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Copyright 2016
Design by Chad Kouri
and Steve Ruiz
Category Archive for \"Performance\"
Drone Rodeo: Zander Raymond and Clem Leek
7PM @
The Hideout
1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Patchbent Session: Sarah Belle Reid
6PM @
Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
AfroFuturist Weekend 10 Day 1: @ at The.BlkRoom | The Diaspora and Community Building.
6PM @
The.BlkRoom
4015 W Carrol Ave, Unit 204, Chicago, IL 60624
Side Yard Sounds: Dustin Laurenzi, Dan Bitney, and Daniel Van Duerm
6PM - 8PM @
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Tending to the M{other}
2PM - 3PM @
Facility Theater
1138 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Water Music on the Beach
2PM - 4PM @
6018 North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Elastro A/V Day 2: ‘Expanded Cinema Performances’ – Curated by Yousif Alzayed
8PM @
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Lampo: Concepción Huerta
7PM @
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
606 Da Vault
6PM - 9PM @
Walls Turned Sideways
2717 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
DCASE Presents: Open House @ Chicago Cultural Center
4PM - 8PM @
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Chicago Transatlantic
6PM @
Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St Chicago, IL 60654
CLEAT Series: Transsonic // Fluid Ontologies , Senem Pirler & Monica Duncan
8PM @
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Fireside Wisdom: Honoring the Truth of Our Ancestors
4PM - 6PM @
Elgin Community College Lakeside Patio B
1700 Spartan Dr, Elgin, IL 60123
SAME -but- DIFFERENT
6PM - 7PM @
HUMBOLDT PARK BOATHOUSE
1301 N Humboldt Dr, Chicago, IL 60622
Lullaby Exchange with Tria Smith
4PM - 6PM @
6018 North
6018 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL, 60660
Red Clay Dance Company, Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar
2PM - 3PM @
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Support Practices Artist and Collector Perspectives
1PM - 2PM @
Chicago Art Department
1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608
Winter Sounds Residency: Music for Autumnal Equinox
1PM - 5PM @
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Ripples for Peace in honor of World Peace Day
11AM - 2PM @
Public Park at 10,000 Ripples Installation - DuSable Lake Shore Drive between Diversey and Fullerton
DuSable Lake Shore Drive between Diversey and Fullerton
Side Yard Sounds: “Outside In” John Sutton, Norman W. Long, Ben LaMar Gay, Tommaso Moretti
7PM - 9PM @
compound yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Across The Waters: Songs of Memory and Migration
7PM - 9PM @
Queen of Angels Church
2330 W Sunnyside Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
Affective States
6PM - 10PM @
Junior.
1905 S Troy St, Chicago, IL 60623
Fady Joudah and Eman Abdelhadi
6PM - 7PM @
Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Flash Tattoos with Haylie Jimenez
11AM - 5PM @
Joy Machine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Red Clay Dance Company, Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar
7:30PM - 8:30PM @
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Helen Lee/Momentum Sensorium: Curiosities of Wellness in Bodies of Grief and Joy
10:30AM - 5PM @
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
D-Composed & Allison Loggins-Hull | Remix as Ritual: Sound, Space, and Story
6:30PM - 7:30PM @
The Land School
1353 E 72nd St Chicago, IL 60619
氣 : Performance by Irene Hsiao with Dominic Kießling’s “Blob”
5PM - 7PM @
Narrow Bridge Arts Club
6028 S Champlain Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
LOUDREADERS
4:15PM - 4:45PM @
Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Mather at DuSable: The Art of Mindful Movement
10AM - 12PM @
DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637
Robyn Mineko Williams & Artists: To Leave You
7:30PM - 8:30PM @
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Refining The Third Ear – Night 2
7PM - 9PM @
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Performance by Shelly Expose (Anastasia Sif Karkazis)
7PM - 9PM @
Tala
1644 W Chicago IL, #1, Chicago, IL 60622
Performance: Charles Gaines’s Manifestos 4—The Dred and Harriet Scott Decision
5:30PM - 7PM @
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Open Hours
5PM @
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Robyn Mineko Williams & Artists, To Leave You
730PM - 830PM @
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Chicago Poetry Center Presents: September Blue Hour Featuring Marianne Chan & Meghann Plunkett
7:30PM - 9PM @
Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Werk: Chicago’s Premiere Queer Comedy Show
7:30PM @
The Lincoln Lodge
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Transference: Poetry Reading
2PM - 4PM @
Purple Window Gallery
2233 S Throop St, Unit 845, Chicago, IL 60608
The Land School
1PM - 9PM @
The Land School
1353 E 72nd St Chicago, IL 60619
The Chicago Film Society Presents: BLIND HUSBANDS (1919) on 35mm with live musical accompaniment by David Drazin
11:30 AM @
Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
La Rentrée
6PM - 10PM @
SITE/less
1250 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60622
The 2nd Annual Art Car Pinewood Derby at The Seventh Corner!
