A better definition of obesity
January 14, 2025
This week, celebrate senior night with men’s basketball, let “The Merry Widow” transport you to Paris, learn how to have better dialogues and more. As always, all are welcome!
Reflecting on the abstract
Artist Jordan Ann Craig will be joined by poet and collaborator m.s. RedCherries in the exhibition keynote for The Block Museum of Art’s “it takes a long time to stay here.” Their conversation will be moderated by Jordan Poorman Cocker, a guest co-curator of the museum’s “Woven Being” exhibition.
The keynote is at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at The Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. Register here.
Unspooling film history
Northwestern film historian Gerald Butters explores how Chicago established the nation’s first governmental film censorship board in 1907 in this lunch and learn. Butters will delve into the complex history through the lives of civic leaders, Black filmmakers and law enforcement figures.
Butters speaks at noon on Thursday, Feb. 27, in room 704, Wieboldt Hall, 339 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago. Register here.
A night at the opera
Count Danilo’s family forbade him to marry Hanna, though they adored each other. Now, she has become the town’s richest widow, but the Count hesitates to declare his love, fearing she will think he only wants her fortune. This staging of “The Merry Widow” takes Franz Lehár’s melodies to a world of intrigue in present-day Paris, where all is not as it seems.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27, Friday, Feb. 28, and Saturday, March 1, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 2. All performances are at Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St., Evanston. Buy tickets.
Powerful poetry
Poet Cheryl Clarke reads from her collection “Archive of Style” alongside Harmony Holiday, Natalia Molebatsi and Nikki Patin in a celebration of Black queer feminist poets presented by the Poetry Foundation, in partnership with Northwestern’s department of performance studies and Black Arts Consortium.
The event is at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27, at the Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior St., Chicago. Register here.
Communicating across difference
Learn how to have productive dialogues across difference at this interactive workshop. Facilitators from nonprofit Urban Rural Action will introduce the “ABCs of Constructive Conversation,” then participants will have structured conversations to explore different views on a topic of choice.
The workshop is at 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, in the Arch Room, Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston. Register here.
The road home
Northwestern Camerata presents a concert that delves into the themes of home and belonging. This program showcases a range of repertoire for treble voices, featuring works by Joshua Shank, Gabriel Fauré and Vincent Persichetti.
The concert is at 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 2, in Galvin Recital Hall, Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. Buy tickets.
Senior send-off
Come cheer on men’s basketball during senior night as the team takes on UCLA in their final home game of the season.
The ’Cats take the court at 8 p.m. on Monday, March 3, at Welsh-Ryan Arena, 2705 Ashland Ave., Evanston. Buy tickets.
