AREA Chicago 3rd Annual Wants & Needs Auction
Friday, 11th December 7-12pm - Auction @ 930pm - @ UE Hall - 37 S. Ashland
$10 Donation at the door, $20 Donation for admission and a tote bag. ALL proceeds from AREA's Wants and Needs Party will benefit the Summer 2010 issue of AREA.
MC Ryan Hollon will host the event while DJs Dave Marques, Naomi Walker, and Sarah Smizz keep you entertained and dancing.
This year 28 contributors and friends of AREA have offered up their skills and services to you.
AREA 3rd Annual Needs and Wants Auction list:
- 1) Beth Gutelius and Dave Pabellon offer a Tequila Night for 4. Starting bid: $50
- 2) Charles Vinz offers his skills as a draftsman to measure up one floor of a home and draft it by hand to scale. Starting bid: $30
- 3) Frank Edwards offers 2 introductory or intermediate bass guitar lessons. Starting bid: $25
- 4) Amber Ginsburg and Lia offer to take you on a Chicago tastings for 10 with 3 spring greens associated with the naming of the city. Starting bid: $30
- 5) Sarah Lewison offers a retreat in the Countryside for Small Group (up to 5 people) or Individual. We are about 5 hours from Chicago by train- I will pick you up, and take care of you so you can have a chilled-out productive and engaging retreat. The place has great light, an amazing bird population, good internet, wood heat, delicious water, library access, and your stay will be fully catered with mostly local organic food. Starting bid: $150
- 6) Samuel A. Love offers a customized tour of the Calumet Region (Example: sand dunes, Mexican Mutual Aid Societies, company housing, etc...). Starting bid: $30
- 7) Paul Duricais offers a personalized Pocket Guide to Hell walking tours; the tours focus on sites connected to social justice, labor history, and true crime stories. Starting bid: $30
- 8) Rachel Wallis offers her Service/Skill of sewing a pillow to your specifications, with the embroidered design of your dreams. (previous pillow designs have included images from loteria cards, maps with state birds and flowers, robots, sea creatures, and a portrait of north korean dictator kim jong il, although not all on the same pillow). Starting bid: $25
- 9) Mairead Case offers to create six anonymous collaged snail-mail letters for you or your special friend. Remember real mail!? (she won't write them herself, but she will choose pieces to copy from her personal library, based on the winner's stipulations), plus small found objects and bits of bright paper. Starting bid: $15
- 10) Tim Sarrantonio/The Arts of Life offers a personalized portrait of the winner by Arts of Life artist Daniel Brendel. The winner can come in and pose for Daniel or they can provide him with a picture they want painted. We will frame the picture for you and prefer you to come see the studio where it is made! Starting bid: $150
- 11) Rebecca Zorach offers one-hour consultation on application to grad school, fellowships, or academic jobs. For best results you should be in the arts, humanities, or humanistic social sciences. If I'm not in Chicago I will consult by phone (my dime). starting bid $40
- 12) Dakota Brown offers to make you custom "Correspondence Stock” Typographic Design and Hand Printing. Includes one session on what your options and desires are, and some strategizing on how to do it cheaply + the actual design and printing! Bidder must pay for paper and some printing supplies. starting bid $40
- 13) Mike Wolf offers to make for your use two black-and-white, hand drawn illustrations or fliers on a subject of your choice. Starting bid $25
- 14) Lorenza Perelli offers to make a Italian meal at her house in Pilsen. 3 courses: antipasti; main courses: pasta e ceci (Tuscany); polenta with Gorgonzola, butter and Parmigiano (Lombardia), and salsiccia (options). Italian red wine. Eat dinner, discuss life and enjoy. Dinner will be for 4 people plus Lorenza and Andrew. starting bid: $50
- 15) Alice Kim offers 'nouveau' Korean BBQ home-cooked dinner for 4 at her place -- starting bid $50
- 16) Carrie Breitbach offers a custom crochet hat. Chose solid or striped (colors of your choice). starting bid $10.
- 17) Euan Hague offers a 2hr guided walking tour of gentrification, Tax Increment Financing, Historic District status and other urban development processes in pilsen (53 page research booklet included). Time/date/duration can be adapted to suit a class (of up to 25 people). Starting bid: $20
- 18) Salem Collo-Julin offers baby (or adult) sitting services for a minimum four hours. For those who don't have children, Salem will entertain your out of town guest, your parents, your roommate that never gets out of the house. Starting bid: $30
- 19) Tricia Van Eck and Andre Fiebig offer a 2 bedroom apt. in Edgewater on the lake with a private beach access for a weekend. You can hear waves while you sleep - its great for people wanting to get out of city without leaving. starting bid $100
- 20) Kieran Gadbury offers 2 hour-long massages! starting bid: $20
- 21) Lee Ann Norman is offering her program proposal consulting services for 1-3 people. If you have an idea that's swimming around in your head related to the arts, arts education, youth, or community development, she can help you solidify your ideas and help you create language/structures/protocols/strategies that will help you realize your plans. starting bid. $50
- 22) Kirsten Cox offers "Your Ideal Dream Get-A-Way Search Service". She brings ten years of private cottage rental experience ranging from couples to large groups. She will sit with you, personalizing your request, and try to make all your domestic get-a-way dreams come true! Starting bid: $10
- 23) Jacob Chris Hammes offers a hypnosis session. starting bid: $25
- 24) Elise Zelechowski offers twenty five 2x4's or 2x6's from the ReBuilding Exchange for your next building project. starting bid: $25
- 25) Robin Hewlett offers brunch for 2 at Backstory Cafe. starting bid: $30
- 26) Naomi Walker offers custom-made pies with a mix cds. starting bid: $20
- 27) Mejay Gula offers 4 hair cutting sessions for one person (or one session for 4 people). Starting bid $40.
- 28) Kim Soss offers to be Your very own Personal Librarian will research the question(s) of your choosing. Specializing in architecture, urban planning, and design. starting bid: $25
