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October2022
Color Club Comedy — Every First Friday!Color Club Comedy is the vibrant comedy show from Local Universe (Cosmic Country Showcase, Yard Party). The monthly stand-up show will be the first Friday of the month at the brilliant new hangout Color Club in Irving Park and will feature the core off-the-wall talent of the Club that’s young, bright, and diverges from your typical and tired comedy club tropes.
October Lineup:
Joey Villagomez
Kyle Scanlan
Eunji Kim
Olivia Carter
Diya Basrai
October Lineup:
Joey Villagomez
Kyle Scanlan
Eunji Kim
Olivia Carter
Diya Basrai
8:00 PMColor Club Tavern
TICKETS
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9
October 2022
Zine Not DeadHosts Brad Rohloff (Bred Press) & Matt Davis (Perfectly Acceptable Press) have been the champions of the alt-comic world and Zine Not Dead is their quarterly showcase of Chicago’s best comic artists. Shows have had giant snake puppets and off-the-wall presentations of the drawn & printed material. As entertaining and silly as you’d hope a comic reading could be.
7:00 PMColor Club Ballroom
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8
October2022
Julia Shapiro of Chastity Beltwith Ulna and Izzy True
Zorked (adj.) – what happens when you end up thunderbaked, as in extremely stoned–or in any situation where you feel not sober. You can feel so tired you’re zorked. In fact, any state, so long as you’re a little out of it, qualifies. And Julia Shapiro, of Chastity Belt, Childbirth, and Who Is She?—much like everyone on this earth with a pulse—was zorked on more than one occasion in 2020. In March, she packed up her things and traded Seattle’s late-winter gloom for the perennial sunshine and seemingly endless opportunity of Los Angeles only to be forced into near-total isolation. With nowhere to go and nothing to do, she began working on her second solo album, ‘Zorked,’ On the resulting batch of songs, we’re given Julia’s vision of Los Angeles: a wasteland melting in slow-motion, a place to commune with ghosts and warped legacies.
Zorked (adj.) – what happens when you end up thunderbaked, as in extremely stoned–or in any situation where you feel not sober. You can feel so tired you’re zorked. In fact, any state, so long as you’re a little out of it, qualifies. And Julia Shapiro, of Chastity Belt, Childbirth, and Who Is She?—much like everyone on this earth with a pulse—was zorked on more than one occasion in 2020. In March, she packed up her things and traded Seattle’s late-winter gloom for the perennial sunshine and seemingly endless opportunity of Los Angeles only to be forced into near-total isolation. With nowhere to go and nothing to do, she began working on her second solo album, ‘Zorked,’ On the resulting batch of songs, we’re given Julia’s vision of Los Angeles: a wasteland melting in slow-motion, a place to commune with ghosts and warped legacies.
8:00 PMColor Club Ballroom
TICKETS
TICKETS
13
October2022
Greta TitelmanGreta Titelman is a comedian, actor, writer and host of the podcast Senior Superlatives on Headgum. You can currently watch her on HBOMax season 5 of SEARCH PARTY and HBO’s LOS ESPOOKYS with season two premiering this September. Outside of Senior Superlatives, you can currently listen to her Stepmom Presents: The Husband Hunt as part of Will Ferrell, Bown Yang and Matt Rogers character podcast Clown Parade. Her comedy has been featured on VICE and Comedy Central, and she was selected for Comedy Central’s UP NEXT showcase at Clusterfest 2019.
8:00 PMColor Club Ballroom
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14 & 15
October2022
Short Stack Film FestivalShort Stack: Chicago’s Tiny Dance Film Festival is Chicago’s newest dance film festival showcasing bite size dance films with individual runtimes of under 5 minutes. The festival will be hosted at Color club in Irving Park, and will also feature films from The One Hour Project.
7:00 PMColor Club Ballroom
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20
October2022
BOOTLEGThis show rips off your favorite art, makes it cheaper, rougher, and honestly maybe better. From Local Universe (Cosmic Country Showcase, Full Bush), Bootleg is the new free-format monthly showcase at Color Club that challenges artists to make a tribute performance to their favorite pop culture, good, bad, and good-bad.
This month features:
Charlie Reed
Derry Queen
Mary Williamson
Girl K
Karl Bradley
Maddie Davis
Lee Schulder
This month features:
Charlie Reed
Derry Queen
Mary Williamson
Girl K
Karl Bradley
Maddie Davis
Lee Schulder
8:00 PMColor Club Ballroom
TICKETS
TICKETS
21-23
October2022
The Baby TrapTwo new parents, Rachel and Martin, trick their childless friend into babysitting, hoping they can show him the joys of parenthood. They say they’ve seen… things… Things that cannot be conveyed to the single. The childless…
Their friend, Phil, finds himself on a harrowing psychological journey, struggling to placate a giant and surprisingly talkative baby. Phil endures the rigors of childcare and attempts to find his path to joy, while confronting the howling VOID in his own life…
Check out the riotous new comedy from playwright Sam Buntz, author of “The Great American Cougar Hunt” and “The God of Smoke and Mirrors.”
