Every other Thursday, September 14 through November 9, 5:30-6:30pm
University of Chicago Campus
Tours begin at Black Sphere, across the street from Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave

Public art on campus is a fascinating, spontaneous experience, with some sculptures boldly claiming open spaces and others tucked unexpectedly between buildings. As part of the City of Chicago's Year of Public Art, this one-hour tour covers a small sample of the stunning works that have helped shape UChicago's intellectual and cultural life for decades.

Tours begin at Black Sphere, across the street from Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave, and conclude with complimentary refreshments in the Smart Museum lobby. For more information about public art on campus, visit publicart.uchicago.edu.

Tickets: Free and open to the public! Reservations recommended but not required!

Presented by UChicago Arts and the Office of Civic Engagement, in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art.

Thursday, October 26, 7:30pm
Victory Gardens Theater
2433 N Lincoln Ave

Hailed as one of Broadway’s most original musicals and winner of 5 Tony Awards, Fun Home is a groundbreaking story inspired by Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir. In this intimate musical, Bechdel sets out to unravel the many mysteries of her childhood through a series of memories and conversations from her coming out to her moving journey of acceptance. Join us for this emotionally charged family drama that the New York Times calls “extraordinary” and “a rare beauty.” Your ticket also includes After the Honeymoon, a pre-show celebration of queer identities with free food and drinks. Stay after the performance for a special Afterwords Town Hall conversation with scholars, activists, and local politicians on the question: “What is the state of queer politics in our country today and where can we go from here?”

Tickets: $15 for UChicago Students ONLY including transportation (limit one ticket per UCID)

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Thursday-Friday, October 26-27, 7:30pm
Saturday, October 28, 2pm & 7:30pm
FXK Theater, 3rd Floor
Reynolds Club

Each quarter, the UT workshop format gives directors a chance to explore the limits of their creative visions. This fall, see some of those visions come to life. Director Coriander Mayer tackles the significance of the prodigal son in The Rope by Eugene O'Neill. An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Anna Aguiar-Kosicki, promises an opportunity to explore a familiar text through new eyes, while a devised original piece by Thomas McLees brings important new questions to the table.

Tickets: $6 in advance, $8 at the door, FREE on Thursday, 10/26

This performance will run approximately 80 minutes with no intermission.

Friday, October 27, 7:30 PM
Logan Center, Performance Hall
6:30 PM discussion with artists and Seth Brodsky

Contempo presents new works by fresh, exciting talent – young international composers whose works already have a worldwide presence.

Program:

Vito Zuraj: Framed
Justyna Kowalska-Lason: A Light exists in Spring
Nicolai Worsaae: WaWV
Christian Mason: Noctilucence
Ondřej Adámek: Ça tourne ça bloque

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Fridays, October 20 through November 17, 7:30pm
The Revival-1160 E 55th St

Off-Off Campus Presents: Pulp-Free Fiction

For over 30 years, Off-Off continues to serve up unique weekly shows featuring sketch comedy, improvisation and various preglow performances from both talented and talentless groups across campus. Alumni include playwrights David Auburn and Greg Kotis, as well as innumerable writers, performers, upstanding civilians, and others who also turned out fine. See them here first.
 
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Some adult language and scenarios, not advised for young children.

Tickets: $5 or purchase a season pass for all 5 weeks for $15 HERE!

**In the event of a SOLD OUT performance all complimentary tickets must be picked up 15 minutes prior to curtain and Quarter Pass holders must arrive no later than 8pm to reserve your seat.

TICKETS FOR OCTOBER 20TH ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE ONLINE BUT CAN STILL BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR UNTIL SHOW TIME.

Friday, November 3, 7:30 pm
Mandel Hall

The dazzling, fearless, and inspired Leila Josefowicz partners with superb pianist John Novacek.

Program:

Sibelius Valse Triste, Op 44, arr. Friedrich Hermann  

Prokofiev Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 

Mahler Adagietto (from Symphony No. 5), arr. Otto Wittenbecher

Kaija Saariaho Calices  

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Sonata

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Friday, November 3, 8:00 PM
Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Hall

“Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world”...”I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13.

