Special
Events
Don't Miss Chicago Opera Theatre's 35th Universary
Season!
Chicago Shakespeare Presents Amadeus
EXCLUSIVE
OFFER!
Friends of Chicago Opera Theater: $40 Fridays!
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's fall season is off to a terrific start with Peter
Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play, Amadeus. Friends of Chicago Opera Theater can purchase $40 tickets for Friday night performances through October
24. Don't miss the dramatic life story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as seen through the eyes of his most bitter rival, Court Composer Antonio
Salieri. Come see Salieri's passionate pursuit to destroy Mozart in this production directed by Artistic Associate Gary Griffin.
Visit our website for more information and enter promo code COMPOSER to access your
exclusive discount.
Offer is subject to availability and not available on previously purchased
tickets.
PORCHLIGHT PRESENTS CANDIDE
$10 OFF TO CHICAGO OPERA THEATER PATRONS!
Porchlight's 2008-2009 season begins with Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta, Candide.
Friends of the Chicago Opera Theater can receive $10 off Fridays or Sundays through October 24.
Part sophisticated operetta, part wacky screwball comedy with shades of Monty Python,
Candide is a funny, irreverent satire that is the perfect musical expression of Voltaire's tongue in cheek send up of optimistic
philosophies.
Directed by Artistic Director Walter Stearns, this show will delight you with beautiful music
even as it tickles your funny bone. Please call the Theatre Building Chicago box office at 773.327.5252 and
use the code word OPERA to access your exclusive discount!
Offer is subject to availability and not available on previously purchased tickets. For more
information call (312)704-84114 or click here
Chicago Opera Theater
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Chicago, IL 60601
Links Hall would like to introduce
you to an exhilarating month of performances, city-wide communal exchanges, workshops, and dialogues. This October, Links
Hall presents a month-long festival entitled Studies N Black, curated by Links Hall Artistic Associate Baraka De Soleil. Each week will offer a
number of events throughout the city of Chicago that will address how we define “blackness,” in both real and performative
contexts.
More information about our October programming schedule, including a week-by-week description of the series can be
found on our website.
Links Hall is located at 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, convenient to the Addison Red Line El stop. NOTE: Many of
the events do not take place at Links Hall. For directions, more information, or to register for events call (773)281-0824 or e-mail Erica Mott.
DanceWorks Chicago
continues to innovate, presenting its debut performance through an initiative dubbed Dance Flight on Tuesday, September 30. Dance
Flight will be
offered in much the same way as a wine flight with two performance components within one evening, which may be viewed separately or in combination.
YOU shape YOUR experience! Performances will be held at
the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn and start at 6:00PM and 7:00PM. Please
visit our website for program information.
Tickets are $10 for each flight or $15 for the entire
evening. Tickets may be purchased by cash only at the door one hour prior to the curtain. BE PART OF
DANCEWORKS CHICAGO HISTORY AS WE LAUNCH OUR 2008-2009 SEASON WITH DANCE FLIGHT!
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
Reality of Dreams
Magdalena
Abakanowicz is one of the most potent voices in the art world today. You've probably seen Agora, her installation of cast iron figures in Grant Park.
Now experience another dimension of her work with Magdalena Abakanowicz: Reality of Dreams, opening Friday, September 26 in the Block's Alsdorf
Gallery. The exhibition concentrates on Abakanowicz's drawings but also features the sculptural work Flock, pictured above.
Free guided tours take place Sundays at 2 pm through November 30 and then Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm from December 6 to
December 14, the final day of the exhibition. Reality of Dreams is organized by the Block Museum with the cooperation of Marlborough Gallery, New
York.
The Artist at War
John Swope's poetic and personal images of
weary but elated Allied soldiers, Japan's struggling yet resilient citizens, and the country's battle-scarred landscapes at the end of the Second
World War bring a unique perspective to war photography. Carolyn Peter, curator of the exhibition A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope
and director of the Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, discusses Swope's work in the context of war documentation. Her
talk, "The Artist at War: John Swope and the History of War Photography" takes place at the Block at 5:30 pm on Friday, September 26. The lecture is
free and open to the public.
Get ready for the talk by reading a Q/A with Carolyn Peter on the American Art American City website or by coming early to see
the exhibition in our Main Gallery.
Peter's talk is the first in Three American Photographers: In-Depth, a series of programs at the Block exploring the work of
John Swope, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Gordon Parks. It is also part of American Art American City, a citywide initiative celebrating American art
sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Block Cinema
Goes to War
"Attack!"
Inspired by the exhibition A Letter from Japan, Block Cinema is
presenting a series of war films this fall. Highlights of The Photography of John Swope and Hollywood's Depiction of World War II include Lee Marvin
and Jack Palance in "Attack!" (Friday, September 26 at 8 pm) and Marlon Brando's bewildering performance in The Teahouse of the August Moon
(Wednesday, October 15 at 8 pm).
General admission to Block Cinema is $6 or $4 for Block Museum members, Northwestern University faculty, staff, and students
with WildCard, and seniors 65 and older. Block Cinema is a collaboration of the Block Museum and Northwestern's School of Communication and sponsored
in part by generous gifts from the Louis Family Foundation, James B. Pick and Rosalyn M. Laudati, and David and Susan Gersh.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
847.491.4000
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Admission to the exhibitions is free
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