Elastic Arts 7th Annual Benefit: Honoring Tatsu Aoki

From the organizers: Please join us for the 7th Annual Elastic Arts Benefit! We need your support to remain a sustainable space for creative music, art, and performance. The event will highlight many of the things that make Elastic Arts what it is, but most importantly we will celebrate togetherness. Our community is invited to our Logan Square space for the celebration, but we welcome anyone and everyone to join us virtually as we'll be streaming the benefit in entirety live through the streaming page on our website.

The 2024 Elastic Achievement Award will be presented to the legend and dear friend Tatsu Aoki. In addition to an award ceremony, we’ll hear a live set from Tatsu’s ensemble MIYUMI Project. Tatsu is a multi-instrumentalist trained in traditional Japanese music, an educator and an experimental filmmaker. In his career as a creative improvisor, he is best known as a long-standing bassist for Velvet Lounge owner and saxophonist Fred Anderson, also having worked with George Freeman, Von Freeman, Malachi Favors, Roscoe Mitchell, Don Moye, Hamid Drake, and countless others. Aoki also facilitates cultural events that promote the history of Japanese artistic traditions and contemporary Asian influences in jazz. As the founder and artistic director of Asian Improv aRts Midwest, he hosts events such as the annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival and the Japanese American Service Committee's Tsukasa Taiko Legacy arts residency program. Many of Tatsu’s AIRMW events occur right here at Elastic Arts, so it is our absolute honor to celebrate Tatsu’s accomplishments thus far, and for many years to come. 

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Please join us for the 7th Annual Elastic Arts Benefit! We need your support to remain a sustainable space for creative music, art, and performance. The event will highlight many of the things that make Elastic Arts what it is, but most importantly we will celebrate togetherness. Our community is in