Phillip Oliver Coleman was a successful young black man living in the city of Chicago, whose life initiative was to educate African Americans on hospice care and mental health. Did you know that African Americans have one of the highest rates of mental illness in the country, yet they are least likely to seek therapy?

Phillip Coleman knew the struggles of this crippling illness firsthand. He himself dealt with this disease on a day to day basis until it finally became too much. He lost it. His psyche shattered and his mother unwittingly received the backlash.

How much more can one man endure? Another black man that needed mental help but was let down by the very system that his father took an oath with to serve and protect.

Nowadays, the blue comes before the black and the badge before the bond.

This performance is recommended for ages 16 and up.

Tickets: $35 General; $20 Students; $45 Premium Seating (Rows A-H)

Saturday, November 4, 1:00pm
Saturday, December 2, 1:00pm

Shuttle will pick up and drop off at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at 915 E 60th St.

The UChicago Architecture Biennial Shuttle will run on an hourly loop to various sites of architectural activity and speculation on and around the University's Hyde Park campus, including the new Campus Residence Hall designed by Studio Gang; the Arts Block, envisioned by Theaster Gates; the site for the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park; and the campus' landmark Mid-century buildings by Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe. Other tour highlights include the Logan Center for the Arts designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects, and the Rebuild Foundation's Stony Island Arts Bank. Visitors can use the shuttle as a hop-on, hop-off means to stop at various destinations including two of the Chicago Architecture Biennial's Community Anchor sites, the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Palais de Tokyo, the Hyde Park Arts Center, and transportation stops.

Reservations: FREE but reservations are recommended. A physical ticket is not required, your name will be on the reservation list when you board the shuttle.

RESERVATIONS FOR THESE EVENTS ARE CURRENTLY FULL. IF YOU WISH TO BE ADDED TO THE STANDBY LIST, PLEASE SELECT THAT OPTION FOR THE DATE YOU'D LIKE TO ATTEND BELOW. YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED VIA EMAIL IF SPACE BECOMES AVAILABLE.

Saturday, November 4, 7pm
The United Center
1901 W Madison St

Join the Center for Leadership and Involvement for a night out at the United Center for a Chicago Bulls vs. New Orleans Pelicans game.

Tickets: $15.00 each (limit 2 per person) and prices will increase to $20.00 each starting October 30th.

This event is off-campus. Transportation is NOT provided. Directions will be emailed closer to the event.

When picking up your tickets from Tempris Daniels (Reynolds Club, Ste. 016, 4th Office), please let her know if you would like to sit with friends also attending the event but purchased tickets separately.

TICKETS ON SALE OCTOBER 16TH.

Thursday, November 9, 8pm
1700 Theater
1700 N Halsted St

This new dance theater work begins with an intimate conversation among friends recalling stories of people who’ve taken actions with potentially devastating costs. When the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is mentioned, varied interpretations and contemporary associations propel the group into a physically and psychologically complex game of whodunit. Playful and personal, Rooming House offers a lively blueprint for pursuing the question: what makes a person do something that could have shattering and irreparable consequences? Join us for an exclusive post-show discussion with the directors: Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, UChicago’s own Assistant Professor of Practice, and Julia Rhoads, Part-Time Lecturer and Dance Advisor in Theater and Performance Studies.

Tickets: $15 for UChicago Students ONLY including transportation (limit one ticket per UCID)

Friday, November 10, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall
6:30 PM pre-concert lecture with David Clay Mettens

The dynamic and adventurous Imani Winds – along with Ensemble Dal Niente and guests – showcases György Ligeti’s chamber music, including two of his important works – his Ten Pieces for wind quintet and the Horn Trio, written as an homage to Johannes Brahms.

