about a young Hispanic’s search for identity as he travels to Central America. Written by Eulalio Cervantes (no relation to Miguel), it will be performed at 12:30 in the Illinois Room of the University of Illinois’ Chicago Circle Center, 750 S. Halsted. Tickets are $3; group rates are available. Call 996-3095 for more.
In 1985, Randolph Street Gallery, one of the premiere not-for-profit art spaces in the city, suddenly found itself nearing financial disaster. Dedicated to showing and promoting some of Chicago’s more daring stuff, RSG began an administrative retooling that included a greater emphasis on fund-raising. But for an alternative space that often features noncommercial work and that tries to support artists with more than just lip service, fund-raising can be trying. Though RSG is enjoying greater financial solvency, its dollar needs remain. With the advent of the mega-commercial Art Expo at Navy Pier–which features mostly non-Chicagoans–RSG presents Chicago Buy the Square Foot, a hot chance to pick up works by a broad spectrum of locals, from the popular Hollis Sigler to emerging young talent such as Michael Badicki. Partying starts tonight at 8 at 756 N. Milwaukee. Admission is $5. For more, call 666-7737.
You can be an armchair traveler in awfully good company with Lutheran General Hospital’s Seniors’ Health Program, where seniors share vacation slides, memories, and stories. Today’s 10 AM itinerary features William Frantz’s trip to Connecticut, upstate New York, and Pennsylvania. It’s only $1 to attend at the Irving Park Lutheran Church, 3938 W. Belle Plaine. These are popular programs, so call ahead for reservations at 975-5056.
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