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Norwegian Pearl Cruise Review by TR4: Norwegian Pearl - Alaska
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Norwegian Pearl - Alaska
Destination: Alaska
Embarkation: Seattle
This review is for the August 5,07 cruise to Alaska on NCL's Pearl. I would like you to keep in mind that this review is subjective to my experience on this cruise. The comments and reviews are based on my own opinions and experiences. Our background, my husband and I are both in our early 40's and this was both of ours first cruise. Which makes this review a little more difficult because we have nothing to compare it with. We booked this cruise in January of 2007 and while looking on the computer for information about Alaska I came upon the Cruise Critic site. From that moment on I was hooked. The amount of information I gained from these boards was overwhelming. Through-out the next several months it seemed I was visiting the boards daily. I soon joined our cruise roll-call and began to meet several really exceptional people. After a few months visiting with everyone, I was asked to be the leader of the group. This meant setting up a meeting time and place with the ship and getting More
together some information about the ports we were visiting. I was very nervous about my newly assigned position-someone who had never cruised before in-charge of a meeting! Well, looking back it was a great privilege to meet and work with some very delightful and caring people. While on roll-call we had a chance to talk about things we wanted to see and do while cruising. This was a great outlet for information. The anticipation for this cruise was more than I imagined. It was really nice to visit with others sharing your same excitement level and understanding. My newly assigned job required me to talk with the ship's crew and set up a meeting place on board the Pearl. During this process I talked with a few of NCL's staff that I felt went above the call of duty to assist in my needs: Karen Chong-viau from the group reservations, Maybelin Gutierrez from group event planner for the Pearl and Kathryn McAdam from the Casino Marketing department. All of these people made great first impressions for NCL. As far as the cruise planning, I can tell you right off the start that I tried to plan everything right down to the hour. I retrieved past freestyle daily sheets and tried to plan for our entire week. It didn't work out that way. We ended up just doing everything at that moment and it really seemed to work out great. The only regret is I did miss some shows and classes I had really wanted to see and do. There were so many things to choose from I found it hard to decide what to do. We only live about 6 hours away from Seattle so we drove to the pier. Good choice since we had 7 suitcases-yes I over packed but 3 of the bags were items for our meet and greet party). We arrived early Sunday morning and it was starting to get busy with everyone getting off the ship from the week before cruise. We decided to park in the Bell St parking garage. (One thing I should mention is if you use the lower entrance at the side of the garage you go right into the cruise parking area). We were a little worried that our expedition fitting the height requirements but we had no problems. The garage attendants were very quick and helpful getting our luggage and parking the car. We found that the embarkment process was quick and painless, even though we were there several hours before our boarding time. NCL gets an A+ here. We waited only a short time before we were able to board the ship. Our room was not available yet so we explored the ship, made dinner reservations and went to the garden cafe for lunch. About 1:30pm our room was ready so we went to drop off our carry ons and check out our cabin. We found our cabin, 5504 (port hole window on the port side) to be adequate in size. The bathroom was a little small but we made do. For the two of us the cabin had lots of room for our things. We had plenty of space in the closet and room under our beds for the suitcases. The refrigerator was a little small but overall everything was fine. Upon arriving to our room we meet our room steward, Rondaldo Rodrigazo. He and Teresitade Los Santos were very nice and did a great job with our room. We didn't require any extra service but had we I am sure they would have accommodated us. After checking out the room we made our way to deck 13 to watch the sail away party. The weather was great and we were treated to a fly by from the Blue Angel flight performing for SeaFair. The party was great but it was our first experience with how expensive the drinks were on-board. Once we left the Seattle harbor we went back to our room to talk with the group service coordinator, Gary Aldredge( by phone upon his request). We sit up all the last minute items for the CC meeting and double checked all the numbers of guest. Our luggage was delivered to our room very early in the afternoon which was nice to get everything unpacked. On the advice from other cruise critic members I packed a bathroom organizer and hung it over the shower door. It worked great keeping everything up and out of our way. We had our life boat drill at 3:30pm and our station was the stardust theater. It was very uncomfortable setting in the chairs with the life vests on. Luckily it didn't' take too long and we quickly were released to return to our room. Dinner tonight was at the Garden Cafe (will do restaurant review later) and after we enjoyed the evening at the casino (even though we missed the welcome aboard show).
Monday: Monday was sea day and was a nice chance to check out the ship. We had our Cruise Critic party before lunch and it seemed to go very well. We had someone from every group posting on roll call show up. It was a great turnout. Some of the ships officers visited briefly and left their cards in case anyone needed anything. The party was really great to put screen names with faces. We had snacks (provided by the ship) and door prizes (provided by a couple of members of our roll call). I would like to thank 'Papa Jacks family' and 'ACruise4us family' for all their help. After our CC party we grabbed a bite to eat and entertained ourselves with the ships activities. We were invited to attend the Captains Cocktail party this evening, which was a pleasant surprise. It was a privilege to meet the captain and the senior officers. We enjoyed visiting for about an hour and then departed for dinner. Tonight was' dress up or not' night and we decided to put away the blue jeans and break out the 'dress up 'clothes. We had made reservations at Summer Palace for this evening. Summer Palace is one of the main dining rooms; it was very elegant and had beautiful decorations. We were quickly seated but waited a while for service. Our waitress seemed overwhelmed with everyone's tables and rarely visited our table. Dinner took a while to be served but when it arrived I thought it was very good. All the staff at Summer Palace was very friendly and pleasant, we just seemed to get lost in the shuffle. After dinner we went to the Stardust Theater to watch the 'Second City show'. This was a comedy show and was very humorous. We were impressed by the show, but surprised at how short the show seemed. We later went back to our cabin to find delicious treats waiting for us. Another great day! Tuesday: Tuesday was our Juneau stop. Before arriving in Juneau we were treated with a large amount of whale activity. It was an amazing experience to stand at the rail and watch them play and hunt. When we arrived in Juneau it was cold and wet (surprise, surprise). Most of the helicopter and sightseeing flights were cancelled due to the weather. We had chosen to do the excursion JNU412 offered by NCL. This was the Mendenhall glacier and wildlife quest tour. Our excursion bus picked us up at the ship right on time. We had an excellent tour bus driver who drove us to the Mendenhall glaciers. Thanks to the advice of our bus driver we walked the trail off the left of the parking lot where we had the privilege to see a mama bear and two cubs catching fish from the creek. This was a high-light of our trip. It was difficult to get pictures of the bears, because of the amount of people that were there. If visiting here on your own, I would wait and hour or so after the cruise ship dock and then go to the glacier. It seemed very busy when we first arrived but by the time we left it seemed to have thinned out a bit. The weather at the glacier was -well raining, but we really enjoyed our visit here. The blue ice and large waterfall was impressive. We loaded our bus again for the second part of our tour-whale watching. Our bus driver took us to our Whale watching boat and we quickly located a seat and waited for our adventure to begin. unfortunately we waited for several more buses of passengers to board the vessel. In my opinion, it seemed that the tour was way over-booked. Several people could not find seats and were forced to stand the entire trip. We saw some whale activity but not nearly what we had seen from the ship. Even when the whales were spotted it was very difficult to get any pictures because of the number of people trying to find a spot at the rail. We finally started taking pictures over the tops of people's heads. The only advantage I saw doing a whale Watching tour verses seeing them from the ship was at least on the tour they stopped so you could try and get photos. The tour operator and staff were very friendly but I probably would not do this excursion again. I don't want to give anybody the idea that this is a bad excursion, Mother Nature does not work on command and if we hadn't seen some much whale activity from our ship, we probably would have enjoyed the experience more. I also think if the vessel would not have been so crowded it would have been more enjoyable. We finished our excursion with a little time to spend in town. We visited the Red Dog saloon and did a little shopping. We didn't feel like we had enough time at this port. (Cell phone note-this was the only port that we could not get coverage with our Verizon cell phone). We boarded our ship (special cabin note- when picking a cabin keep in mind that deck 4, port side was used several times as access to the gang plank. It was very difficult for people staying in these cabins to enter or leave their room with everyone standing in the hall). We had dinner at Indigo, which was the other main dining room. It was not as grand as Summer Palace, but I preferred it better. The food was delicious and we enjoyed the evening of fine food, exceptional Service and visiting with new friends. Wednesday: Our port of call was Skagway. We arrived in port early in the morning and the weather was actually sunny. Skagway was a cute town but didn't seem realistic.
