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.Past Events
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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.May Fest
Saturday, May 21, 2011
"Celebrate Hyde Park" will begin the 2011 season with May Fest our first event of the year, featuring The American English Beatles. This is a great time of year in Chicago, Spring bringing a new fresh and exciting time to be outdoors and a fantastic time to enjoy food, fun, and music. Mayfest also offers educational opportunities with hands on experiences for children from some of the communities many museums and cultural institutions. Featuring: three live music stages, food vendors, arts & crafts, garden show, dancing in Harper Court, beer & wine garden for adults, plenty of shopping, children activities, fun and more fun!
“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” by Steve Martin
May 20 - 22, 2011
So, Einstein, Picasso and a visitor from the future walk into a bar, and…the punch line to this joke is in the Hyde Park Community Players’ latest production, "Picasso at the Lapin Agile", written by performer and comedian Steve Martin. Life is full of what-ifs, and in Picasso, Martin imagines the possibilities of an evening where Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein happen to show up at the same bar. The play takes place in 1904, as Einstein is on the verge of publishing his "Special Theory of Relativity" and Picasso is close to painting "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon", his groundbreaking foray into modern art. This pair of visionary figures show us what it’s like to be extraordinary in a world of normalcy. Picasso is an imaginative and colorful look at art, science, love, sex and human nature at the dawn of the 20th century. With the benefit of hindsight, the audience is privy to inside jokes and flashes of recognition of a “future” we have already seen.
Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave., Chicago. Friday, May 20th at 7:30pm; Saturday, May 21st at 3:30pm and 7:30pm; and Sunday, May 22nd at 3:30pm. Advance tickets ($10) are available at 57th Street Books, 57th & Kimbark, and Chaturanga Holistic Fitness, 1525 E. 55th, #302. Tickets at the door are $12.Super Orient Courser
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Chicago Chinese Cultural Institute (CCCI) and Confucius Institute in Chicago present Super Orient Courser, a seven-member traditional Chinese/Mongolian music ensemble from China to celebrate the Asian American Heritage Month in May. The ensemble's performance features Morin Khuur (aka horse-head fiddle), and folk and overtone singing. This ensemble has won many awards in China, and it performed for President Obama during his State Visit to China in 2009. These concerts received generous support from Ravinia Festival, University of Chicago International House, and University of Chicago Confucius Institute.
International House at University of Chicago, 1414 E. 59th St., Chicago. Thursday, May 19th at 7:00pm in Assembly Hall. Tickets are $10, and will be available at the door. To purchase tickets and find out more information, please click here. Before—and After—the Pyramids
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Join Curator Emily Teeter to tour and discuss displays in the Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization exhibit that document the earliest appearances of farming, specialized crafts, the idea of life after death, semi-divine kings, and a unified state. Then visit the Egyptian Gallery with Teeter to trace the trajectory of this cultural and political transformation as it gave rise to one of the most powerful and influential civilizations of the ancient world.
The Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th St., Chicago. Wednesday, May 11 at 12:15pm. This program is free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. For more information call 773.702.9507 or email oi-education@uchicago.edu.Traveling Down Freedom’s Main Line
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Neighborhood Writing Alliance writers will share the stage with Congo Square Theatre, and Young Chicago Authors to perform their new works of literature and theater that were inspired by the Freedom Riders and that honor the legacy of the movement.
The year 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides – a historic movement which took place from May to November 1961, when over 400 mostly young Americans risked their lives and freedom to challenge the Jim Crow travel laws that remained in force throughout the South. These ‘Freedom Riders’ were committed to non-violent action, yet faced savage beatings, angry mobs, and imprisonment on their journeys. Their efforts ultimately prompted Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to confront the Interstate Commerce Commission with its failure to enforce federal law, ending Jim Crow laws in interstate public transportation.
DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Pl., Chicago. Saturday, May 7th from 3:30pm to 5:30pm. This event is free and open to the public but reservation required. RSVP here.AXIS Chicago: Harmony in Three Parts
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Explore the facets of harmony with artist Conrad Freiburg, physicist Heinrich Jaeger, and musicologist Larry Zbikowski through Freiburg’s exhibition “It Is What It Isn’t” presented by Graham School of General Studies and the Hyde Park Art Center. Artist Mia Ruyter will moderate this discussion that will allow these three speakers to examine how different types of knowledge inform our thinking and how each of these ways of thinking converge and diverge on the subject of harmony, movement, and language. See Freiburg’s 12-foot tall harmonograph, a drawing machine that creates pictures of musical chords, as well as his hand-crafted telescope, musical instruments, and “destruction station”. Freiburg’s ukulele and Zbikowski’s guitar may enliven the discussion.
Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave., Chicago. Saturday, May 7th from 2:00pm to 3:30. Tickets: $20 for HPAC non-members and $15 for HPAC members.Turtel Onli Visiting Artist May Exhibit
May 6 - 31, 2011
“Passion Fruit: The Other Chicago Black Movement” is a collection of watermelon- themed representational images, posters, photographs and original artworks that explore the American watermelon, not as a fruit, but a former symbol of racial stereotype now transformed into a positive and cultural icon. The exhibit pays tribute to the Chicago-based Black Arts Guild (BAG) Turtel Onli founded in 1970 to help launch the careers of its members. BAG adopted the Red, Black and Green watermelon as its logo, and initiated a creative battle to deconstruct the negative applications of watermelon images into a positive and creative symbol. More on Onli here.
African-American Cultural Center, 207 Adams Hall, 830 S. Halsted St., Chicago. Exhibit is open Monday thru Friday from 8:30am to 4:45pm. For more information call 312-996-9549. This exhibit is free and open to the public.Black History 101 Mobile Museum Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The Neighborhood Writing Alliance is pleased to partner with the Black History 101 Mobile Museum to present this exhibit that celebrates the life and legacy of Malcolm X. Opening reception at 6:00 with mobile museum founder Khalid el-Hakim, followed by a facilitated dialogue.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halsted St., Resident’s Dining Room, Chicago. Tuesday, May 3rd from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP to NWA at (773) 684-2742 or email editors@jot.org. This event is funded in part by the Illinois Humanities Council.Report Card Time for Hyde Park’s Politicians
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Rebecca Janowitz, author of The Culture of Opportunity, Obama's Chicago: The People, Politics and Ideas of Hyde Park, will discuss how Hyde Park's politicians are doing on the national, county and city level. Copies will be available for signing.
57th Street Books, 1300E. 57th St., Chicago. Sunday, May 1st 1:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Copies of Culture of Opportunity will be available for signing.