Community Corner
Ben Gest: Commissure
from:Hyde Park Art CenterNarratives of couples and individuals in domestic settings and in contemplative and slightly unsettled moments are emblematic of Ben Gest’s interests in the complexity of a...
Read more...Not Just Another Pretty Face
from:Hyde Park Art CenterThis year’s Not Just Another Pretty Face has created an interesting, accessible, and personal way to participate in collecting contemporary art as well as an opportunity to...
Read more...October Is Illinois AH! Month
from:Illinois Humanities CouncilThe Illinois Humanities Council and the Illinois Arts Council are proud to present Illinois Arts and Humanities (AH!) Month. a statewide celebration encouraging all Illinoisans to...
Read more...The Emergence Project
from:Hyde Park Art CenterArtists Daniel Sauter and Mark Herald create a computer-generated artwork produced in real-time by a live-feed to the Chicago Humanities Festival. The digital projection explores...
Read more...Glow: Work By Photographers On Faculty
from:Hyde Park Art CenterGlow, focuses on how the work by Ollie Danzler, Adam Ekberg, Katharine Lion, Krystal Meisel and Anna Ressman focus on light in both a metaphorical and technical sense. While the...
Read more...CAF Calendar For September - October - November 2008
from:Chicago Architecture Foundation
New This Season - Boom Towns! Chicago Architects Design New Worlds–Exhibition explores similarities and differences of boom conditions in two different centuries and two...
Shanghai Transforming
from:Chicago Architecture FoundationShanghai Transforming will engage audiences in discussion about the rapidly evolving landscape of China’s second largest city. The exhibition captures a snapshot of a city in...
Read more...Boom Towns! Chicago Architects Design New Worlds
from:Chicago Architecture Foundation
The exhibition explores similarities and differences in the architectural responses to boom conditions in two centuries and cities. Free and open daily, the exhibition includes...
EarthTalk: The scoop on recycling container lids, tops and caps
from:EarthTalkDear EarthTalk: Everyone knows we should recycle metal, glass and plastic cans and bottles, but what about all the lids, tops and caps? I see people recycling plastic...
Read more...Women Of Influence - Graceland Cemetery Tour
from:Chicago Architecture FoundationNew Tour Identifies the Women Behind the Scenes
Chicago, IL- During Chicago’s explosive growth in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, women played an influential...
Joel Peter Witkin In Chicago
from:Catherine Edelman Gallery
We hope you can join us and Joel-Peter Witkin on Friday, September 5, from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m, for the opening of his one-person show, Poetic Realism, at Catherine Edelman Gallery....
Catherine Forster: They Call Me Theirs
from:Hyde Park Art CenterA new multi-media installation by Catherine Forster titled They Call Me Theirs, addressing man’s desire to mediate the natural environment through technology.They Call Me Theirs...
Read more...Weekend Activities in and around Chicago
Give yourself a Time Out this week and treat yourself to a day out on the town. Whether you're in the mood to do some shopping, house hunting, catch a movie or just enjoy the...
2 comments Read more...Monica Herrera: Strings
from:Hyde Park Art CenterMónica Herrera’s interactive sound installation, Strings turns the Cleve Carney Gallery into a temporary, walk-in instrument. Strings from various found instruments will be...
Read more...Are We There Yet?
from:Hyde Park Art CenterAre We There Yet?, a group exhibition of photo- and video-based work curated by photographer Dawoud Bey, examines the ways in which a shifting sense of place is visualized through...
Read more...Illinois e-News Summaries week of 8/25/2008
08/26/08 - Stories like Lincoln used to tell
SPRINGFIELD – A third annual event in the downtown Springfield...
Metro Presents Read Against Recession with Irvine Welsh
from:Metro ChicagoAre your pockets empty and your checkbook made of rubber? Just because the economy is going into a nosedive, that doesn’t mean your weekends have to! Metro’s popular new...
Read more...Free Soup, Register To Vote And The World Urban Agriculture Charter At Hull-House Museum
from:Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Hull-House Kitchen: Rethinking Soup
The Democrats and the Republicans launch their conventions beginning this next
week and so bring people for free, delicious...
Strata: Sculptural Fiber By Michelle Sales
from:Vale Craft GalleryThe exhibition will feature Chicago artist Michelle Sales’ innovative wall pieces and sculptural objects made from hand-dyed and stitched synthetic fabric. The artist...
Read more...Fall Back Into Theater At The Greenhouse
from:Victory Gardens Theater
Greenhouse Theater To Host Free Open House
Chicago, IL – Summer is coming to a close and what better way to get
acquainted with this autumn’s hot shows...
Amadeus
from:Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Eighteenth-century Vienna is the setting, and two popular artists of the day are the protagonists in this award-winning drama based on the music and intertwining lives of the...
Art Of Democracy
from:Loyola University Museum of Art
The exhibition, timed to coincide with the 2008 Presidential election, displays works by 60 printmakers whose art is concerned with democracy, social activism and political...
William Petersen to Star in Blackbird to Close Victory Gardens' 2008/09 Season
from:Victory Gardens TheaterHTML clipboard
Chicago - Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago's #1 presenter of new work,
announced today it will present the Midwest premiere of British playwright...
Caf’s Architecture River Cruise Turns 25
from:Chicago Architecture FoundationChicago Architecture Foundation’s Invention Keeps Cruising
Chicago, IL - The official Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) architecture river cruise season is in its...
Apple Picking Orchards and Apple Farms Guide for Chicago, Illinois
Apple Picking Resource Guide - go Apple picking in Chicago, Illinois!