The town seemed clean and the people were friendly. It still had a lot of T-shirt shops and jewelry stores (which seemed to be the only shopping in Juneau) but didn't seem to have that many home town business shops. Our excursion in Skagway was also booked through NCL and was the White Pass rail, Klondike highway and gold camp adventure. We boarded a bus at the Pier and it took us to a different pier to pick-up more guest from other cruise lines. Once the bus was loaded we went a short distance to the train. Everyone got off the bus and onto the train. I spent most of my time on the train ride standing between the rail cars, this made for better photos. If I was sitting inside the left side of the train (going up) seemed to have a better view. We arrived at the summit a few hours later and after the Canadian authorities checked everyone's passports we exited the train. We did not stay here long but boarded our bus for a ride back down. I did not care for our tour bus driver; she kept saying how expensive it was to live there and how hard it was to save for school. I felt as though she was asking for money the whole time. The other bus driver told us information about the area and cute little jokes. She tried the jokes but they didn't go over real well and when she tried to tell us about sights that we would be coming too, she would tell you the waterfall is on the left, but after passing it you would realize it was on the right. Too late for pictures. My husband said I was too hard on her and we did give her a tip anyway, but not as much as the other driver. The last stop on tour was Lairsville, which was redone to look like an old time gold mining camp. I didn't care for the camp but wondered around the area for a little while. We watched a quick show and was kind of taught how to pan for gold. We were really looking forward to panning until we realized that we were just given a pan with sand and a few flakes of gold. The flakes were really hard to see and I saw a lot of kids getting up-set that they couldn't find what they were looking for. Once you found your 3 or 4 small flakes of gold you were done. If would not have been so bad if you could have kept panning for a while but it only took about 10 minutes and we were back on the bus. We still had plenty of time in Skagway to shop and wander the town. We boarded the ship about 7 pm and had time for dinner before leaving this port. (When leaving Skagway we saw several waterfalls off the port side of the ship). Once it became dark we headed indoors to enjoy more of the Pearls entertainment and then off to bed.
Thursday-Glacier Bay From the advice I received from the Cruise Critic boards; I woke up very early and went directly to Spinnaker lounge on Deck 13. I was able to get a front window seat and table. This worked out great. We had a wonderful view in comfort. The pictures we took through the glass turned out just fine. My husband and I took turns going and getting things to eat (you can go to the garden cafe, fill your plate and bring it back to the Spinnaker lounge). I did step out on the deck for a couple of photos but it was cold, windy and wet. I was very happy with our view point. During our viewing of the glaciers, three naturalists from the forestry service had come on board to give us information about what we were seeing. When we first arrived at the glacier, Marjorie glacier was calving. It was only a small one and I was sure anticipating more to come. We visited the Marjorie and Grand Pacific glacier for about an hour and I was a little disappointed we didn't see any more calving action-boy that Mother Nature not working on cue. Although the glaciers were impressive I was extremely disappointed we didn't have the opportunity to get closer to the glacier. I would have really enjoyed the experience and the opportunity to see just what magnitude of size you were really dealing with. I did see another ship in the bay that got much close to the glacier then we did and I have to say I was a little bummed. We also had the pleasure of visiting Johns Hopkins glacier which was very beautiful. We were unable to get very close at all to this glacier due to the baby seals that were protected in the bay. All and all it was an enjoyable day. Later when we returned home we had found out that people on an Arctic cruise were injured by a wave caused by the glacier calving. It was a small ship but the wave made the ship roll excessively, causing the passengers and crew to fall. Hearing this made me realize that the ships viewing distance has to be for the safety of their passengers. Yes, I was still bummed but a little bit better understanding. We were fortunate when leaving glacier bay to view numerous whale spottings. There were a lot of whales far away from the ship, but a few whales came very close and made for excellent pictures. Tonight was the second 'dress up or not' night and we had reservations at Cagney's. We had an amazing waiter who was at our table whenever we seemed to need anything. He helped select a bottle of wine and we sat back and enjoyed an extremely delicious meal. Everything was perfect, but here again is where the subjective views can come to play, as we were leaving cagneys from a perfect dinner, someone else was leaving complaining. Whether it was choice of food, the servers or each person expectations-everything is only as good or bad as that persons view or opinion. After diner we watched the adult 'second city show', which was good but again very short, before heading off to sleep. Friday-Ketchikan We had arrived in Ketchikan early in the morning. We woke up and had something to eat before heading out to see the town. Ketchikan was probably my favorite port town. I have read the reviews about it being dirty and boring, but to me it seemed more of a realistic Alaska town. We had a Duck Excursion booked here at 9am. We didn't plan that well, we departed the ship around 7:45am, so we didn't have enough time to go do anything before the tour but we had too much time to just stand around and wait. We went to the 'duck office' and they allowed us to join the earlier tour at 8am. We didn't really care for this excursion. The land tour of the town was pretty good, but the water part was lacking. We never saw any wild life (except a crow and dog) on this tour and we never left the dock area when touring in the water. The driver and guide were nice but the driver seemed upset when the kids were blowing on the duck horns (which he sold to them for $3 each when the tour started).For future note on the duck tour it was a good way to see the town and know where you want to go back and visit. I would also recommend that you set in the middle or towards the front of this vehicle. We sat towards the back and it was fine on land but when we went into the water, the back 3 or 4 rows vibrated horrible and made it very uncomfortable. After departing our duck tour we walked to Creek Street for some photo opportunities and to watch the salmon. The salmon had just begun to spawn but we felt there were a lot in the creek. A local resident informed us that when the salmon are in full run the whole creek will be full. The salmon were a great treat to see but a few of the salmon had already died and the smell was-well-let's just say not pleasant. I cannot imagine the smell when they were all there. We walked up the hill to Totem Park and visited this area for a while before coming back down by way of 'Married Mans Path'. We passed the fish ladder and entered Creek Street from the back. It was here were we say a seal chasing a school of salmon in the creek. We purchased several souvenirs on Creek St. including several t-shirts, coats and a few other items. One of the items we bought here was the favorite with our family when we returned home. We had picked up a gold panning kit and everyone really enjoyed it. My only regret here was I didn't pick up more bags of sand/gold mixer. This was by far the favorite item and it only cost about $16. We returned to our ship with not much time to spare (not enough time in ports). We ate and then attended the crew talent show. It was very good and I was amazed at how much talent these people have. The show ended with a very cute and funny piece. We enjoyed dinner and the ships entertainment the rest of the evening and it was very relaxing. Late in the evening we had our chocolate buffet in the garden cafe. It had some amazing chocolate creations, as well as, beautiful ice sculptures. It was very busy right off the start and very difficult to take pictures. I loaded a plate of goodies and took them back to our room and then returned later to take more pictures. The treats were delicious, but being so late in the evening we didn't finish tasting the treats. I felt that a lot went to waste. I would have preferred the slices to be small so you could try everything but not truly have to eat an entire slice of desert. Everything looked and tasted wonderful and I think I gained 5 lbs that night. Saturday-Victoria, B.C. We enjoyed the Pearl activities during the morning and prepared ourselves for our cruise critic bowling party. It was a nice treat from the Norwegian Cruise line and the hotel director Michael Klieverik. We received a free game of bowling and a drink, nice touch. Bowling was a lot of fun but you can't take it too seriously. For anyone who is a league bowler or that even bowls a lot, I need to warn you to be very careful. The approaches are short and there is no such thing as the word 'slide'. It would be very easy to blow out a knee. This game is meant only for fun and you won't want to see your score. We had a quick dinner at La Cucina, the Italian Restaurant. This was a hard place for us to get reservations even for only two. The food and service was good but nothing above the normal. I was surprised that the reservation sign stated they were full but we saw several empty tables the entire time we were there eating. We docked in Victoria late, not really sure why. This was upsetting to a few who had early excursion planned. This can be a good reminder to be careful how early or late you book your excursion times. We departed the ship and went through customs (a quick pass port look) and then we were greeted by very friendly people handing out city maps and pins. On the pier there are many forms of transportation options available to get you around town. We decided that it was too late to go to the gardens so we opted to take the bus ($6pp round trip) and visit the downtown area.
