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Undergraduate Open House

March 3


Come visit us in Chicago’s South Loop, take it all in, ask questions, get answers, and find out if Columbia is the right school for you.

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Open House

"Isn’t It Really Just About the Words?"

Spring LAS Dean's Lecture


What role do images play in the process of creating meaning? Join us as we welcome renowned rhetorician, author, editor, and educator Dr. Kathleen Blake Yancey for a discussion on thinking about and visualizing visual rhetoric in everyday writing.

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Spring 2012 LAS Dean's Lecture 

Columbia Dance Center Receives Joyce Award

For Moseses Project


With the grant, Columbia's Dance Center and choreographer Reggie Wilson will create a work exploring the interfaith mythical, biblical, historic, and global references of Moses. Discover more in this video.

Columbia Dance Center Receives Joyce Award

Ornithology: The Music of Charlie “Bird” Parker

Friday, February 24


Grammy-nominated Puerto Rican saxophonist Miguel Zenón joins the Chicago Jazz Ensemble to celebrate the rich musical legacy of the great Charlie Parker.

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Miguel Zenon 

Brian Dettmer (BA '97)

A Real Bookworm


This Atlanta-based artist transforms the pages of old books into new masterpieces. In the process, he asks us to consider how books are endangered by new media.

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Brian Dettmer 
Bestselling author and historian Michael Beschloss speaks at Columbia College Chicago’s 2011/2012 Conversations in the Arts series.
Presidential Historian Visits Campus
Bestselling author and historian Michael Beschloss speaks at Columbia College Chicago’s 2011/2012 Conversations in the Arts series.
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Columbia College Chicago raised more money in its fourth giving cycle than ever before for its Scholarship Columbia program.
'Scholarship Columbia' Record
Columbia College Chicago raised more money in its fourth giving cycle than ever before for its Scholarship Columbia program.
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Columbia College hosts town hall meeting for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan in collaboration with AEMM's "Comparative Cultural Policy" class.
Students Help with City Cultural Plan
Columbia College hosts town hall meeting for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan in collaboration with AEMM's "Comparative Cultural Policy" class.
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Month-long program features cultural events, screenings and discussions celebrating diversity and identity.
Celebrating African Heritage Month
Month-long program features cultural events, screenings and discussions celebrating diversity and identity.
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Events at Columbia
February 22, 2012
Empathic Evolution
9:00 am
Empathic Evolution is an installation-based exhibition focused on the development of empathy, the power of artistic collaboration, and the on-going exploration of human interaction. ...
Operation Sidewinder
7:30 pm
An adventure story, a political satire, a pop-art "smash up," this play with music points up the dehumanizing effects of technology on American culture, circa’70. A ...
February 23, 2012
Listening Session: Saxophonist Miguel Zenón and CJE Artistic Director Dana Hall
12:00 pm
The Listening Sessions program is the CJE's signature series of informal gatherings in which a panel of jazz performers, educators, and critics play records and lead an interactive ...
Molly Shanahan / Mad Shak
8:00 pm
Molly Shanahan deepens her groundbreaking movement discoveries in this hypnotic piece, where an ensemble of dancers embarks on a courageous re-contextualization of habit in movement ...
February 24, 2012
Ornithology: The Music of Charlie “Bird” Parker
7:30 pm
The Chicago Jazz Ensemble concludes its 2011-12 Harris Theater performance season with a program featuring Grammy-nominated Puerto Rican saxophonist Miguel Zenón in a celebration of ...

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