Category: Off-site event

  • Off-Site Event: Editors of The Nation and The Nation Guide to the Nation at No Exit Cafe

    Please note this event is NOT at Quimby’s. We’ll be there selling books. It’s actually sponsored by Drinking Liberally and Laughing Liberally.

    Part Whole Earth Catalog, part 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, and part Zagat Guide, THE NATION GUIDE TO THE NATION is the essential lifestyle guide for liberals across the land, a one-stop-shop for liberals and progressives all over America.

    Inside THE NATION GUIDE TO THE NATION:
    * Studs Terkel’s favorite Chicago restaurant
    * Ray Bradbury’s regular bookstore
    * The best progressive diner in Iowa City
    * Stuart Klawans’s 25 greatest political films
    * Summer camps to foster liberal ideals in your children
    * Blogs, museums, bookstores, churches, and more

    Sat, Feb 28th, 7pm
    No Exit Café, 6970 North Glenwood, Chicago, IL 60626

    For more info: matt at headzup dot tv or jbaxter at randomhouse.com

  • Not at Quimby's But Cool Anyway: Opening Day Ceremonies of The Chicago Unlympic Games at InCUBATE, Sat., 1/24/09

    The Unlympics is a month-long sporting event series intended to encourage active dialogue—extremely active dialogue—around the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid. The Unlympics looks at highly organized, internationally recognized, massively marketed, thoroughly branded, and extremely expensive sporting events not from a pro or con standpoint, but from a questioning standpoint.

    Opening Day Ceremonies take place on January 24 and will include:

    6 p.m. GATHER AT InCUBATE (2129 North Rockwell; please be prompt.)
    6:15 p.m. PARADE OF NOTIONS (Come costumed in the attire appropriate to the national, creative, ethnic, political, economic, social, linguistic, imaginary, or other affiliation you intend to represent, and feel free to bring noisemakers, confetti, or protest signs as your conscience dictates.)
    6:45 p.m. ARTISTIC SECTION (Bring a hankie.)
    7:00 p.m. THE UNLYMPICS OATH (Like anyone is going to follow it.)
    7:15 p.m. THE LIGHTING OF STUFF ON FIRE (BYOS*)
    7:30 p.m. SPEECHES BY THE PRESIDENTS (Boring.)
    7:45 p.m. THE GAME WHERE YOU WIN (To get your competitive juices flowing.)
    8:00 p.m. AWARDS CEREMONY (BYOB)
    *S = Sparklers
    Dance troupes, pirates, marching bands, baton twirlers, sports enthusiasts, mud wrestlers, and good old patriots of any nation are encouraged to come out and join the parade. Please dress “appropriately.” This event is free and open to all ages.

    For more info, see: The Unlympics

    Also, don’t miss the Spelling Bee event of the Unlympics at Quimby’s on Feb 7th! Why is Quimby’s involved in this? Quimby’s Bookstore is proud to be the official bookstore and intellectual sponsor of the 2009 Winter Unlympic Games. For over 16 years, Quimby’s Bookstore has championed the freedom of the press in offering a variety of independently published or small press zines, books and comics. This literature is important in providing alternative, subversive or controversial viewpoints necessary to make informed decisions about one’s community.

  • Not at Quimby's, but a cool event anyway: Mapping Events from AREA

    People’s Atlas of Chicago and AREA: Two Events on January 15th 2009

    Thursday, January 15th 2009 is Unofficially “Notes for a People’s Atlas of Chicago” day on the northwest side of Chicago. The first event is a collaboration with Around the Coyote Festival which involves an exhibition of all of the Peoples Atlas of Chicago maps at the Wicker Park Field House (1425 N Damen Ave, Chicago) from 5-8pm. Then head down the street from 8pm-10pm to STOP SMILING Magazine’s storefront space (1371 N. Milwaukee Ave) where to celebrate the release of “Experimental Geography” a book about mapping and art that features AREA’s Peoples Atlas project.

    Contact areachicago@gmail.com for more information or see http://www.areachicago.org .

  • The Museum of Contemporary Art presents: "Saturday Shorts – Zines: The Art of Intervention" With Anne Elizabeth Moore!

    Dive into the world of self publishing with the guidance of artist Anne Elizabeth Moore in this workshop that looks at the powerful intersection between language and art. Participants create, publish, and distribute their own small books based on the structure of Jenny Holzer’s work.
    When: Sat., Nov 1st, 1-4pm
    Where: The Museum of Contemporary Art – NOT AT QUIMBY’S
    How: To register call the MCA Box Office at 312-397-4067. Mention that you got this email from Quimby’s when you call the Box Office and pay only $35 to participate in this workshop (all supplies and museum admission are included).

  • Off-site Event: Peter H. Fogtdal Reads The Tsar's Dwarf At Chinaski's

    Peter H. Fogtdal‘s book The Tsar’s Dwarf (Hawthorne Books) is about a Danish dwarf given to Peter the Great as a gift who ends up as a court jester at the Russian court. It’s this author’s first book in English, though he’s had twelve published in Danish.

    Here’s more about the book:

    Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great, who is smitten by her freakishness and intellect. Against her will, the Tsar takes Soerine to St. Petersburg, where she becomes a jester in his court. There, she lives a life that both compels and repels her. Soerine eventually gives in to the attentions of Lukas, the Tsar’s favorite dwarf, and carves out an existence for herself amidst the squalor and lice-ridden world of dwarfs in the early 18th century. In this inhospitable milieu, Soerine’s intelligence and detached wit provide her some small measure of protection — until disaster strikes in the shape of a priest who wants to “save” her.

    This event will not be at Quimby’s but down the street at Chinaski’s, and Quimby’s will be there selling the book. Chinaski’s is at 1935 N. Damen, just south of Armitage. Starts at 7:30pm.

  • Off-Site Event! Graphic Adaptation Novels: After 9/11 & the Constitution At the Freedom Museum

    Two remarkable graphic novelists, Sid Jacobson and Jonathan Hennessy will be at Chicago’s Freedom Museum to discuss their newest books After 911 and The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation (due out 10/21/08). Listen as these two renowned artists discuss their motivations, creative processes and various obstacles met in developing their newest books. Quimby’s will be there to sell the books!

    What: Graphic Adaptation Novels: After 9/11 & the Constitution

    Where: McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 754, Chicago, Illinois 60611. PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOT AT QUIMBY’S.

    When: Thursday, October 30th, 6–7:30 pm

    Is this free? Yes! (Well what would you expect? It’s at the FREEdom Museum, ha ha ha)