Community Meeting Room, Main Library

(2010, 120 min. Spanish)

For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows to never play the accursed accordion again, and embarks on one last journey to return the instrument to its rightful owner. On the way, Ignacio is followed by Fermín, a spirited teenager determined to become his apprentice. Tired of loneliness, Ignacio accepts the young man as his pupil and together they traverse the vast Colombian terrain, discovering the musical diversity of Caribbean culture. Hardened by a life of solitude, Ignacio tries to discourage Fermín from following in his footsteps, but destiny has different plans for them.

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Community Meeting Room, Main Library

(2010, 120 min. Spanish)

For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the vil... more

Jean-Marie Cottet, piano; Jean-Luc Menet, flute; Jacques Ghestem, violin; Pierre-Henri Xuereb, viola; Frédéric Baldassare, cello

A chamber group of soloists devoted to performing contemporary music, Ensemble Alternance was founded in 1983. The ensemble is particularly well known for performing such composers as Boulez, Cage, Ligeti, and Crumb and has premiered works by Philippe Hersant, Philippe Schoeller, Bruno Mantovani, Fabien Lévy, and Mark André.

Raphaël Cendo, Untitled (world premiere)

Mark André, iv 2

Philippe Leroux, ppp

Raphaël Cendo, Furia

Gérard Pesson, Mes Béatitudes

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Jean-Marie Cottet, piano; Jean-Luc Menet, flute; Jacques Ghestem, violin; Pierre-Henri Xuereb, viola; Frédéric Baldassare, cello

A chamber group of soloists devoted to performing contemporary music, Ensemble Alternance was found... more

Small Meeting Room, Main Library

The African American Literature Book Group will discuss Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham

AAL book club discusses "Gabriel's Story". A different take on the Western frontier, this tale is of a family of newly freed African Americans who are seeking refuge from the reconstructed South and the promise of land. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the second floor Reader's Services desk. Register online or by calling (847) 448-8620.

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Small Meeting Room, Main Library

The African American Literature Book Group will discuss Gabriel's Story by... more

Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Northwestern University Manuscript Librarians Benn Joseph and Jason Nargis provide a history and virtual tour of the 25,000 item comic book archive in the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections.
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Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Northwestern University Manuscript Librarians Benn Joseph and Jason Nargis provide a history and virtual tour of the 25,000 item comic book archive in the Charles... more

Artwork by Jim Lange
 www.jimlangeartgallery.com

Chicago Life Opportunities Initiative and Simply Chicago Art invite you to meet with and celebrate the passion and creativity of local artists who are following their dreams.  Tour this historic gem of a house of Joe and Patt Taylor and its priceless works of art. Mingle with local artists and people actively involved in their communities. Spend an entertaining evening partaking in an assortment of artistic talent and creative expression.  www.joetaylorart.com

Joe and Patt Taylor's | 1217 Church St. | Evanston
(at the corner of Church and Asbury)

Click here to go to our donations page to reserve your space. On that page, please enter $40 or more in the "Other" category and your spot will then be reserved for this special event.

Simply Chicago Art, showcases local gifted artists every four weeks and helps our community discover these talented individuals. www.simplychicagoart.com

Chicago Life Opportunities Initiative, a partnership between CJE SeniorLife and Mather LifeWays, helps people who are 50+ determine an action plan for "what's next",  whether it's a new career, a volunteer opportunity, or taking on a new creative challenge. CLOI also trains and connects talented older adults with non-profits to help them address the needs of their communities. www.cloi.org

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Artwork by Jim Lange
 www.jimlangeartgallery.com

Chicago Life Opportunities Initiative and Simply Chicago Art invite you to meet with and celebrate the passion ... more

Mallory Thompson, conductor

W. A. Mozart, Serenade No. 12 for Winds in C Minor

Richard Strauss, “Allerseelen”

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (arr. Ramon Ricker), Variations on “Mein junges Leben hat ein End”

Paul Hindemith, Symphony in B-flat for Band

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Mallory Thompson, conductor

W. A. Mozart, Serenade No. 12 for Winds in C Minor

Richard Strauss, “Allerseelen”

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (arr. Ramon Ricker), Variations on “Mein junges Leben hat ein End”... more

When Evanston signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement in 2006, it joined hundreds of other American cities that have pledged to ‘meet or beat’ the Kyoto Protocol by reducing GHG emissions to 7% below 1990 levels by 2012.

