September 10, 2017 // 1-4 PM at Thorndale Beach

Water Music on the Beach is a series of live performances that highlights Chicago’s proximity to Lake Michigan. The compositions and scores reflect, react to, or personify the sounds of water. This year we are partnering with Djaspora Productions to present works by Benelux (Helen Gillet, Lia Kohl, Katinka Kleijn) Marie Casimir and Meida McNeal, Move Me Soul, Damon Locks, Brian Sandstrom, and more. Painting  by Moises Salazar.

Benelux is the triple cello threat of Helen Gillet, Lia Kohl and Katinka Kleijn. Formed at the 2017 New Orleans Instigation Festival, they use their shared musical sensitivity and sense of exploration to meet, while at the same time expanding the group’s direction in each of their very unique individual expertise.

Marie Casimir is a Haitian-American writer and performer interested in the straddling of multiple cultures and languages and how they resonate in the body. Her work has appeared at Dance Union, Links Hall and At The Table.

Ben Lamar Gay is a composer who deals with many components of sound through various folk traditions past, present and future.

Damon Locks is a Chicago based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician, and deejay. He attended The Art Institute in Chicago where he received his BFA in Fine Arts. Recently, he has been lending his artistic and/or teaching talents to organizations such as Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project, Art Reach, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, and at UIC.

Meida McNeal is Artistic and Managing Director of Honey Pot Performance. Over the past two decades, she has produced numerous creative projects as both a solo artist and with Honey Pot Performance, with works performed in Illinois, Rhode Island, Ohio, California, and Trinidad. HPP's newest project, 'ways of knowing,' explores concepts of mastery, expertise, and value, through reciprocal acts of knowledge exchange. The full work will premiere in Spring 2018. Meida also works with the Chicago Park District as Arts & Culture Manager supporting community arts partnerships, youth arts, cultural stewardship, and civic engagement initiatives across the city's parks and cultural centers. 

Move Me Soul is a youth dance company that fuses technique, performance, positivity and creativity. Teens move beyond their limits on and off stage.

Brian Sandstrom Quartet with Steve Hashimoto, Steve Magnone, and TJ Sandstrom. Brian Sandstrom is an contrabass Jazz musician (as well as playing trumpet, guitar, trombone, and percussion). He has been an active player in the Chicago music scene since the early 1980s.

Moises Salazar is an artist working in painting, drawing, and sculpture, video installation. Currently a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, he aims to present new possibilities for exploited people, undocumented immigrants, and people of color through his work.

Quinn Turley is not a dj but for Water Music on the Beach he is.

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