Laughter: The 20th Annual Chicago Humanities Festival
Festival Dates:
October 17, 2009 in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood
November 2 - 15, 2009
Across Chicago
Festival Dates:
October 17, 2009 in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood
November 2 - 15, 2009
Across Chicago
Information
- Founded:
- 1989
Events
9 past eventsSee All
- Matt Groening & Lynda Barry
UIC Forum
Thursday, November 5 at 7:00pm - Chicago Humanities Festival Da...
Chicago's Hyde Park Neighborhood
Saturday, October 17 at 10:00am - Stages, Sights & Sounds
Chicago
Wednesday, April 29 at 12:00pm - Barrel of Monkeys - Poetry Sho...
TBD
Tuesday, May 5 at 10:00am - A King's Journey: Theater Hand...
TBD
Saturday, May 9 at 2:00pm - Farfalle: Teatro di Piazza D'O...
University of Illinois at Chicago
Wednesday, April 29 at 7:00pm - Thinking Big!
Across the city
Wednesday, October 29 at 5:00pm - CHF Annual Meeting and David H...
Arts Club of Chicago/Museum of Cont...
Tuesday, July 8 at 5:00pm - Children's Humanities Festival
across Chicago
Saturday, May 3 at 11:00am
Notes
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Chicago Humanities Festival Thank you to everyone who joined us this weekend! The Chicago Tribune has some awesome coverage of our events from the past few days. Starting with a cover story on the Tribune Literary prize with Tony Kushner.
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It was fitting that Tony Kushner accepted the 2009 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize on a Sunday morning, because the event honoring the "Angels in America" playwright would have felt right at home among ...
Chicago Humanities Festival Tonight we're hosting Herbert Siguenza at Wilbur Wright College. Siguenza is a founding member of Culture Clash, one of the most prominent Chicano/Latino theater ensemble in the nation. He's peforming a one-man piece about the life of Mexican comedian Cantinflas.
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Charlie Chaplin called Cantinflas the “greatest comic of all time,” and in 2003, Herbert Siguenza wrote and performed a tribute that explored Mario Moreno’s beginnings as a performer in the rough border city of Ciudad, Juárez and his path to icon of the Mexican cinema.
Robin Charleston I attended three programs on Saturday and one on Sunday. At the Saturday evening program (Ourselves as Others See Us), I had difficulty finding a seat, even though I was there more than 15 minutes early, primarily because fo the excessive seat saving (coats, newspapers, books distributed over as many as eight seats). CHF needs to replace general admission with assigned seats and/or raise the price of tickets!
Chicago Humanities Festival Awesome first full day of the Festival. Caught Sander Gilman and Mel Watkins at the Cultural Center, Sen. Claire McCaskill at Thorne, and lastly our fantastic cartoonists at Francis W. Parker. Phew! Now some Second City. To get an inside glimpse of all the events, check out our twitter feed.
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The Chicago Humanities Festival is a foundation which organizes an annual series of lectures, concerts, and films in Chicago.
Chicago Humanities Festival Christopher Borrelli at the Chicago Tribune put together a great recap of our event with Matt Groening and Lynda Barry. Check it out below.
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Lynda Barry has known Matt Groening forever. Since they were students at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., in the early 1970s. Groening heard about this woman who wrote to Joseph Heller, the author of "Catch-22," and asked him to marry her. ...
Chicago Humanities Festival Reminder! We're giving away two tickets to see John Hodgman on Tuesday, Nov. 10th. Tell us about "the areas of your expertise" and win. Be creative, and funny.
Chicago Humanities Festival We're live tweeting from the Franke Lecture with Robert Reich and "Does Laughter Have an Accent" with Sarah Jones tonight! Follow us @ Chi_Humanities and our tag #chf09 for the latest.
Author, Daily Show correspondent, and “famous minor television personality” John Hodgman appears Tuesday, Nov. 10th at the Chicago Humanities Festival to a completely sold out crowd. In honor of his appearance, we are giving away two tickets to see him at the Festival. An...
Chicago Humanities Festival Missed Lynda Barry & Matt Groening yesterday? They'll be appearing again THIS Saturday with Chris Ware & Jules Feiffer for a summit on the "Not-so-funny Situation of Alternative Comix."
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Michael Miner hosts a summit meeting with Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Jules Feiffer, and Chris Ware to examine the evaporation of virtually all of their outlets as alternative newsweeklies and comix publishers cease publishing their work in the midst of their own financial calamity.
Join the CHF email list and you could win a new 4 GB iPod Nano loaded with Festival content (it's blue!). After each Festival event, write your email address on the back of your ticket and leave it at the front desk. One email address per ticket please...
Chicago Humanities Festival We're live tweeting at Harold Ramis' Personal History of Film Comedy. Follow us @ Chi_Humanities or with the tag #chf09!
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The Chicago Humanities Festival is a foundation which organizes an annual series of lectures, concerts, and films in Chicago.
Chicago Humanities Festival TimeOut Chicago has a pretty hilarious interview with Festival presenter John Hodgman this week. Tickets are sold out, BUT I might have a few stashed away somewhere for a lucky Facebook/Twitter fan. Check back soon for our John Hodgman trivia...
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In advance of his Chicago Humanities Festival appearance, the nerdtastic author talks with Time Out Chicago about recipes for cooking owl and inventing the Internet.
Chicago Humanities Festival More tickets to give away, this time for the 9:30 pm show of The Second City's Museum Pieces: Sketches at an Exhibition. What Second City alum was nominated for an Oscar in 1972 for a film co-starring Dustin Hoffman? First person to answer correctly get 2 tickets!
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This sketch focuses on a beatnik’s efforts to woo a college girl whose only previous encounter with 1950s counterculture occurred in her English lit class.
