Friday 15
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It’s Circa time again for the Museum of Contemporary Art’s New Group; their annual presentation of out-there performance–dubbed, this year, Circa ’92–features radical performance art doyen Rachel Rosenthal, weird drum group Jellyeye, “gender illusionist” and presidential candidate Joan Jett Blakk, theater-performance-dance group X-Sight, poetry slam winner Lisa Buscani, the Loofah method and lots more. Twenty-five bucks ($40 for a reserved balcony seat) gets you the show and drinks. It’s at Cabaret Metro, 3730 N. Clark, at 8 PM. Call 280-2660 for details
Saturday 16
“The term typical cannot be applied to TS,” say the folks at the Tourette Syndrome Association. Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that manifests itself through an extravagant repertoire of nervous tics–from relatively minor things like eye or muscle twitches to medium-strength symptoms like involuntary talking, swearing, or even barking, to quite severe behavior aberrations, including uncontrollable jumping or hitting and biting oneself. The group is tonight presenting photojournalist Lowell Handell, a TS sufferer, who’ll give a slide presentation on his experience with the disease. It’s at 1:30 today at Rush Presbyterian, 1743 W. Harrison, and free. Call 708-675-2121 for more.
Boy Alderman Edwin Eisendrath will talk about the state of his ward (the 43rd) in room 154 of the Schmidt Center of DePaul at 7 PM tonight. It’s free. Call his office at 327-9111 for more.
If you always wanted to get a look inside Skidmore Owens Merril, here’s your chance. The architectural firm’s new offices, as well as those of Sara Lee and Vickrey-Ovresat-Awsumb Associates (who’ll have their plans for Navy Pier on display), are all housed in the Santa Fe (ne Railway Exchange) Building, 224 S, Michigan, designed by Daniel Burnham in 1903. The occasion for the tours is the opening of the new home of the Chicago Architectural Foundationg. The 5000-member organization’s up-to-date world HQ will include a bookshop, lecture space, and exhibit center. The opening foofara costs $35, which gets you drinks, the tours, and a look at a photo exhibit, “Architecture in a Chicago Context,” by Rudolph Janu. Call 922-3432 for more.
