Chicago Creative Social Club

New Meetup: Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS: The Empire Strikes Back

From:	Jester
Sent on:	Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:19 AM

Announcing a new Meetup for Chicago Creative Social Club!

What: Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS: The Empire Strikes Back

When: Friday, March 26, 2010 7:00 PM

Where:
The Long Room
1612 West Irving Park Road
Chicago, IL 60613
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Conversation Salon NUMERO UNO is on Friday, February 26th. We have 24 "Yes" RSVPs as of this writing and there is still time to join in on the fun.

I have decided to schedule Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS allowing about six weeks lead time, for four reasons:

I am thinking Conversation Salons will be a regular THANG of The Chicago Creative Social Club. I decided that the last Friday evening of every month might make sense. With supplementary, bespoke (look it up -- the British use that word ALL the time) Meetups besides the Conversation Salons, we will have a pretty solid Club calendar. I think a regular rhythm of events might be good, but I could be wrong.
I decided to officially postpone the discussion "Hollywood hatchet job: Alan Moore's From Hell" to Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS. I had designated it "optional" for Conversation Salon NUMERO UNO. Am I postponing it because I am unprepared? Hardly. Shutter Island is coming out as a movie, and it also has a recently published graphic novel, so I would like to check both out, as well as Dennis Lehane's original novel. I also just finished the graphic novel "The Hunter" based on Richard Stark's crime novel, upon which TWO Hollywood movies were also made: Point Blank with Lee Marvin (1967) and Payback with Mel Gibson (1999). I would like to explore the artistic variations from one medium to the next for From Hell (itself largely derived from Stephen Knight's 1976 book, Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution), Shutter Island, and The Hunter, so it makes sense to do all this at Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS. I would suggest that you also check out these sets of books, movies, and graphic novels yourself before Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS (just hang out at Borders!); the artistic variations are intriguing and the graphic novel truly makes for a different, sometimes UNMATCHABLE experience in its own right. And as someone who has read at most four comic books in his life, I can assure you that you don't need to be a comic book fan to love graphic novels.
I wanted to signal ahead of time that the topic on "technology and social isolation" will be a running theme in our Conversation Salons. As you will see at Conversation Salon NUMERO UNO (if you attend it!), this topic is a hugely important one for our society, and Meetup.com is a prime example of a technological solution that can ameliorate, rather than exacerbate, social isolation. At The Chicago Creative Social Club, we can have fun with social isolation even as we destroy it.
Finally, I wanted to give as many of you as much planning horizon as possible to be able to fit Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS into your schedule. Is six weeks enough? I hope so.

Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS will be at The Long Room unless someone identifies a better (however defined) place, or a venue in which I can give a PowerPoint presentation on the topic of graphic novels. Note that there will be MANY MORE topics in the creative universe for Conversation Salon NUMERO DOS. Your suggestions are welcome.

Jester

PS: For Conversation Salon NUMERO UNO, I am adding a new topic "Very good reasons and very bad reasons to join, participate in, and leave a Meetup Group".

Learn more here:
http://www.creativesocialclub.com/calendar/12618417/

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The Creative Social Club (CSC) is the largest multi-disciplinary, eclectic Meetup Group dedicated to the arts in Chicago, organized exclusively to facilitate socializing and the shared enjoyment of life. Comprised of current and aspiring creative professionals, creatively oriented individuals, and enthusiasts of human creativity, the CSC meets regularly to celebrate diverse expressions of the human experience – encompassing visual arts, literary arts, performance arts, and more – while taking advantage of the exceptional social, cultural, and entertainment amenities that Chicago offers as a world-class city. Nearly shut down when its Founder left the group in July 2009, the CSC has grown to over 1,000 members with over 50 Meetups, excellent ratings, and positive reviews.

Although our members include a core of accomplished creative professionals, participation in the Creative Social Club is strongly encouraged for any individuals who have a healthy appreciation for human creativity and enjoy socially and positively engaging other people who share the same passion. Members tend to be smart, sociable, laid back, and happy people. Along with its sister group, the Good Times Institute (GTI), the CSC endeavors to be "well-organized and relaxed", with "fun, friendly, smart people to be around", as described by one of our group reviews. We try to do things just a little differently from other Meetup Groups – more personal, less formal/reverent, unconventional, and innovative/risk-taking. Membership is FREE as Meetup is our labor of love, and we are also cost-conscious in organizing Meetups with starving artists in mind. For a more detailed description including an overview of the variety of Meetups we organize, click here. See the video below for a fun moment from one of our Meetups.

Our motto is "Be Creative. Be Social". If you are worried that you are not creative enough to join, just be more social. And remember: Membership in the CSC is free, but you only enjoy its full benefits if you participate.

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