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IN THIS ISSUE Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? arts.uchicago.edu 2 | arts.uchicago.edu interrogate and/or challengehow anobject, Tania Bruguera /SandiHilalandAlessandro conceptually, aesthetically, andpragmatically? image, orperformative intervention might FEATURED ARTISTS Carlos Javier Ortiz/LaurieJoReynolds from around theworld asthey propose, open upanovel visionofhumanrights. SATURDAY, APRIL29 Join agroup ofdistinguished artists Petti ofDecolonizing Architecture GRAYCENTER.UCHICAGO.EDU and Art Residency /ZaneleMuholi Logan Center for theArts, MONDAY, MAY 1 915 E60thSt, Chicago Lola Arias/JeliliAtiku / Pozen Family Center for HumanRights Reva and David Logan Center for theArts Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry Thurs, May18/7PMPerformancePenthouse Fri, May19/6PMCaféLogan Chicago StageattheLoganpresents JuliusTuckerQuartet and theLoganCenterforArts Presented inpartnershipwiththeJazz Institute Presented inpartnershipwithHyde ParkJazzFestival PLUS Reva andDavid LoganCenterfortheArts,915 E.60thSt. 773.702.ARTS (2787) | chicagopresents.uchicago.edu : Free Listening session with Vijay and Kate Dumbleton : FreeListeningsessionwithVijayandKateDumbleton VIJAY IYER SEXTET VIJAY IYERSEXTET FRIDAY, MAY19/7:30PM Tickets $35/$28 UCID/$5students EXPLORE ANCIENT 2O CO JAZZ AT THE LOGAN WORLD NC 14 ER /2 T SE O1 THE RI ES 5 1155 east 58th street1155 east 58th of Chicago of Chicago oi.uchicago.edu

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The University of Chicago is a ICON KEY destination where artists, scholars, UChicago student event students, and audiences converge and create. Explore our theaters, Concrete Happenings event performance spaces, museums Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial event and galleries, academic programs, cultural initiatives, and more. ON THE COVER An image from “Sixty Six” (2002–2015), a 12-part feature-length anthology of short For a full list of arts events at films by Lewis Klahr. Credit Lewis Klahr, via UChicago, visit arts.uchicago.edu. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Page 4: Wolf Vostell, Cadillac in Concrete, 1970, Part 1: Painted plaster, acrylic, pencil and crayon, on photographic print on chipboard; Part 2: Offset print on chipboard of a arts.uchicago.edu | 3 page spread from Artforum (September 1970). Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions and The James M. Wells Curatorial Discretion Acquisition Fund, 2016.18. Art © The Wolf Vostell Estate; Samuele Pucillo in “Fire at Sea,” a documentary by Gianfranco Rosi. 1h 54m; University of Michigan carillonneur Tiffany Ng combines electronic music with the bells. Photo by Nick Hagen; Summer Arts Fair photo courtesy of Arts + Public Life;Page 5: (Banner) Wolf Vostell, Fliegende Zementwolke ueber Chicago (Flying Cement Cloud over Chicago), 1970. Cement on print mounted on chipboard. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, 2016.17. Art © The Wolf Vostell Estate; Austin (Chad) Hill, preparing to launch a fixed-wing drone at Fifa, Jordan. Photo by Morag Kersel, courtesy of the Follow the Pots Project; Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The So-called Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli, 1763, From the Views of Rome, Etching on laid paper. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, University Transfer from Max Epstein Archive, Gift of the Carnegie Corporation, 1967.116.162; Page 6: Wolf Vostell, Cadillac in Concrete, 1970, Part 1: Painted plaster, acrylic, pencil and crayon, on photographic print on chipboard; Part 2: Offset print on chipboard of a page spread from Artforum (September 1970). Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions and The James M. Wells Curatorial Discretion Acquisition Fund, 2016.18. Art © The Wolf Vostell Estate; Correct Opinions artwork courtesy of Arts + Public Life; Looted pots image courtesy of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society; Page 7: Astrid Klein, Fly catcher III, 1987–91. Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers, Berlin. Photo by Tomek Ogrodowczyk; Shanna Zentner, detail of “Untitled" installation, vinyl paint on wall, dimensions variable, 2015; Zine scan courtesy of OOMK; Page 8: What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? artwork courtesy of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry; Kerry James Marshall, Slow Dance, 1992-93, acrylic and collage on canvas, 75 by 74 inches. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of ChicagoPurchase, Smart Family Foundation Fund for Contemporary Art, and Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions © Kerry James Marshall; Page 11: (Banner) An image from “Sixty Six” (2002–2015), a 12-part feature-length anthology of short films by Lewis Klahr. Credit Lewis Klahr, via Museum of Modern Art, New York; Omer Fast: Remainder, 2015, film, 97 minutes. Courtesy Soda Pictures, London. © Chris Harris;Page 12: Wolf Vostell, Still from the film Desastres (Disasters), 1972. 16mm film transferred to digital video; color, 45 minutes. Art © The Wolf Vostell Estate; An image from “Sixty Six” (2002–2015), a 12-part feature-length anthology of short films by Lewis Klahr. Credit Lewis Klahr, via Museum of Modern Art, New York;Page 13: (Banner) Gwendolyn Brooks art by Dirk Hagner; Cover artwork from Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan. Published by Restless Books (March 14, 2017); Page 14: Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy; Gwendolyn Brooks image courtesy of Brooks Permissions; Edwidge Danticat photo by Jonathan Demme; Angela Jackson photo courtesy of Betty J. Jackson Uzzell; Page 17: (Banner) Vijay Iyer Sextet image courtesy of UChicago Presents; Roomful of Teeth photo courtesy of Roomful of Teeth; First Monday Jazz image courtesy of Shanta Nurullah’s Sitarsys; Page 18: Sofia Gubaidulina photo courtesy of Contempo; CHI: an Augusta Read Thomas special, in Rockefeller Chapel’s splendid acoustic. Imagery by Gearóid Burke; Page 20: (Banner) Vijay Iyer Sextet image courtesy of UChicago Presents; Imani Winds photo by Matt Murphy; The Bridge photo from left to right, top to bottom: Pierre- Antoine Badaroux, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Jim Baker, and Jason Roebke; Dukati & Biseri photo courtesy of Dukati & Biseri Folklore Ensemble; Page 23: (Banner) UT/TAPS photo by Matthew Gregory Hollis; Chaon Cross stars in The Hard Problem at Court Theatre this March–April. Photo by Joe Mazza; Aparsa photo by Kiran Misra; Page 25: (Banner) Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House image courtesy of Frank Lloyd Wright Trust; Cooking class photo courtesy of the Oriental Institute; Page 26: Dana Simmons (PhD candidate, Neurobiology) and Pierce Gradone (PhD candidate, Music Composition) work on their Collaborative Grant project (net)work in the Hansel neurobiology lab at UChicago; Page 27: (Banner) Ancient Earthy Day photo courtesy of the Oriental Institute; Community Stewardship Day 2016, Printmaking Skillshare. 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DOCUMENTARY VIDEO VIDEO DOCUMENTARY INSTALLATION Through June 11, 2017 Garage Parking North Campus (5525 S Ellis Ave) sculpture the of Documentary footage will be screened on a loop on a monitor at the pedestrian entrance the to garage programs. year-long our complement to Free. UChicago Arts and the Smart Museum by Presented Art. of smartmuseum.uchicago.edu. Art. the Smart Museum of by Presented EVENT: RELATED HOMER TO VONNEGUT: ODYSSEY PRINT A 5:30–7:30pm 20, Apr Thu, Smart Museum of Art 5:30–7:30pm 25, Apr Tue, National Veterans Art Museum This two-part program explores the space between literature and art, war Inspired sea. and land and peace, and theby Smart Museum’s exhibition Classicisms Museum’s exhibition Odyssey Vonnegut’s registration required:Advanced smartmuseum.uchicago.edu. Art and National the Smart Museum of by Presented Art Museum. Veterans EVENT: RELATED CURATOR TOUR 2pm 11, Jun Sun, Smart Museum of Art Led exhibition by co-curator Anne Leonard, Academic of Director Senior Interim and Curatorial Initiatives and Curator of European Art at the Smart Museum. Art. the Smart Museum of by Presented (May 31), and Larry Norman (June 1). at more Learn Free. both sessions will include a tour, brief component. art-making and discussion, Free, but space is very limited.

