Sunday, October 1 from 1-4 PM
Pause For Peace Community Garden
E 75th St and S St. Lawrence Avenue, Chicago
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Join AMFM at the Pause for Peace Community Garden - Justice Hotel partners - for A Soliloquy of Sound: A South Side Visual Art and Performance Activation featuring an eclectic mix of experimental jazz and hip-hop and art set within the beautiful backdrop of art and nature nestled on Chicago’s south side. A Soliloquy of Sound features sonics and art from:
Pugs Atomz is an internationally known MC, Radio host, designer, and painter. Born in Pittsburgh, but raised in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. He has released numerous albums, and Chicago rap compilations. His music and art has been featured in movies, sport events, & video games. As a teen he founded the legendary Nacrobats crew (200+members like Mike Eagle, Psalm One, Max Sansing, Statik RK, Ruben Aguirre to name a few). His first big break was in the 20th Century Fox Movie`Light up" he was the main character study and did all the murals in the movie For the last 20 years he has co-hosted CTA radio show interviewing established & underground artists from Chicago and worldwide on WHPK. He is one of the co-founders of the Englewood Arts Collective, using art to change the narrative of Englewood. As well as a member of THE Chicago Public Art Group, Pugs has been a mentor to Chicago’s next musicians, street artists, and clothing designers. He has traveled the world several times over with his London band The Electric, always making a lasting impression thanks to his music, energetic stage performances, forward-thinking attitude and relate-able lyrics. Hip Hop culture, worldwide and in the Chi especially, influenced him from graffiti art in his city to street performers on train while attending SAIC. On screen he has been on TV shows and independent movies in minor roles, but directing and editing has been his passion. Currently, he is the Creative Director of the fashion forward Iridium Clothing Co. designing clothing, and creating video content and events. You can also find his art on t-shirts and accessories from his personal brand and production company USUWE 93.
Semira Truth is a multidisciplinary artist from Chicago, IL. Semira’s ability to be a nuanced storyteller, combined with their glitchy hallucinating beats has led to extensive collaborative projects that they have contributed to around the globe. Semiratruth has also been praised by the Chicago Reader, Bandcamp, Pitchfork, and Artforum. Semira allows you to travel through dimensions with their words and the possibility of sound.
Isaiah Collier is a Chicago/Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, curator, activist, motivational speaker, and educator. Collier is most known for his work as a saxophonist and drummer. Collier's sound and approach is drawn from the influences of other master saxophonists including John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, Wayne Shorter, Ari Brown, and Gene Ammons. Collier has shared the stage with many musicians both locally and internationally, with artists such as Chance the Rapper, Lewis Nash, Waddada Leo Smith III, Antonio Hart, Junius Paul, James Carter, Rene Marie, Carl Allen, Paul Rogers, Bennie Maupin, Rudy Van Gelder, Angel Bat Dawid, and many more. Past venues and festivals include the Jazz Showcase, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, the Lithuania Jazz Festival, the White House, Chicago Jazz Festival, New York Winter Jazz Festival, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Jazz in the Court (Hyde Park), the United States Embassy in Paraguay, and others.
Bonita Appleblunt (they/them) is a Chicago Based multifaceted DJ and Audio Visual Professional who specializes in exploring the lineage of modern and underground genres with their African roots. Bonita has been nominated as Best Hip Hop DJ 2021 & 2022 by Chicago Reader's Best of, and played a set at Afropunk Brooklyn this past year. They continue to play all over the city at places like Berlin, Retreat Currency Exchange, Virgin Hotels, and Sleeping Village to name a few.
Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar was born in 1986 in Brooklyn, NY and is a self taught contemporary visual artist and MAS MAN (carnival costume designer). His work includes MAS, mixed –media collage paintings, repurposed material, sculptural metal, performance, photography which interrogates notions of cultural heritage, sexual and gender identity as a first generation African –American black queer man born to Trinidadian immigrants. In 1996, he participated in the opening/closing Ceremonies of the Olympic Games, where he performed in a costume designed and made specially by his role model and iconic costume designer Trinidadian Peter Minshall. Ajmal graduated with a B.A. in English from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and studied at The Art Students League of New York in 2012. He has exhibited costumes and other art works in a range of spaces including alternative spaces, club venues, carnival, ‘pop up’-events locally and regionally. In Autumn of 2019, Ajmal relocated to Chicago and is a recent graduate from the Masters of Fine Art program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This event is a part of our ongoing Southside projects Justice Hotel and Soil and Soul.
Justice Hotel is supported in part by The Builders Initiative.
Soil and Soul is supported in part by federal assistance listing number 21.027 awarded to 6018North by the US Treasury through the American Rescue Plan Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds in the amount of $45,000 representing 50% of total project funding.
Soil and Soul is partially supported by a Together We Heal Creative Place grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events and the Mayor's Office of Equity and Justice.