Want a unique, fun activity for fall in the Chicago, IL area?...
Premier Basketball League Welcomes Battle Creek Knights
Chicago, Illinois - The Premier Basketball League (PBL) announced that the Battle Creek Knights, headed by ownership group LN King Entertainment LLC, have been accepted into the...
Read more...Symphony In Waves
from:The Chicago Classical Recording FoundationGrant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Cedille Records CDR 90000 105
The newest disc from Carlos Kalmar and the acclaimed Grant Park Orchestra...
Marcelle McVay to Depart Victory Gardens in Fall
from:Victory Gardens TheaterCHICAGO,IL---The Board of Directors of Victory Gardens Theater announces the departure of its long-time Managing Director, Marcelle McVay.
McVay has been with Victory...
Announcing New Friends Of IHC Club And Other News
from:Illinois Humanities CouncilBecome a Friend of IHC
The Illinois Humanities Council is pleased to announce its new giving club, Friends of IHC. This is a dedicated group of supporters who make an...
This Week at HPAC: Cocktails and Clay, Second Sundays and TalkingPoint
from:Hyde Park Art Center
Sign Up For Mini Camps!
Summer may be almost over but
there is still time to go to Creativity Camp! Spaces are available in the
following camps:
- Session 5...
Yokohama-e: 19th-Century Prints Of Americans In Japan
from:Art Institute Of Chicago
Featuring works from the rarely seen Yokohama-e (Pictures of Yokohama) collection of Emily Crane Chadbourne given to the museum in 1926, this exhibition of 30 prints includes...
Apply For NEH's Picturing America And Other IHC Resources
from:Illinois Humanities CouncilHTML clipboard
Apply today for Picturing America in 2009
Supplemental resources also available from the IHC
The National Endowment for the Humanities is...
Cancel Out Cancer At Metro August
from:Metro Chicago
A Benefit for The American Brain Tumor Association. Chicago’s own Treaty of Paris will headline, and Quietdrive, Company of Thieves, House of Heroes and Scott Sweeny will also...
An Evening With Robin Williams: Weapons Of Self-Destruction
from:The Chicago Theatre
Comedy Tour is Williams’ First in Six Years!
This fall, award-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams will embark on his first U.S. stand-up comedy tour since...
Chi-Town Daily News August Newsletter
It's been a busy couple of months here at the Daily News. We've seen readership double since the beginning of the year, and we're now working with more than five dozen volunteer...
Forgotten Roots: Muslims In Early America Through The 20th Century
from:DuSable Museum of African American History
Forgotten Roots: Muslims in Early America Through the 20th Century examines the history of America through her Islamic lens. The first of its kind to do so, this exhibition...
Light From Inside: Art From Illinois Prisons
from:Chicago Cultural Center
The John Howard Association, the only state-wide organization dedicated to providing public oversight of correctional facilities in Illinois, presents an exhibition of paintings...
Bringing China to Our Children
Bringing China to Our Children
The Beijing Summer Olympics will start on August 8th and will in many ways mark China’s introduction to the entire world as...
The ABCs of Search Engine Optimization: 26 Terms You Need To Know
The search engine optimization
and online marketing industries have a lot of jargon - some of which
actually has meaning, some of which is mostly buzzwords thrown around
by...
Sun, Sand and Splash Spell Summer Fun in Illinois!
Nothing says "summer" like spending time by the water. Sure, you could just flop on a towel and leave it at that…but why not make the most of your day in the...
1 comment Read more...51st Annual Venetian Night
Approximately 35 boats will be decorated with lights and props as
they sail along beautiful Lake Michigan, between the Shedd Aquarium at
Roosevelt Road and the Chicago Yacht...
Back to School for Chicago - Bus Schedules, Lunch Menus, School Supplies and more
Hey, Chicago! Forget the pencils and backpacks: time to gather up school supplies of a different kind! Start the schoolyear off right - and with more sanity - with the...
Read more...New Guided Tours
from:Museum Of Science And IndustryAs a part of our 75th Anniversary celebration, the Museum of Science and Industry is now offering special guided tours. All tours include general admission to the Museum. Tickets...
Read more...Summer On Southport
A unique event this July in Chicago and includes the 7th Annual Chicago
Children’s Festival. Southport gives attendees a delicious, eclectic mixture of
the culinary,...
How to have soft, clean, fluffy rugs.
How to have soft, fluffy, Clean rugs ?
by Master Weaver, Manuchair bastani
Finally, heres the answer to beautiful Persian/ Navajo rugs and carpets. Vacumming alone...
The (Even Greater) Outdoors: Get Out There!
In an age where we spend our days hooked up to Bluetooths, broadband and Blackberries, spending a little time in Nature is even more important to our sanity.Slowing...
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Beck Announces Chicago Shows
BECK With very special guests MGMT Modern Guilt Tour 2008
Beck has announced a series of US tour dates to follow his previously announced summer festival appearances. The...
A letter from the League of Chicago Theatres
from:League of Chicago TheatresDear Chicago Theater Supporter:
I am writing to ask you to participate in an important study of arts and leisure activity in the US . The study, which is being conducted...
Top 10 Architects in Chicago
Are you planning to build your dream home? If so, you may be especially interested in the list of Top 10 architects in Chicago. The list is compiled
by how frequently the...
Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed Startling Chicago Architecture Foundation Exhibition
from:Chicago Architecture FoundationChicago -- ‘Startling,’ and ‘idiosyncratic’ describe the architecture in the newest exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) 224 S. Michigan Avenue. Free...
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