February Highlights

University of Chicago Folklore Society
48th annual Folk Festival
Friday, Feb. 8-Sunday, Feb. 10

Artists will include Kim Wilson, co-founder of the Fabulous Thunderbirds and one of the premier blues harp players; Lafayette Rhythm Devils, a youthful Cajun dance band; Irish trio Chulrua; The New Bad Habits, an old-time string band featuring cloggers; Chicago gospel pioneers Geraldine Gay and Pastor Donald Gay; banjo and fiddle wizard Paul Brown; blues pianist Aaron Moore; bluegrass band Junior Sisk and Rambler’s Choice; and the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble. There will also be free workshops, dancing and jam sessions Saturday and Sunday in Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St. Tickets are available at the Mandel Hall box office at (773) 702-7300 or at www.uofcfolk.org.
Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th St.

Department of Music
University Wind Ensemble: Music of social change
4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17

The program includes Husa’s “Apotheosis of This Earth,” motivated by the desperate stage of mankind and its immense problems with everyday killings, war, hunger and contamination of the environment; Camphouse’s “A Movement for Rosa,” an homage to Rosa Parks’ contribution to the Civil Rights Movement; “When the Tears Fell,” Huckeby’s description of the Trail of Tears; and “An American Elegy” by Ticheli, a reflection on the tragedy at Columbine High School. Free.
Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th St.

The Divinity School
Wednesday Lunch
Noon Wednesday, Feb. 20

Stephen Pruett-Jones, Associate Professor in Ecology & Evolution, will speak on the infamous monk parakeet, the green tropical bird living in Hyde Park. Pruett-Jones has been generating a map of active monk parakeet nests, stretching from northwest Indiana into southern Wisconsin, using sightings by local inhabitants. Admission is $5 at the door ($4 with student ID) and includes a vegetarian meal (vegan upon request). Reserve a place before noon Tuesday by contacting divinitylunch@gmail.com.
Swift Common Room, Swift Hall, 1025 E. 58th St.

Committee on Creative Writing
Emerging Writers Series poetry reading
5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21

The Emerging Writers Series presents one reading each term, which pairs a professional emerging writer with a student emerging writer. This winter’s reading will feature poet Cathy Park Hong and a University writer which she will select from student submissions. Cathy Park Hong’s first book, Translating Mo’um was published in 2002. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published last year. Hong’s poems have been published in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Verse, Chain and Jubilat, and she has reported for the Village Voice, The Guardian and Salon. She now lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Rosenwald Hall, 1101 E. 58th St., Room 405