Events
Events
SPRING SEMESTER 2008
Jan 7-26 (J-term)
Art and Activism Class (Cradle
Project) – A+D & Cultural Studies
Wed. Jan 30
1:30-3:30, 1104 S. Wabash, Rm. 402
The African Diaspora: Looking Back
to Move Forward
Panelists will discuss the historical,
social and political trajectories of Africa and the African Diaspora.
Panelists: Dr. Glennon Graham (Columbia
College), Dr. Cadence Wynter (Columbia College), Dr. Carol Lee
(Northwestern), and Dr. Maria de Lourdes Siqueria (Brazil)
Moderator: Dr. Stephanie Shonekan
(Columbia College)
Wed. Jan 30
5-8pm, Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S.
Wabash
Goya Lopes: African Diaspora Exhibit
Opening Reception
(Artist talk at 6pm)
An exhibition presenting works of
Afro-Brazilian artist, Goya Lopes. This installation will be featured
as part of the 2008 African Heritage Celebration here at Columbia
College. The Exhibition, “The African Diaspora Experience in
Brazil” uses textiles and fabrics as the primary medium to create
the visual story of the culture and experiences of Africans
transported to Brazil during the slave trade.
Co-sponsored by the [C]Spaces and the
Department of Liberal Education
Exhibition will be open from January
30-February 29.
Wed. Feb 6
7-9pm, Ferguson Auditorium, 600 S. Michigan Ave., 1st floor
Sugar, Rum and Coke Was and Is Made with Blood!” a lecture by Bob Brown
This presentation by activist, author and scholar Bob Brown will
outline the origin, growth, development and current realty of the
sugar, rum and cola related industries and identify the industries’
major stakeholders, historically and currently. It will document the
role that the slave-trade, slavery and slave-like practices and
conditions played, and continue to play, in the sugar, rum and cola
industries’ development and continued existence, as well as its key
companies and families, and, says Brown, their “unjust enrichment by
and through this theft of land, labor and lives, this crime against
humanity.”
Thurs. Feb 7
4:30-6 PM, Ferguson Auditorium
American Apartheid: Tracing the Art, Science and Ethics of Medical Racism
Featuring, Ms. Harriet Washington, Visiting Scholar/DePaul University, medical ethicist and author,
For several hundred years, U.S. bias against black Americans in the medical sphere has reflected the political, social and economic realities of the larger culture. In addition, medical beliefs have both reflected and been fed by artistic trends, mores and practices and have been reinforced by literary movements and semantic strategies. This talk will trace some of these and indicate how this history affects today's medical-research practices. This visit and lecture is co-sponsored by the Science and Math and the Liberal Education Department and is a Critical Encounters: Poverty and Privilege Event.
Thurs. Feb 7
6-8pm, The Conaway, 1104 S. Wabash
Women in Hip Hop
Celebrating hip-hop performance and activism, the Institute will present the 3rd Annual Women in Hip-Hop on February 7, 2008. Building upon the success of previous years, the program will feature dynamic performances by socially-conscious female artists, followed by an audience discussion about women, race and gender issues in hip-hop. Headliners include Miami-based Soulflower, Detroit-based Invincible, and AquaMoon & Tha Crew, a Chicago-based womyn and youth-centered writing, performance, and artistic team. The discussion will be moderated by Jane M. Saks (Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media) and Stephanie Shonekan (Director of the Black World Studies Program, Columbia College Chicago).Co-sponsored by Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, and the Black World Studies and Women and Gender Studies Programs.
Wed. Feb 13
6:30-8:30pm, Hokin Hall, 623 S. Wabash.
War: What Is It Good For? A Forum on the Iraq War
As we approach 5 years of war and nearly 4,000 U.S. military casualties, many college students feel disillusioned by the war. This conversation will include Iraq vets, military recruiters and student organizers to discuss military recruitment, the cost of war and how war affects youth.
Thurs. Feb 14
7pm, Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash,
8th Floor
Cinema Slapdown, Round 8 Super Fly
(Gordon Parks Jr., 1972)
Screening of Super Fly followed by a
spirited debate between Film & Video faculty member Vaun Monroe
(for the defense) and English faculty member George Bailey (on the
offense). Referee'd by Ron Falzone, Film & Video faculty member
and host of Talk Cinema.
