Public Events: Arts and Lecture Series

Hop aboard a musical time machine and experience the movies like you’ve never seen them before! The Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra, hailed as “the premier American ragtime ensemble”, will bring tears of laughter to your eyes as you laugh out loud to holiday themed silent films of yesteryear including the first-ever film adaptations of A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas, all accompanied live with their original historic orchestral scores.

Paleontologist Paul Sereno returns to Fermilab to discuss his recent work.

Award winning piano trio on its US debut tour!

Chicago's original brass quintet performs a variety of classical and light favorites.

Tom Crean (1877-1938) the intrepid Antarctic explorer and one of Ireland’s unsung heroes is brought to life in this dramatic and humorous solo performance by Aidan Dooley.  Hear the riveting true stories of Crean’s Antarctic explorations as one of the few men to serve with both Scott and Shackleton and survive three famous expeditions: Discovery, (1901 – 1904); Terra Nova (1910 – 1913); and Endurance (1914 – 1916).

More information to come soon, but here is an article on the topic...  Make it an icy combo - Purchase tickets for this lecture as well as the one-man play -  Tom Crean:  Antarctic Explorer and save 20% on the play.  Call 630/840.ARTS to take advantage of this  cool offer. Dr. Bradford Benson is senior... More »

“Music that’s brimming with energy and creative zeal.” – Irish Music Magazine

Recent breakthroughs in fiber material and fabric  processing allow us to design and produce fibers and fabrics that see, hear, sense, communicate, store and convert energy, regulate temperature, monitor health, and change color. The basis for these new fabric capabilities are fibers that contain semiconductor devices  have made it into the fibers themselves, setting the stage for a “Moore’s law” in fibers. The new fiber materials enable visually inconspicuous yet highly functional capabilities in fabrics.

Tickets available soon! From New York City, the ensemble features the best and brightest of classical music's rising stars drawn from many of the nation's major music schools including Juilliard, Curtis, and Yale. Frisson showcases a myriad of rarely-performed masterworks. Listen and enjoy as Frisson expands and contracts into a variety of ensembles, including quintets,... More »

“Something wickedly funny this way comes” – The New York Times

Hey hey, it is Micky Dolenz of the Monkees! As a special treat, he'll be sharing some of his home videos of early Fermilab taken during the lab's construction, at the height of Monkee-mania.