If you live in Chicago, you may already know about next week’s Let’s Get Working: Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel. The festival, which runs from May 9-11, will feature screenings, concerts, talks, art installations, talks, performances, oral histories–all celebrating the incomparable Studs Terkel.* There has been a lot of attention surrounding “Reinventing Radio – An Evening with Ira Glass” and the “Let’s Get Working” concert put on by The Hideout, the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, the Logan Center, and the Haymarket Brewery, but we have also compiled a list of other highlights in light of the sheer number of things going on (see below). You should check these out.
And, in case you need more reasons to come: MAPH preceptor Paul Durica is the Festival Program Coordinator and Mitch Marr (MAPH ’10), Harrison Sherrod (MAPH’13), Amanda Scotese (MAPH ’13), Ingrid Haftel (MAPH ’10) and Nick Fraccaro (MAPH ’10) are all working on this. Ohhhh, MAPH…
Some Highlights:
- Loop Interior Architecture Walking Tour, 3-5 pm (by Chicago Detours, founded by Amanda Scotese)
- “Our Man in Chicago: Studs Terkel,” A conversation on Medium Cool between Ron Perlstein, Andrew Davis, and Haskell Wexler, moderated by UChicago’s Jim Chandler, 7-8 pm
- Screening: It’s a Living 8-9 pm
- Conversation with Dave Isay and Alex Kotlowitz, 9-10 pm
- Folk Family Brunch with the Young Stracke All-Stars, 9-10 am (Note: these young musicians will restore your faith in humankind…)
- Craft Talk: Television and Film with Media Burn Archive and Museum of Broadcast Communications, 10-10:50 am (with Thomas Dyja)
- Media Burn Archive’s Best of Studs, 1946-2008, 1946-2008, running continuously from 10 am-4 pm
- Craft Talk: “Storytelling”(with UChicago’s Dan Raeburn, longtime Terkel collaborator Sydney Lewis, Smart Museum resident-artist Matt Austin, and author Audrey Petty), 11-11:50 am
- Making Radio with Studs & the Studs Terkel Radio Archive with WFMT, Noon-1:30 pm
- Terkel Talk: The Feeling Tone with Audrey Petty, 1-1:50 pm
- Performance: 1001 Chicago Afternoons and Anthology of Chicago Reading, 2-2:50 pm
- Craft Talk: Music with the Old Town School of Folk Music, 2-2:50 pm
- Craft Talk: Division Street with Illustrated Press, 4-:450 pm (moderated by UChicago’s Hillary Chute)
- Screening: South Side Projections, Chicago-based amateur filmmaker Warren Thompson’s Camera on Chicago, 4-4:50 pm (Harrison Sherrod is the Assistant Programmer for South Side Projections)
- Performance: Show & Tell: A Manual Cinema Production with audio stories provided by StoryCorps, 5-6 pm
Sunday, May 11:
- Stud’s Place: Episode 4, “Touch and Go”, 7-9 pm at The Hideout (featuring camera work by Ingrid Haftel and Nick Fraccaro)
*As Studs put it: “I’m celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.” If you’d like to learn more about the man himself before next week, you will want to peruse the festival’s Studs 101 Media Archive.
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