When: 3:00pm -- 5:00pm

Where: 618 S. Michigan, 2nd floor

Description: ASL-English Department Presents Grease. Students and Faculty in the ASL-English Interpretation Department will be performing a "dramatic translation" of the movie Grease in ASL. (Some of you remember the Rocky Horror Sign Show from last year....come and see more!!) All proceeds will be donated to the Michael Frylewicz Scholarship (a scholarship for students studying in the ASL-English Interpretation Department). Come help our scholarship get endowed so we won't lose it. Friday night will be open to participants in the Illinois Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Conference and members of the community. Saturday afternoon is open to all! Seating is limited, but bring your friends.

When: 3:30pm -- 5:30pm

Where: 1104 S. Wabash Ave, 2nd floor

Description: With panelists Patrick Dowdey, Wesleyan University; Clifton Meador, Columbia College; Yudru Tsomo, Lawrence University; James Canary, Indiana University. Panelist James Canary will make a presentation on Tibetan book arts as practiced today, after which panelists will present slide lectures on the Derge Parkhang’s role in the creation and preservation of Tibetan culture and the part that it plays in the daily lives of people in Derge. They will present the region’s recent history, the history of the revival of printing there in the 1980s after 20 years of religious and cultural suppression and discuss challenges which face the Derge Parkhang in the twenty-first century. Panelists: Patrick Dowdey is the curator of the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies and adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wesleyan University. Patrick is a co-curator of Pearl of the Snowlands: Buddhist Printing at the Derge Parkhang at the Center for Book and Paper Arts. He and Clifton Meador conducted three summers of field research at the Derge Parkhang on the history and culture of Tibetan Buddhist printing and printmaking. Their photographs, video and ethnography provide a vivid introduction to life in Derge and to the ancient printing process still in use at the Parkhang. Clifton Meador is the Director of the MFA program in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. Meador is a photographer, writer, and designer who makes books. His recent books explore history and place through narrative and experimental design. Co-curator of Pearl of the Snowlands: Buddhist Printing at the Derge Parkhang, he designed and provided the photography for the accompanying exhibition catalog. Yudru Tsomo is Assistant Professor of History at Lawrence University. A scholar of Sino-Tibetan relations, Yudru Tsomo received her PhD from Harvard University. Her dissertation, Local Aspirations and National Constraints: A Case Study of Nyarong Gonpo Namgyel and his Rise to Power in Kham (1836-1865) is a cornerstone in the study of the history of eastern Tibet. James Canary is a Special Collections Conservator at Indiana University. He began studying Tibetan language and culture in the early 70s and has traveled extensively in the Himalayan region researching papermaking and documenting papermakers, scribes and printers.

When: 7:30pm -- 9:30pm

Where: Getz Theater | 72 E. 11th St

Description: Like many of us wish we could do when life gets tough, Paul Beaumont responds to betrayal and despair by slamming the door on a life of culture and science and running away . . . to join the circus! In a provincial French town in the early 19th century Beaumont is re-incarnated as HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, a clown who can endure 100 slaps in the face, and have the audiences begging for more. His sad past comes back to haunt him, however, and new entanglements bring tragedy to the family of “artistes” that have made him one of their own among the aerialists, lion tamers and stunt people of this mesmerizing one-ring circus. Read more

When: 2:00pm -- 4:00pm

Where: Film Row Cinema | 1104 S. Wabash Ave, 8th floor

Description: German director Claus Guth concludes his Mozart/Da Ponte cycle with a new production of Cosi Fan Tutti. Swedish soprano Miah Persson, guest at many international companies and festivals, will act as Fiordiligi. Appearing as her sister Dorabella will be Isabel Leonard. This young mezzo-soprano is already making waves in the world of classical music both at home in the US and abroad. As Ferrando the Finnish tenor Topi Lehtipuu will perform. He gained world-wide recognition for his interpretation of the major Mozart roles. Performing the role of Guglielmo is the Austrian baritone Florian Boersch, who in 2003 made his operatic debut with Opernhaus Zurich as Papageno. The French soprano Patricia Petibon is appearing as Despina. Tickets may be purchased through our Brown Paper Tickets website, where you can also sign up for the Film Row Cinema RSS event feed: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/15985 Film Row Cinema at Columbia College Chicago is proud to be joining the Emerging Pictures network of cinemas. This partnership features a rare opportunity to show some of Europe’s greatest operas in stunning Hi-Definition. Read more

