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SUMMARY:Indiana Jones and The Missing Spanish Church
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ben Thomas\, Executive Director SAH\nBen Thomas will present the story about the intersection of Hollywood\, archaeology\, and the search for a Colonial-era Spanish church in Belize. \nOver a period of six years\, a group of intrepid archaeologists braved heat\, humidity\, wild animals and lots of bugs along the Sibun River to look for ancient Maya settlements\, chocolate and a 16th century Spanish church said to have been destroyed by a local Maya group during a rebellion against their Spanish overseers. \n4:30pm — Cash bar opens \n5:15pm — Dinner ($42) \n6:15pm — Program \nReservations required: \nreservations@cliff-chicago.org \nor call 312-922-8080 Text Link
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/indiana-jones-and-the-missing-spanish-church/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Live Jazz on the Cliff
DESCRIPTION:The Club’s first all Women Jazz Group will perform for Jazz Night!\n$12 Cover charge to support the artists \nCash Bar \n$35 Buffet Dinner (optional)\nTo have dinner\, please call ahead and reserve with Cliff Dwellers By Oct. 4th. \nReservations are required:\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org or call 312-922-8080 \nFor additional questions or comments\, contact: Lindsay Hugé\, lchuge@aol.com / 773-972-1110 \n___ \nJazz night will also feature a sound installation!\n“ThyssenKrupp – 153-1-MRL” is a work by AIR Takashi Shallow and long-time collaborator Andrew Dorkin. The piece is an ambient audio installation that will take place in the Cliff Dwellers elevator on the evening of 10/6. With no clear beginning or end\, subtle sounds\, foreign yet vaguely familiar to the elevator\, will fill its space. Shallow is a professor of sound and art at the University of Chicago\, and Dorkin holds a doctorate in poetics.
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/live-jazz-on-the-cliff-3/
CATEGORIES:Jazz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231010T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231010T210000
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SUMMARY:Rembrandt Chamber Musicians:  An die Musik (To Music)
DESCRIPTION:A program of poignantly beautiful songs and beguiling instrumental works\, An die Musik includes Franz Schubert’s beloved song of the same name and the soprano showpiece “The Shepherd on the Rock”. The Rembrandt Chamber Players opens their season with a program filled with music’s power to evoke “warm love” in one’s heart and transport the listener “to a better world.” \nPerforming artists include Jennifer Haworth\, soprano; Jonathan Gunn\, clarinet; John Macfarlane\, violin; Carol Cook\, viola and Calum Cook\, cello; Henry Kramer\, piano. \nProgram:\nSCHUBERT: “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen” (The Shepherd on the Rock)\, D. 965 \nBRUCH: Selections from Eight Pieces for Clarinet\, Viola\, and Piano \nSCHUBERT: “An die Musik” (To Music)\, D. 547 \nSCHUBERT: Trio in B-flat Major for Violin\, Cello\, and Piano\, D. 898 \nMusic program tickets must be purchased online from the performers’ website prior to the event! \nCliff Dwellers Discount Code: CLIFF2023 (valid for 10% off) \nReservations or dinner at the club required:\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org or call 312-922-8080 \n5:30pm – Cash bar opens\n6pm — 3 course dinner ($42)\n7pm — Music Program94455
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/rembrandt-chamber-musicians-an-die-musik-to-music/
CATEGORIES:Classical,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T200000
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SUMMARY:The Continuing Saga of Nazi Art Theft
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Historian Ed Gordon\nDr. Ed Gordon will provide a lively account of how the Nazi government engineered the greatest art theft in history before and during World War II. Efforts to return these treasures to their rightful owners began with the Monuments Men and continues to the present day. Learn about the many surprising obstacles that bedevil those seeking restitution of valued art. \n5:00pm — Bar opens\n5:30pm — Dinner ($40)\n6:30pm — program \nReservations are required:\nReserve by email\nor call 312-922-8080
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/the-continuing-saga-of-nazi-art-theft/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231012T200000
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SUMMARY:Learn and Experience the Noble Art of Sabrage: “Where Sword Meets Champagne”
DESCRIPTION:(Sabrage Experience registration deadline September 28!)\nINDIVIDUAL SABRAGE EXPERIENCE tickets\n($175\, member tickets and up to two guest tickets) \n1. With coaching\, open a bottle of champagne using a saber.\n2. Receive a personalized certificate that celebrates your first successful Sabrage!\n3. Receive a cloth bag with the cork and severed bottle neck from your Sabrage experience. \nOR\, watch the fun as a SPECTATOR\n($60\, member & guest tickets) \n1.  Join in the fun with an event seat beside your fellow Cliff Dwellers\, without performing Sabrage yourself\n2. Learn about Sabrage\, and the Confrerie du Sabre d’Or \nReservations are required:\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org or call 312-922-8080 \nNOTE: \n– Sabrage experience tickets are limited to members and up to two guests\n– Sabrage Experience ticket reservations must be made (or cancelled) via email by September 28th\, otherwise you will be charged the full amount. This is to allow time for your certificate to be created in advance of the event.
