WorldChicago Annual Meeting & Holiday Party
"Around the World with WorldChicago & the Chicago Photography Center"
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
6:00-8:00pm
Chicago Photography Center, 3301 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657
Celebrate the holidays with an international photography exhibit representing photos from local and international photographers. The exhibit will include photos from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Enjoy a Mediterranean buffet dinner and international wine with WorldChicago and Chicago Photography Center members and friends.
"In selecting the work for this exhibition I wanted to find a unique voice or vision of each photographer while also creating a show that is cohesive and works as a whole. Although the theme of the exhibition could have led to distinctive landscapes, cityscapes or other iconography as the focal points of images, I felt strongly that, with our current world events, it was the people I wanted to emphasize. These artists have succeeded in taking us on a visual journey where they are exploring their own cultural curiosity, finding wonder and amazement in the scenes they witness, and mapping a path through an artistic documentation of what they have found." - Curator, Jeff Stevenson, Gallery Director, Governors State University
We will also delight in a special slideshow presentation by WorldChicago volunteers traveling through Japan, Taiwan and Vladivostok, Russia, this fall.
Cost and Registration: $30.00 per person
WorldChicago Coffee Conversations Series
"The Workplace: Chicago & Shanghai"
Friday, December 7, 2012
8:30-9:30am
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street
5th Floor, Millennium Park Room
Chicago, IL 60602
WorldChicago will host a public forum for 8 rising business leaders from Shanghai, China, who are here in Chicago on a two-month program until early December participating in internships with local companies in the fields of human resources, airport management and real estate. Their program is coordinated by WorldChicago in cooperation with the Shanghai Economic Management College and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shanghai Municipal Government. Our delegates will speak about the similarities and differences in the workplace in Chicago and Shanghai. Join us to hear about their experiences and to bid them farewell as this will be their last full day in Chicago!
Q & A to follow. Continental breakfast will be provided.
Cost & Registration: WorldChicago members, free
Members, contact Lexy Gore to register at (312) 254-1800 x103 or Lgore@worldchicago.org