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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
*POSTPONED* FPE Records Presents: Yea Big / Tatsu Aoki Duo (Album Release Party)
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, August 31st, at 8:30PM
Future Memorie Closing
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Yes Project Space
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 7:30PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, August 31st
Life is a Drag
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
by Bye Pilsen
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The Cermak Center
639 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, August 31st, at 6:30PM
Paint and Sip Cinema Club
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FACETS
1517 W Fullerton Ave
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 5PM - 10PM
Side Yard Sounds Presents: Paul Abella’s Questionable Decisions + Alex Wing + Sam Robinson Trio
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compound yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 3PM - 8PM
How to Make A Scene: Panel Discussion and performance by ONO
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Co-Prosperity
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 3PM - 5PM
Lecture: The Silk Road and China’s Tang Dynasty
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The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 2PM - 3PM
Chicago Narratives: Artists Navigating South Asian Identities
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South Asia Institute
1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 2PM - 4PM
Phantasma Artist Talk
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Leslie Wolfe Gallery
1763 North Park Ave., Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 12 PM - 1 PM
On view through Friday, September 6th
Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams
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Krannert Art Museum
500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 1st
WesternXeditions Book Sale
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Western Exhibitions
1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 10AM - 4PM
Healing House Virgo Celebration with Rhythm Factory
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Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 5PM - 12AM
On view through Sunday, September 1st
Sincerely, Earth: A Wagner Farms Series
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, August 31st, from 9 am - 4 PM
On view through Sunday, September 29th
Sarah Smelser: Defying the Laws
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Evanston Art Center
1717 Central St, Evanston, IL 60201
On view through Sunday, September 29th
Mezzanine Swimmers, Peopling, Emily Beisel, Taste Rubber
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, August 30th, at 8PM
Loren Connors and John Fahey: I LISTEN TO THE WORN-OUT RAIN
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Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, August 30th, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, October 4th
Angela Davis Fegan: Better Than I Imagined
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NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, August 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, September 20th
Visions of Home: Lagos to Accra
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Omenai Gallery
1716 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, August 30th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, October 11th
Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
On view through Friday, December 20th
AUTONOMOUS ARCHIVING: A Special Event with the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago
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Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Friday, August 30th, at 7PM
I can understand why astronauts find it difficult to readjust to life on earth
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Hardboiled
1530 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, August 30th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
On view through Thursday, September 26th
Thérèse Mulgrew & Wendy S. Rolfe: Breaking Bread
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Povos West Town
1541 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
On view through Saturday, September 28th
Paige Alice Naylor + Haruhi Kobayashi/Liv Mershon/Carissa Lee
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The California Clipper
1002 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, August 29th, from 8PM - 10:30PM
Comfort Music and Bodymilk: Emily Rach Beisel & sulffffffur
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, August 29th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Juan Molina Hernández: para no desaparcer (not to disappear)
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Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College
555 North Sheridan Road Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Opening Thursday, August 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Wednesday, September 25th
Leasho Johnson: Escaping the tyranny of meaning
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MARIANE IBRAHIM
437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Thursday, August 29th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Alina Nazmeeva: Bug In My Software: Artist Talk and Closing Reception
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Chicago Gamespace
2418 W Bloomingdale Ave Chicago IL 60647
Opening Thursday, August 29th, from 5:30PM - 7:30PM
On view through Sunday, September 1st
Adeshola Makinde: I SHOOK UP THE WORLD
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Anthony Gallery
1360 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, August 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 28th
February James: Will Your Name Be My Love Song?
