Anne Benjamin: Prints & Posters opens tonight (3/1)!

Opening Reception
Anne Benjamin: Prints & Posters
Friday, March 1st. 6-9pm. Free.
DJ Caitlin Lavin from CHIRP
Food & beverages provided by saki

saki is thrilled to present Anne Benjamin: Prints & Posters.

Anne Benjamin is an illustrator, designer and printmaker living and working in Chicago. Anne learned letterpress, screen-printing, and other print methods through the vibrant Chicago printmaking community. Her design sense is broad and playful, drawing from the art deco, art nouveau, and pop art movements, classic children’s book illustrations, and vintage animation.

Anne has done illustration and design work for the likes of the Washington Post, American Greetings, Random House, Schubas, Time Out, and Paramount. In her free time, Anne enjoys tinkering in embroidery and ceramics. Benjamin has displayed work at Mondo Gallery in Austin, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, Chicago Cultural Center, Open-End Gallery in Chicago, and Loyola University Museum of Art.

Please join us Friday, March 1st from 6-9pm for the opening of Anne Benjamin: Prints & Posters. Enjoy a great night of fine art, music spun by CHIRP DJ Caitlin Lavin, and enjoy food and beverages provided by saki. This event is FREE.

This Weekend @ saki!

God, I love weekends at saki, don't you? Monday-Friday, that's all business, business, busyness, but on the weekends we really get to cut loose, perhaps even...footloose!

This weekend we've got the opening reception for our November artist, Rrap Kreyziu. Rrap is a local high school student (originally from Kosovo) who is participating in Homeroom Chicago's Emerging & Established Artist's program. His paintings greatly defy his limited experience in this world. In fact, I shouldn't have told you he was in high school and you wouldn't have known. Oh well, damage done! Moving on.

We also just found out that NPR & New York Times featured artist Cheyenne Marie Mize will be joining us as the musical guest for Rrap's opening! The opening is from 6-9pm and Cheyenne will play at 7pm. If you're not familiar with Cheyenne's music you need to go check out the gems on her site. She's a very talented young artist herself so it's perfectly fitting that she'll be here for Rrap's opening. This is shaping up to be one of our best art shows yet, so get a babysitter for the kids and leave some extra food for the pets - you're going to want to spend some time with us on Saturday.

Sunday is the first ever CHIRP Record Crawl! They're hitting up a bunch of independent stores and we're lucky enough to be one of them. CHIRP, don't ever change, stay you! We luv ya. The crawlers will be here around 3:30pm. To add to the excitement we've also got an amazing in-store on Sunday starting around 4pm with Advance Base (ex-Casiotone For The Painfully Alone) & John Bellows. Both artists are among our favorites in Chicago. Please come out and enjoy their fine, fine music! Then you can go over to Brown Sack and get a shrimp & avocado B.L.T.! How good are those, right?

Alright, that's it. See you this weekend!

Big Weekend Plans

Man, oh man. Despite the fact that next weekend is Record Store Day and things are a bit crazy here in crazy town, we've got a lot going on THIS weekend as well. Go say hi to our man, Karl at the CHIRP Record Fair (details @ Windy City Rock). He'll be peddling the goods behind a fold-up table instead of a speckled orange counter top for one weekend only.

We recommend that you hit up the fair early and then make your way over to saki for a jam-packed in-store lineup from The Part Five, Dick Wolf! and Geronimo! starting at 4pm. The Part Five are celebrating the release of their new album The Tightening and we'll have copies on hand at saki as well as at the record fair!

See you here and/or there!

saki/CHIRP Trivia! March 24th at Empty Bottle

Round 3 of the saki/CHIRP trivia night is here! This Thursday (3/24) get ready to play your pants off.

Come to the Empty Bottle, doors are at 6:30, Game One starts at 7, Game Two starts at 8.

It's free to watch and only $2 to play. And just look at the fun you could be having...

Biking to Pitchfork?

The Chicago Reader has a
Biker Village at P4K this year. Visit it for free, safe bike parking aaaaand free chain lube - awwwww, yeeeeeeeah. Then stop over to the Chirp Record Fair and check out our table! See you there!

Support Community Radio: Buy Records!

The 7th annual CHIRP Record Fair is happening this weekend: April 18-19, 10am-5pm at the Plumbers Union 1340 W. Washington Blvd Chicago, IL.
The Chicago Independent Radio Project needs your support! Records, Posters, Mags, DJs, Entertainment (including CTD's Tyler as Bob Dey's Tank Engine) & more

Only $7 regular admission. Get this: Discounted price $5 with any CHIRP RF ad or a receipt from any record store dated 4/18/09 (Yay RECORD STORE DAY!)