century—paintings, LECTURE SERIES th ancient and modern sculpture, cast plaster plaster cast sculpture, modern and ancient and drawings, photographs, replicas, classicism’s traces exhibition prints—this meanings from varying artistic, cultural, and ideological perspectives reveal to a multifaceted concept surprising a with history. subversive sometimes and Free. CLASSICISMS Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. the Smart Museum of by Presented EVENT: RELATED Mar 30, Apr 6, May 31, Jun 1, various times Smart Museum of Art Renowned history scholars the discuss and future of the classical tradition in a series of public gallery talks and lectures. Featuring: Salvatore Settis (March 30), Jaś Elsner (April 6), Elisabeth D.cultot CLASSICISMS Through Jun 11, 2017 Smart Museum of Art Classicism, as an aesthetic ideal, is often associated with a conventional set of rules notions timeless supposedly on founded such as order, reason, and decorum. But classicism is actually far from a stable objects spanning 70 Through concept. antiquity the to 20 quietly and strangely asserting themselves themselves asserting strangely and quietly relationships of assemblages as both and as discrete, holistic entities. Free. Society. the Renaissance by Presented EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS & VISUAL ARTS & VISUAL

Through Apr 9, 2017 RenaissanceThe Society producing been has Grosvenor Robert components industrial from sculptures and found objects for over 50 years. The and form, material, manipulates artist scale create to abstract structures reveal a handmade quality and subtle vein of humor. instead interpretation, resist works The ROBERT GROSVENOR Presented by the Oriental Institute. by Presented ARCHAEOLOGY FROM ABOVE FROM ARCHAEOLOGY Ongoing Museum Institute Oriental This photo show explores how aerial to archaeologists allow perspectives detect patterns that may be invisible ground. the from unrecognizable or Kites, fishing poles, ladders, balloons, unpiloted aerial vehicles full-size [UAVs], are satellites and planes, and helicopters all used produce to imagesthat aid in archaeological planning and assessing landscapes. and sites, monuments, The exhibit addresses how recent technological developments are creating new opportunities, and illustrates the use of drones at sites in Jordan and Israel. $10, adults donation: suggested Free; children under 12 $5. DRONES IN THE DESERT: DESERT: THE IN DRONES EXHIBITIONS 6 | arts.uchicago.edu audience halls, and stone relief carvings carvings relief stone and halls, audience the forests of columns, monumental record (1931–1939), Expedition Persepolis taken during the Oriental Institute’s photographs, The BC). (550–330 empire at the height of the Achaemenid Persian built antiquity of centers dynastic greatest the of one of ruins the of photographs The exhibition presents large-format Oriental Institute Museum 2017 3, Sep Through EMPIRE AN PERSEPOLIS: Presented by theSmartMuseumof Art. Free. garden. sculpture Museum’s the into outwards travels and floor, lobby the across cuts clerestory, to the climbs that texture and color of wave a with threshold Smart’s the intersects Stockholder Jessica artist and professor UChicago installation, asite-specific In Art of Museum Smart 2017 2, Jul Through ROSE’S INCLINATION STOCKHOLDER:JESSICA Presented by theSmartMuseumof Art. in advance: smartmuseum.uchicago.edu. register Please limited. is space but Free, special exhibition Concrete Vostell Museum’s Smart the in material this of expressive and ambiguous connotations equally the explore we as Miliotes Diane and Mehring Christine curators exhibition Join ways. unexpected and challenging, exciting, of anumber in concrete employed Vostell Wolf and, watercolor, collage, performance, to film, sculpture From Art of Museum Smart Sun, Apr 2, 2pm VOSTELL CONCRETE TOUR: CURATOR RELATED EVENT: Presented by theSmartMuseumof Art. Free. postwar, internationalizing world. the with to engage violence and permanence and inflexibility, strength concrete’s ambivalent connotations of mobilize that media of avariety in works Vostell’s of 50 nearly presents exhibition This collection. art public Chicago’s of University the of part is that concrete in includes that work of body unique asurprising, in motif artistic an and amaterial as concrete used (1932–1998) Vostell Wolf co-founder Fluxus 1970s, early and 1960s late the In Art of Museum Smart 2017 11, Jun Through 1969–1973 Concrete Traffic VOSTELL CONCRETE IMAGES OF OF IMAGES

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Free. respect. to mutual by commitment expression and collectively strengthened self- for by aneed united ultimately all both distinct and interconnected—we are values that—through idea the demonstrates children under 12 $5. $5. 12 under children Free; suggested donation: adults $10, king. Persian the to honor empire the of corners all from came who people the of works by Gabby Davis, Juliet Eldred, Eldred, Juliet Davis, by Gabby works features Exhibition Thesis BA 2017 The Logan Center Gallery 6–8pm 31, Mar Fri, reception: Opening 2017 23, 31–Apr Mar Presented by theUniversity of ChicagoLibrary. Free. theology. and science, magic, by offered geographies celestial to the upward or toward antiquity, backward westward, eastward, looked they as City Mexico to Venice from capitals of tensions the printing This press. exhibition charts mercantile networks, and the newborn connected by fluctuating kingdoms, in a geography of interdependence, developed cities recovering Death, Black the After pains. growing their to express literature and art used cities Renaissance London: Geneva, Florence, Rome, Special Collections Research Center 2017 9, 27–Jun Mar COLLECTIONS SPECIAL FROM HIGHLIGHTS CITIES: INTENSIONS RENAISSANCE UChicago ArtsGrants andUChicagoCharter School. After SchoolMatters, withadditionalsupportfrom Presented by Life Arts+Public inpartnershipwith “value.” media explore personal interpretations of photography, multimedia art, and mixed across Painting, Chicago. sculpture, programs Matters School After from artists teen 50 by over created works of exhibition Opinions (TAC), Correct Council Teen Arts Life’s +Public by Arts Curated Blvd) EGarfield (301 Arts Incubator Gallery 6pm 29, Apr Sat, reception: Closing 1–4pm 24, Mar Fri, reception: Opening 2017 29, 15–Apr Mar TEENS CHICAGO’S AMONGEXPRESSION SELF- AND VALUES, OPINIONS CORRECT Presented by theOrientalInstitute. ARTS BA THESIS EXHIBITION THESIS BA ARTS DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL OF DEPARTMENT Correct Opinions Correct