The last time we visited Victoria was for our honeymoon 23 years ago and boy do things change with time. It didn't seem to be as charming as I remembered it to be. It is still a very beautiful city but the weather was cold and wet and we really didn't have any time to enjoy this port. We did visit miniature world and the wax museum. Both were easy on the pocket book and very interesting. On our way back to the bus we had an opportunity to watch some street performers, who were surprisingly good. I must admit my favorite was 'plaster man'. When we arrived back, the Pearl had a wonderful outdoor barbeque going on deck 12 (pool deck). They had live entertainment (which was very good) and delicious food. The only draw-back here was Mother Nature again-it was raining and felt very cold. After the BBQ we went to our room to do the one thing we didn't want to do-pack. We packed everything we didn't need and sat the suitcases in the hall for pick-up. Sunday-Seattle We decided to skip breakfast and head out of town before it got busy with the lucky people who were getting on the ship not off. I had hoped that a tour of the garden villas would be possible, but it was not offered. This was a request we made before boarding the ship. Several members of our cruise critic group had asked but I guess those guess who were lucky enough to experience the Villas didn't want to leave the ship yet either. Can't blame them for that. Leaving the ship was very fast. We walked right off the ship when our color was called, picked up our luggage, went right through customs and right into a shuttle van to take us to the parking garage. Quick and simple. We had a great time. I do have a few comments and reviews I didn't know where to place-so I am just listing them in no order.
Pearl Restaurants: we were only able to enjoy a few of the dining options on-board. Cagney's-by far our favorite. Great food and service. LaCucina- Seemed very hard to get reservations for, but the food was good. Would have liked to see a little more listed on the menu Summer Palace-was very elegant and the only restaurant on-board that would not let you wear jeans after 5pm. Food was good but service was a little slow. Indigo-this was the second of the two main dining rooms. Not as fancy as summer palace but I did prefer it better. We ate here twice, the first time was wonderful both the food and service. The second time, the food was still good but the service was only so so. Blue Lagoon-we also ate here twice, but not because our food and service was so great. The first time we ate here I ordered chicken fingers and they were way over cooked. I might have sent them back but could never find a server to get their attention. I felt I should give them another try and I was glad I did, the next visit I order chicken fingers and they were very good and the service was great. Room Service- we only used this service once. We ordered breakfast and it was a nice way to receive a wakeup call. Room service called about 10 minutes before they brought you your food. The food was good and it saved us a trip to the garden café. We did try to order again later in the week (night time snack) but we could not seem to get a hold of anyone. All we got was either a busy signal or it just kept ringing. As far as room service, I would love to see wider options especially for breakfast. And last but not least the Garden Café.: We ate here several times. The food was good and I felt that there were several items to choose from. My biggest problem with the Garden café is finding a table. I heard several people on board say they had no problems with the tables. I figured it must be the time you eat because we always had problems finding an empty table for two. A few changes that NCL may look at here are the café is the drink station. They need more ice and drink machines and they need to switch their location around. You exited the buffet line, got in the drink line, grabbed your cup and then took a few steps forward to the ice machine and then you had to back up a few steps for the drinks. I know it isn't that big of a deal but when it can be easily changed and you have people behind you-not pushing but trying to hurry to get their drinks as well , I think it would work better. Also, the Ice cream station-yes it has wonderful tasting ice cream but it should be moved to a different location on the ship. It is located at the same spot as the drink machines, access to the seating area and the end of the buffet line. It's not that people wouldn't like ice cream with their meal but it was located in a very high traffic area. I saw kids run into the garden café to get ice cream cones and almost cause people to dump their trays of food. Overall, the food was excellent and the food staff was great. Two thumbs up to Mirsad Bucuk (F & B director) and your staff. My only comment here would be please put more steak and sea food options on the menus.
Other comments: • I have to say that the cruise critic site was very helpful in planning this trip. I gained a lot of information about Alaska and cruising in general and had a wonderful opportunity to meet some very nice people. • I would like to thank Michael Klieverik-hotel director and Alexander Fores-concierge for making our stay so special. All the little surprises were very thoughtful and appreciated. • Sanitation stations were everywhere and most were manned. This was nice and seemed to work, we didn't hear of any out breaks of anything. • Soda card-in my opinion it was not worth the money. I am a heavy soda drinker but even buying the cans I never came close to the $60 charge. Had it been a little cheaper I probably would have purchased one. • Stardust theater-it is very pretty but the seats are way too close together. It was hard if not impossible to go by someone to get in or out of a row. Very cramped. • Fish carpet-loved the fish carpet, knowing the fish swam to the front of the ship was a big help. I still got turned around a couple of times but it could have been worse. • Elevator tip-hard to catch during busy times (port days, choc. Buffet and BBQ) easier to take the stairs or catch the elevator going down and then ride it back up. • Classes- I wish they would have had more evening arts and craft type classes. • Shore excursions- the downfall of our trip. Although we can't say we had a horrible time, for the money we spent I would either book different excursion or just tour on our own. • Shopping at Port-I have to admit I was looking for that cheap t-shirt but I was also looking for that 'made in Alaska' items. Every port seemed to be full of jewelry stores or made in china t-shirt shops. Would have loved to see more family homemade item stores. • Shopping on the Pearl- would like to have seen a little more variety of items in the stores or even more stores. • Room steward= ours did a great job. Even when we forgot to turn the knob on our door for service, they still seemed to slip in and do their thing. Room was always cleaned; beds made and turned down with mints and towel animal friends (on a couple of nights). Thanks, Ronaldo Rodrigazo and Teresita de los Santos for doing a great job. • Recognizing crew and staff-At the end of the week they wanted you to fill out your comment cards. The problem with this for me is that I couldn't remember anyone's name. We had a crew staff that carried my buffet plate to our room and would not accept a tip; a waiter at Cagney's who went above the call of duty, as well as, many others. My problem was I could not remember their name by the end of the week (sometimes day). I would love to see NCL have name cards for everyone (if they already do I was unaware so they would need to make it better known). When you received excellent service you could ask for a card and then you could just write a quick note on the back of it (waiter-Cagney's) and then you could recognize the people who made your cruise even more enjoyable. • Slot tournament and bingo- the slot tournament wasn't too expensive but bingo was very costly. I really think that it would have been nice to give away some little item- either for the entry or as door prizes. Come on NCL how much can a hat or pen cost. • Casino players card- you need 25 points to even turn the points in for credit or a gift. We spent several hundred dollars in the casino and I only had 7 points and my husband had 21 (they wouldn't even let you add them together as a couple). It really would have been nice to get some small gift for lower points. • Ship board charge account- we asked for our bill on Thursday night just to check it out on the advice from other cc members. Everything at that time was fine but when we received the final bill there were several drink charges on it from restaurants we didn't even have the opportunity to try. Not sure if the waiters walking the ship just used these restaurant computers to run their accounts or what. We decided not to worry about the charges (it was under $50 and the line at the front desk seemed long). Keep track of that bill. Overall, we had a wonderful vacation. We loved freestyle dining and the relax dress code. We meet several very nice people and viewed some beautiful scenery. We were treated to a large amount of whale activity, which was another high light of our trip. I realize this review is long and jumps around a bit but since this was our first cruise I was trying to share with everyone (fellow cc members and NCL) our experiences, both good and bad. We loved our trip, the NCL Pearl and Alaska. I would recommend all three to anyone. The only real problem I had on this trip was trying to decide to stand at the rail and watch the scenery and wildlife or go inside and enjoy the ship. The biggest comment or suggestion I can give is 'attitude is everything'. That goes for your attitude, as well as, the staff. Relax, enjoy and have a great attitude and you will have a wonderful vacation. We sure did. TR4 Ps-sorry for the length and grammar errors, the review was longer than I thought and I did not have time to proof read. Less
Published 08/21/07
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Telford Ice Rink Whether you are a complete novice or a regular we are always happy to see you. What are you waiting for?...get your skates on. Our friendly staff and accessible Town Centre location makes for lots of fun, for you and the family, all year round.
