21Minus | What Was, What Is
June 17, 20231:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The event is free for people ages 21 and under and their families, though all are welcome to attend.
About the Event
Designed by Chicago youth and curated and hosted by the MCA’s Teen Creative Agency (TCA), 21Minus is the MCA’s annual exposition of youth creativity and control. This year’s theme, What Was, What Is, engages our pasts, our histories, and ourselves in order to recognize the realities of our experiences and environments.
Join us at the MCA on June 17, 2023, from 1–6 pm, for an afternoon of performances, workshops, art installations, film screenings, and more!
The event is free for people ages 21 and under and their families, though all are welcome to attend.
Schedule
The 2023 return of 21Minus welcomes a record number of contributors!
ATRIUM
1 pm
Opening Remarks
1:10–2 pm
Dream Sequence | Ugly Nate
2:15–2:45 pm
Noise Programme: An Experimental Music Performance | Leonel De Paz
3–3:35 pm
Black Woman Blues | Kayla Gilmore
- “Opened by Exemption” & “Dirt and chocolate”
3:45–3:50 pm
Strength in Numbers | Hournine
3:55–4:45 pm
All World and the Glass Room | Silver October
All Day
Community Care Stations | Gage Park Latinx Council
COMMONS
All Day
Community Tables | Multiple Artists + Organizations
LEARNING STUDIOS
2–3 pm
Retro Jewelry Workshop | Marwen
4TH-FLOOR LOBBY
4:45–5:45 pm
BLACK ARK:
D-Composed Presents D-Compressed: A Music & Meditation Experience
5:50 pm
Closing Remarks
TERRACE
2, 3 & 4 pm
FREE PALETAS
4–4:30 pm
Reworking Our World Fashion Show | Eliana Cano
All Day
- Activations + Giveaways | Multiple Artists
- Art Show | Multiple Artists
- Community Tables | Multiple Artists + Organizations
THEATER
Dance Suite
1:30–1:40 pm
The Well | Esha Raut
1:40–1:50 pm
House Movement | MJ Salis
Performance Suite
2:20–2:40 pm
Authenticity | Miles Chong
2:40–2:50 pm
Appliance Performs | Soph Schiavone
3:30–4:30 pm
How We Become Artists | Marwen
Film Suite
4:30–4:45 pm
Chicago Otaku | Street Level
4:45–5 pm
Once Upon a Time . . . In Aztlan | Andres Carlos-Tamez
5–5:15 pm
The Uptown Blues | Street Level
Artistic Contributors
2D and 3D Artworks
- 人性画 (Humanity’s Portrait) | Amy Kan
- What I have become | Brandy Leavy
- Memories That Make Home | Kimberly Espinosa
- Memories | Angela Lim
- Letters to Ligonia | Justin Anderson
- Remind Me How She Saw Things | Olivia Kluska
- The Child’s Jealousy, Mother’s Love | Enola Nyenke
- What’s In My Pants | Val Bykova
- Still Being Me | Misa Yo
- Identity & Fortune; Camelia and June | June Ahleman
- Braiding my Love for You | Daniela Loza
Activations + Installations
- How to Tie a Tie | Ari Karafiol
- Physical Computing | Logan Silvers
- Interlinked | Jasmine Carag
- Reworking Our World Fashion | Eliana Cano
- Deeply Routed | Holden Magee
- A Memory I Can’t Quite Remember | I SEE SOUND Radio
- The Portrait Puzzle | Savannah Bowman
- Sanctuary Village | Guerrilla Art Collective of Curie
Films
- Once Upon a Time … In Aztlan | Andres Carlos-Tamez
- Rumination | Aniketh Bhaskar
- Chicago Otaku | Street Level
- The Uptown Blues | Street Level
Musical Performances
- Dream Sequence | Ugly Nate
- 100% Sonic Youth Cover | Leonel De Paz
- Black Woman Blues | Kayla Gilmore
- All World and the Glass Room | Silver October
- D-Compressed: A Music & Meditation Experience | D-Composed
Performances
- Exemption | Jenelle Rodriguez
- Dirt and chocolate | Genesis Galloway
- Appliance Choreographs | Soph Schiavone
- Authenticity | Miles Chong
- The Well | Esha Raut
Workshops + Talks
- Hournine | Hournine
- Community Care | Gage Park Latinx Council
- How we become artists | Marwen
- Retro Jewelry | Marwen