Columbia College Chicago / Chicago Humanities Festival

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

In conjunction with the Chicago Humanities Festival, the College will host an open house across campus featuring informal gallery talks, film screenings, readings, performances, and events.

All Open House events are free and open to the public.

David Amram in Concert! Pre-Open House event.  More information here.

David Amram in person at an on campus screening of Splendor in the Grass! Pre-Open House event. More information here.


SPECIAL EVENTS


Marathon Reading: On the Road
9:00 am –9:00 pm
Conaway Center
1104 South Wabash, 1st floor

In the true spirit of the Beat Generation, readers from the Columbia College community, as well as celebrity guest readers from the Chicago area, will bring Kerouac’s words to life in an all-day marathon reading of On the Road. For the schedule of readers, click here.


The Spirit of '14: Kerouac Radio Play
5:00 pm & 6:00 pm (6:00 pm simulcast on WCRX)
Beat Cafe, C33 Gallery
33 East Congress Parkway

The Radio Department at Columbia College Chicago presents Jack Kerouac’s The Spirit of ’14, the author’s only known radio play. The work will be performed and aired live on Columbia College’s radio station, WCRX, 88.1 FM.


New Event!
Presentation by Scroll Manuscript Curator
6:00-7:00 pm
1104 South Wabash, Room 504

Jim Canary, head conservator at Indiana University’s Lilly Library and curator of the scroll manuscript, presents a lecture and slide show casting light on the myths and mysteries surrounding arguably the most important literary manuscript of the 20th Century.  Q&A will follow.
Please note: This is not a ticketed event.  Seating is limited, so we strongly recommend that you arrive early.


Cinema Slapdown: Thelma & Louise
7:00 pm Screening, 9:00 pm Slapdown
Film Row Cinema
1104 South Wabash Ave
8th floor

Is Thelma & Louise a glorious expression of women bonding in the face of adversity or just an excuse to see two armed feminists taking potshots at insulting male stereotypes? Join us for a screening and armed and dangerous debate of this controversial American road movie with Film & Video Department Associate Chair Joe (“they rule the road!”) Steiff and TV Department faculty member Sara (“someone should have put the brakes on this one”) Livingston. Referee’d by Film & Video faculty member and Talk Cinema host Ron Falzone.
Please note: This is not a ticketed event.  Seating is limited, so we strongly recommend that you arrive early.


EXHIBITIONS With GALLERY TALKS
5:00–9:00 pm

    Jack Kerouac: ON THE ROAD
    On the Road Around the World: 66 Book Covers from the
    Collection of Horst Spandler
    Experimental Literature and the Intersection with Artists’
    Books
    Center for Book and Paper Arts
    1104 South Wabash Avenue, 2nd Floor

    Posterity is left to wonder how Jack Kerouac’s original On the Road
    scroll manuscript ends.  Infamously chewed by Lucien Carr’s cocker
    spaniel, the last four feet of the scroll no longer exist.  But visitors
    will be able to view what Potchky, the canine culprit, didn’t get to. 
    Jim Canary, head conservator at Indiana University’s Lilly Library
    and curator of the scroll manuscript, returns to Columbia College
    Chicago and the Center for the Book & Paper Arts to unroll and
    reveal the last 36 feet of the 120-foot scroll.  This last portion of
    the scroll will be on view Wednesday, November 5, 5pm to 9pm
    and will remain on view until the conclusion of the exhibition on
    November 26.

    Please note: The gallery will be temporarily closed from 3 – 5pm on
    Wednesday, November 5.

    Beat Café
    C33 Gallery
    33 East Congress Parkway

    On The Road:
    Dave Anderson: Rough Beauty
    Farm Security Administration
    Dorothea Lange
    Museum of Contemporary Photography
    600 South Michigan Avenue

    American Alphabet
    The Faculty Center, 600 South Michigan, 8th Floor

    Off the Beaten Road
    Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery
    619 South Wabash

    Beat Station and Kerouac Corner & Beyond the Beats
    Columbia College Library
    624 South Michigan Avenue

    The Beat Look: Nonconformist Fashion
    Conaway Center
    1104 South Wabash Avenue