Columbia College Chicago Events & Gallery Guide Fall 2011

15 Minutes by Bob Blinn

January 29 - February 3

ShopColumbia Artist Spotlight: Bob Blinn

Bob Blinn, presents a series of tin-type images that is a mixture of ideas combining the past and present. It's interesting to see photographs of people from Civil War 150 years ago placed in modern-day situations. The results range from humorous to sinister - check it out at ShopColumbia! Artist: Bob Blinn Title: Fifteen Minutes Medium: Tintype- - inspired image Photo by Rachael Lombardy

ShopColumbia, 623 S. Wabash

ShopColumbia Artist Spotlight: Bob Blinn

Joshua Casteel Photo Credit Sara Nesson

February 6, 5:30 p.m.

Joshua Casteel & Jenny Boully Reading

Joshua Casteel served as a US Army interrogator and Arabic linguist at Abu Ghraib Prison from June 2004 to January 2005. Shortly thereafter he was honorably discharged as a Conscientious Objector. He was formerly on the board of directors of Iraq Veterans Against the War, holds Master of Fine Arts degrees in Playwriting and Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa, and has spoken on ethics and US defense policy at universities and centers throughout the US, UK, Ireland, Sweden and Italy. Jenny Boully is the author of not merely because of the unknown that was stalking towards them (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011), The Book of Beginnings and Endings (Sarabande, 2007), [one love affair]* (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006), The Body: An Essay (Essay Press, 2007 and Slope Editions, 2002), and the chapbook Moveable Types (Noemi Press, 2007).

Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan, 2nd floor

Joshua Casteel & Jenny Boully Reading

Gloria Steinem

February 7, 7:30 p.m.

Gloria Steinem: Conversations in the Arts -- Liberal Arts and Sciences

An iconic figure in the U.S. women’s movement, Gloria Steinem is a frequent media spokesperson on issues of equality and travels throughout the world as a lecturer and organizer for peace and justice. Perhaps best known as co-founder of Ms. Magazine, Steinem has been instrumental in launching many organizations, including the Women’s Action Alliance, the National Women’s Political Caucus, Voters for Choice, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and Take Our Daughters to Work Day. Called one of the 25 most influential women in America by Biography magazine, Steinem has received many awards for her journalism and activism, and has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th floor

2012 Conversations in the Arts

Columbia Summer in Florence – 2012

February 7, 5 - 6:30 p.m.

Columbia Summer in Florence – 2012

Spend your July studying in Italy -- Come learn about this year's Florence program and meet the teachers who will be taking their classes to Italy -- Ken Daley and Jeff Schiff (English), Ann Hemenway (Fiction Writing), Alison Carey (Photo), Bruce Sheridan (Film). Program Dates: June 28 – July 28, 2012

Quincy Wong Center, 623 S. Wabash

Columbia Summer in Florence – 2012

The Kids Are All Right

February 8, 7 pm

Cinema Slapdown Round 36: The Kids Are All Right

Is The Kids Are All Right a glorious celebration of the diversity of the American family, or a shameful attempt to undermine the traditional definition of marriage? http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cinema-Slapdown/125227367561418

Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th floor

Film & Video Department

Anthony J. Nocella II

February 9, 4 p.m.

Social Justice, Anarchist Economics, and a Challenge to Systems of Domination

Cultural Studies Colloquium Series - "Social Justice, Anarchist Economics, and a Challenge to Systems of Domination" with Anthony J. Nocella II. Anthony J. Nocella II prominent author, educator, and organizer, is a professor at Hamline University in the School of Education. Nocella regularly writes and speaks in the areas of disability studies, anarchist studies, hip hop studies, queer studies, social justice, critical urban education, environmental justice, critical race theory, and critical animal studies. Nocella has worked in prisons and youth detention centers for over ten years and is co-founder of Save the Kids a national movement to create alternatives to incarceration of youth. Nocella, the editor of the Peace Studies Journal, has published more than ten books and has co-founded more than fifteen active political organizations, including the Institute for Critical Animal Studies.

Collins Hall, 624 S. Michigan Avenue, 602

Social Justice, Anarchist Economics, and a Challenge to Systems of Domination

MARGARET JENKINS DANCE COMPANY

February 9, 10 & 11, at 8 p.m.

Margaret Jenkins Dance Company

In Light Moves, Margaret Jenkins collaborates with her dancers, painter and media artist Naomie Kremer, composer Paul Dresher and poet Michael Palmer, to create a unique synthesis of dance, moving images and live music. Tickets: $26-$30 Contact the Box Office at 312.369.8330 or columbiatickets@colum.edu http://www.colum.edu/Dance_Center/performances/margaretjenkinsdancecompany/index.php

The Dance Center, 1306 S. Michigan Ave.

Single-Event

The Racial Future of Fashion

February 10, 1 - 3 p.m.

"What Color is Nude": The Racial Future of Fashion - Panel Discussion

Please join distinguished fashion history and race theory writers and artists for a discussion of race, radicals, and revolutions in fashion. Panelists include Monica Miller (Barnard faculty and author of "Slaves to fashion: black dandyism and the styling of black diasporic identity"), Shirley Henderson ("Ebony/Jet" writer and Columbia faculty), and D. Denenge Akpem (Afro-futurist artist and Columbia faculty). Using the exhibition “Black Gossamer” as a point of departure, the panelists will share their perspectives on the ways that identity influences style and consumerism. This event is co-sponsored with Critical Encounters, DEPS, and the Departments of Fashion Studies and AEMM.

Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash

"What Color is Nude": The Racial Future of Fashion - Panel Discussion

TAD Studio Colloquium

February 15, 6:30 p.m.

Teaching Artists and the Future of Education

Teaching Artists are redefining the roles that the arts can play in public education. Join us for the first Chicago presentation of the Teaching Artist Research Project, a new national study of teaching artists and their work in a dozen cities, including Chicago. Nick Rabkin, principal investigator of the Teaching Artist Research Project at NORC at the University of Chicago, will present findings from the study, followed by responses from a panel of teaching artists, arts administrators, and researchers. Reception will follow program. Sponsored by: the Center for Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP) at Columbia College Chicago; the Cultural Policy Center, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, and NORC at the University of Chicago; and Ingenuity, Inc

Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th floor

Teaching Artists and the Future of Education