A competitive art show for Jr High and Middle School Students from the greater LaGrange area. This show is juried for exhibition and judged for awards. Information/entry form available until 10/3/09, absolute deadline for entries

Exhibit runs from October 10, 2009 - October 17, 2009 Gallery Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm

Witness the emotional impact of war through the lenses of award-winning photojournalists: Ron Haviv, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and Franco Pagetti.

The exhibit will display from September 25, 2009 through November 20, 2009 on Mondays - Fridays from 9 AM - 7 PM and Saturdays from 9 AM - 5 PM.

"Experience the Arts in Palos" presents Palos West Student Exhibit

The student exhibit will be displayed at Standard Bank & Trust Co. for the month of October, 2009 on Mondays - Thursdays 9 AM - 5 PM; Fridays 9 AM - 6 PM; and Saturdays 9 AM - 1 PM.

A "Meet the Artist" reception will be held on Saturday, October 3rd from 4 - 5 PM at the bank.

Join us for a great family even with something for everyone! 12 Farms will be open to the public with a variety of antiques, arts, crafts, produce and gifts for sale.

In addition to the Woodstock and Marengo food pantry, food will be for sale at the lunch barn with all proceeds donated to faith in action of McHenry County; assisting seniors to stay in there own homes.

The McHenry county health department will be on site offering information on free mammograms and cervical cancer screening for women in McHenry County.

Animal House Shelter, a non-profit, no kill shelter in Huntley will be there with dogs up for adoption.

All money raised at the Perkins Town Hall will go towards the McHenry County Historical Society.

Location Details:

Located between the towns of Woodstock and Marengo on beautiful Garden Valley and River Roads. Garden Valley Rd is 1 mile north of Rte. 176. 4 miles east of Rte 23 and 5 miles west of Rte. 47.

Exhibit and sale of colorful pallette knife oil paintings by artist Laureen Dunne

Artist Reception Sunday, October 18 1-4pm; Exhibit will be up 10/3/09 thru 10/31/09 Gallery Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm

Contemporary works in ceramics, wood, papier mâché, and paintings, including many works relating to The Day of the Dead by noted Mexican folk artists as well as vintage pieces from the Tarble Arts Center collection and private collections.

This exibition is on display from October 2, 2009 - December 6, 2009. Tarble Arts Center hours are 10 AM - 5 PM Tuesdays - Fridays; 10 AM - 4 PM Saturdays, and 1 PM - 4 PM on Sundays.

Note: Related film showings on October 29 and November 5, 7 PM

Note: As part of Latino Heritage Month, there will be a ublic guided tour of this exhibition on October 13, 2009 at 3 PM.

Laughter feels instinctive, but it's really a brainy phenomenon. Consider the pertinent questions: what part of the brain is responsible for laughter and humor? What are the differences between laughter that occurs as an emotional or behavioral response, and laughter that occurs outside either explanation?

Join Steven Small, director of the Human Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Chicago, for a neuroscience perspective on that rich experience of laughing your head off.

About Steven Small
Steven Small is a professor in the departments of neurology and psychology, a member of the Committees on Neurobiology and Computational Neuroscience, and director of the Human Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Chicago. He is also the editor-in-chief of the international journal Brain and Language. His research investigates the basic neurobiology and rehabilitation of language disorders and hand motor function.

Irony is not a mere play on words, nor a witty way of remaining detached from any commitment. It is, instead, a fundamental capacity of the human soul, a peculiar way of testing our commitments to see if they ring true.

Jonathan Lear, the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, has explored the concept of irony from the ancient Greeks to the Romantics and Kierkegaard, as well as its uses in modern psychoanalysis. Lear guides us through the murky definitions of irony and their relevance to—and in—contemporary society.

About Jonathan Lear
Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the philosophy department at the University of Chicago, where he works primarily on philosophical conceptions of the human psyche from Socrates to the present. Trained in philosophy at Cambridge University and The Rockefeller University and also as a psychoanalyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, he also serves on the faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.

First held at the University of Chicago in 1946, the annual Latke-Hamantash Debate has spawned a series of successors at universities and colleges nationwide and remains a mainstay of the campus calendar.

