Homeroom challenges local artists to produce new work outside their standard practice and create an artistic dialogue with far-reaching impact. All proceeds from this event will support artists fees in the 2023/24 season. We hope to see you there!
Food & Drink
Silent Auction
Live Performance (8 PM) by Rin Peisert & Jason Stein
$20-$50 Purchase tickets
Homeroom's Mission & History
Founded in 2008, Homeroom is an independent, nonprofit resource for creative Chicagoans to develop and produce original multidisciplinary arts programming, free from financial and artistic constraints. Homeroom supports artists in music, dance, film, visual arts, literature, and other performative mediums. Homeroom encourages multidisciplinary collaborations to build community, audiences, and sustainability. To date, Homeroom has presented 500+ IL-based artists. Focusing on commissioning new works, Homeroom has presented over 200 musical compositions and works of visual art.
In lieu of a physical space, Homeroom maintains a network of venues and programming partners to co-produce events. Partnerships bolster Homeroom's programming by expanding the artistic communities and audiences our performances reach. This collaborative approach also strengthens the existing artistic resources available in Chicago. On average, Homeroom presents 10-15 performances each year. Recurring programs like Ten x Ten (music/visual art), Comfort Music + (music/literature/video/dance), and Blank Box (music/video/dance) serve as cornerstones for Homeroom's multidisciplinary and collaborative philosophy.
About the Artists
Rin Peisert is an interdisciplinary artist who works with bodies, sounds, found objects, and live actions to explore conditions for interdependence and sincerity. Her site-responsive actions use intervention and interaction as tools to reorganize behavior and to exaggerate the quotidian. Peisert’s performance work has been seen at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Power Station of Art Shanghai, The Momentary Museum, and Defibrillator Art Gallery, and as well as street corners, rooftops, a bank vault, a bomb shelter, and a market for arranged marriages. Peisert has an MFA in Art Practice from School of Visual Arts, NYC. She also co-produces and conducts the graphic score series, Image of Thought and is the Performing Arts Curatorial Artist in Residence at Elastic Arts, organizing the quarterly series, Relative Intensity Noise.
Jason Stein is among the mere handful of improvisers who play the bass clarinet exclusively. Stein leads the acclaimed trio Locksmith Isidore as well as his own quartet. He contributes to several of the leading bands on Chicago’s new-music scene and has brought a vital voice to the freest of free-jazz jams. Stein’s playing showcases an extraordinary expertise on the bass clarinet, which ranges from powerful post-bop lines to ear-grabbing wails in the altissimo range. Chicago writer Neil Tesser notes that “Stein’s playing has a rawboned swagger particular to Chicago jazz in all its manifestations – from the trad playing of Bud Freeman and Jimmy McPartland in the 20s, through the tenor titans of the 50s, through the adventurers who formed the AACM in the 60s, and right up to the city’s renowned modern cadre of new-music improvisers.” Stein moved to Chicago in 2005 and has since recorded for such labels as Leo, Delmark, Not Two, Atavistic, 482 Music, Clean Feed, Astral Spirits, and Northern Spy. Stein has performed throughout the US and Europe as both a bandleader and sideman and has amassed a discography of over 40 albums.
