News and Updates
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.