GOODMAN THEATRE WELCOMES ITS FIRST AUDIENCES TO “THE ALICE”
WITH FREE EVENTS,
MAY 19-21
  ***EXPERIENCE THE NEW ALICE RAPOPORT CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT WITH “LORRAINE HANSBERRY DAY” ON MAY 19; YOUTH SPOKEN WORD + OPEN MIC ON MAY 20
AND A MAY 21 OPEN HOUSE OF CREATIVE FUN, INCLUDING
FAMILY-FRIENDLY AND MEET-THE-ARTIST EVENTS***
Here at ChiIL Mama and ChiIL Live Shows, we're so excited about "The Alice". As a Chicago mom, theatre critic, and huge arts advocate, I'm beyond excited that these new facilities will enable The Goodman to expand their excellent educational arts programming.
The children are our future, whether you are pre/post/or non parents of the birth to 18 year old bracket, raising a new generation of creative thinkers benefits us all. Theatre loving, arts loving kids make great problem solvers and assets to society.
**Check out some of our past coverage and original photos of Goodman Education in action, right HERE.**
 
Build a play with your family, try your hand at stage combat, hear Chicago’s finest actors spill stage secrets—and more! Goodman Theatre proudly opens its Alice Rapoport Center for Education and Engagement (“the Alice”) with free opportunities for audiences to sample the variety of programming offered in the theater’s newly dedicated space for classes, lectures, discussions and special performance events. May 19 is “Lorraine Hansberry Day,” with events connected to the critically acclaimed current mainstage production, Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, directed by Anne Kauffman (on stage through June 5). A schedule of events appears below; reservations are recommended as space is limited: GoodmanTheatre.org/Engage-Learn or 312.443.3800.
 Thursday, May 19 – “Lorraine Hansberry Day” in Chicago
12 Noon | Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proclaimed May 19, 2016 “Lorraine Hansberry Day,” in honor of what would have been the Chicago native playwright’s 86th birthday. The company of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window kicks off the special day with a reading of the mayoral proclamation—followed by birthday cake for all.
12:30pm | A conversation with artists about Hansberry’s body of work, the background and themes of the Goodman’s revival of her rarely-produced play, and her significance among American playwrights.
6pm | A screening of the 1961 film A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil and Diana Sands. Jackie Taylor, founder and executive director of the Black Ensemble Theater Company, introduces the film.
Friday, May 20
7pm | Listen to the Poem: Spoken Word and Open Mic
The Goodman Youth Poetry Ensemble delivers an electrifying performance featuring pieces from their past season and the work of other Chicago youth poets. Audience members are invited to share their own poetry works during an open mic session.
8pm | All tickets to this performance of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window are $10 for students.
Saturday, May 21
9am and 10:30am | Play ’N 90 Workshop (two sessions)
An interactive family program in which 5-12 year-olds and their parents/guardians fashion a theatrical creation together—in only 90 minutes.
10am | Insider Access: "How Do Actors Learn All Those Darned Lines?"
Meet acclaimed actor Mary Beth Fisher (star of such Goodman productions as Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Luna Gale) and particiate in her creative process, bringing a script from page to stage.
12 Noon | PlayBuild Workshop
Realize your creative potential in this intergenerational collective workshop! Participants will create performance pieces using personal history and storytelling techniques.
2pm | Storytelling Workshop
Master the art of storytelling with teaching artists from the Goodman’s GeNarrations program. In this collaborative ensemble-based workshop, participants learn the basics of writing, editing and performing personal narrative stories.
3pm | Insider Access: “Slap! Kick! Punch!”
Have some energy to burn? Learn the art of stage combat, the technique used to perform physical combats without causing harm to actors, from a professional fight choreographer.
4:30pm | Insider Access: "Not Acting Our Age"
A lively discussion with a handful of Chicago actors age 55+ about their esteemed bodies of work and the thrill of a life in the theater.
In addition to these activities, all pre- and post-performance discussions—“PlayTalks” and “PlayBacks”—for The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976 by Rebecca Gilman will take place in the Alice May 19 – 21, one hour prior to and immediately following each performance. Moderated by a Goodman artist, discussions include cast members and are free of charge for patrons.
