Calendar of Events
The Vinegar Works
Puppet Show
Every Saturday at 2:00 and 4:00 p.m.
Free with museum admission
Enjoy a fun-filled time of puppets and Gorey tales. Audience
members, young and not so young, will delight in the magical
world created by Blair Thomas & Company, known for
combining puppets and visual theater. Gorey’s stories filled
with wild animals, imaginative creatures, and odd folks are
an invitation to the imagination. LUMA hosts a toy theater
staging of
The Vinegar Works
.
Come to watch the spectacle of
three Gorey stories,
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
,
The Insect God
,
and
The West Wing
.
People will be entertained by a witty,
disquieting journey through the wonderful world of Gorey.
The running time is thirty minutes.
Goreyesque
:
A Tribute to Edward Gorey inWords
and Images
Tuesday, April 29, 6:00 p.m.
Free
Join us for a fun evening of readings by contributors to
Goreyesque
,
an online literary journal featuring work inspired
by Gorey’s storytelling and visual aesthetic. The journal includes
fiction, essays, poetry, and artwork, and features, among
others, darkly humorous short stories and poems in verse.
The Hidden Truths of Lincoln Park
Saturday, May 10, 11:00 a.m.
Pre-payment only: $8 / Members and Loyola students,
faculty, and staff: $5
To highlight the dark nature of Gorey’s work, LUMA will
host a tour featuring a talk on the cemetery that used to be in
what is now Lincoln Park and its only remaining grave—the
Couch Mausoleum. The talk will feature artist Pamela Bannos
from Northwestern University. Wanting to learn more about
the layers of the city’s rich history, she began work on
Hidden
Truths
,
in which she highlighted the park’s past. During the
course of her research, she learned that things were not as
simple as she had assumed.
We will meet at 10:45 a.m. inside
the Chicago History Museum at the North & Clark Café.
The address is 1601 N. Clark Street.
Stories of the Nonsensical, Macabre, and Playful
Saturday, May 24, 1:00 p.m.
Free with museum admission
Edward Gorey was famous for his witty, delightful, and
unexpected stories. With that in mind, Bren Ortega Murphy
will conduct an interactive storytelling session. She will help
participants—young and old—invent and share their own
tales...stories that have never been heard before!
All events take place at LUMA, 820 N. Michigan Avenue. RSVP to
or 312.915.7608.
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This program is generously
sponsored by a grant from the
Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Inspired by the writing and illustrations of Edward Gorey?
Submit your work to:
ATribute to Edward Gorey inWords and Image
Goreyesque
is an
online literary journal
featuring selected work inspired by Gorey’s aesthetic. It coincides
the return of Gorey’s work to Chicago at the Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) beginning Febr
Illustration © 2014 Kenneth Gerleve
