2014 Spring Arts Guide

SPRING 2014 ARTS & CULTURE GUIDE

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CONTENTS The University of Chicago is a destination where artists, scholars, students, and audiences converge and create. Explore our theaters, performance spaces, museums and galleries, academic programs, cultural initiatives, and more.

This illustrated portrait of the late Studs Terkel was commissioned by UChicago Arts on the occasion of Let’s Get Working: Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel (May 9-11), a three-day festival celebrating the life, work, and influence of the Chicago legend and UChicago alumnus.

Find out more about the festival at studs.uchicago.edu.

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SPEND A DAY IF YOU HAVE 1 HOUR The Oriental Institute 1155 East 58th St (at S University Ave) oi.uchicago.edu Founded in 1919, this research institution and museum has one of the world’s few comprehensive collections of artifacts from the entire ancient Middle East, with most of the artifacts having been excavated by UChicago archaeologists. Highlights include monumental sculpture, mummies, and some of the world’s earliest written records.

Admission is free with a suggested donation of $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. The Suq, a cool and reasonably priced gift shop, is in the lobby.

Seminary Co-op Bookstore McGiffert House, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave semcoop.com The legendary Sem Co-op, which opened over 50 years ago as an independent bookstore on the UChicago campus, is a centerpiece of Hyde Park’s intellectual and cultural life. The bookstore recently moved from the labyrinthine stacks in the basement of the former Chicago Theological Seminary to a new space next door to the Robie House designed by Stanley Tigerman and Margaret McCurry architects.

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IF YOU HAVE 4 HOURS The Renaissance Society Cobb Hall 418, 5811 S Ellis Ave, fourth floor (at E 58th St) renaissancesociety.org Founded in 1915, the world-renowned Renaissance Society is a leading-edge, non-collecting museum focused on exhibitions, publications, and programs. The Ren is open from noon to 5 pm, Tuesday through Sunday.

Admission is free.

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On any given day in our bustling creative community, you can find a number of live performances, concerts, lectures, exhibits, and more. Here are some of our favorite recommendations if you have a few hours to spare. For a full calendar of cultural events visit arts.uchicago.edu/events.

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 S Woodlawn Ave (at E 59th St) rockefeller.uchicago.edu/events With Gothic grandeur and outstanding acoustics, Rockefeller is host to ceremonies, theater, orchestral performances, chorus groups, and concerts. Oh, and circus acts. Visit Rockefeller Chapel’s website for information on daily Carillon tours. >>DID YOU KNOW? The Carillon at Rockefeller Chapel, comprised of 72 bells and 100 tons of bronze, is the single largest musical instrument ever built.

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E 60th St (at S Drexel Ave) logancenter.uchicago.edu The Logan Center, a hub for the robust arts scene on campus, is a venue for exhibitions, performances, films, classrooms, studios, and more. With a screening room, black box theater, practice studios, gallery spaces, a 474-seat performance hall, and a multipurpose penthouse space, it’s easy to get inspired here. >>TIP Visit Logan’s box office for tickets and information related to campus-wide performances and events. >>FOOD Visit Café Logan for lunch or dinner, featuring an eclectic menu including wraps, sandwiches, salads, and small plates. Beverages include wine and craft beer, as well as coffee and espresso from one of our favorite local roasters Counter Culture.

IF YOU HAVE 8 HOURS Arts Incubator in Washington Park 301 E Garfield Blvd (at Prairie Ave) arts.uchicago.edu/artsandpubliclife/ai Envisioned by artist Theaster Gates, the Arts Incubator is a space for artist residencies, arts education, community-based arts projects, exhibitions, performances, and talks. The renovated 1920s building is part of the University of Chicago’s Arts + Public Life initiative.

WHILE YOU’RE ON THE CULTURE COAST… Visit other arts and cultural organizations on the Culture Coast—a collection of artistically vibrant neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side. Go to culturecoast.org to find out what’s happening on the Culture Coast or check out a few cultural locations near the UChicago campus.

M.BUTTERFLY A10 1462 E 53rd St (at Harper Ave) a10hydepark.com The newest restaurant venture by well-known chef Mattias Merges, A10 offers an updated cuisine of the French Riviera ranging from more adventurous fare like wood-fired snails to classic steak and pasta dishes.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House 5757 S Woodlawn Ave (at E 58th St) gowright.org/visit/robie-house The purest expression of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style architecture, Robie House was completed in 1910. The Robie House is considered one of the most important buildings in the history of American architecture. Public tours are available Thursday through Monday. Advance tickets are highly recommended.

Smart Museum of Art 5550 S Greenwood Ave (at E 56th St) smartmuseum.uchicago.edu As part of UChicago, the Smart Museum of Art takes a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to the collection, display, and interpretation of art. Founded in 1974, Smart is home to acclaimed special exhibitions and a permanent collection that spans 5,000 years of artistic creation. The museum hosts diverse shows and exhibitions. Admission is free. >>FOOD Stop by the Smart Café for a coffee and snack. The regular menu includes vegan chili, sandwiches, assorted tofu and veggie dishes, and baked goods.

Doc Films Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E 59th St (at S Woodlawn Ave) docfilms.uchicago.edu The longest continually running university film society in the nation, Doc Films shows movies every night at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall. There’s a different theme each day of the week.

Black Cinema House 6901 S Dorchester Ave blackcinemahouse.org

Little Black Pearl 1060 E 47th St blackpearl.org

DuSable Museum of African American History 740 E 56th Place dusablemuseum.org

Museum of Science and Industry 5700 S Lake Shore Dr msichicago.org

Experimental Station 6100 S Blackstone Ave experimentalstation.org

South Side Community Art Center 3831 S Michigan Ave southsidecommunityartcenter.com

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House 5757 S Woodlawn Ave gowright.org Hyde Park Art Center 5030 S Cornell Ave hydeparkart.org

South Shore Cultural Center 7059 S South Shore Dr chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/ South-Shore-Cultural-Center

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Exhibitions & Visual Arts Building Ideas: A Selection Ongoing Harper Court, 5235 S Harper Court, Lobby For more than a century, the University of Chicago has been making and remaking itself as a global intellectual epicenter; its striking architectural collection has kept pace. Photographer Tom Rossiter captures the campus in its variegated, vital life.

Building Ideas: A Selection is presented in conjunction with the publication of Building Ideas: An Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago, by Jay Pridmore with photographs by Tom Rossiter. Free.

Presented by Clayco and Forum Studio as part of its “Art & Science” series.

Michael Rakowitz: The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist Through May 25 Oriental Institute Museum This installation unfolds as an intricate narrative about the artifacts stolen from the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, in the aftermath of the US invasion of April 2003; the current status of their whereabouts; and the series of events surrounding the invasion, the plundering, and related protagonists. The centerpiece of the project is an ongoing series of sculptures that represent an attempt to reconstruct looted and stolen archaeological artifacts. Free, donations requested.

Presented by the Oriental Institute Museum.

Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture Through Jun 15 Smart Museum of Art During the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties, opera lay at the heart of Chinese social and ritual life, from the village to the court, and the spectacle of theater was enjoyed not only on the stage—in costumes, props, and face painting—but also across the full spectrum of Chinese visual culture, from scroll paintings to popular prints.

This one-of-a-kind exhibition showcases

how operatic characters and stories were represented in a wide array of media.

Featuring approximately 80 remarkable and rarely seen objects, the exhibition reveals how Chinese visual and performing traditions were aesthetically, ritually, and commercially intertwined.

Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.

Inspired by the Opera: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video Through Jun 15 Smart Museum of Art Since the mid 1990s, a number of Chinese artists have incorporated the visual vocabulary of Chinese opera into new art forms. This concise exhibition reveals the continued relevance of opera, both within contemporary Chinese society and within the experimental work of individual artists Liu Zheng, Chen Qiulin, Liu Wei, and Cui Xiuwen. Together, the works help illuminate the relationship between contemporary art and China’s cultural heritage. Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Women’s Work: Scholarship by Women at UChicago Through Jun 16 Regenstein Library The careers of selected past and present University of Chicago women composers, philosophers, and scholars are presented in this group of coordinated mini-exhibits throughout the Regenstein Library.

2nd floor: Academic Activism: Insights from the Social Sciences 3rd floor: Three Women Composers 4th floor: Women and Philosophy at the University of Chicago 5th floor: Maureen L. P. Patterson: Bibliographer, Scholar, Spy Free.

Presented by the University of Chicago Library as part of University’s UChicago’s celebration of International Women’s Day.

Silk Road and Indian Ocean Traders: Connecting China and the Middle East Through Jun 29 Oriental Institute Museum This mini-exhibit uses the Oriental Institute’s collections to highlight trade connections over land and sea between China and the Middle East, primarily the Silk Road trade route and Indian Ocean maritime trade.

It focuses on Chinese ceramics found in archaeological excavations throughout the Middle East, and shows how Chinese inventions inspired craft traditions in the Middle East, particularly the production of silk and paper. Free, donations requested.

Presented by the Oriental Institute Museum.

Judy Ledgerwood: Chromatic Patterns for the Smart Museum Through spring 2015 Smart Museum of Art Chicago-based artist Judy Ledgerwood’s immense, site-specific wall painting is comprised of horizontal bands of boldly colored patterns—blue with bronze, fluorescent red with mint green, spring green with copper—that run across the central wall of the Smart’s lobby. Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.

In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East Apr 8–Jan 4, 2015 Oriental Institute Museum All cultures across time have tried to honor and commemorate their dead. This exhibit

Neighborhoods: The Measure and Meaning of an Urban Ideal April 9–27 Closing Reception Sun Apr 27, 4pm Gray Center Lab As part of the 2014 Urban Forums, the Urban Network will host an exhibition curated by Emily Talen, Visiting Professor, Committee on Geographical Studies, UChicago and Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University. The exhibit

Imaging/Imagining the Human Body in Anatomical Representation Through Jun 20 Imaging/Imagining: The Body as Text Special Collections Research Center Imaging/Imagining: The Body as Art Smart Museum of Art Imaging/Imagining: The Body as Data John Crerar Library A multi-venue exhibition curated by two UChicago physicians explores the history of anatomical representation and the evolving relationship between the arts and medical science. The exhibition includes over 60 works in a variety of media—drawings, rare manuscripts, sculptures, engravings, and radiographic images—dating from the Renaissance to today. It features both imaginative depictions of the human figure made by artists as well as scientific images of the body, and traces the interplay of artistic and medical imaging throughout history. Find related events in the Visual Arts Events and Family sections of this guide. Free.

Presented by The John Crerar Library, the Special Collections Research Center, and the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with the UChicago Arts|Science Initiative.

will include mapped representations of individual neighborhoods, citywide maps of neighborhood delineation, and neighborhood design. Open during events and gallery hours. For more info and exhibition hours, visit graycenter.uchicago.edu. Free.

Presented by the Urban Network.

Dancing for My Tribe: Potawatomi Tradition in Modern Times Apr 20–May 16 Rockefeller Chapel The Chapel’s latest exhibit features a photographic installation by Sharon A. Hoogstraten, a photographer and tribal member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

Photographic portrait project of Potawatomi Indians in regalia is the story of wholly modern people (originally inhabitants of the Great Lakes region) preserving the traditional dress of their ancestors whilst also relating it to contemporary living. Indian regalia is not a re-enactment or artifact of the past, but uniquely created design informing their future. Hoogstraten strips away all distractions, maximizes detail, and creates a look reminiscent of the Indian Country studio postcards of a century ago.

This presentation of faces, stories, and regalia of modern Potawatomis contributes to the understanding of their transformed place in the diverse life of America. Free.

Presented by Rockefeller Chapel and Spiritual Life.

Christina Mackie Apr 27–Jun 29 The Renaissance Society Best known for multi-layered sculptural installations investigating notions of human technologies in relation to the natural world, Canadian artist Christina Mackie builds these works using a diverse selection of sources. The final pieces often take the form of sculptural tableaux, extrapolated from prolonged engagement and interrogation of her chosen material.

Her practice references a research-driven scientific process, experimenting with organic matter such as raw pigment, clay, and sand, and how these elements react under varied constraints. Mackie will develop an entirely new installation for the exhibition. This project is collaboratively curated by Solveig Øvstebø and Hamza Walker. Free.

Presented by The Renaissance Society.

EVENTS Lunchtime Traveler Series—A New Standard: Measures and Weights Thu, Apr 3, 12:15–1pm Oriental Institute Museum Join Lindsey Weglarz, PhD candidate in Egyptian archaeology, in the Mesopotamian Gallery for a conversation about the Mesopotamian system of measures and weights.

Free. Sponsored by MetroPro Realty.

2014 MFA and BA Thesis Exhibitions The Department of Visual Arts and Logan Center Exhibitions present three exhibitions and related events featuring the work of graduating UChicago student artists. All exhibitions and events are free.

Funeral for Ortolan Exhibition: Apr 11–May 9 Reception: Sat, Apr 12, 6pm Logan Center Gallery MFA thesis exhibition featuring dado, Danny Volk, Tucker Rae-Grant, Jinn Bronwen Lee, and Ramyar Vala. See page 10 for a full listing for dado’s workshop performance of Little Match Girl Passion, May 3–4, 8pm, in the Gray Center Lab. Tina Exhibition: May 16–23 Reception: Fri, May 16, 6pm Logan Center Gallery MFA thesis exhibition featuring Sophia Rhee and Nick Raffel.

33% more free Exhibition: May 29–June 15 Reception: Fri, Jun 13, 6pm Logan Center Gallery BA thesis exhibition featuring Valia O’Donnell, Alex Gordon, Sarah Manocherian, Jane Fentress, Ryan Ho, Adam Dunlavy, Nicole Cherry, and Lida Wu. Gallery Walk-Through—Teen Paranormal Romance Sat, Apr 5, 12pm The Renaissance Society Teen Paranormal Romance exhibition curator Hamza Walker leads a walk-through of the exhibition. Free.

Presented by The Renaissance Society.

Panel Discussion: The Art and Science of Urbanism Thu, Apr 10, 5pm Gray Center Lab The perspective of art and the methods of science can seem worlds apart, but both are critical to the making and imagining of cities today. This panel, presented as part of the Urban Network’s Neighborhoods exhibition at the Gray Center Lab, brings together scholars and professionals for conversation about the intersection of science, the arts, and urban design. The panel will feature Julie Burros, Director of Cultural Planning for the City of Chicago,

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Teen Paranormal Romance Through Apr 13 The Renaissance Society Within popular culture, expression given to adolescent drives has only intensified as the genre of Teen Romance has been distilled and repackaged as Teen Paranormal Romance. Twilight, The Hunger Games, True Blood, and the Divergent Trilogy are also dystopic, psychosexual cyphers for the panoply of Obama-era ideological positions from revanchist religious, economic, and sexual politics to Libertarian fever-dream apocalypticism.

This exhibition samples artistic production in the wake of a zeitgeist that has rendered the unconscious a derelict playground home to weeds of surrealism. Free.

Presented by The Renaissance Society.

shows how the living cared for the dead and how the ancients conceptualized the idea of the human soul in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant. The show is built around two themes: the offering of food and drink on regular occasions to nourish the dead in the afterlife, and the use of two or three-dimensional effigies of the dead, often made of stone, to preserve their memory and to provide a means of interaction between the living and the dead. The exhibit is motivated by the discovery of an inscribed funerary monument by the Oriental Institute’s Neubauer Expedition to Zincirli, Turkey, in 2008. Free, donations requested.

Presented by the Oriental Institute Museum.

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and the essay collection Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want. He plays bass and sings in La Stampa. His new collection of writings, Cookie!, was released this year. Free.

Presented by Open Practice Committee.

Symposium: Chinese Opera in Visual and Material Culture Thu–Sat, Apr 10–12 Multiple locations Scholars from the fields of literature, art history, and history will explore the impact of Chinese opera on visual and material culture during the late imperial and early Republican period (roughly 17th to early 20th centuries).

