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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Friday, July 31st, at 7PM
Tatsu Aoki: The MIYUMI Project
@
Constellation Chicago
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, July 31st, at 8:30PM
Chuck Walker: Chicago Paintings
@
Hofheimer Gallery
4823 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, July 31st, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, August 29th
John Lewis: Good Trouble
@
Facets
Online
On view through Thursday, August 13th
Soundtrack: Sadie Woods
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, July 31st, from 12PM - 1PM
PCB June Book Club: Disoriental
@
Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Thursday, July 30th, from 7:30PM - 8:30PM
In Conversation with City Colleges of Chicago Educators
@
LATITUDE Chicago
Online
Opening Thursday, July 30th, from 6PM - 7PM
Performance Premiere: Ecclesiastés 1:9 by Carlos Salazar-Lermont
@
Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Thursday, July 30th, from 7PM - 8PM
Spinning Home Movies with Seth Parker Woods
@
South Side Home Movie Project
Online
Opening Thursday, July 30th, from 7PM - 8PM
Evanston Experimental Film Showcase 2020
@
Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Thursday, July 30th, from 8:30PM - 9:30PM
Power to Heal: Screening on Medicare’s 55th Birthday
@
Illinois Single Payer Coalition
Online
Opening Thursday, July 30th, from 6:45PM - 9PM
Leather Legacies: Bound Together
@
Zooom (Leather Archives & Museum)
Online
Opening Thursday, July 30th, from 7PM - 8PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Wednesday, July 29th, at 7PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 29th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Drink & Draw [Virtual]: Conjuring Narrative
@
Spudnik Press Cooperative
Opening Wednesday, July 29th, from 7PM - 10PM
Sketching Your Day with Elizabeth Alley
@
DePaul Art Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 29th, from 2PM - 3PM
CAPE Presents: Musicians and Music Educators in Dialogue
@
CAPE
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 29th, from 3:30 PM - 5 PM
July Virtual Meeting with Carlos Barberena
@
Chicago Printers Guild
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
One Night Stand: Clementine Hunter
@
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 29th, from 7:30PM - 8PM
In Care Of: Write it Out with Rhonda Wheatley
@
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 29th, from 6PM - 7PM
Reimagine: Using Art and Design to Imagine Alternate Worlds
@
Chicago Speculative Futures
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 29th, from 6PM - 7PM
CHILL at the MCA: Meitation for Viewing
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Opening Tuesday, July 28th, from 12:30PM - 1PM
Lit & Luz Book Club: Conversation with Fernanda Melchor
@
MAKE Literary Productions
Opening Tuesday, July 28th, from 7PM - 8PM
Zine Club Chicago Online: People Have the Power Edition
@
Quimby's Bookstore
Opening Tuesday, July 28th, from 7PM - 9PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace: At-Home Edition with Dee Alexander
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, July 28th, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Monday, July 27th, at 1PM
Sinema Obscura on CAN TV
@
CAN TV
Opening Monday, July 27th, at 11PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Sunday, July 26th, at 7PM
Neighborhood Memorial for Victims of Police Violence
@
PO Box Collective
6900 N. Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, July 26th, at 11AM
Cooperation for Liberation Study & Working Group
@
the #LetUsBreathe Collective
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqduqppj0iP0f8BVRRTQwufsQYlMcuDg
Opening Sunday, July 26th, from 3PM - 4PM
Dreamer: Sunday Afternoon Watch Party
@
Digital Dance Project
Online
Opening Sunday, July 26th, at 5PM
The Story of Cambodia, Part 3 | Food, Ritual & Memories
@
National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial
Opening Sunday, July 26th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
Heather Mekkelson: Reverse Prophecies: Gallery Visit
@
65GRAND
3252 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 12PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, August 1st
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Saturday, July 25th, at 6PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
Online
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
No Longer Hidden, Still a Gem: The Bridgehouse Museum
@
McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum
411 S Wells, Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 10:30AM - 11:30AM
Taste of “Jamaica y Tamarindo” Chicago Premiere and Q&A w/ director Ebony Bailey
@
filmfront
Online
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, July 25th
Direct Sunlight
@
LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 1PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, August 16th
Black Queer Workers Self-Care & Healing
@
Chicago Therapy Collective
Online
Opening Saturday, July 25th, from 10AM - 12PM
Art, and a Time of Solidarity
@
ARC Gallery
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
The Time Salon: A Monthly Mixer & Timebank Orientation
@
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 6PM - 8PM
Cujo Dah: A Quarantine Daydream
@
Elephant Room Gallery
704 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 12PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, August 22nd
Edra Soto
@
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 12PM - 1PM
Yes, God
@
Facets
Online
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Sand & Sorbet
@
Cleaner Gallery
1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, September 5th
Another Angle
@
Gallery Studio Oh!
4839 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
On view through Friday, August 28th
Urban Lives / Social Fabric
@
Dank Haus Gallery
4740 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
On view through Friday, August 21st
Alice Hargrave in conversation with Marina Post
@
Ragdale Foundation
Online
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 11AM - 11:45PM
Brave Futures: An Intersectional TV Showcase
@
OTV - Open Television
Online
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 1:30PM - 3PM
Random Acts, Out of Site 2020
@
Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Friday, July 24th, from 5PM - 10:30PM
Curatorial Talks: Kay Rosen and Terry R. Myers
@
Mana Contemporary
Online
Opening Thursday, July 23rd, from 2PM - 3PM
Ian F. Svenonius: The Psychic Soviet
@
Quimby's Bookstore
Online
Opening Thursday, July 23rd, from 7PM - 7:40PM
Queer BLACK Testimony
@
Q-YES
Online
Opening Thursday, July 23rd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Folding the Map on Chicago’s Segregation
@
Chicago Bungalow Association
Online
Opening Thursday, July 23rd, from 6PM - 7PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-introduction-to-origami-lessons-tickets-108916175212?
