What does your past sound like? What does your present sound like?
Which sounds do you wish to retain? Which sounds do you wish never to hear again?
Which sounds do you consider as toxic waste?
How does silence and noise sound in your future?
Which sounds have gone silent?
To celebrate World Listening Day 2018, Chase Public is excited to team up with local poet, sound artist, and podcaster cris cheek to host a discussion of sound, and a theater for listening.
We invite you to participate through discussion and practice in an open symposium and compilation of field recordings to celebrate this year's ten anniversary of WORLD LISTENING DAY on JULY 18th.
We are keen to focus on the past and future sound(s) of Cincinnati.
We encourage those interested, in the affect and impact of sound and resonance on our lived environment, and in how sound determines and influences place, to make RECORDINGS, bring thoughts / notes / questions . . . to Chase Public from 6-9pm.
There will be a listening station for those who wish to bring recordings and or simply listen to recordings to do so, and an open roundtable for discussion.
Thanksgiving is around the corner, and you know what that means: awkward conversations with your family! It happens to the best of us; we don't always see eye to eye, and that's cool. Let's figure out how to work through those moments together. Chase Public is proud to team up with your Conversation Navigators for the evening, Caitlin Behle and Biz Young, to host a discussion about what to do to keep your cool, handle disagreements like a champ, and preserve your sanity during the holidays.
Chase Public is proud to host an exploration of Rock and Roll in Hispanic American culture, led and organized by Giovanni Bello.
Almost all the general guides of Rock music somehow manage to elude the Rock culture in Spanish speaking countries. The influence played by North American mass media in Hispanic cities is enormous, and Rock music, as part of it, developed a unique history in those places. In this brief talk, Bello is going to share musical excerpts of some of the most interesting bands of that history.
Writers John Ray and Pauletta Hansel and Chase Public invite you to join us for a participatory reading and discussion of excerpts from Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros and other works of dystopian and possibly prophetic fiction. Rhinoceros was the subject of a November 11 New York Times opinion piece, "A Time for Refusal." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/magazine/a-time-for-refusal.html. The contributor, Teju Cole wrote, "Eugène Ionesco was French-Romanian. He wrote Rhinoceros in 1958 as a response to totalitarian movements in Europe, but he was influenced specifically by his experience of fascism in Romania in the 1930s. Ionesco wanted to know why so many people give in to these poisonous ideologies. How could so many get it so wrong? The play, an absurd farce, was one way he grappled with this problem."
How do we--artists, readers, citizens-- use art to reveal, reflect, respond, repudiate, resist? Are the questions Ionesco raises the questions we need to ask today? Who else is speaking to us through their art? How does our own art talk back?
We'll read parts of the play, plus selections from works like "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451." with a combination of actors and volunteers from the audience and then use it as a springboard for our own discussion.