Keynote: “Performance and the Spectacular in Ming Painting” Thu, Apr 10, 6pm Cochrane-Woods Art Center, room 157 Symposium on Chinese opera opens with a keynote address by Craig Clunas, professor of the history of art, Oxford.

Free. Presented by the Center for East Asian Studies, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Logan Center, and Smart Museum of Art. architect Brett Cochrane, and Mark Bouman, Chicago Region Program Director, the Field Museum. Free.

Presented by the Urban Network, the Arts|Science Initiative, and the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

Jennifer Roberts: Scale, Matter, and Meaning: Sizing up Maps Fri, Apr 11, 4:30–6:30pm Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Rm 157 In Scale, Matter, and Meaning, awardwinning art historian Jennifer Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, returns to the question of the material intelligence —and material beauty—of early American images such as the 18th century composite map, drawn by Henry Popple, of the French and British colonies of the period. Roberts explores the implications of material scale for the practice of cartography and the production of meaning in our visual lives Free.

Presented by the Object Cultures Project at 3CT. Talk: Jan Verwoert Tue, Apr 15, 1:30pm Logan Center, Rm 603 Jan Verwoert is a Berlin-based critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory, as well as a contributing editor of frieze magazine. He teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, the de Appel curatorial programme and the Ha’Midrasha School of Art, Tel Aviv. He is the author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous

Gallery Talk: Death and Taxes in Ancient Egypt Wed, Apr 16, 12:15–1pm Oriental Institute Museum In ancient Egypt, as today, the state tried to make taxes as unavoidable as death.

Those who tried to evade their taxes risked corporal punishment and imprisonment.

Join Brian Muhs, PhD, associate professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute, as he explores this subject using artifacts in the Joseph and Mary Grimshaw Egyptian Gallery. Free.

Emerging Scholars Lecture: Adrienne Brown Wed, Apr 16, 5pm Gray Center Lab Join the Urban Network for a talk by Adrienne Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of English, at UChicago, as part of the Urban Network’s Emerging Scholars Lecture Series. This lecture will take place in the Urban Network’s Neighborhoods exhibit. For more info, visit graycenter.uchicago.edu. Free.

Presented by the Urban Network.

The Body in 3D Thu, Apr 17, 3–5pm Crerar Library, Kathleen A. Zar Room (5730 S Ellis Ave) Drop by Crerar Library and watch a 3D video tour of the human body including the brain and other internal organs. Using images captured with contemporary medical scanning technologies this looping film will run every 5-10 minutes. 3D glasses will be provided. Part of the multi-venue Imaging/Imagining exhibition. Free.

Presented by The John Crerar Library, the Special Collections Research Center, and the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with the UChicago Arts|Science Initiative.

Lecture: “Seeing Into and Seeing Through: The Promise and Peril of Imaging” Thu, Apr 17, 5pm Regenstein Library, Rm 122 (1100 E 57th St) Dr. Richard B. Gunderman, author of X-Ray Vision: The Evolution of Medical Imaging and its Human Significance, will explore the Imaging/Imagining exhibition’s themes.

Dr. Gunderman is Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, and Vice Chair of Radiology at Indiana University.

Free.

Presented by The John Crerar Library, the Special Collections Research Center, and the Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with the UChicago Arts|Science Initiative.

Third Thursday: How to Draw Hands Thu, Apr 17, 5:30–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art The human hand is notoriously hard to draw. Get inspired by drawings in the exhibition Imaging/Imagining and then learn some tricks and techniques during a fun and supportive sketching session. All materials provided. Open to adults of all skill levels. Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Ground To Gallery Series: The Secret Life of Museum Objects Saturdays, Apr 26, May 10, and 24, 1–4pm Oriental Institute Museum Come join Oriental Institute faculty and staff for one or more sessions in this unique three-session series as we examine the living histories of selected objects in the Oriental Institute Museum collections. Visit oi.uchicago.edu/order/classes to register.

Members $45/session, $130/series; Nonmembers $50/session, $145/series.

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Hittite Plaque, Megiddo, Session I Sat, Apr 26, 1–4pm Join Theo van den Hout, PhD, Professor of Hittite and Anatolian languages, Oriental Institute, to learn about one ancient ivory plaque’s journey from Anatolia (modern Turkey) to Megiddo (Israel) and finally to Chicago’s Oriental Institute. Visit the Hittite Dictionary Project’s office to discover more of the OI’s groundbreaking work on ancient Anatolian history, language, and culture.

Serving Statuettes from the Tomb of Nykauinpu, Giza, Egypt, Session II Sat, May 10, 1–4pm Explore the evolution and function of Egyptian serving statues with Megaera Lorenz, PhD candidate in Egyptology, UChicago. Learn how Egyptologists reconstruct the histories of objects whose archaeological contexts are lost, and get a glimpse into the early history of the Oriental Institute’s Egyptology collection.

Mining the Nubian Gallery, Session III Sat, May 24, 1–4pm Join archaeologist and anthropologist Debora Heard, PhD candidate in anthropology, UChicago, for an in-depth look at objects from the Oriental Institute’s Robert F. Picken Family Nubia Gallery.

Explore the Oriental Institute’s ongoing work in the study and conservation of ancient Sudan’s archaeological heritage.

Artist’s Reception—Dancing for My Tribe: Potawatomi Tradition in Modern Times Sun, Apr 27, 12:30–3pm Rockefeller Chapel Reception for artist Sharon A. Hoogstraten, photographer and tribal member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation, whose portraits of Potawatomi Indians in regalia is on display

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Lunchtime Traveler Series—Silk Road and Indian Ocean Traders: Connecting China and the Middle East Thu, May 1, 12:15–1pm Oriental Institute Museum Join Tasha Vorderstrasse, research associate at the Oriental Institute, as she examines the history of the trade between China and the Middle East. Free.

Sponsored by MetroPro Realty.

Workshop Performance of Little Match Girl Passion Sat–Sun, May 3–4, 8pm Gray Center Lab Department of Visual Arts graduate student dado and Alex Monroe, (NU MM Percussion Performance and Literature 2012) have taken the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning score

by David Lang and created a hybridized workshop performance that incorporates multiplicitous visual art platforms, including live music, theater, movement, nontraditional musical forms, sculpture, and performative installations. The score contains eerie pluralisms that give the work an integral and accessible transience, also an empathic yet abstracted reach into a suffering that is perhaps intrinsically embedded in all of us. It is conceived as a migratory effort, workshopped at UChicago in such a way that it can be moved to other sites and venues in the Chicago area. Free.

Presented by the Department of Visual Arts, Logan Center Exhibitions, and the Arts|Science Initiative.

Symposium: In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East Sun, May 4, 1–6pm Oriental Institute Museum This free, half-day symposium will be held in conjunction with the special exhibit, In Remembrance of Me. The symposium will highlight a recent discovery by the Neubauer Expedition to Zincirli, Turkey, that has revealed new information about the care and commemoration of the dead in the Iron Age Near East. Experts in ancient Near Eastern religion will come together to describe the significance of the Katumuwa Stele and to place its mortuary beliefs and practices into the broader context of the contemporary biblical world and neighboring cultures in Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Reception to follow. Visit oi.uchicago. edu/order/classes to register. Free.

From Alexander to Cleopatra: Art of the Hellenistic World Saturdays, May 10–Jun 21 (no class May 24), 10:30am–12:30pm Oriental Institute Museum and Art Institute of Chicago The ancient Mediterranean world in the

period from Alexander the Great to the Queen Cleopatra VII seems in some ways to be close to our own civilization.

It was characterized by internationalism, sprawling cities with ethnically diverse populations, a vibrant variety of cultural values and religious practices, and even nostalgia for the past. This six-week course examines Hellenistic art through these themes of cross-cultural inspiration, the iconography of rulership, and the influence of religious practices on visual culture. Visit oi.uchicago.edu/order/classes to register (by May 8). $175 OI and AIC members; $245/non-members.

Talk: Josephine Halvorson Mon, May 12, 5pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Josephine Halvorson received her BFA from The Cooper Union, her MFA from Columbia University, and attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music. Halvorson is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a Fulbright Fellowship to Vienna, Austria (2003-4). Halvorson’s work is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York and upcoming exhibitions include Perceiving Place at Alfred University, Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting at the School of Visual Arts, and Americana at Hunter College. Free.

Presented by Open Practice Committee.

Chicago Humanities Forum: Jessica Stockholder on “Parallel Parking” Wed, May 14, 5:15–6pm Gleacher Center, Rm 621 (450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr) Stockholder works at the intersection of painting with sculpture, orchestrating a convergence of pictorial and physical experience, probing how meaning derives from physicality. As part of the Chicago Humanities Forum, a series of free public talks by renowned University scholars, Stockholder will share some of her recent work and discuss the complex relationship between words, visual art, and significance. Stockholder is the Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Visual Arts. Free, RSVP (by May 9): 773.702.8274 or franke-humanities@ uchicago.edu.

Presented by the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Salvage: A conference / conversation / caucus on behalf of the act and the art of salvage Thu, May 15 University of Chicago What happens when art is damaged or loses its aesthetic, financial, and/or social value? ‘Salvage art’ is an insurance industry term used to describe artworks that have been officially declared devoid of value. If the act of salvaging can be considered an act of disobedience—an

effort to disrupt the “laws” of obsolescence, disposability, and decay—then how does it help us to re-imagine our contemporary regimes of value? Participants include: Elka Krajewska (Director, The Salvage Art Institute), Richard Tuttle (Artist), Ian Bogost (Professor, Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology), Christine Mehring (Professor, Art History, UChicago), Bill Brown (Professor, English and Visual Arts, UChicago), and Patrick Jagoda (Assistant Professor, English, UChicago).

Free.

Presented by 3CT’s Object Cultures Project, the Neubauer Institute, and the Open Practice Committee.

Third Thursday: Drawing the Body with the Body Thu, May 15, 5:30–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art Drop by the Smart for a special sketching program focused on gesture drawing. The evening also features a dance performance

by Shirley Mordine Dance Company. All materials provided. Open to adults of all skill levels. Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.

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Object/Subjective Fri, May 16, 12pm Smart Museum of Art Maud Lavin, Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is joined by artist Zachary Cahill as they discuss Cahill’s project USSA 2012 Wellness Center-Idyllic, affair of the heart.

Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Lecture: Christian Scheidemann Mon, May 19, 5–6:30pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse A leading conservator of contemporary art, New York-based Christian Scheidemann, also a 2013–14 Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow, has built his expertise on art made from non-traditional materials. As a part of the two-year Neubauer Collegium project, Material Matters, Scheidemann will visit the UChicago for a series of engagements with a growing number of local scholars interested in the materials of modern and contemporary art. Free.

Presented by the Open Practice Committee and cosponsored by the Department of Art History, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, and the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

XU WEIXIN Discusses the Art and Politics of China Thu, Jun 4, 6pm Logan Center, Screening Room As part of a larger exchange between the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago and Renmin University of China, Artist, Executive Dean, and Professor the School of Arts at Renmin University of China will discuss the intersections of art and politics

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in China since the Communist Revolution of 1949. Free. Presented by the Departments Visual Arts, Logan Center Exhibitions.

Lunchtime Traveler Series––What Can the Demotic Contracts from Hawara Tell Us about Egyptian Society?

Thu, Jun 5, 12:15–1pm Oriental Institute Museum Join Janet H. Johnson, Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Egyptology, in the Egyptian Gallery for a discussion of the social, cultural, and legal implications for women in ancient Egyptian society. Free.

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At the Threshold Thu, Jun 5, 5–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art Drop by the Smart for an evening of creative drinks and conversation. Fueled by a small menu of handcrafted drinks, creative interventions organized by artist and interpreter in residence Matt Austin, and musical performances, this social hour provides common ground for lively conversation surrounding art, culture, and ideas. Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Curator Tour: Performing Images Sat, Jun 7, 12pm Smart Museum of Art Explore Performing Images and the rich visual culture of Chinese opera with exhibition co-curators Judith Zeitlin, Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, and Yuhang Li, assistant professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Visit smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/calendar/ register to register. Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.

Epic Wednesday: Mesopotamians, Those Fantastic Foodies Wed, Jun 11, 5–8pm Oriental Institute Museum Want to make your mid-week epic? Join us as we celebrate feasting in the ancient world and our new special exhibit. This new 21+ evening event offers visitors an alternative opportunity to experience the museum with unique entertainment and engaging activities that connect visitors with the collections and research of the OI. This program is in collaboration with Atorina Zomaya and the Assyrian Kitchen, a Chicago-based interactive cooking project (assyriankitchen.com). Students and members $12; non-members $15; groups of 5 or more in advance $10.

Talk: Matthew Jesse Jackson Mon, Jun 2, 5pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Matthew Jesse Jackson teaches in the Departments of Art History and Visual Arts at UChicago. He is the author of essays and reviews in Artforum and October, as well as the books The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes and Vision and Communism. He has also co-curated Our Literal Speed performances and exhibitions at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, the Art Institute of Chicago, Princeton University, as well as the exhibition Vision and Communism at the Smart Museum of Art at UChicago. He will discuss his new projects. Free.

Presented by Open Practice Committee and the Department of Visual Arts.

EXPO Chicago Panel on South Asian Art in Chicago Mon, Jun 16, 6pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse EXPO Chicago, leading experts, curators and gallerists in conversation on the current trends in South Asian Art in Chicago to be hosted as part of the Eye on India Festival.

Free.

Presented by EXPO Chicago and the Logan Center.

Third Thursday: Wild Wallpapers Thu, Jun 19, 5:30–7:30pm Smart Museum of Art Design a super-charged room for your house or apartment with colorful handmade wallpaper. Using cues from Judy Ledgerwood’s massive Chromatic Patterns painting in the Smart’s lobby, paint and print gorgeous crackpot wallpaper patterns to enliven any space.

All materials provided. Open to adults of all skill levels. Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Graceland Cemetery Walk Sat, Jun 21, 10am–1pm Graceland Cemetery (4001 N Clark St, meet at the cemetery in front of the office) Since the 19th century, Egyptomania—a craze of interest in ancient Egyptian art, architecture, and culture—has influenced many architectural designs, including several funerary monuments in Graceland Cemetery on the north side of Chicago. Meet Egyptologist Michael Berger for a two-hour walk at Graceland Cemetery to explore obelisks, mausolea, even a pyramid, and other Egyptianstyle grave markers. After the walk, dine at Deleece Restaurant for a feast and engaging conversation. Visit oi.uchicago. edu/order/classes to register (by June 17). $40/members; $50/non-members (includes lunch).

Old as Mud: Hand-building Pottery Techniques from the Ancient Middle East Fridays, Jun 27–Aug 1, 1–3:30pm Oriental Institute Museum and Hyde Park Art Center What is nearly as old as mud? The human desire to play in the mud and form it into useful and symbolic objects for daily life. In this five-week studio course, learn ceramic hand-building techniques that have been used for thousands of years. On June 27 meet at the OI for a tour of the museum and examine archaeological artifacts that were made using the techniques taught in this course. The remaining class sessions meet at the Hyde Park Art Center, where students learn and try their hand at the various clay hand-building techniques seen in the galleries at the museum.

Register at hydeparkart.org/classes. $135 members; $155 non-members.

FILM Department of Cinema and Media Studies 2014 Graduate Student Conference—The Silver Screen: Theories and Histories of Cinematic Color Fri, Apr 4, 4-7pm, Sat, Apr 5, 9am-6pm Logan Center, Screening Room “Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement,” Stan Brakhage wrote, “and innumerable gradations of color.” This conference seeks to re-imagine the innumerable gradations of color in the history and theory of cinema. Colors can be “preserved,” “restored,” and “corrected,” but can their cultural meanings? Can we fix color as readily as we can calibrate our television set’s brightness and contrast? After all, color is permanently enmeshed in questions of realism, of spectacle, of film as art and film as industry—questions that this conference regards as catalysts for conversation. Keynote speaker Edward Branigan is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara and author of Projecting a Camera: Language-Games in Film Theory, Narrative Comprehension and Film, and the forthcoming Color in Cinema: Language, Memory, Commerce. Visit thesilverscreen2014.wordpress.com for details. Free.

