First come, first served at the House of Blues/Chicago Reader Mardi Gras Party in the Foundation Room across the river. It starts tonight at 6:30 and runs until 9pm. Free entry, free crawdads, and live music.
Let those good times roll, people!
(RSVP to Marketing@chicagoreader.com to make sure you can get in…)
UIC Forum (725 W. Roosevelt St., Chicago)
It’s free and open to the public. Click HERE for the details.
Have you been upstairs to see Jason Reblando’s photographs, yet?
What are you waiting for? You can check out a preview and hear the artist talk about his work here.
See it before it’s gone!
News from our HW Curator, Vanessa Smith:
The President’s Gallery at Harold Washington College, 30 E. Lake Street, proudly presents a lecture titled “A Personal Dinner Invitation” a Year Later by Alberto Aguilar, a faculty member of the department of Art and Architecture. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, December 8 at 6 p.m. in room 103, and is free and open to the public.
It has been a year since “A Personal Dinner Invitation”, a project created by Alberto Aguilar to inaugurate his 36th year.
Using a popular social networking site, Alberto Aguilar befriended then invited over 1000 strangers to come into his home and have dinner. From those who agreed to attend this event, he chose 36 people to come to six separate dinners of six guests each. On all of these evenings, Aguilar hosted a six-course Mexican meal, gave a tour of his home and presented each guest with a hand-made gift box.
In this presentation, Alberto Aguilar will discuss the events that led to this project, the dinners themselves and the impact that they have had on his life. All attendees will receive a small gift bag at the end of the presentation.This lecture is held in conjunction with the exhibition on the 11th floor of the college – Assembly: The Faculty Biennial Exhibition, on view through January 14. This exhibition celebrates the work of fifteen faculty members and a few of their collaborators, with works ranging among ceramics, photography, print media, painting, architecture, video and sound. Exhibiting artists include: Alberto Aguilar; Jess Bader and Heather Coffey; Michelle Bolinger; Helen Maurene Cooper; Max Alexander, Davy Bisaro and Balta Pena; Jessica Taylor Caponigro; Turtel Onli; Richard Repasky; Felicity Rich; Galina Shevchenko and Phylum Sinter; Ivanhoe Tejeda; Joseph Trupia; Vassi Vasevski; Rebecca Walz; Craig Yu.
Be THERE, people. Sounds awesome.
Get to the 8th Floor. Right now!
5:30-8:00
Open studio – stop by to visit a beginning level painting class in progress.
Tell your students and be sure to show up and support the students–you might even see one of your own rocking the house…
~Wednesday, 12/1: The Harold Washington Recording Engineer’s Event (4pm, rm 102).
HW’s Largest Club will host voice over artist and engineer Jim L’Allier who has an extensive back ground in voice over for film and television. Mr. L’Allier’s presentation will begin at 4pm. After food and drink
will be served to all attendees.
~Thursday, 12/2: The Fall Semester Ensemble Concert (7:00pm, rm 102)–featuring the HWC Jazz/Pop Ensemble, Choir, and Chamber Ensembles
~Tuesday, 12/7: The HWC Jazz/Pop Ensemble Concert @ Chicago Cultural Center (Randolph side). The show starts at 12:15pm, and it is FREE!
Ador’n is a Feminist Arts Group, with whom one of our Humanities adjuncts
works, is having an art show (FREE!) showcasing up and coming Chicago
artists; it’s called “In the Flesh.” You should go…unless you have something
better to do.
What are you doing, anyway?
Euro jazz in Chicago at cool spots including some free shows.
Check out the schedule here. You’ll feel better.
November is Native American Heritage Month, and Judy Rivera-Van Schagen has put together another stellar lineup of events. Please make sure to announce them to you students and print out a schedule for your classroom bulletin boards.
Here’s the full event schedule. For more info, contact Judy (jrivera-vanshagen@ccc.edu).
All events are FREE!
Next Event:
| Wednesday, November 3 | Film: Tecumseh’s Vision. Ric Burns, Director
Hosted by Professor I. Sandman, Humanities |
Room: 203
Time: 12:30pm |
Website Wednesday is a regular feature in which we highlight one (or a couple) of sites from the Billions floating around the Intertoobz that just might help you with your Herculean task of educating inquiring minds. Any and all suggestions for future editions are welcome.
I know that you saw some of these highlighted at DWFDW, but just in case that is a long ways away from your mind, and because we’re at the midterm (when, it is generally supposed, it’s a good idea to get some student feedback about the course, and because you might not want to use CCC tools to conduct your own research about student satisfaction (or lack thereof) with your courses, you can consider the following tools, each of which I’ve used and found quick and simple to work with.
Flisti.com is a resource for creating superfast, multiple choice, online surveys–no sign up is required, and the sharing options are plentiful.
If you’d like a little more control over your poll, PollEverywhere.com is a good option. In fact, come to think of it, I think this might have been the one that was highlighted during DWFDW.
You know, just in case you want to do any quick survey’s of student opinions about, oh, I don’t know, anything that is going on around the college, maybe…
You haven’t forgotten about the Chicago Humanities Festival that I mentioned a while back have you? Please, please, please announce it to your students.
Here is a story on the festival from the Tribune, and here is a list of their recommendations. When The Reader comes out with their list, I’ll post it, too. Send the students for extra credit. It’s a great opportunity to see some great minds live and in person. For free, no less.
In the meantime, gor the schedule go HERE; if you want to know more about tickets, you can go HERE. The short version is as follows:
Teachers/students: Free tickets to most programs are available for students and teachers with valid ID.
Give them a call to make sure that you’ll be able to get into the event you want to see (312.494.9509). So far this is the sell out list as of last Thursday:
(102) Special Viewing: Rare Medical Texts and the History of Medicine
(106) Leslie Marmon Silko
(303) Margaret Livingstone: What Art Tells Us About the Brain
All West Loop Gallery Tours (Nov. 6 and Nov. 13)
(403) Reformulating Food
(404) Terra Foundation Lecture: Sarah Burns
(407) Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner: An Anthropologist’s View
Do you know about the Art Loop Open?
It’s going on right now, and all around us. Go outside. Look at art. Vote for your favorites.
Consume art!! Check it out–Details HERE.
Something for your calendar:
Carrie Nepstad is going to the Field Museum on Tuesday, October 26th; tag along!
The schedule for what is probably Chicago’s single greatest annual event, the Chicago Humanities Festival, has been released. This year’s theme is “The Body” and the usual array of literary, philosophical, cultural, musical, and otherwise artistic super heavyweight thinkers, so to speak, are lined up to share their thinking with the rest of us.
Check out the schedule by poking around HERE.
As always, tickets to events that are not sold out are free (or super cheap) to educators and students (a good reason to get a new ID, if you haven’t already).
The Harold Lounge 