Second Sunday Salon • MUSIC • ART • WORDS
About this Event
Second Sunday Salon
Join us in person for the August 9th Second Sunday Salon! It's a chill gathering for MUSIC, ART & WORDS where you can meet cool people, share ideas, and enjoy the good vibe. Whether you're into art, music, or just good conversation, this is the place to be. Don’t miss out on an ecclectic, relaxed evening of Chicago artists, ideas and community!
The Second Sunday Salon is produced by , an arts organization dedicated to the Democratization of the Arts - curated by Linda Solotaire - and presented in collaboration with COLVIN HOUSE.
MUSIC • DONOVAN MIXON QUARTET
featuring
Donovan Mixon • Guitar, Mark Fleldman • Violin
Matthew Hall • Double Bass & Gustavo Cortiñas • Drum
Chicago-based guitarist and composer Donovan Mixon is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and a Resident Artist with the Jazz Institute of Chicago. He is the recipient of the 2025 Evanston Mayor’s Award for the Arts and the creator of Finding Center: A Sonic Memoir (2025), a deeply personal and expansive musical work.
Mixon performs with the AACM’s historic Great Black Music Ensemble, appearing at festivals and events including the Chicago Jazz Festival and Pitchfork Music Festival. In additon he conducts workshops in the historic AACM music school. Donovan is also a teaching artist for the Jazz Institute of Chicago in which he conducts workshops in Chicago public schools and currently serves on the adjunct faculty at Oakton College.
He is also the founder and curator of Donovan’s Garage, a monthly Chicago concert series and performance laboratory that has hosted more than 70 jazz musicians and continues to cultivate a growing, engaged audience.
A former Berklee College of Music professor and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Composition grantee, Mixon spent nearly two decades performing and teaching in Europe and Turkey. He is the author of Performance Ear Training, an acclaimed book that reimagines how musicians develop listening skills and his fictionalized autobiographical novel Ahgottahandleonit published in 2017 by Cinco Puntos Press.
Visit the website for more on the artists. https://www.truemuseinc.com/salons
WORDS • DR. TARA BETTS & PUGS ATOMZ
NON:op's SAY THEIR NAMES 2025 Commissioned Artists
SAY THEIR NAMES is a memorial and interactive map that tells the stories of the lives of Black Americans killed by police: Who were they? What were their lives like? SAY THEIR NAMES documents incidents that likely would not have resulted in the death of white Americans given the same set of circumstances.
Background and Context
Our democracy is challenged by systemic oppression, racism, and M**der of Black persons; by economic hardship and political degradation; by unbridled capitalism and greed; by the destruction of our environment. As we struggle through the darkness of multiple crises—of our own making—we wish to remember Black persons marginalized by systemic oppression, racism, and M**der. SAY THEIR NAMES extends the reading of Blood Lines names to include Black persons killed by law enforcement since 1919.
Ron Browne, lead researcher and one of the original Blood Lines readers, along with a group of interns and community members and NON:op’s Saba Ayman-Nolley is building a database of Black Americans killed by law enforcement since 1919. The interactive map will grow over the coming months and years as more and more names are added to the database. If you would like to contribute to this database, or if you would like to assist with this important research please contact [email protected]. Once this database is posted you may select and record yourself reading names from this list. Compensation for participation is the same as for Blood Lines above.
SAY THEIR NAMES is an ongoing research and mapping project intended to identify, locate, and remember Black Americans killed by police since 1919. It is designed with an open-ended timeline to permit several successive years of research, the development of an interactive map, and the accumulation of community contributions. This map is truly a participatory and interactive project. In the coming months and years, as we continue to accumulate research data and develop the online interactive map, we will add the capability to submit data through an online form on the map page. For now, please contact us at [email protected] if you have any information to add to any of the Black Americans killed by police currently on the map, or with additional names that should be included in the map. You may also fill out this form.
NON:op’s SAY THEIR NAMES project is an attempt to remember African Americans whose lives have been taken away and their voices silenced by acts of police. It is also an effort to go beyond mere statistics, to humanize them and honor the lives they lived. SAY THEIR NAMES is inclusive of all those of African descent, regardless of gender, age, occupation, faith affiliation, or any other social category. It does not seek to stand above or apart from any other project that memorializes these shortened lives; rather, it stands in solidarity with any attempt to serve, remember, and honor lives that have been taken because of “color,” race, or cultural heritage. Only if we stand together will we be strong enough to overcome the structural and systemic racism that is eating away at our common humanity.
Agenda
🕑: 05:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Food & Drinks
Host: Colvin House
Info: FOOD & DRINK • Little Poems of Deliciousness • Small bites, wine and a signature drink curated for you by COLVIN HOUSE - For sale throughout the evening.
🕑: 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Performances Begin
Host: Linda Solotaire
Info: Performances begin at 6pm with Chuck Kramer, Lauren Staten & Timothy David Rey followed by a 20-minute intermission. At 7pm music from Jazz Lady Robin Watson and friends. Meanwhile, check out Chuck Kramer's photography for sale and on view in the dining room. Not only that - but you can participate in NON:op's "Inventory of Lost Books" upcoming multimedia installation by having YOUR VOICE recorded - so cool!
Where is it happening?
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