Presented by the Film Studies Center and Department of Cinema and Media Studies.

Chinese Opera Film Series: Butterfly Lovers Sun, Apr 6, 2pm Logan Center, Screening Room Introduction by Xinyu Dong, Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College; affiliated faculty at the Center for East Asian Studies. On June 18, 1954, Charlie Chaplin was invited to a private screening in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, arranged specifically for him by the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai; the film was Butterfly Lovers.

Allegedly called the “Chinese Romeo and Juliet” by Premier Zhou, Butterfly Lovers is a Yue Opera film adaptation of a popular Chinese folktale. Unhappy with her confinement in the inner chambers, Zhu Yingtai attends an all-male school in disguise. There she meets Liang Shanbo and the two spend three years as “sworn brothers” and soul mates. But what will happen to the star-crossed lovers when they must part ways? The film was so successful in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia that it inspired an

opera musical genre cycle, including the Shaw Brother’s famous remake, Love Eterne (1963). (Sang Hu and Huang Sha, 1954, courtesy of China Film Archive, DCP digital restoration.) Free.

Sponsored by the Smart Museum of Art, Film Studies Center, and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.

Sunday Film Screening—Persepolis Recreated Sun, Apr 13, 2pm Oriental Institute Museum Achaemenid Persia occupies an important place among the great civilizations of the ancient world. In 550 bc, Cyrus laid the foundation of the largest empire the world had ever seen, built on a model of tolerance and respect for other cultures and religions. In order to govern their vast empire, the Achaemenid kings established four capital cities: Babylon, Susa, Ecbatana, and the most magnificent of them, Parsa, or Persepolis, which was known in its day as the “richest city under the sun.” Free.

Interiors and Exteriors: AvantGarde Itineraries in Postwar France film series Fri, Apr 18, 5:30pm Logan Center, Screening Room This year-long film series, arranged in conjunction with the Smart Museum exhibition Interiors and Exteriors, traces the relationship between the emerging generation of avant-garde movements in 1950s France and the surrealist movement, re-established in Paris after the war. This evening’s films include Joseph Cornell’s Gnir Rednow (1955, 16 mm, 5 min), Georges Franju’s The First Night (La Première Nuit) (1958, 16 mm, 23 min), and Ado Kyrou’s The Hair (La Chevelure) (1961, DVD, 19 min). Free.

Presented by France Chicago Center, UChicago Arts Council, the Uncommon Fund, the Film Studies Center, and Smart Museum of Art. Contemporary Horrors: Destabilizing a Cinematic Genre Conference Fri-Sat, Apr 25-26 Fri, 5-9pm, Sat, 9am-5pm Logan Center, Screening Room The turn of the millennium has witnessed a uniquely dazzling renaissance in cinematic production within the horror genre. How do we account for the prolific production and prodigious diffusion of horror film since the turn of this last century? From thematic topoi to cinematographic style, horror cinema of the past 10-15 years

Science on the Screen: Your Inner Fish with host Neil Shubin Thu, Apr 3, 6:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall See the advance premiere of the new PBS series Your Inner Fish, a scientific adventure story that takes a fresh look at human evolution. This event will feature the first of three episodes based on the best-selling book of the same name by UChicago paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin. Using fossils, embryos, and genes, Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles, and primates—the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree.

A discussion with Shubin and the Field Museum’s distinguished service curator Lance Grande follows the 60-minute screening. Visit scienceonthescreen. uchicago.edu to RSVP. Free.

Presented by the UChicago Arts|Science Initiative, Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST), Logan Center, PBS, Shortfall Films, Tangled Bank Studios, and WTTW11. has witnessed numerous trends emerge, cross-pollinate internationally, and reenter the genre in cycles of repetition and transformation accelerated by digital production and distribution technologies.

And yet, the sheer proliferation and remarkable diversity of vital horror filmmaking makes defining the genre perhaps more challenging than ever before. This conference will approach contemporary horror cinema in its diverse global aspects. Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh, author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film, will deliver the keynote address. Free.

Presented by the Film Studies Center, Franke Institute for Humanities, France Chicago Center, and Mass Culture Workshop.

The Peasant and the Priest Fri, May 2, 7pm Cobb Hall, Rm 307 Professors Judy Hoffman and Rebecca West screen The Peasant and the Priest and related clips, and lead discussion on the social issues of migration of subSaharan African, Eastern European and Chinese peoples to Italy. Connoisseurs of the good life go to Northern Italy in search

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Gallery Talk: Michael Rakowitz on The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist Wed, May 21, 6–7pm Oriental Institute Museum Michael Rakowitz discusses his reconstructions of ancient Mesopotamian artifacts from the collections of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, which was looted in April 2003. Held in conjunction with the Oriental Institute’s exhibit The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, on view through May 25. Visit oi.uchicago.edu/order/classes to register. Free.

Archaeological Reconstruction Drawing Workshop Sat, Jun 7, 1-3pm Oriental Institute Museum Join Natasha Ayers, PhD candidate in Egyptian Archaeology, for step-by-step instruction in pottery drawing. Students will spend most of the workshop creating a technical drawing of an ancient Egyptian pottery shard from the Old Kingdom, and will also learn about the cultural and chronological information carried by pottery.

This is an introduction to technical drawing, so no previous experience is necessary.

Visit oi.uchicago.edu/order/classes to register. $15/students & members; $20/ non-members.

Medium Cool screening and conversation Fri, May 9, 4pm Logan Center, Screening Room Remembered as one of the great political films of its era, Medium Cool, shot in the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention, was inspired

by Studs Terkel’s book Division Street: America. Director Haskell Wexler set out to integrate real Chicagoans into the action, and the voices he included are strong, honest, and still challenging even after 46 years. Post-screening discussion with Andrew Davis, assistant cameraman on Medium Cool, director of The Fugitive, with special guests. (Haskell Wexler, 1969, 35mm film print, 111 minutes) Free.

Presented by the Film Studies Center as part of UChicago Arts’ Let’s Get Working, a three-day festival celebrating the legacy of Studs Terkel.

Three Women with live accompaniment by David Drazin Thu, May 15, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room In 1923 Ernst Lubitsch left Weimar Germany for Hollywood, and developed a visually witty and narratively concise style that influenced filmmakers around the world. Three Women is his third Hollywood film. George Eastman House has loaned an archival print of this rarely shown example of the “Lubitsch Touch” as it was being created: a comic style based in portraying the subtle strategies of desire rather than pratfalls, conveyed through carefully selected details that hint rather than expose. This screening is part of the weekly palaver series hosted by Professor Tom Gunning, Department of Cinema and Media Studies. (Ernst Lubitsch, 1924, b/w, silent, 83 min, 35mm print courtesy of George Eastman House) Free.

Presented by the Film Studies Center and Department of Cinema and Media Studies.

The Inspector and the Prince with director Zheng Dasheng Fri, May 16, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room The general decline of opera films in China since the 1990s makes this awardwinning film a rare sample of its recent development. The film stages the Peking Opera performance of a legendary story about an incorruptible inspector from the Qing Dynasty, who must carry out his mission against scheming local officials and meet the Prince’s challenge of his own integrity and alcoholic tolerance.

Though a studio commissioned mainstream production, the film was audaciously experimental at the hand of the young director Zheng Dasheng. Introduction

by Paola Iovene, Assistant Professor in Chinese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College. (Zhang Dasheng, 2004, China, in Mandarin with subtitles, 110 min, digital) Free.

Sponsored by The Smart Museum of Art, Film Studies Center, and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.

It’s a Living screening Fri, May 9, 8pm Logan Center, Screening Room It’s A Living was the first locally produced portable videotape program broadcast in 1975 on WTTW. Video pioneers worked together with Studs Terkel to make an insightful television program about everyday people that was unlike anything that had been broadcast before. It’s A Living was based on Terkel’s groundbreaking oral history book, Working. The documentary features the stories of six different people at their jobs. Introduction by Judy Hoffman, Professor of Practice, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, with Sara Chapman and Tom Weinberg from Media Burn Archive. Followed by a conversation with Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps and Alex Kotlowitz, at 9pm. (Produced at Videopolis by Skip Blumberg, Paul Challacombe, Joel Gold, Judy Hoffman, Anda Korsts, Jim Mayer, Jack McFadden, Tom Shea, Tom Weinberg, Jim Wiseman, with Studs Terkel; 60 min) Free.

Presented by the Film Studies Center as part of UChicago Arts’ Let’s Get Working, a three-day festival celebrating the legacy of Studs Terkel.

WHPK and 59th Street Jazz “Reel Jazz Series” Sat, May 17, 3:30–6pm International House, Home Room Spend an afternoon with jazz lovers of all ages during a jazz documentary film screening. Films in the series have included A Fine Day in Harlem and Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz. Discussion with jazz hosts from WHPK 88.5 FM Radio and audience Q&A follow the screening. Free.

Presented by International House and WHPK. Sunday Film Screening— Incredible Isfahan Sun, Jun 22, 2pm Oriental Institute Museum Transformed into a vibrant international center by Shah `Abbas I (1587–1629), the city of Isfahan has since become the hub of Persian spirit. The history of this city, and its unique cultural and artistic heritage, are the subjects of filmmaker Farzin Rezaeian’s movie. Free.

Tatsu Aoki: Visions x Sounds screening and live performance Fri, May 23, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room Chicago artist Tatsu Aoki presents an evening of film, live soundscape, and music featuring selected works from his filmography, including Puzzle III (2003), GATE (2010), and a special preview of his new digital work Lights. Live music by Tatsu Aoki Unit, featuring renowned sound creator/composer/musician Jonathan Chen and others. Aoki is a prolific and accomplished musician, composer, filmmaker, and educator. He works in a wide array of musical styles, ranging from traditional Asian music to jazz to experimental music, and has recorded over 100 albums. Aoki is the founder and Artistic Director of the Annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival. He studied experimental filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an adjunct Associate Professor in the Film, Video, and New Media Department. Free.

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Unbroken Glass Tue, Jun 24, 6pm Logan Center, Screening Room Unbroken Glass is a documentary about mental illness in the South Asian community told through the story of the Sabu Family. Twenty years after his parents’ deaths, filmmaker Dinesh Sabu journeys to find out more about his mother and father, uncovering a silenced family history of mental illness.

Kartemquin Films’ Dinesh Sabu, director of Unbroken Glass, and a panel of experts on Asian-American mental health, including author and psychiatrist Bulbul Bahuguna, screen work-in-progress clips and discuss the film. RSVP recommended at ticketsweb.uchicago. edu or 773-702-2997. (Sabu, 2014, 10 min, digital) Free.

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Chinese Opera Film Series: Woman, Demon, Human Sat, May 3, 7pm Logan Center, Screening Room Introduction by Judith Zeitlin, Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Hailed as the first truly feminist film made in China, this lightly fictionalized biopic of a northern Chinese opera star, Pei Yanling, turns the story of a girl who bucks tradition by specializing in martial male roles, particularly the exorcist god Zhong Kui, into a complex psycho-drama of gender and identity. Written and imaginatively directed by Huang Shuqin, one of China’s few female directors at the time, the film features a dazzling performance from Pei Yanling herself as Zhong Kui in the opera sequences, complete with flame spitting and acrobatics. (Huang Shugin, China, 1987, 16mm, 108 min, print courtesy of Pacific Film Archive) Free.

Sponsored by the Smart Museum of Art, Film Studies Center, and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.

of art, olive groves, and good wine. But on the roads alongside the legendary fields, evidence of the forces of globalization is becoming apparent. In Tuscany, one of the most idealized areas of the world, human trafficking, chemicals in the wine, and contaminated olive oil are among the global effects of governmental indifference.

The Peasant and the Priest offers a reinterpretation of this much-loved region, a landscape shaped and transformed by co-existing extremes of human labor, cultivation, and exploitation. (Esther Podemski, 2010, 47 min, DVD, Italian and English) Free.

Sponsored by the Film Studies Center and Department of Cinema and Media Studies.

Celebrating Studs Terkel The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago will host “Let’s Get Working,” a three-day festival honoring the life and work of Louis “Studs” Terkel, a Chicago legend and UChicago alumnus.

The May 9-11 festival will introduce Terkel’s legacy to new and younger audiences while highlighting individuals and groups, both local and national, who have been impacted, influenced and inspired by his work as a broadcaster, historian, actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

In addition to new works and original programming, the festival will include videos of Terkel and listening stations for people to more deeply engage his radio archive. There also will be screenings of Terkel’s early work in television and industrial, educational, and documentary films from the Media Burn Independent Video Archive.

In anticipation of the festival, a sampling of festival participants, Studs collaborators and admirers, tell us who Studs was…

Illustration by Illustrated Press (2014)

“Studs was the lovable, humorous, feisty dowsing diviner of humanity in the 20th century.”

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– Sydney Lewis, Terkel’s longtime collaborator on radio and books

“Studs Terkel was a master interviewer because he knew how to listen. Whether famous, or not so, Studs drew the extraordinary out of ordinary conversations which helped us all better understand our neighborhood, city, country and our world.”

– Tom Clark, President, Community Media Workshop

“Studs was a friend to the friendless.”

– Rick Perlstein, author, historian and journalist

“Studs was in the middle of it all; no matter who we were— rich or poor; young or old; white or black; man or woman— he kept us all connected by constantly reminding us of our shared humanity. “ – Thomas Dyja, author, Third Coast

“Studs’ justly renowned empathy, generosity, and endless curiosity were matched by an intellect and a memory that in themselves were unmatched. And somehow, on top of all of his skills, commitments, and attributes, he also had impeccable taste in literature, music—both classical and popular, theatre, and film, and a perfect style as radio presenter, public speaker, and writer.”

-- Andrew Patner, author and Critic-at-Large, WFMT

“Studs was an adventure every day, both on the radio “Studs was wide awake to the worlds around him.” and in ‘real life.’ He loved doing shtick with everyone he encountered...and so did all of us who were lucky enough to – Audrey Petty, author, High Rise Stories be with him.”

– Tom Weinberg, Founder, Media Burn Independent Video Archive “It’s not possible for me to speak about Studs in the past tense. With the words that are his legacy, Studs IS a voice “Studs was a righteous interviewer. He had all the right of truth and reason that lives in me and many others.” capacities: empathy, attention, good humor, charm, and – Haskell Wexler, two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer, film most of all, an enduring interest in the ‘quintessential producer, and director truths’ to be found in each and every one of us.”

– Alison Cuddy, Arts and Cultural Reporter, WBEZ “Studs is the guy on the bus going to work. He’s wearing a red checked shirt with blue blazer, has a half-smoked cigar in his hand, a rubber band on his wrist, likes to have a “Studs was dedicated to the common man. And because scotch at Riccardo’s, talk with people, is hopeful, and has a of him, we have access to knowing Chicago in a way that twinkle in his eyes.” people near and far would never have had without him.”

– Leigh Fagin, Assistant Director of Collaborative Programming, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

– Judy Hoffman, Professor of Practice in Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago

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A Worldwide Literature: Spring Workshop Tue, Apr 1, 2– 6pm Regenstein Library, Room 122 This workshop is part of the of the Neubauer Collegium project A Worldwide Literature: Jami (1414-1492) in the Dar al-Islam and Beyond. Participants will present and discuss the development of a handbook on the conception and reception of the oeuvre of the polymath Abd al-Rahman Jami, and introduce a new online corpus of South Asian commentaries on Jami’s works.

Hosted by Thibaut d’Hubert of UChicago and Alexandre Papas of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Sunil Sharma, Boston University, will present on painting and the visual representation of Jami’s oeuvre. Visit neubauercollegium. uchicago.edu/events to RSVP. Free.

