Friday 2/1 – Thursday 2/7
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2 SATURDAY Want to know if we’re in for an early spring? Keepers at Brookfield Zoo will attempt to lure a groundhog named Cloudy out of her hole with a nutritionally correct carrot cake at 10:30 this morning inside the Children’s Zoo. The zoo is at 31st and First in Brookfield, and admission is $7 for adults, $3.50 for seniors and kids ages 3 to 11. Winter hours are 10 to 5 every day; call 708-485-0263.
3 SUNDAY The altar in the Stone Chapel of Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut, has probably never looked like this before–concealed by a sheet, a man’s shirt, and a woman’s slip strung on a clothesline, all being blown about by an electric fan. What may first appear to be a makeshift laundry service is the projection surface for Sandra Binion’s video installation and exhibit, Only Sleeping, which opens this afternoon and runs through March 31. Flickering across the swaying fabrics are scenes from everyday life in Israel and Jordan: a fully clothed Muslim woman bathing in the Dead Sea, children at recess, an Orthodox Jewish woman at prayer. Binion, a performance artist and film- and video maker, spent three weeks in September of 2000 gathering images in the Middle East, yet her title was inspired by a grave marker she saw on a road trip to Wisconsin. “I decided on ‘Only Sleeping’ because, at the time, the war was only sleeping,” she says. Outside the sanctuary, the scenes are frozen in 21 framed lithographs. The exhibit is free and viewing hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 11 to 4 and Sunday from 12:30 to 6. For more information call 312-795-3709.
