by Samantha Turner | Mar 13, 2023
Friday March 17th is a night of fun at our Open Haus! This month’s theme is Starkbierfest! We will have German Bier on tap and food for purchase!
After the debauchery of Faschingszeit (carnival season), we have started into Fastenzeit (lent). Fortify yourself for this time of austereness by trying some “liquid food” – the genius invention of 17th century Paulaner monk Salvator who decided to help his fasting brothers by brewing a batch of “strong beer” which was rich in nutrients and calories.
To this day, all of Bavaria’s breweries create a version of Starkbier during lent. Just like the originator, Salvator from the Paulaner Brewery, most varieties end with the “-ator” appendix: Optimator, Triumphator, Maximator, Terminator, and countless others. During our March Stammtisch Open Haus you can taste some of those delicious brews.
Our Open Haus is a great way to meet new friends, or bring your friends and introduce them to the Haus! This event is located in our popular 2nd Floor Brauhaus.
Free parking at 5/3 Bank after 6:00 PM located at Western and Gunnison
by admin | Feb 6, 2023
Korean Cultural Center of Chicago’s Thursday’s concert series, Mozart in the Morning. This month’s series is “Simple Songs, Simple Stories”.
by Samantha Turner | Jan 17, 2023
Our January Open Haus will be the best game night in town! Did you know that Germans invented the jigsaw puzzle and board games? Bring your friends and your competitive spirit and celebrate Germany with a night of German food, drink, games, and Gemütlichkeit! We’ll have games of all types – board games, card games, ping pong, foosball, and more!
by Samantha Turner | Jan 17, 2023
Join us for a screening of Chicago director James Fotopoulos’s film “Two Girls.”
This is the story of young sisters in the American Midwest left alone with their increasingly unstable mother while their father is fighting in the Civil War. The film traces the girls’ naturally fraught sibling dynamic and the ways that their father’s absence ignites their imagination. When they meet a stranger in the forest they become enchanted by a world of creative work and nature, a welcome distraction from their volatile mother. Play and the dreamlike space they inhabit provides an expansive and ultimately grounding setting for the girls’ response to war.
Filmed in Chicago, this work is an experimentation on a children’s fairy tale. Two Girls features German actress Isolda Dychauk.
This event is available for free.
View the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfREVF44G-w
“Fotopoulos is a notably talented, prolific, and obsessive filmmaker.” – Amy Taubin, Artforum
“Perhaps no other moviemaker so categorically denies compartmentalization, falsifying dichotomies of underground and art film, narrative and abstraction, and black box and white cube, while unabashedly appropriating, celebrating, and upturning the conventions of the horror, sci-fi, hardboiled, and melodramatic genres.” – Fantasma: A James Fotopoulos Retrospective – Spectacle
“Fotopoulos is certainly an auteur who makes up in artistic integrity what he forgoes in mainstream appeal …his films are imbued with unparalleled aplomb.” – Mapping the Obscure: James Fotopoulos Retrospective – Cine-File
“Fotopoulos, a filmmaker whose visions are as audacious as they are uncompromising.” – RogerEbert.com
“There is no shot in a Fotopoulos film or video that does not mine the psychological affect of the frame, the camera placement, the lighting, the lens. ” – Screen Slate
100 min
English and German (with subtitles)
Free parking at 5/3 Bank after 6:00 PM located at Western and Gunnison