Presented by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.

Global Voices Author Night with Dinaw Mengestu on All Our Names Thu, Apr 3, 6-7:30pm International House, Home Room Award-winning author and recipient of a 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Dinaw Mengestu discusses his new novel All Our Names about the coming of age during an African revolution of a young man, who was drawn from the hushed halls of his university into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. He tells a story on identity, as well as the loneliness and fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. Free.

Presented by International House and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores.

Catcher in the Rhyme Wednesdays, Apr 4 and 23, May 7 and 21, June 4, 7:30pm Logan Center, Café Logan Hear student work at this weekly event.

The format varies week to week, with readings, spoken word, open mics, slam competitions, and more. Free.

Presented by Catcher in the Rhyme and the Logan Center.

Reva Logan Poetry Series: Jerome Rothenberg Thu, Apr 10, 6pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse + Jerome Rothenberg: Poetics Talk Fri, Apr 11, 1pm Midways Studios, Rm 108 Poet Jerome Rothenberg will read a selection of his work including a new commission for the Reva Logan Poetry Series (April 10), and give a talk as part of the Poem Present Series (April 11).

Jerome’s career has already spanned half a century, including seventy books of his own poetry, plus plays, acclaimed anthologies, and other works. Free.

Presented by the Logan Center and the Program on Poetry and Poetics.

Black Ink Book Exchange Apr 15–May 31 Arts Incubator Black Ink Book Exchange is a pop up library open for the exchange of books by black authors, and about black culture.

The project aims to create a space around books as cultural currency, and consists of creative workshops, a reading lounge and book barter. Free.

Presented by Arts + Public Life.

Division Street Speaks Sat, Apr 26, 4-8pm Arts Incubator In remembrance of Studs Terkel’s award winning book, Division Street America, participants of Young Chicago Authors journalism program, The Chicago Beat, spent over a year scouting the length of Division Street and re-telling the stories of today’s Chicago. Join us for a night of visual art, poetry, music, and discussion as YCA youth and affiliates bring the stories of our city to life. Kevin Coval, award winning author and founder of Louder Than A Bomb, will lead the writing workshop. Writing workshop 4-5pm; break 5-6pm; music, reading, and discussion 6-8pm. Free.

Presented by Arts + Public Life and Young Chicago Authors as part of UChicago Arts’ Let’s Get Working, a three-day festival celebrating Studs Terkel.

The Chicago Grand Slam Sun, Apr 13, 8am–midnight Logan Center, various locations In 1984, Slam Poetry was invented by a Chicago construction worker named Marc Smith (“So What!?”), and has since become a worldwide phenomenon. Yet here, in the birthplace of Slam, poets of different ages, backgrounds, and parts of the city rarely have the opportunity to compete on equal ground. The Chicago Grand Slam will be the first-ever citywide poetry slam open to poets of all ages from around Chicago.

Hosted by Catcher in the Rhyme—the University of Chicago’s student poetry group—the Chicago Grand Slam aims to unify the diverse and sprawling poetry communities of the city for a daylong poetry festival where we can write, teach, compete, and learn together. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago. edu. General $10, students $5. Poet registration $30.

Presented by Catcher in the Rhyme and the Logan Center.

Global Voices Author Night with Dylan Yeats on Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Asian-American Fear Mon, Apr 28, 6-7pm International House, Home Room Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian paintings, photos and writing, and it surveys the extent of this iniquitous form of paranoia. Written by two dedicated scholars and replete with paintings, photographs, and images drawn from pulp novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, propagandistic and pseudo-scholarly literature, and a varied world of pop culture ephemera, Yellow Peril! is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation. Free.

Presented by International House and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores.

Tales of Survival from Today’s India: A Bilingual Hindi-English Reading with Uday Prakash Tue, Apr 29, 4:30pm Logan Center, Seminar Terrace Room A lowly weaver’s identity is stolen by a ruthless Brahmin; a street sweeper uncovers a hollow wall in Delhi filled with black money; and as a slum-baby’s head grows bigger and bigger, he grows smarter and smarter—as his family races to find the cure. Award-winning Hindi writer Uday

Global Literary Networks Spring Conference Fri, May 9, 12–6pm Regenstein Library, Rm 122 The conference will bring together specialists from several fields, including: network visualization, network analysis, database design, statistical reasoning, and literary modernism. Hosted by Professors Hoyt Long and Richard So. Speakers include Jacob Foster (UCLA), Jennifer Lena (Teachers College, Columbia University), Tom McEaneny (Cornell), Andrew Piper (McGill), and Dennis Tenen (Columbia). Part of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society project Global Literary Networks.Visit neubauercollegium. uchicago.edu/events to RSVP. Free.

Presented by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.

Lynne Tillman in conversation with Vu Tran Thu, May 15, 6pm Logan Center, Seminar Terrace Room Join acclaimed novelist, art critic, and Kestnbaum Writer-in-Residence Lynne Tillman, as she discusses working across disciplines with Vu Tran. A Whiting Award recipient, Tran teaches fiction writing at the University of Chicago. Free.

Presented by the Committee on Creative Writing and the Kestnbaum Family Cultural Activities Fund.

Reading by Lynne Tillman Fri, May 16, 6pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Ceaselessly inventive, witty, and economical, Lynne Tillman’s five novels and three story collections have a rare power to warp thinking and to touch the heart by stealth. Tillman has been a Guggenheim fellow, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the 2013–14 Kestnbaum Writer-in-Residence. Free.

Presented by the Committee on Creative Writing and the Kestnbaum Family Cultural Activities Fund.

Reading by Susan Wheeler Thu, May 22, 6pm Logan Center, Seminar Terrace Room Sherry Poet-in-Residence Susan Wheeler is the author of several books of poetry, including Bag ‘o’ Diamonds, Smokes, Source Codes, Ledger, and Assorted Poems. Wheeler’s awards include the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the Director of the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University. Free.

Presented by the Committee on Creative Writing and Pearl Anderson Sherry Memorial Fund.

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Prakash and translator Jason Grunebaum will read from The Walls of Delhi, shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Free.

Presented by UChicago’s Humanities Visiting Committee, the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Creative Writing.

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Reading by Louise Glück Thu, May 8, 6pm Logan Center, Screening Room Louise Glück will be reading poems from her forthcoming book, Faithful and Virtuous Night, to be published in September 2014 by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. This is a chance to hear the newest poems from one of America’s foremost poets. A former Poet Laureate of the United States, Glück is the author of twelve volumes of poems and the recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize. She has been a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and judged the Yale Younger Poets Prize from 2003 to 2010. Free.

Presented by the Committee on Creative Writing.

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2 Bond Chapel 1025 E. 58th St. 3 Court Theatre 5535 S. Ellis Ave. courttheatre.org 4

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5 Cochrane-Woods Art Center 5540 S. Greenwood Ave.

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E. 60th St. filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu

7 Fulton Recital Hall Fulton Hall 5845 S. Ellis Ave. 8 Gray Center Lab 929 E 60th St., 112 graycenter.uchicago.edu

9 Hack Arts Lab (HAL) 5735 Ellis Ave., 2nd Floor hal.uchicago.edu

14 Mandel Hall 1131 E. 57th St. 15 Midway Studios 929 E. 60th St.

10 International House 1414 E. 59th St. ihouse.uchicago.edu 11

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E. 60th St. logan.uchicago.edu

12 Lorado Taft House 935 E. 60th St. 13 Max Palevsky Cinema (Doc Films) Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E. 59th St. docfilms.uchicago.edu

16 The Oriental Institute Museum 1155 E. 58th St. oi.uchicago.edu

17 Francis X. Kinahan Theater Reynolds Club 5706 S. University Ave.

Third Floor 18 The Renaissance Society Cobb Hall 5811 S. Ellis Ave. Fourth Floor renaissancesociety.org

19 Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. rockefeller.uchicago.edu 20 Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. smartmuseum.uchicago.edu 21 Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery The Joseph Regenstein Library 1100 E. 57th St. lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/exhibits

O T H E R N E A R BY L O C AT I O N S O N T H E C U LT U R E C OA S T 22 DuSable Museum of African American History 740 E. 56th Pl. dusablemuseum.org 23 Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone Ave. experimentalstation.org 24 Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell Ave. hydeparkart.org

25 Little Black Pearl 1060 E. 47th St. blackpearl.org 26 Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House 5757 S. Woodlawn Ave. gowright.org

MUSIC Free Jazz Jam Session with the Microcosmic Sound Orchestra Sundays, Through Aug 31, 2–5pm Arts Incubator Sonic Healing Ministries Weekly Services, part of David Boykin’s residency, resume creative improvised music jam sessions at the Arts Incubator. Free.

Presented by Arts + Public Life and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.

Mobile Miniatures—The Ringtone Project Thu, Apr 3, 8pm Fulton Recital Hall What happens when the most creative musical minds collaborate with a string quartet to re-imagine the way your phone sounds? The Spektral Quartet commissioned over 40 composers to write miniature string quartets for use as ringtones, alerts and alarms, and will showcase the project with an interactive installation and live performances. Works

by Augusta Read Thomas, Shulamit Ran, Tomás Gueglio, Bernard Rands, Mason Bates, David Lang, Nico Muhly, and many, many more. Reception to follow. General $10, free with UCID. Presented by the Department of Music.

Anonymous 4 Fri, Apr 4, 7:30pm Rockefeller Chapel Pre-concert lecture by Robert L. Kendrick, Professor of Music, 6:30pm “Pure, simple and stunning” (the Denver Post) describes the four rarified voices of Anonymous 4. The acclaimed quartet returns to Rockefeller Chapel with a program of 13th century motets from the

Tatsu Aoki’s Miyumi Project: A Journey of Asian-American Jazz Experience Sat, Apr 5, 3:30pm Fulton Recital Hall Tatsu Aoki and his band, The Miyumi Project, celebrate the collaboration between African-American and Asian-American jazz artists with a multi-generational group fusing avant garde jazz with taiko drumming. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Oren Ambarchi Sat, Apr 5, 9:30pm Bond Chapel (1050 E 59th St) Oren Ambarchi’s works are hesitant and tense extended songforms located in the cracks between several schools of music.

From the late 90s his experiments in guitar abstraction and extended technique have led to a more personal and unique sound-world incorporating a broader palette of instruments and sensibilities. Free.

Presented by The Renaissance Society and LAMPO. Logan Center Penthouse Salon Series: Spider Saloff Sat, Apr 5, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Spider Saloff presents Berlin in Swingtime, a rare performance that explores the songs of Irving Berlin, with Chicago’s own Jeremy Kahn at piano. With a thrilling and sophisticated jazz sound, “Saloff will win you over completely” (New York Post).

Cabaret seating $40 / general $30 / UChicago students $10.

Presented by KMP Artists and the Logan Center.

A Modern Song Sojourn Sun, Apr 6, 3pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Patrice Michaels, soprano, and Amy Briggs, piano, present music of the 20th and 21st centuries from Italy, France, Austria, USA, and Mexico, featuring composers Luciano Berio, Olivier Messiaen, Lili Boulanger, Arnold Schönberg, Laurie Altman, and John Musto. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Choral Evensong Tue, Apr 8, 4:30pm Rockefeller Chapel The Byron Consort of Harrow School (London) sings choral evensong. The Byron Consort is Harrow’s elite vocal ensemble of eighteen boys, the youngest of whom

Logan Center Second Tuesday Jazz Series Tuesdays, Apr 8, May 13, Jun 10, 7:3010pm Café Logan This monthly series showcases Chicago jazz musicians, selected by the Hyde Park Jazz Society, on the second Tuesday of every month. Enjoy beer, wine, a full coffee bar, food, and some of the best jazz the city has to offer.

Apr 8: Pianist, organist, and composer Ben Paterson May 13: Pianist, composer, and arranger Miguel de la Cerna and his trio Jun 10: Trumpeter and composer Marquis Hill Free. Presented by the Logan Center and the Hyde Park Jazz Society, sponsored by WDCB 90.9 FM. sing treble. Many of the boys are former cathedral choristers from England’s great cathedrals, and they visit us as part of their spring tour to Canada and the US. This program replaces Tea & Pipes for this one week. Free.

Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.

Afro-Cuban Percussion Workshop with Jean-Christophe Leroy Fri, Apr 11, 1–5pm Fulton Recital Hall Students of all backgrounds are invited to participate as percussionist JeanChristophe Leroy shares his knowledge of Afro-Cuban music and percussion playing. A two-hour introductory class (1–3pm) will introduce students to the concepts, techniques, and styles of this rich musical tradition. Participating students will then demonstrate various musical examples during the subsequent lecture/ demonstration by Leroy, 3:30–5pm. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Ling Ke salon recital of Chinese opera Sun, Apr 13, 2pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse In this intimate afternoon recital of Chinese Opera arias, Chinese opera star Ling Ke will offer a virtuoso performance of Kunqu Opera in Ballad (Tanci) from The Palace of Lasting Life (Changsheng dian). Free.

Presented by the Logan Center.

Seraphic Fire with Spectral Quartet: Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ Wed, Apr 16, 7:30pm Rockefeller Chapel Composed for the grand Holy Week celebrations of the cathedral in Cádiz,

Franz Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words is a sumptuous feast of classical choral and string writing. With aching adagios and passionate, plaintive singing, the Seven Last Words represents the pinnacle of Haydn’s considerable output. Tickets $25, students $5.

Presented by University of Chicago Presents.

Chicago a cappella: The Birth of Gospel Sat, Apr 19, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Chicago a cappella tells the story of gospel music’s beginnings through song, taking the audience on a journey from the pre-gospel Classical works sung in many AfricanAmerican churches to hymns, spirituals, and finally the full flowering of gospel music itself, which began right here in Chicago.

A local gospel choir will join Chicago a cappella on stage. Visit chicagoacappella. org for tickets and details. $12-$38.

Presented by Chicago a cappella.

UIC Orchestra, University Band, and Wind Ensemble Mon, Apr 21, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall A concert featuring three music ensembles from University of Illinois at Chicago. Free, donations welcome.

Presented by UIC School of Theatre & Music.

Passion Sunday—James Kallembach’s St. John Passion Sun, Apr 13, 11am Rockefeller Chapel On Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday, we present the world première of James Kallembach’s St. John Passion, commissioned for this Sunday service, with the Avalon String Quartet, the Decani, and Kaitlin Foley, evangelist; Matthew Dean, Andrew Schultze, and Clara Osowski, soloists. Kallembach’s unique and moving setting interpolates texts from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, Goethe’s Faust, Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and Dante’s Inferno with the beloved St. John story. Free.

James Macmillan’s St. John Passion Sun, Apr 13, 3pm Rockefeller Chapel Pre-concert lecture by Bob Kendrick, Professor of Music, 2 pm James MacMillan’s massive St. John Passion for large orchestra, double choral forces, and Evan Bravos, baritone, as Christus, is performed by Rockefeller Chapel Choir and Motet Choir in partnership with Northwestern University Chorale, Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, and Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of choral visionary Donald Nally. Tickets available via rockefeller.uchicago.edu or at the door.

General $20, free with student ID. Presented by Rockefeller Chapel

Percussion Workshop with Nicholas Reed Thu, Apr 24, 7pm Fulton Recital Hall Virtuoso percussionist Nicholas Reed, featured artist in the April 26 Contempo concert, leads a lecture/demonstration and interactive percussion workshop. Reed will preview his upcoming performance of Marta Ptaszyńska’s Space Model for solo percussion, and discuss contemporary techniques for keyboard percussion and multi-instrument percussion. Coaching of individual students and a Q&A session will also be included. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Rafal Blechacz, piano Fri, Apr 25, 7:30pm Mandel Hall Pre-concert lecture by Abigail Fine, 6:30pm. Rafal Blechacz, 2005 winner of the 15th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, makes his Chicago debut performing works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. General $35, students $5.

Presented by University of Chicago Presents.

