Calendar of Events
The Vinegar Works
Every Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
Free with museum admission
Enjoy a fun-filled time of puppets and Gorey tales. Audience
members, young and old, will delight in the magical world
created by Blair Thomas & Company, known for combining
puppets and visual theater. Gorey’s stories filled with wild
animals, imaginative creatures, and odd folks are an invitation
to the imagination. LUMA will host a toy theater staging of
The
Vinegar Works
.
Come to watch the spectacle of three Gorey stories,
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
,
The Insect God
,
and
The West Wing
.
People will be entertained by a witty, disquieting journey through
the wonderful world of Gorey. The running time is thirty minutes.
Meet the Collector
Tuesday, February 18, 6:00 p.m.
Free
Thomas Michalak began collecting Gorey works in the 1970s.
He was drawn to the artist by his sense of humor and wit. Now
he shares that passion with his alma mater by donating his
collection to Loyola. Join us for an informal walk-thru of Tom’s
collection as he gives us insight into the mind and art of Gorey.
The Edward Gorey Birthday Bash: Revelry fromA to Z
Saturday, February 22, 6:30 p.m.
$250
Join us for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, and gaiety to celebrate
the exhibitions
Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey
and
G is for Gorey—C is for Chicago: The Collection of Thomas Michalak
.
Proceeds benefit the Loyola University Chicago Libraries and
LUMA. Please register online at
LUC.edu/goreybdaybash
.
Meet the Artist
Tuesday, March 11, 6:00 p.m.
$4 / Members and Loyola students, faculty, and staff: Free
Chicago artist and writer Kenneth Gerleve will present
Summerland: A Ghost Story
,
the tale of a family of Spiritualist
mediums who live inside a house built for otherworldly
communication. The mixed-media installation incorporates
traditional sequential narrative storytelling, fiber arts, and
an original score by collaborator Ross Crean. The artist will
discuss
Summerland
and the influence of comics, illustration,
Spiritualism, and the Gothic on his art and writing.
From Grimm to Gorey: The Scary Character of
Children’s Literature
Tuesday, April 1, 6:00 p.m.
$4 / Members and Loyola students, faculty, and staff: Free
Suspense may be an intrinsic virtue of storytelling, but terror
is a matter of specialized taste. Since stories were written and
published specifically for children during the Enlightenment, a
good deal of children’s literature has been written about scary
things. Over the centuries, this subject matter has troubled
many adults, though it is adults who mostly write these stories
and quite often read them too. Why is children’s literature
so often scary? Critics of scary stories denounce them as
unhealthy; proponents, like Bruno Bettelheim in
The Uses of
Enchantment
,
argue that just the opposite is true: they provide
a healthy release for children’s anxieties. Edwin Frank, editor
of the
New York Review of Books Classics
,
will look at children’s
books as literature and in relation to other kinds of genre
literature—such as crime, detective, and ghost stories; fantasy,
romance, and science fiction.
A Fanciful High Tea
Friday, April 4, 3:00 p.m.
$45 / Members and Loyola students, faculty, and staff: $40
Enjoy an afternoon of tantalizing tea and delicious delicacies
as we celebrate the work of Edward Gorey. The afternoon will
feature actors from the Dead Writers Theatre Collective who
will present readings by Gorey that are darkly humorous—
The
Gashlycrumb Tinies
;
The Epileptic Bicycle
;
The Disrespectful
Summons
;
The Wuggly Ump
;
The Doubtful Guest
;
The Evil
Garden
;
and
The Salt Herring
.
An Evening in London: A Talk About How the
Greatest City in theWesternWorld Got to beThatWay
Tuesday, April 8, 6:00 p.m.
$4 / Members and Loyola students, faculty, and staff: Free
Dr. Robert Bucholz, Professor of History at Loyola and co-
author of
London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750
,
will speak about London’s rise to world prominence. From
1550
to 1750, Londoners invented, re-invented, or borrowed
for the Anglophone world constitutional monarchy, a relatively
free press, and the first viable commercial theater since ancient
times among many other developments. No other city in the
world did more to catalyze modernity.
All events take place at LUMA, 820 N. Michigan Avenue. RSVP to
or 312.915.7608.
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