SELECTION OF ARTS EVENTS ACROSS CAMPUS
4:30–5:30 p.m.
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Midway Studios
6016 S. Ingleside Avenue
Midway Studios will exhibit the works of visual artists and screen documentary films made by students in Cinema and Media Studies. A display of historical images of Midway Studios will complement an unveiling of benches that were created from building materials salvaged from the recent Midway Studios renovation project. |
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David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art will feature its current gallery exhibitions, including The Darker Side of Light. Artists from the Department of Music will perform chamber music and students and faculty members in creative writing will read original works. |
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Reynolds Club
5706 S. University Avenue
At the Reynolds Club, members of University Theater, Theater and Performance Studies, Ransom Notes, Golosa, Soul Umoja, Off-Off Campus, the Dean’s Men, University Ballet, and Fire Escape Films—all of whom add to the creativity of the student-run Festival of the Arts held each spring—will share theater, choral performances, dance, and film. |
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FACULTY ROUNDTABLE |
Arts at the University of Chicago
4:45–5:30 p.m.
Francis X. Kinahan Theater
Reynolds Club, Third Floor
5706 S. University Avenue
Moderated by David Levin,
Associate Professor
of Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies,
and Theatre and Performance Studies
- Thomas Christensen, Professor, Department of Music, and Associate Dean and Master, Humanities Collegiate Division
- Laura Letinsky, Professor, Department of Visual Arts, Committee on Cinema and Media Studies
- Jennifer Wild, Assistant Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
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RECEPTION AND GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY |
5:30–8:30 p.m.
Program begins at 6:00 p.m.
Reva and David Logan
Center for Creative and
Performing Arts site
60th Street and S. Ingleside Avenue |
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OPTIONAL EVENING ARTS EVENTS |
7:45 p.m.
Street parking available.
Guests who wish to continue to enjoy the arts on campus are invited to attend several evening arts events.
- Visit a professional theater dress rehearsal and be in the very first audience for Court Theatre’s production of Sizwe Banzi is Dead. Master playwright Athol Fugard and the actors of the original cast collaboratively wrote the story of a man who pretends to be dead in order to survive in Apartheid-era South Africa. A searing exploration of identity and the political power of storytelling, Sizwe Banzi is Dead is directed by Court Theatre Resident Artist Ron O.J. Parson.
- Motet Choir concert in the
Great Hall at Midway Studios
- Open rehearsal
of the University Symphony Orchestra at Mandel Hall
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