When: 4:00pm -- 7:30pm

Where: Hokin Hall, 623 S. Wabash, room 109

Description: Join the Recycling Program in its first of four documentary screenings. We aim to bring environmentally conscious discussions to our campus. For film information go to Recycle

When: 6:00pm -- 10:00pm

Where: 1212 S. Plymouth Ct

Description: Join us for the grand opening of Columbia's new gym space at the South Loop Elementary School, 1212 S. Plymouth Ct. Free food and refreshments will be served. We will hold a 3 on 3 basketball tournament; the semi annual staff/faculty vs. students’ volleyball tournament, and various raffles with all the proceeds donated to the Red Cross for Haiti. The Gym will be available to Columbia and Roosevelt students only, Monday through Thursday, 6pm-10pm, for open basketball, open volleyball and intramurals. I will update you on intramurals as soon as we finalize them.

When: 6:30pm -- 8:00pm

Where: Film Row Cinema | 1104 S. Wabash Ave.

Description: At each Ad Autopsy event, attendees will witness an advertising executive and a social critic come together to discuss the merits, implications, back story and technicalities behind television commercials. The presentations consist of 5-6 individual commercials from a variety of brands. After viewing each commercial, students, faculty, and alumni are encouraged to give their feedback and ask questions of the guest speakers. The British Invasion and creative explosion will be highlighted in this ad autopsy. Ad Autopsy is hosted by the Marketing Communication Department.

When: 7:00pm -- 10:00pm

Where: Concert Hall, 1014 S. Michigan Ave

Description: For more information Click HERE

When: 12:00pm -- 3:00pm

Where: 618 S. Michigan, 2nd floor Auditorium

Description: Columbia College fine art and art history students will be presenting their artwork and papers in relation to social issues and class systems. Selected students include photographers, fine artists and art historians.

When: 6:30pm -- 10:00pm

Where: The Getz Theater, 72 E. 11th Street

Description: Sex, sin, and bathtub gin...Hot lovin’ and cold murder...the Jazz-age, just before the crash… The acclaimed Joseph Moncure March’s originally banned epic poem, The Wild Party, was written in 1928. It was republished in 1998; by 2000, there were two musical versions of it opening in New York. The New York Amsterdam News called John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s “big, splashy, funny, scary musical of a booze-soaked 1920s house-wrecker,” an “edgy masterpiece.” To see what the all hype is about CLICK HERE

When: 12:30pm -- 2:00pm

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

Description: This event coincides with Slavick's exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center, entitled R&R(&R): Slavick borrows and builds images from the art and architecture of the invader and the invaded, from the workshops of Persian miniaturist Bihzâd to the court arts of Safavid Iran. Scenes of construction and cultivation are painted over digitally manipulated photographs of devastation across the former Islamic Empire — in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and elsewhere. Altering these images by hand is an attempt at empathic restitution, at recognizing what has been decimated and replacing the anonymous, ashen monochrome of rubble.

When: 1:30pm -- 4:00pm

Where: The Getz Theater, 72 E. 11th Street

Description: Sex, sin, and bathtub gin...Hot lovin’ This event coincides with Slavick's exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center, entitled R&R(&R): Slavick borrows and builds images from the art and architecture of the invader and the invaded, from the workshops of Persian miniaturist Bihzâd to the court arts of Safavid Iran. Scenes of construction and cultivation are painted over digitally manipulated photographs of devastation across the former Islamic Empire — in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and elsewhere. Altering these images by hand is an attempt at empathic restitution, at recognizing what has been decimated and replacing the anonymous, ashen monochrome of rubble. and cold murder...the Jazz-age, just before the crash… Joseph Moncure March’s banned epic poem, The Wild Party, was written in 1928. It was republished in 1998; by 2000, there were two musical versions of it opening in New York. The New York Amsterdam News called John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s “big, splashy, funny, scary musical of a booze-soaked 1920s house-wrecker,” an “edgy masterpiece.” For more information CLICK HERE

When: 2:00pm -- 5:00pm

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

Description: Johnson’s exhibitions address exigencies of daily realities and undress the refined aesthetics of art. Some past exhibition topics include: the Haitian grass roots movement in Lavalas; homelessness in Cincinnati’s Over the Rhine neighborhood in A Dressing Room; predatory economics in just another market mop up and StOck OptiOns; hemispheric hegemonies in Democracy on Ice; unabated sowing of land mines in Spring---Let Them Keep Their Children Tethered; the Palestinian condition in Pressed: When Words Were Earth and Fleece; cultural eclipses in One Night or a Thousand Others and Cleave. For information CLICK HERE

