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February 9th, 8:00 to midnight
$20 admission to benefit Around the Coyote's arts and education programming.

Catering provided by Las Palmas and premiering the Blonde Coyote beer brewed specially for us by Piece. DJ's DhakFu, Uncle Jazz, Sean Michaels and Chip Chop will spin the night away. Silent auction of Curators' Choice exhibition featuring Booster and Seven's "best of the fest" visual art picks. Premier of site-specific installation by Aili Schmeltz the Around the Coyote Fall Artist-in-Residence.

Jon Aley NW 4A
Zoe Asta FI 222A
Rebecca Banasiak NW 6S
Jeffrey Baumgartner FI 207A
Chris Bernacchi FI 225A
Jeremi Bialowas FI 226A
Stuart Black and Josh Schwartz FI 321A
Ewa Bloch FI 201
Katie Blochowiak FI 226D
Paige Brubeck NW 8C-D
Burtonwood and Holmes NW 9D-F
Allison Rae Butkus FI 350A
Baltazar Castillo FI 220
Raymond Chen NW 4C
Alicia Chester NW 9B
Joseph Church FI 203A
Carlos Cook FI 226C
Kass Copeland FI 218A
Robert Corwin NW 6C
Erin Culton NW 8A-B
Amy E. Day NW 8E
Matt Dietz FI 320A
Melissa Dorn Richards NW 6A
Pat Dorsey NW 6M
Melanie June Dorson NW 6B
Lauren Feece FI 321B
Sarah Forsythe FI 320C
Angela Geis FI 320B
Allen Giedraitis NW 6D
Byron Gin FI 323, 323AA
Michelle Gordon FI 220B
Kathy Halper FI 230A
Eric David Hamilton FI 207, 214, 214A
Evan Harrington NW 8I
Phillip Harrington * NW 8H
Kim Hoffman FI 321C
Richard Hren FI 341B
Damien James FI 322C
K. James FI 341A
Tan Jie FI 212A
Pamela Johnson FI 333C
Shena Jones FI 340AA
Roy Koerner FI 345A
Deborah Marie Jost FI 323A
Michelle Elizabeth Kaffko NW 6L
Suvi Konttinen NW 6F
Eric Kopidlansky FI 344B
Victoria Kowalczyk NW 6O
John Kowalczyk FI 322B
Barbara Krol NW 4B
Eileen Kroll FI 200A
Kevin Lahvic FI 352
Roberto Lopez * FI 343
Kevin Lustrup NW 6E
Dena Lyons FI 313A
Gabriel Mejia FI 343A
Baila Miller FI 344
Kevin Moeller FI 305
Silvia Momtchilova FI 220C
James Monroe FI 325, 325A
Kristen Neveu NW 8L
Daniel Nolan FI 344A
Adam Old FI 226AA
Zsofia Otvos FI 325B
Pedro Palacios NW 6J
Bruce Pattie NW 9A
Carmen Perez FI 323C
Jonas and Julieta Perkins NW 6G
Kiley Piercy FI 322A
Nancy Randazzo NW 6R
Charles Rees FI 215, 215A
Kurt Riemersma FI 205
Lisa Rinaldi NW 8J
Jason Sato NW 8K
Jeremy Schulz FI 201A
Karen Schuman NW 6P
Alex Segreti NW 6Q
Keith Shannon NW 8F-G
Gwyndolyn Siebert NW 6N
Jennifer Singer FI 226B
Marketa Sivek FI 222, 230, 232
Diana Solis * FI 210
Marcy Sperry FI 315A
Bradley Stiritz FI 333A, 333B
Robert Treece FI 342A
Radoslav Vajarov FI 220D
Mark VanderVinne NW 4E
Gerardo Villarreal FI 220A
Scott Wallace FI 226BB
Kenneth Webster NW 4D
Dawn Wheat FI 304A
Ania Wilczak FI 220E
David Wittig FI 218B
Chiara L. Young-Snowdancer NW 6H
Francis Zaander NW 6K

Beginning Art Collector's Tour
Saturday, February 11th at 1pm. $10. limit 20.
Tour convenes at the Around the Coyote Gallery (1935 W. North Ave.)
Around the Coyote will again offer the popular Beginning Collectors Tour. Art collectors and Around the Coyote Board Members, Bridget McDonough of Light Opera Works and Amy Brandolino of the Block Museum, offer a tour of the festival meant to demystify the art buying experience. Tips on how to start and maintain an art collection will be given. Bridget and Amy will highlight some of their favorite festival artists, introduce the tour to those artists, and answer questions.

