The Chicago Humanities Festival has revealed additional information, including a daily schedule, about its new spring offering, "Style," for which tickets are now on sale to CHF members. Tickets for non-members go on sale this Thursday, March 3 at 10am.
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington will open the slate with an appearance at the Francis W. Parker School on Thursday, April 28. The following evening, Karl Ove Knaussgard, the Norwegian author of the six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, comes to the Art Institute of Chicago.
On Saturday, March 5, the Chicago Athletic Association will host separate appearances by Alicia Garza, a co-creator of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and fashion icon Iris Apfel, while actor Mary-Louise Parker at the newly reopened Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building. The same day also features a talk with Elizabeth Cline, author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, as well as a panel, "Politics of Clothing: The Hijab," to include journalist Asra Nomani and Tehran Street Style author Hoda Katebi; both events are at the Art Institute.
Sunday, March 6, sees programs at the Art Institute with author Andrew Solomon, who will talk about "places experiencing dramatic transitions," and photographer Sally Mann. At the Studebaker, Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall discuss The Breakbeat Poets, the new poetry collection they co-edited that features work by the likes of Marshall, Jamila Woods and Kristiana Rae Colón.
Coval and Marshall will also perform several matinees for young adults, while the Alicia Garza event will be followed by an event for young professionals at South Loop venue Refuge. Details remain up in the air about presentations by fashion designers Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Maria Pinto, and Rachel Roy, all of whom have worked with Michelle Obama in her time as First Lady, as well as Pulitzer Prize winner Robin Givhan and inclusive retail and disability advocate Liz Jackson.