Wonderland (< 1 mile)
Wonderland The Award Winning big park for little people, an enchanting place where nursery rhymes and fairytales come to life. Endless rides and a giant indoor play area!
Telford Steam Railway (2 miles)
Telford Steam Railway A classic and quite delightful working Steam Railway, which allows you to enjoy travel of a variety of diesel and steam traction, with services running between Spring Village, Horsehay and Dawley, plus a new extension to Lawley.
Wacky Warehouse - Bridge Builder (2 miles)
Wacky Warehouse - Bridge Builder An indoor play frame attached to a pub - the usual Wacky Warehouse set-up.
Lazerland (2 miles)
Lazerland Welcoming over 5s to next generation hide and seek: played with laser guns in a futuristic arena full of special effects, this isn't how the game goes at granny's! Combat gaming: zero contact, maximum thrill!
Jungle Land (2 miles)
Jungle Land A great multi level adventure play area with 3 age zones packing all the latest physical play equipment, plus a real little train to ride! Plus mini golf and laser tag too.
Safari Land (2 miles)
Safari Land features a great 9 hole miniature golf course with life sized animals and tropical landscape, with a range of club sizes. Plus indoor play and laser tag, so plenty to choose from!
Telford Snowboard and Ski Centre (3 miles)
Telford Snowboard and Ski Centre The 85 metre slope (and nursery slope facility) provides skiing, snowboarding, tobogganing, ice skating and snowblading activities for adults and juniors of all ages and abilities throughout the year.
Pirates and Princesses (3 miles)
Pirates and Princesses Top notch indoor play facility with an especially great sensory room for smalls and those with disabilities. Standard adventure play fun too with all the trimmings and parties of the side!
Ironbridge Gorge Museums (3 miles)
Ironbridge Gorge Museums Help the kids to explore your industrial past along the extensive scenic walk taking in the full ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums!
Hoo Farm Animal Kingdom (4 miles)
Hoo Farm Animal Kingdom Shropshire based petting farm and zoo with over 150 different species of animal. Indoor and outdoor demonstrations take place daily including lamb feeding, sheep racing; meet the meerkats and egg collecting. The farm also has an indoor and outdoor play area, cafe and gift shop.
Enginuity (4 miles)
Enginuity Interactive science fun. Find out how a little ingenuity will let you pull a 10 ton locomotive or generate electricity from flowing water. Look at familiar objects with new eyes using the giant X ray machine, build an earthquake proof tower and challenge their robotic arm!
Shropshire Raft Tours (4 miles)
Shropshire Raft Tours is great for young families seeking a complete fun-filled Ironbridge Gorge mini-adventure. Lots to see outdoors whilst on the Severn river for children to enjoy cruising downstream. Largest rafts in the UK! Any age of children welcome.
Royal Air Force Museum Cosford (6 miles)
Royal Air Force Museum Cosford One of the largest aviation collections in the UK with over 70 historic aircraft on display in 3 wartime hangars and within the National Cold War Exhibition. Free to visit, and full of fantastic interactive exhibits that everyone will enjoy.
Piggs Playbarn (6 miles)
Piggs Playbarn Be it rain or shine, Pigg's Playbarn is an excellent place to bring the children with indoor and outdoor play areas. We offer adventure, exercise, exploration and excitement for babies and young children in a safe, clean and stimulating environment.
Weston Park (7 miles)
Weston Park 1,000 acres of parkland plus special attractions including miniature railway, Woodland Adventure Playground, dress up and games room, woodland walks, lakes and follies to explore, as well as an entertaining guided tour around the house itself.
The Edge Adventure Activities (7 miles)
The Edge Adventure Activities Enjoy a huge range of activities for over 6s, including Quad Biking, Mountain Boarding, Sniper Range, Archery and Clay Pigeon Shooting, with even more on offer for groups! With friendly, expert instructors.
Millie Meerkats Playbarn (10 miles)
Millie Meerkats Playbarn 2 levels of play including an indoor basketball and football area, giant slide, nets, bumpers and large bouncy castle. Learn to interact with spiders, chinchillas, meerkats and more in our animal encounter!
Majestic Cinema (10 miles)
Majestic Cinema a fine and all too rare example of a really artistic cinema, and families are given the opportunity to enjoy an atmosphere of genuine luxury through their entertainment.
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway (10 miles)
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway This remarkable funicular railway is the oldest and steepest inland electric cliff railway in the country! It's been ferrying families up and down the 111ft high sandstone cliffs for over a century!
Codsall Hive Craft and Ceramic Studio (11 miles)
Codsall Hive Craft and Ceramic Studio is a mecca for all things creative. Decopatch, pottery painting, clay sculpting, toddler arts and crafts, adult craft evenings, holiday workshops plus much more there's something for all ages and abilities plus great Illy Coffee and homemade cakes. We also offer Arty Parties.
Jungle Boogie (11 miles)
Jungle Boogie A great soft play centre that is ideal for younger children. An exciting jungle themed play frame, with plenty to keep kids of all ages amused, from newborns to 10 year olds.
The Two Henrys Playzone (12 miles)
The Two Henrys Playzone Soft play at the Two Henrys, part of the Eating Inn group and offers a three level play frame plus family friendly dining and a garden area.
AMF Shrewsbury (12 miles)
AMF Shrewsbury Kids love bowling, and if they are under 6 they can use a ramp and gutter guards. This AMF has 20 lanes plus quasar game for groups, pool and arcade!
Battlefield Falconry Centre (12 miles)
Battlefield Falconry Centre A friendly, family run business with a wonderful collection of over 30 birds of prey to see, including owls, hawks, and falcons. A number of experiences available for accompanied children aged 14 and older. They do parties too.
Shropshire Wildlife Trust (12 miles)
Shropshire Wildlife Trust The Saturday craft fairs at our Visitor Centre are free to enter and include activities for children. We also offer a weekday range of arts and crafts workshops for all, and operate activities in the garden just outside the Visitor Centre.
