Public Events February 2017 Subscribe to this publication by emailing Carol Chen at [email protected] Table of Contents Overview Highlighted February 2017 Events ............................................................. 3 Black History Month..................................................................................... 4 Children’s Events ......................................................................................... 5 Northwestern Events Arts Music Performances .................................................................................... 7 Exhibits, Theatre, and Film .......................................................................... 11 Living Leisure and Social ......................................................................................... 18 Around Campus ARTica (art studio) Neighborhood and Community Relations Norris Outdoors 1603 Orrington Avenue, Suite 1730 Religious Services ........................................................................................ 21 Evanston, IL 60201 www.northwestern.edu/communityrelations Sports, Health, and Wellness Northwestern Wildcat Athletics .................................................................. 22 Recreation .................................................................................................... 24 Alan Anderson Swimming Executive Director Group Exercise (winter schedule) [email protected] 847-467-5762 Professional Development and Lectures One Book, One Northwestern: Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise ..... 26 Lectures in the Humanities and Social Sciences ........................................ 28 To receive this publication electronically every Lectures in the Sciences ............................................................................... 32 month, please email Carol Chen at Professional Development ........................................................................... 36 [email protected] Evanston Campus Map and Parking Information Cover image: Diana the Huntress statue outside the Charlies Deering Library. @northwesternu Neither Free | Nor by Brittney Leeanne Williams Highlighted Events Thurs, Feb 16 – Tues, Mar 28 February 2017 Norris University Center, Dittmar Gallery, 1999 Campus Dr, Evanston Join us for Black History Month with a Dittmar Gallery exhibit investigating the Art from the Heart black body, narratives of "Whiteness", and black femininity in a thought-provoking Jan 16 to Feb 10, $1-10 experience by artist Brittney Leeanne Williams. Personalize a love mug, darling mug, or our new Swirl Heart bowl ($6-10), a heart frame or glass item ($3), or a sweetheart button ($1). 75th Anniversary of Japanese-Internment Remembrance Day Sat, Feb 18, 2:00 PM, free If You Remember, I’ll Remember Block Museum, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston Sat, Feb 4 – Sun, Jun 18 February 19, 2017, marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of the executive order Block Museum, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston which called for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. This exhibit is an invitation to reflect on the past while Commemorate this occasion through an interactive, intergenerational program contemplating the present through art exploring love, held around the work of Sansei artist Kristine Aono. The afternoon will be spent mourning, war, relocation, internment, resistance, and sharing stories of internment and commemorating this anniversary. civil rights in 19th and 20th century North America. Join us for a Sewing Circle with artist Marie Watt to make a blanket in community and conversation Audiology Clinic Open House Tues, Feb 21 and Wed, Feb 22, free Super Bowl Watch Party RSVP by calling 847-491-3165 or email [email protected] Sun, Feb 5, 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM, free Did you hear that? The Center for Audiology, Speech, Language, and Learning Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Dr, Evanston (NUCASLL) will host an Audiology Open House event for NU faculty and staff! We Contact: One Book One Northwestern, 847-467-2294 will offer free hearing screenings and consultations, as well as, an opportunity to Come watch the Super Bowl with One Book One Northwestern. Make your own listen to new hearing aid technology. Please call to make a reservation. predictions as to who will win! Light snacks will be available. Poulenc’s Opera, Dialogues of the Carmelites Friday Night ICE at the Norris Ice Rink Thurs, Feb 23 – Sun, Feb 26, 7:30 PM, $18 public/$8 students “Date Night” on Fri, Feb 10, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM, free ($2 Based on the true story of the martyrs of Compiègne and a skate rental for NU students only and $3 for Wildcard screenplay by Georges Bernanos, Francis Poulenc’s moving holders) opera is set amid the chaos of