Logan Square community art center Comfort Station collaborates with Projeto Ativa (Salvador, Brazil) to present this international artist exchange project, bringing together artists from Chicago and Brazil for collaboration and conversation. Programming takes place at venues throughout the city, and includes musical performances, lectures, dance workshops, poetry readings and more. Take a look at the complete list of events below and find more information on the Comfort Station website.
August 9: Close to There opening party and potluck, Comfort Station, 6-9pm
August 10: Molecular Revolutions and Domestic Institutions, The Franklin, 3-6pm
August 11: Comfort Society: Walter Smetak and his legacy in experimental music of Bahia, with Edbrass Brasil, Comfort Station, 1-2:30pm
August 12: Forms & Features with Alex Simões: Visual Poetry, Poetry Foundation, 6-8pm
August 14: Bahian Vibrations: Inaê Moreira, Edbrass Brasil, Ben LaMar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, Ken Vandermark, Emerson Hunton, Bryonna Young, and invited guests, Links Hall, 7:30-9:30pm
August 16: Inaê Moreira: TEMPO, Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative, 8-9pm
August 17: Sounds of Protest, Stony Island Arts Bank, 1-3pm
August 17: Gather: Edbrass Brasil, Rob Frye, Kim Alpert, Comfort Station, 7-9pm
August 18: Comfort Society: Artist Organizing and Public Architecture with Lanussi Pasquali, Daniel Saboia, Latham Zearfoss, moderated by Jordan Martins, Comfort Station, 1-2:30pm
August 18: Close to There: Midwestern Feijoada (Closing party), Middlebrow Bungalow, 4-8pm