Schedule (events are ordered by start time)

Six teams comprised of Columbia's game design students: artists, sound designers, game developers, programmers, etc. battle head to head and compete for prizes as they attempt to create a playable video game in just 12 hours. Stop by anytime during Manifest to watch the process and chat with designers and join us at 7 p.m. when the teams present their games and you cast your vote for the winning team!

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View the work of Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist John Fischetti. The exhibit showcases Fischetti's political cartoons and sketches capturing his take on the Vietnam War. Held in conjunction with the Library's Big Read programming for the book, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the College's annual John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, the exhibit focuses on the US involvement in Vietnam from 1960 to 1975 and the various reactions to it in American culture.

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Vietnamese-American photographer Liat Smestad presents an exhibition of contemporary Vietnam through photographs in conjunction with The Big Read at Columbia College Chicago. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago.

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Presenting the work of Columbia College Chicago students, faculty, staff, and alumni, the Art in the Library program exhibits works in all forms of visual arts, including sculpture, painting, drawings, and paper and book arts.

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The Columbia College Chicago Library and the Office of Alumni Relations are pleased to present Necessary Fictions, an examination of memory and the ways that it shapes identity through artists' work.

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Presentations from Columbia's architectural studies students represent a final step in the year-long thesis process. Each student presents and defends his or her design resolution before a thesis panel. A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m.

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Columbia's Cultural Studies students demonstrate not only their rigorous engagement with cultural issue but also their political commitment to imagine a more humane world and to "author the culture of their times." The Forum is a great introduction to the ways in which Cultural Studies links theory and political practice.

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The Clothesline Project is a visual display that raises awareness about the issue of violence against women. This provocative display of T-shirts, decorated by survivors of violence, provides them an opportunity to break the silence and tell their stories.

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M.F.A. students from Columbia's Interdisciplinary Arts Department are featured in works combining installations, performance, and artists' books. The two-part exhibit is the final thesis exhibition for students receiving M.F.A. degrees in Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Arts and Interdisciplinary Arts & Media. Part of the Artwalk exhibition tour between 4 and 7 p.m on Manifest day.

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M.F.A. students from Columbia's Interdisciplinary Arts Department are featured in works combining installations, performance, and artists' books. The two-part exhibit is the final thesis exhibition for students receiving M.F.A. degrees in Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Arts and Interdisciplinary Arts & Media. Part of the Artwalk exhibition tour between 4 and 7 p.m on Manifest day.

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Experience sound installation art and audio art from sound art students in Audio Arts & Acoustics.

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Poetry performed by Columbia's graduating B.A. Poetry students alongside winners of the English Department's annual poetry contests.

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Graduating artists will be showcasing an interesting selection of works across Fine Art media ranging from painting, drawing, concept art, printmaking, and sculpture to new media and hybrid artforms. Art is available for sale.

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Columbia's Photography Department presents the work of over 120 graduating photography students. The exhibition opens May 2nd and closes May 20th. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday and over Commencement Weekend (May 13th & 14th). Part of the Artwalk exhibition tour between 4 and 7 p.m on Manifest day. Art is available for sale.

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The Music Department presents a variety student performances at Buddy Guy's Legends including the Gospel and Jazz/Pop Choirs; the Men's and Women's Choruses; the Pop Orchestra; and the Blues, Pop/Rock, and R&B ensembles all adding up to a day filled with music! Performance Schedule: Gospel Choir (11 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.), Jazz/Pop Choir (11:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.), Women's Chorus (Noon - 12:20 p.m.), Men's Chorus (12:30 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.), Pop Orchestra (1 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.), Blues Ensemble (1:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.), Pop Rock III (2 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.), Jazz Fusion (2:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.), R&B Ensemble (3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.), Recording and Performance Ensemble (3:30 p.m.)

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Graduating artists will be showcasing an interesting selection of works across Fine Art media ranging from painting, drawing, concept art, printmaking, and sculpture to new media and hybrid artforms. Art is available for sale.

