News and Updates
Spring 2010
Art Event This Week: Mrs. Caliban at Lifeline Theatre
Thursday, February 25
Join Dorothy on a whimsical and heartbreaking journey as she dares to live — and love — unconventionally, in this remarkable drama acclaimed as one of the greatest post-war American novels.
Student Event: Progressive Dinner
Saturday, February 20
A Chicago Semester tradition that does not disappoint! Enjoy a meal made by fellow CSers and make sure to save room for dessert!
Art Event This Week: The Art Institute of Chicago
Thursday, February 18
We’ll explore the new Modern Wing of the world-renowned museum.
Art Event This Week: Hughie/Krapp’s Last Tape at Goodman Theatre
Thursday, February 11
Legendary actor Brian Dennehy returns in two Broadway-bound plays by the most renowned playwrights of the 20th century: Eugene O’Neill and Samuel Beckett.
Fall 2009
Art Event This Week: Khmer Cultural Dance Troupe
Wednesday, Nov. 18 – Old Town School of Folk Music
The Old Town School of Folk Music presents an evening of traditional Cambodian music and dance. The troupe features master Cambodian musicians Bun San and Song San leading a traditional pinpeat (pluck and strike) musical ensemble complemented by folk and classical dance under the direction of Sareth and Sarun Kong.
Art Event This Week: Woman Made Gallery and Intuit
Thursday, Nov. 12
Woman Made Gallery supports, cultivates and promotes the diverse contributions of women in the arts through exhibitions and other programs that serve, educate and enrich the community. Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art defines "intuitive and outsider art" as work of artists who demonstrate little influence from the mainstream art world and who seem instead motivated by their unique personal visions.
Chicago Bulls Game
Saturday, Nov. 7 – United Center
We’ll cheer on the Bulls as they take on the Bobcats. Get excited to see Benny the Bull and a shout out to Chicago Semester on the Jumbotron!
Art Event This Week: Fake
Thursday, Nov. 5 – Steppenwolf Theatre
Swinging back and forth through time, Fake investigates assumptions about evolution, faith and science—and how we are transformed by our quest for the truth.
Service Project at the ReBuilding Exchange
Saturday, Oct. 24
Join the efforts of The ReBuilding Exchange by helping organize, move building materials, and clean. Work hard and learn about sustainable business!
Art Event This Week: Chicago Symphony Ochestra
Thursday, Oct. 22 – Symphony Center
Filled with comfort and reflection for the living more than with lamentations for the dead, A German Requiem marked a turning point in Brahms’ career. Music Director Designate Riccardo Muti completes his two-week residency with this beloved and uplifting choral masterpiece.
Art Event This Week: Joffrey Ballet’s Othello
Wednesday, Oct. 14 – Auditorium Theater
The Joffrey premiere of Lar Lubovitch’s full-length, three-act ballet. Chicago-born Lubovitch brings his rhapsodic interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic tale of passion, jealousy, ambition and betrayal. Lubovitch’s compelling synthesis of classical and modern movement is heightened by a powerful score by Academy Award winner Elliot Goldenthal.
Art Event This Week: Art Institute of Chicago
Thursday, Oct. 8
Take a self-guided tour of the new Modern Wing. Designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano, the Modern Wing provides a new home for the museum’s collection of 20th and 21st-century art. Now a decade in the making, this 264,000 square-foot building makes the Art Institute the second largest art museum in the United States. The building houses the museum’s world-renowned collections of modern European painting and sculpture, contemporary art, architecture and design, and photography. The Modern Wing allows the Art Institute to take its rightful place as one of the world’s great collections of modern and contemporary art.
Service Project with Neighbors United in New Possibilities
Saturday, Oct. 3, Rogers Park
We’ll be doing gardening and yard work at Gale Elementary School’s greenhouse. This is a great way to get to know the Rogers Park neighborhood and spend time with other CSers while doing worthwhile work for the community!
Art Event This Week: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Thursday, Oct. 1 – Dance Center of Columbia College
World-class dancers perform the ever iconoclastic work of a dance genius and international treasure with the return of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC). Over the past six decades, Cunningham created more than 200 dances presented in one of two formats: repertory (comprised of completed dance works) and Events, which are of an overall set length but draw on excerpts from various works in the repertory assembles as a choreographic montage.
