Friday 18
Think the 47th Ward needs cleaning up? So does Alderman Gene Schulter. The 47th Ward Fall Cleanup–where businesses, organizations, and just plain folks pitch in and clean up the streets from Andersonville to Ravenswood–gets under way today. You can pick up supplies starting at 8:30 at the 47th Ward Sanitation Office, 2414 W. Cuyler; give Schulter’s office a call at 271-4423 or 728-6300 for more details.
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More film stuff: documentarian Robert Mugge’s tribute to the Mississippi Delta, Deep Blues, was executive-produced by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and is narrated by blues expert and former New York Times pop critic Robert Palmer. Palmer and guitarist Lonnie Pitchford will be on hand tonight at 6 at the Film Center, Columbus and Jackson, to present the film, and Pitchford will perform after. Tickets are $5. Call 443-3608.
Then Let Men Know: A Portrait of Shakespeare’s Women is a one-woman show by Claire Bloom–yes, the Claire Bloom of Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight, TV’s Brideshead Revisited, and a still-remembered performance as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at London’s Old Vic Theatre in 1952. The title is a paraphrase of a line from The Two Gentlemen of Verona: “They do not love that do not show their love / O! They love least that let men know their love.” Bloom does her show today at 5 in the downstairs auditorium of the Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State, as part of Arts Club of Chicago Day, a series of events to celebrate the Arts Club’s 75th anniversary. It’s free. For more information, call 787-3997.
Just in time for its 200th anniversary, an original copy of the Bill of Rights–this one belonging to the state of Virginia–will hit town today as part of a 15,000-square-foot multimedia exhibit at Navy Pier, Grand Avenue at the lake. It’ll be on exhibit from 10 to 6 today, 10 to 8 Friday through Sunday, and 10 to 4 Monday. It’s free to go look. Call 791-7437 for more.