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Learning to Learn features interdisciplinary work that showcases our Early Childhood Education program students' journey to become teachers and features course work, student teaching, and a study tour of the schools in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

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Columbia's Photography Department celebrates the work of candidates for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Photography. The exhibition closes June 11th. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Part of the Artwalk exhibition tour between 4 and 7 p.m on Manifest day. Art is available for sale.

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Get a free Manifest poster print! Watch Columbia's resident screenprinting experts from Anchor Graphics print limited edition 11" x 17" Manifest posters for guests of Manifest (while supplies last).

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This exhibit highlights the accomplishments of Columbia's Educational Studies' teacher candidates and their students during their experiences in Chicago Public Schools and the surrounding school districts during the spring 2011 semester.

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Comics cArt is a showcase of Columbia College Chicago graphic artists and illustrators. The cart will have printed graphic art for sale on a variety of media including (but not limited to) comics, minis, stickers, and prints. All work will be displayed on the mobile cArt system designed and created by Columbia College Chicago Product Design students Ethan Huber ('10), Joseph Willis ('10), and Michael Gies ('10). Part of the Artwalk exhibition tour between 4 and 7 p.m on Manifest day.

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Be one fo the first people to play the Warden of Ra'al, an immersive fantasy created by students graduating from Columbia's video game program. Part of the Artwalk exhibition tour between 4 and 7 p.m on Manifest day.

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Watch Columbia's top Journalism students, both graduate and undergraduate, share stories and experiences - from on the beat and in the streets - and show off the best work from the past year. Students will talk about covering campaigns, investigating potential wrongdoings, chasing down tough sources, creating multi-media packages, traveling to exotic and not-so-exotic places, submitting Freedom of Information Act requests, completing competitive internships, and, of course, getting stories published, produced, and on the air.

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ShopColumbia, Columbia's student art store, features original designs created and inspired by Columbia artists. Spanning all media and disciplines, ShopColumbia is defined by what Columbia students are making right now. Guests can also purchase limited edition 2011 Manifest shirts, hoodies, and bags at the shop, while supplies last. Part of the Artwalk exhibition tour between 4 and 7 p.m.

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Visitors will see and hear sample presentations of artistic, technical, and research work by students in Columbia's Live & Installed Sound and Acoustics programs of study.

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Interactive Arts and Media's graduating students present their interactive projects, immersive new media installations, and game-based arts. Part of the Artwalk exhibition tour between 4 and 7 p.m on Manifest day.

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Listen to original MIDI music compositions from Columbia's music students.

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The showcase features a presentation of student work from Columbia's B.F.A. in Interior Architecture program.

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Columbia's Art + Design Department features the work of their graduating B.A. students.

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Get your photo taken and become a part of the One Tribe collaborative campus-wide installation!

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Join Columbia's Fitness and Recreation (FAR) student leaders for some physical challenges and fun! Test your hoop skills as you are strapped into an armchair that bucks, bounces, and gyrates while you attempt to make baskets. Reach for the sky, feel the exhilaration, and meet the challenge of a 25-foot climbing wall!

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Chuppa? Ketubah? Hitched With Hillel dispels stereotypes about the traditional jewish wedding ceremony and how those traditions extend to your participation in any community. Stop by for your own quick traditional jewish wedding complete with costuming, ceremonial setting, photos, and marriage contract!

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The Combat Paper Project utilizes art-making workshops to assist veterans in reconciling and sharing their personal experiences as well as broadening the traditional narrative surrounding service and the military culture. Through papermaking, veterans use their uniforms worn in combat to create cathartic works of art. The uniforms are cut up, beaten into a pulp and formed into sheets of paper. Veterans use the transformative process of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to embrace their military experiences.

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Chalk lines are tallies; they are instructive. Kevin Valentine's Widowsweave is an interactive performance that invites everyone to join the artist to create a wall of three million lines on chalkboards, sidewalks, and buldings representing the vast number of recent widows in Iraq. Learn more about the project at Artistactivist.com.

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Set Your Mind to Africa invites you to participate, setting aside your everyday life for a few minutes to focus your positive energy towards those in need and on the injustices of the world. Sitting together as a group, blindfolded, quietly meditating, we will create a human map of Africa in a collaborate, interactive experience.

