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Join friends, colleagues, and Festival presenters on Friday, November 3 at the Chicago Humanities Festival’s radically different Benefit Gala. Curiodyssey will be a format-breaking evening of jaw-dropping spectacle and wonder; an alluring journey through space and time; a highly original event that has never been done before. You won’t want to miss it!
Curiodyssey will be held at The Field Museum and includes: our secret performance program in James Simpson Theater, dinner in Stanley Field Hall, complimentary valet parking, a silent auction offering private dinners with Festival presenters, first edition signed books, original artist-made bookplates, trips, fine wines, and backstage tours to name just a few. If you miss it, you’ll be sorry!
Tickets for this highly original event are $500, and tables of 10 begin at $5,000.
For reservations, please contact Eric Olson at .
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Tree and Stick, Tuscany 2002
© Joel Meyerowitz, courtesy
Edwynn Houk Gallery, NY
In a similar spirit of unvarnished and direct inquiry, the 17th annual Chicago Humanities Festival addresses the theme of "PEACE and WAR: Facing Human Conflict." This year's festival is scheduled from October 28 - November 12, 2006. Mark your calendars!
With PEACE and WAR the Chicago Humanities Festival examines, through the arts and sciences, the many aspects of human accord and conflict—from ancient times to the present day; from the political to the personal; on the battlegrounds, both literal and metaphorical.
The Festival presents nearly 125 programs relating to the topic of Peace and War, culminating November 12. Here is just a taste of what's to come:
- Singer and songwriter Joan Baez performs songs of peace
- Samantha Power, Pulitzer-prize winning author of A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
- Paul Krugman, Princeton economist and New York Times Op-Ed columnist
- Distinguished novelist and critic Francine Prose
- Felix Rohatyn, financier and global affairs commentator on the challenges of globalization to American capitalism
- Novelists Philip Caputo (A Rumor of War), Jack Fuller (Fragments); Larry Heinemann (Paco’s Story); and Robert Olen Butler (A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain) on writing about Vietnam
- Photographer Steve McCurry
- The ever-popular ASCAP Cabaret
- Chicago Sinfonietta, in an orchestral concert on "Peace and War"
- Latin American correspondent Alma Guillermoprieto in conversation
- War correspondents Chris Hedges, A.J. Langguth, Stephen Kinzer, and Jackie Spinner
- Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy, speaks about Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
- Azar Nafisi professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature, and author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Paul Fussell, on his seminal work, The Great War and Modern Memory
- Short story writer and activist Grace Paley
- Philip Gourevitch, editor of the Paris Review and chronicler of genocide
- Canadian-Israeli architect Moshe Safdie on the architecture of peace
- Yale scholar Paul Kennedy on America’s future foreign policy and the United Nations
- Musical theater historian Robert Kimball presents a concert version of two memorable American musicals, including Irving Berlin’s This is the Army and Call Me Mister, by Harold Rome
- Gillian Slovo, British novelist, journalist, and playwright (Guantanamo)
- Charles Falco, physicist and optical science professor, on the controversial theory that artists as early as the 15th century were using optical aids to create realistic renderings
- Two distinguished classicists from the University of Chicago, James Redfield and David Tracy
- Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble members in a reading of texts from contemporary poetry, dramas, and journalism reflecting the inhumanity of war.
- Pritzker Military Library's Executive Director Ed Tracy presents Medal of Honor recipients Michael Thornton and Thomas Norris as they recount their stories of singular bravery in the Vietnam War
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©Joel Meyerowitz, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery
Calling all children, families, parents and friends! We invite you to journey with us on an exploration of peace, understanding, forgiveness, and harmony through interactive programs in theater, storytelling, animation, art, music, and puppetry.
Running throughout the entire Fall Festival, October 28 - November 12, the Children's Humanities Festival celebrates Getting to Peace. Here are just a few of the exciting programs to come:
- Lelavision combines modern and aerial dance, music, theater, and large interactive musical sculptures to create innovative works of awe and whimsy.
- Cashore Marionettes are so exceptional in artistry, grace and refinement of movement that they redefine the art of puppetry.
- Metro Theatre Company of St. Louis performs Beowulf with throbbing percussion, a stark set and non-stop action. Staged in a fresh retelling, this tale of bravery, heroism and war bounds off the page with breath-taking energy.
- Peace and War at the dinner table. This fun filled dinner at the Museum of Contemporary Art will feature organic foods served family style, and will be hosted by a Chicago-area chef who will offer tips and tricks for family dinners and foods that no one will declare ‘war’ over.
- Animation Station!, a series of hands-on animation workshops.
- History: It Can’t Happen Without You. Lynda Blackmon Lowery was 14 years old when she walked with Dr. Martin Luther King on the march to the State capitol in Selma, Alabama that led to the enactment of the Voting Rights Act. Authors Susan Buckley and Eslpeth Leacock take children on Lynda’s historical journey. Lynda Blackmon Lowery will participate in the program.
- Picture books come to life in A Musical Celebration of Children's Illustrators, now a signature event for the Children's Festival, features Fulcrum Point New Music Project and a world premiere musical commission based on a popular children’s picture book
- Kohl McCormick StoryBus presents: The Three Little Pigs/ Los Tres Pequeños Javelinas. Climb aboard this 37-foot literacy museum-on-wheels and discover how these loveable, wild, Southwestern cousins of the three little pigs outsmart trickster Coyote!
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