Talk the Walk Tour

Talk the Walk 08 is a featured event for the City of Chicago’s Artist’s Month. Curators, artists, gallery directors – and a rickshaw or two – will take the public through nine of our eleven gallery spaces. 

This year Talk the Walk 08 features a celebration of the Beat generation in a series of exhibitions and programs entitled, …and the beats go on. A rickshaw cab will chauffeur guests to see the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road at the Center for Book & Paper Arts on 11th Street and all the way back up Wabash to sit in at the opening reception of a Beat-inspired coffeehouse, The Beat Café, at C33 Gallery. In between you can experience a 21st century take on the Beat generation at A+D Gallery, the nonconformist fashion of the Beats at the Conaway Center and an exhibition of photographs by Beat contemporaries, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Rickshaws will be available free of charge to take guests north and south along Wabash Ave. between Congress Ave. and 11th St.