Piano Master Class Sat, Apr 26, 3pm Fulton Recital Hall Min Kwon, a Steinway Artist in demand around the world as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, leads a master class with Piano Program students. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

University Symphony Orchestra: Concerto Showcase Sat, Apr 26, 8pm Mandel Hall Two of the three First Place winners of the 2014 Concerto Competition will perform in the USO’s April concert: flutist Caroline Wong, presenting Jacques Ibert’s virtuosic Flute Concerto, and trumpet player Matthew Bloomfield, performing George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in the arrangement crafted by Timofei Dokshizer, the famed principal trumpet player of the Bolshoi Ballet.

The third First Place winner, violinist George Hyun, will perform the first movement of Aram Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto in the University Symphony’s December 6 concert.

Free, donations requested.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Contempo-Jazz Double Bill: 10th Anniversary with Patricia Barber Sat, Apr 26, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall The 10th anniversary celebration of the Contempo-Jazz Double Bill puts the work of top creative women in music from around the world front and center stage. Intrepid jazz artist Patricia Barber performs with the Ari Hoenig trio in the concert’s second half.

General $25, students $5.

Presented by the Department of Music and University of Chicago Presents..

Gerrish Organ Recital: Isabelle Demers Sat, Apr 26, 7:30pm Rockefeller Chapel Isabelle Demers plays a glorious concert of her own transcriptions of music by Tchaikovsky (excerpts from The Sleeping Beauty), Praetorius, and Mendelssohn (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream), with the première of Three Short Studies by Rachel Laurin (Monologue for Solo Pedal, The Flight of the Hummingbird, and Dialogue of the Mockingbirds), as well as grand classics for organ by Healey Willan, Ernest Macmillan, Alexandre Guilmant, and Marcel Dupré. General $10, free with student ID. Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.

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First Mondays Jazz Series Every first Monday, 7–9pm Arts Incubator Featuring Chicago artists the first Monday of every month, these performances showcase artists and introduce more of the Chicago community to the Arts Incubator in Washington Park. Free.

Presented by Arts + Public Life.

Montpellier Codex.

General $35, students $5.

Presented by University of Chicago Presents.

Pacifica Quartet with Anthony McGill, clarinet Sun, Apr 13, 3pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Pre-concert lecture by Steven Rings, Associate Professor of Music, at 2 pm.

“The Pacifica’s interpretations are personal, with lots of rubato and dynamic variation, but the players…perform with remarkable unanimity of vibrato, attack, and volume.”

– The New York Times. The quartet will perform Mozart and Brahms Clarinet quintets. General $25, students $5.

Presented by University of Chicago Presents.

Five Elements Project: Water Sun, Apr 27, 3-4pm, 2pm pre-concert lecture Logan Center, Performance Hall The first of the Five Elements Project, this concert features traditional and contemporary works by renowned composers Chen Yi, Lei Liang, Bright Sheng, and Liu Wenjin, as well as the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s Phrases of the Stream for pipa and erhu. Inspired by late founder Barbara Tiao, the Chinese Fine Arts Society’s (CFAS) Five Elements Project is a year-long celebration of its 30th anniversary, curated by Qing Hou, Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist and the CFAS artist-in-residence. VIP reception with artist meet-and-greet and light food and spirits to follow. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. General $10, students $5; VIP $50.

Presented by the Chinese Fine Arts Society and the Logan Center.

37th Season Chicago Ensemble Concert Series—Program IV: Soprano, oboe, violin and piano Sun, Apr 27, 6:30-8:30pm International House, Assembly Hall For more than 30 years, the Chicago Ensemble has brought a fascinating array of chamber works to Chicago audiences.

This concert features Max Reger’s Serenade No. 2 in G Major, op. 144a, for flute, violin and viola, L. van Beethoven’s Trio in Eb Major, op. 38, for clarinet, cello and piano, Ronn Yedidia’s Black Snow (1987), for flute, clarinet and piano, and William Walton’s Quartet (1921), for violin, viola, cello and piano. General $25, students with ID $10, free for I-House residents.

Presented by the International House Global Voices Performing Art Series and The Chicago Ensemble.

University, are featured on the New Music Ensemble’s spring quarter program, along with recent compositions and world premieres of works by UChicago graduate students Pierce Gradone, Tomás Gueglio, Andrew McManus, Kate Pukinskis, and Phil Taylor. Members of the Spektral Quartet, Ensemble-in-Residence for the Department of Music, and NME Resident Artist Amy Briggs perform. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Shanghai Quartet Fri, May 2, 7:30pm Mandel Hall Pre-concert lecture by Philip Gossett, Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Music, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College, 6:30pm This performance by the Shanghai Quartet, one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles renowned for its passionate musicality, impressive technique and multicultural innovations, closes an elegant program with Verdi’s one and only string quartet, written during a production delay of Aida. General $35, students $5.

Presented by University of Chicago Presents.

Logan Center Penthouse Salon Series: KT Sullivan Sun, May 4, 6pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse KT Sullivan’s Remembering Mabel salutes Mabel Mercer. The New Yorker describes her “as vocally, comically and theatrically assured as contemporary cabaret performers get.” Cabaret seating $40 / general $30 / UChicago students $10.

Presented by KMP Artists and the Logan Center.

CPE Bachanalia Fri, May 2, 6pm Bond Chapel The University of Chicago’s Piano Performance Program presents a concert directed

by Svetlana Belsky celebrating the 300th birthday of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, master of the gallant style who broke away from the formalism of Baroque music and paved the way for some of his greatest admirers, Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

The Newberry Consort Celestial Sirens: Music from the Mexican Convent of the Encarnación Sat, May 3, 8pm Bond Chapel The Newberry Choir books are the source for this program of brilliant new world music by Mexican and Spanish composers. Written for women’s voices and accompanying instruments, these works designed for convent worship feature the elegant polyphony, dancing rhythms, and rich harmonies that characterize this unique repertoire from New Spain.

Ellen Hargis, soprano, with women’s vocal ensemble accompanied by guitar, bassoon, and organ. Tickets available via newberryconsort.org or at the door.

General $35-$45.

Presented by Newberry Consort.

New Music Ensemble Sun, May 4, 3pm Fulton Recital Hall Virtuosic solo works by Jay Alan Yim, Professor of Composition at Northwestern

Jazz Concert and Round-Table Discussion: The Logan Center Debut of “The Bridge” Wed, May 7, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse A performance by six jazz musicians (David Boykin, Mwata Bowden, Julien Desprez, Matt Lux, Matthieu Sourisseau, Robert Mazurek) followed by a discussion led by Travis Jackson, Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities at UChicago, and Alexandre Pierrepont. The discussion will focus on the creative process and will explore the role of improvisation in various musical and philosophical practices. Free.

Presented by The Bridge, the France Chicago Center, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, the Julie and Parker Hall Endowment for Jazz and American Music, the Department of Music, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Center for International Studies Norman Wait Harris Memorial Fund, and the Logan Center.

Vocal Master Class with Ken Smith, Coach/Pianist Fri, May 9, 4:30pm Fulton Recital Hall Solo singers and collaborative student pianist Nathan Harris receive guidance from the illustrious Northwestern University collaborative pianist Ken Smith in a semipublic venue as they prepare songs from the art song repertoires of the 20th and 21st centuries. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Contempo: Tomorrow’s Music Today I Fri, May 9, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Works by graduate student composers Alican Camçi, Marcelle Pierson, and Igor Santos. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music and University of Chicago Presents.

A Mother’s Mother: Music for St. Anne Fri, May 9, 8pm Bond Chapel Schola Antiqua explores chant and polyphonic music for the apocryphal St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, including works by Pierre de la Rue and Jean Mouton. This concert coincides with the release of artistic director Michael Alan Anderson’s book St. Anne in Renaissance Music: Devotion and Politics.

Visit schola-antiqua.org for tickets. General $25, students/seniors $10.

Presented by Schola Antiqua.

Harmonia Sacra Sat, May 10, 7pm Bond Chapel Chicago Syntagma Musicum presents sacred chamber music by Henry Purcell, featuring keyboard music and devotional songs from the 1688 collection Harmonia Sacra including The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation and the dramatic cantata Saul and the Witch at Endor. With Kimberly Jones, soprano, Wayne Parham, tenor, Andrew Schultze, bass-baritone, Martine Benmann, cello, Svetlana Belsky, harpsichord, and Thomas Weisflog, baroque organ. General $25, students/seniors $10.

Presented by Chicago Syntagma Musicum.

Spectral Quartet: Counterpoint Sat, May 10, 8pm Fulton Recital Hall Program inspired by Shulamit Ran’s Bach Shards presented alongside movements by Beethoven and Ligeti and works by Chicago composers Marcos Balter and Dave Reminick, juxtaposed with selections from J.S. Bach’s Art of the Fugue. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Piano Master Class Tue, May 13, 3pm Fulton Recital Hall Pianist David Witten’s international career has included numerous concert tours in Ireland, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Mexico, and South America. As the recipient of a 1990 Fulbright Scholar award, Witten spent five months teaching and concertizing throughout Brazil, and he is frequently invited back to give concerts and master classes. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Early Music Ensemble Tue, May 13, 7:30pm Bond Chapel The Department of Music’s Early Music Ensemble brings together English Renaissance classics, including Thomas Morley’s Now is the Month of Maying and April is in My Mistress’ Face, John Dowland’s Come Heavy Sleep, Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite, and William Byrd’s In Winter Cold, Laetentur coeli, and Ave verum corpus. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Contempo: Tomorrow’s Music Today II Fri, May 16, 7:30pm Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University Works by graduate student composers Tomás Gueglio, Jae-Goo Lee, and Andrew McManus. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music and University of Chicago Presents.

Summer Breeze WHPK Concert Sat, May 17, 12-5pm UChicago Quads (corner of S University & E 58th St) WHPK sponsors a stage at the annual outdoor Summer Breeze concert. The lineup includes garage, pop, hypnagogic, fringe, and exclusive performances never before seen in the Midwest. Free.

Presented by WHPK. Summer Breeze Major Activities Board Concert Sat, May 17, gates at 5pm Hutchinson Courtyard An evening of live music following the Summer Breeze Carnival. For ticket prices and announcement of the evening lineup, find UChicagoMAB on Facebook.

Admission TBA. Presented by the Major Activities Board.

South Asian Vocal Ensemble Spring Festival Sat, May 17, 3pm Fulton Recital Hall The South Asian Vocal Ensemble performs songs from the Indian Subcontinent.

Reception to follow. Free.

Presented by the Committee on Southern Asian Studies and Department of Music.

University Chamber Orchestra: Mozart’s Monuments Sat, May 17, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Hall An evening of Mozart featuring 2014 Concerto Competition Winner Phil Taylor performing the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor alongside the breathtaking Symphony No. 41, Jupiter. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes and Love Songs Chicago Chorale Sun, May 18, 2pm Logan Center Performance Hall Chorale’s first appearance in the Logan Center, and its first performance on a concert stage, rather than in a church chancel. In honor of this secular space, its outstanding pianos, and the freshness of the season, Chorale will present both sets of Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes, along with other works celebrating spring and love. Kit Bridges and Don Seitz will be featured as pianists.Free pre-concert lecture at 2pm, ticketed concert at 3pm. Visit

chicagochorale.org for details and tickets. $15-$35.

Presented by Chicago Chorale.

Ben Hjertmann’s Donkey Rhubarb Sun, May 18, 7pm Logan Center, Performance Hall The University Wind Ensemble presents its consortium premiere of Benjamin Hjertmann’s Donkey Rubarb and is joined by members of UChicago’s Jazz X-tet for Don Owen’s Intermix. The program also includes Jay Gilbert’s Suite Divertimento and the English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

University of Chicago Computer Music Studio: Sonic Fractus Tue, May 20, 8pm Fulton Recital Hall A concert dedicated to electro-acoustic works by UChicago composers and guests.

Works showcase an experimental interplay between real-time computer music, live instruments, mechanically enhanced instruments, and video art. The concert includes works by Phil Taylor, Tim Page, Tomás Gueglio, Francisco Castillo Trigueros, Iddo Aharony (in collaboration with cellist Sophie Webber) and others. Free. Presented by the Department of Music.

Voices in Your Head Spring Concert Fri, Jun 6, 7-9pm International House, Assembly Hall Voices In Your Head is a co-ed, student led a cappella group from UChicago, consisting of both undergraduate and graduate students.

Founded in 1998, the group has recently gained ground in the national collegiate a cappella scene, being featured on a number of national a cappella compilation albums and competing in national a cappella festivals.

Its unique repertoire includes original pieces as well as an eclectic mix of pop, R&B, rock, and alternative music. The group competes annually in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) and travels nationally to perform at a cappella festivals and tours. Advance with UCID $5, general $7. Door with UCID $7, general $10.

Presented by the International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series and Voices in Your Head.

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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Program with Tsukasa Taiko Fri, May 2, 5:30-7:30pm International House, Assembly Hall As a leading taiko (Japanese drum) ensemble in the Midwest, Tsukasa Taiko aims to preserve and pass on the traditional concepts of taiko as a cultural legacy in commemoration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Free Presented by the International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series and Tsukasa Taiko.

Making A Scene Again Sun, Apr 27, 8pm Fulton Recital Hall The second annual opera scenes program features students in workshop-style arias and scenes from Candide, Le nozze di Figaro, Falstaff, and many more. Chicago College of the Performing Arts faculty member Dana Brown serves as guest for this delightful group of performances. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

as trios, quartets, and quintets for various instrumental combinations, encompassing a wide range of musical styles. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music and ORCSA.

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Concert V—Old and New World Folk Wed, May 21, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall The Rembrandt Chamber Players present a program featuring Mozart, Berio, and Adams. Visit rembrandtchamberplayers.org for tickets and details.General $35, ages 18-30 $25, students $10.

Presented by the Rembrandt Chamber Players.

Harp Recital Fri, May 23, 8pm Fulton Recital Hall Featuring UChicago harpists and friends performing a variety of works. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Spring project: “The Celebration of The Etude” Sat, May 24, 4pm Fulton Recital Hall Works include Busoni, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and Stravinsky performed by Piano Program student pianists and guests.Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Choral Splendor with Pomona College Sat, May 24, 7:30pm Rockefeller Chapel The elite chamber choir of Pomona College (home of Robert Shaw) presents a concert of works from Victoria and J.S. Bach to Arvo Pärt and John Tavener. Directed by Donna M. Di Grazia. Free.

Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.

University Brass Ensemble Sun, May 25, 4pm Fulton Recital Hall The Brass Ensemble’s repertoire includes works for large brass ensemble as well

Middle East Music Ensemble: Arab Concert Sun, Jun 1, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall The 40-piece Middle East Music Ensemble directed by Wanees Zarour will present works by some of the most renowned contemporary composers of the Arab world.

Free, donations requested.

Presented by the Department of Music, co-presented by the Logan Center, International House, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and WHPK. Jazz X-tet: For Our Seniors Thu, Jun 5, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Hall The University Jazz X-tet celebrates graduating seniors at this Spring concert led by jazz luminary Mwata Bowden. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Rockefeller Gala Concert: Joy! Sat, June 7, 4:30pm Rockefeller Chapel The best of Rockefeller! For Alumni Weekend, our most talented students present joyous choral music by Benjamin Britten, William Walton, James Kallembach, and Paul Crabtree, with organ music of Louis Vierne and Ben Steinberg, in an hourlong festival concert. Conducted by James Kallembach, with Tom Weisflog at the organ.

Iced tea and light refreshments offered.

Free. Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.

Bond Chapel’s New Organ: Concerti for Alumni Weekend Sat, Jun 7, 1pm Bond Chapel Associate University Organist Phillip Kloeckner and friends present Handel, Haydn and others. Concerti for organ and instrumentalists. Free.

Presented by Rockefeller Chapel.

