South Loop Classes Chicago, IL

Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy

Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum

Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy features MoCP commissioned works by artists in response to the environmental and public health impact of petcoke, a dust-like waste product containing carbon, toxic heavy metals, and other dangerous compounds resulting from oil refining processes in the Chicago region and beyond.  In addition to photography, the exhibiting artists use multi-channel video installations, sculptural objects and interactive...

Lecture in Photography: Joel-Peter Witkin

Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum

Joel-Peter Witkin is renowned as the creator of elaborately constructed and often erotically charged photographic tableaux exploring grand themes of religion, sex and mortality with continual references to art history. Witkin has pursued complex issues of the human condition for more than 40 years through people most often cast aside by society. Witkin’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of...

Excursion: The Black Snake Tour of Aurora

Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL

The Black Snake Tour of Aurora: Petrocapitalism and Resistance in the Global Suburb How is Aurora connected with Indigenous struggles against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Bakken Oilfields, Tar Sands & other extractive industries?  Join us for a people’s tour of petrocapitalism in Aurora, IL as we activate knowledges and memory to unsettle the mechanisms of this global suburb. Participants will visit a data center that is vital...

Opening Reception: Viviane Sasssen: UMBRA

Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL

Join us for an opening reception for Viviane Sassen: UMBRA.  UMBRA is an exhibition consisting of photography and multimedia works by acclaimed fashion photographer Viviane Sassen (Dutch, b. 1972). The work in UMBRA, which means shadow in Latin, emphasizes the play of light and shadow that is characteristic of her work.  The artist is also known for her alluring color photographs in which form and content balance on the...

Lecture in Photography: Barbara Tannenbaum

Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL

Will Success Spoil Photography? Why is an Andreas Gursky photo currently worth fifty times more than an Emmet Gowin or a Cindy Sherman fourteen times more than an Aaron Siskind? How – and why – did this escalation in price and status occur?  Photography’s move into the same marketplace as painting and sculpture has altered our perception of the medium’s dual nature as object and as image. What do these changes bode for the future of...

Lecture in Photography: Jennifer Blessing

Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL

Jennifer Blessing is senior curator of photography at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Throughout her career, she has curated many photography-based exhibitions, including Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video (2014), Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective (2012), and Francesca Woodman (2012).  Most recently Blessing curated Photo-Poetics: An Anthology (2016), a group exhibition...

Harnessing the Laws of Attraction

Laverty Consulting @ 1601 S Indiana, Chicago, IL

Have you been interested in learning more about how to fully leverage the Laws of Attraction? If so, this is the class for you. We will be learning more about the basic laws of attraction and then discovering the ways that you are harnessing it in a positive way and perhaps ways that are not working so well for you in your life. You will leave with a game plan on how to fully celebrate the successes you have already had and with a clear vision on...

Body By Bryant Floor Ballet

Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center

Concentrated instruction focused on Stretching, Strengthening, Placement and Toning. 

Body by Bryant Ballet Bootcamp

Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center

Body By Bryant Floor Ballet: 10 am - Body by Bryant Floor Ballet:  Concentrated instruction focused on Stretching, Strengthening,Placement and Toning. 11 am - Technique Class:  focused on improving turns, jumps and extensions. 1pm - Pointe Class:  focused on balance and control.

Technique Class by Bryant

Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center

Technique class focused on improving turns, jumps and extensions.

Tone and Trampoline

Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center @ 47 W Polk, Chicago, IL

A “rebounding” class. A cardio-vascular workout using mini-trampolines. Students execute low to mid impact aerobics done to a mix of popular dance music including House, Old School Disco, R&B and EDM.

Ballet for Adults

Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center @ 47 W Polk, Chicago, IL

These classes are for beginning and intermediate dancers 18+ who love the joy and discipline of the dance and the feeling of accomplishment that it brings. Adult Ballet I consists of a body alignment floor barre and working with thera bands for strengthening and placement. A barre portion of the class, as well as center and progression work follows this. It’s dancing fun in a classical mold. As dancers progress they may do center with progressions...

Acro ll/lll

Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center @ 47 W Polk, Chicago, IL

Adult Trampoline

Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center @ 47 W Polk, Chicago, IL

Discover Your Values and Create Your Life Plan

Laverty Consulting

This course will explore how your life would look if it revolved around your top four values. You will identify your values and create a Vision statement that you can create and live into.We will do a Peak Experience activity where you explore 2-3 peak moments in your life and how those experiences reflect your true values. It is a fun and life affirming activity where you will experience high energy and joy. This activity will help you find your...

Grace of Intention

Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum

Monuments are deliberate gestures—objects or structures created to commemorate an event, person or era. Their meaning is usually imposed, and they often serve as focal points for aspirational civic and political attributes like valor and sacrifice, or to underscore a foundational political narrative. But their meaning can transform, changing over time as the relevance of their symbolism ebbs and flows due to social and political shifts.  Like...

PMP Training

Master of Project Academy @ 720 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL

If you’re a professional with experience of participating, leading and directing projects, this in person PMP classroom training will help you prepare for PMP certification and boost your chances of passing first-time. Created by experienced project management professionals, our PMP Classroom Training is structured around the certification exam as prescribed by PMI giving you the practical knowledge and confident mindset to achieve certification....