Harper Dance festival opens with World Premiere A D
The Murray Louis dance company opened the Harper Dance festival at the Civic Theatre with the world premiere A D featuring music by Corky Siegal. A D was created during a Guggenheim fellowship year and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. The festival runs through Jan. 31 with alternate programs of Chimera Landscapes Intersection and Proximities.
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Murray Louis
Civic Theatre
Chicago
Corky Siegal
Louis
National Endowment For the Arts
Harper
Merle
Nikolais Dance Theatre
Nikolais
It Happens The Artist John Hawkinson Inspires Outdoors
John Hawkinson, an artist and naturalist living at 5465 Woodlawn, urges learning outside the classroom. He argues rain on a planned field trip offers a chance to view nature differently and supports children expressing themselves freely.
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John Hawkinson
Hawkinson
Woodlawn
Hawkinson guides Murray pupils in artful expression project
At Philip Murray school second grade teacher Mildred McGrath joins Hawkinson in a philosophy of supervised self expression. The group treks through marshy prairie, seining fish from a pond as part of their learning experience.
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Hawkinson
Mildred McGrath
Harper
Philip Murray School
Kenwood
McGrath
Lying-in Hospital Celebrates 75 Years of Community Service
As 1971 begins, Chicago Lying-in hospital marks its Diamond Jubilee in the University of Chicago Hospitals complex. It educates physicians and serves a poverty-impacted mid south Chicago area delivering about 3000 babies yearly. The obstetrics and gynecology unit provides prenatal delivery postnatal care and services from family planning to oncology and cancer detection.
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Chicago
Chicago Commission On Urban Opportunity
Hopsital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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