Sponsored by the Film & Video
Department and Critical Encounters
Free and open to the public. For
information call 312-344-6708
Thurs. Feb 21
6:30 - 8:30 pm, Film Row Cinema, 1104
S. Wabash
Robben Island Singers: Work in
Progress
Three ex-political prisoners from South
Africa journey from an island prison with Nelson Mandela to a musical
triumph in America. Join us for a screening/panel discussion with
special guest: Muntu Nxumalo, musical director of The Robben Island
Singers and Jeff Spitz, co-director of the international film &
concert project. Discussion will include students, panelists and
themes such as: poverty & privilege; South African heritage;
documentary filmmaking; terrorism; freedom; self representation; and
synergies with African Americans. Muntu Nxumalo was imprisoned for
13 years at Robben Island Prison where the Apartheid government
incarcerated Nelson Mandela and many others.
Mon. Feb 25
5:00-6:30pm, 623 S. Wabash, Hokin Annex
Cultural Journey Series: Reflections
on Social Identity (featuring Dr. Stephanie Shonekan)
Come hear one person’s experience
with race and ethnicity as we explore the deeper questions around our
different social identities. Come for the story. Stay for the
conversation. Refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by the Office of
Multicultural Affairs
Wed. Feb 27
1:30-3:00pm, Library, 3rd
floor
Critical Encounters Salon:
Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the
Hip-Hop Generation by Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Moore
"Moore and Hopkinson pick up
the dialogue where the mainstream media usually leaves off.... These
first-time authors created a witty examination of racial and gender
issues that draws heavily from personal experiences but also is
grounded by research and interviews with men and women who both
embody and confound the stereotypes." - Chicago Sun-Times
Salon will be facilitated by author,
Natalie Moore. Participants will include students of Introduction to
Black World Studies. Light refreshments will be served.
Thurs. Feb 28
6 – 8 pm, Concert Hall, 1014 S Michigan
Signs of Our Ideas: Dialogues about Language and Privilege
John Locke wrote, "We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves." Whether it is a Deaf person who chooses ASL instead of spoken English, a gay couple who struggles with the use of gender-specific language to describe their relationship, or a college student who is expected to use one form of language at home and another at school, people understand that language is intensely personal and deeply divisive.
This panel brings to the table members of varying language communities so they may share their experiences with language and the privilege that language provides. An opportunity for audience questions will be provided. This discussion will specifically benefit students who are engaged in any of the communication arts. Classes are encouraged to attend.
Wed. March 5
12:30-1:30pm, Library, 624 S. Michigan Avenue, 3rd floor
Public Policy Panel: "Can Arts & Culture Be Force for Social Change?"
What is the role of arts & culture in confronting/confirming public policies around poverty & privilege? Do arts & culture propagate or transform social stigmas?
Panel participants: Phillipe Ravanas (Arts management), Rob Watkins (Liberal Education), Nick Rabkin (Center for Arts Policy); Panel moderator: Sandra Allen
Thurs. March 6
12:15 pm, Conaway Center, 1104 S Wabash
Embodying Diaspora: Trancending Ideology
A student led panel discussion investigating the roots, process, and performance of Les éscailles de la mémoire (The Scales of Memory), a work by Urvan Bush Women and Compagnie JANT-BI.
Featuring: Jawole Zollar, Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women; Longa Fo Eyeoto, Assistant to Germaine Acogny of Compagnie JANT-BI; Columbia College students Anita Simmons of the Liberal Education Department’s Cultural Studies program; and Allie James and Sarah Fried of the Dance Center.
Co-sponsored by the Dance Center
Thurs. March 6
6 – 8 pm, Film Row Cinema, 1104 S Wabash
Gender, Human Rights, and Media
In honor of International Women’s Day, the Institute will present its 2nd annual program focusing on gender issues in film and media. This innovative cross-disciplinary program will introduce five leading writers, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars whose work ranges from broadcast reporting on Hurricane Katrina and South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to a film on Argentine state terrorism in the 1970s.
