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an Alana Bailey brand poster
complete show calendar

Todd Stewart poster

an Alana Bailey brand poster

an Alana Bailey brand poster

...A Humechanical Nightmare is coming for you.
darkness is well suited to devotion. . .

Enter A Humechanical Nightmare and move through a world where a great dream machine (replete with a giant mechanical bed, an ensemble of gears and cogs, and more) pulls a reluctant dreamer deep within its works.

*May 2nd, Looptopia: 7:10pm in Federal Plaza
(Adams & Dearborn)
*May 9th and 16th, Douglas Park: 8pm by the Flower Hall
(Ogden and Sacramento - near Pink Line California Stop)
*May 23rd and 24th, Humboldt Park: 8pm by the Rose Garden
(Division and Sacramento - near Blue Line Grand Stop)

Tickets are free, donations are welcome.

Contact Lily Emerson for more information:
312-206-9563 or 773-782-6726
lucidstreet@gmail.com lucidstreet.org

Lucid Street Theatre is a small performance collective dedicated to providing the Chicago community with engaging, innovative, free public performances that transform the everyday and spark genuine human connection. They focus on utilizing non-traditional spaces, source materials and performance mediums to create theatre that draws the audience out of passivity and into action.

The 2008 Children’s Humanities Festival, May 3 – 10!
Tickets on Sale Now!

Join us at the 2008 Children’s Humanities Festival, May 3 -10. It’s a festival as big as your imagination! An interdisciplinary family arts festival in Chicago’s backyard, we offer dynamic multi-national performances and interactive events spanning five Chicago neighborhoods.

Festival highlights include musical sculptors and acrobats Lelavision, indie music singer/songwriter Mirah and Spectratone International, multimedia dance troupe Teatro di Piazza D’Occasione from Italy, and Stretch from Great Britain.

Tickets are $5.00 for adults and FREE for children 17 and under.

To view a complete list of programs and to purchase tickets visit www.chfestival.org !

Special Offer to Friends of the Hideout
With the purchase of at least one adult ticket, receive $5.00 off your complete order. Before you check out, enter the promotional code Hideout below your shipping information. Offer only valid for online ticket orders.

Jill Charles' article "Go Seek The Hideout" on chicago.planjam.com

Sarah S. fashion article in the Tribune!

Sarah's Body Bag image

Ellen Warren's Tribune Magazine "Just One Thing" feature article "Organ Transplant" includes Hideout bartender Sarah Staskauskas' successful Los Angeles based fashion design business, and how it changed in an "organic" way at the Hideout Holiday Sale in years past.

Block Party congratulations!

Andrew Bird, Allison and Chris of Literacy Works

Andrew Bird, this year's Block Party headliner, congratulates Allison and Chris from Literacy Works. Along with Literacy Works, the 2007 Hideout Block Party raised over $56,000 for local charities including Tuesday's Child, Oscar Meyer Elementary School, and Drummond Elementary School.

Many thanks to the performers and volunteers who made this happen!

Hideout Group with Allison and Chris of Literacy Works

Hideout Group with Allison and Chris of Literacy Works

Hideout group with Allison and Chris from Literacy Works.

Help Support The Chicago Women's Health Center!

Beautiful Posters made by Kathleen Judge for the recent Neko Case tours were auctioned on ebay by the Chicago Women's Health Center to raise money for the center. Thank you for bidding on these posters.

CWHC is a great organization! Read more about CWHC and see Hogan's recommendation here

to see more Judge posters, please visit judgeworks.com

The first poster up for bidding was from the recent February tour and signed by Neko.

this one is a signed (by Neko) hand silkscreen Australia 2007 tour poster by Judge

and these are a couple of rare items that sold out last fall... a set of Touch & Go 25th Anniversary Posters. One poster is by Jay Ryan of The Birdmachine and the second poster is by Judge. Both posters are signed, numbered, and include extra little drawings in the margins