A dramatic reading from Homer's Odyssey followed by a brief consideration of alternate endings to Odysseus' story in Dante and later authors." Noted Homeric translator Stanley Lombardo will be reading mostly from The Odyssey 22 and 23 and then from Inferno 26, talking briefly also about Tennyson and Kazantzakis.

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Part of the Lake Forest Literary Festival, Madeleine Plonsker, Collector and Author, The Light In Cuban Eyes, and Beth Zinsli, director and curator of the Wriston Art Galleries at Lawrence University, talk about Cuban photography today.

Directed by Geoff Button, of Chicago’s Hypocrites Theatre Company, H.M.S. Pinafore is a hysterical musical tale of romance on the high seas that timelessly skewers the pretenses of snobbery.

Recorded November 8, 2015 at Gorton Community Center, Lake Forest IL.

Co-sponsored by Lake Forest College and the Illinois Tenth Congressional District Democrats, this forum will allow community members to engage with this candidate for the 10th Congressional District seat before the March 15, 2016 primary.

A forum with candidate Brad Schneider was held on January 29, 2016.

Associate Professor Miguel de Baca discusses his new book, Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture (University of California Press, 2015). The book explores the evolution of the minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt and her ideas on perception and mnemonic reference in contemporary art.

Associate Professor Miguel de Baca teaches Art History and is the Chair of American Studies.

Co-sponsored by Lake Forest College and the Tenth Congressional District Democrats, this forum will allow community members to engage with this candidate for the 10th Congressional District seat before the March 15, 2016 primary.

A forum with candidate Nancy Rotering will be held on February 10.

Eboo Patel, Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core, believes that diverse faith and philosophical identities can serve as bridges of cooperation rather than barriers of division.

Interfaith leaders have the knowledge base and skill set to voice their values, engage diversity, and act to advance the common good.