Opening Wednesday, July 22nd, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Drink & Draw Virtual: Visual Resistance
@
Spudnik Press Cooperative
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 22nd, from 7PM - 9PM
My America: Adrianna Cuevas
@
American Writers Museum
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 22nd, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Bughouse 2020 Youth Soapbox
@
Newberry Library
Online
Opening Wednesday, July 22nd, from 1PM - 1:45PM
Canceled: The HOUSE that Picasso Built
@
Daley Center Plaza
50 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Tuesday, July 21st, at 12PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Tuesday, July 21st, at 7PM
Curatorial Talks: Daria Khan and Daniel R. Quiles
@
Mana Contemporary
Opening Tuesday, July 21st, from 7PM - 8PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace: At-Home Edition with Miyumi Project
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Tuesday, July 21st, from 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Flowing Forward Virtual Panel Discussion
@
SITE Galleries
Online
Opening Tuesday, July 21st, from 10AM - 11:30AM
Gray Sound Sessions Vol 6 Pt 1: Angélica Negron
@
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Online
Opening Tuesday, July 21st, from 8PM - 9PM
Sinema Obscura on CAN TV
@
CAN TV
Opening Monday, July 20th, at 11PM
The Quarantine Concerts: Tashi Dorji
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Monday, July 20th, at 8PM
Screen to Screen: The New Bauhaus panel discussion
@
Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Online
Opening Monday, July 20th, from 7PM - 8PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Sunday, July 19th, at 1PM
Stories of Abortion Activism: Judith Arcana & Qudsiyyah Shariyf
@
Pilsen Community Books
Online
Opening Sunday, July 19th, from 7PM - 8PM
#SayHerName Community Altar Day
@
Brown People Foundation
63rd and Aberdeen
Opening Sunday, July 19th, from 7AM - 9AM
Neighborhood Memorial for Victims of Police Violence
@
PO Box Collective
6900 N. Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, July 19th, at 11AM
Banner Build Wkshps For The Movement
@
PO Box Collective
6900 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
Virtual Introduction to Origami Lessons
@
Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-introduction-to-origami-lessons-tickets-108916905396
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 1PM - 1:30PM
Monthly Mindfulness and Photography
@
LATITUDE
Online
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 11AM - 12:30PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Saturday, July 18th, at 7PM
Longevity: Art Practices for Queer Education Online
@
LATITUDE Chicago
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 11AM - 6PM
Watch Party: Relations
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 4PM - 6PM
Mike Bell
@
Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 10AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, August 9th
Dykes With Drills: Tools At Home Virtual Workshop-Decorative Box
@
Rebuilding Exchange
Online
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 12PM - 2PM
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO LEARN ABOUT LAND TRUSTS & MORE!
@
National Public Housing Museum
Online
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 11AM - 2:30PM
Photo lesson & session with 8 X 10 print – 2 hour class
@
South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S South Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60649
Opening Saturday, July 18th, at 4:30PM
My Pretty Red Heart
@
H.G. Inn
2000 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
On view through Saturday, August 22nd
Rebeca Soto: Lights On: Closing Reception
@
Agitator: a co-operative gallery
1112 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 6PM - 10PM
They Wore Flowers in their Hair: the late night edition
@
Reunion Chicago
Online
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 8PM - 10PM
Douglas Park Change the Name Relaunch
@
Douglas Park
Rekia's Tree at 15th and Albany
Opening Saturday, July 18th, from 2PM - 5PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Friday, July 17th, at 7PM
Virtual Trolley Tour 2020 !
@
Bronzeville Art District
Online
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 7PM - 8PM
FEK Draw Live Session
@
Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL60626
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Transplanting
@
062
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 10AM - 5PM
On view through Friday, August 14th
Pedro Igrez: EUCLID
@
Jackson Junge Gallery
1389 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 6PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, August 2nd
Shikoukairo II: Patterns of Thought
@
Hairpin Arts Center
2810 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 7PM - 8PM
Matan Golan: A Pinch Of Salt
@
Amazigh Contemporary
2 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611
On view through Sunday, July 19th
Deborah Stratman
@
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Online
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 12PM - 12:30PM
A Conversation with the Arts Research Collective
@
Chicago Fair Trade
Online
Opening Friday, July 17th, from 12PM - 1PM
Community Lunch with Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero and SaraNoa Mark
@
Mana Contemporary
Online
Opening Thursday, July 16th, from 12PM - 1PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Thursday, July 16th, at 6:30PM
Feminist Science Fiction Book Club
@
PO Box Collective
6900 N. Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, July 16th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Historia Reciente De La Performance Venezolana with Raúl Rodríguez and Carlos Salazar-Lermont
@
Chuquimarca
Online
Opening Thursday, July 16th, from 7PM - 8PM
The Quarantine Concerts
@
Experimental Sound Studio
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Opening Wednesday, July 15th, at 8PM
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