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Anthony Gallery
1360 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, August 29th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, September 28th
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, August 29th, at 7PM
James Hosking with Jen Dentel: Artist Talk
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LATITUDE CHICAGO
2003 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Thursday, August 29th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Works in Progress Showcase
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Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637
Opening Wednesday, August 28th, from 6PM - 9PM
Stephen Burks: Spirit Houses
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S.R. Crown Hall
3360 S State St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Wednesday, August 28th, from 5 PM - 8 PM
On view through Saturday, September 7th
Christina Sadovnikov: Eternal Sistering
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Bird Show
Online
On view through Wednesday, September 11th
My Heart Goes Zoom
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Studio 639
1010 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Tuesday, August 27th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Alexis Lombre
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, August 27th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
blake nemec: Mercury
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Monday, August 26th, at 7:30PM
On view through Monday, September 2nd
Black Entanglements
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Blanc Gallery
4445 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Opening Sunday, August 25th, from 8:30PM - 10:30PM
Comfort Music: Brent Penny, Mitch Stahlmann, and Anna Johnson
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, August 25th, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Post Consumer Material: FULL-TIME
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International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Sunday, August 25th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
my country kills people: Closing Reception
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SPACE.01
2334 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, August 25th, at 6:30PM
On view through Sunday, August 25th
Chicago Film Society Presents: Cameron Worden: YOU’RE DANCING THIS DANCE ALL WRONG (2021)
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Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Sunday, August 25th, at 6PM
Hai-Wen Lin: Craning the Neck
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FACILITY
3616 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Sunday, August 25th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, November 3rd
TIME IS A TORRENT: Closing Reception
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Patient Info
902 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Sunday, August 25th, from 12PM - 4PM
On view through Monday, August 26th
“Making Pictures is How I Talk to the World” book-release
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Tangible Books
3326 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
Freedom From and Freedom To
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, August 24th, at 7PM
House of Huitlacooch: Gang Bang
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Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago IL, 60626
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 7PM - 9PM
And Now: Stories from the Edge: Closing Reception and Performances
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Agitator Gallery
3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, August 24th
DAVID BELLE: Analog Days & Carousel Memories
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
Kristin Ashley, Joan Bredendick, Gary Bredendick: THE SPIRIT OF NATURE
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 13th
Blue Moon Gallery Collective Artists Group Show
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Marcia Biasiello: Aquatic Love Poems — Summer of 24
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Blue Moon Gallery
18620 Belvidere Rd, Grayslake IL 60030
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 22nd
Rip it Up: A Collage Workshop
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Yes Project Space
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, August 31st
Allison Wade: Same Difference
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Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 29th
A. LAURIE PALMER: SOULSTORM Caucus & Memorial
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Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 2PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, September 28th
Salvador Dominguez: Mano de Obra: Artist Talk + Garden Party
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ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, August 31st
Jorge Felix: Community Muraling
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Hermosa Neighborhood Association
240 N Kilbourn Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, August 24th, at 1PM
CAKE: Chicago Alternative Comics Expo
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Zhou B. Art Center
1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, August 24th, from 11AM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, August 25th
Elastro: “The Shape Of” w/ Theo Katsaounis + Donny Mahlmeister, Hypothetical Star, “Eternity’s Vast Pocket, Picked–” w/ Camille Casemier + Steph Patsula
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Friday, August 23rd, at 8PM
D Rosen: Elemental Impressions of Interspecies Care, of Violence
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ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, August 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 6th
Sona Seunga Kim: Trace of Life
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The Research House for Asian Art
3217 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, August 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, September 15th
Dorothy Perry: SummerDancing
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Fourth Presbyterian Church
126 E. Chestnut St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, August 23rd, from 5:30PM - 7PM
On view through Thursday, September 26th
Riley Brady: Me Time
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Art City
1400 N. Halsted Street, Chicago
Opening Friday, August 23rd, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, September 19th
Michelle Alexander and Stasia Lev: Toxic Beauty, Tears of Perfection
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Art City
1400 N. Halsted Street, Chicago
Opening Friday, August 23rd, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, September 19th
