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Columbia Students Show Off Their Week at Chicago's Fashion Focus
Date: 10/14/2008 to 11/5/2008 It’s no match for New York fashion week yet, but Chicago’s 8-day fashion fest gathered some of the city’s best designers, including many from the Columbia community, into a centralized celebration of fashion shows, shopping events, tutorials and installations.  ... read the complete entry

Seniors: Have an Opinion? Join the Manifest Student Advisory Board
Date: 10/14/2008 to 4/17/2009 Save the date Manifest Friday, May 15: We are currently looking for graduating seniors and graduate students to join the Manifest Student Advisory Board. Manifest is Columbia College Chicago's urban arts festival that celebrates the work of seniors and graduate students from every department on campus.  This annual celebration showcases the talent, celebrates the community, and engages the imagination while realizing the full potential of our students.
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Call for Work: Word 4 Text + Image
Date: 10/13/2008 2:17 PM to 11/6/2008 Calling all muralists, graffiti artists, and poster makers. The Hokin Gallery is now taking proposals for large scale wall work for the upcoming Word 4 exhibition. ... read the complete entry

Dave Anderson: Rough Beauty Exhibition
Date: 10/13/2008 to 11/30/2008 Between 2003 and 2006 Dave Anderson took over 50 trips to Vidor, Texas and photographed the town and its residents to create Dave Anderson: Rough Beauty. ... read the complete entry

Visit Nine Campus Galleries in Just One Night
Date: 10/9/2008 11:01 AM to 10/16/2008 Columbia has gallery spaces spanning over six city blocks, so how could possibly tackle them all in one night?  With this year’s Talk the Walk, you can visit nine spaces after their normal daily hours in the span of two and a half hours on a Thursday night. ... read the complete entry

Student Response to Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
Date: 10/9/2008 to 12/1/2008 [C]Spaces is presenting a student response exhibition to Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures entitled, Scavenger Response: Satellite Projects which runs September 29 – December 1, 2008 at various locations all over the campus. ... read the complete entry

Call for Work: If Artists Ran the Media
Date: 10/9/2008 to 11/14/2008 Calling all artists: We want your version of society's distorted "reality!" If Artists Ran the Media is an exhibition that presents the millennial generation's response to the often slanted and biased media outlets. We are challenging artists to critically assess the level of truth present in the information presented to them via corporate-run, gossip-laden, partisan-heavy and politically biased media sources. ... read the complete entry

Beat Cafe Multimedia Exhibition: Oct. 6 - Nov. 14
Date: 10/9/2008 to 11/14/2008 Inspired by Beat era coffee houses, the multimedia exhibition, Beat Café, showcases the radio/audio-based work of students from the Radio department at Columbia College Chicago. Exploring the social and cultural context of the Beat Movement, this exhibition makes connections from the 1950s movement to contemporary culture. ... read the complete entry

ShopColumbia's grand opening is this week!
Date: 10/8/2008 to 10/18/2008 ShopColumbia, Columbia College's student store, opens its doors to the public on Thursday, October 16 with extended hours for three days. During the grand opening weekend, enjoy refreshments and receive a free reusable shopping tote with every $20 purchase. Be the first to shop from hundreds of cool items- all student-designed! ... read the complete entry

Engage in Free Discussions Over Free Meals at Columbia’s Village Lunch
Date: 10/6/2008 to 11/12/2008 Despite or because of Columbia’s diverse community, it might be more difficult than one might think to meet with fellow students and faculty members of your own race or ethnicity. Fortunately, the monthly Village Lunch series aims to help students hoping to interact with other people of their culture.
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Conversations in the Arts Carries Out Columbia's Mission Statement
Date: 10/6/2008 to 1/27/2009 As a Columbia student, you are supposed to support and carry out the school’s mission statement.  To do this, you need to know what the mission statement is.  If you do, you get a big pat on the back from us at the Loop.  If you don’t know what it is, now is the time to learn as the school explores how it’s being carrying out the mission statement on campus for the self-study for reaccredidation. ... read the complete entry

Calendar Highlights


October 15
FOCO: National Latino Aids Awareness Program ... read more.

October 15
Lunchtime Music Series ... read more.

October 15
Critical Encounters: Bikes, Cars and the Limits of Automobility ... read more.

October 15
Preview Performance: Landscape of the Body ... read more.

October 15
Film Club Fall Screening Series: My Own Private Idaho ... read more.

October 15
Words on Wednesday: Open Mic! ... read more.

October 15
Silvertongue: The Album That Changed My Life ... read more.

October 16
The Gleaners and I: Salon Discussion ... read more.

October 16
Radio Department Presents Jack Kerouac's 'Spirit of 14' ... read more.

October 16
Scavenger Response Exhibition: Reception ... read more.

October 16
Talk the Walk Gallery Tour ... read more.

October 16
Albert P. Weisman Scholarship Exhibition Reception ... read more.

October 16
Beat Cafe Multimedia Exhibition Reception ... read more.

October 16
Tom Wolfe in conversation with Carol Marin ... read more.

October 16
Artist Lecture: Mara Barker ... read more.

October 16
Photography Department Visiting Lecture Series: Nicholas Nixon ... read more.

October 16
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Mountain Top Removal ... read more.

October 16
FOCO: "Crime Against Humanity" Play ... read more.

October 16
Silver Tongue: The Album That Changed My Life ... read more.

October 16
Preview Performance: Landscape of the Body ... read more.