Quasar Shrewsbury (12 miles)
Quasar Shrewsbury Super modern Laser Tag for over 9s in an amazing 3 floor arena! Packing some serious looking fire power you can stalk your opponents through the atmospheric environment and zap each other with harmless infra red lasers! Groups only though!
The Shrewsbury Mystery Treasure Trail (13 miles)
The Shrewsbury Mystery Treasure Trail Discover Shrewsbury with a difference! As you and the kids follow the directions and explore Shrewsbury, can you hunt out the answers to the clues on this self guided Mystery themed Treasure Trail and discover whodunit?!
The Quarry Swimming and Fitness Centre (13 miles)
The Quarry Swimming and Fitness Centre One of the biggest in the county at 33 metres long and has 6 lanes, 3 diving boards, a 50 metre flume and spectator gallery. The outdoor padding pool is available from June until September and is free to use.
Woodseaves Miniature Railway (13 miles)
Woodseaves Miniature Railway A lovely miniature steam railway that runs on Sundays from the beginning of March to September. There is also a lovely 16mm gauge model railway to enjoy. Inexpensive, old fashioned fun.
Wacky Warehouse - Rock Hotel (13 miles)
Wacky Warehouse - Rock Hotel Indoor play area with loads of slides and features and dedicated toddler zone, attached to a family restaurant.
Supercamps (13 miles)
Supercamps Activity day camps for children aged 4 to 14 combining Sports and Arts into a fun fuelled programme keeping children active, alert, safe and happy during the Easter and Summer holidays!
The Adventure Rope Course (14 miles)
The Adventure Rope Course Huge range of activities from archery, bushcraft and fencing to high ropes, abseiling, leap of faith and adventure tunnelling plus LOADS more! For over 8s, minimum group booking is 6 people.
Wolf Mountain (14 miles)
Wolf Mountain Progressive climbing 'cub course' starts at age 8: the courses focus on safety, competence, equipment, basic indoor climbing skills, centre etiquette and above all having fun!
Rodbaston Visitor Centre Animal Zone (14 miles)
Rodbaston Visitor Centre Animal Zone Our Animal Zone houses a varied collection of animals and birds from around the world. See our own Meerkat family and count their babies, watch our Red Lemurs playing outside in their enclosure and see our Wallabies, Raccoon Dogs and all the other animals, which bring animals of the world into one place.
Bantock House and Museum (14 miles)
Bantock House and Museum is a restored to its Edwardian glory. Bantock House is a hidden treasure set within 43 acres of parkland and surrounded by delightful formal gardens.
Hawkstone Park Follies (14 miles)
Hawkstone Park Follies is an historic woodland fantasy with cliffs, crags, caves, deep woods and a series of extraordinary monuments built over 200 years ago
Wolves Museum (15 miles)
Wolves Museum A modern, interactive museum that offers a fun packed football experience for all the family. Take a penalty against a legendary keeper, or have a go in goal yourself. You don't have to be a Wolves fan to enjoy it!
Northycote Farm and Country Park (15 miles)
Northycote Farm and Country Park A tudor farm, steeped in history, surrounded by a lovely park that is full of informal walks with plenty of wildlife to enjoy. Farm animals to meet include sheep, pigs, and cattle. Free to visit. A charge for some events.
Wolverhampton Art Gallery (15 miles)
Wolverhampton Art Gallery is an opportunity for kids to explore, discover and get involved with art from 300 years ago. A cafe is available and workshops and activities are on daily.
Stafford Castle (15 miles)
Stafford Castle The interior is designed to encourage a 'hands-on' approach to history: interactive elements include coin minting, brass rubbing and getting to grips with arms, armor and period dress up!
Gentleshaw Wildlife Centre (15 miles)
Gentleshaw Wildlife Centre is a small sanctuary for unwanted and mistreated exotic animals and birds of prey. Home to a wide variety of creatures including, Owls, Hawks, Snakes, Monkeys, Raccoons, Wild cats, Lizards,Fruit bats, Falcons, Terrapins and also new activity packs for kids!
Wacky Warehouse - Catch Corner (16 miles)
Wacky Warehouse - Catch Corner Indoor play area with loads of slides and features and dedicated toddler zone, attached to a family restaurant.
The Play Shed (16 miles)
The Play Shed is a children's indoor play and party centre, catering for families with children up to 10 years or 145cm tall. The centre also boasts a cafe facility. Also caters for larger groups also, i.e. schools and private hire bookings.
Severn Centre (16 miles)
Severn Centre is a community centre that offers indoor and outdoor facilities for children. Outdoor heated swimming pool, outdoor playpark, indoor sports hall, clubs in school holidays, library and cafe.
Baggeridge Country Park (16 miles)
Baggeridge Country Park A lovely park that is free to visit and contains a huge variety of vegetation and wildlife. Activities available include an aerial ropes course and a miniature railway. Several park trails to walk or cycle, and a great children's play park too!
Baggeridge Miniature Railway (16 miles)
Baggeridge Miniature Railway A charming miniature gauge railway runs through the lovely park, with supporting acts including adventure playground, mountain biking, nature trails, fishing, horse riding and orienteering!
AMF Hollywood Bowl Bentley Bridge (16 miles)
AMF Hollywood Bowl Bentley Bridge Kids can use the ramps and bumpers to knock their game up a notch, so wear your lucky socks to stand a chance! Plus exciting video, skill and redemption gaming, and cafe diner.


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On Sunday February 7, 2016, the date that will now forever be known as the day a politically aware and majestic Beyoncé won the Super Bowl, an article written by Daniel Grant ran in the Education/Life section of the New York Times titled "For These Pieces Hold the Paint: Social Practice Degrees Take Art to a Communal Level." The Art and Social Practice MFA program at Portland State University (PSU), where from 2008-2014 I taught and was for the majority of my time there the Co-director and Chair, was heavily featured in the article. Before joining the faculty at PSU, I also founded the largest annual international conference on socially engaged art, Open Engagement. My background as the director of this conference, my intimate knowledge of the program at PSU, and my position in the world as a woman of color led me to read the article (one of the first circulating these ideas to a broad and mainstream readership) and wonder who gets to speak for socially engaged art? Whose voices are privileged? And what types of projects get circulated?Social practice feels as though it could hold the potential to change the world. As Harrell Fletcher stated in the article, many artists working in this way could be described as politically progressive, some "fairly extreme in their anticapitalism." I would say that much of the ethos behind this way of working as an artist is about re-evaluating and challenging systems of power. It is about the value of art in daily life and the belief that art is for everyone, not just the elite. Its commercial value can be slim as much of the time this kind of work might not look like art at all. This work promotes agency in artists, it is made alongside and with it's intended audience and necessitates being in the context of the world.
Because social practice can be so seemingly outside of what we have traditionally framed as art it often has a problem with tone and form. Artists wishing to tackle the most pressing and serious issues of our time sometimes land on a dinner party, or a walk as a way of addressing these problems. While I believe that real change can emerge from seemingly small gestures, it is undeniable that there are clear tropes that have emerged in socially engaged art. One of the most troubling things for me in the New York Times piece was that while Grant talked about social practice's historic connections to figures like community organizer and agitator Saul Alinsky—whose work was able to help lend power to the voices of so many who have been disenfranchised, that one of the main projects of graduates of the PSU MFA program that was featured was "Grocery Stories", a project installed at a locally owned Portland boutique chain grocery store, giving voice to artisanal cheese makers. I know from first hand experience that the PSU MFA program has produced projects and artists that deal with immigrant rights, housing justice, shifting institutional power, LGBTQIA communities, and media access. As I read I wondered where was the radical work? Why were only white students highlighted? In addition to this omission of these student projects, there was a lack of diversity in the interviewed leaders in the field ranging from program directors, to chief curators—many of these voices representing the usual suspects for social practice.