About the Alice Rapoport Center for Education and Engagement (“the Alice”)
The Goodman becomes the first Chicago theater to establish a facility dedicated to education and engagement programs when it opens the Alice—the next phase in the Goodman’s decades-long commitment to educating Chicago youth and promoting lifelong learning for audiences of all ages. Named for the late Goodman Trustee Alice Rapoport, the Alice is a 10,000 square-foot, LEED certified (upon completion), $15 million expansion effort (of which 80% supports expanded programming) that deepens the theater’s practice of using its art as education—using the process of artistic creation to empower and inspire youth and lifelong learners. The new facility includes classrooms, a hands-on STEM learning lab, rehearsal spaces and more, and will enable the Goodman to impact hundreds more Chicagoans through its myriad education and engagement programs. Patrons access the Alice though the Goodman Theatre, entering at the south end of the mezzanine lobby. The Alice is named for the late Alice Rapoport, a Goodman Trustee, chair of the theater’s Education and Community Engagement Committee and passionate advocate for the theater’s outreach efforts.
Artist, educator and activist Willa J. Taylor, Walter Director of Education and Engagement, has led the Goodman’s programs since 2007. Taylor and her team of associates—Bobby Biedrzycki (Curriculum and Instruction Associate), Elizabeth Rice (School Programs Coordinator), Brandi Lee (Education and Community Engagement Associate) and Adrian Azevedo (Education and Engagement Assistant)—collaborate with the Goodman’s artistic and executive leadership to oversee programmatic efforts in the Alice.   About Goodman Theatre
Called America’s “Best Regional Theatre” by Time magazine, Goodman Theatre has won international recognition for its artists, productions and programs, and is a major cultural, educational and economic pillar in Chicago. Founded in 1925 by William O. Goodman and his family in honor of their son Kenneth (an important figure in Chicago’s cultural renaissance in the early 1900s), Goodman Theatre has garnered hundreds of awards for artistic achievement and community engagement, including: two Pulitzer Prizes, 22 Tony Awards (including “Outstanding Regional Theatre” in 1992), nearly 160 Joseph Jefferson Awards and more. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Robert Falls and Executive Director Roche Schulfer, the Goodman’s artistic priorities include new plays (more than 150 world or American premieres in the past 30 years), reimagined classics (including Falls’ nationally and internationally celebrated productions of Death of a Salesman, Long’s Day’s Journey into Night, King Lear and The Iceman Cometh, many in collaboration with actor Brian Dennehy), culturally specific work, musical theater (26 major productions in 20 years, including 10 world premieres) and international collaborations. Diversity and inclusion have been primary cornerstones of the Goodman’s mission for 30 years; over the past decade, 68% of the Goodman’s 35 world premieres were authored by women and/or playwrights of color, and the Goodman was the first theater in the world to produce all 10 plays in August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle.” Each year, the Goodman’s numerous education and community engagement programs—including the innovative Student Subscription Series, now in its 30th year—serve thousands of students, teachers, life-long learners and special constituencies. In addition, for nearly four decades the annual holiday tradition of A Christmas Carol has led to the creation of a new generation of theatergoers in Chicago.
Goodman Theatre’s leadership includes the distinguished members of the Artistic Collective: Brian Dennehy, Rebecca Gilman, Henry Godinez, Steve Scott, Chuck Smith, Regina Taylor, Henry Wishcamper and Mary Zimmerman. Joan Clifford is Chair of Goodman Theatre’s Board of Trustees, Swati Mehta is Women’s Board President and Gordon C.C. Liao is President of the Scenemakers Board for young professionals.
Visit the Goodman virtually at GoodmanTheatre.org, and on Twitter (@GoodmanTheatre), Facebook and Instagram.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Goodman Theatre's New Education Building, The Alice Is Open!
ADULT NIGHT OUT: Modern Faust, Feminine Twist. Catch The Hypocrites' Johanna Faustus
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Johanna Faustus
From Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Co-adapted by Emily Casey and Sean Graney
Directed by Sean Graney
Don't miss this limited run! Here at ChiIL Mama and ChiIL Live Shows, we've been fans of Sean Graney's adaptations and unique vision for years. He has a depth and insight embedded with a rare, playful streak, that makes his productions utterly unique and entirely compelling. The Hypocrites are one of our favorites on the Chicago theatre scene and we highly recommend checking them out.
