Welcome, Mother Jones In the Mix readers, to the online home of the Chicago Humanities Festival! At CHF, we create opportunities for people of all ages to support, enjoy, and explore the humanities. As part of this mission, we make talks, ideas, and presentations available as audio and video right here on our web site. We have more than 200 pieces of content available for you to stream for free, right now, representing the best and brightest our festivals have had to offer for over 20 years.
In the Mix is a digest of education, music, culture, arts, and more. For your first visit to our site, we’ve assembled a sampler platter of our own education and culture content. Kick back and take a few minutes to browse our CHF mix:
Top 6 CHF Talks for In the Mix readers:
- Path-breaking comedian and civil rights advocate Dick Gregory on race, comedy, and justice in “The Color of Funny”
- The shape-shifting, mind-boggling performance artist and Tony Award-winner Sarah Jones in a one-woman performance, only at CHF
- Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Toni Morrison on racism, gender relations, the writing process, and how she identifies with characters as a reader and a writer
- Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tony Kushner on coming of age, writing, fame, and the shortcomings of our government
- Scientist-turned novelist E.O. Wilson on Anthill, his first, at 81 years of age; and writer Rebecca Skloot on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,which tells the story of the development of the first immortal cell line
- Rhodes Scholar and National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol on the rapidly-increasing segregation and the gross inequities of urban schools
This six-item list only scratches the surface of our cultural content. We encourage you to dive more deeply into our site, using the genre categories near the top of our site or the “similar features” recommendations on each piece of CHF content. Enjoy your time “in the mix” here at CHF.
