Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit.
Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University.
Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities.
This course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Admission is by application only. Refer to syllabus for changes in course schedule.
The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work.
Unlike any presidential inauguration in memory, the swearing-in of Barack Obama on Jan. 20, 2009 transfixes, inspires and gives hope to people everywhere. More than simply a switch from a Republican to a Democrat in the White House, Obama's presidency represents a transcendent moment in U.S. history. And for millions, his inauguration is a national historical marker that will be used to compare what came before it and what comes after it.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime situation," actress Gloria Reuben told USA Today. "The last eight years have been such hell. We're all so excited about the hope of things to come. ... People are so ready to rejoice and celebrate what is hopefully the return of the foundation of the United States."
For many people, Obama's racial heritage makes the inauguration especially significant. For others, seeing Obama inaugurated brings relief from eight years of the Bush administration, which leaves a legacy of incompetence, a staggering national debt, and two wars that must be resolved. Some see the inauguration as a prime opportunity to bring people together for a massive civics lesson. Two major teacher unions even joined forces with Obama's inaugural committee on a teaching guide for the historic day.
Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare is a discussion-based program that brings hospital staff together monthly to reflect on the larger mission of medicine through facilitated conversations about literature.
The Chicago Film Archives is producing the first ever retrospective of the life, work and times of late Chicago Filmmaker, Howard Alk.
This program will include a screening of The Murder of Fred Hampton, a film about the murder of the leaders of the Black Panthers.
Dennis Cunningham, co-founder of the Peoples Law Office, and WBEZ Alison Cuddy, will lead a discussion about the film.
A seminar and writing workshop, led by Kelli Dudley, around the choices we make regarding our finances.
This program will include guidance to help people better manage their resources.
It will also include writing exercises about our financial decisions: how finances sometimes make our decisions for us, the value we place on ourselves and our work, and our plans for the future.
The first European culture to establish roots in Illinois, French Creoles along the Illinois, Wabash, and Mississippi Rivers would in many places be supplanted by later Anglo and German American settlers. Instrumental in winning Illinois for the United States during the American Revolution and important to the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Illinois Creoles have a strong cultural history that opens a door to their effect in the Midwest. This presentation will explore what brought the French here, their fiddle music, a few of their exploits, and their lasting influence on the Illinois Country.
Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit.
Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University.
Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities.
This course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Admission is by application only. Refer to syllabus for changes in course schedule.
Unlike any presidential inauguration in memory, the swearing-in of Barack Obama on Jan. 20, 2009 transfixes, inspires and gives hope to people everywhere. More than simply a switch from a Republican to a Democrat in the White House, Obama's presidency represents a transcendent moment in U.S. history. And for millions, his inauguration is a national historical marker that will be used to compare what came before it and what comes after it.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime situation," actress Gloria Reuben told USA Today. "The last eight years have been such hell. We're all so excited about the hope of things to come. ... People are so ready to rejoice and celebrate what is hopefully the return of the foundation of the United States."
For many people, Obama's racial heritage makes the inauguration especially significant. For others, seeing Obama inaugurated brings relief from eight years of the Bush administration, which leaves a legacy of incompetence, a staggering national debt, and two wars that must be resolved. Some see the inauguration as a prime opportunity to bring people together for a massive civics lesson. Two major teacher unions even joined forces with Obama's inaugural committee on a teaching guide for the historic day.
Join the Vespasian Warner Public Library for this program on the history of the Illinois Terminal Railroad.
Dale Jenkins, a local historian and author, who served for over 20 years as a policeman for the railroad, will discuss the railroad's extreme importance to the history and heritage of Central Illinois.
Unlike any presidential inauguration in memory, the swearing-in of Barack Obama on Jan. 20, 2009 transfixes, inspires and gives hope to people everywhere. More than simply a switch from a Republican to a Democrat in the White House, Obama's presidency represents a transcendent moment in U.S. history. And for millions, his inauguration is a national historical marker that will be used to compare what came before it and what comes after it.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime situation," actress Gloria Reuben told USA Today. "The last eight years have been such hell. We're all so excited about the hope of things to come. ... People are so ready to rejoice and celebrate what is hopefully the return of the foundation of the United States."
For many people, Obama's racial heritage makes the inauguration especially significant. For others, seeing Obama inaugurated brings relief from eight years of the Bush administration, which leaves a legacy of incompetence, a staggering national debt, and two wars that must be resolved. Some see the inauguration as a prime opportunity to bring people together for a massive civics lesson. Two major teacher unions even joined forces with Obama's inaugural committee on a teaching guide for the historic day.