Program:

Ligeti - Viola Sonata (1994) (21-22”)

Chin - Etude I: in C (3'')

Ligeti - Three Pieces for Two Pianos (1976) (18”)

 

INTERMISSION 

 

Ligeti - Horn Trio (1982) (21”)
Chin - Etude II: Sequenzen (3')
Chin - Etude III: Scherzo ad libitum (3')

Ligeti - Six Bagatelles (1956) (11”)

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Wednesday, November 15, 7-8:30pm
Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Hall

Essayist, photographer, and art historian Teju Cole, will join the communities of the University for a public conversation about the ways in which images and image-making inform and propel our contemporary discourse about the intersections of artistic practice and civic responsibility. Followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Tickets: FREE but RSVP's are recommended.

Presented by the Department of Visual Arts (DoVA) Open Practice Committee, in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Creative Writing, Critical Inquiry, the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, the Institute of Politics, the Logan Center for the Arts, Ng Visiting Artist Fund, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, and UChicago Arts.

Friday, November 17, 7:00pm
Saturday, November 18, 3:00pm
Sunday, November 19, 3:00pm
FXK Theater, Reynolds Club
5706 S University Ave

The moment rhinoceros breeder Ma Lu met his new neighbor, Ming Ming, he knew he was in love with this mysterious girl. He did everything he could to win her heart. Ming Ming, however, was obsessed with an artist named Chen Fei and was indifferent to Ma Lu’s promises, love poems, and even physical intimacy. What will become of Ma Lu's unreciprocated desperation for Ming Ming? What are Ma Lu’s friends’ attitudes toward his monomania? The story, with a poetic narration, is not only a love story but also a reflection on perseverance and the meaning of life.

Tickets: $8 early bird until October 31, $10 after that.

This performance will run approximately 2 hours with no intermission.

Friday, November 17, 7:30 PM
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
6:30 PM lecture with Robert Kendrick

Founded in 1992 by former members of the St. Thomas Boys Choir in Leipzig, amarcord has since become one of the world’s premier vocal ensembles. To mark the 500^thanniversary of the Lutheran Reformation, they offer a program of five Gregorian chants – in the original Latin and in Martin Luther's translation – alongside Reformation and Counter-Reformation era motets by J. S. Bach.

Program:

Lutherand Music / Verleih uns Frieden – Da Pacem

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November 17, 7:30pm-11:30pm
Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St

The Gargoyle Gala is Graduate Council's annual fall semi-formal event for graduate students. Join graduate students from across all divisions and schools for an evening of fun! Mix and mingle while enjoying food, drinks, and music.

Tickets: $10 including food and drinks. Starting the week of Monday, November 13, ticket prices increase to $15 per person. Tickets sold out last year, so get yours today! LIMIT 2 TICKETS PER PERSON.

If you have any questions, please email Katrina Maxcy at kmaxcy@uchicago.edu.

You MUST bring a valid ID showing you are 21+ to redeem drink tickets. All tickets are fully transferable. If tickets sell out, students may purchase ($15 each) at the door (exact cash ONLY).

Saturday, November 18, 7017, 7:00 pm
Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Penthouse

For fifty years, the West Berlin cabaret Chez Nous was a star-studded dance club, visited by celebrities and featured in Hollywood films. Chez Nous celebrated the artistry of female impersonators and trans women, including Coccinelle, the first French trans woman to legally change her name following gender confirmation surgery; Ricky Reneé, a drag performer who played Elke in Cabaret (1972); and Chicago’s own Marlow La Fantastique, an internationally acclaimed performer now residing in Bronzeville in her retirement. An Evening at Chez Nous brings that history alive with a cabaret-inspired event including clips of the cabaret’s revue from the 1970s, scenes from films set at the night club starring Michael Caine and Omar Sharif, Chicago dancer Darling Shear recreating Marlow’s fan dance, and Marlow La Fantastique herself, sharing her stories and memories of the famous dance club. The evening's emcee will be filmmaker and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Chase Joynt.

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Curated by Nicole Morse (CMS) as part of the Film Studies Center’s Graduate Student Curatorial Program.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Student Fine Arts Fund, the Department of Germanic Studies, and the Center for Theater and Performance Studies.

