Featuring DJs:

Orchard Lounge
Nate Manic
Mr. Nathaniel
Duke Shin

Video Manipulation by Kino XL

9pm-2am
$5 cover

Is there a soul inside the machine?

Tonight’s aural explorations will attempt to find the answer, as good friends and DJs combine forces to flesh out sets heavy in tech-funk, tech-house and techno. Tech.Tonic is just the first of a series of differently themed nights brought to you by new web publication xbumprobot and Bad Advice Records.

Have a [bleep] day!

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
- Albert Einstein

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
- Arthur C. Clarke

Links:

www.xbumprobot.com
www.orchardlounge.com
http://www.myspace.com/badadvicerecords

Early Event:

The Human Rights Watch Chicago Network - the Human Rights Watch young professionals committee - invites you to a benefit and screening of:

THE CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS
Sebastián Moreno Mardones, Chile, 2006, 80m, video, doc
In Spanish with English subtitles

21+

6 pm: Reception
7 pm: Film Screening
8:30 pm: Discussion and Q&A
led by Susan Gzesh, director, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago

Admission: $25 donation to Human Rights Watch

Tickets may be purchased at the door by sending an RSVP to Stephen Steim at stephen.steim@hrw.org or calling 312-573-2452. All proceeds benefit the work of Human Rights Watch and are tax deductible.

The benefit follows six days of film screenings, May 23 - 29, at Facets Cinémathèque. For the complete schedule or to purchase tickets, please visit www.facets.org.

THE CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS:

During Pinochet’s long regime, a motley crew of photojournalists shot and framed Chile’s people and turmoil from many points of view. In the streets, in the middle of bloody riots and protests, these fearless photographers learned their craft and created many of the now legendary images which helped focus world attention on the Pinochet regime’s repressive tactics. For them, taking pictures was a form of involvement, even resistance, a way of being more than mere spectators but vital actors. Pinochet had the power and the guns, but these photographers had the camera—the people’s weapon. They lived dangerously and they lived to tell. This is their story.

About the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival:

The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme. Though the eyes of committed and courageous filmmakers, the Festival showcases heroic stories of activists and survivors from all over the world.

About the Chicago Network:

The Human Rights Watch Chicago Network is a group of young professionals with a common belief in the fundamental principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its members are dedicated to promoting human rights to their friends and colleagues by supporting the work of Human Right Watch through briefings, fundraising activities and events.