DISTRICT 15
A session for all district students, area residents and staff will be hosted by the Communications Committee at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Winston Campus, 900 E. Palatine Rd., Palatine. Topics will include improving communication with parents, staff and residents; a Financial Report Card; and two new initiatives on an out-of-level math program for the elementary grades and Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP, testing. Call June Becker at 847-963-3208.
DISTRICT U-46
The annual “Mostaccioli Melodies,” sponsored by the Friends of Music and the music department, will feature a blend of band, choir and orchestra numbers served with a hot meal at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Elgin High School library, 1200 Maroon Drive. Tickets cost $13 for adults, $10 for students and seniors. All profits will benefit the school’s music program. Call 847-888-5100.
The Marching Band will present its annual Band-O-Rama concert at 7 p.m. Thursday in Streamwood High School, 701 W. Schaumburg Rd. Admission is $1 per student, $2 per adult and $6 per family. Call 630-213-5500.
The 8th grade students will present “The Knights of the Rad Table” at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in Tefft Middle School, 1100 Shirley Ave., Streamwood. Admission is $3. Call 630-213-5535.
Students from Harriet Gifford School in Elgin will perform “Oklahoma” at 7 p.m. Thursday in Larkin High School, 1475 Larkin Ave., Elgin. Call 847-888-5195.
DISTRICT 54
The District 54 Senior Volunteer Program will present an overview at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Schaumburg Township District Library, 130 S. Roselle Rd., Schaumburg. The goal of the program is to identify the talents of seniors and match those talents to the needs of students and schools. Volunteers can specify the days and hours they work, and may select a particular school in the district. Call the office at 847-537-5047 or e-mail samburgdorff@sd54.org; or call Diana Peters at 847-357-5031 or e-mail dianapeters@sd54.org.
DISTRICT 214
The choral department will present a concert featuring all of the choral ensembles at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hersey High School, 1900 E. Thomas St., Arlington Heights. Admission is $3. Call 847-718-4884.
Neil Simon’s comedy “Rumors” will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday in Rolling Meadows High School, 2901 W. Central Rd. Tickets cost $5. Call 847-718-5675.
An open house will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday in a single-family residence designed by students in the District 214 Advanced Architectural Drafting/CAD classes and constructed by students in the Practical Architectural Construction program. The house is at 261 9th St., north of Dundee Road in Wheeling. Funds from the sale of student-built homes are used to support the PAC program. Call Jeff Jerdee at 847-718-7669.
A Halloween “Blackout” mixer sponsored by the freshman and sophomore classes along with the Students Against Destructive Decisions, or SADD, will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday in Buffalo Grove High School, 1100 W. Dundee Rd. There will be a costume contest and a deejay. Admission is $5 with school ID. Call 847-718-4000.
The District 214 Honors Orchestra will perform a free show at 3 p.m. Sunday in Buffalo Grove High School, 1100 W. Dundee Rd. Call 847-718-4047.
“The British are Coming!,” the Hersey High School choral department’s annual luncheon and fashion show, will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 4 in Cotillion Ballroom, 360 S. Creekside Drive, Palatine. Students will model fashions and perform music by popular British recording artists. A silent auction and raffle also will be held. Raffle tickets cost $2 or six for $10. Tickets for the luncheon and show cost $38 or $350 for a table of 10. Reservations are due Monday. Call Carrie Hagen at 847-392-0175.
Fusion, the student-produced performance art project, will present “No Flash Photography,” an evening of photos, frames and fun at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday in Wheeling High School, 900 S. Elmhurst Rd. Tickets cost $5. Call 847-718-7000.
DISTRICT 220
“Dancing with the Stars,” featuring teachers and staff partnering with members of the Orchesis Dance Company, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Barrington High School, 616 W. Main St. Tickets cost $5 and include one voting star. Each additional voting star costs $1. Tickets will be available at the door. Call the fine arts department at 847-842-3214.
HARPER COLLEGE
Professor Trygve Thoreson will present “Once More to Walden,” a free video travelogue and lecture on his trip to Thoreau’s Walden Pond, as part of the Liberal Arts Faculty Lecture series at 7 p.m. Thursday in the college’s Black Box Theater, Room L109, 1200 W. Algonquin Rd., Palatine. Call 847-925-6285.
HARVARD
The 11th annual Black & Gold Ball, sponsored by the Harvard Community Education Foundation, will be held at 5 p.m. Nov. 10 in Cliffbreakers River Suites & Convention Center, 100 W. Riverside Blvd., Rockford. There will be dancing and silent and live auctions with guest auctioneer Orion Samuelson of WGN-AM 720. Tickets cost $65. The event is a fundraiser for the foundation, which provides scholarships to Harvard students and small grants to Harvard teachers. Reservations are due Monday. Call Linnea Kooistra at 815-648-2900 or Dr. Jacklyn Crosby at 815-943-7567.
MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE
The anti-war comedy “Lysistrata” will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays through Nov. 10 in the college’s Black Box Theatre, Room B167, 8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake. Tickets cost $10 and $5 for students, faculty, staff, seniors and alumni. Discussion will follow the performances on Friday and Nov. 1. Adult language and themes. For reservations, call 815-455-8746 or e-mail jgeller@mchenry.edu.
OAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
An opening artists’ reception for “Symbolism, Myth and Ritual,” a free juried art exhibit to kick off the Women’s Festival of the Arts, will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the college’s Koehnline Museum of Art, 1600 E. Golf Rd., Des Plaines. The exhibit will run through Nov. 9. Call 847-376-7061.
A preview performance of “The Adding Machine,” a cult drama foreshadowing the dehumanizing effects of a greedy techno-culture, will be staged at 8 p.m. Thursday in the college’s Footlik Theater, 1600 E. Golf Rd., Des Plaines. Tickets for the preview cost $5. Regular performances will be at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 4, and at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1. A discussion will follow the Nov. 4 performance. Tickets cost $12, $10 for students and seniors and $6 for groups of 15 or more. Call the box office at 847-635-1900.
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