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Flying high

Oct 18, 2010
by Skarlet Walls

Philip von Zweck creates participatory art exhibit.

UIC Theatre this week: Hedda Gabler shines

Oct 04, 2010
by Rebecca Franek

The UIC Theatre takes to the stage as their first main production for the 2010-2011 season, Andrew Upton’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler.

Say goodbye to summer: North Coast music festival

Sep 06, 2010
by Joe Delisi

This past Thursday night UIC lured the likes of Girl Talk and Kid Cudi. But just one night after UIC’s first music festival, ‘Spark in the Park’, another music exposition was born only miles away.

Chicago Music: A Pitchfork in the road

Aug 23, 2010
by Joe Delisi

As the Lollapalooza Music Festival continues to draw larger crowds every year, a new, less known festival across town begins to make its mark on the summer festival scene, bringing its own unique flavor and definition of what music is all about.

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BFA Art Exhibit: John Lennon, Mirrors and Unicorns

Apr 15, 2010
by Joe Delisi

As the semester concludes for UIC, students of the School of Art and Design showed off their best work at the Art & Design Hall (400 S. Peoria) this weekend. Featuring sculptures, paintings, drawings, photography and video work, a multitude of people attended this years 2010 Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition.

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Sew rad: The 2010 UIC fashion show

Apr 09, 2010
by Lisa Moy

The UIC 30th annual fashion show took place Friday, April 9 at the UIC Forum. The theme for this year was “A Fashion Revolution.” Planned by UIC students, various Chicago designers helped contribute to showcase diversity through fashion.

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Guest director presents “In The Blood”

Apr 09, 2010
by Karol Slowikowski

The theater department at UIC is running a Pulitzer nominated play directed by an award winning director and cast with a truly inspiring group of students. A gripping and fluid performance by UIC theater students guest directed by George O’Hara.

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Please send in the clowns for Cirque du Primo

Apr 01, 2010
by Rebecca Franek

Primo, the UIC dance troupe, celebrated the art of dance at their production, Cirque Du Primo, and invited other dance groups to join in on the carnival fun.

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An early spring breakdown

Mar 13, 2010
by Katie Wolf

Loud beats, colorful kicks, and slammin’ moves. No, this is not another sequel of Step Up but, the 2nd annual Chitown Breakdown hosted by the UIC chapter of Hip Hop Congress. Amateur and professional breakdancing crews form all over the chicago land area flooded The Illinois room in Student Center East on March 13th, 2010. The room was brimming with talent; b-boys and b-girls of ages 6 to 35 popped, locked, spun, froze, on the dance floor.

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Thank every vagina

Mar 12, 2010
by Karol Slowikowski

Red and black adorned the performers for this year’s production of “The Vagina Monologues,” a celebration of female and transgendered sexuality. The show spotlights the romance and love that are often absent for women and girls through a series of very touching monologues.

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Gallery 400: A Two Day Art Fair

Feb 28, 2010
by Bing Liu

On a chilly Friday afternoon, people are scurrying into a building on South Peoria Street. Inside, they find fold-out tables with red candy dispensers, a slinky adhered to a piece of styrofoam, books filled with photos of shirtless boys posing in the forest, and cloth patches for non-existent organizations. The small, classroom-sized room smells of fried chicken and freshly printed paper. Every once in a while, a laugh pops above the throng of conversations.

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