Curator's Choice Tour by Peter Miller
Sunday, Febraury 12 at 1pm. $10. limit 20.
Tour convenes at the Around the Coyote Gallery (1935 W. North Ave.)
Peter Miller of the Peter Miller Gallery will guide a tour of his favorite festival artists' booths. Peter will discuss methods of curating gallery exhibitions, collecting emerging art and how to build solid collections.

Fuck Tori Amos
Written by Caitlin Parrish Directed by Erica Weiss
A girl and her brother discuss survival tactics on the eve of her departure to bad kid camp.

500 years, 500 miles
Written by Michael Burgan Directed by: Sarah Ballema
Three unexpected visitors disrupt a young couple's life and stir longings for the one who got away--or who never really was.

Static
Written by Ross Travis Directed by Ross Travis Asst. Director Avigaeil Fuhrman
Two people trying to connect with everything but each other.

Customer for Life
Written by William Jordan Directed by Katie Jones
Four men struggling with the one thing that matters, friendship.

The Last Conversation I Ever Had With My Father Before He Died on the Operating Table During Open-Heart Surgery
Written and Directed by Greg Hardigan Asst. Director William Morgan
Sometimes talking about nonsense with someone is the same as really talking.

The Mermaid and the Astronaut
Written by Sharon Lanza Directed by Joel Moorman
Ponderings on the roads that often lead us to different destinations.

The Hard Way
Written by Greg Beam Directed by Mark Macoun
Sexual menace and cutthroat emotional combat unfold in a bedroom at an inn. How far will they go?

That Feel
Written by Greg Hardigan Directed by Kelli Nicole Hardman
Sarah and Mike thought they would spend the rest of their lives together. They didn't.

Sexy Repellant
Written by Elizabeth Ellis Directed by Robert Ayres
You've met your match, now what?

Dawg
Written by Laura Jacqmin Directed by Brant Russell
Viktor and Giovanni hide out in an airport from a pack of roving dogs.

Around the Coyote's 7th annual Winter Festival Film and Video program this year honors Split Pillow for their diligent and outstanding work in the Chicago film and video community. Each night we will showcase an hour of short films and videos produced by Split Pillow, from the past and present.

Split Pillow, a 501(c)3 non-profit, selects four of the Midwest's most promising talents to direct three short films per year. The filmmakers rotate every season or project and tend to be a mix of film students and independent filmmakers, most based in and around Chicago. By providing these emerging filmmakers with the resources and opportunities to develop and produce original collaborative works of motion picture for the public, Split Pillow has become a driving force in the innovation of filmmaking, and a partner in the Around the Coyote mission to support emerging art in all its forms.

Split Pillow is specifically dedicated to producing works influenced by the Chicago aesthetic. Heavily influenced by the rules and philosophies of improvisation and the Exquisite Corpse, all Split Pillow works are the result of collaboration amongst multiple filmmakers, resulting in unique, provocative motion pictures. Around the Coyote is pleased to highlight the work of Split Pillow, our co-conspirator in the never ending quest to promote and advocate for the emerging arts of Chicago.

Split Pillow board members: Jason Stephens, CJ Dugan, Dennis Belogorsky, Jennifer Thornton, Jacky Lewkovich, Andrea Mortensen.

Split Pillow films that will be shown throughout the festival:
Hot Coffee directed by Dave Belden
Dodging le Draft directed by Konrad Arnold
Dog directed by Shaun Himmerick
Doc directed by Joe Chambers
Recreational Drugs directed by Kilts Afire
Cushion directed by Alexander Rojas
Tigerpants directed by Chris Koranek
A Reason to Drink directed by RJ Bentler
The Halloween Cliffhanger directed by Bryan Walsh , Jeff McHale, CJ Dugan

For more information on Split Pillow or to make a donation please visit their website at www.splitpillow.com.

Al Burian has put out over a dozen issues of the influential zine Burn Collector. He is also in the band Milemaker and is a regular contributor to Punk Planet and Lumpen.

Rob Christopher has lived in Chicago since 1993. His selfpublished "exploded novel" of Random Literature, 100 Spinning Plates , is available online at www.randomcha.net as well as at fine bookstores like Powell's in Portland and Quimby's. In his spare time he watches far too many movies, mixes up retro cocktails (the Mai Tai being his specialty), and writes more stuff.

Emerson Dameron produces the zine Wherewithal, contributes to a host of other scrappy publications, and plays records on WLUW-FM. With Nell Taylor, he founded the Chicago Underground Library, which you should ask him about. http://loudwire.net/~emerson.

A.B. Drea is the editor and publisher of The Banana King, the Up Front editor for Venus, and a columnist for UR Chicago. She's freelanced for TimeOut Chicago and BlackBook magazine among others, and her fiction has been published in The Chicago Reader, Pistil, and Columbia College's 2005 Story Week Reader.