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and the National Veteran Art WEEKLY FIGURE DRAWING HOMER TO VONNEGUT: ODYSSEY PRINT A 5:30–7:30pm 20, Apr Thu, Smart Museum of Art 5:30–7:30pm 25, Apr Tue, National Veterans Art Museum This two-part program explores the space between literature and art, war Inspired sea. and land and peace, and theby Smart Museum’s exhibition Classicisms Thu, Apr 13, 6pm Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry Join Logan Center Exhibitions artists- in-residence OOMK for a conversation publishing and publications how exploring platforms can be used as tools for activism. OOMK (One of My Kind) is a London-based non-profit art collective and publication from women engage to driven particularly its through backgrounds cultural diverse engagement. public and platform publishing Free. Exhibitions and the Gray Center Logan by Presented Arts and Inquiry. for Center FROM SPACES TO PLACES: PUBLIC ART WALKING TOUR Wednesdays, Apr 19, and May 17, Jun 21, 5:30pm campus UChicago Public art on campus is a fascinating, some with experience, spontaneous spaces open claiming boldly sculptures between unexpectedly tucked others and buildings. As part of the City of Chicago’s ofYear Public Art, this one-hour tour covers a small sample of the stunning works that have helped shape UChicago's intellectual and cultural life for decades. Tours begin at the sculpture, SphereBlack across the street from Cobb Hall. requested RSVP Free, (tickets.uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS). of Civic UChicago Arts and the Office by Presented Engagement, in partnership with the Smart Museum Art. of Thursdays, Apr 6–Jun 1, 7–9:30pm 7–9:30pm 1, 6–Jun Apr Thursdays, Logan Center, Rm 802 Outside the Lines hosts weekly figure drawing sessions with live models and mood Supplies, evenings. Thursday on lighting including paper, charcoal, pastel, (and usually snacks) are provided for free. Poses start from short, 30 seconds, and end long, necessary— experience No minutes. 40 feel free come to and go as you please. Free for undergraduates; general $5 donation. suggested Lines. Outside the by Presented SELF-PUBLISHING FOR ACTIVISM

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LECTURE SERIES CURATOR TOUR: RELATED EVENTS: RELATED PICTURES OF DIVERSITY: VOSTELL CONCRETEVOSTELL MIGRATION AND DREAMING DREAMING AND MIGRATION IDENTITY Presented by Open Practice Committee, DoVA. Committee, Open Practice by Presented Free, but space is limited. Please register smartmuseum.uchicago.edu. advance: in Art. the Smart Museum of by Presented SONIA LEIMER LECTURE Mon, Apr 3, 6pm Penthouse Performance Center, Logan artist Austrian-based an is Leimer sculpture. of forms various in working She will be giving a lecture on her practice and upcoming projects. Free. Mar 30, Apr 6, May 31, Jun 1, various times Smart Museum of Art Renowned history scholars the discuss and future of the classical tradition in a series of public gallery talks and lectures. Featuring: Salvatore Settis (March 30), Jaś Elsner (April 6), Elisabeth Décultot (May 31), and Larry Norman (June 1). at more Learn Free. smartmuseum.uchicago.edu. Art. the Smart Museum of by Presented 2pm 2, Apr Sun, Smart Museum of Art From sculpture film, to performance, collage, watercolor, and, Wolf Vostell employed concrete in a number of exciting, challenging, and unexpected ways. Join exhibition curators Christine Mehring and Diane Miliotes as we explore the equally connotations ambiguous and expressive of this material in the Smart Museum’s Vostell Concrete exhibition special Presented by the Humanities Collegiate Division, the Humanities Collegiate by Presented Center. and the Logan Chicago Center, the France ARTS VISUAL CLASSICISMS Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions and DoVA. Exhibitions Center Logan by Presented Thu, May 4, 5–6pm: Pre-opening Logan) (Café conversation Thu, May 18, 6–7pm: Mr. Boare Industries Assurance™ Life Term Presents: 201) Rm Center, (Logan Thu, May 25, 5–6pm: Pre-opening Logan) (Café conversation May 12–Jun 11, 2017 Logan Café In part 1 (May 12–26), Christian Raby presents photographic portraits of immigrants in France in settings where and native subjects’ the of elements combine identities cultural adopted and interact. In part 2 (May 27–June 11), UChicago students present portraits of immigrants in Chicago—with subject— each short biographies of that they will have created and guidance. Raby’s under realized Free. Jan Brugger, Evan Carter, Kyle Hossli, Zentner. Shanna and Nicholson, Ben Free.

DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ARTS THESIS MFA EXHIBITIONS Opening: Thu, May 25, 6–8pm Gallery) Center (Logan A three-part exhibition will feature works UChicago’sby Class of 2017 Master of Fine Allen-Cannon, Elizabeth students: Arts Bearnot, Andrew Bahadur, Jang Vidura (The Muffler Shop, 359 E GarfieldBlvd) Part III: May 25–Jun 18, 2017 (Logan Center Gallery) Center (Logan Part II: May 11–Jun 6, 2017 Opening: Thu, May 11, 6–8pm Part I: May 4–18, 2017 Opening: Thu, May 4, 6–8pm Presented by the Renaissance Society. the Renaissance by Presented KARSTEN LUND WALK-THROUGH WITH WITH WALK-THROUGH Sat, May 13, 3pm RenaissanceThe Society Curator, Assistant Lund, Karsten will offer his perspective on the exhibition KLEIN / OLSON. Free. KLEIN / OLSON EXHIBITION EXHIBITION OLSON / KLEIN RELATED EVENT: RELATED Presented by the Renaissance Society. the Renaissance by Presented Apr 22–Jun 18, 2017 Opening reception: Sat, Apr 22, 5–8pm; Artist talk: 6pm RenaissanceThe Society For the last exhibition this season, the Renaissance Society presents the work of Astrid Klein and B. Ingrid Olson. Through a selection of their collage, sculpture and allows exhibition the works, installation room for an encounter with the artists’ distinct practices while also drawing out affinities between them. Attentive to matters of representation, Klein and Olson examine to approaches various stage ways of being in the world today. Free. KLEIN / OLSON / KLEIN 8 | arts.uchicago.edu What is an artistic artistic an is What asks summit A multi-day Logan Center 6–8pm 1, May Mon, and 10am–7pm 29, Apr Sat, PRACTICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS? ARTISTIC WHAT AN IS Presented by theDepartmentof ArtHistory. Free. Negri. Antonio and Hardt Michael singularities theorized by philosophers an emergent and mobile collective of multitude,” “the of notion contemporary The photographs anticipate and critique the hierarchical identification with the group. non- horizontal, within not, or to enter, choose subjects how diagram photographs the dictatorship, military Brazil’s of height Brazilian artist Carlos Vergara. Taken at the the question through photographs by considers lecture This art? in politics of How can one picture the immanence 157 Rm Center, Art Woods Cochrane 4:30pm 28, Apr Fri, SMALL BY IRENE MULTITUDE” SMART LECTURE THE AND RAMOS DE CACIQUE SAME: THE OF “PASSION Special thanks to MisaShinGallery. Institute for theHumanities,andSHIBUNKAKU. provided by JackandSusy Wadsworth, theFranke and theISECultural Foundation. Additional funding the Center for East AsianStudies, PoNJA Explorers, support from theCenter for theArtof East Asiaand Presented by theDepartmentof ArtHistory with Free. status. special writing of art the gave Koran the culture, Islamic in while separate, considered were picturing and writing West, the In different. was relationship their world, the of areas other In roles. central playing brush and ink with entwined, been traditionally have two the Asia, fundamental human activities. In East two are (?) picturing and (?) Writing 157 Rm Center, Art Woods Cochrane Fri–Sun, Apr 21–23 POST-1945 ASIAN ART WRITING AND PICTURING IN Presented by OpenPractice Committee, DoVA. Free. projects. upcoming and practice her of evolution the on alecture giving be will She world. the in being of away negotiate language–its ability and inability to with preoccupation the obsessive in interested artist aChicago-based is Collins Logan Center, Performance Penthouse 6pm 1, May Mon, BETHANY COLLINS LECTURE National Veterans ArtMuseum. Presented by theSmartMuseumof Artand smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Advance required: registration limited. very is space but Free, discussion, and art-making component. brief atour, include will sessions both Vonnegut’s Odyssey exhibition Museum’s

