Tikkun Olam Repairing the World   Sunday, October 7th noon to 12:45pm in the Sidney Yates Gallery, fourth floor of the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Chicago Composers Forum's annual MusicCircus Free and open to the public

In 2006, Denver artist Christy Honigman interviewed 54 recent immigrants from 27 different countries to ask them what was most important to them for the process of Tikkun Olam, healing the world.

Their responses were shaped into a multi-media presentation incorporating their spoken voices reciting their responses, their written responses (poetry and prose) themselves, and painted panels (at left) of text from their responses.

The original production had its premiere at the Denver Central Public Library’s Schlessman Hall on September 7. Now you can see it in Chicago, as part of the Chicago Composers Consortium's MusicCircus at the Chicago Cultural Center, at Michigan and Randolph, Sunday October 7th, from noon to 4pm.

Most of the world’s cultures have a long tradition of art and healing and the knowledge that creativity, community, health and spirit are inextricably linked. The project's participants, many of whom are survivors of torture and exile, not only lent their personal expressions of Tikkun Olam to this project, but in the process of creating they experienced — and thus substantiated — art’s healing and transformative power.

The Tiny Mahler Orchestra

Performing the best in rarely heard music of any century.

For more information, email Leon Shernoff.