What would you trade for happiness?
In the spirit of Sean Graney’s previous hits including 12 Nights and Romeo Juliet, six actors tell a modern Faust story. The performers are also the design team, with purposeful limited resources they will enact the tale using the barest elements. In this new adaptation, Faust is a woman questioning her choices that brought her to success but also isolation.
Limited Engagement May 20 - May 29, 2016
Fri 5/20/2016 at 8:00 PM Sat 5/21/2016 at 3:00 PM at 8:00 PM at 3:00 PM at 8:00 PM Sat 5/28/2016 at 3:00 PM Sat 5/28/2016 at 8:00 PM Sun 5/29/2016 at 3:00 PM |
Price: $36
The Den Theatre's Heath Main Stage
1329 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60622
Box Office: 773-398-7028
Johanna Faustus is an hour-long modern Faust story told by six actors who also serve as the design team in the spirit of Graney’s previous hits 12 Nights and Romeo Juliet. The tale is enacted using the barest elements with purposeful limited resources. In this new adaptation, Faust is a woman questioning whether success can really bring power. What would you trade for satisfaction?
Starring and Designed by Breon Arzell, Kate Carson-Groner, Whitney Dottery, Dana Omar, Sasha Smith, and Lauren Vogel.
Johanna Faustus will conclude The Hypocrites’ 2015-16 season with a limited engagement May 20 – 29, 2015 at The Den Theatre’s Heath Main Stage, 1329 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.
Emily Casey and Sean Graney
CREATIVE BIOGRAPHIES
Emily Casey’s (Co-Adapter) past credits include All Our Tragic (The Hypocrites, Getty Villa), Sailress Billi/Captain Cat Coran in HMS Pinafore (The Hypocrites and Actor’s Theatre of Louisville), Yum-Yum/The Mikado in The Mikado (The Hypocrites, Steppenwolf Garage, American Repertory Theatre), Pirates of Penzance (The Hypocrites, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre), Frederick (Chicago Children’s Theatre), The Casuals (Jackalope Theatre), Woody Sez (Northlight Theatre), Scapin (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre). She holds a BA in Theatre from Hope College. www.emily-casey.com
Sean Graney (Co-Adapter/Director) has directed over 30 productions for The Hypocrites since 1997, including the critically acclaimed All Our Tragic. He recently returned from a Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 2004, Graney was a participant in the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. He has won four Joseph Jefferson Citation awards for the Direction and Adaptation for Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses, and Directing of Equus and Machinal. He has directed Edward II (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), The Hairy Ape (Eugene O’Neill Festival at Goodman Theatre), The Comedy of Errors, The Mystery of Irma Vep and What the Butler Saw (Court Theatre), Yankee Tavern (Milwaukee Rep) and The Elephant Man (Steppenwolf for Young Audiences). Graney currently serves as the Hypocrites’ Artistic Director.
About The Hypocrites
Artistic Director Sean Graney created The Hypocrites in 1997. The Hypocrites, one of Chicago’s premier off-Loop theater companies, specializes in startling and thoroughly entertaining adaptations of classic plays and stories, mounting bold productions that challenge preconceptions and redefining the role of the audience through unusual staging (such as promenade and in-the-round) and direct engagement. The mission is to explore recognizable stories—mixing the familiar and the strange—to make theater that thrills and provokes, defying expectations with humor, staging, and surprise. The company has a reputation in Chicago for creating exciting, surprising, and deeply engaging theater as it re-interprets well-known works for contemporary audiences, reveling in the absurd while revealing the core of what makes classics classic.
The company has grown significantly in the past few years, receiving acclaim for productions at the Steppenwolf Garage, Goodman Theatre, Museum of Contemporary Art, DCASE Storefront and Chopin Theater. The company’s smash-hit production of Our Town, directed by David Cromer, transferred in 2009 to Off-Broadway, Los Angeles and Boston. The Pirates of Penzance has appeared at Actors Theater of Louisville and American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). A.R.T. has also brought Romeo Juliet, 12 Nights and The Mikado (forthcoming). The American Theatre Wing, best known as the creator of the Tony Awards, presented The Hypocrites with one of the 2013 National Theatre Company awards. The critically acclaimed fall 2013 production of All Our Tragic was brought back by popular demand in June 2015. Graney’s critically acclaimed ALL OUR TRAGIC, an epic 12-hour adaptation of all 32 surviving Greek tragedies, was honored with six 2015 Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best Play (midsized), Best New Adaptation and Direction for Graney and the prestigious Ensemble Award.