Vocal Studies Program: Modern Songs Sun, Jun 8, 3pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Solo singers present repertoire from 20th and 21st century art song composers under the direction of acclaimed vocalist Patrice Michaels. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Pipa Recital: Lan Weiwei Sun, Jun 1, 2pm Smart Museum of Art Enjoy a performance from virtuoso Lan Weiwei—one of the best pipa players in China and a lecturer in pipa performance at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. The pipa, a plucked Chinese string instrument, was often featured in Chinese opera accompaniment. The recital will bridge ancient and modern, featuring traditional works from the pipa repertoire as well as the debut of a newly commissioned piece by composer Chen Yao, UChicago PhD’12 and assistant professor in composition at Illinois State University. Before the recital, Performing Images curator Judith Zeitlin, Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the UChicago, will give a brief gallery talk about a rare, lavishly decorated Ming dynasty pipa. Seating is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art and The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

Theater, Dance & PerformAnce Revival: Reunion Apr 4, 7–9pm Mandel Hall The third annual Revival showcase features original choreography, an open freestyle battle, and performances from hip hop/ urban dance groups from all over Chicago.

Join this reunion and celebration of hip-hop culture and community. Free.

Presented by PhiNix Dance Crew.

Theater[24] Sat, Apr 5, 8pm Reynolds Club, Francis X. Kinahan Theater Theater[24] is a balls-to-the-wall stageplay cage match, a testing ground for the grit and gusto of our most fearless thespians.

Every quarter, writing teams are given twelve hours to write the script. Directors, designers, and actors are then given twelve hours to pull the show together. Past plays have been about love, murder, time travel, and dogs. But there’s no telling what will happen next. See for yourself! Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago. edu. General $4.

Presented by University Theater.

Logan Center Cabaret Series Fridays, April 11 and 25, May 9 and 23, June 6, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse This student-driven series ranges from solo guitarists to string quartets, slam poets to performance artists, swing dancers to pop-n-lockers, and everything in between.

Whatever the specialty, this series provides an intimate and casual setting for UChicago students, faculty, and affiliates to show off a hidden talent or workshop original material.

This spring, look for Cabarets with special themes and guest curators. Free.

Presented by the Logan Center.

The Logan Evening Show Saturdays, Apr 12, May 3, 10:30pm-12am Logan Center, Performance Penthouse As the most elemental form of entertainment, conversation provides a means to understanding the minds of our peers, and to revel in the common experiences of being human. Late night talk shows furthered this art form by allowing us to understand the minds of our more esteemed and/or beautiful peers. Accepting this proud mantle of entertainment, the Logan Evening Show adapts the talk show into a live format, hosting faculty members and students from the University community to talk casually about their work and livelihood. Written, directed, and performed by undergraduate students, the Logan Evening Show is completely free and lots of fun. Free.

Presented by Occam’s Razor.

Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh Mon–Wed, Apr 14–16, various Gray Center Lab The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry hosts internationally acclaimed Lebanese theater artists Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh for a variety of activities. Visit graycenter. uchicago.edu for more details. Free.

Presented by the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

New Work Week Wed–Sat, Apr 16–19 and 23–26, 7pm and 9pm Logan Center, Theater Performance Lab New Work Week presents readings and performances of the freshest student plays. These texts are newer than you’ll hear anywhere else. Some are new twists on old classics, some have never been spoken before. Join us for just one show, or purchase a NWW Festival Pass and see

A Night at the Peking Opera Sat, Apr 12, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Ling Ke, a rising star of Peking opera, is joined by members of the acclaimed Tianjin Peking Opera Company for a performance of Peking Opera. Ling is known not only for his remarkable singing voice, but also for his commitment to the preservation of traditional Peking opera styles and repertoire. During their visit, Ling and the company will perform excerpts from three operas that feature the intricate music, vibrant costumes, and dazzling martial arts and acrobatics that define Peking opera.

Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb. uchicago.edu. General $20, students $10.

Presented by the Logan Center.

Buried in Bughouse Square: A Studs Terkel Circus Thu–Fri, May 1–2, 7:30pm and Sat, May 3, 2pm & 7:30pm; Thu,–Fri, May 8-9, 7:30pm and Sat, May 10, 2pm & 7:30pm and Sun, May 11, 2pm Logan Center, Theater West Buried in Bughouse Square: A Studs Terkel Circus is a new work produced by Theater and Performance Studies at UChicago that brings Halena Kays (director) and Jay Torrence (playwright) together with a student ensemble to explore the life and work of Chicago artist and icon Studs Terkel through expressions of circus, clown, and physical theater. With highenergy performances, Buried in Bughouse Square is suitable for ages 7-97 involving us all in the quest for story. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago. edu. Advance $6 / door $8.

Presented by Theater & Performance Studies as part of UChicago Arts’ Let’s Get Working, a three-day festival celebrating Studs Terkel.

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Annual Cathy Heifetz Concert: Bernstein Bash!

Sat, May 31, 8pm and Sun, Jun 1, 3pm Mandel Hall For a spectacular close to the 2013-2014 season, the University Symphony Orchestra, University Chorus, and Motet Choir join forces to celebrate the exuberant genius of Leonard Bernstein. Two of his most famous works — the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Chichester Psalms — appear on this program, along with the lesser-known Suite No. 2 from his 1974 ballet Dybbuk.

USO Music Director Barbara Schubert conducts the 250+ musicians on stage.

Free, donations requested.

Presented by the Department of Music.

Double Bill: Dick Hyman and Bill Charlap Trio Fri, May 30, 7:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall The legendary and versatile Dick Hyman brings his “uplifting elegance and jawdropping chops” (NPR) to a selection of solo jazz piano works. Next Bill Charlap and his longstanding trio partners will take the stage for their interpretations on classics of the jazz canon.General $35, students $5.

Sponsored by the Julie and Parker Hall Fund for Jazz and American Popular Music. Media Partners: Chicago Jazz Magazine / chicagojazz. com, DownBeat, and 90.9fm WDCB Jazz & Blues. Series Partners: Hyde Park Jazz Festival and the Jazz Institute of Chicago. Presented by University of Chicago Presents.

37th Season Chicago Ensemble Concert Series—Program V: Flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano Sun, Jun 8, 3-5pm International House, Assembly Hall For more than 30 years, the Chicago Ensemble has brought a fascinating array of chamber works to Chicago audiences.

This concert features J. S. Bach Cantata arias, for soprano, oboe, violin and piano, G. P. Telemann Trio-sonata, for oboe, violin and piano, W. A. Mozart Aria: Non piu, tutto ascoltai, for soprano, violin and piano, Francis Poulenc Sonata (1962), for oboe and piano, and other beloved masterworks, rarely heard gems and contemporary works by composers around the world. General $25, students with ID $10, free for I-House residents.

Presented by the International House Global Voices Performing Art Series and The Chicago Ensemble.

Just Kidding (Unless You Want To) Fridays, April 25-May 23, 8:30pm University Church (5565 S University Ave) The alumni of Off-Off Campus are truly what separate this improv troupe from its peers.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn was in the Second Generation.

In recent years, two Off-Off alums, Abby Sher and Tami Sagher, have starred on the Second City stage. Greg Kotis, one of the first members of Off-Off, is best known for penning the Tony award-winning Broadway musical, Urinetown. Now in its 28th Generation. A new show every week. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. General $5.

Presented by Off-Off Campus and University Theater.

Affective Labor in Dance: South Asia and Beyond South Asian Sound Interventions presents a two-day series of events focusing on the discussion and performance of dance as work, the work of dance, and the dancer as laborer.

Symposium Fri, Apr 18, 12pm Goodspeed Hall, Fulton Recital Hall Symposium, featuring paper presentations, panel discussions, and a keynote lecture by Pallabi Chakravorty.

Refreshments will be served.

Dance Workshop with Joanna de Souza Sat, Apr 19, 11am Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Workshop in contemporary Indian dance with kathak dancer Joanna de Souza.

Performance by Joanna de Souza Sat, Apr 19, 7pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Performance by kathak dancer Joanna de Souza and accompanying musicians, introduced by members of Kalapriya Dance Company. Reception to follow.

Free. Sponsored by Apsara, the University of Chicago Arts Council, Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and Department of Music.

RBIM presents: Night at the Movies Sat-Sun, May 3-4, 7pm Mandel Hall A night of film noir, action, romance, destruction, and everything in between at this year’s spring dance showcase: Night at the Movies! RBIM choreographers and dancers bring your favorite movies to life through jazz, contemporary, modern, hip hop, and more, even taking you back in time with 1930s swing and to other countries with Bollywood and Latin dance à la Dirty Dancing. Advance $7 / door $10.

Presented by Dance Council, ORCSA, RBIM, Student Government, and Theater & Performance Studies.

CSRPC Annual Public Lecture Sun, May 4, 4pm Rockefeller Chapel Actor, director, producer, and activist Danny Glover is distinguished speaker for the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture’s 2013-14 Annual Public Lecture.

Glover has appeared in over 80 feature films and has more than 40 television credits. His lecture is presented along with a series of events focused on the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Freedom Summer project, a massive campaign that took northern college students to Mississippi to register African American voters who were being denied the right to vote through local customs, laws, and violence. Free.

Presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, OMSA, Institute of Politics, Rockefeller Chapel, and the Office of Civic Engagement’s UChicago Engages series.

Ayodele 5th Anniversary Concert Sat, May 10, 7:30pm Mandel Hall Be in Harmonee with Ayodele and celebrate five years of dancing from the soul! Visit facebook.com/AyodeleDrumandDance for details and ticketing information.Ticket prices TBA. Presented by Ayodele Drum and Dance and the Logan Center.

Where Fun Comes to Dance 2014 Thu, May 15, 6pm Logan Center, Performance Hall UChicago’s annual dance competition, featuring a range of styles, from ballet and hip-hop to bhangra and tango. Dinner at 6pm in the Logan Center’s Gidwitz Lobby, 7pm show. Free.

Presented by Dance Council, Logan Center, Student Government, Theater & Performance Studies, and University Theater.

A Weekend of Workshops Thu-Fri, May 15-16, 7:30pm and Sun, May 17, 2pm & 7:30pm Reynolds Club, Francis X. Kinahan Theater Every quarter, A Weekend of Workshops allows directors to devise and stage big ideas on a small scale. This spring, truth, or a lack thereof, is a matter of perspective. Victorian

M. Butterfly May 8–Jun 8 Court Theatre Directed by Charles Newell, David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, is an exquisitely delicate and aggressively original play about sex, espionage, and Imperialism.

Skillfully intertwining the story of Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly with an extraordinary plot inspired by true events, M. Butterfly untangles the story of Rene Gallimard, a meek French civil servant who meets the woman of his dreams in Song Liling, a beautiful, Chinese opera diva.

What Gallimard doesn’t realize—or refuses to see—is that his “modest Chinese girl” may be much more than she appears. M. Butterfly has become a post-modern classic whose exploration of the sexual politics of East and West continues to resonate today.

Visit courttheatre.org or call 773-753-4472 for tickets. General $35-$65; UChicago students and faculty free–$25.

Presented by Court Theatre. era British gentility learns that its house may be on fire, literally. Poetry, sound, and movement create the dissonance that may or may not be human nature. And the first lady of Argentina may sing a different song than we expect. Alex Hearn directs The Still Alarm by George Kaufman, Derek Spencer stages Harmony Korine’s A Crackup at the Race Riots, and Allie Garfinkle presents A Little Star Quality: Scenes from Evita. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu.

Advance $6/ door $8.

Presented by University Theater.

Le Vorris & Vox Circus: The Sandman’s Wake Sun, May 18-19, 9pm Rockefeller Chapel The bold players of student circus Le Vorris & Vox enter the universe of Neil Gaiman’s titular comic series to tell a tale of seven siblings: ancient beings older than gods or the fabric of space, who gather to mourn their brother and revel in his reincarnation.

General $10, free with UCID. Presented by Rockefeller Chapel and Theater & Performance Studies.

Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer Thu–Fri, May 22–23, 7:30pm and Sat, May 24, 2pm & 7:30pm Logan Center, Theater East If you’re looking for the quintessential murder mystery thriller, Sleuth (1971

Tony Award for Best Play) is a sure lock.

The plot begins when Andrew Wyke, a successful mystery writer, lures his wife’s lover, Milo Tindle, to his country home.

Once there, the two engage in a game of cat and mouse with more twists and turns than the labyrinthine manor that surrounds them. Director MC Steffen invites you along for the ride, so long as you promise to inspect the uninspected. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago. edu. Advance $6, door $8.

Presented by University Theater.

University Ballet of Chicago: Coppélia Sat, May 24, 7pm and Sun, May 25, 4pm Mandel Hall Inspired by ETA Hoffmann’s stories “The Sandman” and “The Doll,” Coppélia is a ballet for the ages, held near and dear to the hearts of enthusiasts around the world. This charming and comic tale of a quaint European village duped by the wacky toymaker Dr. Coppelius speaks to an audience of all ages. Set to the enchanting score of Léo Delibes, Marius Petipa’s revival during the late 1800s offers some of the most compelling dancing ever performed. Witness the lively traditional Polish Mazurka, the dances of the Spanish and Scottish Dolls, and the grace in the classic Waltz of the Hours corps de ballet.

Advance general $10, UCID $5 / door general $12, UCID $7.

Presented by University Ballet of Chicago and Theater & Performance Studies.

Moving Portraits: Collected Choreography by Catherine Eng and Karen Reppy Sat, May 25, 2pm Logan Center, Performance Hall This collection of experimental choreography by Catherine Eng and Karen Reppy explores everything from religious ambiguity to the process of crying to putting on skinny jeans. All proceeds will go to the Hyde Park School of Dance’s STEPS Outreach program which works to bring dance to underserved communities.

Tickets available via the UChicago Arts Box Office, ticketsweb.uchicago.edu, and 773-702-ARTS. General $12, students $8, children under 5 free.

Presented by Catherine Eng and Karen Reppy.

Dean’s Men’s Much Ado About Nothing Wed, May 28-Sat, May 31, 7:30pm Logan Center Courtyard With the return of spring comes the return of the Dean’s Men annual outdoor courtyard show. Fourth year Tess Drummond directs this season’s Much Ado About Nothing, which features trickery, misinformation, and interfering friends, all for the sake of romance. Two pairs of lovers are looking

Chicago’s Watershed: A 156-Mile Choreography Fri–Sat, Jun 27-28, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Clinard Dance Theatre’s new Chicago’s Watershed: A 156-Mile Choreography takes Stravinsky’s revolutionary Rite of Spring as a launching point toward heretofore littleknown terrain. Stripping the music down to the four hands of the Estrella Duo’s piano and playing it off Dmitry Samarov’s video-projected ink work, Clinard’s original Flamenco-based choreography reveals the dissonance and consonance of the Chicago River and the city it sustains and nourishes. It’s a meditation on the hard-won and often brutal beauty of this most American of cities. By marrying the avant garde of the last century to this interdisciplinary work, Clinard reveals a new way to look at a place we thought we knew.

General $15, students $5 Presented by Clinard Dance Theatre and the Logan Center. for love: Benedick and Beatrice, whose sparring wits keep you on your toes, and Claudio and Hero, whose genuine feelings are sweetly endearing. Springtime joy and camaraderie are guaranteed, and the ticket is as free as sunshine. RSVP via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. Free.

Presented by the Dean’s Men & University Theater.

Apsara’s Avalu: Indian Women Across the Ages Sat, May 31, 2pm and 7:30pm Logan Center, Theater East This classical Indian dance-theater performance showcases three historical female figures from different regions and time periods of India––Razia Sultan, Abbakka Chowta, and Rama Devi––and explores these compelling figures as both women and individuals. Through the use of live music and several classical Indian dance styles in both traditional and contemporary formats, Apsara also hopes to draw parallels to the situations that modern Indian women face today, especially in this era of feminism, social change, and cultural introspection. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. Advance $6 / door $8.

Presented by Apsara, University Theater, and Theater & Performance Studies.