Moderated by Laura S. Washington (Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor in Journalism, DePaul University), the panel discussion will feature Cheryl Corley (reporter, National Public Radio), Antjie Krog (South African journalist and poet), Silvia Malagrino (visual artist/filmmaker), and Joe Richman (independent producer, National Public Radio’s Radio Diaries). Through individual presentations, media clips and discussion, the panelists will engage in a critical analysis and scholarly interpretation of the complicated role that media plays in reflecting, influencing, and finding meaning in major world events. As part of a related student component, panelists will also participate in lunchtime workshops with Columbia College students through critiques and mentorship discussions.
Sponsored by the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media
March 6-8
8pm performances, The Dance Center
Urban Bush Women/Compagnie JANT–BI
(performances 8pm)
A creative exchange between the
all-female Urban Bush Women (US) and the all-male Compagnie JANT-BI
of Senegal and their respective Artistic Directors, Jawole Zollar and
Germaine Acogny. Representing two radically different continents, the
two-year collaboration that had its genesis at The Dance Center with
extended creative development periods in Senegal and the United
States, will culminate in a piece about the importance of place and
community, urban and rural life and the diversity of the African and
the African-American experience. The unique movement vocabulary
created by mixing Acogny’s nature-inspired technique and Zollar’s
brand of contemporary dance influenced by black vernacular movement,
is a cross-cultural exchange in itself.
Fri. March 7
6 - 10 pm, Conaway Center, 1104 S Wabash
An Act of Random Kindness Organization Presents: The Cradle Project
You are invited to participate in the building of a cradle to raise awareness about orphans throughout sub-Saharan Africa. ARK will also be donating 20 care packages for homeless students at Columbia. Please bring sealed non-perishable food items for donation and found-art materials to contribute to the making of the cradle.
For more information: ark1@yahoogroups.com or thecradleproject.org
Tue. March 11
12:30-1:45pm, Ferguson Theater, 600 S.
Michigan, Rm 101
Critical Encounters Salon: Our
America: Life And Death On The South Side Of Chicago by Lealan
Jones, David Isay, and Lloyd Newman (Guest Speaker: Author, LeAlan
Jones)
This heartbreaking and inspiring book
goes a long way toward fulfilling the wish one of its authors, LeAlan
Jones, makes in his epigraph: "You must learn our America as we
must learn your America, so that, maybe, someday, we can become one."
Based on hours and hours of taped interviews that Jones and Lloyd
Newman, two high school students, conducted for two National Public
Radio documentaries they prepared in 1993 and 1995, Our America is a
no-holds-barred look at the devastatingly poor Chicago neighborhood
in which they live. It's a world where elementary school students
learn about sex and drugs before they learn how to read, and where
many boys do not expect to live to be 20. You finish the book
marveling not that so many of those who people it are trapped, but
wondering that anyone survives at all.
Sponsored by New Millennium Studies
March 10 – April 25
The Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S.
Wabash Avenue
Secrets Exhibition
Secrets is a self-organized project initiated by the 6+ women's art collective in collaboration with eight Palestinian women artists. This project and art exhibition, now being presented at Columbia College Chicago's Glass Curtain Gallery, is an attempt to develop cooperation across enormous geographic and cultural distance, to build solidarities in recognition of the interconnectedness between women artists from different cultural backgrounds.
Sponsored by [C] Spaces
Thurs. March 13
6:30-8:00pm, Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash
Ugandan Coffee Farmers: Fair Trade
An evening of dialogue with a delegation of four Ugandan coffee farmers will visit Chicago to share the story of their efforts to build peace through fair trade. These farmers—representatives of the interfaith Peace Kawomera Cooperative—will share the story of their struggle to overcome a history of religious conflict by uniting in a common effort to earn a fair price for their coffee. The delegation will include Sinina Namudosi (Muslim), Joab Jonadab Keki (Jewish), Margret Buhinizi (Catholic), and Samuel Ngugo (Anglican), and will be joined by Peace Kawomera’s fair trade buyer, importer, and long-term business partner, Thanksgiving Coffee Co. Come learn about how fair trade is helping to build peace among people of different faiths, and about the grassroots interfaith mobilization taking place across the United States in support these remarkable farmers.