The Hypocrites on the Road
The Hypocrites continue to make a national imprint, with remounts of Graney’s wildly popular musical adaptations from the Gilbert & Sullivan canon set for engagements across the U.S. THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE and THE MIKADO will play the The Olney Theatre Center near Washington, D.C. (July 14 – August 21, 2016).
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Cool Chicago Summer Camps On Our Radar: Dancing Among The Stars With Design Dance and Adler Planetarium
Are you on the lookout for great, Chicago summer camps? Here at ChiIL Mama we're excited to announce the premiere of a stellar camp that merges dance with science (STEM)! My daughter has enjoyed taking Ballet for Team Gymnasts classes with Design Dance for years, so we were happy to partner up with them when they reached out to us about a sponsored post. This summer, they’re offering a brand new day camp called Dancing Among the Stars for ages 7-10!
Curious about Dancing Among the Stars? Join us for a free dance + science workshop on June 4th and see what it's all about! REGISTER HERE
Design Dance is blending dance with astronomy to teach kids about movement--of their bodies and of the universe. They even have astronomers from Adler coming to teach students about what they do!
Design Dance Teaches Movement of the Body and the Stars with Adler Astronomers.
Design Dance is a community of teaching artists that bring dance education to over 1,300 students in classrooms and community centers across Chicago. We're changing the game in arts education by integrated dance with literacy and science.
This summer, we're piloting "Dance Among the Stars": a completely innovative new summer camp with Prismatic and the support of the Adler Planetarium. Students ages 7-10 will learn about movement--of their bodies and of the stars. We're bringing in astronomers from the Adler Planetarium to speak with students and show them what real astronomers do and think about on a daily basis.
"We learn by doing," says Adler astronomer, Dr. Grace Wolf-Chase. "In science, learning typically begins with observing the world or universe around us, but this summer, kids will experience astronomy through motion by becoming the very concepts and 'stuff' of the cosmos!"
Though the camp is open to boys and girls, we're excited about exposing our campers to female astronomers. Women currently only make up about 15% of engineers and 30% of physical scientists according to the National Science Foundation. For physicists and astronomers specifically, that number is closer to 12%.
The goal here is to create an engaging experience with science subjects, like astronomy, through a creative and physical medium. Dance allows students to take up space and gain self-awareness of their body and its relation to others.
Dancing Among the Stars will take place July 25-29th and culminates with a performance at the Adler Planetarium.
About Design Dance:
Design Dance is a community of over 40 teaching artists that work in classrooms and community centers around Chicago to make every space a space for dance. Our mission is to cultivate courage, connection, and self-awareness in every student. Founded by Debra Giunta in 2008, Design Dance has grown to over 100 classes a week serving more than 1,300 students in the Chicagoland area a year. Students practice an array of styles including ballet, modern, hip hop, breakdance, and cultural dance.
About Prismatic: Prismatic is a brand new nonprofit organization fostering confidence and resiliency by providing a creative catalyst to bridge the gap between common core curriculum and real-life application for all students, regardless of age or background.
About Adler Planetarium:
The Adler Planetarium--America's First Planetarium--is more than a museum; it is a laboratory, a classroom, and a community exploring the Universe together. Each year, over 550,000 visitors experience the museum's interactive exhibitions, live planetarium shows, hands-on, minds-on STEM education programs, and world-class collections. Founded in 1930 by Chicago business leader Max Adler, the Adler Planetarium is a recognized leader in public engagement. The museum's scientists, historians, and educators inspire the next generation of explorers and invite you to explore space with us.
You can be in on the start of a brand new summer camp, Dancing Among the Stars, that will premiere this Summer, 2016! The camp specifically works to integrate science with dance in an exploration of the Solar System. We are especially excited because the program will conclude with a performance at the Adler Planetarium!
Dancing Among the Stars
for students Ages 7-10: July 25-29
Monday-Friday, 9am - 4pm, $375
Jesse White Community Center: 412 W. Chicago Ave
Join us for a week of dance and science, as we learn about the universe from real astronomers! Students will explore their creativity with hands on projects and dance classes all about the solar system! Campers will end the week with a performance at the Adler Planetarium!
