Friday 5/5 – Thursday 5/11
6 SATURDAY The Autonomous Zone’s weekend-long Matches & Mayhem festival includes an anarchist book fair, a variety show, a film festival featuring raw footage from the April 15 protests in D.C., and a soccer tournament (“Give Capitalism the Boot”). Admission to the book fair, which runs today from 11 to 6 at the Ruiz Belvis Center, 1632 N. Milwaukee, is $2; the variety show (karaoke, song, and dance) costs $5 and runs from 8 to 11. The exhibit of anarchist art upstairs at the Propaganda Gallery is free. Call 773-252-6019 for more information. A schedule for this weekend’s Anarchist Film Festival is included in the Section Two movie listings.
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9 TUESDAY “The attic is dark and has no windows. The roof is shaped like a triangle and is made of tin and the floor was just dried dirt. I stay in one corner of the attic. I am always cold and always hungry. I never get to take a bath, brush my teeth, or cut my hair,” writes Half Day resident Aaron Elster in his account of what happened to him and his family during the Holocaust. He lived alone in that attic for two years. When he came out he learned that his father and younger sister had died at Treblinka and his mother had been shot to death four months before liberation. Elster will discuss his experience at today’s tenth annual Holocaust Remembrance Day program, which includes music by Lyric Opera tenor Misha Royzen and the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Choirs. It starts at noon in the Winter Garden of the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State (312-747-4850).
