Public Events September 2019 1 Subscribe to this publication by emailing Shayla Butler at [email protected] Table of Contents Overview Fall Event Highlights ............................................................................................. 3 Northwestern Events Arts and Performances ........................................................................................... 7 Neighborhood and Community Relations 1800 Sherman Avenue, Suite 7-100 Living Evanston, IL 60208 Leisure and Social .......................................................................................... 8 www.northwestern.edu/communityrelations Norris Mini Courses Around Campus ARTica (art studio) Dave Davis Norris Outdoors Executive Director Religious Services ......................................................................................... 11 [email protected] 847-467-5762 Sports, Health, and Wellness Northwestern Wildcat Athletics ................................................................... 12 Recreation ..................................................................................................... 15 To receive this publication electronically Speaking Events every month, please email Shayla Butler at One Book, One Northwestern: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale…18 [email protected] Speakers and Presentations ......................................................................... 19 Evanston Campus Map and Parking Information Cover image Public pathways along the lake with views of the Ryan Center for the Musical Arts. Photo by Jim Prisching. 2 Fall Event Highlights Evanston MashUp September-December 2019 Wed, 9/18, 5:30-9:00 PM, $95 until 9/6 and $125 afterwards or $50 for those 35 years and under Join us on campus for events this fall as we welcome our community and help us Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Drive kick off a new school year! Contact: Evanston Chamber of Commerce, [email protected] Join Northwestern and Evanston for a night of conversations, food, and music at SEPTEMBER this business and community mixer. Co-hosted by Evanston Mayor Steve Hagerty and Northwestern President Morton Schapiro, this event embodies the spirit of ‘Kits, ‘Cats, and Kids Block Party collaboration and the positive impact of their powerful partnership. Thurs, 9/12, 4:45-7:30 PM, free Sherman Avenue and Davis Street Evanston residents of all ages are invited to celebrate the back to school season at the annual ‘Kits, ‘Cats, and Kids Block Party. There will be games, arts and crafts, family-friendly activities filling the street, live music, the ETHS Marching Band and NU Marching Band, rousing pep rally-style speeches, and lots of dining options. Pop América Sat, 9/28, 12:00 PM, free Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive Join The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University for an all-ages open house to celebrate the opening of Pop América, 1965–1975, an exhibition that brings together artists from North and South America, as well as the Caribbean, to reframe our understanding of Pop Art. Pop América is the first exhibition to unify Latin American and Latinx expressions of Pop and explore how artists working across the hemisphere embraced its bold, colorful imagery and political potential. The exhibition runs through December 8. Northwestern Football vs. UNLV (Evanston Day!) Sat, 9/14, 2:30 PM kickoff, tickets $20-40 Ryan Field, 1501 Central St, Evanston Contact: Northwestern Athletics, 888-467-8775 We celebrate Evanston as the ‘Cats face UNLV’s Rebels. Join the free pre-game at Wildcat Alley just northeast of Ryan Field at 11:30 AM for face-painting, giveaways, Willie the Wildcat, and our marching band. Then, cheer on the ‘Cats as they come roaring into the 2019! 3 OCTOBER Open House Chicago Norris Mini Courses Sat, 10/19 and Sun, 10/20, check Register now for October classes. website for opening times that vary by The Norris University Center offers a range of leisure classes site, free – everything from wine appreciation to ceramics – open to Evanston and Chicago the public. Learn new skills and hobbies in a relaxed Contact: Eric Rogers, [email protected] environment. See pg. 8 Tour Alice Millar Chapel, be an astronomer at Dearborn Observatory, and explore Deering Library, along with other local venues throughout Evanston and Chicago. Manuel Barrueco, Guitar Get insider access and special tours, and be on the lookout for sites that are Fri, 10/11, 7:30 PM, $30 public, $10 students normally not available for public viewing! Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle Drive Contact: Bienen Ticket Office, 847-467-4000 11th Annual CIERA Public Lecture Series – Dr. The legendary Manuel Barrueco is widely recognized as Priyamvada Natarajan: Cartography of the one of the most important guitarists of our time. His Cosmos: Mapping the Unseen international tours have taken him to some of the most Thurs, 10/24, 5:30 PM, free celebrated musical centers in the world, including the Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St, Evanston Royal Albert Hall in London and the Concertgebouw in Contact: CIERA, [email protected] Amsterdam, and he has appeared with such prestigious Priyamvada Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston interested in cosmology, gravitational lensing and Symphony. In 2007 Barrueco received a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental black hole physics. Her research involves mapping Soloist Performance for his Solo Piazzolla. He is also the recipient of the United the detailed distribution of dark matter in the States Artist Fontanals Fellowship for Artistic Excellence. universe exploiting the bending of light en-route to us from distant galaxies. In particular, she has focused on making dark matter maps of clusters of galaxies, the largest known repositories of dark matter. Gravitational Margot Lee Shetterly, Keynote Address lensing by clusters can also be utilized to constrain dark energy models and she has Thurs, 10/17, 4:30 PM, free been developing the methodology and techniques to do so. Her work has Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute, 2145 demonstrated that cluster strong lensing offers a unique and potentially powerful Sheridan Road laboratory to test evolving dark energy models. Contact: Nancy Cunniff, 847-467-2294, [email protected] Northwestern Homecoming 2019 Hear the author of One Book One Northwestern pick Evanston residents are welcome to celebrate Northwestern Homecoming 2019. We Hidden Figures deliver a keynote address. Copies of the have a number of events open to the community. book will be available for sale ahead of the book signing to Enjoy a delicious lunch on the lake on Tuesday, October 22 at the Arts follow the speech. Circle from 10:30 AM-2:00 PM at the Food Truck Festival. Writer, researcher, and entrepreneur Margot Lee Shetterly is the author of Hidden Come cheer on the Women’s Soccer team vs. Minnesota on Thursday, Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women October 24, at 6:00 PM at Martin Stadium. Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, which was a top book of 2016 Celebrate the Wildcats and get excited for the Homecoming Football game for both TIME and Publisher’s Weekly, a USA Today bestseller, and a #1 (instant) at the Wildcat Warm-Up and Pep Rally on Friday, October 25 on Deering New York Times bestseller. The film adaptation of her book was nominated for Meadow from 5:30-7:15 PM. Best Supporting Actress. Game day is Saturday, October 26. Kickoff is at 11:00 AM. Before the game, come to Wildcat Alley for entertainment and fun from 9:00 AM – kickoff. 4 Chicago Humanities Festival at Northwestern Fun Home Sun, 10/27, see website in early September for times and tickets Fri, 11/8 to Sun, 11/24, $6-$30 Multiple locations on campus Barber Theater, 30 Arts Circle Drive Contact: Jill Mannor, 847-467-3970, [email protected] Contact: Wirtz Center Box Office, 847-491-7282, 2019 is CHF’s “Year of Power,” featuring programs that will explore how power [email protected] works—across political, economic, historical, social, and interpersonal relations. When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the Men’s Basketball vs. Quincy volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose Thurs, 10/31, time TBD, individual ticket prices vary temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. (season ticket sales here) Moving between past and present, Alison relives her Welsh Ryan Arena, 2705 Ashland Avenue unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing Contact: Northwestern Athletics, 888-467-8775 understanding of her own sexuality, and the looming, unanswerable questions about Cheer on the ‘Cats in their first game of the 2019-20 her father’s hidden desires. A Tony Award winner for Best Musical, Fun Home is a season as they play in the new Welsh-Ryan Arena. refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. Northwestern vs. Purdue (Family Weekend) NOVEMBER Sat, 11/9, Time TBD, ticket $50+ Ryan Field, 1501 Central St, Evanston Imagine U: Winnie the Pooh Contact: Northwestern Athletics, 888-467-8775 Fri, 11/1 to Sun, 11/17, $6-$12 Cheer on the ‘Cats as we take on the Purdue Boilermaker’s during Family Weekend. Wallis Theater, 1949 Campus Drive Contact: Wirtz Center Box Office, 847-491-7282, DECEMBER [email protected] Northwestern Jazz Orchestra Join Winnie-the-Pooh, the famous bear of very little brain, Thurs,