The Baldwin Giovanni Experience
Celebrating the words and ideas of James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni
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Frontieres Sans Frontieres
Here, at the corner of a country that feels both foreign and familiar, three orphaned, stateless youth have built a simple life out of recreation and mischief-making. Their world is rocked as a parade of immodest strangers slowly invade, offering gifts of language, medicine, art, and commerce. As the lure of development blurs their beliefs, life and landscape mutate, threatening their long-held values, community, and humanity. In a comic spectacle to challenge the pretense of altruism and civilization,
Frontieres Sans Frontieres asks what happens when generosity looks a lot like self-interest?
How to comprehend when the promise of language matures to the tyranny of words?
Who wins and who loses in a war to hold on to the people and places we love?
Strange Cargo: The Doom of the Demeter
The Dracula tale set on the high seas.
The Haunting of Hill House, adapted by F. Andrew Leslie from Shirley Jackson’s novel
An investigator of supernatural phenomena interrupts the isolation of the remote and sinister Hill House to delve into the house’s morbid history. Joining him are three unacquainted guests, who are soon jolted by strange and eerie occurrences.
Bienen Faculty and Guests
Bienen Faculty and Guests An evening of chamber music with Bienen faculty and special guests from Chicago’s classical music scene. 3:00PM, Sunday, January 11, 2026