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In Michael John LaChiusa's musical adaptation of Federico García Lorca's 1936 tragedy of familial domination in provincial Spain, desire is a lightning rod that courses through ten women who are deprived of the chance to pursue what comes naturally.

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For No Sweat 2011, artists Michelle Graves, Mike St. John, Jenny Garnett, and Temple Cunningham activate their bodies by combining timed rigorous activities to produce marks on canvas in a sports-like atmosphere. Once completed, the artists will hold a press conference detailing their athletic art-making experience resulting in the final memorabilia installation.

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Experience the creations of the Theater Department's talented design, theatre technology, and directing students. Set models, renderings, costumes, lighting, installations, and interactive process projects are on display.

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Always a crowd favorite at Manifest, watch Columbia Theater students thrust and parry in the high energy event, Stage Combat!

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Leave 'em laughing! Students from Columbia's Second City program write and perform their own revue. Come see why Columbia College is one of the best schools for comedy and improv in the country.

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Do the parts of your body have a memory? If the Body Could Talk examines our physical nature in various environments and how it contributes to our emotional being. As we go through each moment, day by day, what would our scars - emotional and physical - say to those passing by?

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Design from Columbia's graduating graphic design, advertising art direction, and illustration students will be on display.

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Columbia's Film & Video students invite you to make a film! Screen tests and casting, directing, cinematography, post production editing, sound – you will experience filmmaking behind the scenes, and understand all that goes into the art of storytelling through film.

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Sit back and relax in the alumni lounge as you listen to fellow alumni performers sing, recite, dance, and play music. Be sure to check-in to receive your ticket to the graduation party (where we will initiate Columbia's newest alumni into the association). Alumni can also collect their own Manifest alumni t-shirt for a suggested donation of $15. Proceeds of donations $15 or more will benefit the Alumni Scholarship Fund.

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Join Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D, President of Columbia College Chicago and other Columbia luminaries as we kick off the 10th Annual Manifest Urban Arts Festival. The rally will feature a Hack Your Manifest T-shirt Contest, a preview of the Great Convergence, and Manifest's signature Hell Yeah Bubble Ceremony - a rite of passage for Columbia's students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni!

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This symposium presents original research and critical analysis of art and design from students in the Advanced Seminar in Art History course. A reception will follow in Hokin Gallery from 3 - 4 p.m.

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The Film Buff Buffet features screenings of some of the best film work created at Columbia this year and profiles many of our graduating students. Selections from the Film & Video Department's annual Big Screen, an annual juried student film festival, will be screened and guests will hear from many of Columbia's film students as they boil their four-year film education down to two minutes as part of a student profile segment we call Framework.

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See the exceptional work of Columbia's graduating Product Design students. A reception follows at 5 p.m.

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Frequency TV will be broadcasting Manifest LIVE! Check out the live coverage on screens around campus at www.colum.edu/manifest or www.FrequencyTV.com!

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DaNotra Harris a.k.a Mz. Notra is a 24 year old songstress effortlessly balancing jazz, soul, pop, gospel, the blues and r&b.

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Eighth graders are storming the stage at Columbia College Chicago! Columbia Theatre students have been practicing their teaching artistry skills in collaboration with the Perspectives IIT Charter School. Through improv, original songs, and collaborative writing, these students share their work, telling stories that will surprise you!

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Brandun DeShay a.k.a. brandUn DeShay is an American hip hop artist and record producer.

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Columbia's graduate student community brings you an interactive, interdisciplinary installation which combines a familiar game of miniature golf with an ethereal maze of curiosities. Participants putt their way through an amusing, provocative, and surreal world imagined and brought to life by the most sophisticated creative talent at the college.

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Poetry performed by Columbia's graduating M.F.A. Poetry students as they read from their final graduate theses. Winners of the English Department's annual poetry contests also read.

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Katz Company's new EP The Surgery Sessions exapnds upon the band's signature sound, which they've dubbed Variety Pop; a mix of pop, rock, hip-hop, and R&B.

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Clouds. Puffy, voluminous, elaborately dressed clouds spreading joy, color, and prettiness throughout the day and across campus challenging everyone to join in and do the same.