Grant's article ends with a sentence that is undoubtedly supposed to elicit a response and understanding in the reader about the new level of awareness that the students and artists working in this way have achieved, "They shuffle, reach, grasp the air, and ultimately open their eyes." If this is a practice that is truly woke I would hope that it would not continue to perpetuate the models of the dominant art world that continue to exclude women and people of color. In 2013 The National Museum of Women in the Arts estimated that 5% of artwork currently on display in the United States was made by women, and the famous Guerrilla Girls poster outlining the breakdown of artists in the 1991, 1993, and 1995 Whitney Biennials show that the numbers of women of color included in the art world are significantly less. Jillian Steinhauer's article for Hyperallergic titled, "The Depressing Stats of the 2014 Whitney Biennial" shows that sadly little has changed in almost two decades.
In April the 8th Open Engagement will feature Keynote speakers Angela Davis and Suzanne Lacy. This edition of the conference is the first in a trilogy that will explore the themes of POWER, JUSTICE, and SUSTAINABILITY, 2016 in Oakland at Oakland Museum of California, 2017 at University of Illinois at Chicago, and in 2018 back at the Queens Museum in NY. Open Engagement has worked alongside practitioners and institutions to make sure that the conference symbolically and literally is as capacious as the art by spanning geography, recognizing spaces both inside and outside the academy, and embracing all people who are engaged in transforming the world through creativity and radical imagination. These struggles are continual and each year we acknowledge that this work is never done—that is the nature of social change. As the Associate Director of the UIC School of Art & Art History currently developing socially engaged curriculum at a large public urban research university, I hope that within this freshly institutionalized area of art making that has its roots in activism, social justice, and community organizing, the promise and values that I see in social practice will hold space in the art world for all of us. Before my own time at Portland State University ended I was told by an older white male tenured colleague that I had, "become too visible, and was taking too much credit for the work I was doing." If we can't shift these paradigms of oppression and fight these inequities within our own field, what hope do we fare when we take on the world?
Deborah Boardman in Memoriam
November 25, 2015 · Print This Article
by Jessica Cochran
In her recent memoir poet laureate Elizabeth Alexander wrote of her deceased husband, "he left us with his eyes on the world." He was a painter.
Deborah Boardman (1958 – 2015), who once described herself as a "painter and…" worked in Chicago for nearly three decades. We saw her "eyes on the world" through solo exhibitions at the Gahlberg Gallery at the College of DuPage, the Chicago Cultural Center, Ebersmoore, and, most recently, the Experimental Sound Studio to name a few that were local. There were many more nationally and abroad. An educator at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1997, she influenced hundreds of artists, some of whom became her collaborators.
Deborah worked across painting and drawing, installation, writing, environmental sustainability and sound/video, and she often employed dowsers to "map" her installations. Through it all, she became known for her approach to color, pattern and poetic text as vehicles for emotional content and narrative potential, as well as a uniquely gestural approach to mark making and hand lettering. Years ago, Deborah was of the first Chicago-based artists I discovered utilizing the bookform in a way that I found captivating. And as critic Lori Waxman wrote recently, newer work addressing her struggle with cancer grappled with the unseen and ineffable, articulating "what life looks like in that gracious limbo between life and death."
Testimonial after testimonial gives evidence that Deborah's "fierce," visionary and "generous" creative ethic was not confined to her artworks, but also it governed the lived spaces of her life as an educator and collaborator: there are the students she engaged as her studio interns and treated like family; the friends with whom she sang joyfully in her living room and purposefully in the gallery; there were the women artists' reading and figure drawing groups in the early 1990s; a spectacular dance party at Oxbow; "meaty" collaborations over years and years, and the concurrent friendships that burned slowly and brightly; pivotal residency and art-making trips to India to learn things like Vastu and develop exhibitions like Magic Mountain at Bangalor and Rooting: India with Akshay Rathore and Tricia Van Eck for the Kochi Biennale. Morning walk after morning walk to Albion Beach with her beloved dogs. The students she taught to write grants, not to "overpaint" and to make artists' books. The yoga, meditations and gurus: she was a Catholic child turned seeker, spiritualist.
Perhaps the sum of the many, many contours of Deborah's art-making life is this: in each studio visit was an implicit gift; embedded in every syllabus was an invitation; in each collaboration an emergent provocation; and in every artwork a public offering, a lesson.
My relationship with Deborah grew over six years or so through some group shows I curated, periodic studio visits and friends in common. But was in the last eight weeks of her life that she, her family and close (and by close, I mean indescribably loving) friends invited me into the more intimate dimensions of her life to begin to do the curatorial work of considering her oeuvre, to embark on a deep engagement with her work in order to develop a retrospective exhibition down the line. To begin to locate the magnitude of her influence, position her output within a broader historical and social context, and to understand the genesis of her work over decades—is a project I am coming to understand through a new and fascinating curatorial lens and as my own biggest collaboration with Deborah.
Deborah worked through her final days of treatment and hospice—finishing her memoir, setting into motion plans for a new sound installation and making her last exquisite painting with the help of those at her bedside. By all accounts her fervor was punctuated with wit and that inimitable smile.
In an artist's book produced for a recent exhibition at 6018 North, Deborah wrote: "Xavier Le Pinchon, a plate tectonic expert, suggests that fault lines, the open spaces between the plates in the earth's crusts are… analogous to human frailty. Because we are vulnerable, we find it necessary to depend on others for survival. It is through our vulnerability that we bond with others and thrive."
Deborah's work had many facets, but it is her brave articulation of her own perceived faults, frailties and vulnerabilities—her commitment as an artist to learning in public—that will demand of us and viewers of her work for years to come a deep reciprocity, a Deborah-like generosity. Through these exchanges—made possible by the "work" of her artwork—she will live on and her ideas will continue to shape the world in meaningful, collaborative ways.
Propeller Fund Announces 2015 Awardees
October 19, 2015 · Print This Article
Bad at Sports would like to congratulate the 2015 Propellor Fund Grant Recipients!
Propeller Fund proudly announces the fifteen grant recipients for 2015. Selected from a pool of over one-hundred candidates, these small, self-organized, and radical projects are vital to Propeller's mission of encouraging more varied models, spreading these activities into more diverse areas, and to spark ambitions beyond current formats in Chicago's visual art world. Propeller Fund offers $50,000 (five grants at $6,000 and ten grants at $2,000) annually to artists producing a wide range of public culture.
Propeller Fund recognizes that such independent artist-organized events, informal roundtables and workshops, collectively organized exhibition spaces, and publishing endeavors constitute a large catalyst for the creative activity and vitality of the Chicago visual art world. These projects are responsible for much of the complexity and richness in the art community.
Propeller Fund 2015 Award Ceremony and Reception
This year's recipients will be recognized in an award ceremony on Wednesday, November 18 at the Jane Addams Hull-House Residents' Dining Hall. Join grant recipients and the community to celebrate with food, drink, and a reception.
Wednesday, November 18, 6–9pm
Jane Addams Hull-House Residents' Dining Hall
800 South Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Award Ceremony: 6:30pm
Awardee Reception: 7–9pm
Free and open to the public
Propeller fund would like to thank this year's distinguished jury: Jen Delos Reyes, Associate Director of the School of Art & Art History at UIC and Founder and Director of Open Engagement (Chicago, IL); Deana Haggag, Director of The Contemporary (Baltimore, MD); Nicole Marraquin, Artist, Co-Organizer of Multiuso, and Associate Professor of Art Education at SAIC (Chicago, IL); Meida McNeal, Artistic/Creative Director of Honey Pot Performance and Arts and Culture Manager for the Chicago Parks District (Chicago, IL); and Astria Suparak, independent curator and author (Pittsburgh, PA). And much appreciation to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, funder of Propeller Fund through its Regional Regranting Program.
