CHICAGO (January 17, 2006) - The Newberry Library, Chicago's home for the humanities since 1887, is offering a wide variety of events designed to engage the mind and stimulate the senses this winter. The season's events range from the Newberry's annual Mystery Book Fair to Winter: A Time of Telling, an interactive program featuring Native American storytellers. Programs are free (unless otherwise indicated) and no reservations are typically required.
General information:
Location: 60 West Walton Street, Chicago IL 60610
Public Information: Call (312) 255-3700 or visit www.newberry.org.
Exhibit Gallery Hours: Monday, Friday, and Saturday, 8:15 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 8:15 am - 7:30 pm
The Chicago Calligraphy Collective's 20th Annual Juried Exhibit
February 1- April 1, 2006
This juried exhibit of members' work includes handmade artist's books and broadsides as well as three-dimensional works executed in various media and styles, from classical to contemporary.
Native American History and Literature
The Red Path Theater, the American Indian Center, NAES (Native American Educational Services) College, and the Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History present:
Winter: A Time of Telling
Thursday, February 2, 6:30 pm
The traditional storytelling season for many American Indians falls between the first and last frosts. Join us for the eleventh annual Winter festival with E. Donald Two-Rivers (Ojibwe), Larry Lockwood (Northern Cheyenne), and other Native American storytellers. The Winter storytelling program was founded by AIEDA (American Indian Economic Development Association), whose archives are held by NAES College.
Admission is $12; $10 for seniors and students. Free admission for children 12 and under. For tickets, register online at www.newberry.org or call (312) 255-3700.
Black History Month
A Stronger Kinship
Wednesday, February 22, 6:00 pm
Meet the Author: Anna-Lisa Cox
One hundred and fifty years ago, a community in Michigan created a pocket of freedom where schools and churches were completely integrated, blacks and whites intermarried, and both races shared power and wealth.
Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Wednesday, March 15, 6:00 pm
Meet the Author: Cassandra Pybus, University of Tasmania
The American Revolution inspired dreams of freedom in slaves, but it was the British, not the Americans, who offered them liberty in return for military service.
Chicago History
Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age
Saturday, March 11, 11:00 am
Ann Durkin Keating, North Central College
In her new book, Keating, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004), takes an entirely new approach to the city's history, depicting a metropolis growing from a web of neighborhoods, farm communities, industrial towns, commuter suburbs, college towns, and recreation centers-many connected to downtown Chicago by railroads.
Upton Sinclair: The Lithuanian Jungle
Saturday, March 25, 11:00 am
Giedrius Subacius, University of Illinois at Chicago
When Sinclair's The Jungle was published as a book in 1906, it led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and became a classic piece of American fiction. In his talk, Subacius explores why Sinclair selected Lithuanians as his protagonists and how he used the Lithuanian language and real people and places to craft a powerful and influential novel.
The Shakespeare Project of Chicago
My Name is Will, a musical celebration of Shakespeare's sonnets and songs by Peter Garino with original music by Christopher Walz, Old Town School of Folk Music
Saturday, April 22, 10:00 am
Prologue presentation by dramaturg Peter Christensen at 9:45 am
Director: Peter Garino, founding member, The Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Dance
The Stone-Camryn Lecture: A Life in Dance
Tuesday, April 11
Reception, 5:30 pm
Program, 6:00 pm
Larry Long, Civic Ballet of Chicago
Larry Long began his training as a dancer with Alexandra Baldina, a colleague of Vaslav Nijinski and Anna Pavlova of Ballet Russe. His teaching has been recognized by Mikhail Barishnikov for his important role in developing children into dancers. Perhaps best known for his 30-year tenure as director of the Ruth Page Foundation's Nutcracker, he recently donated to the Newberry Library the records of the annual holiday performance at the Arie Crown Theatre.
Admission is $15 and reservations are required. A wine and cheese reception precedes the lecture. Please call (312) 255-3700 or register online at www.newberry.org. This event is made possible by the generous support of the Stone-Camryn Endowment Fund.
Genealogy
Newberry Library's Eighth Annual Workshop in Memory of Barbara Stenger Burditt
Genealogy Research and Technology
Saturday, April 8, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Dick Eastman is well known to genealogists as the author of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. For nine years, his genealogy journalism has provided research advice and thoughtful insights for family historians. The workshop will feature three talks by Dick Eastman on genealogy research and technology.
Admission is free, but reservations are required. To make a reservation, please call (312) 255-3700.
Annual Event
Annual Mystery and More Book Fair
Friday, March 17, 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Saturday, March 18, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
The Newberry Library offers two days of sleuthing to find all the hard cover and paperback mysteries you can handle, including true-crime, whodunits, mystery classics, mysteries of the heart (a.k.a. romance), and science fiction.
ABOUT THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY
The Newberry Library is an independent library open to the public for research and reference in the humanities. One of the largest independent research libraries in the United States, the Newberry holds an extraordinary collection of more than 1.5 million books, 5 million manuscript pages and 300 thousand historic maps. As one of the world's leading repositories of a broad range of books and manuscripts relating to the civilizations of western Europe and the Americas, the Library's mission is to acquire and preserve research collections of such materials, and to provide for and promote their effective use by a diverse community of users. Visit the Newberry online at www.newberry.org.