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Launch is both a fashion show and a fashion industry showcase. It captures the dynamic spirit of contemporary fashion. Launch is the culmination of our Fashion Studies students' careers at Columbia, highlighting their work in both the design and business side of the industry.

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Radio students at WCRX, 88.1FM host a live program promoting volunteerism and community involvement. The broadcast will feature interviews with community leaders, students, and individuals who exemplify the spirit of volunteerism and public service. Listen to live coverage at wcrx.net | 88.1FM and stop by the broadcast and join our studio audience!

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Featuring street theatre, music, ritual and fire, the Maze Between Times offers Manifest audiences an ethereal passage between this year and the next. A guided meditation on liminality, the labyrinth allows it's guests to let go of their concerns, release their memories, and renew their hopes.

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Columbia's Audio Drama Club presents a live audio drama written, directed, and preformed by Columbia students.

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Camouflage investigates the strong evolutionary pressure for animals to blend into their environment or conceal their shape; for prey animals to avoid predators and for predators to be able to sneak up on prey.

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In the winter of 1925, a 37-year-old Kentuckian looking for the perfect cave got trapped in a cleft in the rock 150 feet underground. Collins' rescue attempts were front-page news for weeks, and the dawning of a world that makes sound bites out of human tragedy.

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Students from Columbia's Comedy Workshop course present an original sketch comedy revue full of music, mayhem, and massive amounts of ridiculousness.

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Singer Amanda McQueen will perform an acoustic cover of Lady Gaga's You and I.

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Columbia favorites Joseph and Erik Duemig, a.k.a. The Window Theatre perform original folk / pop songs from their recent album Away.

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Balancing between ethereal and dark and sweet and soulful, sometimes even strikingly righteous, Project Film is a mostly-happy-but-on-occasion-a-little-grim indie-pop band that makes music about skinny jeans, drug trafficking, and the intransigence of Minneapolis, MN.

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Kid Sid brings his high energy stage presence and original indie-pop creations to Manifest 2011.

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Every semester we showcase and celebrate the fantastic work of the TV Department's advanced productions. The program includes clips from our sketch comedy show Out on a Limb, our remote production Chicago Live, our live news program Newsbeat, the webisode Ghost Killerz, and other productions from Columbia's student-run Frequency TV.

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Columbia's graduating choreographers and performers showcase a wide range of dance styles, form, and talents.

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Enjoy this explosion of synchronized sound and movement. Share in the exhilaration of Columbia's Musical Theatre dance students tap dancing away on the Getz Stage.

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Celebrate with the 2011 graduates of the Fiction Writing Department's B.A., B.F.A., and M.F.A. programs as they read from their novels, short stories, creative nonfiction essays, and plays.

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Students from Columbia's ASL-English Interpretation program present the musical The Wiz! Cast will interpret the spoken dialogue into American Sign Language (ASL) during the movie along with choreographed dance routines.

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Come see Columbia's Musical Theatre collective perform their original project, Songs from an Unmade Bed.

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Current, honest, unpredictable, shockingly personal. Come hear real stories from real people; 12 original monologues written and performed by students in the Theater Department's Solo Performance Class.

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Columbia's favorite hip-hop artist / producer Orie performs tracks from his album What a Black Man Wants.

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Originally devised as a way to improve A+D Shop student worker tool skills, the A+D Derby has since evolved into a 32 car, 48 foot-long demolition derby meets pine wood derby meets parade float fiasco. Join us as student workers from throughout the Art and Design Department battle A+D staff in head-to-head competition for bragging rights and a chance to hold the coveted Wideroe Cup.

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The Squad's music has an unquestionably distinctive sound and possesses a healthy blend of consciousness that hip-hop fans and music lovers can respect, enjoy, and party to.

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Taking Park City is 26-minute documentary that follows the journey of two Columbia College Chicago film alumni, Norman Franklin ('10) & Tanya Savard ('10), as they navigate the terrain of the entertainment industry and prepare for their films to screen at the Sundance Film Festival. Part of Film Buff Buffet showcase.