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, on view , and Assassins 13 NEON NOIR: FLUORESCENT NEON FLUORESCENT NOIR: DEFEND THE KEEP: SIEGES, SIEGES, KEEP: THE DEFEND General $5/film, $30 quarterly pass pass quarterly $30 $5/film, General (tickets.uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS). VISIONS OF VICE AND VIOLENCE ENCIRCLEMENTS, AND AND ENCIRCLEMENTS, LAST STANDS Assault on Precinct 13 9:45pm 1, 30–Jun Mar Thursdays, Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall incandescent the into Descending underworld of crime and vice, this series predominantly focuses on neo-noirs of the late 1970s and 1980s.Gritty, vibrant, and violent, these films bring noir into an increasingly modern world. From the city sprawl of Los Angeles rural to Texas, this series uncovers murder, conspiracy, Presented by the Film Studies Center and the Center the Film Studies by Presented Society. Renaissance Thursdays, Mar 30–May 25, 7pm Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall heels their dug Spartans the since Ever in at Thermopylae, the heroic last stand has captured the popular imagination across time and culture. The scenario usually follows a small group of underdogs pitted against a larger, more formidable force in a desperate, all-or-nothing fightto the death. What our presumed heroes often lack in arms or manpower, they make up for in strategic position, confined within a fortified space. This series showcases cinematic sieges that satisfy these conventions and push them to their utmost limits. Featuring Dogs Straw Doc Films. by Presented the man becomes ever more desperate to grow reenactments his life, to reconnect leading risky, and complicated increasingly him an to unsolvedcrime and the secret of his undoing. (Omer Fast, UK, 2015, 97 min., DCP). Presented in association with the exhibition Robert Grosvenor at the Renaissance Society through Apr 9. Free.

FILM ROBERT BRESSON: BRESSON: ROBERT REMAINDER Thu, Mar 30, 7pm Room Screening Center, Logan fictional debut Fast’s Omer artist Video feature, adapted from McCarthy’s Tom cult experimental novel, follows a man who loses his memory after being injured in a freak accident. After waking from a coma, memory, his reconstructs physically he hiring actors play to the scene in hopes that it will tell him who he is. But as scraps and themselves present memories other of Presented by Doc Films and the France Doc Films and the France by Presented Chicago Center. Wednesdays, Mar 29–May 31, 7pm and 9pm Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall “Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music,” as Jean- Luc Godard once said. Known for an Robert style, perfectionistic and austere Bresson (1901–1999) is one of the most celebrated and influentialFrench decades five over Spanning filmmakers. and encompassing a wide range of subjects and sources, this retrospective finds the director strivingto create a new sounds. and images moving of language pass quarterly $30 $5/film, General (tickets.uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS). “FIND WITHOUT SEEKING” WITHOUT “FIND . .

, Andrew Ahn’s Spa , Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Black Girl , and Saul Bass' Phase IV , and Gregory Nava’s El Norte STORIES FROM THE NEW HEAT AND SAND: SAND: AND HEAT MIGRANT EXPERIENCE MIGRANT LAND: CHRONICLES OF THE THE DESERT FILM Presented by Doc Films. by Presented Tuesdays, Mar 28–May 30, 7pm Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall Regardless of the integral role immigrants and refugees play in shaping our global society, they have time and again been the victims of xenophobia and political scapegoating. This series presents the nuanced experiences of a few of these brave individuals as they traverse foreign lands for a chance at better, safer, freer lives. Through characters’ the of exploration artistic appreciate can one histories personal why immigration is crucial and should be Ousmane include screened Films embraced. Sembène’s Night pass quarterly $30 $5/film, General (tickets.uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS). Presented by Doc Films. by Presented El Topo El Mondays, Mar 27–May 29, 7pm 29, 27–May Mar Mondays, Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall This series consists of films that feature the desert not only as a setting, but also as a reflection of the characters' desolate psychologies. As an asocial confronts desert the environment, selves authentic their with individuals and forces them come to grips to with who they are. Embracing the awful truth of their identities alone in the wilderness, the protagonists of desert films become murderers, mystics, and maniacs. Join us as we wander over wind-scored dunes, through chapped arroyos, towards the horror and mystery of the mind! Highlights Woman Teshigahara’s Hiroshi include in the Dunes General $5/film, $30 quarterly pass pass quarterly $30 $5/film, General (tickets.uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS). 12 | arts.uchicago.edu Presented by the FilmStudies Center. Free. DCP). min., 108 2016, Italy, Rosi, (Gianfranco happening in the Mediterranean today. really is what of understanding anew into us jolts that narrative third a remarkable creating by side, side realities these places Oscar-nominated documentary masterfully journey. Filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi’s a such for small too are that boats in Africa from crossing the to survive trying thousands of men, women, and children witness also we Yet nearby slingshot. his with playing and shore by the rocks climbing simply, lives who boy old 12-year a Samuele, meet we There, Europe. into refugees African for point entry a major Mediterranean island that has become Lampedusa is a once-peaceful Logan Center, Screening Room 27, Apr 7pm Thu, AT SEA FIRE DOCUMENTARY EXPERIENCE: +PRESENT DIRECT Chicago FilmSociety. Presented by theFilmStudies Center andthe Free. Archives). Film Anthology from 16mm min., 115 1982/85, USA, Lyon, (Danny offenses. minor for prison of out and in cycles repeatedly he as Mexico New Bernalillo, in home his near achild as met Lyon whom follows Willie Jaramillo, (1985) Willie years, several of course the over Made celluloid. of full abin in snake a bull than intertwined more are two the which in meditation on filmmaking and fatherhood, autobiographical ethereal and afunny is (1982) Film to Born criminally underseen. remained long have films nonfiction intimate his but 1960s, early the since acclaimed been have photographs Lyon’s iconic Danny Logan Center, Screening Room 7pm 20, Apr Thu, LYON DANNY FILMMAKER WITH WILLIE AND FILM TO BORN DOCUMENTARY SERIES: +PRESENT DIRECT Presented by DocFilms. 773.702.ARTS). (tickets.uchicago.edu, General $5/film,$30 quarterly pass underrepresented point of view. acinematically from told all and with strong autobiographical elements, some relationships, social and familial coming-of-age tales and stories exploring teenage include films the discovery, heroines’ narratives and journeys of (self-) women protagonists. Focusing on their international women directors about by films feature showcases series this genres, and cultures diverse Spanning Hall Noyes Ida Cinema, Palevsky Max Sundays, Apr 2–Jun 4, 7pm Presented by DocFilms. 773.702.ARTS). (tickets.uchicago.edu, General $5/film,$30 quarterly pass as such classics Featuring life. everyday of glow fluorescent the in betrayal and CONTEMPORARY DIRECTORS BY AITS PORTR Blow Out WOMEN BY WOMEN: WOMEN: BY WOMEN , Heat , and Repo Man , and .