Progressive Dinner
Saturday, September 26, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
One of the most beloved Chicago Semester traditions offers a chance to chow down on food made by fellow CSers and enjoy the ambience of the student apartments. Start fasting now!!
Art Event This Week: The History Boys
Thursday, Sept. 24 – TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys follows a rambunctious group of clever young men as they pursue higher learning, games, sexual identity and a place at university. Set in 1980s England, it is a hilarious and provocative play about the anarchy of adolescence and the purpose of education — specifically, how history should be taught.
Spring 2009
Final Party
Wednesday, Apr. 29, 6:00 p.m. – The Parthenon Restaurant
This semester has flown by, but before we start saying goodbye we need to take some time to celebrate! We’ll be distributing awards for those nominated for “Who’s Who of CS Spring 2009” and we’ll enjoy memories of the semester with the picture slideshow. And of course there will be a smorgasbord of food. Click here for more...
Art Event This Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, Apr. 23, 8:00 p.m. – Symphony Center
Maestro Haitink leads the CSO in Schubert's sublime Great Symphony, considered the composer's finest orchestral work. The program also features Mahler's rich Rückert Lieder for voice and orchestra and Webern's early composition Im Sommerwind, a luxuriously romantic work. Read more here...
Art Event This Week: The Tempest
Thursday, Apr. 16, 7:30 p.m. – Steppenwolf Theatre
In Shakespeare’s final work, Prospero is exiled to an enchanted island where he harnesses the powers of magic and masters the spirits that dwell there. His desire for revenge drives him to conjure a mighty storm trapping his enemies on the island. Steppenwolf ensemble member Tina Landau re-imagines this magical tale of art, freedom and the transformative power of forgiveness.
Art Event This Week: Rent
Wednesday, Apr. 8, 7:30 p.m. – Oriental Theatre
Rent tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of AIDS. It is the seventh longest-running show in Broadway history and performance will feature original cast members Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp.
Art Event This Week: Gallery Walk on Milwaukee Avenue
Thursday, Mar. 26, 6:00 p.m.
The tour starts at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art featuring the exhibit Sticks where self-taught artists use whatever materials are available to them. Jan Petry curates this exhibit celebrating those artists who have picked up a stick and made it their own. Tree trunks, branches, telephone poles, toothpicks…transformed in the hands of those with the vision to see in the humble stick what others do not. It continues to Woman Made Gallery which supports, cultivates and promotes the diverse contributions of women in the arts through exhibitions and other programs that serve, educate and enrich the community.
Art Event This Week: Buckminster Fuller: Starting With the Universe
Tuesday, Mar. 17, 6:00 p.m. – Museum of Contemporary Art
Philosopher. Forecaster. Designer. Poet. Inventor. Advocate of alternative energy. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the greatest American thinkers of the 20th century -- and a visionary for the 21st. Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe is the first major US exhibition of Fuller's work in 35 years and a testament to his fascinating mix of utopian vision and organic pragmatism. A combination of models, sketches, and other artifacts -- many on view for the first time -- represent six decades of the artist's integrated approach to housing, transportation, communication, and cartography.
Community Dinner
Wednesday, Mar. 18, 5:30 p.m. – CS Office
A night of PANDA-monium! Enjoy a free dinner from Panda Express followed by a showing of Kung Fu Panda.
Art Event This Week: Our Town
Thursday, Mar. 12, 7:30 p.m. – Lookingglass Theatre
The citizens of Grover's Corners share the ultimate tale of community in this American classic, newly envisioned by Tony Award-winning Steppenwolf Ensemble Member Anna D. Shapiro and Steppenwolf Artistic Associate Jessica Thebus. The Lookingglass Ensemble will infuse the play with a singular chemistry you won't see anywhere else. In the hands of these renowned artists, Thornton Wilder's masterpiece will be disarmingly beautiful, utterly compelling and painfully funny.
Chicago Bulls Game
Friday, Mar. 6, 7:30 p.m. – United Center
Get in on some NBA action and watch the Bulls take on Milwaukee. Don’t miss Benny the Bull getting the crowd pumped up before the game. Keep your eye on the JumboTron during halftime to see a shout out to Chicago Semester! Go Bulls!
