Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Saturday, July 1, 2023
Straight out of Bronzeville! The Cosmic Alley Jazz Jam and Slam 2023
The Mothership has landed...
and will be bringing the JAZZ... the FUNK & more to Maime Till Mobley Park
at the third annual
COSMIC ALLEY JAZZ JAM & SLAM 2023
featuring Big Bands,Trios, Be Bop Ensembles, Vocalists, Poets/Poetess
& Spoken Word Performances...
It will be Cosmic!
💥🎶💥🎶💥🎶💥🎶💥🎶💥🎶
Bring a chair & Enjoy!
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Harold Lucas: A Leader in the Renaissance of Bronzeville...
Photo byAki Antonia c2014
Harold Lucas proudly rides his bike during a Bronzeville Bike tour.
Location: 35th and King Drive
Home of the BVIC - The Bronzeville Visitor's Information Center.
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Sunday, June 19, 2022
The Black Age of Comics celebrates JUNTEETH at the Du Sable Museum today! Jun 19 2022
CELEBRATE FREEDOMON JUNTEENTH
JUNE 18 2022
The DuSable Museum
Get your
Black Age of Comics
Rhythmistic Graphic Novels
& Trading Cards
ONLI STUDIOS launched the growing indie
Black Age of Comics in 1993 as an open positive expression of winning the peace and espousing an advanced state of freedom!!
This Juneteenth ONLI Studios will host two events in Chicago.
On June 18, 2022 at the indie Alley Cat Comic Book Store
and on June 19,2022 at the historic
DuSable Museum of African American History.
Check out the NU- Look! of Malcom - 10, SASA and
NOG - Protector of the Pyramides...
as at each location ONLI Studios will be introducing new illustrator, Johnathan Ford and his "Nu-Look' line, giving away highly valued Rhythmistic Trading Cards, and signing everything for smart and lucky fans and collectors.
740 E 56th Pl
Chicago,Illinois
Friday, May 6, 2022
Free Comic Book Day! Onli studios at the DuSable Museum May 7 2022
UP in BRONZEVILLE….
 |
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
MAY 7, 2022
at
The DuSable Museum
Friday, February 25, 2022
Friday, February 18, 2022
BLACK AGE SANKOFA 2.0 Interview with Professor Bill Foster tonight!!
BLACK AGE SANKOFA 2.0
Virtual Convention
Interview with Professor Bill Foster
tonight!!
February 18, 2022
8:00 PM CST
Friday, February 4, 2022
Friday, December 10, 2021
Rhythmism: Art as Social Changemaking
Rhythmism: Art as Social Changemaking Fall 2021
Turtel Onli's Rhythmistic Retrospective Art Exhibit
at Gordon Parks Hall at the Lab School of the
University of Chicago closes Friday, December 10, 2021.
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Friday, February 5, 2021
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Summers in Bronzeville... 2020 visions...Art flows....
Bronzeville Arts Blog 2020...
This summer in Bronzeville in the midst of the 2020 Pandemic... social distancing and unspoken words of sadness... losing the lives of loved ones... Social Justice, Uncivil acts and Protests... Lootings, shootings and all sorts of upheaval and transitions has stirred up a deeper look at what we were we doing...in the arts pre -19...and what are we doing now and N2 the phuture...
My adventures..... will touch on my original vision of presenting the arts in Bronzeville... it will include a transmutation of time...and visits to portals and magical ART spots and galleries...ART spaces and places right in the neighborhood...or anywhere the arts take us in the global universe of Bronzevillian art.
My plans were always 2 showcase the vibe and the energy of Bronzevillian Artists... future-past... who have graced Bronzeville with their presence... their paint... their canvases...their sculptures..their poetry...their ritmo..and their rhyme.....Nu and Ancestral..
Aki-Antonia-Publisher-Editor Bronzeville Arts Blog 962020
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Creating Sacred Spaces ... Sacred Places...in Bronzeville...
Up N Bronzeville...
ANCESTRAL RESURRECTION
Making a Sacred Space….
Yesterday at the wall was just heavenly!
After we prayed...
and after we played… Sacred Space…
I felt we had a visit from you... Dr. Cssiddha Webber
and from other musical Spirits that came to dwell....
and 2 enjoy the vibrations
of the music
that that we played …
that we made …
and to be glad...
that we were creating a Sacred Space
a Sacred place..
with our neighbors in the commUnity.
a Sacred place..
with our neighbors in the commUnity.
It was a lovely vibe…
Up N Bronzeville...
BLACK ART MATTERS!
Duryving Ternoir...Trumpet
the longest standing member of
the Ancestral Resurrection Ensemble..
in its various incarnations over several decades....
Tiona ...flautist...