the French Revolution’s Reign Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Dr, Evanston of Terror. Poulenc’s music explores a range of styles, from Join us on campus for date night with a steak fries bar, homage to 1940s film scores to the haunting medieval sound of liturgical chant. cookies, and a hot chocolate bar as you skate the night away Special guest mezzo-soprano Joyce Castle, who sang the role of the Old Prioress at to love songs. Giveaways and special appearances make the New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and Central City Opera, reprises her night extra fun! role in this production. Performed in English. Urinetown: The Musical Danceworks 2017: Current Rhythms Fri, Feb 10 – Sun, Feb 26, $30 public/$27 seniors, NU Fri, Feb 24 – Sun, Feb 26 faculty & staff, and area educators, $25 student/$10 7:30 PM Thurs-Sat, 2:00 PM Sun NU student ($6 in advance) $25 adult/$22 seniors/area educators, $20 NU Ethel M. Barber Theater, 30 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston faculty and staff, $10 student, $6 NU student in In a dystopian metropolis, a terrible water shortage caused by a 20-year drought advance has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use Josephine Louis Theater, 20 Arts Circle Dr public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging This year’s annual dance showcase entitled “Current Rhythms” will feature exciting admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides and innovative choreography that displays an entertaining and thought-provoking he’s had enough, and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom! range of choreographic styles and techniques. www.northwestern.edu/communityrelations February 2017 3 Black History Month “Old Folks at Home: Nostalgia, Black Ancestors, and the American South in the Films of Tyler Perry” Fri, Feb 3, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Crowe Hall 5-138, 1860 Campus Dr, Evanston Contact: Black Arts Initiative, [email protected] This talk will address fundamental meanings of the Neither Free | Nor by Brittney Leeanne Williams American South in Tyler Perry’s films, with particular emphasis upon Diary of a Thurs, Feb 16 – Tues, Mar 28 Mad Black Woman (2005); and Madea’s Family Reunion (2006). These early films Norris University Center, Dittmar Gallery, 1999 Campus Dr, Evanston especially, establish Perry’s authorship of cinematic narratives of reverse African In this new series, Brittney Leeanne Williams investigates the black body as a site American migration, and mobilize key ancestor figures in tandem with of suffering, mourning, and memorialization, yet still one that is available to geographical space to craft a complex kind of nostalgia for his target audiences. transcendence. In Neither Free | Nor, bodies transition from persecution, through We’ll explore the way that Perry’s alter ego Madea is a central site of this nostalgia, a kind of preservation, to emerge as deliverer or liberator. The series also engages even as she can be supplanted and even replaced by other more “legitimate” narratives of “Whiteness,” frequently situating contrasting images within the same cinematic and racial ancestor figures. frame as Black subjects, creating a visual tension that exposes the chasm between Black and White communities. As one community feasts, the other grieves. Finally, “First came Shade then Reading: A Meditation on the the work explores the role of black femininity within the iconography of the female Divine in Black LGBT Literature, Culture, and form. The images evoke the possibility of salvation as women bow in prayer or History” weep. Marcus Gardley (Brown Univeristy) Mon, Feb 6, 5:00 PM Kresge Hall 1515, 1880 Campus Dr, Evanston Gayness is a spiritual gift, a calling, a blessing and an energy. By stepping back into buried histories, pouring light on literature and art (past and present) and calling out truths that we know to be self- evident – this lecture puts black queerness on its proverbial throne. What if a queen really is a Queen? What if butch and femme energy were viewed as sacred in the bodies of queer folk? What if bi-sexuality were a beautiful depiction of balance? And transitioning seen as a spiritual journey of the self? What if the labels we gave ourselves were actually crowns? This lecture not only answers these probing questions, it raises many. This is a meeting of the minds and not just a lecture. This Dreams are Colder Than Death is an opportunity to change the narrative and add to the conversation. This is an Tues, Feb 28, 5:30 PM, free opportunity to sit under the shade and analyze the art of “reading.” Block Museum, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston Arthur Jafa and Kahlil Joseph’s 2014 documentary Dreams Are Colder Than Being my Sibling’s Keeper: A Dialogue on Race, Policing, and the Death, explores the question