Presented by theFilmStudies Center. Free. DCP). min., 90 2002–2015, USA, Klahr, landscapes from period magazines. (Lewis Angeles architectural photographs and through midcentury modernist Los foto romans Portuguese from comic book superheroes and characters by inhabited are mythology Greek classic and noir sunshine of tales Elliptical sinister. forebodingly and erotic alluringly once at textures and tones of range its and music complex superimpositions of imagery and its Pop, 1970s and 1960s of dream hypnotic Six work in Sixty collage filmmaking, decades-long Klahr’s of culmination The Logan Center, Screening Room 7pm 12, May Fri, KLAHR LEWIS SIX SIXTY Sexuality. Project at theCenter for theStudy of Genderand and Inquiry, andtheCounter Cinema/Counter Media Humanities, Richard andMaryL.Gray Center for Arts (3CT), Humanities Division,Franke Institute for the the ChicagoCenter for Contemporary Theory and program supportfrom theGoethe-Institut, the FilmStudies Center, withadditionalfunding Department of CinemaandMediaStudies, and Presented by theDepartmentof ArtHistory, Free. others. among Yoko Ono, and Maciunas, George Brecht, George Vostell, by Wolf performance. Includes screening of films and film Fluxus in presence of politics the and media, of performativity the and objects film material as performances of documentation the practices, Fluxus within documentation of role problematic the addressing by film Fluxus of attributes defining the expand will symposium This Logan Center 5–6 May Fri–Sat, AND FILM AND

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BROOKSDAY@NITE ANGELA JACKSON ON A SURPRISED QUEENHOOD QUEENHOOD SURPRISED IN THE NEW BLACK SUN: GWENDOLYN BROOKS GWENDOLYN THE LIFE & LEGACY OF Presented by the BrooksDay Steering Committee and Committee Steering the BrooksDay by Presented Center. the Logan General $35 before $45 May May 7, 7–Jun 7 (BrooksDay.org). Wed, Jun 6–9pm 7, Hall Performance Center, Logan There are many ways Gwendolyn Brooks is being honored this centennial year, but BrooksDay@Nite is the central celebration! This annual event takes place on Brooks’ birthday, and this year is even more special: a nighttime event featuring one hundred staged from presentations one-minute readings visual to art, dance digital, to and music memory, to with munchies and Madhubuti, Haki include Presenters more. Patricia Smith, Jamila Woods, Nora Brooks Blakely, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Peter Kahn, Sketch N’ Tyme, Aurora Performance Group, and many more. For more information, visit BrooksDay.org Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores, the Logan the Logan Bookstores, Seminary Co-op by Presented the Study for and the Center Press, Beacon Center, and Culture. Politics Race, of Tue, May 30, 7pm Penthouse Performance Center, Logan and playwright, poet, award-winning Join novelist Angela Jackson for a retrospective discussion on the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her one hundredth birthday. Surprised A Queenhood in the New Black Sun delves deep into the rich fabric of Brooks' work and world over nearly six decades. It is a commemoration of an artist who negotiated incomparable and womanhood black artistry with a changing, restless world—an time. her of ahead way maverick artistic Free. Correct Opinions Identity, Values, and Self-expression among Chicago’s Teens March 15—April 29, 2017

EXHIBITION March 15—April 29, 2017 What deFInes you? Everyday experiences inform our values. In turn, Opening reception: Fri, March 24 our values—personal, familial, economic, cultural, religious, moral, Closing reception: Sat, April 29 political, historical, aesthetic, or otherwise—shape our identity and LOCATION Arts Incubator in Washington Park influence the ways we express and identify ourselves as youth. 301 East Garfield Boulevard Chicago, IL 60637 If you are what you value, then what values make you, you? HOURS Mon-Fri 10am-6pm Visit website for information about Curated by Arts + Public Life’s Teen Arts Council, Correct Opinions guided tours and related events. is an exhibition of works created by more than 50 teen artists CONTACT from After School Matters programs across Chicago. Painting, 773.702.9724 sculpture, photography, multimedia, and mixed media explore [email protected] IMAGE: Dafne Hernandez, Second Thoughts, varied personal interpretations of “value” and the impact this digital photograph, 2016. Created in “Picture concept has on how we perceive our voices in the world. Correct Me,” an After School Matters program. Opinions examines and demonstrates the idea that—through values both distinct and interconnected—we are all ultimately @artsandpubliclife united by a need for self-expression and collectively strengthened arts.uchicago.edu/artsandpubliclife by commitment to mutual respect.

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brings together together brings century masterpiece th , a 20 by Fredericby Rzewski that is taking a place in pianists’ core repertoire. Includes a 6:30pm pre-concert lecture with George Adams. General $35, UCID $28, Students $5. western and eastern instruments played played instruments eastern and western stellarby creative musicians in a variety of groupings, from trio octet. to Featured include Jazz Monday First for musicians Ms. Nurullah on sitar and mbira, vocalists trumpeter Nurullah, Keewa and Baker Zahra Jack Cassidy, bassist Harrison Bankhead, and Alex Wing on guitar and oud. Free. PIANO RAN DANK, Fri, 7:30pm Apr 7, Hall Mandel Israeli pianist Ran Dank makes his Chicago debut with a politically inspired program of polonaises and mazurkas Frederic by Chopin and The People United Will Never Defeated! be UChicago Presents. by Presented Presented by UChicago Presents in partnership in partnership UChicago Presents by Presented Politics, Race, of the Study for with the Center and Culture. FIRST JAZZ MONDAY Mon, Apr 3, 7–9pm Currency Exchange Café (305 E Garfield Blvd) Sitarsys Nurullah’s Shanta and the Currency Arts + Public Life by Presented Café. Exchange concert lecture demonstration with with Woo Chan "Chaz" Lee and the artists. General $35, UCID $28, Students $5. . Includes a 2pm pre- ) is a Grammy-winning MUSIC vocal project dedicated mining to the expressive potential of the humanvoice. Their Chicago debut program is built around a white composer’s setting of texts Zoraby Neale Hurston, Claudia Rankine, and James Baldwin, reflecting on their blackness. Also on the program is Caroline Shaw's 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning work Partita for 8 Voices ROOMFUL OF TEETH OF ROOMFUL 3pm 2, Apr Sun, Hall Performance Center, Logan Roomful (“hypnotic of Teeth and intensely moving” - cpr.org Sun, Mar 26, 3pm Penthouse Performance Center, Logan Grammy Award-winning violist Masumi Per Rostad and his wife, internationally Whun Shiang Sonia pianist renowned Rostad, offer a program of duetsby Schubert. and Chopin, Mozart, Reger, Free. UChicago Presents. by Presented Steven Soph, and Ryan de Ryke join the Haymarket Opera Orchestra, conducted by by lecture preconcert Free Tammen. Bruce Carl Grapentine at 2pm at Ida Noyes Hall. $20 Students $30, General $40, Reserved door). the at or (chicagochorale.org with in partnership Chicago Chorale by Presented Chapel. Rockefeller MASUMI PER ROSTAD, VIOLA, AND SONIA SHIANG WHUN PIANO ROSTAD,

