Calendar

Film

November 8
Salaam Bombay!

This 1988 first feature by director Mira Nair was nominated for an Oscar and won the Camera d ’Or and Prix du Publique at Cannes Film Festival. It depicts the heartbreaking lives of Bombay, India’s, poor street children through the experiences of one boy.
7 p.m.-9 p.m. Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W. Fullerton Ave., (773) 281-9075

Lectures & Readings

November 7
Listen Up: Voices of Three Arab Women

At this free event, held as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival (through Nov. 10), features performance artist and scholar Laila Farah; writer, musician, and poet Evelyn Accad; and journalist and cabaret performer Roxane Assaf speaking about their experiences as women, artists, and Arab Americans. Tickets are required.
7:30 p.m. at the Chicago Cultural center, Claudia Cassidy Theater. For more info visit www.chfestival.org.
November 2
Tim O’Brien: July, July
Tim O’Brien, National Book Award winner and author of The Things They Carried, continues his examination of Vietnam and its aftermath in his latest novel July, July. Book sales and signing to follow. The discussion is free but tickets are required.
For more info visit www.chfestival.org.

Galleries & Exhibits

November 8 - December 4
Al Qaeda Us

This interactive video installation, by SAIC student and Iraq native Wafaa Bilal, offers a visually poetic exposition of United States involvement in many parts of the world between 1948 and the present. The artist’s intentions are to draw attention to the origins of the hatred being directed toward the U.S. government. Al Qaeda Us illustrates the atrocities committed by the U.S. military and the CIA against people of Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Iraq, Palestine, and Afghanistan.
Opening reception: Friday, Nov. 8, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.; Gallery 2, 847 W. Jackson. For more info call (312) 563-5162 or visit http://crudeoils.us.

November 15
Impotential: A story of position rather than motion

Danielle Paz and Jeni Swerdlow present work at ASAP Gallery.
Opening: Friday, Nov. 15, 7p.m.-10 p.m. ASAP Gallery, 2723 S. Archer.

November 8 - January 5
Jerry Bleem: Incremental Mediations

Michael Ferris, Jr. : The Artist’s Studio
Chicago-area artist and SAIC Fiber instructor Jerry Bleem uses found photographic film, paper, or other found materials stapled together to create his abstract sculptural forms. Some of his pieces also employ insect wings mounted on glass. Michael Ferris, Jr., is another Chicago-based artist who will show semi-autobiographical work that consists of paintings influenced by the Western representational tradition and sculptures inspired by non-Western and outsider art.
Opening reception: Friday, Nov. 8; 6p.m.-8 p.m. at the Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor, 77 East Randolph Street. For more info call (312) 744-6630.

November 8 - December 21
Hobby Lobby

Hobby Lobby includes the work of 11 artists who use hobby-craft materials and practices to create works that are both rich in the lushness of their materials and powerful in the social and cultural concerns they address. The work includes that of Fiber faculty member Darrel Morris.
Opening reception: Friday Nov. 8, 5p.m.-8 p.m.; Gallery 312, 312 N. May St. Gallery hours are Tues.-Sat. 11a.m.-5 p.m.; free admission. For more info call (312) 942-2500.
1p.m.-2 p.m., Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St.

To advertise in F News, email: [email protected] or call 312.899.5230
F is a monthly newsmagazine open to submissions from anyone in the school and arts community. For submission guidelines, please contact the editors at [email protected] or 312.899.5110.
Visit our website:www.artic.edu/webspaces/fnews.