*Aftercare available until 5:30pm at additional cost, call 312-361-0864 to enroll
Disclosure: ChiIL Mama is pleased to partner up with Design Dance and we have been compensated for sharing the details about this camp with our readers. As always, all opinions are our own.
Friday, May 13, 2016
ADULT NIGHT OUT: DISENCHANTED! AT THE BROADWAY PLAYHOUSE AT WATER TOWER PLACE 5/15
Chi, IL LIVE Shows On Our Radar:
DISENCHANTED! OPENS THIS SUNDAY NIGHT
AT THE BROADWAY PLAYHOUSE
AT WATER TOWER PLACE, CHICAGO (May 15, 2016)
**The not-for-children musical revue DISENCHANTED! gives a saucy makeover to Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and other fairy-tale princesses.” **
ChiIL Mama will be there... will you?! We'll be ChiILin' out in Chi, IL with the delightfully disenchanted anti-princesses, so check back soon for our full review. I love a good, snarky, pop culture parody, so I'm really looking forward to this.
Broadway In Chicago and Starvox Entertainment are pleased to announce that DISENCHANTED!, the hilarious hit musical, opens Sunday, May 15, at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut). Directed by Christopher Bond, DISENCHANTED! will play through June 5, 2016.
DISENCHANTED! features Merritt Crews (Snow White), Madison Hayes-Crook (Cinderella), Daniella Richards (Sleeping Beauty), Miriam Drysdale (The Little Mermaid, Belle, Rapunzel), Ann Paula Bautista (Hua Mulan, Pocahontas, Baldroulbadour) and Uche Ama (The Princess Who Kissed the Frog).
Poisoned apples. Glass slippers. Who needs 'em?! Not Snow White and her posse of disenchanted princesses in the hilarious hit musical that’s anything but Grimm. Forget the princesses you think you know – the original storybook heroines have come back to life to set the record straight. After multiple sold-out runs nationwide, these royal renegades tossed off their tiaras to bring their hilariously subversive, not-for-the-kiddies musical to you – and what you thought about princesses will never be the same!
The idea for DISENCHANTED! was conceived by Giacino, a former history teacher. When teaching his class about the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, he couldn’t help but wonder: What would the ‘real’ Pocahontas – a circa 1616, rough-and-tumble 10-year-old Powhatan girl – think of the fringed deer-pelt miniskirt and long, flowing hair donned by her 20-year-old counterpart in her 1995 movie comeback? A musician at heart, Giacino penned a musical number skewering the ‘princess pop culture’ that transformed Pocahontas from a revered Native American heroine into a pin-up vixen of the silver screen. Soon, Giacino found himself discovering a number of other princesses who had a bone to pick with the way they have been portrayed, and DISENCHANTED! was born!
The ‘storybook’ journey for DISENCHANTED! began with a sold-out, award-winning run at Orlando’s International Fringe Festival in 2011 (‘Best of Fest’ – Orlando Sentinel), and subsequent licensing of over a dozen productions nationwide, from New Jersey to California, all of which have been met with widespread critical acclaim. In addition to the sold-out New York engagement, this fairy tale is going international. A production in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic has made its mark, as The National stated, ‘The Country will never be the same!’ The Dominican Republic production is now looking to continue its run throughout Latin America, while China’s leading commercial theatrical producer, Musical Theater China is planning a production in Beijing in the winter of 2015/16.
During the New York engagement, the production defied the trend for Off-Broadway shows with its sold out performances and critical acclaim. NBC New York called the show “funny, irreverent, and great fun! The seriously talented cast of six strong, hysterical women give fairytales a new meaning!” while Time Out New York stated, “If you love fairy tales with a sassy modern twist, relief is here!
The not-for-children musical revue DISENCHANTED! gives a saucy makeover to Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and other fairy-tale princesses.” The Huffington Post calls it, “funny and a touch wicked. DISENCHANTED!’s pop score delivers to great comic effect.” The New York Times describes DISENCHANTED! as “a girls’-night-out rebellion” and FOX 5 says "It's a hot ticket that delivers a new kind of fairy tale. You will laugh and then laugh some more at the sassy, irreverent humor." Broadway Box raves, “Think ‘Bridesmaids’ for Disney Princesses! This sidesplitting adult parody of the Disney princess posse and its mega-talented cast will make you blush and feel nostalgia all at once. Who could ask for anything more?”