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Catch the next generation of Columbia's Musical Theatre freshmen perform an original revue!

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Chicago folk / rock artist Peter Oyloe pays tribute to rock legens with a thoroughly modern and singular sound.

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Catch the next generation of Columbia's Musical Theatre freshmen perform an original revue!

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Indie folk artist JT Royster brings haunting guitar and intimate lyrics to Manifest this year.

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Catch some of Columbia's best unplugged artists at the Acoustic Kitchen featuring Bryn Mawr, Hanna Ashbrook, The Extras, Max Clarke, Carl Horne, Jeff Baker, and Eli Taber. Sponsored by Columbia's Alumni Association Network (CAAN).

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Doctor Ed & Friends is a nine-piece reggae influenced funk/rock band whose influences include Galactic, The Derek Trucks Band, Lettuce, Sly & the Family Stone, and Thievery Corporation among others.

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Maltby and Shire's fantastic revue, Closer than Ever, is performed by the Theatre Department's first-year students.

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What Lies Between? represents a two-year process for our graduate students in Dance Movement Therapy, a process of finding themselves and of discovering the beauty that lies between their relationships with one another. A world of compassion synthesized into a moment; explored, then danced.

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Students from Columbia's Body I and Body II dance classes take their physical practice to the stage.

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Readings by Columbia's graduating B.A. Nonfiction students.

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Hip-hop artist Ion brings a lyrical emphasis and an eclectic mix of musical influences into his signature sound.

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Leave 'em laughing! Students from Columbia's Second City program write and perform their own revue. Come see why Columbia College is one of the best schools for comedy and improv in the country.

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Final Fight Family hip-hop artists J. Smith, Que, and The Avantist bring their genre-expanding, finely-tuned sounds to the NextUp Stage at Manifest this year.

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Influenced by Bayside, Alkaline Trio, Rise Against, Foo Fighters, and Green Day, They Face Reaction is a Brazil-born punk rock band of four.

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David and Kevin combine synth sounds, pop orchestration, and pithy lyrics for a unique, fun, audience-friendly show.

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Columbia's 3CVJE, our Columbia College Jazz Ensemble, and special guest Ira Sullivan present arrangements by Clare Fischer, Darmon Meader of New York Voices, and others. One of the legends of the bebop era, Ira Sullivan is as animated, worldly, and versatile in conversation as he is on a vast range of wind instruments.

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They Question Themselves is an interdisciplinary exploration of movement, sound and ink drawings made in real time. The performance incorporates text from, Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke, which are utilized on the canvas and as a springboard for movement invention.

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Boom Goes The Globe is a dance-rock experience. The live astronaut DJ/percussion group pushes boundaries, arranging new spheres in dance-wave space.

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What would west coast pop art experimentalism sound like filtered through an industrial midwest prism? No clue, but perhaps Secret Colours can shine some light on that. The newly minted Chicago quintet channels the finest '60s psychedelia, '90s newgaze reverence, and a touch of driving, bucolic, no frills RnR straight from the greasiest of garages.

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A Blurred City Sight's captivating lyrics, catchy melodies, and layered guitars bring a unique brand of energy and emotion to Manifest.

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Students from Columbia's Film & Video advanced practicum course in partnership with students from Art + Design, Music, Photography, and Fashion Studies collaborate across the phases of development, production, post-production, and exhibition. Join us for a sneak preview of the latest round of Practicum Films. Audience members will provide feedback to the filmmakers as they test screen their latest work, Hollywood-style.

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Jeffrey Baker and Justin Miller a.k.a. Letters From Us bring their pop / punk sound to Manifest this year.

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Columbia's diversity council presents a unique mix of cultural celebrations based on the experiences and traditions of our African American, Latino, Asian, International, and LGBTQA students. The Multicultural Affairs (MCA) student organizations will collaborate on a showcase of poetry, song, dance, music, and art. Be among the first to meet our newly selected One Tribe scholars and honor the achievements of our graduating seniors. A special shout-out and invitation to MCA alumni - please join the celebration!

