College of Lake County notes

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Dance troupe auditions: Dancers from the Lake County community are invited to audition for the College of Lake County Prairie Spirits Holiday Dance Concert, which will be performed Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 and 2 in the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts.

Auditions will be held from 7 to 9:30 p.m. today in the Experimental Theatre (P103) of the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts on the CLC Grayslake Campus. Dancers who tap should bring their tap shoes; otherwise no shoes are needed. For audition questions, contact Terry Crews at (847) 543-2610 or e-mail tcrews@clcillinois.edu. Or call the CLC Communication Arts, Humanities and Fine Arts division at (847) 543-2040.

Two film series: The College of Lake County will present a series of recent international films and a series of independent films beginning Friday. There is no charge for the films, which will be screened at 7 p.m. on Fridays in room A162 (unless noted otherwise) on the CLC Grayslake Campus.

All of the international films are subtitled when necessary and have adult content not suitable for children. For more information, contact Patrick Gonder, CLC film instructor, at (847) 543-2555 or at pgonder@clcillinois.edu. The International Film Series includes:

• "The Memory of a Killer" (2003) will be shown on Frday. In this intense Belgian police drama, an aging hit man (played by Jan Decleir) struggles to finish his most recent assignment while hiding the fact that he has Alzheimer's disease and is losing his memory.

• "Moolaade" (2004) will be screened on Sept. 28. Directed by African filmmaker and novelist Ousmane Sembene, "Moolaade" deals with one woman's revolt against her village's cruel traditions in a manner that surprises, delights and inspires. This film is being co-sponsored by the CLC Women's Center.

• "Shutter" (2004) will be shown on Oct. 19 in the C Wing Auditorium (C005). "Shutter" falls within the tradition of recent Asian horror films while presenting an original spin on the imagery and themes of movies such as "Ringu" and "A Tale of Two Sisters."

• "Apres Vous" (2003), screened on Nov. 2, is a comedy about death, love and French food. A Parisian waiter stops a man from committing suicide and then takes him under his wing, but matters become complicated when he attempts to repair his new friend's broken romance. This film is co-sponsored by the Communication Arts, Humanities and Fine Arts Division as part of French Week at CLC. For more information on French Week, contact Maria Manterola at (847) 543-2291 or mmanterola@clcillinois.edu.

The films in the CLC Independent Film Series include:

•Early Shorts will be shown on Sept. 14 and represent the 400-500 independent films submitted to the Lake County Film Festival. The complete lineup will be announced two weeks before the screening.

• "Cake: A Wedding Story" will be shown on Oct. 5. When two star-crossed lovers set on eloping are forced into having a big wedding, the bride develops a plan of her own. But the groom is not privy to the plan, and family and friends start to take sides at a reception for a wedding that never took place.

• "Riding Solo on Top of the World" will be presented on Nov. 16. Director Gaurav Jani covers thousands of miles on his motorcycle, from his home in Mumbai through the Changthang Plateau, one of the most remote places in the world. Along the way, he films his journey through the beautiful landscapes and the people he meets along the way, including the Buddhist Chang pas.

• "King Corn" will be shown on Dec. 7. The film concerns two recent college graduates who travel to their ancestral home in rural Iowa, plant a single acre of America's most powerful crop, corn, and attempt to follow its fate as food. In their year-long adventure they see the realities of modern farming first-hand, explore a fast-food nation built on corn syrup sodas and corn-fed meat and come to question government subsidies, intensive agriculture and cheap food.

During March 2008, the College of Lake County will host the Fifth Annual Lake County Film Festival. The film schedule will be announced in February 2008. For more information, visit www.lakecountyfilmfest.com or contact Nat Dykeman at lakecounty-filmfest@gmail.co m or by phone at (847) 362-5666.

Business skills workshops: The College of Lake County's Illinois Small Business Development Center is offering fall workshops designed to quickly improve the business knowledge and skills of small business owners and entrepreneurs:

•QuickBooks Module 1 -- A Practical Introduction (TBSM 20) 6:30 to 10 p.m. Sept. 20 and 27. Course fee: $149.

•Franchising Facts and Fiction (TBSM 11) from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 10. Course fee: $35.

•Marketing on a Shoe String (TBSM 59) from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 13. Course fee: $35.

•Sales and Selling - Close Those Deals! (TBSM 113) from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 25 Course fee: $35.

•Child Care -- Starting and Growing a Successful Business (TBSM 16) from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, Sept. 19 to Oct. 24. This six-week course explains how to start and operate a child care business and stay within all legal requirements. Offered in partnership with YWCA Lake County, it is also taught in Spanish and meets at the same time as the English section. Course fee: $100.

•NxLeveL Business Start-up (TBSM 8) from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Sept. 20 to Dec. 13. This 12-week course teaches the fundamentals of starting a business, including market research, financial modeling and operations. The registration deadline is Wednesday. Course fee: $350 (books included) or $430 (books and Business Plan Pro software).

•Starting a Business in Illinois (TBSM 10) from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sept. 26 Course fee: $40.

