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The Newberry
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The Newberry is a renowned research library that offers lectures, workshops, and teacher programs, fostering research, teaching, and lifelong learning in an atmosphere of free inquiry.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Looking Forward and Thinking Back
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
This is a one time FREE course. To mark the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth on June 8, 1867, John Waters will focus his talk on two important written works by Frank Lloyd Wright, and their connections with his built work. The works are “The Art and Craft of the Machine,” presented to the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society in 1901, and Genius and the Mobocracy, published in 1949. In the first, Wright laid out a way of thinking...
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The 2017 Bughouse Square Debates
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
Join the Newberry Library for Chicago’s favorite free speech event! Lively musical entertainment will kick off the program at noon, followed by the Main Debate, soapbox speakers, and the presentation of two awards: the Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award and the Dill Pickle to the champion soapbox orator. In addition, nearly two dozen local organizations and causes will set up information tables in the park, with volunteers to answer your questions....
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An Eternal Story of Love and Loss: Orpheus and Opera
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
This is a one time FREE course This fall the Lyric Opera of Chicago, in collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet, is mounting an exciting new production of the 1774 Paris version of Christoph Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. But the myth of Orpheus journeying to the Underworld to find his deceased wife Eurydice has inspired composers from the first surviving opera by Jacopo Peri in 1600 to the Canadian composer John Robertson’s recent Orpheus masque,...
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Shakespeare Project of Chicago: As You Like It
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
This is a one time FREE course. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts …” A staged reading by professional actors from The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, directed by J. R. Sullivan, of the Pearl Theatre Company in New York. An informative talk by a dramaturg begins fifteen minutes before the performance, which is...
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Cosmopolitan Early Modern Venice
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
This is a one time FREE course. Venice during the early modern era expanded its position as a major crossroads between Europe, Asia, and Africa. A commercial powerhouse, the independent republic mediated between Roman, Protestant, and Byzantine Christian as well as Islamic lands. Edward Muir and Kaya Sahin will discuss the unique role played by Venice during this great era of religious change.
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Premodern Judaism from Manuscript to Print
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
This is a one time FREE course. The Newberry Library and Spertus Institute each house a rich collection of medieval and early modern Jewish manuscripts and printed materials, including two jointly owned books. This one-day symposium celebrates and examines these collections in relation to the social and religious lives of Jews from roughly 1450 to 1700. How did the shift to print affect Jewish thought? How were Jews represented in print? What is...
Chasing Wilder in Chicago
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
This is a one time FREE course. Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary and new edition of Wilder’s National Book Award-winning novel with a reception, actors, commentators, and cake! Participants: Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder’s nephew and literary executor, is Honorary Chairman of the Thornton Wilder Society. Jeremy McCarter, author of Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals and co-author with Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton:...
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Shakespeare Project of Chicago: Coriolanus
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
This is a one time FREE course “Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s sprightly waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible: a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.” An informative talk by a dramaturg begins fifteen minutes before the performance, which is followed by a question-and-answer session with the director and...
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Irish Genealogy Research Program
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
Join the Ulster Historical Foundation experts as they describe the ins-and-outs of research in the Emerald Isle. No previous research experience is required. Topics will cover the whole of Ireland. Preliminary Schedule 9:15-10:15 am Introduction to Irish and Scots-Irish Family History 10:15-10:30 am Break 10:30-11:30 am Printed Sources for Irish Family History Newspapers, street directories, Ordnance Survey Memoirs, and British parliamentary...
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Genealogy and Local History Orientation
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
The Genealogy and Local History staff will introduce visitors to the Newberry and explain how to use its collections at an informal orientation. Aimed at researchers new to the library and/or new to genealogical research, this session will last approximately an hour, followed by a short tour of the library. Afterwards, you are welcome to begin your research in the General Reading Room where a reference librarian will be available to provide suggestions...
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Forbidden Pop-Up Books
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
This is a one time FREE course. Salacious stories, tawdry tidbits, and provocative pictures can be found in the most surprising places. Like pop-up books! Before they were made for children, pop-up books were made for adults. In this event led by Suzanne Karr Schmidt, curator of Pop-Up Books through the Ages, you’ll discover the surprisingly provocative content of pop-up books of the past.
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When the News Broke: Chicago 1968
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America Authors Heather Hendershot and Simon Balto will discuss the implications for our understanding of the news media of one of the most pivotal moments in American political history—the 1968 Democratic convention. This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. Please register below. “The whole...
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Make Music Chicago 2023 in Washington Square Park
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
Make Music Chicago 2023 Join us for another slate of outdoor performances as part of Make Music Chicago! Please note: This is an outdoor, in-person event taking place in Washington Square Park, across from the Newberry. Free and open to the public; tickets are not required, but you can register in advance to receive event updates. Celebrate the summer solstice with us! Featuring the Blues by Shawn Holt and the Teardrops and the Reggae stylings...
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Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
This is a one time FREE course. Our former fellow Christina Gerhardt, in conversation with climate and environment journalist Indira Khera, discuss the disproportionate impact that climate change has on island communities. Low-lying islands are least responsible for global warming, but they are suffering the brunt of it. Atlases are being redrawn as islands disappear. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands...
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Chicago Storytelling in Bughouse Square 2023
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
Chicago Storytelling in Bughouse Square 2023: Chicago Forward Celebrate the power of storytelling and the future of our city at this free event. The festivities will include the presentation of The Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award. Chicago Storytelling in Bughouse Square 2023: Chicago Forward will focus on Chicago’s future and feature speakers whose work in the city strives to change our communities for the better. The festivities...
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