Cabaret Thu, June 5- Fri, June 6, 7:30pm; Sat, June 7, 2pm & 7:30pm Logan Center, Theater West In this quarter’s season closer, director Dani Wieder presents the 1987 revival of Cabaret (book by Joe Masteroff, music

by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb), a tangled web of romances set in Weimar Germany. This production returns to Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Stories, a collection of gritty urban dramas and the original inspiration for the musical.

Theater West becomes the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy basement stage full of music and lust. The lights are low, and the hopes are hot. And don’t forget: war is on its way.

Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb. uchicago.edu. Advance $6 / door $8.

Presented by University Theater.

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as many shows as you want. Check taps. uchicago.edu for line-ups, and leave your preconceptions at the door. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago.edu. $5 per performance, $10 NWW Festival pass.

Presented by Theater & Performance Studies.

How has your production been influenced by Peking opera?

CN: One of the things that David Henry Hwang said was, “Charlie, you’ve got to have someone who can really do the choreography and the movement” because there are many different styles contained within the play. After a long national search I finally went back to…find who did it in the original Broadway production. David introduced me to Jamie Guan, and now Jamie and I have become not only collaborators but also dear friends. He came out to Chicago and we had a weeklong choreography workshop [for our cast and dancers].

Q&A with Charles Newell

Who else has shaped this production?

CN: It goes without saying, but Judith! Her passion and her understanding of Chinese Opera…was incredibly helpful.

The other thing that has been really extraordinary for me has been bringing in my theater and music collaborator Doug Peck, who does all of our musicals with me at Court Theatre.

He is an opera fiend. I’m doubtful that any other production has had anything like Doug’s expertise about Puccini.

What has been the most challenging part of working on this particular piece?

CN: It’s both the challenge and reward: This is a world that I knew almost nothing about before starting this process. I evaluate any artistic experience or production at Court not

by Mitch Marr Court Theatre’s Artistic Director discusses the upcoming production of David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, artistic success, and his fruitful relationship with UChicago scholars. M. Butterfly, at Court Theatre May 8–June 8, was developed partly in response to Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture, a faculty-curated concurrent exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art. Both the play and the exhibition are part of UChicago Arts’ Envisioning China, a five-month a festival of arts and culture at the UChicago featuring more than 40 events and exhibitions.

essentially asking him permission to operate out of the instinctual response I had to the play. And he could not have been more generous and more encouraging. In my work with other contemporary playwrights—most conspicuously Tony Kushner, David Auburn, and Richard Nelson—when it works best is when they help me not make the mistakes that they’ve seen other directors make. They don’t in any way try to guide how it should be done, but rather encourage whatever unique response I may be having. So David did exactly the same thing. He helped steer me clear of pitfalls that some other directors have consistently fallen into with the play, but at the same time was not at all prescriptive about how to do the play.

What prompted you to take on M. Butterfly?

Charles Newell: In the last three years Court Theatre has formed a Faculty Advisory Council that I meet with regularly throughout the year to discuss what we’re all thinking and planning and dreaming. In one of those conversations, Judith Zeitlin, [William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Theater and Performance Studies], said, “I’m putting together this exhibit about Peking Opera visual imagery at the Smart Museum. Is there any play that you’d be interested in doing opposite?” David Henry Hwang had just been on campus doing a talk back with students and I’d been speaking with him about his play M. Butterfly, which I’ve wanted to do since reading it back when it was originally written and produced. So I said to Judith, “What about M. Butterfly?”

How will your interpretation differ from previous productions?

CN: Here’s the thing: I’ve never seen a live production or even the film version of M. Butterfly. So I’m coming at it completely from what’s on the page. The original production of M. Butterfly had such a singular design element, and many productions try to emulate that original design, which in photographs that I’ve seen was quite beautiful.

However, my interest—and David the playwright was incredibly supportive of this idea—was not to emulate the original design but rather find a new approach to the piece.

Essentially, that’s been driven by the simple idea that this play is a memory play. It starts with the principal character Rene Gallimard in this French prison in 1988 and he then proceeds to tell us the story, which is then reenacted.

Essentially we never leave his imagination or leave the prison. So we developed a very dynamic, less literal, more metaphorical and emotional landscape to tell this memory

How closely did you work with David Henry Hwang?

CN: He and I had a couple of conversations in which I was

on the typical markers of ticket sales or reviews or awards, but rather by how much I and the artists involved and the audience grow. Do we learn more? Do we expand our vision and our understanding? So with this piece, through the playwright’s extraordinary mash-up of lots of different aesthetics and lots of different cultural references, I’m hopeful we’ll all understand more about the necessity to create the imagined beloved as a way to find self-identity. I never know where my gut instincts will take us, but when we get to the closing performance, I want us to say “Wow, that really stretched us and moved us and expanded who we are as people.” That to me is the signature of artistic success.

Logan Center Family Saturdays 2014 FAMILY MATINEES + FREE INTERACTIVE ART WORKSHOPS for ages 2-14! Parents welcome.

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MULTIDISCIPLINARY The Varieties of Historical Experience Spring Conference Fri-Sat, Apr 4-5 Alumni House (5555 S Woodlawn Ave) Convened by anthropologists Stephan Palmie, UChicago, and Charles Stewart, University College London, the aim of this conference is to bring together specialists from a variety of disciplines (media studies, literature, history, sociology of knowledge, philosophy, and anthropology, among others) to present empirical case studies of various forms of historical mediation and experience in the West. This conference is part of the Neubauer Collegium project, The Anthropology of History. Visit neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events to RSVP. Free.

Presented by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.

Absence is Fullness: A (E)utopian Assembly Sundays, Through Apr 13, 12–2pm Arts Incubator Absence is Fullness: A (E)utopian Assembly is an experimental forum hosted by artist-inresidence, Andres L. Hernandez. Focused on broader themes of absence and emptiness across multiple disciplines, monthly assemblies will explore how absence can be an opportunity to imagine possibility. Come out and participate in collaborative art making, film screenings, performances, readings, and/or talks. Free.

Presented by Arts + Public Life, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Center for (E)utopian Imagination, and the Urban Vacancy Research Initiative.

South Asian Student Association presents SASA Night: SASA 101 Sat, Apr 5, 5:30pm Bartlett Hall and Reynolds Club The South Asian Student Association presents an evening of South Asian food, culture, dance, song, and all around fun! $10-$22 (meal options).

Presented by The South Asian Student Association, Student Government Finance Committee, Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, Mac, and Zipcar.

How the Civic Knowledge Project at the University of Chicago forms reciprocal relationships with the community through the arts and humanities Tue, Apr 8, 12–1:20pm Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Rm 289B (1155 E 60th St) Senior Program Managers Erika Dudley and Joanie Friedman describe two related programs. The Odyssey Project is a yearlong course in the humanities that connects UChicago faculty to individuals at or below the poverty line. The Southside Arts and Humanities Network brings together leaders from over 150 small cultural organizations on the south side in order to share resources and build capacity.

Free.

Presented by the Cultural Policy Center.

Fabricating Color: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Color and Method Sat, April 26 8:30am–5pm Logan Center and Gray Center Lab Fabricating Color, co-organized by Nicolas Gaskill, Rutgers University, and Jonathan Schroeder, UChicago, in partnership with the Arts|Science Initiative, brings together fifteen artists, humanists, social scientists, and scientists for whom color is a lifelong source of fascination. The questions that motivate these speakers—What is color?

How do humans and animals make sense of color? How does color come to have social and cultural meaning?— speak also to the readiness with which the topic of color traverses the disciplines. This multidisciplinary conference marks a major assessment of both what we know about color and how our research methods help shape these specific understandings. Free.

Sponsored by the Fishbein Center for the History of Science, Franke Institute of Humanities, Department of English Language and Literature, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Arts|Science Initiative, and Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture.

Organization of Latin American Students Cultural Show: Expresión Sat, April 12, 5:30pm Mandel Hall This festive night includes student choreographed performances, live music, outside performers, and an art fair featuring various Chicago artists! Optional dinner served at 5:30pm. Cost TBA. Presented by the Organization of Latin American Students.

queerness, feminism, and daily life into small towns and big cities. Always bringing a mixture of award-winners and best-sellers with up-and-comers, a Sister Spit show is like nothing else: an inspiring glimpse into other ways of living, thinking, and being, infused with humor, darkness, and camp.

The 2014 Sister Spit lineup includes: Ali Leibegott, Beth Lisick, Dia Felix, Chinaka Hodge, Virgie Tovar, Lenelle Moise, Rhiannon Argo, and Alice Bag. Sister Spit is hosted by Kristen Schilt and Chase Joynt as a part of their Mellon Fellowship for Arts Practice & Scholarship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

Visit graycenter.uchicago.edu for more info and to RSVP. Free.

Presented by the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

Sister Spit Mon, Apr 14, 7–9pm – performance Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Mon, April 14, 12-1:30pm – lunch & discussion Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality Since its maiden voyage in 1997, Sister Spit has been taking vanloads of cuttingedge, razor-sharp writers, poets, and performance artists into the wilds of North America, bringing a radical vision of

What Mammals Want: A Public Lecture

by Jeanne Gang Mon, Apr 28, 5:15–6:30pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Jeanne Gang received the Rosenberger Medal on June 15, 2013, for her architectural work to transform the skyline and landscape of Chicago while catalyzing interdisciplinary thought about how architecture and urban planning informed by research at multiple scales can produce new ways of inhabiting our environments.

The Utility of the Creative Process Tue, Apr 15, 12-1:20pm Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Rm 289B (1155 E 60th St) John Michael Schert, Chicago Booth and UChicago Arts’ Visiting Artist and Social Entrepreneur, describes how the creative process can be of relevance and value to other sectors including business, economics, government and healthcare.

Free.

Presented by the Cultural Policy Center.

Reception to follow. Free, RSVP required at reply.uchicago.edu/Rosenberger.

Presented by the Office of the President, UChicago Economic Activity and Arts Participation: National and Local Insights Tue, Apr 29, 4-5:30pm Chicago Cultural Center, 1st Floor Garland Room (78 E Washington St) Discussion with Sunil Iyengar, Research and Analysis Director at the National Endowment for the Arts, and Jennifer Novak-Leonard, Research Manager at the Cultural Policy Center. Free.

Presented by the Cultural Policy Center.

Breaking The Bread Divide: A Live GuildCast on Food Justice Wed, Apr 30, 7–9pm Logan Center, Seminar Terrace Room The sustainable food movement has rejuvenated holistic thinking on agriculture, food production, and consumption. But lost in the movement is how to bring wholesome, quality food to all and not to just those that can afford it. In a live version of GuildCast, a monthly podcast by Guild Literary Complex, journalist Debbie Carlson talks to artists, journalists, and activists about food justice and how to address the divide. Free.

As part of UChicago Arts’ Let’s Get Working, a three-day festival celebrating the legacy of Studs Terkel.

A Conversation with Steven Tepper— arts, engagement, and protest Tue, May 6, 12–1:20pm Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Rm 289B (1155 E 60th St) Steven Tepper is Dean of Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, author of Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest Over Art and Culture in America, and contributing

4th Annual Matsuri Spring Festival Fri, May 16, 5pm Logan Center, Performance Hall This year’s festival includes traditional Japanese drums by Ho Etsu Taiko, shamisen jazz by Tatsu Aoki, and martial arts demonstration by the UChicago Judo Club. Show will be followed by an interactive booth session for a first-hand cultural experience, traditional “yatai” style carnival food, and sushi. General $12, with UCID $10.

Presented by Japanese Student Association.

Freakonomics Authors: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner discuss Think Like a Freak: How to Solve Problems, Win Fights, and Be a Slightly Better Person Sat, May 17, 3 PM Logan Center In this dynamic, essential book, the authors of Freakonomics turn your brain inside out, teaching you how to think like a freak.

Levitt and Dubner analyze the decisions we make, the plans we create, and the morals we choose. They show us how their insights can be applied to daily life to make smarter, harder, and better decisions. Tickets include a copy of Think Like a Freak, and the authors will sign books after the talk. Tickets available via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, and ticketsweb.uchicago. edu. $28.99.

Presented by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore and the Logan Center.

The Voice Project Spring Workshop Fri, May 2, 9am–5:15pm Regenstein Library, Rm 122 The workshop will broaden the faculty group’s dialogue and engagements with ‘voice’ by collaborating with theorists and practitioners working on the voice in other parts of the country. This workshop is part of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society’s The Voice Project. Visit neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events to RSVP. Free.

Presented by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.

Festival of Nations Sun, May 18, 8am–1pm International House, Assembly Hall Join International House residents, alumni, and various Chicago-based community organizations for an afternoon cultural celebration featuring food, music, dance, and exhibits from all over the world. Free.

Presented by the International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series and Community Fellows Program.

Clinard Dance Theater Workshop Fri, Apr 18, 1-4pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Join pianists of the Estrella Duo (Dr. Svetlana Belsky and Elena Doubovitskaya), dancer Wendy Clinard, and painter/writer Dmitry Samarov for a workshop inspired by their collaborative work, Chicago’s Watershed: A 156 Mile Choreography.

Participants should come prepared to investigate impossibilities/questions/ problems/ ideas in a physical, musical, and visual manner. Attention, curiosity, and rigorous imagination are prerequisites.

Dancers, writers/poets, musicians, and visual artists are encouraged to attend.

Visit hatchfund.org/project chicagos_ watershed_a_156_mile_choreography to learn more about the work. Free. RSVP required: logancenter@uchicago.edu.

The Talking Cure?: A Theory of Social Interpretation in the Live + Digital Era Tue, May 20, 12-1:20pm Harris School of Public Policy Studies (1155 E 60th St, Rm 289B) A conversation with Lynne Conner, Professor of Theater and Dance at Colby College and author of Audience Engagement and the Role of Arts Talk in the Digital Era. Details at culturalpolicy. uchicago.edu. Free.

Presented by the Cultural Policy Center.

Afterword: The AACM (as) Opera May 2014, various Gray Center Lab George Lewis, New York-based composer and scholar, Sean Griffin, Los Angelesbased composer and director of Opera Povera, and Catherine Sullivan, film and theater artist and faculty member in UChicago’s Department of Visual Arts, embark on the creation of an opera, film, and related community presentations based on the final chapter of Lewis’ award-winning 2008 book A Power Stronger Than Itself: the AACM and American Experimental Music. This Mellon Fellowship for Arts Practice & Scholarship at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry launches in Spring 2014. Free.

Presented by the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

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Tribute to Charles Mingus Fri, Apr 4, 8pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse An evening of music and poetry celebrating the work and legacy of the great jazz bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus. Free.

Presented by the Borderbend Arts Collective.

author of Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life.

Free.

Presented by the Cultural Policy Center.

QUIRE & PLACE III: THE THIRD SEASON

CINEMA & MEDIA DANCE LITERATURE MUSIC PERFORMANCE THEATER VISUAL ART

FOTA Spring Arts Festival Fri–Fri, May 9–16, various Student organization Festival of the Arts (FOTA) presents its annual Spring Arts Festival that showcases student work in a range of media. Over eight days, FOTA presents a fashion show, intimate workshops, cafe galleries, performing arts such as dance and music from both individual artists and the larger collective, and much more. The Spring Arts Festival reveals the eclectic, avant garde, and bold work being made by UChicago students, and invites you to share in the experience.

Launch Party: Advance $5, door $7. Other events free.

Presented by FOTA. May 9: Launch Party (Reynolds Club, 8-11 pm) Featuring student groups Dirt Red Brass Band, MODA, and Glass Eyeball

ST.JOHNPASSION CHAPEL SUNDAY APRIL 13, 3 PM ROCKEFELLER 5850 SOUTH WOODLAWN The third and last concert in the current season features James MacMillan’s massive St. John Passion for large orchestra and double choral forces at Rockefeller Chapel. It will be performed by Rockefeller Chapel Choir and Motet Choir in partnership with Northwestern University Chorale, Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, and Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, with Evan Bravos, baritone, under the direction of choral visionary Donald Nally. Sponsored in part by the Doris Taub fund for choral music.

