Friday, October 1, 2010 (8 p.m.) Happy Dog Gallery 1542 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor Chicago, IL 60622.

You are invited to attend Bicycles and the Arts, a multidisciplinary event that happens during Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival and Chicago Artists Month. Bicycles and the Arts creatively explores connections between these two vital elements of culture and society.

Wheels on the Ground and in the Sky, a group show with paintings, sculptures, and videos by Andrew DelaRosa, Janina Ciezadlo, John Bambino, Alpha Bruton, Regin Ingloria, Catie Olson, and Matt Weber.

John Greenfield reads from his new book Bars Across America: Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast.

Chicago Underground Library presents a Pop Up Library - conversations with bicyclists in other communities across the U.S., such as the Spearfish Bike Co-op.

A musical ensemble performs -- Derek Repsch (electronics), Andrew Royal (violin), Robin Boudreaux (tenor saxophone), Dan Godston (trumpet), Alex Wing (guitar), and Jimmy Bennington (drums) -- including a telematic performance with an ensemble in Detroit and an homage to Frank Zappa’s 1963 appearance on The Steve Allen Show (when Zappa taught Allen how to play a bicycle and the Steve Allen Orchestra performed with the musical bicycles).

$7 suggested donation, all ages and open to the public.

Chicago Calling is organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective, a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to promote the arts, to create opportunities for artists to explore new directions in and between art forms, and to engage the community. Annual Borderbend projects include Chicago Calling and the Mingus Awareness Project.