Thu Sep 3, 2026 – 7:30pm
River Park – Canoe and Kayak Launch
Fri Sep 4, 2026 – 7:30pm
Park No. 571 – Field House Lawn
Sat Sep 5, 2026 – 7:00pm
Lutheran Church of the Ascension – Northfield, IL
Sun Sep 6, 2026 – 7:30pm
The Wild Mile – Enter at 905 W Eastman
All Shows are Free and All Ages
Exact Locations and Parking
Thu Sep 3 – River Park
- The performance will occur on the west side of River Park. From the field house on Francisco Ave, walk west through the park and cross over the Argyle St bridge.
- Bring your blanket/camping chair/cushion!
- In the event of inclement weather, the performance will take place inside the field house auditorium at 6pm.
- Free street parking is available on Argyle St, Francisco Ave, and Albany Ave.
Fri Sep 4 – Park No. 571
- The performance will occur on the lawn between the boat house and field house.
- Bring your blanket/camping chair/cushion!
- In the event of inclement weather, the performance will take place inside the field house at 2pm.
- Free lot parking available at 2828 S Eleanor St and free street parking is available on Eleanor St
Sat Sep 5 – Lutheran Church of the Ascension
- The performance will occur in the sanctuary at Lutheran Church of the Ascension in Northfield, IL.
- Free lot parking is available.
Sun Sep 6 – The Wild Mile
- The performance will occur on the Wild Mile.
- Enter the Wild Mile via the ramp at the Eastman St cul-de-sac, next to REI.
- In the event of inclement weather, the performance will take place on Monday, Sep 7th at 7:30pm in the same location.
- Free street parking is available on Eastman St, Kingsbury St and the surrounding streets, but usually extremely limited. Highly suggested to arrive early or take public transportation.
About the Performance
Reclaimed Timber, an original production from Chicago ensemble Beyond This Point in partnership with Urban Rivers, will take you on an immersive journey of sound and light as you explore natural areas near the Chicago River. Six percussionists play on six pieces of wood for an entire hour, allowing hypnotic rhythms and undulating waves of sound to crest and fall into each other, blending with the sounds of nature and the City. Accompanying the sounds is a reactive lighting installation made from over 5,000 LEDs and over 200 paper lanterns.
Reclaimed Timber reimagines Michael Gordon’s percussion sextet Timber as an immersive multimedia performance experience. Played entirely on just six slats of amplified wood, past shows have featured “instruments” directly from vacant homes in Baltimore, from Seattle-based BLOCK Project’s modular home fabrication process, from a deconstructed historic home through a collaboration with Chicago-based ReBuilding Exchange, from a past forest fire in the Coconino National Forest through a collaboration with Flagstaff-based visual artist Shawn Skabelund, and even from pieces of a decommissioned wine barrel in the Walla Walla region. Each performance of Reclaimed Timber becomes a unique and profound examination of the consequences that stem from each community’s policies around housing, development, and environmental stewardship.
Reclaimed Timber includes a reactive lighting installation that was designed and built by Baltimore-based visual artists Jenn Figg and Matthew McCormack. This lighting installation comprises dozens of paper lantern “houses” depicting locations where Reclaimed Timber has been performed previously, including Baltimore row homes, rail bridges over the Chicago river, schematics of modular houses built by the BLOCK project in Seattle, and local flora of Arizona currently under threat from climate change. These lanterns are illuminated by more than 5000 LEDs directly activated by contact microphones on each slat of wood.