Art Event This Week: Dada Machinations
Tuesday, Mar. 3, 7:30 p.m. – Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Risk=Reward? The ultimate Dada musical score for 16 player pianos, percussion electric bells, siren, and 3 airplane propellers, Ballet mécanique is a riotous fusion of industrial sounds and Jazz with dense timbral clusters. Zuidam and Veldhuis’s tour-de-force chamber works are virtuoso vehicles full of improvisation and vigor, while the Fluxus works are sure to astonish you. Worth the Risk!
Progressive Dinner
Saturday, Feb. 21, 5:00-8:00 p.m. -- Student Apartments
One of the most beloved student traditions offers a chance to chow down on food made by fellow CSers and enjoy the ambience of the student apartments. Start fasting now!
Art Event This Week: Gokh-Bi System
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 8:30 p.m. -- Old Town School of Folk Music
Gokhi-Bi System is a Senegalese group that has been instrumental in shaping and defining the African brand of hip-hop; fusing ancient traditional rhythms with urban American beats. Stars in the booming Senegalese hip-hop scene since the late 90s, GBS burst on the international scene with their socially conscious lyrics, catching the eye of the U.S. media and performing major festivals including Chicago's World Music Festival.
Art Event This Week: Not Enough Air
Thursday, Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m. -- TimeLine Theatre Company
Not Enough Air follows famed journalist-turned-playwright Sophie Treadwell as she is drawn into the real-life tragedy of Ruth Snyder’s 1928 murder trial. Treadwell is haunted by Ruth’s story and finds herself compelled to bring it to the stage in the form of her landmark play Machinal, acclaimed as one of the highpoints of expressionist theater on an American stage. In this astonishing exploration of media sensationalism and ethics as well as interpretation and manipulation in the creative process, Obolensky illuminates the lives of two women who pushed against the limitations and expectations imposed upon them by society.
Art Event This Week: Japan Dance Now
Thursday, Feb. 5, 8:00 p.m. – Dance Center of Columbia College
Japan Dance Now features three of the hottest emerging contemporary dance companies in Japan in one multi-media evening. Nibroll, an inventive artist collective, brings together movement, media, sound, visual art and fashion design in an exploration of Japan’s youth culture. BABY-Q is a highly stylized multi-media performance group known for its cutting-edge use of multiple art forms and technology juxtaposed with the physicality of the human body. The Sennichimae Blue Sky Dance Club, is an all-female butoh-influenced company devoted to uncovering original physical expression with a pop sensibility.
Spring 2009 Semester Begins January 26, 2009
The spring semester kicks off soon at Hotel Allegro! It’s going to be a busy semester working at internships, learning in seminars and enjoying the city. Start packing now!
Fall 2008
Final Party
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 6:00 p.m. – The Parthenon
Before we start saying goodbye we need to take some time to celebrate! We will all come together at one of Greektown’s finest restaurants and enjoy a five course meal and remember all the fun we have had throughout the semester. Opa!
Community Dinner
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 5:00 p.m. – CS Office
We’ll be serving up some Italian food while you catch up with your fellow CSers. Why? Because we love you!
Art Event This Week: Margaret Garner Opera
Thursday, Nov. 6, 6:30 p.m. – Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
Margaret Garner is a new American opera based on one of the most significant fugitive slave stories in pre-Civil War America. Fleeing Kentucky's Maplewood Farm in 1856 to Ohio, Margaret Garner made the horrific decision to sacrifice her own children when facing recapture, rather than see them returned to the bonds of slavery. Her trial became the subject of intense national debate, addressing crucial issues in constitutional law and posing key questions at the core of the rift in the Union.
Art Event This Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m. – CSO
Berlioz brings Goethe's immortal text to life in his grand opera The Damnation of Faust. Conducted by Charles Dutoit, this French masterpiece tells the story of Faust's quest for unattainable knowledge and his dangerous bargain with the devil.
Art Event This Week: North Millwaukee Gallery Walk
Thursday, Oct. 23, 6:00 p.m. – Intuit and Woman Made Gallery
Each one features and supports the artwork of a specific group they feel needs more attention in the mainstream art world. Intuit focuses on Outsider Art while Woman Made is all about the work of women artists.