For more information, call (847) 543-2033 or visit www.clcillinois.edu/depts/sbd.asp. To apply and register, follow the steps at www.clcillinois.edu/noncredit/register/. Seats are limited, so early registration is advised. Classes may be withdrawn if minimum enrollment is not met one week prior to the start of class. Workshops will be held at the Technology Building on the CLC Grayslake Campus, 19351 W. Washington St. unless noted.

Reasonable arrangements for persons with disabilities will be made if requested in advance. To make arrangements, contact Barb at (847) 543­2033 or the TTY line at (847) 223­0134.

Call for entries in exhibit: A total of $1,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to artists selected for Recent Works 2007, the 27th Annual Juried Exhibit for Lake County Artists at the Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art at the College of Lake County. Entry forms, notification cards and fees are due by 3 p.m. Sept. 7 to the circulation desk at the CLC Library/Learning Resource Center on the Grayslake campus. One or two pieces of artwork (not slides or e-mailed photos) have to be submitted for the jurying process. Artwork can be delivered from 1 to 8 p.m. Sept. 11 or 12 to the Library receiving dock.

Artists who are 18 or older and reside or work in Lake County may submit up to two entries of original work completed in the past two years that have never been shown in the CLC gallery. Works are limited to 72 inches in any direction, and may be paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculpture or ceramics.

The Recent Works exhibit will open with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. on Sept. 28, and continue through Nov. 4. To request an entry form or for detailed information, contact Steve Jones, gallery curator, at (847) 543-2240 or e-mail sjones@clcillinois.edu. Entry forms can also be downloaded from the Web site, galley.clcillinois.edu.

Blood drive: The College of Lake County Health Center will conduct an American Red Cross blood drive from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 11 in the Brandel Court of Building B on the Grayslake Campus.

Donors must be 17 or older, weigh at least 110 pounds, be in good health and not have donated blood within 56 days. Donors will receive a mini-physical that includes a blood pressure check and iron-level count. Bring a photo ID.

Call the CLC Health Center at (847) 543-2064 for an appointment or log on to the American Red Cross Web site at www.givelife.org. Walk-ins are also welcome.

Box Office Blitz: Take a backstage tour, save money on tickets and preview the entertainment being offered this season by the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts at the College of Lake County at the first-ever Box Office Blitz from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sept. 15.

The Blitz is a community event designed for the whole family, where patrons can save 10 percent on single tickets and 20 percent when they buy tickets to three or more professional touring events for the 2007-08 season. The Blitz includes a behind-the-scenes look at the Mainstage Theatre with backstage tours, refreshments, performance showcases, technical stage demonstrations and more. Patrons who purchase tickets at the Blitz will be entered in a drawing for a grand prize.

The afternoon's events include:

•1 to 5 p.m. Registration/welcome desk in the Rotunda lobby.

•1:30 p.m. Mainstage Theatre technical stage demonstration featuring Chris Bennett, pianist/singer

•2 p.m. A preview of "The Little Prince," the fall children's theater show.

•2:30 p.m. Mainstage Theatre backstage tour.

•3 p.m. Dance duet performance, Capoeria demo.

•3:30 p.m. Mainstage Technical Stage demonstration featuring Chris Bennett.

•4 p.m. Performance to be announced.

•4:30 p.m. Mainstage Theatre backstage tour.

Other free activities throughout the afternoon include refreshments; live theater readings; information tables on JLC professional events and academic programs with video clips of past and upcoming productions; a behind-the-scenes look at how scenes and backdrops are created for theater; children's artistic face-painting in the make-up room; children's crafts where kids can make their own crown, tiara, sword or wand; drawings for prizes such as tickets to JLC and CLC performances, Six Flags Fright Fest tickets and more.

Besides saving 10 percent on single tickets, visitors to the Blitz can also save $1 per ticket on college theater, dance and music events. All discounts apply to in-person ticket orders only, purchased on Sept. 15. For more information on the Box Office Blitz, call the Box Office at (847) 543-2300 or visit www.clcillinois.edu/tickets.

Fall Discovery! Classes: Several tours and classes will be offered to adults through the College of Lake County Discovery! program this fall. Discovery! was created for "adult learners with a young attitude." Classes begin in September, and some of the classes being offered include "The Paradox of Paul," taught by Dr. Ron Miller of Lake Forest College on Sept. 15; "Experimental Art for Everyone," from Sept. 17 to Oct. 22; "Conversational Spanish I," from Sept. 18 to Oct. 29 (also conversational French or Italian); "A Drive through Chicago's Unique Parks" on Sept. 19 with lunch and transportation; "Revival and Renewal with Cinema Classics: Obsessively Romantic" on three Mondays, Sept. 24 to Oct. 8; "Chicago, The Birthplace of the Skyscraper" class and tour on Sept. 25 and 26 and Oct. 2; and "Great Italian Women Painters" on Wednesdays, Sept. 26 to Oct. 17.

Information on the classes and tours is included on pages 65-72 of the new CLC Continuing Education schedule. Discovery! information is available online at www.clcillinois.edu/noncredit/programs/seniors.asp Call the Discovery! hotline at (847) 543-6507 for information and enrollment assistance.

Social Sciences classes: Several topics will be explored in courses offered by the Social Sciences division at the College of Lake County this fall.