St) th Anniversary Spring Festival of nd Eastern European Dance and Music will feature the dance, music, and culture of the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The festival features dance parties every evening with the best Balkan orchestras; a concert Saturday evening with more than 10 dance and musical groups; and workshops in dance, singing, and music Saturday and Sunday with master teachers in Balkan, East European, and Turkish dance. Keepa Jasim (Assyrian), Nina Luleci Ahmet (Bulgarian), Kavardjikova Chris (Bulgarian), Sotirov Ventzi (Turkish), Bajmakovich and (accordion Macedonin (clarinet). Stoyanoff James singing), (balkanskiigri.com/ $12–160 General door. the at registration.html) or Sun, Mar 26, 3pm Chapel Rockefeller Accompanied a Baroque by orchestra of Bach’s presents Chorale instruments, period tour de force Mass in B minor. Soloists Young-Smucker, Angela Morris, Chelsea CHICAGO CHORALE: CHORALE: CHICAGO Presented by the International House Global Voices Voices House Global the International by Presented and Ensemble Balkanske-Igre. Program BACH MASS IN B MINOR (1414 E 59 EUROPEAN DANCE AND MUSIC Fri, Mar 24, 8pm; Sat, Mar 25, and Sun, Mar 26, 9am Hall Assembly House International SPRING FESTIVAL OF EASTERN EASTERN OF FESTIVAL SPRING Presented by the Logan Center and Hyde Park Jazz Park and Hyde Center the Logan by Presented WDCB. Society with additional support by EDWIN DAUGHERTY, SAX Tue, Mar 21, first set 7:30–8:30pm; set first 21, Mar Tue, 9–10pm set second Logan Café The Hyde Park Jazz Society selects local jazz musicians perform to on the third Tuesday of every month at Café Logan. Enjoy beer, wine, a full coffee bar, and food along with some of the best jazz the city has offer. to Free. THIRD TUESDAY JAZZ: The 52 The 18 | arts.uchicago.edu House residents free. General $25, Students $10, International Raff, Joachim and (1919); 34 op. Themes, Hebrew on Overture Prokofiev, Sergi Rhapsodie Debussy, Claude (1937); Sextet Copeland, Aaron Featuring: years. 30 over for life cultural Chicago's in Ensemble has occupied a unique place Chicago the voice, and instruments in variedperformed combinations of masterworks and lesser-known repertoire familiar of mix innovative an Offering Presented by UChicagoPresents. $5. Students $28, UCID $35, General artists. the with lecture pre-concert 6:30pm a Includes Series. Concert Classic season’s this to close to UChicago returns Quartet standard among string quartets, the Pacifica agold as recognized Internationally Mandel Hall 7:30pm 21, Apr Fri, PACIFICA QUARTET Society withadditionalsupportby WDCB. Presented by theLogan Center andHyde Park Jazz Free. to offer. has city the jazz best the of some with along food and bar, coffee afull wine, beer, Enjoy Logan. Café at month every of Tuesday third the on to perform musicians jazz local selects Society Jazz Park Hyde The Café Logan second set 9–10pm Tue, Apr 18 / First set 7:30–8:30pm; SAX PAT MALLINGER, JAZZ: TUESDAY THIRD Presented by Contempo. $5. Students $20, UCID $25, General Chęciński. Paweł pianist and Quartet, Kontras Butcher, Kayleigh Ensemble Dal Niente, mezzo-soprano with contemporary music interpreters leading international women composers, by works recent five presents Contempo Logan Center, Performance Hall Sun, Apr 9, 3pm AFAR FROM FIVE CONTEMPO: Performing ArtsSeriesandtheChicagoEnsemble. Presented by theInternational HouseGlobalVoices E59 (1414 International House Assembly Hall Sun, Apr 9, 2:30pm FRIENDLY 20 ADVENTURE: AUDIENCE- IV:PROGRAM WOODWIND CHICAGO ENSEMBLE CONCERT: DISCOVERIES Quintet in A Minor, op. 107 op. AMinor, in Quintet th St) TH CE NTU RY RY NTU CE .

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St) th (1939); Bohuslav Martinů, Sonata No. (Mother Goose) and and Ma mère l'Oye Goose) (Mother UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE WIND UNIVERSITY Presented by the Logan Center and Hyde Park Jazz Park and Hyde Center the Logan by Presented WDCB. Society with additional support by SERIES, STAGE CHICAGO JULIUS TUCKER QUARTET Fri, May 19, 6pm Logan Café Northwestern of graduate recent A University and Awardee of Luminarts Fellow in Jazz Improvisation, pianist Julius Z. Randall Stroope’s Amor de mi Alma (You are the of Love My Soul) based on a poem Spanish by author Garcilaso de la Vega. The program also includes works Alfred by Reed, Bourgeois. Derek and Barnes, John Free. Music. the Department of by Presented THIRD TUESDAY JAZZ: JO ANN PIANO DAUGHERTY, 7:30–8:30pm; set First / 16 May Tue, 9–10pm set second Logan Café The Hyde Park Jazz Society selects local jazz musicians perform to on the third Tuesday of every month at Café Logan. Enjoy beer, wine, a full coffee bar, and food along with some of the best jazz the city has offer. to Free. from Presented by the International House Global Voices House Global Voices the International by Presented Arts Series and the Chicago Ensemble. Performing 4pm 14, May Sun, Hall Performance Center, Logan Celebrate Mother’s Day with an afternoon of beautiful music from the University Wind Ravel’s of arrangement an Enjoy Ensemble! Pagodes des Imperatrice Laideronnette: Presented by Rockefeller Chapel. Rockefeller by Presented CHICAGO ¡CANTARE! Fri, May 12, 7pm Chapel Rockefeller A joyous celebration of Mexican culture, Rodrigo residence in composer with Cadet. Students from participating schools in the yearlong ¡Cantare! Program join with Chicago cappella a and its High School Intern Ensemble. Free. in partnership with Chicago a cappella by Presented Chapel. Rockefeller CONCERT: ENSEMBLE CHICAGO MASTERPIECES PROGRAM V: OF THE YEARS WAR 1939–44 Sun, May 14, 2:30pm Hall Assembly House International (1414 E 59 Offering an innovative mix of familiar repertoire lesser-known and masterworks of combinations performed varied in instruments and voice, The Chicago Ensemble has occupied a unique place in Chicago's cultural life for over 30 years. Featuring: Paul Hindemith, Sonata in C Major 2, H. 286 (1942); and Dmitri Shostakovich, No.Trio 2 in E Minor, op. 67 (1944). International $10, Students $25, General free. residents House is followed a public by presentation at 2pm at theLogan Center,Room 802. Free.