Achtongue Fingers has been self-publishing since 2001. Aside from publishing drawings, poems, short stories, and essays in a few indiscriminate book stores, he also enjoys the art of the accident by littering copies of his work in random places such as between the pages of choice books within public places. He is currently working on an event based on his short story, "Morbida Memento Mori" dubbed "LE TEMPS DETRUIT TOUT".

Andrew Huff is one of the founders of Gapers Block, a Chicago-centric webzine, is editor of mmmChicago, and has a personal blog at www.me3dia.com.

Eric lab Rat writes and performs with groups such as Shahbaz Review, Grammatical Era, Gentlemen Callers, White Kids With Forties, Righteous Reverends Revival, Lozenge Improv, and Manifest Theatre. He is currently a dj on WLUW 88.7, but you may have heard him on Red Line Radio, WPBR, or the Wizard. His work can be found in The Banana King, Time All at Once, and The 2nd Hand.

Liz Mason writes Caboose, a zine with topics such as Karaoke, Improvement and Ridiculousness. She is part of the all-girl publishing collaborative Hotcakes and her work has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, workingfortheman.com, Reglar Wiglar, and Lumpen.

Jonathan Messinger is books editor of TimeOut Chicago, co-publisher of Featherproof Books, host of the Dollar Store Reading Series and editor of THISisGRAND, a blog about public transit.

Billy Roberts has spent the last 5 years in Chicago, making a fortune in the zine racket by pawning off his own writings (Proof I Exist). He founded Loop Distro in May of 2002, collecting zines from all over the Chicagoland area and selling them at inflated prices. www.loopdistro.com

Mimi Smartypants is the pseudonym of a 30-ish writer, editor, mother, and problem drinker who lives in West Rogers Park. She wrote her first book, The World According To Mimi Smartypants, entirely by accident. She keeps her diary online at smartypants.diaryland.com.

Brandon Wetherbee founded Foul, Inc., which has put out nearly 20 issues of Foul (the zine) and 2 years worth of Foul Radio. His current projects are The Machine, a monthly cultural magazine about Chicago, and The Machine Radio which airs Wednesday nights from 6 to 9 pm and is archived at www.themachinemedia.com.

Alanna Zaritz is the founder of AZ Fakebook which infrequently puts out the art and literature zine Cheatsheet.

with music by Walter Meego

Walter Meego was formed in 1998 by Justin S., Colin Y. and Pat P. as a platform for creativity to run rampant, with no boundaries. The band is completed by turntablist Jarret S. who joined in 2005 to replace the very busy Pat P.

Kim Alpert aka Rev. Fortune aka Jasper Von Houten has a degree in digital media and a background in classical art, world music, and carpentry. A regular on the poetry scene a few years past, Kim has been writing again and looks forward to this opportunity to read her new work. She has curated film, video, and music for Around the Coyote for the past two years, opened the Binary Mine art space, worked aggressively in the advertising world, and was recently fortunate enough to find true love.

Kristiana Colón is a student at the University of Chicago. She has competed in the 2003 and 2004 Louder Than a Bomb Chicago Teen Poetry Slam and the 2003 Brave New Voices National Teen Poetry Slam. She toured Chicago with Grammatical Era and London with the WordWide poetry slam team, which was featured at London's first inner-city youth slam. She has been featured on Power 92, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, WGN Radio, and WZRD. She recently released her independently produced spoken word CD entitled Who Haunts Eden and was featured on HBO's fifth season of Def Poetry Jam. She is pursuing a career in literary and performance art.

Uriel Crumb has spent the last few years traveling the country, writing and performing his spiritual poetry.

Charlie Newman has published five books of poetry (three on Wasteland Press, and two on Fractal Edge) and three CDs. He is the host of WZRD's weekly Poetry Circus show as well as readings at The Cafe and DvA Gallery.

Samantha Skinner recently put out her first collection of poetry, "You May Waltz to your Doom in Sanguine Stained Shoes"

with music by Dove Rock

Dove Rock is a feminist poet and emcee. In 2005 she released her debut album "Sylvia Plath Easybake Oven" on her own Iron Vagina Records. She has graced the stages of the Hot House, the Guild Complex, the Texas Ballroom, the Vans Warped Tour as well as colleges and clubs across the country. She will be performing with Lamon Manuel, Itch13, Sean the Pawn and Il Subliminal.

Theatre events: $10 per program or $15 per day.
Film & Video events: $7 suggested donation.
Visual Art Day Pass: $5.
Spoken Word & Music events: $5.
Tours: $10
All-Access festival pass $40 on sale through Thursday, February 9th at 6pm.