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SUMMARY:Vintage Costume Jewelry Lecture & Afternoon Tea
DESCRIPTION:There are stories to be told by vintage jewelry! Author and columnist Susan Klein led a discussion on Vintage Costume Jewelry. Guests adorned themselves with their own pieces and browsed Susan’s display while enjoying a special Afternoon Tea. Susan Klein is the author of Mid Century Plastic Jewelry (Schiffer Books\, 2005) and wrote the “Bling & Things” column for Antiques & Collecting Magazine. She previously worked as a production assistant on the popular HGTV show The Appraisal Fair. For the past 24 years\, Susan has been the Director of Richard Norton Gallery. She got her start in the business by working for Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. The afternoon opened with a Mimosa Bar\, followed by Afternoon Tea and Susan’s program.
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/vintage-costume-jewelry-lecture-afternoon-tea/
CATEGORIES:Art,Lecture,Past Event
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SUMMARY:Theatre Club - Steppenwolf's production of TopDog/UnderDog
DESCRIPTION:The Theatre Club’s October get-together took us to the Steppenwolf Theatre on Wednesday\, October 28 for the Theatre in Chicago’s “Highly Recommended” production of:\nTOPDOG/UNDERDOG\n\nBrothers Lincoln and Booth\, named in jest\, are two Black men living in America just trying to get by. Lincoln dresses like his namesake\, reenacting his assassination for money and laughs. Booth stays stuck in their apartment\, working tirelessly on his three-card hustle. Sibling rivalry and a lifetime of resentment come to a head in this fast-paced and ferocious thrill ride from Suzan-Lori Parks. The deck is stacked with a Tony Award-winning director\, a Pulitzer Prize-winning script and a tour-de-force showdown for ensemble members Glenn Davis and Namir Smallwood.
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/theatre-club-steppenwolfs-production-of-topdog-underdog/
CATEGORIES:Dinner,Past Event,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Art Opening: everyOther Artists and Sculptor Dawn Liddicoatt
DESCRIPTION:The Robert Milne House (Jerry’s House) This exhibition featured work by everyOther\, an informal Chicago-based watercolor sketch group that meets every other Sunday afternoon\, year-round. Their first exhibition at The Cliff Dwellers highlighted the Robert Milne House\, owned by Jerry Adelmann\, CD ’87\, who has hosted the group at his remarkable property for more than 12 years. Jerry spoke about the house at the opening. Also featured was the work of Dawn Liddicoatt\, who began sculpting in the fall of 2017 with Rodrigo Lara at the Hyde Park Art Center. Guests enjoyed complimentary light bites while viewing the latest exhibition in the Club’s gallery.
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/everyother-art-exhibit/
CATEGORIES:Art,Past Event,Reception
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SUMMARY:Annual Halloween Party
DESCRIPTION:Spooky Stories\, Scary Sips\, and More!\n Members dressed to impress for the Club’s annual Halloween Party\, competing for a prize for the best costume. The evening featured spooky cocktails and a buffet dinner\, followed by ghost stories and thrilling tales shared by members to delight and scare their fellow Cliff Dwellers.
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/annual-halloween-party/
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SUMMARY:Performance: "Forest of Signs"
DESCRIPTION:Artist in Residence Ben Zucker Presented “Forest of Signs”\nForest of Signs\, a quartet\, performed new original music by Ben Zucker where complexity\, intuition\, and exploration meet and flourish. The unusual instrumentation of electric guitar\, piano\, violin\, and vibraphone was matched by the players’ experience across chamber music\, jazz\, and experimental improvisation. The pieces are never the same twice but are always full of intriguing\, enticing combinations of dissonance\, groove\, and space. \nBen Zucker (Cliff Dwellers AIR 2026-2027) is an experimental composer and performer\, interested in music’s unique capacities to model systems of change through a rigorous\, dynamic play of contemplation and visceral immersion in sonic extremes. Starting from a background in jazz and theater\, this speculation now regularly mixes in explorations of philosophy\, improvisation\, ambience\, alternative notations\, juxtapositions\, and protocols. His practice includes “stirring compositions…built on a lifetime of musical curiosity” (Chicago Reader)\, and performances on vibraphone\, brass\, keys\, voice\, and electronics across styles. \nThe Quartet also featured Andrew Sudhibhasilp\, Billie Howard\, and Mabel Kwan.
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/performance-forest-of-signs/
CATEGORIES:Artists In Residence,Dinner,Jazz,Past Event
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SUMMARY:Sketch Club with Mostly Mondays
DESCRIPTION:Lunch and Learn\nVicki Granacki\, an Urban Sketcher and member of Mostly Mondays\, taught a perspective drawing workshop right after lunch at the Cliff Dwellers.
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/sketch-club-with-mostly-mondays/
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SUMMARY:Architecture Lecture: Shaw\, Second Presbyterian and the Chicago Arts and Crafts Movement
DESCRIPTION:In 1900\, Howard Van Doren Shaw and Frederic Clay Bartlett\, charter members of the Cliff Dwellers\, teamed up on the extraordinary reconstruction of Second Presbyterian Church after a devastating fire almost entirely destroyed the James Renwick Jr. gothic revival interiors. \nThe duo re-envisioned the church in the English Arts and Crafts style. Drawing from Shaw’s well-timed trip to England the year of the fire and the incredibly talented Chicago designers and craftspeople participating in the burgeoning local progressive Arts and Crafts movement\, the reconstructed church stands today as a masterpiece of design. \nNate Lielasus\, AIA\, architect and President of the Board of Friends of Historic Second Church\, discussed the rebuilding of Second Presbyterian Church and current efforts by Friends of Historic Second Church to protect its artistic treasures.
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/lecture-shaw-second-presbyterian-and-the-chicago-arts-and-crafts-movement/
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