Tickets $20 online at rockefeller.uchicago.edu or at the door. Free to students with university ID.

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May 11: Art Should Student Art Fair (location and time TBA) A collaboration between FOTA and Art Should to give an opportunity for student artists to sell their work and share with the wider community.

May 12: Comedy Night (Reynolds Club, FXK Theater; Time TBA) A night of laughs, gasps, and giggles featuring UChicago groups Occam’s Razor, Off Off Campus, Le Vorris and Vox Circus, and more! Expect improv, stand-up, and shenanigans.

May 13: Art Making on the Quad (Main Quads, time TBA) Outside the Lines leads a workshop for free drawing and art making open to all levels of artists. Other activities will include a dance and drawing collaborative artwork and workshops by the Ceramics Club.

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May 14: Performance Penthouse Night (Logan Center, time TBA) FOTA continues its experimentation with the Live Gallery Studio where artists can blur the lines between work-in-progress and finished piece. Featured artists will include a chef, visual artists, avant garde musicians, and performers.

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May 15: Word and Movement (location and time TBA) Student spoken word group Catcher and the Rhyme and dance team PhiNix combine words and movement. The ebb and flow of rhyme will be matched by the physical manifestations of the dancers.

May 16: FOTA Finale (Reynolds Club, time TBA) To end FOTA Week with a bang, multiple a cappella groups will join in singing a giant mash-up compilation. The audience is encouraged to join in and sing along! Dance party will follow.

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May 10: Performance Night (location and time TBA) A showcase of solo and small groups of dancers and musicians and cultural performances.

The Logan Center is a multidisciplinary home for the arts at the University of Chicago. Connect with the Logan Center for concerts, exhibitions, performances, programs, and more from world-class, emerging, local, and student artists.

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Committed Knitters: A Program of the Southside Economic Development Project Wed, Apr 2, 12–3pm Arts Incubator Committed Knitters build a sense of community through knitting and crocheting.

Learn the basics or use as a refresher course on how to knit or crochet and make a project. If you already know how to knit or crochet, join to share ideas. All supplies will be provided. Free.

Presented by Arts + Public Life, Loopy Yarns, and Committed Knitters.

Logan Center Family Saturdays Sat, Apr 12, 2–4:30pm This month’s family-friendly day includes free, interactive art workshops presented in partnership with local artists, arts organizations, and student organizations. Logan Center Family Saturdays aims to create an educational and exciting environment for families from all walks of life. RSVP for free work shops via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, or ticketsweb. uchicago.edu. Presented by the Logan Center and Arts + Public Life.

CPS South Region All-City Elementary Exhibition April 3-5 Logan Center, Lower & Second Levels, Gidwitz Lobby One of four regional exhibitions showcasing work from CPS Elementary Schools. This exhibition features work from elementary students from schools throughout the South Region of the Chicago. For more info, visit www.cpsarts.org. Free.

Presented by CPS Department of Arts Education, Logan Center, and Arts + Public Life.

Ancient Earth Sun, Apr 27, 2–4pm Oriental Institute Museum We love our Earth now, and so did the ancient Egyptians! Learn how the ancient Egyptians cared for the Earth and how they thought it was created. Learn the ancient Egyptian names for animals and hieroglyphs for nature, and create one of ancient Egypt’s favorite games out of recycled materials (BYO empty egg carton). Recommended for ages 5–12.

Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Visit oi.uchicago.edu/order/classes to register. Free.

Family Day: Ultra Sounds Exquisite Corpses Sat, Apr 5, 1–4pm Smart Museum of Art Turn the invisible visible and the real surreal during an afternoon of family art activities at the Smart. Combine ultrasounds with the ultimate Surrealist parlor game to make exquisite corpse drawings using slides of your insides.

The ultrasound machine will be operated

by Brian Callender, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine and co-curator of the exhibition Imaging/ Imagining. All materials provided.

Activities are best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult. Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Cellobration!

Sun, Apr 6, 3pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Cellos, cellos, and more cellos! Students and faculty perform on this festival of celli. Come see a stage full of tiny cellos, medium-sized cellos, and big cellos, and learn about this amazing, beautiful instrument. Did we mention we had cellos?

General $15, children free.

Presented by the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute.

Family Day: About Face Sat, May 3, 1–4pm Smart Museum of Art Join us for a springtime face-painting and mask-making festival at the Smart!

Transform into a Chinese opera character from The White Snake or something else entirely. All materials provided. Activities are best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult. Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Dancing Beyond Borders Sat, May 3, 7pm Logan Center, Performance Hall This fourth annual spring dance concert will feature dance styles from around the world and celebrate how the spirit of dance connects us all. The performance will showcase the artistic passion and talent of the UChicago Charter School students, celebrate graduating seniors, and highlight the exceptional work that has emerged from an ongoing partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. General $15, students/children $10.

Presented by UChicago Charter School Woodlawn Campus.

Family Day: Snake Stories and Plush Puppets Sat, Jun 7, 1–4pm Oriental Institute Museum and Smart Museum of Art Enjoy a family afternoon full of puppetmaking and folklore-sharing! First, visit the Oriental Institute to hear the ancient folktale “A Donkey Reads” and create a take-home shadow puppet. Then, slither over to the sssssSmart for sssssstorytelling and a fun plush project. After reading the tale of “The White Snake” and exploring the art in Performing Images, make your own plush stuffed snake and sock puppets based on the characters in this Chinese legend. All materials provided. Activities are best for kids ages 4–12, accompanied by an adult.

Free.

Presented by the Smart Museum of Art and the Oriental Institute.

Voilà! Violins!

Sun, May 4, 3pm Logan Center, Performance Hall What do frogs and a horse’s mane have to do with violins? Find out at this violin and viola extravaganza! Performers ages three and up will delight you with the music of Bach, Vivaldi, and more. General $15, children free.

Presented by the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute.

Celebrate Families!

Sun, May 18, 2–4pm Oriental Institute Museum Everyone from great-grandma to uncles and cousins are invited to this celebration of families both ancient and modern. Take a tour of our galleries and meet ancient Egyptian families through their artifact “family photos.” Create hieroglyphic cards of appreciation for your loved ones and enjoy the stories and legends shared among ancient Egyptian families. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Visit oi.uchicago.edu/order/classes to register. Free.

Logan Center Family Saturdays: Fiddlin’ with Stories Sat, May 31, 2–4:30pm Storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston and string jazz musician John Blake Jr. perform Fiddlin’ with Stories, a performance of four stories that reinforces community values

All About Dance—The Legacy Continues 1933-2014 Sun, Jun 15, 3pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Annual Review celebrating the Sammy Dyer School of Theatre’s 81st anniversary, including song, dance (tap, ballet, jazz, hip hop), acrobatics, and tumbling. Recommended for ages three and up. Call 773-651-3210 for tickets. $20-$25.

Presented by Sammy Dyer School of Theatre.

Barrel of Monkeys Celebration of Authors Tue, Jun 3, 6pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Barrel of Monkeys presents an evening of stories written by 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade Chicago Public School Students, adapted and performed by professional Chicago actors. Free.

Presented by Barrel of Monkeys.

South Side Suzuki Cooperative Spring Concert Sun, Jun 15, 2 pm Logan Center, Performance Penthouse This concert will feature students from the South Side Suzuki Cooperative’s group classes and after-school programs performing classical favorites on the violin and viola. General $6, children free.

Presented by the South Side Suzuki Cooperative.

Pianopalooza Sun, Jun 8, 3pm Logan Center, Performance Hall Bring the whole family to experience a celebration of the piano with student and faculty (and audience!) performers. Learn about this versatile instrument and see how much it can do! General $15, children free.

Presented by the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute.

Logan Center Family Saturdays— Chicago’s Watershed: A 156-Mile Choreography Sat, Jun 28, 2–4:30pm A contemporary dance company rooted in flamenco, Clinard Dance Theatre will bring families together and expose them to the rich history of flamenco dance.

This monthly family program also

includes free, interactive art workshops presented in partnership with local artists, arts organizations, and student organizations. Logan Center Family Saturdays aims to create an educational and exciting environment for families from all walks of life. Buy matinee tickets and RSVP for free work shops via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, or ticketsweb.uchicago.edu.

Presented by the Logan Center and Arts + Public Life.

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and keeps history alive. This monthly family program also includes free, interactive art workshops presented in partnership with local artists, arts organizations, and student organizations. Logan Center Family Saturdays aims to create an educational and exciting environment for families from all walks of life. Buy matinee tickets and RSVP for free work shops via the Logan Center box office, 773-702-ARTS, or ticketsweb.uchicago.edu.

Presented by the Logan Center and Arts + Public Life.

INFO TRANSPORTATION Getting to the University of Chicago is just a quick car, bike, train, or bus ride away. For more detailed transportation information go to visit.uchicago.edu.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) The CTA is Chicago’s public transportation system, offering a large network of buses, elevated trains, and subways around the city. Take the 2, 4, 6, or X28 bus from downtown Chicago or take the Red or Green Line train toward the Garfield/55th stop and transfer to the 55 Garfield bus. Fares are $2.25 per ride. >> Tip Download Transloc Transit Visualization, the real-time bus location and arrival app, uchicago.transloc.com.

Metra Train The Metra Electric District Line commuter rail runs from the downtown Millennium Station hub at Randolph & Michigan to University Park, IL. Exit at either the 55th-56th-57th or 59th/ University stops at UChicago. Visit metrarail.com for fares, timetables, and other details.

PARKING Limited street parking is available around campus.

Parking Garages The preferred visitor garage is located at 55th St and Ellis Ave.

Visitors may park at the Medical Campus parking garage, three blocks west at 59th St and Maryland Ave.

CALENDAR

VISITOR INFORMATION

This guide provides a list of highlights for the spring season, April–June, 2014. For a complete list of events and exhibitions, visit arts.uchicago.edu.

Need a recommendation for lunch? Want to know more about events and activities? Stop by any one of our information centers to find out which tours, cafés, or museums are best suited for your time on campus or go to visit.uchicago.edu.

LOCATIONS See pages 20-21 for a map of over 20 arts locations on or near our southside campus.

TICKETS Learn about and buy tickets for arts events and performances at the University of Chicago through the UChicago Arts Box Office online, in person, and over the phone. To purchase tickets for Court Theatre, visit courttheatre.org or call 773-753-4472.

Box Office URL ticketsweb.uchicago.edu Address Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E 60th St (south entrance) Chicago, IL 60637

Walk-up Hours Tue–Sat, 12 pm–6 pm (later on show nights) Sun–Mon Closed Phone 773.702.ARTS (2787)

Information Center Edward H. Levi Hall 5801 S Ellis Ave, Suite 120 Chicago, IL 60637

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 915 E 60th St (at Drexel Ave) Chicago, IL 60637 773.702.ARTS (2787)

ACCESSIBILITY Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in events should contact the event sponsor for assistance. Visit answers.uchicago.edu/19772 for information on Assistive Listening Devices.

ACCOMMODATIONS Located in the heart of Hyde Park’s new Harper Court development, Hyatt Place (5225 S Harper Ave) is a LEEDcertified, six-story hotel with contemporary amenities including a cafe bar, indoor pool, fitness facility, and easily accessible and affordable valet parking. Visit chicagosouthuniversity.place.hyatt.com or call 773-752-5300.

BIKING Bike racks can be found at various locations on campus. All CTA buses are equipped with bike racks, and Metra allows bikes on trains with some limitations.

Chicago’s Divvy Bike system has many new and upcoming stations in and around Hyde Park. The 24-hour bike pass will provide you with unlimited rides for up to 30 minutes.

Find more information and a full map of Chicago stations at divvybikes.com.

The Bike Center at 53rd St and Lake Park Ave hosts rentals, repairs, bike parking, as well as showers and lockers. You can find more information about bike tours and rentals at choosechicago.org.

CABS & CAR SHARES You can find cabs in front of the DCAM at the corner of Maryland Ave and E 58th St, or you can order one online or over the phone.

Chicago Private Car (black sedans booked in advance, usually cost 15 percent more): 773.594.9021 Flash Cab: 773.561.4444 or taxiwithus.com i-Go Car Sharing: 773.278.4446 or igocars.org Uber Private Car (Standard taxis, private cars, and SUVs on demand only. Pay via smartphone app, no cash needed): uber.com Yellow Cab: 312.829.4222 or yellowcabchicago.com ZipCar: 866.4ZIPCAR (866.494.7227) or zipcar.com

Image credits Page 4, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, photo by Tom Rossiter; Page 6, Teen Paranormal Romance (2014) installation view, courtesy The Renaissance Society; Page 7, X-ray of a hand holding a feather duster from Walter König’s 14 Photographien mit Röntgen-Strahlen (1896), John Crerar Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine, The University of Chicago Library; Page 7, MFA Thesis Exhibition image by Danny Volk; Page 8, Chinese, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), Late Tongzhi (1862–1874) and Guangxu (1875–1908) Periods, Half-Length Portrait of Opera Character, ca. 1870s–1900, album painting on bi-fold leaf, ink and gilt on silk, courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Page 12, reconstructed Diyala statues by Michael Rakowitz, courtesy the Oriential Institute Museum; Page 12, Matthew Jesse Jackson, photo courtesy Jackson; Page 13, Neil Shubin, photo courtesy PBS; Page 14, still from Woman, Demon, Human (Huang Shugin, China, 1987, 16mm, 108 min, print courtesy of Pacific Film Archive); Page 14, still from Medium Cool ((Haskell Wexler, 1969, 35mm film print, 111 minutes); Page 14, still from It’s a Living (Produced at Videopolis with Studs Terkel; 60 min, WTTW); Page 15, still from Gate (Tatsu Aoki, 2010); Studs Terkel (2014), illustration by Illustrated Press; Page 17, Chicago illustration by Illustrated Press; Page 18, Logan Center poetry performance photo by Jason Smith; Page 19, Global Literary Networks illustration courtesy Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society; Page 19, Lynne Tillman, photo courtesy the artist; Page 22, Spektral Quartet, photo courtesy the artists; Page 22, Jazz hat guy; Page 23, Rockefeller concert photo by Robert Kozloff; Page 23, University Symphony Orchestra, photo courtesy of the Department of Music, UChicago; Page 23, Patricia Barber, photo by Jammi York; Page 24, Tsukasa Taiko, photo courtesy of the artists; Page 25, Voices in Your Head, photo courtesy the artists; Page 26, Annual Cathy Heifetz Concert image courtesy the Department of Music, UChicago; Page 26, Lan Weiwei, photo courtesy the artist; Page 27, Peking Opera performance, photo courtesy Tianjin Peking Opera Company; Page 27, performance photo courtesy Theater & Performance Studies, UChicago; Page 28, Joanna colour Lahore, photo by Ritesh Das; Page 28, Sean Fortunato and Nathaniel Braga, photo by joe mazza/brave lux inc, courtesy Court Theatre; Page 29, Chicago’s Watershed performance photo by Kristie Kahns, courtesy Clinard Dance Theatre; Page 30, Charles Newell, photo courtesy Court Theatre; Page 31, Sean Fortunato and Nathaniel Braga, photo by joe mazza/brave lux inc, courtesy Court Theatre; Page 32, Out of Site, Andres L. Hernandez (2013, digital photograph); Page 32, Fabricating Color image by Christopher Bucklow; Page 33, John Michael Schert, courtesy of Schert; Page 33, The Voice Project image courtesy of Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society; Page 35, FOTA Festival, photo courtesy FOTA; Page 36, from The White Snake, written and illustrated by Erik L. Peterson; Page 38, photo by Tom Rossiter, courtesy the University of Chicago.

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An additional parking garage can be found at 6054 S Drexel Ave, near the Logan Center for the Arts, open to non-permit holders after 9am.

Parking Lot Wells Lot, located at 60th St and Drexel Ave, is free after 4pm and all day on weekends.

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