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Ongoing Happiness Project Events
Published Wednesday 23 of November, 2011
What does happiness look like for you, others, and the city? The Happiness Project is a re-imagining of how individuals might best live and work together in urban space through engaging in unexpected and transcendent activities. Presented within empty storefronts in various parts of the city in November, the exhibition fosters connections between "the city that works" and "the city of neighborhoods," as well as ideas of work and play. After 22 years of the longest serving mayor in Chicago's history, Chicago’s new leader, Rahm Emanuel, is creating a new cultural policy plan. While artists often greet new politicians with a screed of demands, The Happiness Project aims to articulate the potential of how the right to pursue happiness, if applied to work, life, and governmental decisions, could transform the city and the well being of its inhabitants.
The Happiness Project is curated by Tricia Van Eck, Artistic Director of 6018NORTH, a communal green space for experimental culture, installation, performance, and sound.
NOV 2-30 (see website for times)
Filming of Kirsten Leenaar’s Under Construction
1130 West Thorndale
NOV 8-30 (Mon.-Sat., 11:30pm-5:30pm)
Group Happiness exhibition
Tap shoes for public tapping with Amber Ginsburg and Lia Rousett’s Tapping into Happiness
23 East Madison
NOV 24-30
Meg Duguid’s and Nick Black’s Activation of Human-powered Bicycle Analog Animation Machine
27 West Randolph
For latest information please see the 6018NORTH website.