Art Event This Week: The Brothers Karamazov
Thursday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.—Lookingglass Theatre
Faith, philosophy, and passion collide in Dostoevsky’s murderous epic. Meet one of literature’s most lecherous, greedy and delightfully despicable fathers — Fyodor Karamazov. When his eldest son discovers they are competing for the affections of the same woman, concealed tensions erupt into a storm of passion, deceit and betrayal.
Community Dinner
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 5:30 p.m. – Chicago Semester Office
We know how much college students love free food, so join your fellow CSers for dinner and a chance to reconnect with people you maybe haven’t seen since orientation. Enjoy a movie in Adler once you’ve stuffed yourself.
Art Event This Week: Caroline, or Change
Thursday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m. – Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
Playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and composer Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie) have elegantly crafted this bold and uniquely poignant musical. Kushner brings his remarkable literary talent to his first musical—there are no easy choices for the characters to make, and each role is fully realized, complicated and deeply human. The thunder of the civil rights movement and John F. Kennedy’s death reverberates deeply through the script, provoking all characters to see their lives in a new light.
Art Event This Week: Dr. Egg and the Man With No Ear
Thursday, Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m. -- Redmoon Theater
Through puppetry, projected animation, original music, and performance, this exquisite production raises issues surrounding genetic modification in a fun and whimsical setting. Created and directed by Australian artist Jessica Wilson and based on an original story by Catherine Fargher, Dr. Egg and the Man with No Ear follows a man and his daughter as they encounter the mysterious Dr. Egg. Seeking a way to help her father regrow the ear that he lost years earlier in a freak accident with a snappy bull terrier, the girl is willing to take significant risks - even to sacrifice a part of herself. Co-directed by Redmoon Artistic Director Jim Lasko, Dr. Egg and the Man with No Ear provides entertainment and insight for children and adults alike.
Art Event This Week: David Dorfman Dance
Thursday, Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m. -- Dance Center of Columbia College
Since its founding in 1985, David Dorfman Dance has been celebrated for its exuberant, gorgeous and “delightfully oddball” style. The company has garnered an impressive list of critical honors, including seven New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies). On the program at The Dance Center are two socially and politically charged evening-length works. Disavowal, a world premiere inspired by abolitionist and (in)famous “race traitor” John Brown, is a critical examination of white supremacy, racism and alienation. underground is a compelling and provocative exploration of the principles of political activism that asks: When does activism become terrorism? Are killing and destruction ever justified?
Progressive Dinner
Saturday, September 20, 5:00-8:00 p.m. -- Student Apartments
One of the most beloved student traditions offers a chance to chow down on food made by fellow CSers and enjoy the ambience of the student apartments. Start fasting now!
Art Event This Week: Amadeus
Thursday, September 18 -- Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
Eighteenth-century Vienna is the setting, and two popular artists of the day are the protagonists in this award-winning drama based on the music and intertwining lives of the brilliant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his jealous rival, Court Composer Antonio Salieri. Believing that God has bestowed brilliance on an unmannered fool, Salieri attempts to destroy his rival.
Art Event This Week: Museum of Contemporary Art
Tuesday, Sept. 9, 6:00 p.m.--MCA
Enjoy a self-guided tour of the museum featuring current exhibits by one of the most well-known and intriguing artists of the 20th century Jeff Coons and inventor of the mobile Alexander Calder. Learn more at http://www.mcachicago.org.
Fall 2008 Semester Begins August 25, 2008
The fall semester kicks off soon at Hotel Allegro! It’s going to a busy semester full of internships, going to seminars and exploring the city. Start packing now!
Spring 2008
Final Party
Wednesday, April 30, 6:00 p.m. – The Parthenon
Before we start saying goodbye we need to take some time to celebrate! We will all come together at one of Greektown’s finest restaurants and enjoy a five course meal and remember all the fun we have had throughout the semester. Opa!
Art Event This Week: Picked Up
Thursday, April 24, 8:00 p.m. – Neo-Futurarium
Six new pilot episodes. But only 1 gets picked up. Television at its most theatric. We’ll be seeing the Neo-Futurist’s pilot for “Office Prison Break.” If you think your 9-5 job is bad, try doing 9 to life. At Solutions Inc. you can clock in but you can't clock out.
Cubs Game
Sunday, April 20, 1:20 p.m. – Wrigley Field
What do Chicagoans love more than deep dish pizza? The Cubbies! Don’t miss your chance to head to Wrigley Field and see the Cubs take on the Pittsburgh Pirates with the whole CS gang.
