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The Albuquerque-based duo of butoh dancer Ephia and experimental musician Jeff Gburek, who perform under the name Djalma Primordial Science, took the title of their new show, Love Song of Human Waste, from The Human Waste Project, a recent performance marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. For that work, five people spent 12 hours duct taped to chairs with bags over their heads. The new piece, says Gburek, is, like most of their work, about “the discarded and insignificant and lost things of our life–all that has been pushed aside and pressed down by the need to strive for economic superiority and security…it’s about people who don’t fit into the production society.” Informed by Ephia’s work with developmentally disabled people, the improvised show starts tonight at 7 at the Spareroom, 2416 W. North. There’s a suggested donation of $10. For more information call 773-489-3734 or go to www.djalma.com.
24 SATURDAY Since it was launched last year on Earth Day, the I-GO car-sharing service has recruited 150 members who’ve paid an initial fee of $125 to share seven white Honda Civics parked in neighborhoods from Hyde Park to Edgewater. (Using a car costs $4.50 an hour and 50 cents a mile, plus a monthly $20 administrative fee). By summer’s end I-GO–a service of the nonprofit Community Energy Cooperative–hopes to have a fleet of 11 cars available to more than 200 members. The cooperative will hold a free seminar today from 11 AM to noon at the Edgewater Public Library, 1210 W. Elmdale. For more information call 773-278-4800, ext. 227, or visit www.i-go-cars.org. The event is part of the city’s Bike Chicago initiative (www.bikechicago2003.org), which runs through the end of July.
28 WEDNESDAY Seven-year-old local drummer Jamiah Rogers started hitting the skins when he was just three and joined his father’s group, the Tony Rogers Band, two years later. He recently told the Web site Guideposts for Kids that he’s not sure whether he wants to be a drummer or an ambulance driver when he grows up; in the meantime, he’s taking lessons and learning to read music. The band will play an all-ages show tonight at 8:30 at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln. It’s part of AfroFolk Live, a free 12-week concert series of music from the African diaspora that runs through July 23; tonight’s show follows Spin Night with bluesman Otis Taylor, who’ll DJ and discuss his favorite music from 7 to 8:30. For more information call 773-728-6000 or go to www.oldtownschool.org.