The Chicago Film Archives is producing the first ever retrospective of the life, work and times of late Chicago Filmmaker, Howard Alk.
This program will include a screening of American Revolution 2, a documentary about the police violence at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.
Jones Cullinan and WBEZ's Alison Cuddy will lead a discussion about the film.
We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods. They are decorative structures that are as much part of the landscape as trees and flowers. Industry and agriculture without fences would be difficult to imagine. Private ownership of land would be an abstract concept.But fences are more than functional objects. They are powerful symbols. The way we define ourselves as individuals and as a nation becomes concrete in how we build fences.
Through an examination of boundaries, place, and space, Between Fences will explore how neighbors and nations divide, protect, offend, and defend through the boundaries they build.
This exhibit runs from January 17, 2009 - March 1, 2009
Looking for Democracy in 2009...
Celebrate Chicago's hip hop arts! Join us at Open Mic Academy: The State of Our Union, featuring special performances by visiting poets Roger Bonair-Agard and Idris Goodwin, curated by Kevin Coval.
Tell us what you think about the state of our union, our culture, our future with a poem, song, or performance piece. Sign up for open-mic begins at 2:30pm for a limited number of 3 minute spots!
More about Roger Bonair-Agard and Idris Goodwin
Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, a Cave Canem fellow and co-author of Burning Down the House. He is a two-time National Slam Champion and is co-founder of The louderARTS Project. Roger's work has been widely anthologized and commissioned and he has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour.
Join Xiaosi Yang as he discusses the six dimensions of culture and their formation into distinct societies. The inclusion of the individual, family, political society and the "human" world are four of the dimensions by which every culture necessarily defines itself. Throughout history, however, Eastern Asian and Western cultures have emphasized a different formulation of these dimensions. This separate emphasis is a useful tool in assessing the different strengths and weaknesses of Easterners and Westerners.
Xiaosi Yang holds a PhD in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University and teaches in the Humanities Department at Harold Washington College. He is the former Director of the Asian Studies Center at Lake Forest College, and has been active in cultural awareness projects in the Chicago area for many years. His research interests include the philosophy of family, Asian thought, comparative philosophy, and geo-political analysis of Asia.
Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare is a discussion-based program that brings hospital staff together monthly to reflect on the larger mission of medicine through facilitated conversations about literature.
During the recent Chicago sit-in by workers at Republic Windows and Doors, wage theft in America grabbed national headlines. Join us as Kim Bobo, Founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, discusses her new book, Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid-And What We Can Do About It. This program will be moderated by Sanhita SinhaRoy, managing editor of In These Times.
Bobo argues that every year billions of dollars' worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers, a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category on record annually. In today's economy, this crime affects more Americans than ever before. Bobo's book is an incisive manual for activists, workers, and concerned citizens on how to prevent flagrant exploitation of America's working people and includes a sweeping analysis of the crisis, hard-hitting statistics, and heart-breaking first-person accounts.
In a season when biographical and semi-biographical films about politicians and wrestlers are making headlines, another biopic film-this one about an assassinated rap artist-has made a few waves of its own. The film, Notorious, is about rapper Christopher Wallace (also known as Biggie Smalls), who was killed in an unsolved drive-by shooting in 1997. Film critics have been particularly harsh regarding the film. A.O. Scott writes in the New York Times: "The movie may not be an authorized biography, but it is if anything less critical, less ambivalent, than some of Biggie's own semi-autobiographical lyrics."
Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit.
Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University.
Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities.
This course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Admission is by application only. Refer to syllabus for changes in course schedule.
Experience Yours, Mine, Ours, or Theirs Online!
Are oil and water resources to be stewarded and shared or commodities to be bought and sold? Does any person, country, or community own oil and water resources? How do the concepts of ownership and stewardship affect access to oil and water? What questions are raised by the privatization of resources?
photo from http://www.vetartproject.comThis event is an orientation for interested artists to explain how to get involved in the Vet Art Project that culminates in collaboratively created art about war for public performance or viewing.
This workshop includes experiential exercises about war as well as information about the structure of the project, which will be in residence in February 2009 at the Chicago Cultural Center in the Studio Theater as part of their Incubator Series.
NOTE: Artists working in all media are welcome.