Chicago's distinctive urban personality will be examined in History of Chicago (HST 299-001) from 6:30 to 9:15 p.m. Wednesdays. This historical survey will take students on a journey through Chicago history to learn how it was built and the ways a distinctive type of urban society was created.

Wayne Hunter, one Lake County's premier criminal investigators, will use his many years of law enforcement experience to help students figure out what makes criminals tick in The Criminal Mind (CRJ 215-001) from 6 to 8:45 p.m. Tuesdays. Hunter will apply psychological theories to offenders with personality disorders, serial killers and the criminally insane. Hunter is a retired 12-year veteran of the Waukegan Police Department who had assignments with the Criminal Investigations Division, Special Operations and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Other Social Sciences division special topic courses being offered this fall include Diversity in School and Society (EDU 299-001) from 1 to 3:45 p.m. Mondays; The Intentional Teacher (EDU 299-003) from 4 to 6:45 p.m. Wednesdays; American Sign Language (EDU 299-004) from 7 to 9:45 p.m. Thursdays; Sexual Abuse and Behavioral Addiction (HUS 299-002) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 27 and Nov. 3; and Women and Addiction (HUS 299-003) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov. 10 and 17.

When I Grow Up: "When I Grow Up I Want To Be," an exhibition of paintings and drawings by children living in orphanages in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is on display at the Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art on the College of Lake County Grayslake campus. The exhibit also includes documentary photographs of the children who created the artwork. The exhibit continues through Sept. 23.

The gallery is open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday; and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday. Hours vary during college breaks. During this exhibit, the gallery will be closed Monday and Tuesday.

Apply to win knife set: Food service management students at the College of Lake County can apply for a free set of five chef knives, a $410 value, provided by Henckels, the well-known German knife maker.

To be eligible to receive a knife set, students must meet certain eligibility requirements including having been admitted as a CLC student or having a minimum 2.5 GPA from another college. Students should provide an official transcript from the last school they attended, be enrolled for at least 12 credit hours in the term for which they are applying for aid, have declared a major in Food Service Management and must pay tuition by the first day of class or have a college-approved alternative payment plan in place.

For more information, call (847) 543-2041. Applications for the knife scholarship award must be received by Oct. 1 for priority consideration for the spring 2008 semester. Tuition must be paid by the first day of class or college approved alternative plans must be in place.

Theater season: The College of Lake County theater department's 2007-08 season has been announced. JLC subscriptions can be ordered through Sept. 21 by purchasing tickets to three or more professional touring events. Once patrons become a JLC subscriber, they are eligible for discounted tickets to theater department productions.

• "The Little Prince" will be performed at 3 and 7 p.m. Oct. 6 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 7 in the Mainstage Theatre. Tickets are $6 each.

Daytime performances for school groups will be held at 10 a.m. on Oct. 3, 4 and 5 with tickets priced at $4 each in advance (including a $1 per ticket James Lumber Center restoration fee.)

The play tells the story of an aviator whose malfunctioning plane strands him in the middle of the Sahara Desert where, he meets an imaginative boy who claims to hail from an unknown star.

Auditions will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 27 and 28 in the Mainstage Theatre.

• "The Crucible" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 and at 2 p.m. Nov. 11 in the Studio Theatre.

Based on the Salem witch trials of 1692, the drama tells the story of a group of young women who are accused of witchcraft.

Auditions will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 27 and 28 in the Studio Theatre of the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts.

Tickets are $10 each for the general public and $8 for CLC students/staff, seniors 65 and older and JLC season subscribers.

• "The Importance of Being Earnest" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22, 23, 28, 29 and Mar. 1 and 2 p.m. Feb. 24 in the Studio Theatre.

Oscar Wilde's brilliant comedy of manners follows the antics of two bachelors as they pursue true love and the perfect cucumber sandwich.

Auditions will be at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 3 and 4.

Tickets are $10 each for the general public and $8 for CLC students/staff, seniors 65 and older and JLC season subscribers.

• "How I Learned to Drive" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. April 11, 12, 17, 18 and 19 and at 2 p.m. April 13.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, this play is a tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man. Co-presented with the CLC Women's Center in the Studio Theatre with a guest director.

Auditions will be at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 28 and 29.

Tickets are $10 each for the general public and $8 for CLC students/staff, seniors 65 and older and JLC season subscribers.

• "Little Shop of Horrors," will be presented at 7:30 p.m. July 18, 19, July 24, 25 and 26 and 2 p.m. July 20 and 27 in the Studio Theatre.

A down-and-out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving.

Auditions will be at 6:30 p.m. on May 19 and 20.

Tickets for are $16 and $13. (Prices include a $1 per ticket James Lumber Center restoration fee.)

Tickets are available at the CLC Box Office in the James Lumber Center on the Grayslake Campus, 19351 W. Washington St. Tickets may be purchased in person, by phone at (847) 543-2300, on the Internet at www.clcillinois.edu/tickets or by mail using the order form in the season brochure.

To request sign language interpreting for a Theatre Department production, call the Box Office at (847) 543-2300 at least two weeks in advance. For group sales information, call (847) 543-2431.