In 2004, JJ Keki, a Jewish Ugandan coffee farmer, walked door to door asking his Jewish, Christian, and Muslim neighbors to put aside old differences and come together. Their community of third and fourth generation coffee farmers was struggling to make a living off the low prices offered by the local market. With the assistance of the US-based organization Kulanu, these Jewish, Christian and Muslim farmers formed a cooperative to build lasting prosperity in their villages and to spread a message of peace throughout the world. They named their coffee Mirembe Kawomera, which means, “Delicious Peace” in the Luganda language. Today, the Peace Kawomera Cooperative has grown to over 700 members. Thanks to their collective effort, the farmers are now able to sell their fair trade certified coffee directly to Thanksgiving Coffee Company, which roasts it and distributes it across the United States.
Refreshments will be served.
Co-hosted by Chicago Fair Trade, Columbia College, and the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation
Tuesday, March 18
4 – 6 pm, Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Avenue
Columbia College Amnesty International Chapter Film Screening: Film TBA
Wed. March 19
5-7pm, Glass Curtain Gallery
Secrets Exhibition Opening reception
March 24-28 (Spring Break)
Reach Out – Student group returns
to New Orleans
Tuesday, April 15
4 – 6 pm, Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Avenue
Columbia College Amnesty International Chapter Film Screening: Film TBA
Wed. April 23
5:00 pm-7:30pm, Film Row Cinema
Critical Encounters Fellows
Presentation by Ames Hawkins and Stephanie Shonekan
Hawkins will read from her project,
Still Dying Still and Shonekan will discuss and show a brief
clip of her film, Lioness of Lisabi.
April 28 - May 2
Conaway Center
Trippin: Reflections and Revelations
from Travel (Exhibition of Student Work)
Tue. April 29
5:00-6:30pm Film Row Cinema
The African American Experience in America and Africa
A conversation between George W. Haley (diplomat under several US administrations) and Allen M. Turner (Chairman, Board of Trustees).
Wed April 30
Conaway Center
Trippin: Reflections and Revelations from Travel (Live Performances)
Conversation and performances in response to the week-long exhibition.
Tuesday, May 6
4 – 6 pm, Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Avenue
Columbia College Amnesty International Chapter Film Screening: Film TBA
Wed. May 7
6-7:30pm, Chicago Cultural Center
“… and gladly teche:” Academic Labor in the Neo-Liberal Economy
Chaucer says of his Oxford clerk: “and gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.” But many scholars in this economy (70 per cent nationwide, according to New York Times figures of college teachers) have lost the privilege of leisure and must teach continuously to make a living wage. Research and creative production are put aside to keep the pot boiling. Aside from the ruthless treatment of long-term, highly educated employees who are labeled “temporary,” this approach to academic labor raises serious questions about institutional quality. Scholars, artists and activists in Chicago have formed unions to resist the efforts of local institutions to cut back the costs of higher education. A panel of scholar-activists will discuss the contexts and issues associated with contingency and the process of unionization as a step toward equity and quality in higher education.
Part-time faculty from several local institutions will be on hand to widen the discussion.
Suburban Shorts Film Screening (download pdf)
$Financial Literacy Series (download pdf)
Sept 5 - January 4, 2007
Calendar
September - November
Aug 27-Oct 12
Glass Curtain Gallery
Exhibit: Voudou Riche: Contemporary Haitian Art
Sept 15
TPAN Gala
Test Positive Awaremness Network
Sept 17, 2pm, Music Concert Hall,
“Incognito” Michael Fosberg
Sept 22-23
Oak Park Int’l Film Festival
On Saturday, September 22, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, September 23, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m,, filmmaker and Columbia College adjunct professor Stan West hosts the third Oak Park International Film Festival program including screenings and panel discussions at Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake St. The multiplicity of local films and filmmakers is an exercise in diversity itself; from a series of shorts by hot, new high school filmmakers of all stripes to clever ads by local “Mad Men” to cool cartoons by college animators to a celluloid chronicle of a local Black entrepreneur to a feature on a Latina girl searching in Mexico and the U.S. for her family to a full-length documentary featuring Oak Park adults and children in New Orleans doing post-Katrina clean up to a controversial sneak preview that we’re sworn not to reveal, even under torture. On Saturday, there will be a morning panel on “Youth and Cinema and new distribution streams.” The educational outreach connected with this seminar is inspired by “Tribeca Teaches,” a New York-based program where film professionals instruct low-income teens. On Sunday, there will be an afternoon panel on “Women in Cinema: Poverty and Privilege,” the culmination of a whole afternoon showcasing an assortment of cinema by distinguished women. This year’s festival, which kicks off a year-long “Columbia College Critical Encounters Film Series,” presents us with the opportunity to further expand conversations already begun, as well as to invite new and different aspects of civic engagement and community concerns regarding the many ideas, mythologies, beliefs, realities and cinematic responses to poverty and privilege.
