Hello Beautiful! ties in with Chicago Matters this week and talks immigration with “Hello!” Fello Shawn Douglass.

Guest host Richard Steele speaks with Douglass about the Remy Bumppo Theater’s thinkTank, a series pairing theatrical performances on immigration with live post-event conversations.

Richard and Shawn will also: experience the multimedia installation opera God’s Punk currently at the Hyde Park Art Center; listen to the results of a marriage between the French Melodie of writer Gabriel Faure and Modern American Jazz; and hear from Jonathan Miller, who is curating a project on the trappings we create from the mundane to the mandatory.

Plus, is Chicago leading the next generation of artists? We’ll hear the music of two high school students from Chicago Academy for the Arts who performed this weekend at the Kennedy Center in honor of the school’s national recognition for arts education.