Chicago Humanities Festival : Festival Updates

Festival Updates

PROGRAM CANCELLATION: #411 Robert Rosenblum "Time in Modern Art"
Professor Rosenblum has had to cancel his Festival appearance, which had been set for Sunday, Nov. 7; 2-3 p.m. at the Alliance Francaise. Alternative presenters/programs for this time slot include Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, former Mexican Ambassador to the U.N., at the Chicago Cultural Center; Art Institute research associate Betty Seid on the Indian deity Shiva, at the Art Institute; and "Play It By Ear" improvisational opera at The Three Arts Club of Chicago.

PARTICIPANT CANCELLATION: #406 Annals of Revolt: 1968
The Honorable Bobby Rush is unable to participate in the "1968" panel discussion due to a scheduling conflict.

PARTICIPANT CANCELLATION: #309 From Farm to Table
Tod Murphy, proprieter of the famous Farmers Diner in Vermont, is unable to come to Chicago to participate in the Food Panel "From Farm to Table" on Saturday, Nov. 6; 10:30 a.m. at National-Louis University.

PROGRAM CANCELLATION: #413 Susan Meiselas
Program 413, featuring photographer Susan Meiselas, has been cancelled due to a timing conflict.

PROGRAM CANCELLATION: #717 Douglas Brinkley
PROGRAM 717, DOUGLAS BRINKLEY has been cancelled.

ADDITIONAL PARTICIPANT: Charles Coleman to interview Peter Greenaway
Program #503: Charles Coleman, film program director at Facets Multi-Media, will conduct the interview with artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway.

ADDITIONAL PANELIST: Arthur Spector joins Architecture Panel
Distinguished Israeli architect Arthur Spector joins program #332, Architecture Panel: Shared Spaces on November 6.

ADDED PERFORMERS: Program #619, Joel Greenberg: Below the Surface
Joel Greenberg, author of A Natural History of the Chicago Region, is joined in his talk by singers/sailors/songwriters/storytellers Tom and Chris Kastle who perform songs of the waterways.

ADDED PERFORMERS: Program #725, Roddy Doyle: Oh, Play That Thing
Students in the Northwestern University School of Music Jazz Studies and Pedagogy Program will perform selected works by jazz great Louis Armstrong as complement to author Roddy Doyle's talk. Doyle's new novel, partly set in Chicago, features Armstrong as a character.

ADDED PERFORMER: Michael Rupert stars in Campaign of the Century.
Program #727, Festival Closing Performance: Tony Award winner (Sweet Charity) Michael Rupert performs the role of muckraking writer Upton Sinclair in the Festival's concert version of Steven Lutvak's and Robert L. Freedman's Campaign of the Century on November 14.

PROGRAM LOCATION ERROR: The Reader, Nov. 5
Performer Kevin Cole's program "Time Capsules" on Nov. 14 at 4:30 p.m. is scheduled for Thorne Auditorium, NU School of Law, 375 East Chicago Avenue. The location listed in the Nov. 5 issue of The Reader is in error, for which the CHF apologizes.

LOCATION ERROR ON TICKETS:
#603 PRIEUR & MORDILLAT WILL BE AT THE CASSIDY THEATRE/CULTURAL CTR. #611 ALLEN & OJIKUTO WILL ALSO BE AT THE CASSIDY THEATRE #620 HAZZARD & MCDERMOTT WILL ALSO BE AT THE CASSIDY THEATRE #630 CLIVE JAMES: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ALSO AT THE CASSIDY THEATRE

SPEAKER CANCELLATION: Jean Harris
Ms. Jean Harris is unable to appear at her scheduled Festival event. Program 628, Jean Harris/Prison Panel, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 13 at 3:30 pm, will now feature the planned panel discussion only, and will last 90 minutes.

PARTICIPANT CANCELLATION: Jeanne Woodford, panelist for #628 Prison Panel
Ms. Woodford, director of the California Department of Corrections, has had to withdraw from the Prison Panel discussion on N0vember 13.

PARTNER LECTURE! The Graham School offers "Stop All the Clocks"
The beginning of the 20th century witnessed a fascinating phenomenon in modern Western literature: the theme of time, its representation and examination, suddenly became of great importance in the written work of art. Our finest modern writers--Joyce, Proust, Mann, Woolf, and the Great War generation--made time the focus of their writing. In a "First Friday" lecture, Graham School/University of Chicago instructor Elizabeth Lenckos describes how these authors pioneered the stream-of-consciousness technique and posited (in opposition to the concept of standard and biological time) their own idea of time as a part of the individual consciousness, memory, and sense of anticipation. As a result, they inspired us as readers to conceive time as a personal experience to be made profound by the power of our will.

EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
November 5, 2004; Noon
Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center

TICKET TIME ERROR - #507 PUBLIC POLICY
Program begins at 6:00 pm! (Some tickets may say 7:00)

PRESENTER CANCELLATION/REPLACEMENT: #605 Bernardo Bertolucci: Film Maker
FACETS'S MILOS STEHLIK TO DISCUSS FILMMAKER BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI'S WORK
Film director Bernardo Bertolucci has had to cancel his appearance at the Festival on Saturday, November 13; 10-11 a.m. at First United Methodist Church.

In replacement, Milos Stehlik, director of Festival co-sponsor Facets Multi Media, will discuss Bertolucci's broad and fascinating range of work. Clips from major films will be shown.

TICKETHOLDERS TO PROGRAM #605 MAY USE THEIR TICKET FOR THE MILOS STEHLIK PRESENTATION, TO BE HELD AT THE SAME DATE/TIME/LOCATION. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EXCHANGE YOUR TICKET FOR ANOTHER PROGRAM, OR REQUEST A REFUND, CALL THE CHF TICKET OFFICE AT .

PARTICIPANT CANCELLATION: #719 "Swing Time"
Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune jazz critic is unable to participate in "Swing Time: Klezmer and All That Jazz." Instead, the performing band leaders Kurt Bjorling (Chicago Klezmer Ensemble) and David Young (jazz trumpeter with additional musicians) will offer their own observations about the relationship between Klezmer and jazz.