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Place and Memory: Art Talks with Block Museum Student Associates Starting February 5, 2022 Evanston Histories related to a place are sometimes invisible and often overlooked. How do people assign meaning to place? How is history etched onto a landscape or erased from it? Join our Block Museum Stude...	Visual Arts	February 2022	1644085800
More at the Museum: Online Collection Talk January 13, 2022 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online Join the Block Museum for a look at artworks from the collection that explore ideas of excess, consumption, and the environment, and offer an interdisciplinary perspective on the climate crisis. This ...	Visual Arts	January 2022	1642098600
Ariel Quartet with Orion Weiss, piano January 14, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the 2022 Winter Chamber Music Festival. “A blazing, larger-than-life performance.” —Washington Post Gershon Gerchikov and Alexandra Kazovsky, violin; Jan Grüning, viola; Amit Even-Tov, cello; ...	Music	January 2022	1642210200
St. Lawrence String Quartet January 16, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the 2022 Winter Chamber Music Festival “Flexibility, dramatic fire and…a hint of rock ‘n’ roll energy” —Los Angeles Times Geoff Nuttall and Owen Dalby, violin; Lesley Robertson, viola; Christo...	Music	January 2022	1642383000
Miró Quartet January 22, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the 2022 Winter Chamber Music Festival “The way the Miró revel in the music’s daring without sacrificing any of its surface polish remains impressive.” —Gramophone Daniel Ching and William Fed...	Music	January 2022	1642901400
Ying Quartet January 23, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the 2022 Winter Chamber Music Festival “Electrifying” —Washington Post Robin Scott and Janet Ying, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello The Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet, now in ...	Music	January 2022	1642987800
Keyboard Conversations: Music of Joy and Peace - Beethoven, Schumann, Gershwin February 11, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the 2022 Keyboard Conversations series. Jeffrey Siegel, piano Music to uplift and to soothe. Beethoven’s Rage Over a Lost Penny, Schumann’s gorgeous Aria, Copland’s humorous The Cat and the M...		February 2022	1644629400
Exhibition Gallery Talk: A Site of Struggle with curator Janet Dees February 12, 2022 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston Today’s program is offered by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and curator of A Site of Struggle. Exhibition Gallery Talks are offered monthly by B...	Humanities	February 2022	1644690600
Dover Quartet February 15, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the 2022 Winter Chamber Music Festival “The Dover Quartet has been making life difficult for critics with playing that pretty much defies criticism.” —Ludwig van Toronto Joel Link and Bryan Le...	Music	February 2022	1644975000
Art, Activism, and Contemporary Resonances of the 1935 NAACP exhibition “An Art Commentary on Lynching” March 9, 2022 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston The NAACP’s 1935 exhibition, “An Art Commentary on Lynching,” and its use in anti-lynching activism represents a critical but often overlooked moment in American art history. Join us for a conversatio...	Humanities	March 2022	1646870400
Keyboard Conversations: The Glorious Music of Chopin April 8, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the 2022 Keyboard Conversations series. Jeffrey Siegel, piano Heroic polonaises, soulful mazurkas, passionate études, dreamy nocturnes, vivacious waltzes, and the rarely heard tarantella by o...		April 2022	1649464200
Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series: "A Conversation with Joshua Cohen, author of The Netanyahus." April 11, 2022 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston Renée and Lester Crown Speaker Series "A Conversation with Joshua Cohen, author of The Netanyahus." We hope to hold this event in person but will be monitoring guidelines as the date approaches and ...	Literary Arts	April 2022	1649721600
Keyboard Conversations: Evocative Visions - Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Liszt May 20, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the 2022 Keyboard Conversations series. Jeffrey Siegel, piano Visually inspired musical masterpieces. Rachmaninoff’s festive and passionate Études-tableaux, Debussy’s visionary Préludes, Lisz...		May 2022	1653093000