These humorous academic debates, sponsored by the Newberger Hillel Center, feature University of Chicago professors in full regalia arguing the relative merits of two of the greatest culinary achievements of all time: latkes (a kind of potato cake) and hamantashen (a triangular wheat-flour pastry with a sweet filling). Although no one has ever won the debate, a colorful cast of characters has campaigned mightily, displaying sincere devotion even while heartily lampooning academic seriousness.

Why does the debate have such relevance for generations of debaters and audience alike? Most importantly, will this special edition, complete with "greatest hits," settle the latke-hamantash question once and for all?

About the Participants

In a petition to King Louis XIV, Molière wrote, "The mission of comedy is to correct men's vices." Both a product and a daring critic of classical France, Molière developed a sophisticated and influential vision of the comic genre. This vision reinvented theatrical comedy through character-based satirical portraits of various aspects of 17th-century French society.

Charles Newell, Court Theatre's artistic director, and Larry Norman, University of Chicago associate professor of Romance languages and literature, discuss Molière's most important works and his infamous claims about the reformative powers of theater.

About the Participants

Tom Dreesen and Tim Reid met for the first time in tumultuous 1968 Chicago. While the country was wracked by the civil rights movement, a sexual revolution, and a controversial war, these friends took the stage as the first—and so far, only—black and white comedy team. Together they spent five years touring the country, facing unabashed racism, occasionally violent hecklers, and cheering crowds.

Reid went on to star in the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and create the influential Frank's Place, and Dreesen spent 30 years in stand-up, including 15 years as Frank Sinatra's opening act.

The duo returns to the stage to tell their stories and reflect on a lifetime of unique experiences.

About the participants

In 1783, W. A. Mozart composed the music and plot for a commedia dell'arte pantomime intended for Vienna's upcoming carnival season. Although written for string quartet, only the first violin part and the sketchiest outline of his scenario survive.

In this session, University of Chicago faculty present an excerpt of Mozart's pantomime and a conversation centered on opera and laughter as they relate to performance, audience, politics, and improvisational comedy in the 18th century.

Participants include faculty members Martha Feldman, David Levin, and Roger Moseley. The ensemble Impromptu performs the pantomime, directed by Moseley.

About the Participants

School-aged children and their families are invited to meet award-winning author and nature photographer Nic Bishop as he shares his books, travels, and amazing experiences. Nic is a recipient of the Robert F. Sibert Honor Award and the Gryphon Award.

Hyde Park lore includes not only the atomic bomb's invention in the basement of what became the Regenstein Library, but also the birth of The Second City as a comedy troupe of University of Chicago students.

To separate truth from fiction in the telling of this second tale, join Anne Libera, executive artistic director of The Second City Training Centers, Sheldon Patinkin, founding member of The Second City and chair emeritus of the Columbia College Chicago Theater Department, and Tim Kazurinsky, screenwriter, actor, and former Saturday Night Live cast member.

These three transport us from the early 1950s and the Playwrights Theater Club, through the Compass Players of Alan Arkin, Elaine May, and Mike Nichols fame, to the present-day Chicago institution, revealing how improvisational theater forms pioneered in Hyde Park changed the course of comedy.

About the Participants

Award Acknowledgement for exhibit of 2-D and 3-D work by Jr High and Middle School Students from the greater LaGrange area.

music and refreshments

Details

• The exhibition will run from October 10, 2009 - October 17, 2009
• The Information/Entry form is available until 10/3/09, the absolute deadline for entries
• Gallery Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm

Michael Montenegro's puppets run an astounding gamut, from tiny Punch and Judy figures to a headless, life-size doppelganger of the puppeteer.

Most beautiful is a delicate moving sculpture of bones in the 2004 Sublime Beauty of Hands, which tells an oblique, poetic story about evil munitions makers, the vulnerability of the body, and the limitations of puppetry.

Matters turn much less serious in the delightful Klown Kantos: six very funny puppet bits, loosely connected by the ensemble's clowning.

Montenegro's interactions with his creations--comic revelations of the tender, antagonistic, complicated relationship between puppet and puppeteer--are a highlight.

Display running Friday & Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3pm from October 16, 2009 - November 1, 2009.

Celebrate Millikin University's Homecoming with MDSO in a colorful evening of audience favorites, including the exotic Scheherazade. Principal clarinetist Solomon Baer is featured in works by Debussy and Weber.