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Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm
What started on the Harvard University campus by a student "who grew impatient with the creation of an official universal Harvard facebook" has become a global social media revolution. Its claim to notoriety, of course, is its ability to connect friends with friends. On its February 4th birthday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his blog: "Facebook was founded in 2004 to give people the tools to engage and understand the world around them. We are glad and humbled that so many people are using Facebook in this way." Yes, millions of people are using Facebook. Some would say they're using it to push the boundaries of friend far beyond the logical-and practical-notion of friendship (millions of users have thousands of friends). They're using it to network for work and school- posting news links and event notices and sending invitations to every kind of party, rally, conference, and meeting you can imagine. At least once a day, 15 million users update their status. In a month, 850 million photos are uploaded to the site and shared with friends. Start: 1:00 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Bucky Halker
Illinois has rich and diverse folk music traditions that are little known outside a small circle of scholars. From the beginning of the 19th century through the folk revival of the 1950s, the many peoples who made Illinois their home produced a huge body of folk music, including historical ballads, labor anthems, early country songs, and dance tunes as well as a large body of music from ethnic communities in the state. Bucky Halker recently produced the Illinois Humanities Council's Folksongs of Illinois CD series. In this program, Bucky shares his knowledge of prairie-state folk music through performance and commentary, as well as a sampling from recordings he located while doing research for the CD series. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Create non-realistic visual art freeing you from the pressure to create accurate work and instead connecting you to the feelings or meaning of an event. Use shapes, colors, and textures to express internal thoughts and ideas, some just discovered. Led by Christine Krumsee, visual artist and art as therapy instructor, North Chicago VA Hospital
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