Past Events

You'll find some of our most recently archived events listed below.

Go Figure

June 30 - September 4, 2011

Go Figure examines the human form in contemporary art and presents new and iconic work from Chicago and beyond. With paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by Nick Cave, Leon Golub, Yun-Fei Ji, Kerry James Marshall, Christina Ramberg, Martin Ramirez, Ravinder Reddy, Clare Rojas, and Sylvia Sleigh. Despite their varied approaches to media and subject, these artists are bound by their sustained engagement with the human figure and by their use of pattern as a visual strategy to enhance, entice, or complicate our viewing experience. Go Figure brings together exemplary paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the Smart Museum and other collections throughout Chicago. Together, these works explore issues of identity, personal history, and social change and, in doing so, reveal the versatile capacity of art to capture the diversity and complexity of contemporary human experience.

Smart Art Museum, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago. June 30 – September 4. This exhibit is free and open to the public.

Spotlight on Urban Farming

March 1 - April 30, 2011

Op Shop and Connect-the-Lots are joining forces to create a space for exploring the intersections between agriculture, art, and life. We provide the AGRI and you provide the CULTURE.

Op Shop, 1001 E. 53rd St., Chicago. March 1st thru April 30th. This exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information on our workshops, events, and potluck dinners, please visit our website. To schedule your four hour shift, please see our calendar. Space generously sponsored by MAC Realty.

Make Music Chicago

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Make Music Chicago is where all kinds of people — amateur and professional — will be making all kinds of music. Classical, jazz, rock, cabaret, folk, gospel, blues, world, fusion, pop, dance, rap, … you name it. All over the city of Chicago people can express and share their love of music. Starting in 1982 in Paris, where “Faites de la musique!” (“Make music!”) is pronounced  the same as Fête de la Musique (Festival of Music), it’s now celebrated in over 460 cities around the world.  Join in the celebration in Hyde Park at several venues: International House, Rockefeller Chapel, Joan’s Studio, and Chant.

Performances take place at the following locations: International House, 1414 E. 59th Street from 12:00pm–2:00pm and from 5:00pm–7:00pm. Rockefeller Chapel carillon, Woodlawn & 59th Street at 12:00pm and at 6:00pm. Joan’s Studio, 1438 E. 57th Street from  2:00-6:00pm. Chant, 1509 E. 53rd Street from 8:00pm–11:30pm. To sign up to perform one or more unpaid, short set(s): at Joans’ Studio, contact marsha@marshasmusic.com; at Chant, contact mnichol16@earthlink.net; at venues outside Hyde Park, click here. See www.makemusicchicago.com for participating venues and performers around town.

MAKE MUSIC on JUNE 21!! SING/PLAY/WHISTLE!!! Take a photo/video of yourself doing that — including a sign saying “MAKE MUSIC CHICAGO 2011″ and send it to musicmaker@makemusicchicago.com. For more info: mnichol16@earthlink.net.

Mischief, Mayhem, and Merriment

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Join us Fathers Day for a little “Mischief, Mayhem, and Merriment!” Featuring Arias, Ensembles, and Scenes.

South Shore Cultural Center, Robeson Theatre, 7059 S. South Shore Dr., Chicago. Sunday, June 19th at 5:30pm. Doors open for seating at 5:15p.m. Parking is available at the center for $1.00 per hour. This concert is FREE and open to the public. For preconcert dinner reservations call the Parrot Cage at (773)602-5333 located in the South Shore Cultural Center.

Summer Saturdays

June 18 - August 20, 2011

Beginning Saturday, June 18, and operating through Saturday, August 20, the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust will host Summer Saturdays featuring family programs in the morning and an evening sampler that highlights a different Chicago cultural partner each week. The family programs are designed to provide youth with a deeper engagement and are facilitated by an educator. The evening event features a Chicago cultural institution discussing their organization’s summer programs. The evening sampler is complete with drinks, hors d’oeuvres and a festive, casual atmosphere where guests can wander the museum at their leisure. Visit www.GoWright.org to tickets and details.

Robie House, 5757. S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago. Saturday, June 18th thru August 20th from 9:00am to 11:00am. Admission: $5 per child.

