Chicago Humanities Festival announces winter/spring programming
Including the previously announced Jan. 18 appearance of art historian Wanda Corn, the organization will be presenting four programs over 2012's first four months in an attempt to give the festival a year-round presence.
“For many decades the Humanities Festival was just a seasonal festival that only happened at the beginning of November, and it's become clear to us that people really miss us the rest of the year,” Chicago Humanities Festival artistic director Matti Bunzl said Tuesday.
Bunzl said Abramovic, scheduled to appear Feb. 16 at the First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple in the Loop, has been on the festival's wish list for years, pre-dating her acclaimed 2010 piece at New York's Museum of Modern Art in which she spent three months sitting still and silently across from spectators in the museum's atrium.
Pelosi will be presenting the third annual Joanne H. Alter Women in Government Lecture March 3 at Northwestern University School of Law's Thorne Auditorium. “If you have a series where you want to bring in leading women in politics, it doesn't get much bigger than Nancy Pelosi,” Bunzl said.
Keret (“Suddenly, a Knock on the Door”), whom Bunzl called “one of the great young writers in the world today,” will be reading and speaking April 26 at a location to be determined.
Tickets go on sale Jan. 17 (Jan. 9 to CHF members) online at chicagohumanities.org and by phone at 312-494-9509.