4PM - 9PM @
The Seventh Corner @Howling Pages
4354 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60634
CLEAT Series: between systems and grounds (Paula Matthusen + Olivia Valentine), Ritual is (Tuli Bera + Scott Rubin)
8PM @
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Temitayo Ogunbiyi: Off-Site Ice Cream Pop-Up
4PM - 7PM @
Shawn Michelle’s Homemade Ice Cream
46 E 47th St, Chicago, IL 60653
Pet Cemetery with a C : The Musical
7PM @
Facility Theatre
1138 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Brendan Fernandes The Rite
1PM - 4PM @
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Fragility Performance by Ciarra K. Walters
6PM - 8PM @
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
CATACOMBS: a world premiere production by Katherine Gwynn
6PM - 7:30PM @
Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Transvengence Vol. 9: Queer Pop-up
7PM - 10:30PM @
Podlasie Club
2918 N Central Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Crossing Austin: Part 2 with Marvin Tate!
1PM - 4PM @
Marvin's House
5944 west Race St. Chicago, Il.
WELTS! by David Hauptschein at Rhino Fest Theater Festival
7 PM - 8 PM @
Jarvis Square Theater
1439 W Jarvis Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Side Yard Sounds: The Pleiades Series
7PM - 9PM @
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Ether
7PM @
No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Fl 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Eric Leonardson with Negin Almassi: Singing Insects Soundwalk
6:30PM - 7:30PM @
Jackson Park Wooded Island
6147 S Evans Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
To Our Grandmothers
3 PM - 4 PM @
Awakenings Art
4001 North Ravenswood Ave, #Suite 204-C, Chicago, IL 60613
Resurge Chicago: Queer Performance Uprising
7PM - 10PM @
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
WELTS! at Rhino Fest Theater Festival
7 PM - 8 PM @
Jarvis Square Theater
1439 W Jarvis Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Performance: Alex Koi & Kirin McElwain with D. Jean-Baptiste & Anna Johnson
7PM - 9PM @
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
DIY HARVEST FESTIVAL
6PM @
The VCR
DM For Address
2025 Selena Tribute Concert
6PM - 9PM @
Millennium Park
201 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Sparklmami and BSA Gold: Sonorous Somatics 005
7PM @
Blanc Gallery
4445 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60653
Refining The Third Ear – Night 1
7PM - 9PM @
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Zachary Nicol: nether
8PM @
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Side Yard Sounds presents: Los Cantautores, a Latin Singer-Songwriter showcase!
7PM - 9PM @
Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Cripping the Galleries: Tracing from the Margins
12PM - 2PM @
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez – Chicago Launch Event
7PM - 8PM @
Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
INTERIORITY ON SCREEN: SHORTS PROGRAM 1
6PM @
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Corey Wilkes
5:30PM - 8PM @
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Liz McCarthy & Molly Blumberg
4PM - 7PM @
The Lawn
DM For Address
kee mabin: Untitled ‘The Storm’
7:30PM @
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Side Yard Sounds presents: Erik Sowa, Rebekah Dotzel and Adam Gabbert!
7PM - 9PM @
compound yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Freedom From and Freedom To
7PM @
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Hear We Art™
4PM - 7PM @
Kennicott Park
4434 S Lake Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
Flash Tattoos with Haylie Jimenez
11AM - 5PM @
Joy Machine
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Deirdre Harrison with Katie Mazzini: Tune In, Take Turns
10:30AM - 12PM @
Columbus Park
500 S Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60644
Play Reading Club – “She Kills Monsters” by Qui Nguyen
11AM - 2PM @
Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
6500 N Clark St, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60626
City in Heat 2
8PM @
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
closing reception of Dispatch by Connie Noyes and Walking: Lost and Found by Rachel Epp Buller with Natural Pressure by Maia Rauh and Caroline Branch!
2PM - 6PM @
Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302
Comfort Music: Paige Alice Naylor & Carey/Beisel/Miller
7:30PM - 9:30PM @
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
An Improvisational Performance with Marvin Tate at A Listening Space
7:30PM - 8:30PM @
A Listening Space
305 E Garfield Blvd Chicago, IL 60637
EarthCraft
12PM - 6PM @
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Tallulah Cartalucca: if a tree falls
6PM @
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
The Intimate Register: Listening to Women and the Archive’s Lo-Fi Textures: POSTPONED
6PM - 8PM @
Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Comfort Music: Zander Raymond & Saapato
7:30PM - 9:30PM @
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Bethany Pickens’s Soulful Coalition
5:30PM - 8PM @
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Ghost City Press Summer Series
7PM - 8:30PM @
Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Sunday Reading Series: CD Eskilson, Hedgie Choi, & Catherine-Esther Cowie
6:30PM - 8:30PM @
Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
OPTION: BCMC (Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay)
3PM @
Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Isaac’s and Feifei’s Wedding
5PM - 7PM @
SHANGHAI SEMINARY
3262 S Morgan St, Storefront, Chicago, IL 60608
Side Yard Sounds: Avreeayl Ra, Erez Dessel, Ken Vandermark, and Shanta Nurullah
7PM - 9PM @
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Yannaa Lynette at Dorothy
9PM - 1AM @
Dorothy
2500 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Quiet Comfort: Julia Soulsby
7:30PM - 9:30PM @
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Comfort Music: Hameedullah & Nicole Alonso
7:30PM - 9:30PM @
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Tuesdays on the Terrace | Tromblau & Friends
5:30PM - 8PM @
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Body of Noise – Fetter Album Pre-Release Party w/ Club Drippy, Desert Liminal, Odette, Girly***
7PM @
Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Side Yard Sounds presents: Sinner’s Friend
6PM - 8PM @
Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Carisa Mitchell, Rebekka Federle & Jan Brugger
4PM - 8PM @
The Lawn
DM For Address
Dawn Chorus
2PM - 5PM @
Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
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