Mother Load
@ COLLABORACTION
1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 25th, from 6PM - 9PM
MOTHER LOAD is an interdisciplinary show featuring female identifying visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and performers making work about fertility, miscarriage, pregnancy, birth, postpartum depression and PTSD, postpartum sexuality, and motherhood.
tickets $8
6pm doors open
7pm performances begin
One piece of art will be up for auction with 100% of the sale going to Healthcare Alternative Systems a local non-profit that provides behavioral health services to Chicago’s Latino community. Their Postpartum Depression Program is the only community-based PPD treatment program in the state of Illinois
Visual Art
Seeley Cardone
Christa Donner
Aimee Gilmore
Katrina Majkut
Michelle Kendrick Hartney
Music
Amalea Tshilds
Angela James Martins Watkins
She Speaks In Tongues
Dance
-Mary Sue Reese
Performance
“Kimberly Said No” –Michelle Hartney
Readings
“How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood” edited by Qiana Mestrich Michi Matter Jigarjian
“BABY LOVE-How My Infant Son Became The Other Man” by Christen Clifford
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Tags: Aimee Gilmore, Amalea Tshilds, Angela James Martins Watkins, Chicago, Christa Donner, Christen Clifford, Collaboraction, Katrina Majkut, Mary Sue Reese, Michelle Hartney, Michelle Kendrick Hartney, Mother Load, Qiana Mestrich Michi Matter Jigarjian, Seeley Cardone, She Speaks In Tongues, West Town
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