CIMMfest returns to Wicker Park's St. Paul's Cultural Center for the weekend

Rock Poster Exhibit curated by Chicago artist and teacher Steve Walters is featured at the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival's weekend  headquarters and lounge in St. Paul's Cultural Center at 2215 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park where music, movie and video events will continue  beyond midnight this Saturday, Mar. 6.

Friday night's main stage starts at 5:30 with Tom Ze:Astronauta Libertado, a feature documentary about Brazilian musician Tom Ze, one of the 1900s most innovative avant-garde pop composers. This is its North American Premiere. 

Scenesters w/Q&A starts at 7:30 followed by drummer and co-songwriter for seminal post-punk band Husker Due, Grant Hart.  Hart, who is making CIMMfest part of his solo tour supporting his "Hot Wax" album, goes on at 9:30.

Later in the evening King Pluto's Whispering Choir, an ad-hoc musical collective will fill the venue with their "Bysantine metal" sound.  Jeremy Jacobson, the Lonesome Organist, will give the 100-year-old pipe organ a chance to shine as added dimension for the Italian silent film Maciste in Hell.

Saturday activities at St. Paul's begin at 2 p.m. with the last performance starting at 9 p.m. The other venues for the weekend that goes thru Sunday are: Berlin Night Club, Chicago Cultural Center, Heaven Gallery at 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd flr., Lincoln Hall and Schuba's Tavern.

Check out the CIMMfest schedule for all the details.