April
29, 2008
Bluestem Celebrates Chicago's Cultural Landscape
Explore how Chicago's cultural landscape has dramatically changed over the last four decades during Oakton Community College's 2008 Bluestem Festival of the Arts and Humanities. Eight great events are scheduled June 2 - 5, at Oakton Community College, 7701 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie.
This year's Bluestem Festival, "Chicago's Best and Brightest II," celebrates the planners, politicians, sculptors, architects, engineers, and gardeners responsible for transforming the "city of broad shoulders" into a renowned travel destination. Featured programs include:
"Millennium Park: The World's Window to Chicago" considers the unique combination of resources needed to develop this award-winning project. The lecture also covers major contributors to the park's overall success (Monday, June 2, 10 - 11:30 a.m.);
"Chicago Streets: Diamonds in the Rough" introduces some of the most interesting people and places veteran Chicago Tribune columnist and WGN Radio host Rick Kogan has encountered over the years (Tuesday, June 3, 10 - 11:30 a.m.);
"Grant Park Music Festival: The People's Music" honors the nation's last remaining municipally-funded classical musical festival (Wednesday, June 4, 10 - 11:30 a.m.); and
"Celluloid Chicago" highlights the movies that have made Chicago famous, from The Blues Brothers to Heath Ledger's final film, The Dark Knight. Find out what attracts producers of blockbuster movies, independent films, and TV series (Thursday, June 5, 10 - 11:30 a.m.).
The fee for the entire Bluestem Festival series is $45; individual lectures are $10 each.
For more information, visit www.oakton.edu/cont_ed/all/summer/bluestem.pdf, or contact Leona Hoelting at 847-635-1414, or hoelting@oakton.edu.
Bluestem Celebrates Chicago’s Cultural Landscape
Koehnline Museum Celebrates Leo Politi
Learn Boating Techniques in Oakton Alliance Course
Direct questions
about this page to the Web Communications
Specialist.
Direct technical questions about Oakton's Web site to the Webmaster.
Copyright © 2001-08 Oakton Community
College. Last update 4/29/08.
This is an official Oakton Community College page.