2015 Awardees
BRUJOS (Stephanie Jeter, Ben Kolak, Ricardo Gamboa)
BRUJOS is a queer-of-color, radically politicized web series following four gay Latino doctoral candidates—that are also witches. They navigate magic, sexuality, and surviving a witch-hunt led by a secret society of white heteronormative male descendents of the first New World colonizers. BRUJOS blends Latino soap opera and U.S. sitcoms to deliver 12, seven-minute episodes developed through queer men of color testimonies, interviews with magic pracitioners, and cultural studies academics. In a world conditioned by white supremacy and inequality, BRUJOS makes visible people and ways of life that have been made invisible by dominant culture and mainstream media.
filmfront (Alan Medina, Malia Haines-Stewart, Alyx Christensen, Rudy Medina)
filmfront is a multidisciplinary project that uses the exhibition of film, video, and new media from around the world and down the street to facilitate exciting, challenging conversations that are open, free, and accessible to everyone. Curation is based on a collaborative model of programming in which artists, curators, and free thinkers are invited to work together to create exhibitions, interactive projects, performances, workshops, and lectures open to the community.
Floating Museum (Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Andrew Schachman)
Floating Museum is a mobile exhibition structure and structural interpretation of the DuSable Museum of African American History that will move by land and water through the city of Chicago in 2016 and 2017. The project blends creative place-making, activism, and exhibition design to make a platform for conversations, art viewing and community engagement.
In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street (Allison Glenn)
In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street is a public art exhibition that couples artists and practices with the materiality of the built environment. Through the use of junior billboards, sculpture, performance, media, and sound, the artists in the exhibition will consider landscape and the built environment, encouraging viewers to traverse rich and varied expanses of the city.
Report to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords (Benneth Lee, Lisa Junkin Lopez)
Benneth Lee will organize film screenings and train young people to lead tours expanding upon the exhibition, Report to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords. By training former gang members to become community docents and targeting youth audiences, the project demonstrates that young people in gangs are capable of addressing the most challenging issues in their communities. Report to the Public draws upon the thesis that gang members, like all of us, have "multiple, conflicting identities" and that we must affirm their positive identity formation in order to decrease violent and destructive behavior.
The Chicago ACT Collective (Sarah Atlas, William Estrada)
The Chicago ACT (Artists Creating Transformation) Collective is a diverse collective of artists creating work to support movements, struggles, and communities in Chicago. Through a partnership process, this project generates art that reflects on and responds to current and local needs identified by those most impacted. This project has many facets—building a collective of socially and politically engaged artists, forming partnerships with grassroots organizations and social justice movements, and producing prints, graphic arts, and visual campaigns for social change that promote collaboration and dialogue across multiple communities.
Fielding (Amber Ginsburg, Sara Black, Billy Dee)
Fielding is a collaborative art and design practice, a youth workshop series, a design/build service and a social justice initiative. Fielding leads workshops for girls, young women and gender variant youth to design and build structures while learning to use woodworking tools competently and confidently. In addition, a diverse core crew of skilled women and gender variant carpenters will respond to invitations (local, regional and international) to design and construct building projects.
Freedom Dreams (Alice Kim )
Freedom Dreams is a project that creatively connects Illinois prisoners serving long-term sentences with local and national artists. Their writings and visual art will be featured in a multi-media exhibit and series of events centered on the question: What does freedom look like?
HAIR CLUB (Suzanne Gold, Kelly Lloyd, Michal Lynn Shumate )
HAIR CLUB is a growing community of artists, writers, and scholars whose aim is to conduct a collaborative inquiry into the multi-valent topic of HAIR in our wider culture via conversation, publication and meaningful programming, and organizing HAIR-centered work across medium and discipline into thematic publications, exhibitions and events.
Kitchen Space (Traci Fowler, Trevor Schmutz, Mirko Velimirovic)
The organizers of the project/exhibition space Kitchen Space will develop a cookbook that provides readers with a variety of recipes for main dishes, appetizers, drinks, etc. from the unique perspective of two artists who have to combat monthly exhibitions in the very kitchen they cook their meals.
One Room (Kate Thomas, Devin Pendergast, Kitty Conde, Jessica Rosenbaum, Roxy De Luca, Jeanne Walker)
One Room is a social practice project that invites the public into conversations with CPS artist-teachers to playfully explore the complexity of a teaching practice within our current climate of constraints and monitoring. Artist teachers in conversation with the public will generate creative approaches to systemic problems.
Paper Work (Third Object: Gan Uyeda, Ann Meisinger, Raven Munsell, Elisabeth Smith)
Paper Work is an exhibition organized by Chicago-based curatorial collective Third Object that, through a central exhibition site and office-bound satellite locations, explores a range of current artistic responses to notions of bureaucracy, administration, and the ordering of information.
Social Furniture (John Preus, Jamie Kalven )
Social Furniture produces 2x4s out of materials salvaged from closed Chicago Public Schools. Working with Lathrop Community Partners and the Invisible Institute, we will work to develop projects that provide both a source of income for Lathrop residents and a forum for developing relationships between the developers and the residents. The 2x4s are both literal and figurative building materials to produce new structures.
UnJustified (Jacob Klippenstein, Crista Noel, Ric Wilson, Teresa Campagna, Deonta Terry)
A series of screenings and discussions will debut a series of UnJustifiable mini-docs. The series will provide a retrospective and prospective look at Chicago Police violence from the 1800s to the present with a timeless focus on educating and engaging Chicagoans especially youth through dialogue led by community elders, analogue, and digital media.
W.A.R.P. Westtown Artist Residency Program (The Weaving Mill: Emily Winter, Matti Sloman, Eva Joly, Monika Kimrey, Envision Unlimited, and more)
W.A.R.P is a series of short-term residencies at The Weaving Mill, a small-scale production mill in Humboldt Park. In partnership with Envision Unlimited's Westtown Center, The Weaving Mill pairs artists with developmental disabilities with visiting artists from the wider Chicago community. The groups are guided through a series of workshops that allow the artists to approach an unfamiliar industrial textile technology together.
About Propeller Fund
Launched in May 2010, Propeller Fund is administered jointly by Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago and threewalls. Propeller Fund provides grants to artists, curators, and groups living and working in Cook County, Illinois, and seeks to support projects that are independent, informal, and self-organized. Propeller Fund receives support from Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts through the Regional Regranting Program.
Further descriptions of Propeller Fund projects can be found here.
Suburban Milwaukee Saturday Night Fever
September 24, 2015 · Print This Article
Guest post by Lise Haller Baggesen
On Saturday September 19th –while Chicago was hustling and bustling with all things EXPO—the Suburban opened the doors to its new Milwaukee location.
Housed in a former Laundromat, which had suffered a total burnout leaving only the carrying structures intact, the property has had a gut rehab –Brad Killam style—and presents as a fresh, clean slate. Above the gallery is an apartment inhabited by de-facto gallery directors Alexander Herzog and Rosa DiSalvo-Herzog, who will be running the daily business of the space, as well as welcoming out-of-town artists in the residency upstairs.
With its large storefront right onto a street corner, the new Suburban vibe is less that of a backyard BBQ (sadly, Brad's brats were missing), and more of a Mom & Pop Store of all things minimalist.
