My Arts Organization Volunteer Project
Volunteer Report
For my Arts Organization Volunteer project I volunteered as an usher at the Lee Norvelle Center through Indiana University’s Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance department. Additionally I volunteered at the music venue the Bottom Lounge in Chicago, where I had also previously interned at over the summer. Because of my anticipation to seeing the extra credit speakers at the Industry Networking Club, and by now you probably have read many papers on the IU theater departments, I will write about the Bottom Lounge for my volunteer report as opposed to the IU theater, drama, and contemporary dance department.
The Bottom Lounge is a relatively new music venue, which was reopened in 2008. The original Bottom Lounge had closed down in 2005 by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) in order to make room for the new platform extension for the Red Line Belmont train stop. The new location of the Bottom Lounge had originally been a car mechanic and repair shop located near the intersection of Lake Street and Ogden Avenue but was completely refurnished to be the music venue that it is today. This is actually a great location because it has a lot of free parking surrounding the venue so everyone who drives can find a free place to park. The Bottom Lounge was created to bring the people of Chicago a premier music venue for punk music. While the Bottom Lounge does have a wide variety in concert genres, the heavily dominating genre no doubt is punk. The mission of the Bottom Lounge is to bring live music fans and followers to a great music venue in downtown Chicago for a fun filled evening, and also provide easy and free transportation for the people attending the bar area activities to the United Center for Blackhawks games which is located just a few blocks away.
The structure of the Bottom Lounge is fairly common among music venues. The ‘executive personnel’, in this case would be the owners of the music venue. While they do not come to the venue on a
For my Arts Organization Volunteer project I volunteered as an usher at the Lee Norvelle Center through Indiana University’s Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance department. Additionally I volunteered at the music venue the Bottom Lounge in Chicago, where I had also previously interned at over the summer. Because of my anticipation to seeing the extra credit speakers at the Industry Networking Club, and by now you probably have read many papers on the IU theater departments, I will write about the Bottom Lounge for my volunteer report as opposed to the IU theater, drama, and contemporary dance department.
The Bottom Lounge is a relatively new music venue, which was reopened in 2008. The original Bottom Lounge had closed down in 2005 by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) in order to make room for the new platform extension for the Red Line Belmont train stop. The new location of the Bottom Lounge had originally been a car mechanic and repair shop located near the intersection of Lake Street and Ogden Avenue but was completely refurnished to be the music venue that it is today. This is actually a great location because it has a lot of free parking surrounding the venue so everyone who drives can find a free place to park. The Bottom Lounge was created to bring the people of Chicago a premier music venue for punk music. While the Bottom Lounge does have a wide variety in concert genres, the heavily dominating genre no doubt is punk. The mission of the Bottom Lounge is to bring live music fans and followers to a great music venue in downtown Chicago for a fun filled evening, and also provide easy and free transportation for the people attending the bar area activities to the United Center for Blackhawks games which is located just a few blocks away.
The structure of the Bottom Lounge is fairly common among music venues. The ‘executive personnel’, in this case would be the owners of the music venue. While they do not come to the venue on a