. Coleman teaches computer computer teaches Coleman . EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE – – ENSEMBLE MUSIC EARLY FINDING MONTEVERDI: MONTEVERDI: FINDING FROM MANTUA TO VENICE Presented by the Department of Music. the Department of by Presented CARILLON NG: TIFFANY ELECTRONICSAND Wed, May 10, 12pm Chapel Rockefeller Tiffany Ng’s concert program includes a world première for carillon and electronics: a new sketch in Paul Coleman’s Tiffany Sketches music and composition at SUNY Fredonia and is sound director for the New York based Ensemble Signal. The concert Presented by the Logan Center with the UChicago Center the Logan by Presented Bridge Committee. Tue, May 9, 7:30pm Chapel Rockefeller The Early Music Ensemble’s Spring concert program presents music from Mantua during Monteverdi’s youth, with songsand dances Gastoldi, by Striggio, and Giaches de Wert. Then we follow Monteverdi Venice, to with works Gabrieli by and Monteverdi. The program includes music for voices, viols, violin, recorders, sackbuts. and cornettos, crumhorns, Free. THE BRIDGE #13 BRIDGE THE Sun, 7pm May 7, Penthouse Performance Center, Logan The Bridge #13 is a Franco-American Pierre- featuring ensemble music creative Jean-Luc Baker, Jim Badaroux, Antoine Guionnet, and Jason Roebke. Following will musicians the performance, the discussion roundtable a in participate (Department Pluta Sam by moderated of Music, University of Chicago) and Director, (Executive Pierrepont Alexandre The Bridge). Reception follow. to Free. Presented by the Department of Music. of the Department by Presented Indian Subcontinent. Covering genres and and genres Covering Subcontinent. Indian languages, classical twelve over in poets highlight will ensemble the modern, and the diverse musical and mythological material that informs South Asian devotion, in various raga-based, "film-style," and idioms. vocalists Comprising vernacular and a variety of musical instruments, from sitar and harmonium violinto and tabla, the ensemble will also feature group and solo renditions, as well as guest accompaniment. dance and artists Free. —An evening with

, which makes its Chicago debut SOUTH ASIAN SOUTH ASIAN CONTEMPO: TOMORROW’S TOMORROW’S CONTEMPO: IMANI WINDS MUSIC ENSEMBLE MUSIC MUSIC TODAY Sat, May 6, 7:30pm Penthouse Performance Center, Logan This concert explores and reimagines the devotional poetry and song forms of the Presented by Contempo. by Presented Fri, May 5, 7:30pm Hall Performance Center, Logan Spektral Quartet and Ensemble Dal Niente perform music some by of today’s finest doctoral UChicago composers: young Includes composition. in candidates works Will by Myers, David Clay Mettens, McManus. Andrew and Bussad, Rodrigo Free. Presented by Rockefeller Chapel in partnership Rockefeller by Presented Isaiah Israel. with KAM Fri, May 5, 7pm Chapel Rockefeller Music of the great synagogues of prewar France, with Rabbi Frederick Reeves and Cantor David Berger of Congregation KAM Isaiah Israel, with the KAM Isaiah Israel Choir. Chapel Rockefeller and Choir Free. A FRENCH SHABBAT Presented by UChicago Presents. by Presented Imani Winds celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks. Gwendolyn celebrating Winds Imani The brilliant and intrepid Imani Winds, Don Residence, in Ensemble Randel Michael joins the citywide celebrations and pays tribute Chicago to poet Gwendolyn Brooks concert this with centenary her during that honors artists who forge their own paths. The program includes works by Wayne Shorter and Jason Moran written for Imani Winds, music two by of the Imani three of premieres world and members, works written for the occasion. Includes 6:30pma pre-concert conversation with the artists and Jackson. Travis General $35, UCID $28, Students $5. Wed, May 3, 7:30pm Hall Performance Center, Logan A Song in the Front Yard Presented by Arts + Public Life and Currency and Currency Arts + Public Life by Presented Café. Exchange has been commissioned the by Jazz Institute reinterpretto poetLangston Hughes’s Ask Yo Mama in December Featured2017. musicians for include performance Jazz Monday First this Ben LamarGaye on electronics, Matt Lux on upright bass, and on Brother-Tone beats. Free. 20 | arts.uchicago.edu performance after the fall of the Berlin Berlin the of fall the after performance Tiananmen Square, Leonard Bernstein’s at broadcast student Chinese the against the Pinochet dictatorship, demonstrations Chilean the including music, of a celebration as and anthem aprotest as both history recent in utilized been has setting powerful Beethoven’s Mandel Hall 3pm 28, May Sun, 27, May 8pm Sat, and theLogan Center. Presented by theChicagoSymphony Orchestra Free. 2( No. 59, Op. Minor, E in Quartet String Beethoven and Wedding My At and Pennies the of Story Raimi 51; Op. Major, E-flat in 10 No. Quartet String Dvořák include will performance This Orchestra. Symphony Chicago the of chamber music performed by members and exceptional, personally curated Experience unparalleled artistry Logan Center, Performance Hall 3pm 21, May Sun, AND FRIENDS QUARTET–MALLARMÉ ALL-ACCESS CHAMBER: CSO the Logan. Presented by UChicagoPresents andJazzat $5. Students $28, UCID $35, General Festival. Jazz Park Hyde with partnership in Center Performance Penthouse, presented Logan the in 7:30pm at 18 May Thursday, on Dumbleton Kate and Vijay with session listening afree miss don’t Plus, Logan. Cafe in Quartet Tucker by Julius performance pre-concert a6pm Iyer.” Includes Vijay pianist the of output creative the encompass to enough wide frame no probably “There’s observes, Times York New The As works. new of aselection to perform trio his expands pianist creative boundlessly The Logan Center, Performance Hall 7:30pm 19, May Fri, SEXTET VIJAY IYER Institute of Chicago. Presented by theLogan Center andtheJazz Free. performances. pre-concert in free artists jazz local showcasing Logan the STAGE at CHICAGO presents Logan the at Jazz Chicago, of Institute Jazz the and Arts the for Center Logan David and Reva the with partnership In skill. and grace with quartet talented his leads Tucker NINTH BEETHOVEN’S ORCHESTRA: UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY , Songs for Soprano; Rasumovsky

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Week) nd Week) st UC DANCERS: HOME THEATER [24] THEATER FXK Theater, Reynolds Club Reynolds Theater, FXK Ready. Set. GO! The writers get a theme; the directors a script; the designers craft props and costumes; and all the while, the actors pretend memorize to their lines. Over the course of glorious 24 and frantic hours, participants write and perform a collection ofsix new plays. That’s right. These sketches are never- never-to-be-seen-again. and before-seen Theater [24] is a hilarious celebration of flash-theater: see it before it’s gone. (tickets.uchicago.edu, $4 General Fri, Apr 7 & Sat, Apr 8, 7pm (2 Sat, Apr 1, 8pm (1 773.267.ARTS). UT/TAPS. by Presented Presented by MiHiCHi and Zanies Comedy Club in Comedy MiHiCHi and Zanies by Presented Center. partnership with the Logan (tickets.courttheatre.org). Theatre. Court by Presented ISSAC & EVANS: APRIL FOOLS! 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Apr 3 (oi.uchicago.edu/programs). 3 Apr the Oriental Institute. by Presented APRIL AFTER HOURS Fridays, Apr 7–April 28, 5–8pm Frederick C. Robie House (5757 S Woodlawn Ave) Gather with friends for an evening of music and refreshments at the iconic Robie House. Attendees will also have the chance explore to Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie-style including masterpiece, access private to spaces and balconies. non-members $35 $30, members FLWT flwright.org/programs/ or (312.994.4000 afterhoursrobie). Trust. Wright Lloyd Frank by Presented 3D TECHNOLOGY IN WORKSHOP ARCHAEOLOGY Sat, Apr 8, 1–4pm Institute Oriental The This workshop will introduce attendees theto emerging world of 3D scanning, increasingly becoming currently is which archaeological for useful applications. willWe discuss the science and current methods of 3D scanning and find out how it is being used here at the Oriental Institute. 3D scanning equipment will be present for hands-on experience. Cannon, candidate PhD Josh Instructor: archaeology and art Eastern Near in UChicago $20, members $25, General by required $8. Registration ArtsPass Mar 28 (oi.uchicago.edu/programs). 28 Mar the Oriental Institute. by Presented Susanne Paulus, assistant professor in in professor assistant Paulus, Susanne Assyriology at the University of Chicago. Get inspired the by ancient origins of modern ingredients. the At end of the class, you will enjoy a delicious meal and enthusiasts. food other with socialize General $40, members $35, UChicago by required Registration $15. ArtsPass

