Around the Coyote October 15, 2009
Chicago, Illinois 60622
The system wants me to provide a venue, so I did, but Around the Coyote is much bigger than any one venue. While it has been much in decline for a while, as I mentioned in my Yelp review of the event, there has still been a lot to see in the Flatiron building and a few of the neighboring galleries for the last few years.
I'd like to give you a link for buying tickets, but they haven't set up that page, yet, which is not surprising. Notice how badly the site is designed, with text overlapping text, leaving one with a difficult to decipher mess. Whoever is designing the thing just doesn't seem to care, and that attitude has carried over to other things, as I've said. I'll be skipping the film and video portion of the program, this year, for reasons given on that review.
I'll be going to the visual art and dance portions of the event, definitely, and maybe the poetry program. While the participants in one of my groups (you know who you are, and thank you) are beginning to become a little more familiar to me, we really don't know each other very well - yet - so for this year, the invitation goes out to people I know in the real world.
If you have time, let's do this thing, maybe get a little caffeinated before we start gallery hopping, and grab a pernod or two after the event at that place at Milwaukee and Damen ... what was its name again ... yes, it was very good liquor.
Official Website: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aroundthecoyote.org/festivals/2009_fall/
Added by Wander the Night on September 17, 2009
Comments
nicole.wingate
I think the thing that we all have to remember is that in a slow economy like this one, a lot of cutbacks have had to be made. Illinois cut funding for many of its not-for-profits like Womanmade Gallery, and I'm sure ATC lost some cashflow as well. I noticed that they chose spaces that were inexpensive to lease because they had recently been vacated by businesses. Also, I don't think that they could afford a decent illustrator for their promotion materials this time. I think that they have been using whatever volunteers they could get to do a variety of tasks. They didn't even have enough manpower to properly paint the booth panels. I don't know I'm trying to be a little more forgiving for a not-for-profit, which has done so many great things in the past for local artists.