Art Event This Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 p.m. – Symphony Center
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Bethoven’s “Symphony No. 7” with featured pianist Yefim Bronfman.
Art Event This Week: Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. – Steppenwolf Theatre
Jean is sleepwalking through her life until she answers a dead man’s cell phone. It turns out to be a wake-up call that sends her on a date with the dead man’s brother, a drinking binge with his wife, and a mysterious rendezvous with his mistress. Not to mention trips to the afterlife and the black market. In this quirky modern adventure, Jean re-connects to her own spirit and learns that life is for the living.
Art Event This Week: Mary Oliver
Wednesday, April 2, 6:30 p.m. – Rubloff Auditorium at the Art Institute
Mary Oliver has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize (for American Primitive), the National Book Award for Poetry (for New and Selected Poems), the Lannan Foundation Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Art Event This Week: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m. – The Harris Theater for Music and Dance
The performance will feature three dances. Extremely Close by Alejandro Cerrudo is his second world premiere for HSDC, set to poignant and intimate piano solos. Set to international rhythms by Dead Can Dance, Japanese choreographer Toru Shimazaki’s Bardo is a mystical and mysterious journey between life and the afterworld. Counter/part by Jim Vincent was inspired by its music, Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, and features 10 dancers whose movement is a visual representation of the music.
Art Event This Week: Wicked
Wednesday, March 19, 7:30 p.m. – Oriental Theatre
Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.
Art Event This Week: Luis Rodriquez
Wednesday, Mar. 12, 6:30 p.m. – School of the Art Institute
Rodriguez is the author of several collections of poetry and has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and ForeWord magazine’s Silver Book Award, among others.
Blackhawks Game
Friday, March 7, 7:30 p.m.—United Center
Tickets are still available to see the Blackhawks take on the San Jose Sharks. Get in on some NHL action for only $10!
Art Event This Week: Edward Hopper & Winslow Homer
Thursday, Mar. 6, 6:00 p.m. – Art Institute of Chicago
Take in the works of two of America’s best-known painters and enjoy all the wonder that is the Art Institute.
Art Event This Week: Museum of Contemporary Art
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 6:00 p.m. – MCA
Enjoy a self-guided tour of the museum featuring current exhibits such as Alexander Calder in Focus and Gordon Matta-Clark: “You Are the Measure.”
Progressive Dinner
Saturday, February 23, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
One of the most beloved student traditions offers a chance to chow down on food made by fellow CSers and enjoy the ambience of the student apartments. Start fasting now!
Art Event This Week: The Dance COLEctive
Thursday, February 21, 8:00 p.m. – Dance Center of Columbia College
Under the direction of Margi Cole, The Dance COLEctive wil bring literary icons to life. Written on the Body explores the lives of the Brontë sisters in this exploration of duality. Creating masculine pseudonyms, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë all published works under more socially acceptable male pen names. In this densely layered piece, Cole interprets the Brontës’ masculine and feminine personas, using images of power, strength, vulnerability and intimacy.
Art Event This Week: RENT
Thursday, February 14, 7:00 p.m.—Cadillac Palace Theater
Set in the East Village of New York City, RENT is about being young and learning to survive in NYC. It's about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award® for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize, RENT has made a lasting mark on Broadway with songs that rock and a story that really resonates.
Spring 2008 Semester Kicks Off
Monday, January 28, 2:30 p.m. – Hotel Monaco
Orientation marks the beginning of the semester and an exciting time as students make their move to the city. Let the fun begin!
Fall 2007
Art Project Presentations
Thursday, Nov. 29, 5:30 p.m. – CS Office
Come and enjoy student presentations of their art projects for the Arts and the City seminar.
Final Party
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 6:00 p.m. – The Parthenon
But before we start saying goodbye we need to take some time to celebrate! We will all come together at one of Greektown’s finest restaurants and enjoy a five course meal and remember all the fun we have had throughout the semester. Opa!
Art Event This Week: Author Series
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 6:00 p.m. – Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Library Center
Chicago writers, Billy Lombardo, author of The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories (winner of the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction) and Tony Romano, author of When the World Was Young, and two-time winner of a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project, will read and discuss their works. Mr. Lombardo is a regular contributor to Cicada Magazine and Mr. Romano's stories have been produced for National Public Radio's The Sound of Writing Series.
