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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02 / 4
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 Start: 10:30 am
A Road Scholar Program by Brian (Fox) Ellis
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 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. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
The journey of the warrior, language, and storytelling.
Meet-n-greet between veterans and artists, sharing storeis and building creative partnerships. Led by Lisa Rosenthal. | ||
02 / 5
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: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
A special workshop, facilitated by Susan Eleuterio and CodePink, including reading materials to prompt discussions on the choices we make regarding war, shootings and community violence, gun restrictions and accessibility, peace, and peaceful resistance.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 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. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Talk with Vietnam Veterans about their journeys through life and art.
Start: 7:00 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Ron Keller Using clips from a variety of motion pictures throughout the twentieth century, Ron Keller demonstrates how the lens of popular culture shapes public perceptions of history. He also shows how that history does and does not mirror the changing perspective of one of America's greatest icons, Abraham Lincoln. Start: 7:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
On December 8th, Rod Blagojevich became the fifth of the last eight elected Illinois governors to be charged with a crime; if he is convicted, he will be the fourth to serve time. The Illinois House voted to impeach him on January 16th. Blagojevich is charged with attempting to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant senate seat, charges which have caused the citizens of Illinois to collectively moan as another local politician was hauled away in cuffs. As the saga unfolds, many are beginning to ponder the state's history of political corruption.
The New York Times reports: "'Since 1971, said Dick Simpson, head of the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a former Chicago alderman, '1,000 Illinois public servants have been convicted of corruption, and in Chicago, 30 aldermen have gone to jail.'" Start: 8:00 pm
Use collage to visually represent the experience of veterans focusing on emotions, sights, sounds and the transition home.
Led by Christina Reddington, RN, BSN | ||
02 / 6
Start: 9:00 am
End: 5:00 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: 9:30 am
Notre Dame Mercy AmeriCorps volunteers will discuss 'The Eleventh' by Henri Barbusse 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: 3:00 pm
Belleville AmeriCorps volunteers will discuss 'What We Don't Talk About' by Adam Davis
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: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 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. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Introduce personal writing as a form of self-reflection and a healing modality, and demonstrate the power of sharing and witnessing personal yet universal stories. Led by Kathleen C. Nesbitt, MFA.
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