http://oakparkfilm.com/Welcome.html
Mon. Sept 24
4:30-6:00pm, The Conaway
Critical Encounters Film Series
Mon. Sept 24
6:00-7:30pm, The Conaway
Voter’s Self Defense : Project Vote Smart
Tues. Sept 25
12:30-2:00pm
Dance Panel - Body Language: Inter-cultural Exchange in Choreography (Margaret Jenkins Dance company)
Wed. Sept 26
2:00-4:00pm, The Conaway
Critical Encounters Salon: Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard. Featuring author, Mawi Asgedom. When he was four years old, Asgedom's family left their war-ravaged home in Ethiopia. They spent three years in a Sudanese refugee camp before coming to the U.S. in 1983, where they were settled by World Relief in a wealthy white suburb near Chicago. He later earned a full scholarship to Harvard, where in 1999 he delivered the commencement address. His simple lyrical narrative, both wry and tender, stays true to the child's viewpoint as he grows up, taunted at school, but pretty bad and rough himself. His coming-of-age story is both darkened and enriched by the stories he hears about his parents' lives back home and by the pieces he remembers. At the center of the book is his father, a fierce family disciplinarian, once an all-powerful medical assistant at home, now reduced to a "beetle," unemployed, half-blind, raging at his dependency. Only at the very end, when Asgedom spells out the metaphor of the title, does the message overwhelm the story. What stays with you is the quiet, honest drama of a family's heartrending journey.
Facilitator: Stephanie Shonekan
Participants include: Students of “Introduction to Black World Studies” (Humanities class)
Featuring: Mawi Asgedom, author
5:30-7:30pm at the Conaway TOWN HALL MEETING, an interactive and informative meeting bringing together organizers and leaders in Chicago to discuss issues regarding the local and global implications of poverty and privilege.
Wed. Sept 26
5:30-7:30pm, The Conaway
Town Hall Meeting
Thurs. Sept 27
5:30-7:30pm, The Conaway
Screening/discussion of Poverty in Chicago, Film by Brian Schordorf
Fri. Sept 28
5:30-7:30pm, The Conaway
Screenings of Life After Katrina, Film by Columbia College Students
Thurs.- Sat. Sept 27-29
The Dance Center
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company Performance
Thurs. Oct 4
12pm-1:50; 2:20pm-3:20pm, Collins Hall (624 S. Michigan Ave., Rm 602)
Visit to Columbia College by Lief Zetterlund, Director of International Aid Services
Thurs. Oct 4
5pm, The Ferguson Auditorium (600 S. Michigan Ave.)
Science and Math Colloquium Series: Scientific Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Conflict
Dr. Alex Dehgan, Country Conservation Director, United States Agency for International Development (USAID Director)
Thurs. Oct 4
6:30pm- 10:30pm, The Ferguson Theater, 1st floor, 600 S. Michigan Ave.
“Burma Today: The Saffron Revolution” A film screening and panel discussion.
In response to current events unfolding in Burma. Two films include “Do-Ayay: Our Cause” by the Freedom Campaign; and “Burma: State of Fear” by PBS-FRONTLINE/World.
