Events and Lectures in October

Please join us as we welcome artist Dave Anderson to discuss his series Rough Beauty.

Thursday, October 2, 6 pm at MoCP

Pull My Daisy (1959) is a short film written by Jack Kerouac and directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. Featuring Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Larry Rivers, the film has come to typify Beat culture. Following the screening, several Columbia College faculty members including Kevin Kilroy (English), Tom Nawrocki (English), Chap Freeman (Film/Video) and Greg Foster-Rice (Photography) will discuss the film. The audience will be invited to join the discussion.

October 9, 2008
Time TBD
Film Row Cinema, 1104 South Wabash, 8th floor

Featuring Daniel Dixon, son of Dorothea Lange

Daniel Dixon (b. 1925) son of Dorothea Lange and painter Maynard Dixon, along with his wife Dixie, will give an audio-visual presentation on Lange’s life and work. Dixon, a writer, traveled and worked with his mother later in her career including on the series Three Mormon Towns, on which they also collaborated with Ansel Adams. Selections from this series are included in the MoCP’s exhibition.

Thursday, October 23, 6 pm at the Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave., 1st Floor

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), described recently in the New Yorker as “a power-house of new music programming…brilliant and unexpected,” will present an improvisation recital featuring trumpet player Peter Evans. Evans, whose debut solo album “More is More” has taken the improvisation world by storm, will be joined by ICE saxophonist David Reminick and ICE percussionist/composer Nathan Davis.

Friday October 24, 7:30pm at MoCP
$10 suggested donation