Category Archive for \"Performance\"

General Readings

6PM @ Sleeping Village

3734 W Belmont Ave Chicago, IL 60618

Sunday Reading Series: David Welch, Virginia Smith Rice, & Teresa Dzieglewicz

6:30PM - 8:30PM @ Hungry Brain

2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

Pleiades Series: Heavy Tiny, Laurie Lee Moses + Sarah Craft

8PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647

15th Annual Sit on a Polar Bear’s Lap: Celebrate the Holiday Spirit

1PM - 4PM @ 4th Ward Project Space

5338 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60615

POSTPONED: Jesse Malmed — Seasides, Decides

12PM - 5PM @ Compound Yellow

244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302

Elastro: SMACT Ensemble, Yes Yes Nooky, Giallorenzo/Jesalva/Damon

8PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647

>>pass^10<< Expanded Line course SAIC

4PM - 8PM @ compound yellow

244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il 60302

Center Day!

1PM - 4PM @ Hyde Park Art Center

5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615

DCASE Presents: Open House @ Chicago Cultural Center

1PM - 6PM @ Chicago Cultural Center

78 E. Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602

Never So Free: Artists + Space Makers Mixer

6PM - 8PM @ Green Line Performing Arts Center

329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637

Poets for Chicago: A Night of Art & Community Benefiting ICIRR

7PM - 9:30PM @ Co-Prosperity

3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608

Test Literary Series

6PM @ The Whistler

2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

Play. Design. Move: A Teen Arts Experience

6PM - 8PM @ Green Line Performing Arts Center

329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637

Transvengence Vol. 10: Holiday Edition

7PM @ Podlasie Club

2918 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

Freedom From and Freedom To

7PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647

Lampo: Eve Aboulkheir: Medea(s) – Tskaltubo

7PM - 8PM @ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610

Closing Performances of Gender Multifariousness

7PM - 10PM @ Agitator Gallery

3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

Exhibit B

7PM - 8PM @ Pilsen Community Books

1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

Chicago Soul Poem: A City That Writes Together

6PM - 7:30PM @ Poetry Foundation

61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654

Open Mike Eagle: Interview and Performance

5:30PM - 7:30PM @ National Public Housing Museum

919 South Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607

Choreographing Death: World AIDS Day Memorial

4PM @ Wrightwood 659

659 Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614

CLEAT Series: Macie Stewart, Sen Morimoto

8PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647

¡Slam Diáspora en Vivo!

6:30PM - 9PM @ Taqueria El Mezquite

1756 W 18th St Chicago, Illinois 60608

Poetry at The Whistler

6PM @ The Whistler

2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

Intermissions: Moriah Evans

Multiple @ The Renaissance Society

5811 S Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall, 4th Fl, Chicago, IL 60637

Rob Croll: Waymark: Closing Performance and Conversation

2PM - 5PM @ Comfort Station

2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

Performance | Nadya Tolokonnikova: POLICE STATE

@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

Interior Funnel: A Portal Of Resistance: Live Original Music Performance, Poetry, And Sound

7PM - 9PM @ Compound Yellow

244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302

Closing Performance of Liz McCarthy: Imperfect Players

5:30 PM - 6 PM @ Epiphany Center for the Arts

201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607

Grief Transmutes in (Re)Connection

6PM - 7:30PM @ Poetry Foundation

61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654

Chicago Poetry Center Presents: November Blue Hour Featuring Iain Haley Pollock and Keetje Kuipers

7:30PM @ Haymarket House

800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613

CHAR: Paige Alice Naylor // Bitcrush + Deirdre // Sulfffffur // Mina Mills

9PM @ The California Clipper

1002 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Pleiades Series: Soft Five, Paige Alice Naylor

8PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647

Exsanguination

8PM - 10PM` @ DFBRL8R at Hairpin Art Center

2810 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60618

Lyra Pramuk

8PM @ Bond Chapel

1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637

SIDE YARD SOUNDS: LEROY BACH & MAI SUGIMOTO WITH SPECIAL GUEST TYLER DAMON

7PM - 9PM @ Compound Yellow

244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302

Performances of Gender Multifariousness

7PM - 10PM @ Agitator Gallery

3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

African Poetry Book Distribution Project: Poetry Reading and Research

1PM - 3PM @ Poetry Foundation

61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654

Lia Kohl // Alta Vista

8PM - 10PM @ Constellation Chicago

3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL, 60618

Lit & Luz: Live Magazine Show

7PM - 8:30PM @ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

Stories in the Wind: A Chicago Diaspora Storytelling Open Mic

6PM @ The Silver Room

1506 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615

Plumbago and the Sun’s Rind: Live Reading and Conversation with Diana Garza Islas

7PM @ Pilsen Community Books

1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

Lit & Luz Festival: la hora de oro

6PM @ The Whistler

2421 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

“Perpetual Motion Machine” Live!

2PM - 4PM @ The Ramova Theatre

3520 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60609, USA

Side Yard Sounds presents: Laurentse, Chelsea Bridge, Pan American, Jake Leech and Sam Clapp

7PM - 9PM @ Compound Yellow

244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302

Lampo: Leila Bordreuil and Lee Ranaldo

6PM @ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610

30th Annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival (Nov. 7-10)

8:30 PM - 10:30 PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W. Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647

氣 : Performance by Irene Hsiao with Dominic Kießling’s “Blob”

7PM - 8PM @ The Richard H. Driehaus Museum

50 E Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611

poïsons: a trans reading series

7PM @ Loaves & Witches

6034 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60660

Jailbreak of Sparrows

6PM - 8PM @ Poetry Foundation

61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654

Homeroom Presents – Spectralina: Residency Film Remix Screening

8PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647

Bingo Hall Production

6 PM - 7:30 PM @ Austin Town Hall Park Cultural Center

5610 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60644

Six Scores for Yoko Ono

6PM - 7:30PM @ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

Pop Voyage: a performance art drag showcase!