Tickets: FREE but reservations are recommended

Friday, December 1, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

The American pianist, composer, and arranger and his trio perform numbers from their 2016 album Blues and Ballads and more.

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Sunday, December 3, 3pm
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5850 S Woodlawn Ave

Continuing the beloved tradition of a matinée performance of Handel's Messiah to usher in the Christmas season: James Kallembach conducts the Rockefeller Chapel Choir, Motet Choir, Chicago Men's a Cappella, and Haymarket Opera Orchestra, led by Jeri-Lou Zike. Featuring soloists Kaitlin Foley, soprano, Lindsey Adams, alto, Matthew Dean, tenor, and Will Liverman, bass.

Tickets: $55 Chancel Seating, $25 Nave Seating (including balconies), limited free student tickets available at the door with current student ID (includes college, high school, and children; only available for nave seating).

Appropriate for ages 5 and up. For further information call the Chapel front desk, 773.702.2100.

Run time: Apx. 2 hours with one 20 minute intermission.

TICKETS GO ON SALE OCTOBER 3RD, 2017 AT 12:00 PM.

Friday, January 19, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

René Marie reunites with the Experiment in Truth trio to share highlights from 2016's Sound of Red, her first album of self-penned originals.

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Sunday, January 21, 2:00 pm
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

The Play of Daniel is a powerful medieval mystery play composed eight centuries ago in Beauvais, France. Under Anne Azéma's direction (music and staging), this ambitious production combines old and new, bringing together music and movement, theater and liturgy, light and shadow, to retell the biblical story of the young prophet for today's audiences.

Program:

The Play of Daniel: A Medieval Masterpiece Revisited

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Sunday, January 28, 2:00 pm
Mandel Hall

Inspired by Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Shostakovich wrote this work as a set of twenty-four pieces – one in each major and minor key of the chromatic scale. Rarely heard in recital, the opus is performed by Alexander Melnikov, who has made full performances of the set a signature and whose recording was named one of the fifty best recordings of all time by BBC Music Magazine.

Program:

Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87

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Friday, February 2, 7:30 PM
Logan Center, Performance Hall
6:30 PM lecture with Sam Pluta

Hungarian percussion group Amadinda, for whom Ligeti composed, and Chicago-based Eighth Blackbird join forces for a program of influences – music by his son, by his young country mate (Máté Bella), and by an American composer also influenced by African drumming polyrhythms. The program concludes with Eighth Blackbird’s fascinating arrangements of several Ligeti piano etudes.

Program:

György Ligeti: études, Aurél Holló: 39 - the Dream of the Manichaeian - beFORe JOHN3
Lukas Ligeti: New work
Máté Bella: New work
Steve Reich: Sextet and Mallet Quartet

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Friday, February 9, 7:30 PM
Logan Center Performance Hall
6:30 PM discussion with composers and Berthold Hoeckner

with Imani Winds, Ensemble Dal Niente, Craig Taborn, piano, and guests

The Contempo-Jazz Double Bill returns, featuring incomparable women composers across generations and genres.

Program:

Marta Ptaszyńska: Sextet, Poetic Impressions
Reena Esmail: The Light is the Same
Augusta Read Thomas: Bassoon Concertino
Jazz set with Craig Taborn

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Friday, February 16, 7:30 PM
Logan Center, Performance Hall
6:30 PM lecture with Jennifer Iverson

Third Coast Percussion presents three Ligeti works, including the virtuosic Continuum, the whimsical song cycle Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel, and Poème Symphonique, a “spectacle” for 100 mechanical metronomes, produced here with UChicago students. Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Cerrone’s new piece for voice and percussion draws on Ligeti’s Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel using the same instrumentation.

Program:

G. Ligeti: Continuum
Christopher Cerrone: The Goldbeater's Skin (Chicago premiere)
G. Ligeti: Poème Symphonique (for 100 metronomes)
G. Ligeti: Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles)

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Sunday, February 18, 2:00 pm
Mandel Hall

Lyric tenor and lieder specialist Christoph Prégardien makes a rare stateside visit with the pianist Julius Drake; together, they present an afternoon of poems set to music by Franz Schubert.

