Benefit Used Book Sale for Chatillon-DeMenil House

Time	Saturday, May 14 at 10:00am - May 15 at 4:00pm
Location	1922 Cherokee Street on Antique Row
More Info	10-4 Saturday ($5 preview from 9-10); 12-4 Sunday (bag sale) - all proceeds benefit ongoing restoration and educational work at the Chatillon-DeMenil House (www.demenil.org) You've waited for it all year long, or maybe you never knew it existed, but it's going to be very very good this year. What:    Chatillon-DeMenil House's Fifth annual used book sale             Many thousands of good books filling two storefronts! When:    Saturday, May 14, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.                 Sunday, May 15, noon - 4 p.m. Cost:     Free!  Books start at 50 cents for most paperbacks.             $5 for early admission at 9am Saturday. (Cherokee Street is closed until about 9:40) Where:    1922-24 Cherokee Street All proceeds of the sale benefit ongoing restoration work at the Chatillon-DeMenil House, your friendly neighborhood St. Louis history museum at the eastern end of Cherokee Street.

A Death in the Family: Death and Mourning in the 19th Century

Time	Sunday, October 17 · 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Location	Chatillon DeMenil Mansion 3352 DeMenil Place (at Cherokee) Saint Louis, MO
More Info	Please join us for an afternoon of quiet contemplation at the Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion on Sunday October 17 from noon to five o’clock as we observe the ritual of 19th Century mourning. Exhibits featuring Victorian embalming & funeral practices, postmortem photography, mourning clothing & customs, hair-work jewelry, gravestone rubbings & many other death related artifacts from the Victorian Era. Admission is $10 per guest. Tarot card readings are $10. The café shall be well supplied, the cooks the best obtainable and the staff attentive and unobtrusive.

Chilling Tales at DeMenil

Time
Thursday, October 7 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Location
Chatillon DeMenil Mansion
3352 DeMenil Place (at Cherokee)
Saint Louis, MO


For one candlelit evening costumed storytellers will recite classic gothic tales from the 19th Century for guests from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce. Storytelling will begin at 6:30pm and end at 8:30pm. Light refreshments will be served at the end of the tour. Admission to this event is $7 per guest. Guests are encouraged to come in their creepiest Victorian attire.

19th-century ladies craft exhibit

The Chatillon-DeMenil House Foundation will hold its second annual 19th-century ladies craft exhibit at the house on June 13, 2010. This isn’t your everyday craft show. The event will host exhibits and demonstrations of both common and strange crafts from the Victorian era, such as silhouette cutting, crochet, tatting, spinning, theorem painting, taxidermy, and hair-work.

Special exhibit: Did you know that Victorian ladies practiced taxidermy as a hobby? One period craft book instructs her to “take out the entrails and remove the skin with the greatest possible care”. Come see examples of these strange and disturbing masterpieces.

Special exhibit: Hair-work is the art of creating images out of human hair. This somewhat odd hobby was extensively practiced by ladies in the 19th century to preserve a physical piece of the people that they cared about. Our exhibit will feature period examples of hair-work as well as live demonstrations of the different techniques ladies used to create hair flowers and jewelry.

There will be a live performance of period parlor music by the Parlor Maids at 1:00 p.m.

Admission is $5 per guest
Children’s activities for the day include a card-making workshop.

Date:	Sunday, June 13, 2010
Time:	11:00am - 4:00pm
Location:	Chatillon DeMenil Mansion
Street:	3352 DeMenil Place (at Cherokee)
City/Town:	Saint Louis, MO
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Both Ends and the Middle: the Cherokee Street All Community Co-Lab Art Showcase

Where: Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts
3151 Cherokee St.
St Louis MO, 63118

When: This Friday night, October 30, from 6-10pm

What It Is: We're showing off drawings and photos workshopped at the Chatillon-DeMenil House located at the eastern end of Cherokee Street and work made during the all-community "Love Letters to Cherokee Workshop" at CAMP on the western end. The exhibition also includes individual works by Lyndsey Scott, Sarah Paulsen, Bill Russell, Maria Guadalupe Massey, Timothy Wagner, All Along Press, St Louis Style and more. Photos of the Peoples' Joy Parade, Eleanore Balson's community-painted box truck and architectural drawings from the Community Hub Project are also included.

The Story: A few short weeks ago Lynn Josse and Emily Hemeyer embarked on a Why Not? quest with only 3-weeks to gather, plan and promote this show. We were astounded at the amount of work we were able to pull together as well as all of the community support. Thank you Cherokee Street neighbors, artists, businesses and friends. It's all for you.

One night only. Costumes welcome.

Date: Friday, October 30, 2009
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Location: a convergence of art, ideas and history

Cherokee Street tour this Sunday

In the final event of our Arts Then & Now series, your friends at the Chatillon-DeMenil House are getting out to explore more of the neighborhood. At the western end of Cherokee Street, an intact turn-of-the-century streetscape is a perfect setting for art. This free event is brought to you with support from the Regional Arts Commission.

Drawings, photos, collages and love letters from the three workshops in this series will be on display at Ft. Gondo, as well as historical documents and artworks connecting the two ends of Cherokee Street. (A reception for the community will be held on Friday, October 30).

October 25: Tour: Architecture and Art on Cherokee Street
2 p.m.
Starting at Fort Gondo compound for the arts, 3151 Cherokee Street
Over the last decade, our neighbors on the western end of Cherokee Street have developed their intact 19th-century streetscape into a haven for creative endeavors of all kinds. We’ll talk about the birth of an arts community and tour some of the studios and galleries where the art happens every day.

See you there!
Lynn Josse
Public History Consultant
(314) 229-0793

Art and architecture at the Chatillon-DeMenil House

September 19, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Sketch workshop with Emily Hemeyer. Come draw architecture with us! You don’t have to be an artist to create an individualistic work of art. We’ll focus on looking at details as well as the whole, and creatively expressing your observations on paper. All ages welcome! Materials will be provided (or feel free to bring your own favorites).



September 27, 2:00 p.m., Greek Revival Architecture and the DeMenil House, illustrated talk by Esley Hamilton. Greek Revival became a national style that captured the political idealism of a young nation. Find out how the Chatillon-DeMenil House does (and doesn’t) reflect the dominant architectural classicism of the mid-19th century.


Both events take place at the Chatillon-DeMenil House, 3352 DeMenil Place (at the far eastern end of Cherokee Street)