01 / 27
Start: 12:30 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Brian (Fox) Ellis
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Odyssey Project is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living below 150% of the poverty level. 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. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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? Start: 7:00 pm
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. | ||
01 / 28
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm
 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."
Start: 7:00 pm
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 Search for the Lost Self, a film about new educational techniques in the treatment of children with autism and schizophrenia, and Cry of Jazz, a film that compares the musical jazz form to the African American experience. Filmmaker Ed Bland, and WBEZ's Alison Cuddy will lead a discussion about the films. | ||
01 / 29
Start: 12:00 pm
The Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) Board of Directors will hold its winter meeting on Thursday, January 29, 2009. The Board will convene at 12:00 p.m. The agenda will include a board conversation on the role of the humanities in economic recovery and IHC responses to the economic downturn. Currently, 36 members comprise the Illinois Humanities Council Board of Directors. The IHC accepts public nominations for new Board members throughout the year. Start: 5:30 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Nancy Huse This is a first-person Chautauqua-style interpretation of Beatrix Potter and her multiple accomplishments. Potter, over various life stages, describes herself as a writer, artist, scientist, and a philanthropist. She dramatizes her role as a woman who impacted the 'domestic landscape' of children's books and rural England. Nancy Huse holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. She has published numerous articles and delivered many presentations on American and children's literature. She was the Children's Literature Association President as well as a member of the Illinois Council of Teachers of English. Her interests include children and young adult's literature, English and American language literature, African American literature, and women and gender studies. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Odyssey Project is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living below 150% of the poverty level. 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. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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."
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01 / 30
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
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."
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01 / 31
Start: 9:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
 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 | ||
02 / 1
Start: 2:00 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Brian (Fox) Ellis
Start: 7:00 pm
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 And This is Free, a film about the music of Maxwell Street in Chicago, and My Friend Vince, a film about a small time, hustler. Filmmakers Mike Gray, Jones Cullinan, David Rothberg and Gordon Quinn will lead a discussion about Howard Alk's life, moderated by filmmaker Judy Hoffman. | ||
02 / 2
Start: 9:00 am
End: 9:00 pm
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 Start: 10:00 am
A Road Scholar Program by Ron Keller
Start: 11:00 am
Northwestern Univeristy Settlement House (NUSH) Project YES AmeriCorps volunteers will discuss'Theme for English B' by Langston Hughes 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. Start: 7:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Mayor Daley last week chose Chicago Transit Authority President Ron Huberman to be the new Chicago Public Schools chief, replacing Arne Duncan, the new U.S. Secretary of Education. Huberman, 37, emigrated from Israel with his family when he was 5 and is a former Chicago beat cop with an MBA and a master's degree in health administration policy, both from the University of Chicago. He once said in an alumni magazine interview that his long-term goal is to be chief of police of a "good-sized city." Huberman was Daley's chief of staff from 2005 to 2007.
The news of Huberman's appointment was met with both criticism and praise. At his first school board meeting on January 28, more than 300 protesters greeted him with boos and screams. The Chicago Sun-Times reported one parent saying, "At the CTA...there's a lot you didn't do. To know you're in charge of my son is very scary. What experience do you have dealing with children?" Reverend Jesse Jackson was critical of Huberman's appointment, saying that he "wouldn't be qualified to teach in a classroom." The Chicago Defender called Huberman a bad choice for a school system that has a 50 percent dropout rate for black students and is hampered by security concerns and violence. | ||
02 / 3
Start: 12:30 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Mark Pohlad
Start: 1:20 pm
End: 3:00 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Penelope Bingham
Richard Nixon craved cottage cheese with catsup, Ronald Reagan kept his jelly beans handy in the Oval Office, and George H. W. Bush famously refused broccoli. But what would our sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln, eat? From cornmeal mush in a log cabin on the American Frontier to Charlotte Russe à la Parisienne at the White House, the food on Lincoln's table and the cookbooks of the period shed light on both Lincoln's story and that of the United States. This program invites the audience to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's Bicentennial with the recipe for his Favorite Cake, and to think about this era of unprecedented expansion and turmoil, which set in motion changes in America and to its foodways that continue into the present. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Odyssey Project is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living below 150% of the poverty level. 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. Start: 7:00 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Jennifer Shook
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