Water Music on the Rocks
Saturday, October 3, 2020 – 3 PM Processional walk from 6018North to to Bryn Mawr Ave
Join us at 6018 N Kenmore Ave at 3 PM on Saturday, October 3 to view our current outdoor exhibition Windows to the World outside and then walk together (socially distanced), led by Alexander Massa and his band to the water at Bryn Mawr Ave in a New Orleans-style funeral procession to honor the dead from COVID-19 and the Black and Brown lives lost to police brutality. If you miss this portion, please note there is NO parking at the beach. You have to walk or ride a bike. The performance will take place here near the Nature Preserve. You will see AJ McClenon's black holes to sit upon.
At 4 PM we begin Water Music on the Rocks – an annual series of live performances initiated in 2012 that highlights Chicago’s proximity to Lake Michigan – at Bryn Mawr Ave where it meets the water. Due to the Coronavirus, Water Music on the Beach has been relocated and renamed Water Music on the Rocks, since the performances will take place on the rocks next to the water. Performances by Simon Anderson, Ben Lamar Gay and Rob Frye, Alexander Massa, AJ McClenon, and Anna Martine Whitehead. Compositions and scores reflect, react to, or personify the sounds of water. Programming is a collaboration between Homeroom and 6018North.
Throughout the event, we request that visitors wear a mask. At the water’s edge, socially distanced spacing, is made of black fabric to represent black holes. Designed by AJ McClenon, they provide 6 feet social distancing measures to ensure the safety of everyone. In addition, we ask that you sign up here to limit attendance.
If you cannot attend, join us on Instagram Live!
Homeroom designs artistic projects and programs with two core values: conversation and collaboration. We build programming structures with artists, audiences, curators and venues to create an artistic dialogue with shared and far-reaching impact. Homeroom prompts artistic experimentation and growth by liberating artists from the financial and artistic constraints imposed by traditional institutional and commercial channels. For more information, please visit homeroomchicago.org.
6018North is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of culture and the arts in Chicago. This program is funded in part by Illinois Humanities and an anonymous donor advised fund at The Chicago Community Foundation. 6018North projects are supported by the Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Graham Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, Terra Foundation for American Art, the Illinois Arts Council, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, the Field Foundation of Illinois, and individual donors like you. Windows to the World is supported by an anonymous donor and the Gen Ops Plus Grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation. For more information please visit us online at 6018NORTH.ORG.
Press
DePaulia “Chicago arts non-profit fights to capture public attention amid pandemic,” by Eli Schmitt on October 25, 2020
Chicago Reader “Water Music on the Rocks,” October 1, 2020