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Famed orations from Frederick Douglass

“Frederick Douglass on Race: A Souls Evolution” On Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m., head to UIS Brookens Auditorium for a Black History Month event hosted by the UIS ECCE Speaker Series. This living history presentation features actor Fred Morsell and his riveting reprisal of Frederick E. Douglass’ most poignant commentary on slavery, racial discrimination […]

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Pro-future planet

“Consumerism, Society and our Ecological Future” is the talk, Tuesday, April 22 at UIS Brookens Auditorium, by featured speaker Tim Kasser, professor of psychology at Knox College and author of 50-peer reviewed journal articles on materialism, values and goals, plus four books, including the The High Price of Materialism and Psychology and Consumer Culture. Kasser will […]

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Perfecting the portraiture

New York City photographer Sean Fader brings his acclaimed contemporary photographic series to the University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery. Fader’s exhibition SUP?, reviewed in Slate Magazine and Huffington Post, is an interesting look at first impressions. The artist used personal ads to met strangers of whom he would shoot their portraits upon first […]

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