Join us for a very special night of music and movement with
Cristal Sabbagh with Jayve Montgomery and Nick Turner,
and duo Allen Moore and Sara Zalek
*(All images shared were taken by Ricardo Adame)
Saturday July 12, 2025
7pm to 9pm
$15
BYOB
Cristal Sabbagh’s performance practice, rooted in improvisation and Butoh, walks a line between the everyday, the divine, the personal, and the political. In embodying in her art transformational memories, while simultaneously celebrating pop culture and the experimental, she challenges power structures and awakens viewers’ senses. Working both in a solo capacity and with collaborators, Sabbagh is equally attuned to individual perspectives and collective structures. In various configurations, these collaborators have regularly engaged in improvised performances, opening up new avenues for Sabbagh’s material and conceptual exploration.
Jayve Montgomery- With the ever increasing ability to be anywhere and everywhere else, now remains an elusive destination. Reconciling the past with the future, JayVe Montgomery’s work is time traveling to the pre(-)sent, the gift of now. His work reveals his adherence to improvisation and chance as a way to explore evolutionary learning, dreams, democratic polylogue and unintended subjective meaning through randomized being.
Nick Turner- is a Chicago based musician and social worker that utilizes music and sound creation as a vehicle for emotional experiencing and expression.
Allen Moore- (he/him) is a Black interdisciplinary visual artist, experimental turntablist, sound artist, educator, and youth mentor born and raised in the historic village of Robbins, IL. Allen holds a Bachelor of Arts from Chicago State University, a Master of Arts from Governors State University, and a Master of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University. Through his work, Allen analyzes signifiers of Blackness through performative improvisation and experimentation. He is driven to nurture and expand the agency of the Black imagination. His recent body of work investigates the audio and visual elements of Black death and grief.
Sara Zalek- (@01saratonin) is a transdisciplinary artist, producer, and curator of situations and curious objects. Rooted in physical investigations of trauma, resilience, and transformation, their work is intimate, raw, poetic. They make performances into learning situations, workshops, and sensing environments to encourage thoughtful interpersonal connections.
You may also like the following events from Compound Yellow:
- This Friday, 20th June, 07:00 pm, The Pleiades Series: Krissy Bergmark, Billie Howard, Emily Rach Beisel, Edward Wilkerson Jr in Oak Park
- Next month, 11th July, 07:00 pm, Side Yard Sounds presents: NadNavillus: Dan Sullivan, Andy Hall, Eddie Matthews, Rob Bochnik in Oak Park
- Next month, 20th July, 06:00 pm, Side Yard Sounds presents: Finom (duo) Macie Stewart & Sima Cunningham in Oak Park
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Arts events in Oak Park,
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