ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time. To be featured in a future edition, send your recommendations and why you love them to Creative Director / Publisher Dave Hamilton at dhamilton@streetwise.org
Tale a Field Trip with Lori!
Stay Home, Hit Play Mayor Lori Lightfoot ushers penguins into the Shedd Aquarium, where she feeds the sharks in the premiere of a new virtual Chicago “field trip� exploration series, "Stay Home, Hit Play," available online at hitplaychicago.org. The series also airs on WTTW at 5:30 p.m. Fridays and Mondays in partnership with Citadel. The series is intended to bring Chicagoans eye to eye with Chicago culture during the shelter-in-place. Along with each episode, students will find corresponding online educational activities to enrich their experience at not only the Shedd, but the Art Institute, Museum of Science and Industry, DuSable Museum, National Museum of Mexican Art and more.
(HOME) ENTERTAINMENT
Tour a Gallery Virtually!
The Block from Home: 'Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s' This week, The Block Museum at Northwestern University was scheduled to be putting the finishing touches on the installation of "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s" and welcoming guests to the opening celebration. The Block hopes to present this extraordinary exhibition, organized by the Grey Art Gallery at NYU and the Barjeel Art Foundation, at a future date. Until then, its colleagues at NYU have created a rich web portal with images and text covering all the works from the exhibition at https://bit.ly/2KUfLWY.
Work it Out!
Joffery Ballet's Aaron Renteria's Workout Sessions If you're stuck at home because your gym isn't open during the pandemic, how about this upper body workout on YouTube with the Joffrey Ballet's Aaron Renteria? Not too difficult, it features 30-second to 2-minute stomach planks to "Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish. Renteria began studying at the San Francisco Ballet at age 13 and in 2016 he came to Joffrey, where he has danced in Jerome Robbins' "Interplay and Glass Pieces;" George Balanchine's "The Four Temperaments," Christopher Wheeldon's "Fool's Paradise" and "The Nutcracker," Alexander Ekman's "Midsummer Night's Dream" and more. -Recommended by Suzanne Hanney, StreetWise editor