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Tuesdays at 7:30 PM
Wednesdays at 2 PM and 7:30 PM (no matinee on June 1)
Thursdays at 7:30 PM
Fridays at 7:30 PM
Saturdays at 2 PM and 8 PM
Sundays at 2 PM and 6:00 PM (no evening performance on May 22 and May 29)
Wednesdays at 2 PM and 7:30 PM (no matinee on June 1)
Thursdays at 7:30 PM
Fridays at 7:30 PM
Saturdays at 2 PM and 8 PM
Sundays at 2 PM and 6:00 PM (no evening performance on May 22 and May 29)
TICKET INFORMATION
Individual tickets for DISENCHANTED! at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place are $35.75-$78.75. A select number of premium seats are available for most performances. Group tickets for 10 or more are available by calling Broadway In Chicago Group Sales at (312) 977-1710. Tickets are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St., 18 W. Monroe St. and 175 E. Chestnut), the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (800) 775-2000, all Ticketmaster retail locations and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com.
ABOUT BROADWAY IN CHICAGO
Broadway In Chicago was created in July 2000 and over the past 16 years has grown to be one of the largest commercial touring homes in the country. A Nederlander Presentation, Broadway In Chicago lights up the Chicago Theater District entertaining well up to 1.7 million people annually in five theatres. Broadway In Chicago presents a full range of entertainment, including musicals and plays, on the stages of five of the finest theatres in Chicago’s Loop including its newly named The PrivateBank Theatre, the Oriental Theatre, Cadillac Palace Theatre, the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University and just off the Magnificent Mile, the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place.
WIN VIP Tickets ($200 value) to Chicago's Wear: A Babywearing Conference May 27-29th
Chicago Hosts First Ever
World Babywearing Education Day
(Tickets are $20-exhibitor hall only, $40-one day pass, or $100-3 day pass)
Hundreds of parents, babies and educators celebrate Inaugural World Babywearing Education Day and join growing natural parenting community at 3-day event
Disclosure: ChiIL Mama is pleased to partner up with Wear: A Babywearing Conference. They have provided VIP tickets/gift bag, etc. for our giveaway and media tickets for review purposes. As always, all opinions are our own.
Here at ChiIL Mama we're HUGE advocates of babywearing. I used multiple slings and backpacks with both of my kids from birth well into toddlerhood. Along with long term nursing, babywearing was an integral part of my parenting philosophy in those early years and invaluable for bonding and developing healthy, independent children. So, we were elated to hear Chicago is on the forefront of celebrating babywearing and educating American moms on the benefits with Wear: A Babywearing Conference.
ChiIL Mama ChiiLin' with newborn, Sage & 2 year old Dugan, back in the day. These two are a long term nursing & babywearing success story and have grown into independent, successful teens.
**ENTER HERE for your chance to win VIP Tickets to Wear which includes 2 passes to the conference ($200 value) with VIP express check-in, plus a gift bag! Enter early and often through midnight, Sunday, May 22nd.**
To celebrate the growing natural parenting and babywearing communities, the inaugural World Babywearing Education Day kicks off in Chicago on Thursday, May 26, 2016. World Babywearing Education Day leads up to Wear: A Babywearing Conference – a first-of-its-kind event for parents and medical practitioners who embrace the social and psychological benefits of babywearing – taking place Friday May 27 through Sunday May 29, 2016 at The Westin Hotel on Michigan Avenue.
“The natural parenting movement has grown significantly over the past 5 years,” Xza Higgins said, Wear Conference organizer and MommyCon Founder. “Babywearing is a big part of this philosophy. The purpose of World Babywearing Education Day and the WEAR conference is to normalize babywearing and de-bunk the myths surrounding it, educating families about its crucial role in child development. We also want to celebrate babywearing educators who work tirelessly to educate families on a local, national and international level.”
Babywearing is an ancient practice used worldwide. In North America, an increasing number of caregivers are now searching for babywearing information and products out of necessity and convenience, encouraged by findings that the use of carriers can support healthy physical and emotional development in infants and the adults who "wear" them.