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Rising stars Carbon Tigers will play Manifest this year fresh off being named the 2011 Biggest Mouth grand prize winners, the 2010 AT&T College Battle Of The Bands champions, and the release of their debut EP, The Burrows. The band has opened for international and touring acts such as Biffy Clyro, The Cool Kids, Maritime and Kilimanjaro.

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Artists Liz Wuerffel, Elizabeth Czekner, and Bridget Kies present a performance of socially active art-making. May Day Memorial: A Tribute to Michael Piazza asks the public to join in recreating public statues. Using their bodies to express the details of figurative monuments which memorialize the struggle for workers' rights, the live sculpture changes over the course of several hours.

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Marketing Communication students will present their culminating projects using both traditional and social media to support social, cultural, and business issues. Guests will be introduced to the Marketing Communication Department scholars including the Patricia McCarty Scholar, the Howard Mendelsohn Scholar, the winner of the Media Plan Award, the Internship Awardees, and the winner of the Strategic Partner Award. Guests can also watch the National Student Advertising Competition team defend their first place title!

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The Radio Department presents an awards ceremony and showcase of student work in the areas of production, news, talent, public affairs, radio theatre, and documentary.

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Join us for a final reception with our graduating students, alumni, and faculty. Every semester we showcase and celebrate the fantastic work of the TV Department's advanced productions. The program includes clips from our sketch comedy show Out on a Limb, our remote production Chicago Live, our live news program Newsbeat, the webisode Ghost Killerz, and other productions from Columbia's student-run Frequency TV.

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A fusion of orginial pop, jazz, and rap, Fighter is a multi-facted musical collective.

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The Audio Arts & Acoustics department recognizes the efforts and achievements of their 2011 graduating students including this year's scholarship recipients and student Grammy winners.

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Vocalist Morgen Hare gets crowds on their feet with a high energy show made for live audiences.

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Jip Jop fuses jazz and hip-hop. Irreverent vocals inject energy and flow, horns glide across colorful melodies, and a rhythm section provides a powerful hip-­hop foundation, making for an infectious energy and danceable-grooves.

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Sharing both wit and knowledge, Francis Shervinski a.k.a. Francis A.D. falls somewhere between spoken word and hip-hop.

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Columbia's Young Alumni Committee welcomes all alumni who have graduated in the past decade to help us celebrate a decade of Manifest! Students graduating this May are invited to join us as we pre-party at Jimmy Green's just before the Graduation Party.

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Singer / songwriter Lucas Walker James carries a little of his South Texas roots in each song.

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Overnight Fire is a pop / rock / rhythm & blues band influenced by a wide variety of genres from funk and rock to gospel and hip-hop.

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KJ Johnson: Exploring psychology and interpersonal relationships through rock! With a few covers thrown in for good measure.

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Catch the animated films made by Columbia's graduating animation students, hear them discuss the process behind their craft, and see the work in its pre-cinema form. Animation Production Studio is the senior capstone experience of the Animation Program in the Film & Video Department in which students create an animated film from concept through presentation.

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Follow the Manifest Emissaries and Columbia's 2011 Honorary Degree Recipients as they lead you to Manifest's culminating experience, The Great Convergence and the second annual raising of the Manifest star. The Convergence will be an enigmatic and magical concoction of opera, spectacle, ritual, and grace created by Columbia students and faculty in partnership with Redmoon Theater.

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Listen to original compositions from Columbia's graduating music composition students.

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If you're graduating, we're buying the drinks. Join us just after Manifest's closing ceremony, The Great Convergence, to help us celebrate .. you! Columbia's faculty, staff, and alumni will be there to say congratulations and initiate you as new Columbia Alumni. The party, hosted in the International Ballroom at the Hilton Chicago will feature live music, DJs, great food, cocktails, and a formal toast to you and your fellow graduates. IDs are required so we can verify you are graduating and to receive two complimentary drink tickets (to drink you must be 21+). Graduates are allowed to bring one guest.

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The annual concert is a presentation of students completing Columbia's B.F.A. in Dancemaking.

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Chicago's own chamber pop collective The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir brings the Manifest headliner tradition back to life, closing out the 2011 Manifest festival with their signature folk'n'fanfare sound.

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