Columbia College Chicago Events & Gallery Guide Fall 2011

Morgan Bennett Sequin Flower Headband

Week of February 5

ShopColumbia Artist Spotlight: Bob Morgan Bennett

Morgan Bennett Sequin Flower Headband $22.00. Photo by Rachael Lombardy. Morgan Bennett creates stunning floral headbands inspired by vintage accessories using lace, sequins and beads.

ShopColumbia, 623 S. Wabash

ShopColumbia Spotlight: Morgan Bennett

Critical Encounters: Rights, Radicals and Revolutions

February 8 - March 16

Call for Work: Critical Encounters Spring Showcase

The 2012 Critical Encounters Student Showcase will feature exhibits, screenings, and performances in all media by Columbia College Chicago students who have connected with this year’s Critical Encounters focus on Rights, Radicals + Revolutions. We seek work that examines how the arts and media provoke change in individuals, collectives, and institutions. From the spoken word to scientific intervention, we intend to provoke debate, encourage civic engagement and promote actions of social justice. The Student Showcase demonstrates how Critical Encounters has enhanced classroom curricula and the culture of the college and broader community. http://www.colum.edu/criticalencounters/call-for-work-by-students.php. Submit to Chelsea Middendorf, Critical Encounters Undergraduate Fellow http://www.criticalencounters@colum.edu

http://www.colum.edu/criticalencounters/call-for-work-by-students.php

Critical Encounters: Rights, Radicals, & Revolutions

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

Mary Mitchell

February 15, 12 p.m.

African Heritage Month Celebration: Cultural Journey – Mary Mitchell

Columbia College Chicago journalism alum Mary A. Mitchell is an editorial board member and award-winning columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Mitchell’s columns continually raise community awareness about important advocacy issues, including criminal justice, police misconduct, and race relations. Mitchell’s reporting has led state legislators to strengthen laws protecting the rights of women and children while rallying African American readers to empower their communities by promoting education and by protecting the most vulnerable members of our society -- our children and our elderly. http://www.colum.edu/Students/Multicultural_Affairs//index.php

Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan, 2nd floor

Multicultural Affairs Events

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

Operation Sidewinder

February 15 – 25

Operation Sidewinder

Written by Sam Shepard Directed by Jeff Ginsberg -- An adventure story, a political satire, a pop-art “smash up,” this play with music points up the dehumanizing effects of technology on American culture, circa 1970. A sophisticated Air Force computer in the form of a huge snake escapes in the Mojave Desert, becoming the focus of a multitude of forces -- a black militants, a hapless young tourist couple, the military establishment that tries to recapture the sidewinder -- against a backdrop of Hopi Indian magic and mysticism. A cartoon with a rock score from the early ‘70’s and a cautionary tale for now. Ticket reservations: by phone 312-369-6126 On-line: columbiatickets@colum.edu

Getz Theatre, 72 East 11th Street

Theatre Department

Mahmoud Saeed

February 16, 6 p.m.

A Conversation with Iraqi Novelist Mahmoud Saeed

Mahmoud Saeed is an exiled Iraqi novelist living in Chicago who was imprisoned under Saddam Hussein for his writings, including his novel Saddam City (2004) which depicts the fear and despair of a Baghdad schoolteacher as he is shuttled from prison to prison after his arrest. Saeed will discuss his latest novel, The World Through the Eyes of Angels, published by Syracuse University Press. A richly textured portrayal of Iraqi society before the upheavals of the late twentieth century, Saeed’s novel depicts a sensitive and loving child living in 1940s Mosul, Iraq—a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ancient souks and alleyways. Assailed by the cruelty of life, the boy is sometimes defeated, but never surrenders, sustained by his city and its people.

Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Avenue, 2nd floor

Critical Encounters: Rights, Radicals, & Revolutions