Community Dinner & Neighborhood Presentations
Thursday, Nov. 8, 6:00 p.m. – CS Office
Enjoy dinner with fellow CSers and then we all come together for a festive evening of presentations. Each group will give a profile of the neighborhood they’ve visited this semester. Will there be costumes or game shows? We’ll have to wait and see!
Art Event This Week: Museum of Contemporary Art
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 6:00 p.m.
Enjoy the current exhibits featuring works by Alexander Calder, live dancers, and a fusion of art and rock and roll. Learn more at http://www.mcachicago.org.
Chicago Bulls Game
Friday, Nov 2., 7:30 p.m. – United Center
This sold out season opener is sure to be a great game! Make sure to be there with enough time to see the players introduction and Benny the Bull getting the crowd pumped up! Keep your eye on the JumboTron during halftime to see a shout out to Chicago Semester! Go Bulls!
Halloween Costume Contest
Wednesday, Oct. 31 – CS Office
Pull out your trusty old costume or whip up something new for the CS Costume Contest! A prize will be awarded for the best costume, so be creative!
Art Event This Week: No Child
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m. – Lookingglass Theatre
Acclaimed actress Nilaja Sun embodies multiple characters in her touching and riotous tour-de-force exploration of the public school system seen through the eyes of a young and idealistic teaching artist. Running for almost a year to sold out audiences in New York, Lookingglass patrons will be the first to see this remarkable production outside of the Big Apple. Learn more at http://www.lookingglasstheatre.org.
Art Event This Week: The Defiant Muse
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m. — The Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre
Swordplay. The fantastical theatricality of Baroque Theater. A 17th Century tale with a very modern hero. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the most celebrated writer in Mexican history, duels with the imaginary Don Juan, her literary alter ego, to reveal the spiritual process through which she discovers her true power and identity. Learn more at http://www.victorygardens.org.
Community Dinner & Job Search Workshop
Thursday, Oct.18, 5:30 p.m. - Chicago Semester Office
Gather with your fellow CSers to enjoy a meal brought to you by your favorite off-campus program. Following dinner, pick up some great tools for launching your professional career. See Judi for more details.
Art Event This Week: Giselle
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 5:30 p.m. - Joffrey Ballet – Harris Theater
Experience the Joffrey premiere of this immortal classic. First performed by the Paris Opera in 1841, ballet’s most famous ghost story about love and redemption has been enchanting audiences for more than 160 years. Learn more at http://www.joffrey.com.
Art Event This Week: Passion Play
Wednesday, Oct. 10 - Goodman Theatre
In this humorous yet unsettling look at the thorny relationship between politics and religion, Sarah Ruhl examines three explosive periods in history—Elizabethan England, pre-World War II Germany and post-Vietnam War America—as three towns stage the Passion play. Learn more at http://www.goodmantheatre.org
Art Event This Week: The Crucible
Wednesday, Oct. 3 - Steppenwolf Theatre
When teenage girls are discovered trying to conjure spirits, the 17th century town of Salem explodes with accusations of witchcraft. The vicious trials that follow expose a community paralyzed by fear, religious extremism and greed. Learn more at http://www.steppenwolf.org.
Art Event This Week: Giant Fix
Thursday, Sept. 27 - Hamlin Park Pool
Giant Fix, performed by the modern dance company The Seldoms, explores cubist principles in a large, drained outdoor pool to create the sense of an infinite, vast field in which the figures move. The performance features cubist-inspired sculptural costumes and abstracted colored-oil-and-water animation projected onto the pool floor. Learn more at http://www.theseldoms.org/upcoming.html.
Progressive Dinner
Saturday, Sept. 22 -5-8 p.m.
One of the most beloved student traditions, chow down on food made by fellow CSers and enjoy the ambience of the student apartments. Start fasting now!
Art Event This Week: The Color Purple
Wednesday, Sept. 19 - Cadillac Palace Theatre - http://www.broadwayinchicago.com
The Color Purple is an inspiring family saga that tells the unforgettable story of a woman who—through love—finds the strength to triumph over adversity and discover her unique voice in the world. Set to a joyous score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, and blues The Color Purple is a power of love and a celebration of life. Learn more at http://www.colorpurple.com.