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/learn-and-experience-the-noble-art-of-sabrage-where-sword-meets-champagne/
CATEGORIES:Experience
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231016T163000
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SUMMARY:Cliff Dwellers Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The evening will begin at 4:30pm when the bar opens. Dinner with wine will be served at 6pm with the program to follow. Zivio will be sung to close out the evening\, so warm up your vocal chords! We will also be voting on new Board members as well updating you on The Club’s business and activities during 2023. \nDinner is $50 per person.\nReservations can be made via email reservations@cliff-chicago.org or by calling 312-922-8080.\nPlease RSVP by 2 pm on Friday\, October 13.\nNotice of Nominees for Director on The Cliff Dwellers Board \nPursuant to Article VIII of the By-Laws of The Cliff Dwellers\, the Nominating Committee proposes three candidates to fill the open positions of Director of the Club\, to be elected at the annual meeting scheduled for October 16: \nBen Johnson\, CD ’13: Ben is currently serving his first term as President of The Cliff Dwellers and was born and raised on the Near North Side of Chicago. Ben spent much of his younger life as a guest of his father Walker Johnson\, CD ’84\, a past president of the Club\, in the Kiva above Orchestra Hall where Ben and his wife Jennifer celebrated their wedding reception. As a Director at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in Chicago\, Ben crafts high-rise tower projects around the globe\, though he owes his core skills to his first phase career as a Midwest preservation architect. In his ample spare time\, Ben races small sailing scows on summer weekends in Wisconsin and skis the death-defying winter back country of Utah where his two children reside. \nEdward E. Gordon\, CD ’00: Edward E. Gordon is the president of Imperial Consulting Corporation and an economist\, historian\, speaker\, researcher\, and author. He has been a member of the Club since 2000\, served two terms as Club Treasurer from 2019-2023\, and is the Co-Chair of the 21st Century Fund. He seeks to secure the Club’s future through increasing its membership and encouraging members to support the Club through volunteering and monetary contributions. \nDiane Chandler-Marshall\, CD ’17: Diane has spent 25 years as an administrator and arts advocate\, working with local and national government\, public and private organizations and non-profit arts agencies. Diane served as Education and Artist Development Director for the Jazz Institute of Chicago for 15 years. She was also the Director of the Bureau of Cultural Arts in the Central Office of the Chicago Public Schools and worked at the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Diane has been cochairing the Artist in Residence Committee at Cliff Dwellers\, supporting young artists at the Club. She has also organized performances of young jazz artists in programs at the Club.
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/cliff-dwellers-annual-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Annual Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231017T183000
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SUMMARY:The Society of Midland Authors:  Short Stories About Small Towns
DESCRIPTION:Local authors Janice Deal\, “Strange Attractors\,” Christina Morracco\, “Addio\, Love Monster\,” and Ryan Elliott Smit\, “Fly Over This” will discuss their new short story collections\, all of which take place in small towns in Northern Illinois. \nThe authors will each talk about how they established a sense of place\, and the appeal of the short form\, as opposed to the novel. \n6:30pm — FREE program \n(followed by Q&A and book sales)
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/the-society-of-midland-authors-short-stories-about-small-towns/
CATEGORIES:The Society of Midland Authors
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231019T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231019T200000
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SUMMARY:Music Lifts the Soul: A celebration of Augusta Read Thomas & Bernard Rands
DESCRIPTION:The respective work of major music artists Augusta Read Thomas and Bernard Rands is legendary. We are delighted to celebrate\, in one grand event\, each of these highly distinguished composers as Honorary members of the Club. \nA composer featured on a Grammy winning CD by Chanticleer\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist\, and University of Chicago University Professor of Composition\, Augusta Read Thomas’ impressive body of works “embodies unbridled passion and fierce poetry” (American Academy of Arts and Letters) \nThrough more than a hundred published works and many recordings\, Bernard Rands is established as a major figure in contemporary music. Among other things\, his works have won the Pulitzer Prize in Music (1984) and the 1986 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (1986.) \nAt this event\, music will fill the room. A performance by John Corkill (percussion) will bring to life ENCHANTED INVOCATION by Augusta Read Thomas. And\, just as enthralling\, Phil Pierick (saxophone) will perform Memo 6 by Bernard Rands. \nBut\, there’s more. Bernard Rands will charm us with a talk on “Contemporary Virtuosity.” And Augusta Read Thomas will passionately speak on “Gestalt Webs.” \nWe will enjoy a fine dinner and wine will be poured for a special “Zivio” greeting and toast. There will be a few surprises too! \n  \nMembers and guests are welcome.\n5pm – Cash bar opens\n6pm – Dinner ($60 pp) \nReservations are required:\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org or call 312-922-8080 \nReservations are requested by October 17. 
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/music-lifts-the-soul-a-celebration-of-augusta-read-thomas-bernard-rands/
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231025T210000
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SUMMARY:The P2 Collective and cellist Martine Benmann
DESCRIPTION:The P2 Collective and cellist Martine Benmann will present a program of poetry\, photography and music. The collective produces poems inspired by photographs and photographs inspired by poems. During the program photographs will be projected while the associated poems are read. \n5pm — Cash bar opens\n6pm — Dinner ($40)\n7pm – Program \nReservations are required:\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org or call 312-922-8080
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/the-p2-collective-and-cellist-martine-benmann/
CATEGORIES:Music,Photography,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231028T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231028T120000
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SUMMARY:Cliff Dwellers Book Club: Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons\, American Radical- Jacqueline Jones
DESCRIPTION:The Book Club will discuss Jacqueline Jones’s Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons\, American Radical.\nPlease reserve at reservations@cliff-chicago.org or by phone at 312-922-8080 if you will be joining us for lunch at the club
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/october-2023-cliff-dwellers-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Cliff Dwellers Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Book Club will discuss Jacqueline Jones’s Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons\, American Radical.\nPlease reserve at reservations@cliff-chicago.org or by phone at 312-922-8080 if you will be joining us for lunch at the club
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/the-cliff-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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