Avante-Garde in the Alley: Modern Art and Theatrical Innovation

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Checked Oct 10

When
Sun, Nov 15 · 2:00 PM
Ends 3:00 PM
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Where
Glessner House
1800 S Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60616

Near South Side · Chicago, IL

Pulls back curtain on creative art and theater scene of bohemian enclave of Towertown, Near North Side laboratory for performance art, modernist sensibilities and counterculture during the 1920s. Presented by Zac Bleicher, Executive Director of Edgar Miller Legacy. Explores Chicago Interwar art scene, radical thought on soapboxes, homes and salons, back-alley theatres, Dil Pickle Club, Edgar Miller art, non-traditional staging and set designs, avant-garde literature. Several original pieces of Miller's art on display. Presented in conjunction with staged reading of Dear Rhoda on November 16.

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