This second annual showcase of collaborations between local musicians, filmmakers, and performing artists and their counterparts from around the world is organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective and runs through 10/27 at various locations. For more information call 312-543-7027 or visit chicagocalling.org.
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Peter Jones Gallery A movement performance, A Phone Play, by Timothy Rey; a screening of the short film This Is Our Club: The History of Montgomery County, Maryland Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., by Stan West and Yves Hughes Jr.; a collaboration between Sara Thompson (movement) and Paige Haxton (mixed media); music by Eric Leonardson and Bela Emerson; a performance of the play Sign of the Times by Jeffrey Helgeson and Clayton Horath. a 6-9 PM, 1806 W. Cuyler, 773-472-6725, $10.
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32nd & Urban Poetry from Michael Watson, Leonard de Montbrun, Zane Ivy, Shelley Nation, Cathleen Schandelmeier, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Rachel Javellana, Nora Bonner, Charlie Newman, Zan Hoffman, Marian Hayes, Larry O. Dean, Maggie Kast, Mario Smith, Christopher Welch, Francois LeRoux, Craig Christie, Kay Bradford, Wayne Allen Jones, Donna Kiser, and Donna Pecore; Robin Morrissey and Mari‡ De Vecchi present their “experimental fiction/co-translation”; Jeff Elder and George Bailey perform music. a 3-6 PM, 3201 S. Halsted, 312-846-6569 or myspace.com/32ndurban. F