When: 2:00pm -- 4:00pm

Where: Getz Theater | 72 E. 11th Street

Description: Like many of us wish we could do when life gets tough, Paul Beaumont responds to betrayal and despair by slamming the door on a life of culture and science and running away . . . to join the circus! In a provincial French town in the early 19th century Beaumont is re-incarnated as HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, a clown who can endure 100 slaps in the face, and have the audiences begging for more. His sad past comes back to haunt him, however, and new entanglements bring tragedy to the family of “artistes” that have made him one of their own among the aerialists, lion tamers and stunt people of this mesmerizing one-ring circus. Read more

When: 12:00pm -- 1:00pm

Where: 600 S. Michigan, Room 1314

Description: On November 23, thirty-six years and one day after the Kennedy assassination, Michael Niederman of the Television Department will take you on a guided tour of his favorite conspiracy theories from the ridiculous to the terrifying. He will be asking the question, "What are the facts, what do we take on faith, and where does the knowledge end and belief begin?" In a world filled with as many theories about what is real as there eyewitnesses to alien spaceships, knowing how to separate fact from fiction may no longer be possible. Read more

When: 6:00pm -- 6:50pm

Where: Concert Hall | 1014 S. Michigan Ave

When: 7:00pm -- 7:50pm

Where: Concert Hall | 1014 S. Michigan Ave

When: 12:00pm -- 12:50pm

Where: Concert Hall | 1014 S. Michigan Ave

When: 7:00pm -- 7:50pm

Where: Concert Hall | 1014 S. Michigan Ave

When: 11:00am -- 7:00pm

Where: Qunicy Wong Center for Artistic Expression | 623 S Wabash Ave

Description: ShopColumbia Holiday Market December 1 - 2, 11am-7pm and December 3, 10am-3pm Between shopping, wrapping, tree trimming, decorating, baking, holiday-cheering and caroling, holidays are stressful. ShopColumbia wants to help you out. For three days, ShopColumbia, Columbia College Chicago’s student art boutique, will expand beyond its walls to showcase more artists, more art and more gift possibilities. Come support Columbia student and alumni artists. Jewelry • Fashion Accessories • Bags • Hats • Gift Wrapping • Stationery • Fine Art • Refreshments ShopColumbia Holiday Market Quincy Wong Center for Artistic Expression 623 S Wabash Ave, 1st floor Chicago, IL 60605 www.colum.edu/shopcolumbia/holiday shop@colum.edu 312.369.8616 Read more

When: 11:00am -- 12:00pm

Where: Film Row Cinema | 1104 S. Wabash Ave, 8th Floor

Description: Join us for a short informational meeting to learn about the Manifest design contest winners, Industry Night updates, the “new” big party at the Hilton for graduates, faculty/staff and alumni, the new partnership with Threadless, the "hack your Manifest t-shirt" contest and… the rain/tsunami plan! Hope to see everyone there. Read more

When: 12:00pm -- 12:50pm

Where: Concert Hall | 1014 S. Michigan Ave

When: 12:30pm -- 3:20pm

Where: Hokin Lecture Hall | 623 S. Wabash Ave

Description: Pre-Kwanzaa Ceremony Principes Through Expression: 3rd Annual Student Open-Mic Contest All performances must be 5-7 minutes long and must address one or all of the NGUZO SABA (the 7 principles of Kwanzaa): Umoja (Unity); Kujichagulia (self-Determination); Ujima (collective Work and Responsibility); Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics); (Nia (Purpose); Kuumba (creativity); Imani (Faith). Sign up: Hokin Lecture Hall, 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. First 3 winners will receive African Djembe Drums. Sponsors: English Department, Black Faculty & Staff Organization (BFSO), and Multicultural Affairs

When: 6:30pm -- 7:30pm

Where: Ferguson Auditorium | 600 S. Michigan Ave, 1st Floor

Description: After working in a prison printshop while incarcerated as a teenager and more formally studying commercial art at San Francisco City College, Emory Douglas took on the role of Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, creating the group’s visual style and iconic representations of the Black Power Movement. Through the party’s newspaper The Black Panther, Douglas’s graphic work helped motivate the disenfranchised to action throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Colette Gaiter has describer him as the “Norman Rockwell of the ghetto” portraying the strength and dignity found among even the most harshly oppressed. This lecture is presented as part of the Scraping the Surface Lecture Series. Presented by Anchor Graphics, in conjunction with Critical Encounters: Fact & Faith. Read more