Mash Tun is a new craft beer festival featuring some of the world's best breweries. Flagship and rare beers will be poured alongside one-of-a-kind concoctions at the stunning Bridgeport Art Center at 35th and Racine.
We will be pouring over 30 brews by participating breweries including our friends at: Half Acre, Three Floyds, St. Feuillien, Dogfish Head, Stone, Founders, Lagunitas, La Trappe, Pipeworks, 5 Rabbit, Virtue Cider, Unita, Great Lakes and others.
The festival is a celebration of the release of Mash Tun: A Craft Beer Journal, a new publication put out by your buddies at Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Barand The Public Media Institute, a non profit arts and culture organization. Mash Tun is our paean to beer. It follows the pleasures and aesthetics of craft beer and how it intersects with food, culture, and society. We think you'll like it.
Festival tickets are $40 each which includes unlimited pours of flagship beers, tickets for rare beers, a tasting glass, a copy of the Mash Tun Journal as well as some snacks. Food trucks will also be attending and vending. Tickets are available online through the Public Media Institute paypal website below or in person at Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar. After you buy your tickets your name will be put on the Will Call RSVP list. When you arrive at the event please show your ID, you must be 21. If you purchased multiple tickets under one name please have your guests attend with you.
The festival is a fundraiser for The Public Media Institute, a non profit arts and culture organization that puts on the Version Festival, Proximity magazine, Lumpen magazine, Materiél magazine, The MDW Fair, and dozens of art events and exhibitions a year.
The Bridgeport Art Center has parking for over 400 vehicles, is close to the White Sox 35th St Red Line, the Ashland Orange Line and the Metra. The Chicago Beer Bus will offer rides to the Red Line L Station during the festival hours.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Bare Foot Summit
Petrillo Band Shell, Grant Park Chicago
more info tba
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Stand Up Chicago!
Daley Plaza, Chicago
Folks meet at 4:30 PM to protest corporate welfare and take back our city!
more info: http://standupchicago.org/
Thursday, May 30 - Monday, June 4, 2012
HONK Fest West 4 : Seattle, Washington
Our annual Seattle tour~!
Thursday Night: The Crocodile Friday Night: Georgetown Invasion Saturday: Gas Works Park Saturday Night: Capitol Hill Invasion Sunday: Seattle Center Monday: Lucid Jazz Lounge, University City
Our fourth annual epic tour to this amazing festival.
Day 1: HONK Fest West 4 : Seattle, Washington
Thursday, May 31, 2012 The Crocodile
2200 2nd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121
Marching Bands coming from far away for HONK! Fest West will be featured at the Crocodile Cafe for one night only...8pm
$10 advance/$12 door
Day 2: HONK Fest West 4 : Georgetown Invasion!
Friday, June 1
Day 3: HONK Fest West 4 : Lucid Jazz Lounge, University City
Saturday, June 2
Saturday: Gas Works Park Saturday Night: Capitol Hill Invasion
Day 4: HONK Fest West 4 : Seattle, Washington
Sunday, June 3rd performances will be from 2-4pm, at Seattle Center.
There will be time to jam after the all band revue ends at 4pm and a procession is being planned on the Seattle Center (Space Needle) grounds.
Day 5: HONK Fest West 4 : Lucid Jazz Lounge, University City
Monday, June 4th
An an exciting evening with the HONK Fest bands still standing.
LUCID JAZZ LOUNGE
5241 UNIVERSITY WAY NE
SEATTLE, WA 98105
(206) 402-3042
INFO@LUCIDSEATTLE.COM
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Climate Cycle's RIDE TO RECHARGE
10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
EE will play for pre-launch of race, and send-off at 11.
DuSable Harbor, Chicago
Randolph Street and Lake Michigan
Climate Cycle's 4th annual Ride to Recharge will pedal along the Chicago lakefront. Bikers of all skill levels and walks of life come together to help our schools go green.
EE will have a 4 day adventure with some awesome bands!
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Glenwood Avenue Arts Festival: Chicago
The Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest (GAAF) is a free festival that features 100+ artists, open studios, and live entertainment on three outdoor stages on the cobblestone streets Chicago's historic Rogers Park neighborhood.
Announcing our first EE Art Print!
The EE Ouijee Board.
by Kevin O'Rourke
This is an amazingly detailed print, showing EE as a bunny marching band, with all our favorite characters; aliens, yeti, carrots, and lots of mystic symbols.
The print is promoting our whole-year's upcoming theme: BUNNY-12.
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