CONSTITUTION DAY 2018: THE RIGHT TO VOTE
Monday, September 17, 1:30-3:00PM
Columbia College Chicago Library, 624 S. Michigan Ave
3rd Floor North Reading Room
Rebecca Glenberg, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Illinois, will be discussing voting rights including gerrymandering, voter suppression, barriers to voting, and actions to make it easier to vote. Free copies of the US Constitution will be available in English and Spanish. Classes are encouraged to attend.
HUMANITY SPEAKS OPEN HOUSE
Wednesday, September 19, 7-8PM
Columbia College Chicago Library, 624 S. Michigan Ave.
5th Floor Blum Meeting Room
Join representatives of a proposed student group, Humanity Speaks, for an Open House! This will be an opportunity for people to ask questions, get involved, and share ideas of what kind of events they would like to see. Be a part of the group that makes this organization official!
READ, TALK, MAKE: BOOK TO ART CLUB
Wednesday, September 19, 7-9PM
Columbia College Chicago Library, 624 S. Michigan Ave.
1st Floor
Join the Library and the Aesthetics of Research for our Fall 2018 installment of The Book to Art Club featuring HG Wells’ classic War of the Worlds. Started by the Library-As-Incubator Project, the Book to Art Club is a book and art-making club that exists virtually and in-person at libraries around the world. Each session, we will be exploring a variety of art and craft techniques, culminating in a year’s end collaborative project.
CBMR OPEN HOUSE: BLACK MUSIC SPEAKS TO CIVIL RIGHTS
Thursday, September 20, 2-5PM
Center for Black Music Research, 618 S. Michigan Ave
6th Floor
We’ll spin some vinyl, listen to some peace and protest music, and discuss the relationship between music and social justice.
CAREERING WHILE QUEERING: FROM PAUSE TO POSE
Thursday, September 20, 4-6PM
Columbia College Chicago Library, 624 S. Michigan Ave
3rd Floor North Reading Room
This discussion and instant style session will center on how to develop your professional identity while maintaining your truth in the workplace when you’re genderqueer. We’ll speak with transgender activists on how they did it and what rights you have when moving through the corporate world. To top i
t off, we’ve got a stylist to do instant professional makeovers and address attire questions for queering spaces where the gender binary — and forms of dress — are the norm. Panelists: Eris Drew, DJ/Producer and former attorney; Mycall Riley, Stylist at mycallakeemriley.com
ON & OFF THE WALLS: GET YOUR HUSTLE ON ARTISTS PANEL
Tuesday, September 25, 7-9PM
Columbia College Chicago Library, 624 S. Michigan Ave
5th Floor
Join the Library for a panel discussion with community artists about traditional and non-traditional ways of exhibiting work — from galleries and other art friendly venues, pop-ups, festivals, and street art. Get Your Hustle On is a series of panel discussions, workshops, and other activities that bring practicing artists, writers, editors, curators, and other creatives to the Library to explore practical and applied topics related to a life and career in the arts, including making a living as an artist, submitting your work, building you art business, self-promotion, as well as how the Library and its resources can help you in these endeavors.
HAITIAN-CUBAN MUSICIANS OF CHANGUI MUSIC: STAN WEST PHOTO ESSAY AT THE HAITIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CHICAGO
Through Friday, September 28 2018
Haitian American Museum of Chicago, 4654 N. Racine Ave., Chicago IL
Photojournalist and Columbia faculty member Stan West documents the extraordinary collaboration between Haitian and Cuban musicians in Guantanamo, Cuba in 2017. Changui is a style of Cuban music originating in the early 19th century sugar cane fields, Co-sponsored by Columbia’s Center for Black Music Research. $5 Museum entry fee.
