Archive for the 'entertainment' Category

Summertime is made for backyards at the Museum of Contemporary Photography

Beginning on June 16th and running through August 23, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College downtown Chicago will be showing its newest exhibit entitled, Beyond the Backyard. This exhibit offers up the works of contemporary photographers and their different conceptions of the modern backyard. These pictures include both yard scenes […]

Save the Date – MAPH Reunion, June 6

Hey MAPH Alums!
The MAPH Reunion is approaching and as part of the reunion committee, it is my great pleasure to invite you to join me and your fellow MAPHers, preceptors, faculty and friends for an evening of celebration as the University hosts its annual Alumni Weekend. Last year we has the most successful Reunion […]

Keeping us in the Light

MAPH Alum Joel Witmer (’07) is up and at ‘em again with his newest blog The Dark Room, a blog that discusses and reviews movies and television shows. You may remember Joel’s past fame with his Ohio sports based blog, The Disappointment Zone, and its famed appearance in the Wall Street Journal Online. […]

Adaptation at the Smart Museum

The Smart Museum’s exhibition Adaptation opened today, and it includes a new work by ARTV 24103, a collective that includes current MAPHers Laura Heldt and Natasha Long. The work grew out of a practicum taught by Catherine Sullivan — Natasha writes about the project over on the Adaptation blog-cum-catalogue.
The other works in Adaptation — […]

No Halfsteppin’: Broadcast Premiere of a Documentary Film by MAPH alums

MAPH alums Tom Bailey and Brendan Kredell’s documentary film, No Halfsteppin’,
will air on WTTW-11 for its first broadcast on Thursday, January 31 (10:30pm CST), and on Sunday, February 3 (12midnight, CST [note that this is technically Monday, February 4]).

More from MAPH Alums at the Caffeine Theatre

Two University of Chicago Alums team up for a “darkly fascinating,” “ambitious”* theatre piece:
Caffeine Theatre presents:
Like the Moon Behind the Clouds
by Donald Gecewicz (AB ‘76)
directed by Jennifer Shook (MAPH ‘05)
And this week, Caffeine brings you two special events with these U of C artists:

Wednesday, January 30: A free reading of poetry and Donald Gecewicz’s translation […]

Successful AfterMAPH event at Jake Melnick’s gives former social hours a run for their money

We here at MAPH would like to thank all of the alums who came out (despite the cold) and made the MAPH Alum Happy Hour a very successful and enjoyable event! Old friends met and discussed over tasty finger foods (the friend mushrooms really were incredible) and frothy pints (you didn’t even have to […]

Alumni Event: Alumni Happy hour at Jake Melnik’s Corner Tap

It’s been far too long since our last alumni event, so I’d like to invite any and all MAPH alums who plan to be in Chicago the evening of December 6th to shamble on down to Jake Melnik’s Corner Tap and let us treat you to yummy appetizers and drinks.
If free food and beverage sounds […]

Conversations at the Caffeine Theatre

Jennifer Shook graduated from MAPH in 2005 and is currently doing work at Chicago’s Caffeine Theatre. She submits this post with the hopes of generating conversations with other (After)MAPHers after being inspired by her work with the theatre company.
Caffeine and Translations–and Caffeine Theatre’s TRANSLATIONS
The same week I started in MAPH, Caffeine Theatre premiered its […]

MAPH Alum Blogger Strikes Fame (or at least recognition)

Joel Witmer, graduate of MAPH in 2007 spent many of his MAPH days like the rest of us, slaving at the Regenstein, reading and “unpacking” scholarly articles, trying to make some sort of argumentative claim…about anything, really. But, while the rest of us spent our free time at Jimmy’s, Joel was working furiously on […]