Administrator with the Universal Alley Jazz Jam Committee
Aki Antonia
Composer, Keyboardist with Ancestral Resurrection
Commissioned composer of the song "Have A Dream"
for the Have A Dream Mural Dedication - c 2015
Visual artist... on the Earth Is Not Our Home Mural
and the Have A Dream Mural and vocalist with
Ancestral Resurrection.
and the community stopped 2 pray and recite the
Lord's Prayer... U as Me... community
some of the keepers of the Cosmic Musical
💥energy of Ancestral Resurrection...
We were…
“Revitalizing the Community Through Art and Culture”…
WE are Ancestral Resurrection and
We were at the Earth Is Not Our Home ...Mural Wall
created and painted by Dr. Cssiddha Webber with community artists.
We are Ancestral Resurrection. 👁
playing 2 the Ancestors ….🎶
communing with the community... with social distance
with the public simply "waking" and walking by with their pets
or gliding by on the bus on Martin Luther King Drive...
We were creating a Sacred Space…today…
where one can stop... meditate ...
and let out some tears..
Diffuse some fears...
Wail.. Prevail...
Sing a prayer...and exhale...
Sing the blues or some funk…
Chant... N2 the quiet
or quietly scream...
be 1 with your dreams...
Read Cssiddha ’s poetry and flow...
Just be still and know....
b in homage to the Creator..
b still in the word..
dwell in the memories ...
of your Sankofa bird
Where one can....
enjoy the Akan Adrinkra symbols
which include...
Gyname …Only God
and a Sankofa Bird….
which encourages us to return 2 our roots…
read the Lord’s prayer…
Earth Is Not Our Home vibrates color…
and Cosmic African energy..
and Cosmic African energy..
It is a juxtaposition of scriptures, poetry, intense colors
and green foliage...
and green foliage...
which grows through the surrounding concrete remnants
of an ancient Bronzeville trolley car.
We are Ancestral Resurrection Ensemble.. rising…
One of the final incarnations of Dr Cssiddha’s band of many decades
keeping the legacy... keeping the vibe… of his free styled JaZZ
with the whispers …and echoes of a futuristic past…
A smattering of Sun Ra..
AACM…
Art Ensemble..
A.I.R.
Kelan Phil Cohran
blending with the present future...🎶
of sounds..and the cosmic energies of💥Tiona on flute...
of sounds..and the cosmic energies of💥Tiona on flute...
Duryving Ternoir on trumpet....🎺
Composer, Aki Antonia on keys🎹🎹
Rhonda Gray... on vocals 🎤..& Visual artist on the Murals
Musically flowing at his mural on 40th and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive..
titled ‘Earth Is Not Our Home’
It was created in the early 90's by Dr. Cssiddha Webber where he engaged community artists... to come and paint as well.
It was remixed and repainted by him 2014.
This mural sits right across the street from his mural title Have A Dream
which was created in 1995 and repainted in 2015.
HAVE A DREAM
Dr. Cssiddha Webber speaks in interview with Bronzeville Art Blog
on the restoration and remix of the
Have A Dream Mural on 40th and King Drive in Bronzeville. 2014
Cssidha, known as Dr. Csiddha Webber was a theologian, a naprapath,
an artist-muralist and a poet.
He created a musical component to express poetry, spiritual concepts and named his ensemble, The Ancestral Resurrection Ensemble.
There have many performers who have performed with his band over several decades.
This one represents some of players who have performed which him in the period of the last several years circa 2009-2020.
Ancestral Resurrection has performed for several decades in many settings including art galleries, live art performance settings, most recently at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Sharpenburg Gallery at the Dank Haus, the University of Chicago - Make Music Chicago and at Dr. Cssiddha Webber's summer music series called the "Universal Alley Jazz Jam".
The Universal Alley Jazz Jam emerged on this scene as part of a long continuum of summer Jazz Festivals and Jazz Jams" in the community which started with
Jazz in the Alley at Pop's Garage...which featured Jimmy Ellis...on 50th St. on Chicago's Southside and Oshun's "Jazz in the Alley" held in the area of 33rd st .
" Jazz in the Alley evolved to "Jazz in the Valley"... because of the neighborhood on 50th and Champaign is nicknamed the Valley.. To eliminate confusion over the similar names of the summer Jam sessions, Dr. Webber changed his Jam to
The Universal Alley Jazz Jam.
He has been a part of the Black Arts cultural arts scene for many decades.
As a muralist, he has painted and or added poetry to over 40 murals, including the wall on 50th st at the original Jazz in the Alley.
We were rehearsing...for our performance at the
Hyde Park Jazz Fest 2020...Back Alley Jazz pop up on August 22, 2020.
All text, pictures and video
are by Aki Antonia c 2020
All rights Reserved. Not to be re-printed without permission.
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