I WANT AN AI FOR PRESIDENT
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, August 22nd, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM
On view through Friday, August 23rd
Bodymilk and Comfort Music: Gilt Drip & Artemisa
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, August 22nd, from 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Sueño Muy Raro: A bilingual zine workshop on dreaming on stolen land
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18th Street Casa de Cultura
2057 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, August 22nd, from 6PM - 8PM
Flex Obscura: Final Industry Night ft. Chris Adams, Hana Mitchell aka blaq, Jarius King
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Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, August 21st, at 7PM
Cornelia’s Lounge Presents: BESSIE
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Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
3601 W Douglas Blvd Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Wednesday, August 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces that Shaped Queer Women’s Culture by June Thomas
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Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Wednesday, August 21st, at 7PM
Poetry Salon
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City Lit Books
2523 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, August 21st, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM
The Language of Materials
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Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, August 21st, from 11AM - 3PM
New Music Chicago Presents – Marissa Kerbel: New Beginnings
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Experimental Sound Studio
Online
Opening Tuesday, August 20th, at 7:30PM
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Sistazz of The Nitty Gritty
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, August 20th, from 5:30PM - 8PM
HOMECOMING
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Arts Lawn
337 E Garfield Blvd Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, August 20th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Wednesday, August 21st
Sheryl Oring: I Wish to Say
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, August 20th, from 11AM - 1:30PM
On view through Friday, August 23rd
Fortuned Trials
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CSI Project Space
1912 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, August 20th, from 4PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, September 5th
FRUTAS
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Berger Park Cultural Center
6205 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Monday, August 19th, at 6:30PM
Candi X Presents: Eco-Somatic Playground Workshop
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Monday, August 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Ask That*
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Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Sunday, August 18th, at 8PM
On view through Tuesday, September 30th
Paige Alice Naylor + TAITAI
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The Lawn
Email or DM on Instagram for address
Opening Sunday, August 18th, from 6:30PM - 9PM
Sunday Reading Series: Ken Taylor, Ananda Lima, & Cassidy McFadzean
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Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Sunday, August 18th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
2nd Annual Tiny Table Potluck
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Montrose Beach
Opening Sunday, August 18th, from 4PM - 6PM
OPTION: Rempis/Reid/Abrams
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Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Sunday, August 18th, from 3PM - 5PM
Chien-An Yuan: City of Light, City of Shadow
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Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, August 18th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, September 29th
Screening Acts: Kathleen Collins: LOSING GROUND (1982)
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Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, August 18th, from 1PM - 4PM
Soul Liberation 3: A Frankie Knuckles House Music Festival & Fundraiser
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Kenwood Gardens
6929 South Kenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, August 18th, from 1PM - 7PM
PCRV, Vertonen, J. Soliday, Diagram A, Instinct Control, Onur Zlobnicki
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Tritriangle
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 3 Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, August 17th, at 8PM
Beyond Boundaries: An Exploration of Music and Movement
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South Asia Institute
1925 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, Il, 60616
Opening Saturday, August 17th, at 7PM
The Poets Platform
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Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 17th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, December 31st
Calling Home: An Evening of Poetry & Prose, curated by Aunty Calhoun
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Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, August 17th, from 5PM - 7PM
Alberto Ortega Trejo: One of the qualities of nocturnal animals is that they speak words of truth
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Prairie
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 5th
Matching the Drapes: Closing Reception + Caftan Workshop
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compound yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, August 17th, from 3 PM - 6PM
ARTIST RECEPTION FOR IN SITU PROJECTS and PANEL DISCUSSION
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SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard Street
Opening Saturday, August 17th, from 3PM - 5PM
Connectivity: Artists Walkthrough
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Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, August 17th, from 2PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, August 17th
Guardians of the Earth and Sky: Performance and Art-Making Activity
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The Garden of the Phoenix
6300 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, August 17th, from 2PM - 4PM
The Existence of Black Art
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Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, August 17th, from 1PM - 3PM
Tough Kids Book Launch
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Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, August 17th, from 2PM - 5PM
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