Chicago Chorale 10th Anniversary Gala

Saturday, June 4, 2011

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, members of Chicago Chorale will sing a series of concerts in the visually and acoustically ravishing churches of Spain and southern France. Join Chorale as it presents a concert of the music planned for this tour—as well as favorites from the last 10 years—in its neighborhood home, Hyde Park Union Church. Artistic Director Bruce Tammen will provide commentary. This concert will be followed by a special benefit reception in celebration of the choir’s 10th anniversary, featuring wine tastings, Chorale history, a silent auction and raffle, and singing for all!

Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 South Woodlawn Ave., Chicago. Saturday, June 4th at 8:00pm with reception immediately following. Tickets for concert only: general $25; student (with ID) $15. Tickets for concert and reception: general $50; student (with ID) $35. There is a $2 handling charge for EACH ticket purchase. 10% discount for groups of 10 or more. For more info, please call (773) 306-6195.

“Opera Treasures” Annual Cathy Heifetz Memorial Concerts

May 28 - 29, 2011

The University Symphony Orchestra, University Chorus, Motet Choir will showcase German and Italian operatic masterpieces of the 19th century with internationally acclaimed soprano Winifred Faix Brown and mezzo soprano Jessye Wright. Program includes: excerpts from Carl Maria von Weber’s supernatural Der Freischütz and Richard Wagner’s mythic Der fliegende Holländer; a concert suite from Richard Strauss’ bittersweet comic opera Der Rosenkavalier; and selections from Ruggero Leoncavallo’s dramatic Pagliacci, Giacomo Puccini’s poignant Madame Butterfly, and Verdi’s theatrical Macbeth and Don Carlo. Barbara Schubert conducts the University Symphony and combined choirs (James Kallembach, director).

University of Chicago, Music Department,1010 E. 59th St., Chicago. May 28th at 8:00pm and May 29th at 3:00pm. Admission is free (suggested donations $10/$5 students).

Paulinho Garcia @ Piccolo

Wednesdays in May

During the month of May, Piccolo Mondo Restaurant is celebrating 25 years serving Hyde Park and University of Chicago community. Paulinho Garcia, “Chicagoan of the year in jazz 2010,” will perform every Wednesday of May.

“Singer/guitarist Paulinho Garcia seduces listeners with his own style,” – Howard Reich, Arts critic of the Chicago Tribune and LA Times.

“Garcia provides constant evidence of his mastery of the art of the Brazilian song. Endlessly inventive with styles. Garcia is an innovative composer with a firmly rooted tradition,” – Dave Miele of Jazz Improv Magazine, New York.

“A wonderful and affordable Italian restaurant and the best background music in the world: me, (ha.ha.ha….) you can’t beat that combination.” – Paulinho Garcia.

Picolo Mondo Restaurant, 1642 E. 56th St., Chicago. Wednesdays in May at 6:00pm. For more information call (773) 643-1106.

AXIS Chicago: Porgy and Bess

Sunday, May 22 - June 19, 2011

Presented by Graham School and the DuSable Museum of African American History, join ethnomusicologist Travis Jackson and Court Theatre Director Charles Newell in a discussion moderated by DuSable’s  Jomo Cheatham as they delve into the history of Porgy and Bess. Considered by many to be one of the greatest pieces of American music theater, Porgy and Bess has also been denounced as a racially insensitive portrayal of black southerners. An exhibition will be on display at DuSable during Court’s production, and this afternoon conversation will address this classic but contested piece of American theater history. Porgy and Bess will be presented at Court Theatre from May 12-June 19 and the accompanying exhibition” will be on view at the DuSable Museum of African American History during the production’s run.

DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 East 56th Pl., Chicago. Sunday, May 22nd through Sunday, June 19th.

Concerto Day

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Music Teachers of Hyde Park’s (MTHP) Eighth Annual Concerto Day will feature 26 flute, piano, violin and viola students of MTHP teachers, under the baton of Daniel Golden, both rehearsing and performing with an orchestra of student, amateur and professional musicians ages 8 – 90. MTHP offers programs for the whole community at the Blackstone Library (49th and Lake Park) and Montgomery Place (56th and South Shore Drive).

Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago. Sunday, May 22nd from 2:00pm to 5:30pm and from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. This event is free and open to the public.

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