Upcoming Events
2025 Programming Coming Soon!
Friday, March 14, 4-8pm
Stony Island Arts Bank
DJ Jaytoo
Join us at the Arts Bank as DJ Jaytoo spins a vinyl set inspired by the iconic sounds of the Johnson Publishing Company and Jet Magazine’s top singles charts.
Saturday, March 15, 2-8pm
Stony Island Arts Bank
DJ Celeste Alexander
and the Butterflies from her “Butterflies Beats and Blends” program
Celebrate the last day of When Clouds Roll Away with a special house music set in the Johnson Lounge featuring Rebuild Foundation’s Frankie Knuckles DJ-in-residence, DJ Celeste Alexander alongside three butterflies from her "Butterflies, Beats & Blends" mentorship program. DJ Breathless, Tsibinki and DJ Vanessa will be curating and presenting sets, showcasing their skills, and bringing party vibes alongside of our own DJ Celeste Alexander.
Monday, March 17, 6pm-8pm
6776 S South Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Black Cinema House
Theaster Gates, Terence Nance, and Maori Karmael Holmes of BlackStar Projects
Join us for the return of Black Cinema House, with a special screening of selected works by artist, musician, and filmmaker Terence Nance, followed by a conversation between the artist and Maori Karmael Holmes, filmmaker, curator, and Chief Executive and Artistic Officer of BlackStar Projects. Selected works include: “Random Acts of Flyness", “V O R T E X +”, and a film from the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, curated by Holmes, Terence Nance: Swarm.
In continuation of Theaster Gates’s Black Cinema House program, born on Dorchester in 2013, this is the first of a series of screenings and discussions that center contemporary Black film, formalist film theory, the archive of Black cinema, and its sonic, spatial, and international significance. Rebuild will present Black Cinema House across our constellation of place-based experimental platforms and sites on the South Side, engaging filmmakers, technicians, scholars, critics, students, film collectives, and community members to join us as partners and presenters.