The works on show, by Scottish artist Fergus Feehily, were just that, as well as ethereal, elusive and cheeky –and as Michelle Grabner points out "not at all generous in the way Milwaukee is used to."
This was more than made up for in the in the adjoining alleyway, which doubled as the site of Paul Drucke's contribution to the 2015 Terrain Biennial –a pleasant reminder that you can take the Suburban out of Oak park, but you cannot take Oak Park out of the Suburban. A plaque on the wall baptized it "Angelique Roy's Passage" and the narrow space set the perfectly confined stage for a "Gangway Performance" featuring Joshua Bellow, Margaret Noodin and Laura Hunter.
As the evening progressed, and police officers on bicycles watched from across the street, a mellow crowd of art students and weathered Suburbanites co-mingled outdoors and in, and neighbors stopped by to say hello. After hours the party proceeded to a nearby craft brewery featuring a homegrown DJ, organized by Green Gallery's John Ripenhoff, but this was where I had to hit the road back to Chicago.
I made it home before midnight, and to all of you Chicagoans who used to be Suburban regulars, I will say: it is really not that far. So, if the post EXPO blues is getting you down, head North for some Suburban Saturday Night Fever!
A World of Pain
July 15, 2015 · Print This Article
Guest post by Lise Haller Baggesen.
The Doris Salcedo show, recently on view at the MCA, was a hard one to watch. Not because it was a bad show; numerous reviews pointed out it is an extremely well curated, beautifully executed, and timely show of the monumental oeuvre of a major Latin American artist.
Major female Latin American artist.
The latter only added to the shows importance, in case you were wondering. But none of all this is what made the show hard to watch. Salcedo's visual language is worldly, and spoken by an international elite of sculptors such as Rachel Whiteread, Jannis Kounellis, Boltanski, Anselm Kiefer and Joseph Beuys; a universally understood shorthand, whereby dark wood furniture and cast concrete reads like a history of human suffering. That language we speak, and read, and understand, as an important part of the so-called "post-colonial" discourse. (So called, because who are we kidding?)
What made Salcedo's show so confronting was the silence in between. A silence that is uncomfortable, not as in awkward, not at all, but as in loaded. Like sitting next to your child's sick bed, or worse yet, waiting for a child that does not return home; you understand that this is not about you, there is nothing you can do, and you would rather be anywhere else than right here, right now –yet right here is the only place to be, the only place you can be, right now. It is torturous.
Salcedo is no stranger to the idea of torture –her diligently researched body of work deals largely with its after effects—but neither are we: The principle of torture is inflicting pain, while willfully withholding relief. The deaths of innocent, unarmed men, at the hand of armed police officers, is pain inflicted not only on the victims and their families, on society as a whole. The refusal of relief, in the form of justice, as administered by a supreme court who refuses to indict the responsible parties, is torture.
Into this torturous silence, Kirsten Leenaars inserted three performances, each of an hour's duration. Clad in a uniform black, her motley crew of mourners, performed the ceremonial task of animating the negative spaces in and between Salcedo's work by supporting, comforting, hugging, healing, touching each other –and their audience by extension—while breaking the silence with chants and short monologues. The whole exhibition space carried the sound of what by association would be a funeral drum, was it not that Dan Bitney's synchopated beat was teeming with life. In the invitation to the third performance, Leenaars explained:
"The idea of the witness is explored in relationship to recent events in America – the death of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray. The performance questions specifically, what does it mean to be a witness today? And how do you realize that you are not the origin of your own empathy but it is the other who triggers you to imagine yourself in the place of the other. And how can this be a position of hope?"
I will spare you Susan Sontag's "Regarding the Pain of Others," and her insistence that we derive an almost pornographic pleasure from bearing witness, from a safe distance, to other people's suffering. Although she (obviously) has a point, her thesis begins and ends with the premise that we are capable of empathetically feeling other people's pain, but does not attempt to illuminate the origin of this capacity.
In a recent issue of New Scientist, however, Barbara Finlay offers some insight into the evolutionary mechanics of pain. In her article "The Unique Pain of Being Human," she argues that since certain types of pain, such as labor pain, seem to be a specifically human trait, some biological and sociological benefits must be derived from it:
"The basic function in pain is the same for all vertebrates: it alerts an animal to potential damage and reduces activity after trauma. It is often argued that pain must be different in humans because of our ability to anticipate it or imagine its effect on us. But independent of whether cognition and culture can modify pain, I am suggesting a more basic difference in humans compared with animals: that some varieties, such as labor pain, appear only in humans, and others such as post-trauma pain are magnified.
These forms of pain appear in tandem with the ability to recruit help, to elicit an altruistic response in others."
So pain is social glue. In this double bind we not only the cause of each other's pain (literally) but also its remedy. Hell is the other, but so is help.
By mourning our dead together, by protesting the injustice suffered, and by ending the silence laid upon us, we not only overcome, we become. Human. Social beings.
Social beings remember each other, even when separated –for a time, or forever. Part of the performers' script consists of testimonies to the memories the victims. Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray. Not only their names: what they looked like, what they wore, or how they walked, talked, moved in this world.
Performance art will not bring them back (and neither will sculpture) nor is it a match to the police state –but art can be a powerful reminder that powers operate within our society, other than the powers that be. It can be a wake-up-call to walk away, from oppression and silencing, if not from pain. But first we need to stand up and feel again.
With their closing lines, Kirsten Leenaars performers command us to do just that:
"Stand up. If you've ever known love: stand up! Stand up, if you want to love again. Stand up for lives and loves lost."
Disclaimer: Those of you who know me well, knows that I know Kirsten Leenaars very well, and that I am writing this review, not from the objective position of an art critic, but from that of a very subjective friend.
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Leenaars will present an iteration of "Notes on Empty Chairs" at Gallery 400 on Tuesday, July 21 at 6:00pm–
"The Imaginary Center of Perception"
A collaborative performance by Kirsten Leenaars
Albeit highly mediated in TV and the Internet, artist Kirsten Leenaars responds to the witnessing of the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, to name a few. Leenaars' performance responds to the anger, the pain, the injustice, a flawed system and the senseless loss of lives.
Performers: Marvin Tate, Matthew Robinson, Regin Iglora, Kim Chayeb, Monica Brown, Wa Chontong, Toni Zhao, Opel Smittinet, Valentina Vella, Alison Auwerda, Udita Upadhyaya, Kekeli Kodzo Sumah. Drummer: Dan Bitney.
Lise Haller Baggesen left her native Denmark in 1992 to study painting in the Netherlands. In 2008 she relocated to Chicago with her family. In the meantime, her work evolved from a traditional painting practice toward a hybrid practice including curating, writing and immersive multimedia installation work. Her first book "Mothernism" was published by Poor Farm Press and Green Lantern Press in 2014.


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Fantastic! This is nice and simple, no silly effects, doesn't look childish just an intelligently designed game. Huge range of words and categories suitable for adults and children and there's a web link so you can look up the words, which I've not seen on any other hangman game. Great to play with the kids to kill time. Brilliant. A million times better than the rest and no annoying adverts either! I'll be keeping this one. Thank you.
Works decent, no permissions & free to boot! Would've given it 5 stars if it had it's own keyboard and characters that disappeared when you picked them. Chosen characters are displayed discretely with very small font and make the game a little slow to play. However otherwise, it works with no glitches like many others I tried prior to this one. My wife and I really like the display themes and the subject selections too - very good choices and layout. Very little room for improvement, please don't change it for the worse.
Great game! Good words but ratio of game size to screen size isnt the same, graohics are okay - but the word bank is full of good words,
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