CLLAW 5 is coming up fast! Friday, February 19th the doors of Mystic Celt (3443 N. Southport) open at 9pm and the drinks last until midnight! As if you need more reasons to come, the PRIZES at CLLAW 5 are going to be insane!! Exchange your cash for CLLAWBUX and you may go home with any of these goodies:
In order to accommodate our growing needs, we’re moving to Mystic Celt at 3443 North Southport Avenue just north of the Southport Brown Line stop!!! With double the space, we will definitely have the elbow room we need.
From 9 to midnight, watch your favorite arm wrestlers battle it out for the championship and enjoy the THREE HOUR OPEN BAR for $25. Not interested in the bar package? Feel free to indulge in the cash bar. A donation of $5 is suggested.
As if you need more reasons to come, the PRIZES at CLLAW 5 are going to be insane! Exchange your cash for CLLAWBUX and you may go home with some awesome stuff!
CLLAW 5 will be benefiting Sideshow and Rock for Kids! Rock For Kids is a non-profit organization that provides support, hope, inspiration and assistance to underserved children and teens. Realizing that music can be a positive motivator in a young person’s life, Rock For Kids provides free year-round music education for children in need.
So don’t call it a comeback, just come back and see us on Friday, February 19th! We’ll be waiting!
Holy cow. Chase just announced the winners of their Community Giving program. And thanks to each and every one of you who voted for Sideshow in December 2009, Sideshow has been awarded a $25,000 grant from Chase Bank. (And believe it or not, they also qualify for even more funding from Chase based on another round of voting starting January 15!! Stay tuned for more information on that.)
A note to all of you from Sideshow: “It’s tough to find the right words to thank you all for your incredible support. You sent literally tens of thousands of Facebook messages and notes and wall posts to drum up an international web of support for our little theatre company. You emailed and called your friends and family. You contacted us with messages of encouragement just when we were ready to give up from exhaustion.”
Congrats to the other 99 recipients of the Chase Community Giving grants! (View the full list of winners here.)
Chase is giving $5 million to charity and YOU decide which charities! Through their app on Facebook, Chase will be giving out $25,000 to the top-voted 100 charities during the first round of voting. Sideshow Theatre Company (CLLAW’s founder/creator/bff) is one of the many charities hoping to win one of the grants!
Wanna help? Here’s all you need to do!
1. Log into your Facebook account
2. Log into the Chase Community Giving app
3. Become a Fan of Chase
4. Vote for Sideshow!!!!!!
5. Invite ALL of your friends to vote too!
You may or may not know, Sideshow is entering its third year in existence. A grant of this size would make up roughly 70% of their annual budget! If they got that kind of grant, they would be in a comfortable place to continue creating the adventurous, off-beat and challenging theatre they’ve been making in Chicago for two years now! Please show your support and take just a few moments to vote!
Not on Facebook? Please pass this along to all your Facebook-loving friends and family. You know they’re out there, stalking the Facebook universe with gusto.
Sideshow and CLLAW will have a booth at the Fringe Binge on Sunday, November 15th! We are going to do small, ‘flash tournaments’ with 4 to 8 people (boys and girls welcome) in each tournament to win prizes like Sideshow and CLLAW t-shirts, tickets to Medea with Child (opening March 2010), baked goods, drink tickets, etc.
Dick Douchee and Heidi Bras-de-Fer will be refereeing the matches, The Cutting Edge will be there to lend an arm, and Rockke L. Squelch will be guiding newcomers to victory (or helping console them if they’re not so fortunate).
In traditional fashion, Strawberry Shivcake rocketed to the semi-finals. However, her grand efforts were thwarted by newcomer, Armjolina Jolie. Shivcake finished the match strong, but due to technicalities, the judges overturned the ruling and the Berry sweetheart lost to the heavily pregnant foe.
A new bracket set Killer Bee to arm wrestle the final competitor of the evening, Armjolina. The championship round was fierce, but ultimately Killer Bee prevailed. It was rumored that the stress of the final match sent Armjolina into early labor, but it has been confirmed that she and the babies (yes, twins) are in good health.
A huge debt of gratitude is owed to the 114 new (and old) friends who came out to support our athletes in their quest for total armination. Mad props to the money raised for our new friends at New Leash On Life.
Stay tuned for all things CLLAW and keep working out, ladies. Some day Killer Bee may just be dethroned.
The best female arm wrestling league in all of Chicago is back! Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 17th, from 9pm – 1am at The Spot! The Spot is located at 4437 N Broadway! Doors open 9pm, first match is at 10pm!
Drink packages include $20 for a TWO HOUR open bar from 9pm – 11pm, and $2 shots available all night long from one of our lovely CLLAW BUX girls! Not interested in the drink package? No worries! Pay a suggested donation of $5 at the door!
BRING CASH FOR CLLAW BUXS! Bet on your favorite wrestler and earn a chance to win some amazing raffle prizes, including theatre tickets, t-shirts, food, gift certificates, and more!
CLLAW 4 is benefiting both Sideshow and our NEW TO CLLAW charity, New Leash on Life. That’s right people, CLLAW 4 is for the puppies! Click here to learn more about this amazing non profit specializing in animal rescue and adoption!
More updates to come on CLLAW 4, so mark your calendar for Saturday, October 17th!!!
In a startling upset, the final match came down (once again!!) between the two arch rivals: STRAWBERRY SHIVCAKE vs. THE KILLER BEE.
The Bee had many victories during the night, overturning the much hailed PUNKY BRUISER for the chance to challenge Shivcake for the title.
Many experts were torn as to predict the final match, but at the last second, the Killer Bee toppled the two time champion and was crowned the new victor.
STRAWBERRY SHIVCAKE did take home the hearts of the crowd with the Audience Vote, and it’s clear that the crowd has a special shiv in their heart for the former champion. Shivcake was heard to challenge The Bee to to the next match, vowing revenge. You can be sure these two arch rivals will lock arms again at CLLAW 4, and it’s anyone’s guess as to who will take home the crown.
CLLAW 3 brings lots of exciting new changes to the world of Lady Arm Wrestling.
This time around we have TEN arm wrestlers vying for the championship.
We have FOUR Judges who have made a solemn vow to gaze intently and lend their considerable lady arm wrestling experience.
We have bigger and BETTER prizes!!
What kind of prizes? Well let’s just see:
Kitschy T-shirts
VIP pass at the iO Theatre
Two tickets to the critically acclaimed Arabian Nights at Lookingglass Theatre ($130 value)
Two tickets to Stoop Stories at The Goodman
Two tickets to Ekphrasis by Sideshow Theatre
Full length headshot photography session and free touch-ups
In traditional fashion, Strawberry Shivcake rocketed to the semi-finals. However, her grand efforts were thwarted by newcomer, Armjolina Jolie. Shivcake finished the match strong, but due to technicalities, the judges overturned the ruling and the Berry sweetheart lost to the heavily pregnant foe.
