Now Is : A Chicago Music Calendar

AfroFuturist Weekend Day 3 : Flex Obscura

1. Film Block 1
2. Film Block 2 + Nikki Patín with Angel Bat Dawid
3. Swimming In Your Skin Again
4. Virtual Conversation with Terence Nance
5. Film Block 3
6. Club Obscura with DJ King GNS & CTRLZORA

1. Twin Talk : Dustin Laurenzi, Katie Ernst, Andrew Green — Record release

1. OTHERPEACE : Matt Clark, Stephen "The Kid" Howard, Areif Sless-Kitain, Brandon Rios
2. Matt Gold, Ryan Norris

1. Grossman Ensemble — music by Franco Donatoni, David Lang, Helena Tulve, Wenbin Lyu, Saed Haddad, Osnat Netzer, Kathleen Ginther

wandering | reminiscence

1. Chicago Composers Orchestra — music by Leah Asher, Oswald Huỳnh, Marcus Norris, Jonathan Hannau

AfroFuturist Weekend Day 4

1. Gilt Drip
2. Amyna Love
3. Freedom From and Freedom To : Ed Clemons, Aaliyah Christina, Keyierra Collins, Tre Daniels, Kopano, Selena Lasley, Jennifer Ligaya, Reflex, Cristal Sabbagh, Naydja Bruton,Fred Jackson Jr, Amyna Love, Allen Moore, Julian Otis, kamari mou, Phenom, Sharon Udoh, Ayanna Woods

Reflections

1. Arushi Jain with Dorothy Carlos

AfroFuturist Weekend Day 5

1. All-ages puppet workshop + performance with Leah Lara
2. Zahra Baker's "This Black Is Me: Sacred Encounters with Callie House"

AfroFuturist Weekend Day 5

1. Panel discussion moderated by Sharon Udoh
2. H/ARBOR Ensemble : olula negre, Julian Otis, Paige Brown, Kezia Waters, Zahra Baker

Frequency Series

1. Erland Cooper with Freya Goldmark + ACME, Clarice Jensen

1. Bark Culture : Victor Vieira-Branco, Joey Sullivan, John Moran, with special guest Lemuel Marc

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

1. Jahari Stampley with D-Erania Stampley

1. Jahari Stampley with D-Erania Stampley

Meditations: Reflections on John Coltrane

1. Curated by Angelo Hart, with Greg Artry, Sarah Clausen, Hunter Diamond, Marion Mallard

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. DEL Trio : Danny Bauer, Evan Levine, Luke Angle

One Dollar Bill

1. Jeff Sherfey

1. Wednesday Night Fellowship with Ted Sirota

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Kyle Brooks Quartet with Elio Wijaya, Stephen Parisi, Kabir Dalawari

Comfort Music

1. [jef]Frey Michael Austin
2. Christopher Dammann

1. Edition Redux : Erez Dessel, Lily Finnegan, Beth McDonald, Ken Vandermark

1. Roomful of Teeth

ESS Presents

1. Kalia Vandever with Maria Chávez

CLEAT Series

1. Moth Vegas : Devon Fisher, Bennett Jenisch
2. Sam Clapp's "Bliss Point 3"
3. WYRD MODULO

1. Maxx McGathey — "Imaginary Eyes" Record release

1. Flesh Narc
2. Dromez
3. Bakantez
4. Manual Pollination

Elastro AV Night 1

1. Installations and performances curated by Galina Shevchenko

1. Trio M : Myra Melford, Mark Dresser, Matt Wilson

1. Joshua Abrams Solo
2. Universal Light : Mike Gangloff, Jesse Sheppard, Kaily Schenker
3. Chord : Kyle Benjamin, Phil Dole, Jason Hoffman, Sean McCarthy, Trevor Shelley de Brauw

Asian Sound Revolution

1. Jin Hi Kim, Min Xiao-Fen, Susie Ibarra

Elastro AV Night 2

1. Installations and performances curated by Clark Woods, Taylor Dye, Gordon Fung

Frequency Series

1. Ensemble Dal Niente : Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Theo Ramsey, Zach Good, Mabel Kwan, Ben Melsky, Kyle Flens, Juan Horie, with Michael Lewanski, conductor — music by Wang Lu, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, George Lewis, Theo Ramsey, Carolyn Chen, Leilehua Lanzilotti

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

1. Matt Gold Solo

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Jimmy Farace Trio with Ethan Philion, Devin Drobka

One Dollar Bill

1. Nicole Muto-Graves

Splice Series

1. Majid Araim, Carol Genetti, Peter Maunu

1. Wednesday Night Fellowship with Ted Sirota

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Nate Lepine Trio

Improvised Music Series

1. Ben Zucker — Album release
2. Erica Dawn Lyle

1. Riley Mulherkar

1. Edition Redux : Erez Dessel, Lily Finnegan, Beth McDonald, Ken Vandermark

1. Nick Turner with Cristal Sabbagh, Amanda Maraist
2. Airport People
3. Sharon Udoh

1. Melanie Charles

Musician Minus Instrument

1. Beyond This Point — music by François Sarhan, David Bird, Stefano D'Alessio, Kaj Duncan David, Simon Løffler

1. Matt Ulery's Nonet with, Artie Black, Dustin Laurenzi, Hunter Diamond, James Davis, Russ Johnson, Chris Shuttleworth, Julius Tucker, Jon Deitemeyer

