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Early Childhood Education to Work With Project Head Start

CHICAGO, IL (October 6, 2008) -- The Columbia College Chicago Harris Center for Early Childhood Education (ECE), in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Children and Youth Services (CYS), has been awarded a grant in the amount of $600,000... more...

Human|Nature Programming Launches September 4

CHICAGO, IL – The relationship between humans and nature, as well as the nature of human nature is the theme of Columbia College Chicago’s third year of Critical Encounters, a campus-wide learning initiative that examines topics of serious social... more...

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Talk the Walk Gallery Tour

16 October, 2008 - A curatiorial tour of Columbia's exhibition spaces. Tour Columbia's South Loop galleries by rickshaw. Be sure to catch featured artists, curators, and/or gallery directors leading tours. This year features a special focus on the college-wide celebration of Beat culture, ... and the Beats go on. more...

Namah

17 October, 2008 - One of the few bearers of Persian dance outside of Iran where womens dancing is banned in public, Banafsheh Sayyad and the work of her company Namah, aims to express the power of ancient mysticism through a combination of hypnotic trance and directed movement. Sayyads dance language traverses cu more...

Landscape of the Body

17 October, 2008 - Its’70's Greenwich Village and there's a murderer on the loose, a cross-dressing travel agency owner and a recently dead singing story teller. In John Guare's film noir murder-mystery/comedy, nothing is at it seems, and we are left to decide for ourselves how we might come to terms with our more...

Opening Night Jack Kerouac Radio Play (Live) - The Spirit of '14

16 October, 2008 - Jack Kerouac's only radio play - The Spirit of '14 - will be performed live inside the Beat Cafe gallery space and on WCRX Radio. more...