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About HotHouse  The Center for International Performance and Exhibition (C.I.P.E.X.) presents multi-arts events and showcases high caliber artists from throughout the world. We believe in the value of progressive cultural programming and focus on local, national, and international artists whose work would otherwise remain under-recognized and isolated. We choose to position ourselves at the margin of the mainstream, and seek to promote the widening of the cultural market place in Chicago.
HotHouse has historically also provided a number of resources to artists and other groups who need a venue for their own activities and in that regard makes every effort to make the space available to parties interested in their own self-produced activities. Our organization is primarily interested in curating cultural and social activities that bolster the prominence of artists working in the margins of the commercial market and intentionally program events that showcase contemporary, avant-garde, and under-recognized art forms, artists, and progressive social movements.
It is the organizations priority to curate events and develop audiences for dis-enfranchised cultural voices as well as the more esoteric and difficult creative ambitions that by their nature and intent may never have mass commercial appeal. Inherent in the organizations guiding tenets, is the belief that the production and enjoyment of art and other intellectual pursuits should be made available to all economic classes and to that end our organization strives to ensure that working class and poorer people have access to first rate production resources and the opportunity to participate in cultural events by making them affordable and accessible.
The organization has deliberately maintained a policy of keeping admission charges and room use fees at below market rates to encourage, and build audiences among poorer and typically disenfranchised communities. In total, we now host 800 events a year and reach an audience in excess of 48,000 people. Since our inception in 1989, we have programmed over 5,000 cultural and socially relevant events. |
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"Few clubs anywhere offer a wider range of
first-rate world music, from wildly vibrant Afro-pop to avant-garde jazz,
than HotHouse."
"One of the best clubs on the planet!" "Best Cultural Gem Downtown - What makes this house so hot? One of the most beautiful music rooms in the city, it
features great live indie, jazz, soul or wold music on any given day and
always has intriguing art on display."
"HotHouse is the most beautiful room
in the city." "From European avant-garde jazz acts
that don't even play in this hemisphere to performance art to world
music to the city's more esoteric acts, [HotHouse] has consistenly
pulled in some of the planet's most provacative acts." "Even if one has simply stepped in
for one of these libations, décor alone does not allow one
to forget that HotHouse is first and foremost, a mecca, if you will,
of artistic and musical diversity.the bar has been an oasis of sorts
where racial, financial and political tensions are relaxed."
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