Black World Cinema: The American Dream
Posted on 04. Apr, 2012 by citizen in Around Town
Image: icetheaters.com
Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald, two best friends from Los Angeles, make a movie documenting their last 36 hours before shipping off to Afghanistan. Luis wants to be a filmmaker and Ronald wants to travel the world and raise a family. With no money for film academy, and grades too low to win a scholarship at a University with a film department, Luis decides to enlist in the Marine Corps. The Recruiter promises Luis that if he enlists, the Government will pay for his film school tuition when he returns home.
Date: April 5, 2012
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location: ICE Theaters Chatham 14, 210 W. 87th St., Chicago
Cost: $5
Info: icetheaters.com
(Photo Credit: University of Chicago Medical Center)
Preparing for Adolescence Seminar
Spend a Saturday morning with your niece, god-daughter, and/or granddaughter learning about the changes she will go through during adolescence. Doctors and nurses from the University of Chicago Medical Center will discuss topics including body changes during adolescence (ages 8-13), making good health choices, getting along with family members and others, and the importance of good diet, skin care and exercise.
Date: April 14, 2012
Time: 9:45 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Location: University of Chicago Campus –Pritzker School of Medicine, 924 E. 57th St., Room 109
Cost: Free
Info: adolescence2012.eventbrite.com
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation
Image: victorygardens.org
When a group of actors gather together to give a presentation on a distant genocide, they realize that summaries based on history books aren’t nearly enough to capture the complexity of human extermination—or human interaction. In an honest attempt to delve deeper, they crash into their own simmering fears and unconscious bigotry and come face to face with the potential for brutality in all of us.
Date: April 4, 2012
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location: Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago
Cost: $35-50
Contact: 773-871-3000
Info: victorygardens.org
Jazz and Literature f/ Sonia Sanchez
Image: soniasanchez.net
The Chicago Jazz Ensemble (CJE) with Artistic Director Dana Hall continues this season’s inaugural Small Ensemble Concert series with Jazz and Literature. Curated by Hall, this series complements the CJE’s Harris Theater series with a more intimate concert experience featuring smaller groupings of musicians. Writer, poet, professor, and civil rights activist Sonia Sanchez – named Philadelphia’s first Poet Laureate on December 29 – joins the CJE for this unique program.
Date: April 6, 2012
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location: Cindy Pritzker Auditorium – Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State St., Chicago
Cost: $25
Contact: 312-747-4300
Info: chicagojazzensemble.com
Know Your Credit History
Presented by University of Illinois Extension
Review the purpose of a credit report: how it is used, how to order a free copy, read and dispute errors. Also learn to identify ways to build, repair and protect your credit history.
Date: April 21, 2012
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: South Shore Branch, 2505 E. 73rd St., Chicago
Contact: 312-280-2660
Info: chicagopubliclibrary.org
