Cultural & International
Friday, April 19, 2024
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In the Christian (Eastern) Orthodox Church, Great Lent marks the forty days leading to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The first day of Great Lent is called Clean Monday. Lent is a time for prayer, penance, good-will, fasting and drawing closer to God.
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This annual exhibition of work by graduate students in the School of Art & Design at Illinois includes Industrial Design, Photography, Studio Art, and Design for Responsible Innovation.
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Throughout her process, Jen Everett remixes images of herself in conversation with the materials she collects to talk about Black life, kinship, and collective gathering. Could you dim the lights? is her first solo museum presentation.
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An online panel discussion featuring Tea Sensei Bruce Hamana, Kimiko Gunji, Omar Francis, Janet Ikeda, and Margie Yap. This presentation focuses on reflections of teachers of chado (Japanese tea ceremony, also referred to as the Way of Tea) and their views on the status of the transmission of the Way of Tea in the United States.
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Experience a taste of the quantum world with the performance of a fragment from Quantum Voyages: an adventure tale, the presentation of creative student work from the course Where the Arts Meets Physics, connections through a many-body Quantum Entango, and contemplation of the Universe.
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Brecht’s 1941 satirical allegory of Hitler’s rise to power, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, follows the elevation of a 1930s Chicago mobster who works a corrupt political and economic system to his advantage.