Dcase Presents - Under The Dome - Sparklmami & Akenya

Giving guests the opportunity to uplift and celebrate Chicago talent together under the stunning Preston Bradley Hall Tiffany art glass dome - the largest Tiffany glass dome in the world. It's free to enter the concert & swap! OCTOBER 24th Artists: SPARKLMAMI & AKENYA ++ Concious Closet Club/Chicago Fair Trade Clothing Swap! Doors open at 5pm. American Sign Language Interpretation provided. CLOTHING SWAP 5-8pm (on pause durring artists sets) with Chicago Fair Trade's Conscious Closet Club! Bring clean (no stains) items you want to add to the swap and leave with a whole new look. Folks can take up to 5 items! PLUS be ready to pose & show your new look (or the one you arrived in) in front of our Under the Dome Step & Repeat. SPARLMAMI (6:30-7:15pm) Born in Texas and based in Chicago, multidisciplinary artist Ariella Granados transcends mediums to build a world untethered to conventional structures. Her alter ego Sparklmami introduces us to this new world, engaging us in a story of childhood, memory, and belonging. Having grown up singing in church, Sparklmami uses instinctual improvisation reminiscent of Brazilian jazz, experimental soul, Mexican bolero, and funk to express the sentient nature of being. Their much anticipated debut album In This Body is composed of kaleidoscopic vignettes that tap into her confessional subconscious. Sweet melodies and spoken word grace polyrhythmic loops as Sparklmami explores how our perception of the past shapes our present identity. AKENYA (7:30-8:30pm) AKENYA is a multi-genre vocalist, pianist, composer, and producer. Her music is an eclectic synthesis of jazz, hip-hop, soul, pop, classical, and world music. Her eclectic style and keen musicianship has garnered the attention of publications such as The Fader, Afropunk, and The Chicago Tribune which has heralded her as a “multi-faceted genius.” Her most successful single “Decay” has garnered 1,000,000+ streams and counting. A Chicago native, Akenya has played nearly every major venue in her home town including Thalia Hall, Lincoln Hall, and Metro to name a few. In 2024, she performed at Pitchfork Music Festival, of which Selena Fragassi of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "Exiting the stage with the same confidence she entered it, Akenya left little doubt she will be one of the next musical names to hit big." Akenya is currently preparing to release her first full length album, Moon in the 4th. Her latest single, “Hades Moon” is available for purchase and streaming on all platforms. Chicago Fair Trade - Conscious Closet Club The largest and most active grassroots fair trade non-profit in the United States, CFT works towards economic and environmental justice in trade through consumer education, advocacy, and promotion of local fair trade businesses. Past successful campaigns led by CFT have enabled the city of Chicago to become a Fair Trade Town in 2011, and both the city and Cook County to pass anti-sweatshop ordinances in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Since 2007, CFT has held the largest World Fair Trade Day celebration in the US, and since 2014, has run an annual fair trade Holiday Pop-Up Shop selling fair trade products from our local business members. CFT's network of local fair trade businesses has blossomed from just three in 2006 to over 60 today. Most recently, in June 2024, CFT opened the world's first Fair Trade Museum in Uptown. RSVP is requested, but not required for this free event. Space may be limited, and your RSVP does not guarantee entry – so please arrive early. Space opens at 5pm. QR code/tickets will be scanned in the Washington (77 E. Washington) lobby. This event will be filmed. Entering the space will be considered acceptance to be filmed. RSVP to this event confirms your subscription to DCASE events monthly email. You may unsubscribe at any time. More Info below.