Moderator: André Foisy, M.A., (adjunct faculty and head of the Chicago chapter of the U.S. Campaign for Burma) and Dr. Nora Rowley, M.D. (Doctors Without Borders—Northwestern Burma)
Tues. Oct 9
12:30-1:30pm The Ferguson Theater
$Financial Literacy Series featuring Mellody Hobson: The Importance of Financial Literacy. Mellody is the president of Ariel Capital Management and a regular financial contributor on ABC’s “Good Morning America”
Wed. Oct 10
6:30-8:00pm, Library, Third Floor 624 S. Michigan
Critical Encounters Salon: White Privilege: Essential Readings on the other side of Racism by Paula Rothenberg
(Nicole Garneau, Tim King Dr. Bonnie Harrison)
This anthology of 16 essays and articles seeks to make whiteness visible, to analyze the nature of white privilege, and to offer suggestions for using that privilege to combat racism. An interdisciplinary collection intended to be used in a number of different courses, it covers the power of invisibility, the power of the past, the power of privilege, and the power of resistance. Each section ends with questions for thinking, writing, and discussion. No date is cited for the first edition.
Facilitators: Nicole Garneau and Tim King, Public Action for Change Today (PACT) and Dr Bonnie Harrison, a New Orleans/Katrina evacuee; professor of sociology at Kennedy King College
Participants include: students of “Making and Unmaking Whiteness” (Cultural Studies class)
Mon. Oct 15
8:00pm, Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash
Alphonso Lingis, (Creative Non-Fiction Week)
Lingis is a professor of philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. Publications include: Excesses: Eros and Culture (1984), Phenomenological Explanations (1986), Deathbound Subjectivity (1989), The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (1994), Abuses (1994), Body Modifications (2005), and The First Person Singular (2006)
Tues. October 16
7 PM Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th floor
Alex Kotlowitz (author of There Are No Children Here) for Creative Non-Fiction Week
Wed. October 17
Stand Up Against Poverty
5-6:30pm, Music Concert Hall (1014 S. Michigan Ave.)
Performance and Program marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Thurs. October 18
4-6:20pm Library, 3rd floor, 624 S. Michigan
Critical Encounters Salon: The Last Season by Christopher Moore (a play about Jackie Robinson and baseball)
The Last Season uses the backdrop of Jackie Robinson's first season in the majors to explore the impact of integration on the Negro Leagues and the professional black baseball players left behind. Interestingly, The Last Season won Columbia College's Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting in 1987 and was first produced by the Theater Department in February of 1988. Chuck Smith, artist-in-residence and the Theodore Ward Prize facilitator, will lead the salon. (Attendees include students of Erin McCarthy's History of Sports class)
Mon. October 22
6:30pm Film Row Cinema
Exclusive Pre-Screening and panel on THE REALITIES OF WAR "Lions for Lambs" (new film by Robert Redford) starring Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Derek Luke
Free; BUT TICKETS ARE LIMITED! email criticalencounters@colum.edu to reserve your seat!
Post-screening discussion: Moderated by Stan West, panelists include two generations of US army veterans...and the audience.
Tues. Oct 23
12:30-1:30pm The Ferguson Theater
$Financial Literacy Series: Martha Rohlfing presents: Identity Theft
Martha Rohlfing works in Financial Education programs in the Illinois
State Treasurer’s Office.
Mon. Oct 29
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Hokin Auditorium
The CE Film Series will showcase 'Shorts on Suburbia.' These features, ads, music videos, cartoons and documentaries were featured last month at the Oak Park International Film Festival.
Thurs. November 8
6:30PM Film Row, 1104 S. Wabash
Alan Weisman (Lecture and book signing)
Before author, Alan Weisman, wrote his NY Times best-seller, “The World Without Us” he was widely esteemed for “Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World.” Based upon Weisman’s book, The Peace Museum will share the true story of Gaviotas, a village of peace and plenty and its emergence from a dangerous barren desert, to offer hope for our discordant, polluted planet.
Tues. November 13
12:30-1:30pm The Ferguson Theater
$Financial Literacy Series featuring Judge John Squires: C.A.R.E (Credit Abuse Resistance Education)
Judge John Squires is a United States Bankruptcy Court judge for the Northeastern District of Illinois. He moderates a panel of professionals who volunteer for C.A.R.E. for this Financial Literacy event.