7PM - 8:30PM @ Dorothy

2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Raven Chacon: American Ledger, No. 3

3PM @ The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Courtyard

915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Artist Performance: Cristal Sabbagh and Sharkey Zalek

1PM - 2PM @ Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

2320 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

BUÑUEL: MASTER OF DREAMS: The Unveiling of Luis Buñuel

12PM @ International Museum of Surgical Science

1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610

1619: The Journey of a People, The Musical

3PM - 5PM @ DuSable Museum of African American History

740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637

SIDE YARD SOUNDS: JIM BAKER, PETER MAUNU, AND ZANDER RAYMOND

7PM - 9PM @ Compound Yellow

244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302

Tonight, We All Die / the Poetry of death & More

7PM - 10PM @ Agitator Gallery

3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

mk zariel reading: Boy Apparition

12PM - 1:30PM @ Comfort Station Logan Square

2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

A Page of Madness: Film screening with live original score by BananaAcid

7PM - 9PM @ Compound Yellow

244 Lake St, Oak Park, Il 60302

Quimby’s After Hours: Veilance

6:30PM @ Quimby's Bookstore

1854 West North Avenue Chicago, IL 60622

In the Realm of Whiskeys: Halloween Soiree

7:30PM @ Stan Mansion

2408 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago IL 60647

Faten Kanaan

8PM @ Ida Noyes Hall

212 E 59th St, 3rd Floor theater, Chicago, IL 60637

Side Yard Sounds presents: Scorpio Celebration

7PM - 9PM @ Compound Yellow

244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302

Shake Shook Shaken: Ability w/ Layna Wang

12PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647

Sound Session: Roland Santana

12PM - 2PM @ Mana Contemporary Chicago

2233 South Throop Street Chicago, IL 60608

Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell

7:30PM @ International Museum of Surgical Science

1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610

Elastro: Cole Pulice, Angel Bat Dawid, Bill Harris

8PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647

Sunday Reading Series: Paul Martínez Pompa, Dawn Tefft, & Diana Arterian

6:30PM - 8:30PM @ Hungry Brain

2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

Culture is Our Weapon: The Power of the Word – Amiri Baraka

2PM - 4PM @ Front Porch Arts Center

5851 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60644

Lou Mallozzi Record Release: Became These

8:30PM @ Constellation Chicago

3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

Marcia Bassett / Taralie Peterson / Chris Corsano, Kirin McElwain, Anna Johnson / Lula Asplund

8PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647

Culture is Our Weapon: Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez, Good Women and Baddd

2PM - 4PM @ Front Porch Arts Center

5851 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60644

TRANSFIGURATION | performance by Branko Milisković

7PM - 9PM @ International Museum of Surgical Science

1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610

Chicago Poetry Center Presents: October Blue Hour Featuring Rhoni Blankenhorn & Alicia Wright

7:30PM - 9PM @ Haymarket House

800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613

Awilda Sterling DuPrey: Taller Comunitario de Arte del performance

6PM - 9PM @ El Schomburg

2538 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622

Doug Fogelson: Signal/Noise

6PM - 9PM @ old friends

3405 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60657

Lampo: Roc Jiménez de Cisneros

7PM @ Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610

Groundwaves Generations with MURS

2PM - 5PM @ National Public Housing Museum

919 South Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607

Indigenous People’s Day Poetry Reading and Open Mic

12PM - 2PM @ 3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622

3015 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622

Midwest SOARRING Harvest Pow Wow

11am - 9PM @ DuPage County Fairgrounds

2015 Manchester Road, N County Farm Rd, Wheaton, IL 60187

Dolls Dolls Demons Dolls

7PM - 10PM @ Leather Archives & Museum

6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago IL, 60626

by-passing-upon || Ro(b)//ert Lundberg

6PM - 9PM @ Watershed Art & Ecology

1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608

Yasmin Spiro: Cornerstone Performance

6PM - 7PM @ Hyde Park Art Center

5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615

Side Yard Sounds presents: A Noisy Fundraiser for the Trans Empowerment Movement

6PM - 8PM @ compound yellow

244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302

Florasonic: Sarah Belle Reid

2PM - 4PM @ Lincoln Park Conservatory

2391 N Stockton Dr, Chicago, IL 60614

Talk | Jeff Mills & Tomorrow Comes the Harvest

10:30AM - 12:30PM @ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

Side Yard Sounds presents: Sam Robinson Trio

7PM - 9PM @ Compound Yellow

244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302

AfroFuturist Weekend 10 Day 4: ‘Afrofuturism Now’ – Chicago Artist celebrating and advancing Afrofuturism in 2025 Gathering

12PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647

The Witch Project

7PM - 8PM @ The Den Theatre

1331 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

poïsons: a trans reading series

7PM @ Loaves & Witches

6034 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60660

AfroFuturist Weekend 10 Day 3: AfroBoricua/Afro-Caribbean Celebration

8PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647

Dorothy’s First Annual: Homo Homecoming!

6PM - 1AM @ Dorothy

2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Refining The Third Ear – Night 3

7PM - 9PM @ International Museum of Surgical Science

1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610

GBOMA 2025

6:30PM - 8:30PM @ Epiphany Center for the Arts

201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607

AfroFuturist Weekend 10 Day 2: Improvised Music Series x the Dark Matter Series and Residency

8PM @ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647

Elaborate

6:45PM - 9:30PM @ Chicago Cultural Center

78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602

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