ONGOING EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
• READING, WRITING AND ‘RITHMETIC: LEARNING AS IT USED TO BE –- Before television, before video games and before Sesame Street, we learned the basic 3rs in a simpler way. This exhibition looks at writing manuals going back all the way to the seventeenth century, early readers and spellers, flash-cards and alphabet books, math and geometry tomes from the turn-of-the-century, all what are now thought of as ancient learning tools.
Time: September 15 - October 27
Location: Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1104 S. Wabash
• ESTAMPA CULTURAL: EMBRACING THE MEXICANT IMPRINT -- A selection of fine art prints from the collection of Mario Castillo.
Time: Through September 28
Location: C33 Gallery, 33 E. Congress
• THE ART OF PLAY -- As a celebration of the Columbia College Chicago’s Game Design Program and in conjunction with the City of Chicago’s The Art of Play: Summer in Chicago 2007, works range from fine art dealing with notions of playfulness to video and cellular phone games that the audience can literally play.
Time: Through October 3
Location: The Project Room, 623 S. Wabash, room 416
• WEISMAN EXHIBITION -- The Weisman Exhibition contains work from winners of the Albert P. Weisman Scholarship, a fund established in 1974 to encourage Columbia College students to complete projects in all fields of art and communications.
Time: Through October 12
Location: Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash
• LOADED LANDSCAPES -- Loaded Landscapes offers a peculiar landscape photography, one concerned with place, but only insofar as it relates to human history. The photographs in this exhibition can be read in a broader context of a documentary photography, which seeks to excavate politically charged places, often concealed by the seductive beauty of the landscapes that witnessed them. This exhibition explores the work of ten contemporary photographers concerned with places that have born witness to human conflict.
Time: Through October 13
Location: Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S. Michigan
• VODOU RICHE: CONTEMPORARY HAITIAN ART -- A group exhibition of recently produced art by Haitian born artists who work within a social and political sensibility informed by Vodou, Haiti’s national religion. Emerging and established artists embrace a history of appropriating imagery and incorporating found objects into art, a practice born from necessity and great invention. Haitian art absorbs and interprets visual culture so masterfully because of its foundation in Vodou, a religion and way of life that survived due to its history of accommodation and inclusion.
Time: Through October 16
Location: Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
• CHICAGO JAZZ ENSEMBLE -- Jazz returns when the Chicago Jazz Ensemble joins us in Duke Ellington's Harlem. Also, Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite contrasted with the Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn arrangement.
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Chicago Sinfonietta, River Forest
For tickets: Call (312) 236-3681, ext. 2
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
• "INCOGNITO" -- Written and performed by Michael Fosberg in a solo theatrical presentation about race, diversity, identity, family history, and finding a father. PROFILE DIVERSITY WEEKS, in conjunction with Liberal Arts & Critical Encounters
Time: 2 – 3:20 p.m. (Performance); 5 – 6:20 p.m. (Workshop)
Location: 1014 S. Michigan (Performance); 623 S. Wabash (Workshop)
• CHICAGO JAZZ ENSEMBLE -- Jazz returns when the Chicago Jazz Ensemble joins us in Duke Ellington's Harlem. Also, Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite contrasted with the Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn arrangement.
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Chicago Sinfonietta, Orchestra Hall
For tickets: Call (312) 236-3681, ext. 2
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
• DESIGN DAZE: PORTFOLIO DESIGN HELP -- Students can sign up to work with a designer who will help them create a professional portfolio presentation. Possible materials would include things like press kits, DVD or CD covers, print portfolio layouts, etc.
Time: All Day
Location: The Portfolio Center, 623 S Wabash, Room 307
Admission: By appointment only. Phone: 312.344.7280
• VILLAGE LUNCH WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL AFFAIRS (PROFILE DIVERSITY WEEKS)
Time: Noon
Location: 600 S. Michigan, Underground Café
• FIFTY YEARS ON THE ROAD: KEROUAC THEN, NOW AND RIGHT HERE -- a presentation and discussion with Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia. Interview with John Schultz, reception, and book signing to follow. Kickoff event celebration of the fall 2008 arrival of the Kerouac Scroll at Columbia’s Center for Book & Paper Arts.
Time: 6 - 8 p.m.
Location: Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th floor.
• MC RAI: WORLD MUSIC FEST CONCERT
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
• BUSINESS CARD DAY -- Students can make an appointment with the Portfolio Center to have their business card designed. Card designs will be created by advanced design students who will work one-on-one with each student having their card designed.
Time: All Day
Location: The Portfolio Center, 623 S Wabash, Room 307
Admission: By appointment only. Call 312.344.7280 to reserve a time slot.
• ANNUAL MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS FAMILY REUNION – Profiles in Diversity Week
Time: Noon
Location: Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash
• ASIAN CULTURAL AFFAIRS WELCOME/TASTE OF ASIA
Time: 5 p.m.
Location: Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash
• CHANGO SPASIUK: WORLD MUSIC FEST CONCERT
Time: 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Location: Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
• SHORT CUTS -- Students can get a demo reel edited, and authored to a DVD, through the Portfolio Center.
Time: All Day
Location: Portfolio Center, 623 S. Wabash, Suite 307
Admission: Make appointment day before event to participate (312/344.7280)
• INFORMAL ORIENTATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS -- New in town and don't know whats going on? Stop by the International Student Lounge and get a feel for the exciting weeks to come!
Time: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Location: 600 S. Michigan Rm. 1313
• KEN RINALDO LECTURE -- ARTificial Life, Robotics, and Emergence Ken Rinaldo is an artist and Professor of Art and Technology at Ohio State University. His interdisciplinary media art installations investigate the intersections between natural and technological systems. He integrates organic and electro-mechanical elements to assert a confluence and co-evolution between living and evolving technological material. His talk, featuring a DVD presentation of his installations, will explore theories on living systems, artificial life, interspecies communication and the underlying beauty and pattern inherent in the nature and organization of matter, energy, and information. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Interactive Arts and Media & Science and Mathematics Departments
Time: 5 – 6 p.m.
Location: Ferguson Auditorium, 600 S. Michigan Avenue
• OPENING RECEPTION: READING, WRITING AND ‘RITHMETIC: LEARNING AS IT USED TO BE
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1104 S. Wabash
• ATTA KIM LECTURE – Featuring award-winning artist Atta Kim, whose work is on view in the MoCP's current exhibition Loaded Landscapes. Presented in conjunction with the Columbia College Photography Department’s Lectures in Photography series.
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan, 1st floor
• BIG MOUTH OPEN MIC NIGHT
Time: 7 – 10 p.m.
Location: Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
• JAMIE WRISTON COLBERT READING -- Author of Climbing the God Tree, will read from her new book, Dream Lives of Butterflies, at Fiction Writers Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash
• FALL FIELD DAY – The Student Athletics Association invites you socialize with current sport teams along with recreational club sports. Compete in a pick up game or simply just play with your friends. Xsport, Red Bull, Windy City Fieldhouse, and Fleet Feet sports are just some of the few sponsors planned to be present at the event, along with members of other Columbia College student organizations.
Time: 1 – 6 p.m.
Location: Grant Park at Balbo and Columbus Drive.