Program:

Poetische Tagebuch - Schubert songs

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Friday, March 2, 7:30 PM
Mandel Hall
6:30 PM lecture with John Lawrence

Versatility is a trademark of the much-lauded French quartet; here they breathe new life into a program of classics.

Program:

Haydn: Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2 “Fifths”
Fauré: Quartetin E minor, Op. 121
Beethoven: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 “Harp”

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Monday, March 5, 4:30 PM
Logan Center, Performance Penthouse

Tickets: $10 or Free with UCID and to Full Season or Ligeti Series Subscribers.

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Individual tickets go on sale August 21, 2017.

Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 PM
Logan Center, Performance Hall
6:30 PM lecture with Seth Brodsky

The Ligeti series concludes with the highly lauded Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who had a long association with Ligeti. He pairs the composer’s études with a Beethoven sonata widely considered to be one of the most demanding works in the piano repertoire.

Program:

G. Ligeti: Etudes
Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”

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Friday, April 6, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

feat. Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja, Joanna Majoko

Julie and Parker Hall Annual Jazz Concert. Songs of Freedom, developed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, explores the 1960s through the work of three prolific, indelible artists: Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone.

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Sunday, April 8, 2:00 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Conductor Nicholas McGegan, , soprano Sherezade Panthaki, singers, and members of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra lead a multimedia tour highlighting the music of Jewish composer Salamone Rossi and his contemporaries, including Claudio Monteverdi. A reception with the artists follows the performance.

Program:

Sessions: Italian Baroque Music from the Jewish Ghetto

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Friday, April 20, 7:30 pm
Mandel Hall
6:30 PM lecture with Bradley Spiers

In 2014, former violinist Martin Beaver and cellist Clive Greensmith of the famed Tokyo Quartet joined with their long-time collaborator, pianist Jon Kimura Parker (“a musician with a rich soul and great artistic depth” – Musical Toronto), to form the vibrant and luminous Montrose Trio.

Program:

Turina: Trio in B minor, Op. 76
Beethoven: Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 1, No. 1
Mendelssohn: Trio in C minor, Op. 66

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Sunday, April 22, 2:00 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)

Major composers’ inspirations by and reflections on nature form the theme for this Contempo program.

Program:

George Crumb: 11 Echoes of Autumn
Harrison Birtwistle: Some Petals from my Twickenham Herbarium
Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 3
Toru Takemitsu: Rain Spell
Pauline Oliveros: Earth Ears
Krzysztof Penderecki: Sextet

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Friday, April 27, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Tomorrow's Music Today concerts feature music by some of today's finest young composers – University of Chicago doctoral candidates in composition – performed by Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente.

Free admission / No reservations required

RESERVATIONS ARE RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. SEATING WILL BE GENERAL ADMISSION.

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Friday, May 4, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Tomorrow's Music Today concerts feature music by some of today's finest young composers – University of Chicago doctoral candidates in composition – performed by Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente.

Free admission / No reservations required

RESERVATIONS ARE RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. SEATING WILL BE GENERAL ADMISSION.

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Friday, May 11, 7:30 PM
Logan Center, Performance Hall
6:30 PM lecture with Michael Dawson

Imani Winds closes its UChicago residency with a concert celebrating the continuing civil rights movement. Frederic Rzewski's work is dedicated to John Hope Franklin, a distinguished scholar of African-American history who taught at UChicago; Vijay Iyer's piece was partially influenced by the death of Trayvon Martin; and Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill's new work reflects both his time in Chicago and acivil rights theme.

Program: A Change is Gon' Come

Frederic Rzewski: Sometimes
Vijay Iyer: Bruits
Henry Threadgill: new work - world premiere
Traditional arr. Jeff Scott: American spirituals
Sam Cooke arr. Imani Winds: A Change is Gonna Come

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Thursday, May 17, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Drummer Brian Blade brings his Fellowship Band to close the season.

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