February weekend
We celebrated Sally Jo’s birthday several days in a row! First we traveled to Chicago by train, spent two nights there attending two events, returned to Goshen and attended two events on Goshen College campus.
On our first evening in Chicago we ate at a delicious Armenian restaurant, Sayat-Nova, and attended Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. (no photos – forgot the camera!)
We spent the next day at the Museum of Contemporary Art. There were some very interesting exhibits. One exhibit “Color Bind” highlighed MCA’s collection in black and white. Another exhibit “Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A” showed two fascinating tapastries among other projects, both highlighting Macuga’s interweaving of art and politics. A third exhibit was not completely installed but we saw a bit of it, “Destroy the Picture: Paint the Void, 1949-1962.” This highlighted the effect history of that era had on art. What was fascinating was that the fact that these events all took place during our pre-college days! We remember many of them! We were also fascinated with the spiral stairway of the museum. Oh, and yes, we had a delicious luncheon at the museum.
That evening we attended a concert with Michelle by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a group from South Africa at the Old Town School of Folk Music. We always enjoy their music.
We returned home the next day and attended a concert by The English Concert at Goshen College. The following evening was the college Winter Chorale Concert: “”An Evening of Opera.” A fun concert with scenes from operas by Verdi, Offenbach, Gilbert and Sullivan and more.
What a fun four days–and what a variety of activities!
