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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.

Afro D & Global Soundwaves is a socially-conscious hip hop/jazz/funk band based in Champaign, Illinois.

Artist and educator Jen Everett collects everyday photographs of Black life in the United States sourced from thrift stores and generations of images from her Midwestern and Southern family. She uses digital and analog mediums to reconfigure and recombine the images that attract her, by doubling or tripling a photograph, by isolating and amplifying a detail, or by collagin

Reece will share a curated review of her favorite works. A reception will follow. Levis Center, Room 210

Featuring new works by Dance at Illinois faculty and students.

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.

We invite you to the launch of the Black Joy Project with a celebratory reception of performance, food, activities, and fellowship.

Featuring new works by Dance at Illinois faculty and students.

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.

Featuring new works by Dance at Illinois faculty and students.

Join the Spurlock staff in making stained glass candle jars to add color and brightness around the house.

The multi-Grammy-winning, San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet marks its fiftieth anniversary in the 2023/24 season with the KRONOS Five Decades tour, performing programs which feature new commissions, signature works, and pieces from Kronos' Fifty for the Future Project.

Anticolonial sticker-making workshop in collaboration with the Native American House. Art and Design, Room 9.

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.

Performing Mozart's Quartet in D Major, K. 575; Bartók's Quartet No. 6; and Brahms' Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 featuring Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

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.

Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, all levels welcome!

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.

A Louisiana-born, Illinois-raised stick of dynamite, Dexter O'Neal’s musical stylings have roots in gospel, blues, r&b, and early jazz traditions.

Come join us for conversation practice in Polish. All levels welcome.

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.

A delectable adaptation of a Jacobean drama with Faustian echoes, Witch by Jen Silverman is a vibrant dark comedy that centers on a clever social outcast.

The Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble returns to their Midwest home for this performance of three extraordinary dances.

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.

A delectable adaptation of a Jacobean drama with Faustian echoes, Witch by Jen Silverman is a vibrant dark comedy that centers on a clever social outcast.

The Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble returns to their Midwest home for this performance of three extraordinary dances.

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.

Join a festive celebration of Carnaval with food, drink, music, and dance from France, Latin America, and Brazil!

A delectable adaptation of a Jacobean drama with Faustian echoes, Witch by Jen Silverman is a vibrant dark comedy that centers on a clever social outcast.

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.

A delectable adaptation of a Jacobean drama with Faustian echoes, Witch by Jen Silverman is a vibrant dark comedy that centers on a clever social outcast.

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.

Come join us for conversation practice in Polish. All levels welcome.

A delectable adaptation of a Jacobean drama with Faustian echoes, Witch by Jen Silverman is a vibrant dark comedy that centers on a clever social outcast.

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.

Emi Sawada will read canonical histories of diaspora and labor migration against the grain to demonstrate how contemporary artist Meera Desai and her collaborators challenge the conditions of a US empire that thrives on the production of ghost mothers—figures who comprise neither human nor nonhuman beings but are crucial to the expansion of the imperial projects.

Biboon (winter) brings cold weather and storytelling. Storytelling for many Indigenous communities is a time of reflection, laughter, and life lessons. Bizhiki storytellers travel the country sharing appropriate stories with family and youth audiences in an interactive environment.

A delectable adaptation of a Jacobean drama with Faustian echoes, Witch by Jen Silverman is a vibrant dark comedy that centers on a clever social outcast.

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.

A delectable adaptation of a Jacobean drama with Faustian echoes, Witch by Jen Silverman is a vibrant dark comedy that centers on a clever social outcast

Everybody has stories to tell, and we’d love to hear yours. In connection with the ongoing Black Joy Project at the Spurlock, we invite members of the community to share memories, legendary tales from family or friend groups, important moments…anything you wish to share or think others might like to hear.

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.

Professor Elizabeth Massa Hoiem (iSchool, University of Illinois) joins us to discuss her new book analyzing the rise of playful learning in the context of colonization and child labor.

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.

Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, all levels welcome!

Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of several books including Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012) and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002).

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.

Come join us for conversation practice in Polish. All levels welcome.

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.

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.

Take a peek inside each of our theatres and learn more about Krannert Center.

Walking with My Ancestors: Cape Coast Castle (2019), the award-winning and nationally recognized performance piece, is about a mother’s search for guidance from the spirits of her ancestors in the dungeons for enslaved Africans.

Program includes works by Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

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.

27 February, 2024, 12:15 PM 22 Education Building Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales is an award-winning distinguished professor in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Since 2000, she’s taught Asian American Studies focusing on Filipina/x/o (American) Studies, women studies, and courses focused on the praxis of Ethnic Studies pedagogy.

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.