Citizens for a Greener Evanston (CGE) arts and culture task force. If you are unfamiliar with CGE, it is a non-profit organization made up community members working to reduce Evanston's carbon footprint.  The CGE Cultural Task Force is very excited to be planning its first event: Artists for a Greener Evanston. Through a showcase of Evanston "green" artists, CGE hopes to bring attention to Evanston's climate action plan and to promote community involvement.

The first night will play host to an opening reception while the second night will add family-oriented activities.  The showcase is sponsored by Citizens for a Greener Evanston.

Location:
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., Rm. 106

Dates:
Friday, October 15, 6:00-9:00 p.m., opening reception
Saturday, October 16, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., family-friendly green art activities.

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When Evanston signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement in 2006, it joined hundreds of other American cities that have pledged to ‘meet or beat’ the Kyoto Protocol by reducing GHG emissions to 7% below 1990 levels by ... more

Come join the Noyes Cultural Arts Center for its wonderful fall Open House.  This event will be from 3pm - 7pm.  Studios will be open to the public.  There will be live entertainment and fun for all.

Come join the Noyes Cultural Arts Center for its wonderful fall Open House.  This event will be from 3pm - 7pm.  Studios will be open to the public.  There will be live entertainment and fun for all.

Arnold Steinhardt occupies a place of honor in the classical music hall of fame as the first violinist of the legendary Guarneri String Quartet, one of the most celebrated ensembles of the last 40 years. His recent memoir Violin Dreams explores the violin in general and, in particular, his lifelong immersion in the final movement of J. S. Bach’s Second Partita for unaccompanied violin, the Chaconne. During this illuminating event, originally presented at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Steinhardt talks about the masterpiece that every aspiring violinist must study and eventually perform, in addition to discussing the history of the form and playing examples of other chaconnes that may have inspired Bach. This intimate evening will feature video projections of the score, Steinhardt’s insightful commentary, and his performance of the Chaconne, followed by a lively question-and-answer session. Steinhardt will also give a public master class (details will be posted at www.pickstaiger.org).
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Arnold Steinhardt occupies a place of honor in the classical music hall of fame as the first violinist of the legendary Guarneri String Quartet, one of the most celebrated ensembles of the last 40 years. His recent memoir Violin Dreams explo... more

dates: Saturday, October 16th and Sunday October 17th
times: 10:00am to 3:00pm each day
Instructor: Jenny Pfanenstiel, Couture Milliner
price: $170.00 per Person
3 Person Minimum

This event is a two day workshop.  Each person will learn the different types of wool for blocking.  You will learn how to wet, steam and form the wool over a hat block to make a shape of a hat.  Once dry, the hat will then be cut, hand sewn, wired and embellished.  This will truly be a hat that you will wear with pride.  All hat bodies, hat forms and wiring will be provided.  During drying time, Jenny will demonstrate how to make different types of hand made embellishments.  Though she will have other supplies with her, she would like all attendees to bring needles, thread and scissors.  In addition, please bring any buttons, feathers and broaches you may have.  Jenny will show you how you can use these to embellish your hats.

RSVP by October 9th to classes@simplychicagoart.com

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dates: Saturday, October 16th and Sunday October 17th
times: 10:00am to 3:00pm each day
Instructor: Jenny Pfanenstiel, Couture Milliner
price: $170.00 per Person
3 Person Minimum

This event is a two day workshop.  Each per... more

Celtic Ghost Stories

Celtic Ghost Stories

There’s nothing plain about the exhibit of Plains Native art and culture that will be on view from July 3 to October 17.
 
This exhibit focuses on tribes of the northern Great Plains during the period of forced removal from ancestral lands and the Reservation Period of the 1880s to the 1930s. The exhibit also touches on how traditional art is kept alive today on Plains reservations and will include contemporary Plains ledger art (created on accounting paper) and animal-hide art.

The exhibit will comprise approximately 50 historic objects from the museum’s permanent collection and on loan from private collectors, including pictorial beadwork; beaded bags, purses and moccasins; painted hide bags; clothing; quillwork; and dolls.
 
Displays will trace changes in designs, materials, and methods of Plains artists, such as the adoption of sewing machines, often introduced at boarding schools that taught industrial arts, and the cultural interplay between Natives and white settlers and traders.
 
