Adventure Stage Chicago at the Vittum Theater , 1012 N. Noble St., Chicago. Friday, June 4, 8:00pm; Saturday, June 5, 2:00pm and 7:30pm (pre-show cocktail hour to begin at 6:00pm); Sunday, June 6, 2:00pm. General ticket pricing: Adventure Stage Box Office, 773.342.4141.  For Gala ticket reservations, please contact Corrie at Cerqua Rivera Dance Theater, 773.847.0305 or corrie@cerquarivera.org.

It’s been a full summer of creation and fun here at Artisans 21 Gallery.  Guided by our own practicing artists, kids have made their mark on everything from t-shirts to tiles.  They even gained technical skill sewing with quilter Penny Nichols this week!  Next week we’ll be “Making Useful Things with Leather” with Tsetso Tochev. Certainly, they will have fun and go home with smiles on their faces and new creations in their hands! Join us at Kids’ Craft Mondays before the school year strikes again!  Be sure to check out our facebook page for photos of all the fun we’ve had so far! It’s not to late to join in!

Artisan 21, 1373 E. 53rd St., Chicago. Every Monday from June 21st – August 23rd, 10:00am-12:00pm. Registration is $25 for one session, or $180 for all nine for children ages 5-12.   To register or to learn more, please visit our website, enroll by phone at 773-288-7450 or in person. Drop-ins are welcome if space permits.

Little Black Pearl is having an indoor out door art sale and show to continue to help combat violence amongst our youth. We’ll have both in house and local artist, talents, and vendors who will represent their community’s beauty. We’re looking forward to seeing you there. Remember Your Block Your Pride.

Little Black Pearl Art and Design Center, 1060 E. 47th St. Chicago. Friday, July 16th from 5:00pm-9:00pm.  For more information call 773-285-1211 ext 304 or visit www.blackpearl.org.

Be a curator for a day! Join Nicholas Lowe, artist and curator of Roger Brown Calif, USA, invites a member from the public to be a guest curator! From 2-6pm, participants will be invited to choose and arrange objects from Roger Brown’s “La Conchita Collection”. The object display will inhabit a case in Study Area of the Roger Brown: Calif USA exhibition for one week.

Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave., Chicago. Wednesday, July 14, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. This event is free. For more information, please call 773-324-5520 or visit www.hydeparkart.org.

The Neighborhood Writing Alliance provokes dialogue and promotes change by creating opportunities for adults in Chicago to write, publish, and perform works about their lives. Come join us for the Release Reading of our newest Issue of JOT, “Into the Banks.”

The reading will be taking place at The King Branch Library, 3436 S. King Dr., Chicago. Tuesday, July 6th from 6:00-8:00pm. This event is free and open to the public.  For more information contact the Neighborhood Writing Alliance at 773-684-2742 located at 1313 E. 60th St., Chicago.

Artist Hui Min Tsen leads us on a series of tours through Chicago’s pedway system.  “On the Trail of a Disorderly Future: Tours of the Chicago Pedway” is presented as part of the current exhibition Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism.

Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave., Chicago. Tuesday, July 6th from 3:00-4:30pm. Please RSVP to this free event at exhibitions@hydeparkart.org in order to attend. For more information call (773) 324-5520.

Come out and experience fully-staged scenes from “Carmen”, “Le Nozze di Figaro”, “Treemonisha” and more!  With Dana Campbell, Kimberly Jones and others of the Company.  Sponsors Northern Trust, Gary Ossewaarde, City Arts, Chicago Park District and South Shore Cultural Center Advisory Council.

South Shore Cultural Center in the Robeson Theater, 7059 S. South Shore Dr., Chicago. Saturday, June 26 at 7:00pm. This event is free and non-ticketed. Parking is available on site at $1 per hour. For additional information, call 773 241-6147 or send an email to marvinlynn@southshoreopera.org.

This talk will focus on the cultural institution model of Frac (French Regional Contemporary Art Funds) in France dedicated to collecting contemporary art. On Wednesday, June 23rd at 6pm, hear from artists, curators and others who work with the Frac system about how it functions as a public collection and what challenges the institution faces as the collections grow. This discussion is in conjunction with the exhibition Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, now showing at the Hyde Park Art Center.

Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave., Chicago. Wednesday, June 23rd at 6:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. For more information call 773-324-5520 or visit www.hydeparkart.org

June 21 –  August 23, from 10 a.m. – noon, the artists of Artisans 21 will be conducting craft workshops for children from Kindergarten ages through 12 years old.  Each workshop will be limited to 10.  Children may attend all, a few, or just one.  Registration for all sessions  costs  $180.  Individual registrations are $25 per session.  You may register by Paypal  at http://www.artisans21gallery.com OR register by calling Artisans 21 at 773-288-7450 or stopping and paying by credit or debit card.  Artisans 21 is located at 1373 E. 53rd St.

Walk-ins are welcome if space permits.

Landscape historian, Brandy Savarese will discuss how architecture can facilitate human interaction and discusses works of art from the exhibition Spatial City as visual points of reference for imagining the built environment and how we move through it together.

Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave., Chicago. Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 3:00pm. This event is free. For more information, please call 773-324-5520 or visit www.hydeparkart.org.