Friday 6
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Tim Miller was one of a gang of four artists who lost their National Endowment for the Arts funds last year because of the sexual nature of their work. This weekend he performs his retrospective work Sex/Love/Stories at Beacon Street Gallery, 4520 N. Beacon. What’s it about? “My dubious goal has been to pull the juiciest, queerest, funniest, and most political stuff from five years of work to share with you, dear audience. I do this in the spirit of let’s get down to it, oh Dudes and Dudettes, this big job of knowing ourselves, restructuring society, doing sex, ACTING UP, telling our stories.” The performances are tonight and tomorrow at 8, Sunday at 7; it’s $10, $8 for students and seniors. Call 784-2310 for more. Miller will also be speaking at the School of the Art Institute auditorium, Columbus and Jackson, at 6 PM Monday; that’s $3 and the number is 443-3711.
Saturday 7
The Wolford Memorial Clock Tower in Lincoln Park was built as a memorial to Jacob Wolford, an original member of the Chicago Board of Trade, in 1931; but its 25 Deagan chimes mysteriously stopped working about ten years later. Some neighborhood residents have been restoring the chimes and clockworks for about four years, and tonight at 6 there’s a celebratory rededication of the tower, with representatives from the city and the volunteers who nursed it back to health on hand to hear the chimes once again. The tower’s next to the Waveland Field House, just north of Addison. The free goings-on run till 8. Call 922-3307.
The Dreamerz Fiction Series–named after the Wicker Park nightclub–moves north tonight with a pair of readings at the Greenview Arts Center Gallery, 6418 N. Greenview. Reading will be Tim W. Brown, who teaches English at Roosevelt University and edits the literary journal Tomorrow Magazine, and Eckhard Gerdes, author of Truly Fine Citizen. Things get under way at 8; it’s $3. Call 508-0085 for details.
Actress Emily Hooper and singer Glenda Baker describe their current production, Telling Our Stories! Celebrating Black Expression!, as an evening of “poetry, songs, games, essays, folktales, hollers, and chants [that] illustrate the beauty of African American survival.” The dynamic duo perform at Cafe Classico, 3257 N. Broadway, at 8 tonight. There’s a requested donation of three bucks. Call 883-2087 for details.