Their friend, Phil, finds himself on a harrowing psychological journey, struggling to placate a giant and surprisingly talkative baby. Phil endures the rigors of childcare and attempts to find his path to joy, while confronting the howling VOID in his own life…
Check out the riotous new comedy from playwright Sam Buntz, author of “The Great American Cougar Hunt” and “The God of Smoke and Mirrors.”
5:30 or 7:30 PMColor Club Ballroom
TICKETS
TICKETS
27
October2022
Ashley RayAshley Ray is the most famous bisexual solo polyamorous Black queer comedian, actor, and writer currently based in Los Angeles. Ashley was a punch-up writer on the upcoming Amazon animated series, SAUSAGE PARTY. Ashley wrote on the animated Adult Swim series, ALABAMA JACKSON created by Donald Faison. Ashley is the host of Earwolf’s ‘TV I Say with Ashley Ray’ which has been featured in the New York Times “Podcasts to Look Out For” and Vulture. She’s appeared on many popular podcasts including Scam Goddess with Laci Mosley and Storytime with Seth Rogen. She’s also a regular on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me and Crooked Media’s Lovett or Leave It. She co-edited Maria Bamford’s audiobook, “You Are (A Comedy) Special” for Audible. Ashley was selected as one of HBO Max’s Queer Comics to Watch for 2021 and filmed a digital special for the platform. She’s been profiled by Northern Public Radio, Bust Magazine and the Observer. As a freelance writer, Ashley has been published in Elle, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s.
8:00 PMColor Club Ballroom
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29
October2022
Number One Popstar & Grelley DuvallNUMBER ONE POP STAR
Name your new music project Number One Popstar and you’re already #1.
GRELLEY DUVALL
Grelley Duvall is the triple-threat nostalgic brainchild of Alex Grelle.
Name your new music project Number One Popstar and you’re already #1.
GRELLEY DUVALL
Grelley Duvall is the triple-threat nostalgic brainchild of Alex Grelle.
8:00 PMColor Club Ballroom
TICKETS
TICKETS
19
November2022
Minor Moon & Wilder MakerMINOR MOON
Minor Moon’s Sam Cantor writes resonant journeys into songs. Across three albums culminating in Tethers (out March 26, 2021), the Chicago-based musician has mined the pastoral and rollicking sounds of cosmic country for contemplative and thrilling songwriting, conjuring up engaging Neil Young grooves, eye-opening atmospherics, and a healthy amount of Midwestern twang.
WILDER MAKER
Ask singer-songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum what inspired Male Models – the diverse new album from New York band Wilder Maker – and he’ll mention everything from American novelist James Salter and the NBA playoffs to Thin Lizzy and the delicate tightrope of positive masculinity. These reference points might sound arbitrary to the uninitiated listener, but together they provide some insight into the creation of an album that somehow succeeds at being both an apocalyptic novel of ideas and the most cohesive party playlist that you’ve ever heard.
Minor Moon’s Sam Cantor writes resonant journeys into songs. Across three albums culminating in Tethers (out March 26, 2021), the Chicago-based musician has mined the pastoral and rollicking sounds of cosmic country for contemplative and thrilling songwriting, conjuring up engaging Neil Young grooves, eye-opening atmospherics, and a healthy amount of Midwestern twang.
WILDER MAKER
Ask singer-songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum what inspired Male Models – the diverse new album from New York band Wilder Maker – and he’ll mention everything from American novelist James Salter and the NBA playoffs to Thin Lizzy and the delicate tightrope of positive masculinity. These reference points might sound arbitrary to the uninitiated listener, but together they provide some insight into the creation of an album that somehow succeeds at being both an apocalyptic novel of ideas and the most cohesive party playlist that you’ve ever heard.
8:00 PMColor Club Ballroom
TICKETS
TICKETS
We currently host the following weekly activities:
Monday nights — Community Dance with Lucky Plush
Tuesday nights — Anthony Meindl’s Actor’s Workshop
Friday nights — Ethnic Dance Chicago
Sunday mornings — Embodied Movement
Please note: Color Club’s 100-year-old building requires stairs to access the second floor ballroom and classroom. We are working on improvements to remedy this! The tavern on the first floor is accessible via the corner entrance at Hamlin and Elston.