When: 5:00pm -- 8:00pm

Where: The Averill and Bernard Leviton A + D Gallery | 619 S. Wabash Ave, 1st Floor

Description: Could it be that the Avant Garde, still the dominant discussion in new art, and the self-anointed “breaker” of cultural aesthetic rules, has been the creator of a great number of tacit laws that govern the landscape of contemporary art? What is worthy to speak about when one is making “important” art? The Object of Nostalgia contemplates the nature of “sentimentality” and its conflicted relation to contemporary art. Each of the artists represented copes with nostalgia and the condition of longing in a unique and personal way, eschewing both the cold, universalist demands of Modernism and the distanced superficiality employed by Postmodern practices in favor of personal investigation, private narratives, and the full breadth of creative tools and language available to the artist. Featuring Marlene Alt, Brian Bishop, Pamela Fraser, Dawn Gavin,Kathy High, Greg Hopkins, Erika Leppmann, Julia Lothrop, Clayton Merrell, Elaine Rutherford, and Raychael Stine. This exhibition is in conjunction with College Art Association’s Chicago Conference and a related panel discussion. See conference.collegeart.org/2010 for more info.

When: 6:00pm -- 8:00pm

Where: 600 S. Michigan, 401 C Conference Room

Description: The CEO Panel Discussion is sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Club of Columbia College. The CEO Panel allows former alumni and local businesses the opportunity to communicate with their market segment. Featured panelists include: WVON 1690 AM Radio Host Chris Base and other businesses such as Solemates Chicago Boutique, Yors Fashion and MidWest Gap Enterprise.

When: 6:00pm -- 8:00pm

Where: Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1104 S. Wabash, 2nd floor

Description: For More Information CLICK HERE http://www.colum.edu/Book_and_Paper/Lectures_Events/index.php

When: 7:00pm -- 9:00pm

Where: 731 S. Plymouth Court

Description: Vinegar Valentines and Penny Dreadfuls refer to insulting valentines and greeting cards meant to shock and offend. If you’d like to read at this event send us your work (prose, poetry, beat boxing, anything word based) about love, valentine’s day and relationships that could very well shock and offend! All submissions should be able to be read in less than six, seven minutes. Shorter is better. All submissions will also be considered for Silver Tongue’s year end print anthology. Send submissions to silvertonguecolumbia@gmail.com with the subject line “Vinegar Valentines” February’s featured reader: Jason Bredle Jason Bredle is the author of Pain Fantasy, forthcoming from Red Morning Press; Standing in Line for the Beast, winner of the 2006 New Issues Poetry Prize; A Twelve Step Guide, winner of the 2004 New Michigan Press chapbook contest; and A Pocket-Sized Map of My Heart, a self-published collaboration with Leigh Stein. Jason lives in Chicago and works at a translation agency in Evanston, Illinois. Silver Tongue is a student curated monthly reading featuring Columbia College student’s word based work. Words are great!

When: 7:00pm -- 11:00pm

Where: Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor

Description: Columbia College Chicago’s Film & Video Department with Critical Encounters: Fact & Faith presents THE GOOD (a semester of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) Is 2001: A Space Odyssey a brilliant dissertation about our dystopian future or an incomprehensible exhortation from a dyspeptic filmmaker? Is Man the missing link between the ape and the cosmos or just a monkey in the middle of an interstellar highway? Is the disaster of the Discovery mission the result of artificial intelligence gone awry? Can the same be said of the screenplay? Will our species survive or just go to HAL? Join us for our debate of galactic proportions as we take on Stanley Kubrick’s epic vision of Man’s place in the universe featuring philosophy professor Dr. Stephen (“worth going ape over!”) Asma versus Film & Video Department assistant professor and filmmaker Julian (“a monolithic mouse!”) Grant. Refereed by Film & Video associate professor and host of Talk Cinema, Ron Falzone.

When: 1:00pm -- 2:30pm

Where: Television Studio A | 600 S. Michigan Ave., room 1501

Description: Silk Road Theatre Project comes to Columbia to discuss their new play, The DNA Trail. Theatre meets science when a diverse group of playwrights each agree to take a genealogical DNA test and revisit their assumptions about identity politics and the perennial "Who am I?" question. The panel will include playwrights who are participating in this production, discussing the central issues of the play.