1. Ken Vandermark

1. Seb String, Tim Daisy
2. Seb String, Tim Daisy, Mai Sugimoto, Jakob Heinemann

1. Paul Asaro Quartet featuring Natalie Scharf

1. Heart Trio : William Parker, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake

Twelvetwelvangle : Twelve year anniversary show

1. Norman Long
2. Tallulah Bankheist
3. Karl Palouček
4. Itsï Ramirez
5. Woman of the Void
6. Illusion of Safety
7. Melon Sprout
8. AC4 installation by John Shin
9. more TBA

1. Matt Ulery's Nonet with, Artie Black, Dustin Laurenzi, Hunter Diamond, James Davis, Russ Johnson, Chris Shuttleworth, Julius Tucker, Jon Deitemeyer

1. KOHLMALLOZZIMAUNU : Lia Kohl, Lou Mallozzi, Peter Maunu

1. Matthew Davis Quintet with Preyas Roy, Jeff Wheaton, Jess Anzaldúa, Isaiah Spencer

Something Stretched Between Us

1. Alissa Voth, Megan DiGeorgio, with Isidora Nojkovic, Zachary Good, Steph Davis — music by Alissa Voth, Megan DiGeorgio

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Elastro Series

1. Rafael Toral
2. Daniel Wyche

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Connor Bernhard Quintet with Jeff Swanson, Evan Levine, Jonathon Marks

Celebration of America

1. Dover Quartet : Joel Link, Bryan Lee, Julianne Lee, Camden Shaw — music by Jessie Montgomery, Mason Bates, George Walker, Antonín Dvořák

One Dollar Bill

1. Max Subar

1. Wednesday Night Fellowship with Ted Sirota

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Righteous Rooster : Henry Dickhoff, Kenny Reichert, Luke Sagadin

Improvised Music Series

1. Jakob Heinemann, Norman W Long, Ishmael Ali, Seb String

1. Edition Redux : Erez Dessel, Lily Finnegan, Beth McDonald, Ken Vandermark

an evening of movement + sound

1. Ayako Kato, Chad M Clark
2. Amanda Maraist, Michael Macdonald

Simple Lines

1. Andy Hudson, Nick Photinos — music by Marc Mellits, Bill Ryan, Augusta Read Thomas, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Zachary Good, Mark Snyder, Svante Henryson

Frequency Series

1. ~Nois : Julian Velasco, Natalia Warthen, Jordan Lulloff, János Csontos — music by Hans Thomalla, Darlene Castro Ortiz, Bernard Rands, Ania Vu

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Relax Attack Jazz Series

1. Entre Amigos : Roy McGrath, Hana Fujisaki, Kitt Lyles, Gustavo Cortiñas

Blue Note Record Release

1. Ethan Iverson Trio with Simón Wilson, Vinnie Sperrazza

1. Wednesday Night Fellowship with Ted Sirota

Relax Attack Jazz Series : Guitar for Guaraldi

1. Mich Shirey Trio with Nick Fane, David Kuchera

1. Setting : Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly, Joe Westerlund

1. Geof Bradfield Quintet with Russ Johnson, Scott Hesse, Clark Sommers, Dana Hall

1. Basher : Byron Asher, Daniel Meinecke, Zach Rhea

1. Will Guthrie

1. Geof Bradfield Quintet with Russ Johnson, Scott Hesse, Clark Sommers, Dana Hall

1. Rami Atassi Cosmic Dance Band, with Luc Mosley, Eric Novak, Remsy Atassi, Adam Shead

Ghost Notes

1. Eli Winter Ensemble with Sam Wagster, Tyler Damon, Andrew Scott Young, Gerrit Hatcher, David Sexton

1. Extraordinary Popular Delusions

1. Owls : Alexi Kenney, Ayane Kozasa, Gabriel Cabezas, Paul Wiancko

One Dollar Bill

1. Half Gringa

The Music of the Great American Songbook

1. Jeff Parker Quartet

1. Tomeka Reid Stringtet

1. Black Diamond : Artie Black, Hunter Diamond, Matt Ulery, Neil Hemphill

1. Tomas Fujiwara, Taylor Ho Bynum, Ayako Kato, Rachel Bernsen, Jason Roebke

1. RM Francis
2. Pooch Karton
3. Hunter Brown

Quiet Pterodactyl Anniversary Party

1. Angel Bat Dawid
2. JOBS
3. 4Dgirlz
4. DJ All the Way Kay
5. more TBA

Comfort Music

1. Wombat : Justin K Comer, Carlos Cotallo Solares, Will Yager
2. Beth McDonald, Riley Leitch
3. Jack Langdon

1. Grossman Ensemble — music by Andy Akiho, Benjamin Martin, Nina C Young, Shih-Hui Chen