“Over the past decades, we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the sophistication of investigatory methods of how both parents and children develop in co-dependence”, says Dr. Henrik Norholt, Chief Science Officer, Ergobaby Inc. “Modern measures comprise behavior, hormones, physiological regulation and brain imaging. We see a common denominator amongst the multifarious studies, investigating the effects of early parent-infant physical contact: Both the parents and the child are put on a more positive developmental trajectory as regards vital domains, such as socio-emotional skills, stress regulation, sleep organization, cognitive control, parent-child relations and parental mental health. Longitudinal studies demonstrate that such children stay ahead of the curve across childhood, so early positive effects are not just transient, but appear to be permanent and long-lasting.”
Wear: A Babywearing Conference includes more than 50 workshops, interactive sessions with industry experts and healthcare professionals, a range of high profile speakers including world-renowned child development researcher Dr. Henrik Norholt. Other prominent speakers include Jennifer Labit, CEO & Founder of Cotton Babies, speaking on Babies at Work, Jessica Martin-Weber of The Leaky Boob speaking about the bond of babywearing, and Karin Frost, Founder of Ergobaby sharing The Ergobaby Story. Other talks and workshops include Using Babywearing To Support Breastfeeding Goals, The Babywearing Guide to Hiking, Babywearing Posture: A Chiropractic Perspective, and Babywearing for Children on the Spectrum. There will also be a one-on-one consultation room; babywearing fitness classes, including Babywearing Yoga and Babywearing Bellydance; and a WEAR dance party.
About Wear: A Babywearing Conference
Wear: A Babywearing Conference is dedicated to providing the latest research, education and support for babywearing educators and families. We seek to preserve age-old indigenous babywearing practices, while showcasing the latest advances in babywearing innovation, design and fashion. Parents, educators, manufacturers, activists, lactation professionals, and many more gather to promote and support the values of education, inclusion, and infant bonding.
To learn more about Wear: A Babywearing Conference, connect with MommyCon on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Disclosure: ChiIL Mama is pleased to partner up with Wear: A Babywearing Conference. They have provided VIP tickets/gift bag, etc. for our giveaway and media tickets for review purposes. As always, all opinions are our own.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Adam Sandler, David Spade, Nick Swardson and Rob Schneider LIVE at The Chicago Theatre 5/23
THE DO-OVER TOUR
COMES TO
THE CHICAGO THEATRE MAY 23
Netflix sends Adam Sandler and comic pals on tour ahead of movie release
I think my husband, teens, and I have managed to see every Adam Sandler movie ever made, some multiple times, mostly thanks to Netflix. Somehow Adam Sandler has made a hugely successful career out of playing more or less the same guy in every film, yet his characters do grow and learn a few life lessons during each story arc, and there's something compelling about Sandler that resonates with the modern, American "everyman" archetype. If you're a fan, you're in luck. This month you can catch the man's comedic stylings live and on Netflix. With the addition of David Spade and Nick Swardson hilarity is sure to ensue.
Netflix is sending Adam Sandler and his fellow THE DO-OVER stars David Spade and Nick Swardson on the road, along with longtime Sandler collaborator Rob Schneider, for The Do-Over Tour, where the comedians and longtime pals will deliver live performances for their fans. The seven-city tour kicks off May 19 in San Francisco. The Do-Over Tour comes to The Chicago Theatre Monday, May 23, 8pm. Tickets start at $45. THE DO-OVER will be available on Netflix May 27.
In THE DO-OVER, Adam Sandler plays “Max” and David Spade plays “Charlie,” old friends tired of their mundane lives who reunite at their 25th high school reunion for the ultimate mulligan: they decide to wipe the slate clean for a do-over. After faking their deaths and assuming new identities, could their lives be better the second time around?
THE DO-OVER, the second of four films in Sandler’s deal with Netflix, also stars Paula Patton, Sean Astin, Renée Taylor, Luis Guzmán, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Chiklis, Catherine Bell, Natasha Leggero, Torsten Voges and Matt Walsh. It was directed by Stevin Brill from a script penned by Kevin Barnett and Chris Pappas.
Monday, May 9, 2016
SAVE THE DATES: CHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE'S 2016-17 SEASON ANNOUNCED
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