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Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-Childrens-Humanities-Festival.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/23/2006 Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival Transcript For the next two weeks in Chicago, something extraordinary is happening: the Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival. From October 28th through November 12th, the city will be alive with cultural events for children and families — performances and exhibitions, […]

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Chicago Children’s Humanities/Film Festivals

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-City-of-Festivals-for-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/28/2005 Chicago Children’s Humanities/Film Festivals Transcript This time of year, the center for children’s culture in this country always moves to Chicago, where the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and the Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival both begin this weekend. This year marks the 22nd […]

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Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-Humanities-Festival.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/24/2003 Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival Transcript The other good reason to be in Chicago with your children over the next two weeks is the city’s Children’s Humanities Festival, which begins this weekend with the presentation of the Chicago Tribune’s Young Adult Book Prize. This […]

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Neil Gaiman

That’s Neil Gaiman reading from his newly published dark fantasy for young people, Coraline, as the young heroine of the story begins her journey, as so many fantasies start, by crossing the threshold into another place.

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Beauty

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Beauty.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/24/2002 Beauty Transcript Along with Brains, Beauty is the other half of the theme of this year’s Chicago Children’s Festival. How these two qualities, smarts and good looks, ever got separated in our cultural life is a real puzzle, but we all know that it […]

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The Chicago Humanities Festival

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-Humanities-Festival-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/21/2002 The Chicago Humanities Festival Transcript One of the truly exciting celebrations of the work that is produced for and by children and young people will be taking place in Chicago over the next two weeks. It’s the Children’s Festival which runs in schools […]

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