Northwestern celebrates 22 years as a top Fulbright producer
February 4, 2026
This week, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer joins the Contemporary Music Ensemble, Wildcat baseball plays its first home game of the season and more. Here’s what to add to your calendar this week. As always, all are welcome!
Planting persistence
See a screening of the award-winning documentary “Seeds,” by Brittany Shyne ’16 MFA, followed by a conversation with Shyne. Filmed over the course of nearly a decade, “Seeds” captures the rhythms of daily life for three families of centennial Black farmers in the American South, chronicling the persistence needed to tend to legacies of land ownership.
The screening is at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, at The Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. Register here.
The urban underground
McCormick’s Alessandro F. Rotta Loria delivers a lunch lecture revealing a phenomenon that has unfolded under our cities: temperatures surpassing even the highest ever recorded in Death Valley. He will explore the challenges these extreme conditions pose to infrastructure, public health and the environment, while also demonstrating their role as an untapped source of heat that could power our cities.
The talk is at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, March 6, in the reading room, 720 University Place, Evanston. Register here.
Gathering space
The Contemporary Music Ensemble performs with guest conductor Raven Chacon, with a program including the Diné composer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Voiceless Mass,” which utilizes the architecture of a house of worship to illustrate the complex legacy of the Catholic Church and its treatment of Native Americans. Isleta Pueblo, Filipina and Italian vocalist Michaela Marchi will also join the ensemble for Chacon’s “Owl Song.”
The free concert is at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 7, in Alice Millar Chapel, 1870 Sheridan Road, Evanston.
Batter up
Baseball faces off against UIC during its 2026 home opener, one of eight home games with free admission for all fans this season.
The team plays at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, at Rocky and Berenice Miller Park, 2750 Ashland Ave., Evanston.
Take the stage
Do your vocal warmups and then head to Luna’s Pub & Grill for karaoke night, part of the restaurant’s weekly programming on its Next Up! Stage.
Karaoke runs from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, at Luna’s Pub & Grill, Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston.