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FAMILY DAY: BUILD A BUST purchased at the end of the hour. youth, neighbors, UChicago students and Sat, Apr 1, 1–4pm Free (flwright.org/programs/ staff, and other community partners to take Smart Museum of Art opendesignstudio). part in actively stewarding our surrounding Build a bust of yourself as Socrates Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. community through cleanup, beautification, or a Caesar. Using cardboard and and service projects. Participants will then plaster, we’ll make sculptural self- ANCIENT EARTH DAY | have the opportunity to learn from each portraits inspired by plaster and marble AGES 5–ADULT other in a facilitated community exchange, leading and taking short workshops from busts on view in the Smart Museum’s Sat, Apr 22, 1–4pm each other in areas of self-expertise. special exhibition Classicisms. The Oriental Institute Free. Free. All materials provided. Get crafty! We will be using recycled Presented by the Smart Museum of Art. Presented by Arts + Public Life. and natural materials to explore creative engineering and the innovative thinking LOGAN CENTER FAMILY you need to build with limited resources. CONCRETE FAMILY SATURDAY: GARDEN ART Free; registration recommended FESTIVAL Sat, Apr 1, 2–4:30pm (oi.uchicago.edu/programs). Sat, May 6, 1–5pm Logan Center Presented by the Oriental Institute. Logan Center and Smart Museum of Art Cultivate your child's artistic curiosity An afternoon of hands-on family activities with free thematic art workshops led SUMMER ARTS PROGRAM FAIR related to concrete. Learn how to pour arts.uchicago.edu | 27 by local artists, art organizations, Sun, Apr 30, 1–4pm and shape this ancient material with and UChicago students. Families can Arts Incubator, Flex Space & Woodshop concrete masons from Ozinga, make sample a range of activities for ages (301 E Garfield Blvd) mini concrete cars, and get up close 2–12 through hour-long creative sessions. Drop in to our free summer program fair to a real-life concrete mixing truck. Free. to find high quality arts programs for Free. Presented by the Logan Center. your child or teen. Representatives of arts Presented by the Logan Center for the Arts and the Smart Museum of Art. Sponsored by Ozinga programs in and/or serving residents of Bros., Inc. DESIGN AND BUILD South Side neighborhoods will be present to Apr 15 and Jun 17, 10–11am answer questions about their opportunities. Frederick C. Robie House Free. (5757 S Woodlawn Ave) Presented by Arts + Public Life. This monthly program includes a brief tour and directed workshop that explores the Robie House up close. Explore a unique detail of Wright’s design and learn how to build the same detail for an original LEGO® model. General $25 child, free for adult chaperones (flwright.org/programs/ designandbuild). Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.

OPEN DESIGN STUDIO WITH LEGO® DESIGN APPRENTICESHIP Saturdays, Apr 15 and Jun 17, 11am–12pm PROGRAM: SPRING SHOW Frederick C. Robie House COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP Thu, May 11, 6–8pm (5757 S Woodlawn Ave) Arts Incubator Build with LEGOs in the Robie House DAY (301 E Garfield Blvd) billiards room during the Open Sat, May 6, 11am–3:30pm Arts + Public Life’s Design Apprenticeship Design Studio following Design & Arts Incubator (301 E Garfield Blvd) Program (DAP) is a mentorship program Build: Prairie Style. Designs can be Join Arts + Public Life for our annual Spring that asks teens to craft their communities’ Community Stewardship Day. We invite physical and social conditions through design, wherein teens learn the fundamentals of carpentry and object design. At this culminating show and reception, beginning and intermediate DAP participants will display their work from the spring session. All community members are welcome to attend and celebrate teen artists’ creative accomplishments. Free. Presented by Arts + Public Life and After School Matters.

ANCIENT GAME DAY | AGES 5–ADULT Sat, Jun 3, 1–4pm The Oriental Institute Join us for the annual celebration of ancient games! Try your hand at games from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, and Nubia. Learn the principles of making board games and create your own. Free; registration recommended (oi.uchicago.edu/programs). Presented by the Oriental Institute.

FAMILY DAY: MYTHOLOGY MANIA! Sat, Jun 3, 1–4pm Smart Museum of Art Dig into stories from the ancient world, like Homer’s Odyssey and the myth of Daphne and Apollo. Then, design a giant cardboard boat, build Greek and Roman “ruins,” and create costumes, helmets, and armor inspired by your favorite myths. Free. All materials provided. Presented by the Smart Museum of Art.

LOGAN CENTER FAMILY SATURDAY: DANCEATHON Sat, Jun 3, 2–4:30pm Logan Center Cultivate your child's artistic curiosity with free thematic art workshops led by local artists, art organizations, and UChicago students. Families can sample a range of activities for ages 2–12 through hour-long creative sessions. Join us on June 3 for an afternoon of social dance for the whole family, as well as hands-on art making workshops and other performances and activities. Free. Presented by the Logan Center. EXHIBITIONS 28 | arts.uchicago.edu DRAWING HOUR | CINEMA AGES 5–ADULT MUSIC Sat, Jun 17, 1–2pm The Oriental Institute Practice looking closely at art and develop ARTS EDUCATION drawing skills. Choose ancient sculptures and pottery to sketch, or grab a drawing HAPPY HOURS EXPERIENCE IT ALL worksheet to loosen up and get inspired. All ON THE ARTS BLOCK materials are provided and you are welcome DANCE IN WASHINGTON PARK to bring your own sketchbook (only pencil is allowed in the gallery). No drawing TALKS 301 E. Garfield Blvd. experience is necessary. Drop in at any time. Chicago, IL 60637 Free; registration recommended POETRY (oi.uchicago.edu/programs). Presented by the Oriental Institute. EVENTS artsandpubliclife COMMUNITY arts.uchicago.edu/apl

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10 Hack Arts Lab (HAL) 16 Neubauer Collegium 22 Special Collections Research 5735 S Ellis Ave, 2nd Floor for Culture and Society Center Exhibition Gallery hal.uchicago.edu 5701 S Woodlawn Ave The Joseph Regenstein neubauercollegium. Library uchicago.edu 1100 E 57th St lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/exhibits 17 Oriental Institute Museum 1155 E 58th St oi.uchicago.edu Brooks Centennial April 6–8,2017 musicians, andfans ofGwendolyn Brooks A tribute gathering ofscholars, writers, Our Miss Brooks 100 andBrooks Permissions. and thePoetry Foundation, andincollaboration with partnership withtheDuSable MuseumofAfrican American History Centennial Brooks ispresented by theUniversity ofChicagoin Logan Center for theArts Reva andDavid Saturday, April8/9am–9pm Friday, April7/9am–7:30 pm 32 | arts.uchicago.eduAfrican AmericanHistory DuSable Museumof Thursday, April6/7–9 pm Black EarthEnsemble. commission by Nicole Mitchell andthe Jamila Woods, andthepremiere ofa performance ofmusicandpoetryby Sonia Sanchez, andEvie Shockley, witha Ishion Hutchinson, HakiMadhubuti,Ed Roberson, Featuring Nora Brooks Blakely, Robin Coste Lewis, arts.uchicago.edu/brooks100

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