“Dazzling Colors” takes its name from the written account of a U.S. Cavalry officer who in 1881 witnessed a Lakota Sun Dance attended by approximately 12,000 Oglala and Brulé Lakota. “Nothing could be added in the way of dazzling colors,” wrote Army Captain John Gregory Bourke.  “Calico shirts in all the bright hues of the rainbow, leggings of cloth, canvas, and buckskin, moccasins of buckskin, crusted with fine beadwork were worn by all.”
 
In a departure from most temporary exhibits at the Mitchell, “Dazzling Colors” will be mounted in themed sections, many with their own atmospheric environment. For example, visitors will view some materials by walking into a canvas replica of a tipi flanked by ledger art depicting resistance and battles in the early reservation years.  Some items will be displayed in a vignette modeled on a historic photo of a merchandise stand operated by a Native couple selling art and craftwork.
 
A computer terminal in the gallery will have an interactive program to introduce visitors to the concept of the Lakota winter count, a pictorial calendar with images representing each year’s most memorable event. Users will hear words spoken in the Lakota language when they scroll over the pictures. The winter count was used as a visual aid in retelling oral histories.
 
Among topics to be explored in the exhibit is the difference in the arts practiced by Plains Indian men and women. According to exhibit curator Laura McDowell, men created representational and narrative art, such as images and scenes documenting historical and current events or illustrating spiritual themes, and they tended to work alone. The women typically worked in groups, crafting domestic items decorated with abstract and geometrical designs.
 
“As a follow-up to the Mitchell’s recent exhibit about Pacific Northwest Coast Native peoples, it seemed appropriate to look at Native communities closer to home,” McDowell said. “This is a geographic region familiar to those who drive west on summer vacations, but the history and culture of the indigenous peoples there remain little-known to many of those passing through.”

For more information, contact the Museum at 847.475.1030 or click here to email visitorservices@mitchellmuseum.org

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There’s nothing plain about the exhibit of Plains Native art and culture that will be on view from July 3 to October 17.
 
This exhibit focuses on tribes of the northern Great Plains during the period of forced removal from ances... more

American baritone Thomas Hampson enjoys a singular career as a recitalist, opera singer, and recording artist while maintaining an active interest in teaching, research, and technology. He has performed in the world’s most important concert halls and opera houses with many of today’s most renowned singers, pianists, conductors, and orchestras. Exploring the rich repertoire of song in a wide range of idiomatic styles, languages, and periods, Hampson has won worldwide recognition for his thoughtfully researched and creatively constructed programs. He is one of the most important interpreters of German romantic song, especially the works of Schumann, Mahler, and Wolf.
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American baritone Thomas Hampson enjoys a singular career as a recitalist, opera singer, and recording artist while maintaining an active interest in teaching, research, and technology. He has performed in the world’s most important concert halls a... more

The Center for the Writing Arts is proud to announce Zakes Mda as the Visiting Writer in Residence for Fall Quarter 2010. Mda will be teaching Writing 301: The Art of Fiction for the CWA and a literature course cross-listed with the English Department.

Q&A will follow the reading, as well as a book signing by the author.

Zakes Mda is a South African writer, painter, filmmaker and music composer. He has published sixteen books, eight of which are novels and the rest collections of plays, poetry and a monograph on the theory and practice of theater-for-development. His works have been translated into 20 languages, including Catalan, Korean, Serbian, Norwegian and Italian. They have won a number of awards including the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award and designation as an American Library Association Notable Book.  His novel Cion, set in southeast Ohio, was nominated for the NAACP Image Award.  He commutes between the USA and South Africa, working as a professor of creative writing at Ohio University, as a beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, a dramaturge at the Market Theater, Johannesburg, and a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.  

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The Center for the Writing Arts is proud to announce Zakes Mda as the Visiting Writer in Residence for Fall Quarter 2010. Mda will be teaching Writing 301: The Art of Fiction for the CWA and a literature course cross-listed with the... more

A former member of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Adam Unsworth is associate professor of horn at the University of Michigan. His solo recordings demonstrate his strong versatility and musicality as a jazz musician and composer. Featuring music by Cherubini, Nurock, Sansom, Ballou, Ernste, and Thimmig, his recital will be preceded by a free master class at 5:30 p.m. in Lutkin Hall.
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A former member of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Adam Unsworth is associate professor of horn at the University of Michigan. His solo recordings demonstrate his strong versatility and musicality as a jazz musician and com... more