Chicago Cultural Club

A TGS Community Building Grant Winner

The Chicago Cultural Club

Founded by Faith Boman and Ami Patel, the Chicago Cultural Club seeks to build a community of graduate students at Northwestern University  around cultural, scientific, and architectural experiences in Chicago.

Our community building group encompasses three cultural areas in the city of Chicago: museums, architecture, and theater. We will have 6-8 total events during the 2007-2008 academic year, distributed throughout the fall, winter, and spring quarters.

Current Events

Please RSVP to the event of your choice to chicgoculturalclub@gmail.com with your name,  department, and the name of the event. 

Only for Northwestern graduate students

tgs community building grants

The funding for all these activities comes from The Graduate School community building grant program.  Started in  2006 by Dean Andrew Wachtel to stem the isolation that graduate students often experience in their laboratories and libraries the community building program has funded 19 proposals in its second round. 

 

Community Building Program Goals
The NU program is designed to:

- Integrate academic and social aspects of graduate life
- Bring people together in a social context
- Improve communications and outreach
- Encourage creative expression through the arts
- Serve as models for community building

This program is specifically not meant to enhance social and academic interactions within individual departments or programs (or within closely linked departments and programs). It is our belief that such activities, while extremely important, should be and in many cases are already carried out by the departments and programs themselves.

Chicago History Museum

The Chicago History Museum stands at the crossroads of America’s past and its future. If you live in Chicago or visit here and are curious about the city’s past, present, and future, the Museum should be your first stop. Sign up for a chance to experience the museum with other graduate students from a variety of departments. Lunch at a local restaurant is included.

 

Chicago History Museum

1601 N. Clark St. (1/2 mile north of Clark/Division Red line El stop)

Saturday, May 17th

12:00pm — 3:30pm

25 tickets available

RSVP Deadline: Thursday, May 1st

Ravinia - Kenny Loggins

Get "Footloose" with a pop icon and Grammy Award-winner.  Ravinia's expansive lawn offers an informal and comfortable place to picnic while enjoying the concert, broadcast to the lawn audience through a state-of-the-art sound system. Bring your own food, drinks, and blanket. We will meet as a group at the Davis St. Metra station in Evanston at 6:01pm which will then drop us off right at the Ravinia's West Gate. A return train to Chicago will depart approximately 15 minutes after the event is over.  Tickets include free lawn seats to Ravinia and roundtrip Metra passes. Sign up for a chance to experience Ravinia with other graduate students from a variety of departments.

 

Kenny Loggins concert
Sunday, June 15th
6:00pm
20 tickets available
RSVP Deadline: Tuesday, May 27th