Help us write our history.
Links Hall is fast approaching its 30th Anniversary and we want to invite you to participate in a project that will lead up to our 30th Anniversary celebration this October. We’d like you to think back, look through your files, and help others in our community remember Links Hall’s history.
LinksHall3030 is an online project designed to share the incredible wealth of experiences artists and audiences have had at 3435 North Sheffield. It will contribute directly to the anniversary events planned for October 2 & 3, 2009 — more on that to come — and introduce a more formal and comprehensive catalogue of Links Hall’s three decades to be released in 2010.
Links Hall would not have a history without you — your voice is crucial to our celebration. LinksHall3030 will regularly publish Pages contributed by yourself and others, archival photographs and other content that its followers — a community that’s been growing since 1978 — can enjoy both as an online experience and, through printing Pages at home, as a book they create themselves. We ask that you read on and consider contributing a Page to LinksHall3030.
Your Page should be one 8.5″ x 11″ or similarly-proportioned flat sheet designed entirely by you in whatever way you choose to represent your memory of, perception of, experience at or forward-looking wish for Links Hall. If you want, you can get support from Links Hall personnel for research, including retrieval of archival documents that we can copy and send to you via email or postal mail. Examples might be:
* A program, bill, photo or other document from a past event at Links Hall annotated with words and images that “translate” it for the reader
* An original artwork that stands alone or in tandem with a sound file hosted in an embedded player and available for download
* A story, anecdote, journal entry, piece of fiction or poem that describes an experience or perception of Links Hall
* A .gif or video file with or without a handmade “frame” image
* Anything else you can think of!
Original copies of all Pages, when possible, should be sent via postal mail to Links Hall to be scanned in high-resolution. However, you may also send your Page in high-resolution (min. 300dpi) to linkshall3030pages@gmail.com. The important thing is that we want your Page in the book — don’t hesitate to contact us with your ideas!
An image-based format will encourage followers of this site to print hard copies of your Pages as they appear here to build their own, unique copy of LinksHall3030 in book form. Our followers will organize and bind your Pages however they like, and will be able to share their versions right here on the site.
Additionally, each Page will receive its own dedicated link — to be emailed to you as soon as it’s added — at which followers can post threaded comments about their memories of your contributions. We will provide support for you to respond to these comments and join the conversation, answering questions and providing further insight about your Page — LinksHall3030 can be as comprehensive as you, its followers, and we make it!
We appreciate whatever memories you can contribute to LinksHall3030 as well as the part you’ve played in the history we celebrate. Please send your original hard copy Page to:
Links Hall
Attn: LinksHall3030Pages
3435 N. Sheffield, Suite 207
Chicago, IL 60657
Questions? E-mail us at linkshall3030pages@gmail.com or call (773) 281-0824.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers,
Laura & Zac
Laura Molzahn and Zachary Whittenburg
LinksHall3030Pages Editors
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