Mon. November 19
1:30 pm, 624 S. Michigan Room 1205
Nelson Peery
Author of “Black Fire” and “Black Radical” will be speaking to students
Wed. November 28
7:00 pm, The Court, 731 Plymouth Court
Silver Tongue
This new monthly reading series, featuring Columbia College students reading literary and language-based work kicks off with the theme of Poverty and Privilege.
To read, please email a copy of your work, your major, and class standing to Dave Snyder at dsnyder@colum.edu
Thurs. Nov 29
12:30-1:50pm Library, 3rd floor, 624 S. Michigan
Critical Encounters Salon: Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world's poor. In it he traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to fundamentally rethink the economic relationship between rich and poor, and the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding Grameen. He also provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in "putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long." The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is necessary and inspirational reading for anyone interested in economics, public policy, philanthropy, social history, and business. … In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh.
Facilitators: Rob Watkins and Douglas Mann, President, Global Business Assist the
Participants include: Students of “Politics of Poverty in Developing Countries” (Social Science class)
Thurs. Nov 29
6:30pm Film Row Cinema 1104 S. Wabash
Artist's Talk and Reception Featuring Sue Coe Hosted by Anchor Graphics and the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media
Sue Coe's website:http://www.graphicwitness.org/coe/coebio.htm
Fri. November 30
World Aids Day
World AIDS Day (observed)
11 am to 10 pm, Conaway Center, 1104 S Wabash
This day long series of events includes free HIV screening for students, Safer Sex workshops, a conversation with nationally renowned artists, and a fashion show.
11 am – Noon: Safer is Sexier Workshop (Sponsored by Howard Brown)
12:30 – 2 pm: Can Art Save Lives?
A conversation about art and activism with artist Sue Coe and poet James Thomas Stevens
2 – 3 pm: Microbicides: What, Why, and How?
A panel discussion sponsored and facilitated by Writing and Rhetoric II Service-Learning: HIV Testing Class.
3 – 4 pm: Safer is Sexier Workshop (Sponsored by Howard Brown)
6 – 10 pm: Out Loud: Art Against AIDS Fashion Show & AIDS Awareness Benefit
Produced by the students of the AEMM course: Events: Concert & Festival Production
Special Musical Performances by Verzatile and High End Trio.
Also check out live paintings, raffles, prizes, and more!
$3 admission (all proceeds will go to Pediatric AIDS Chicago)
Fri. November 30
Asphalt 2.0 Publication Release Party
1104 S. Wabash * Room 302
a screening of the film "From the Ground Up" 6 pm - 8 pm
Food and Refreshments provided
Bring your submissions for the new publication and
receive 1/2 off your copy of Asphalt 2.0!
poster (PDF)
Thur. December 6
"Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" (Musical Theatre Collective student group)
A student written musical that will serve as a fundraiser for a charity in Chicago in order to help decrease poverty.
(details to be announced)
Fri. December 7
The Peddlers Daughter
By Terrylene
7:00 pm at Conaway Center (1104 S Wabash)
What do you do when you know that who you are is unaccepted by your people?
... You tell them who you are!
The irrepressible story of a deaf girl's personal odyssey in leaning her
identity as ABC peddler's daughter who grew to embrace her language and her
culture through the Deaf community how doesn't embrace what her parents do
for a livelihood.
Thur. December 13
Critical Encounters Salon: "Class Matters" by The New York Times
2:00-3:20pm Library, 3rd Floor
In Class Matters, a team of New York Times reporters explores the ways in which class-defined as a combination of income, education, wealth, and occupation-influences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of opportunity. We meet individuals in Kentucky and Chicago who have used education to lift themselves out of poverty and others in Virginia and Washington whose lack of education holds them back. We meet an upper-middle-class family in Georgia who moves to a different town every few years, and the newly rich in Nantucket whose mega-mansions have driven out the longstanding residents. And we see how class disparities manifest themselves at the doctor's office and at the marriage altar.For anyone concerned about the future of the American dream, Class Matters is truly essential reading. 'Class Matters is a beautifully reported, deeply disturbing, portrait of a society bent out of shape by harsh inequalities. Read it and see how you fit into the problem or-better yet-the solution!'-Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch
Participants will include students of Curtis Lawrence's "Covering Urban Affairs" Journalism class.
Light refreshments will be served