It's Showtime, Chicago! Monday, February 11, 6-8pm Chicago Cultural Center Celebrate the start of the Year of Chicago Theatre! This free-admission, building-wide celebration invites everyone - from the curious to seasoned theatre-goers - for an inspiring and surprising look at the "fearless soul" of our city - Chicago's theatre community. Part of Chicago Theatre Week happening February 7-17.	Cecil McDonald, Jr.: In the Company of Black Through April 14 Chicago Cultural Center Over the course of seven years, artist and educator Cecil McDonald, Jr. photographed people he describes as "extraordinarily ordinary," creating informal portraits of his African American friends and collaborators while referencing music, art, history and popular culture.

University of Chicago First Friday Lecture Series February 1  Chicago Cultural Center	Juicebox featuring Jabberwocky Marionettes February 1 & 2     Chicago Cultural Center & Garfield Park Conservatory	Learning Lab Meet an Artist February 1, 2, 9, 15, 16 & 23     Chicago Cultural Center

ArtsSpace Michigan Avenue Galleries Exhibition Openings February 2      Chicago Cultural Center	Chinese New Year Lantern Festival Celebration February 2     Millennium Park	Furtive February 2-April 7 Chicago Cultural Center

Forgotten Forms February 2-April 7  Chicago Cultural Center	In Good Company February 2-April 7      Chicago Cultural Center	goat island archive Performance Space and Activations: February 2-June 23  Chicago Cultural Center

Everyone's a Designer/Everyone's Design Through February 3 Chicago Cultural Center	Chamber Mondays February 4 & 25 Chicago Cultural Center	Chinese New Year Kickoff Celebration February 5  Chicago Cultural Center

Chicago Latino Film Festival Film Series February 6, 13 & 20 Chicago Cultural Center	Dame Myra Hess Concerts February 6, 13, 20 & 27  Chicago Cultural Center	Cecil McDonald, Jr.: In the Company of Black Gallery Talk February 7 Chicago Cultural Center

Skating Theme Nights February 7 & 21 McCormick Tribune Ice Rink, Millennium Park	First Blacks Chicago February 10 Chicago Cultural Center	Juicebox featuring Tunes with Tim February 15 & 16   Chicago Cultural Center & Garfield Park Conservatory

WTTW Saturday Film Series February 16  Chicago Cultural Center	Arts & Culture Docs Fest (ACDF) February 17 Chicago Cultural Center	Panel Discussion with Chicago authors Stuart Dybek and Dominic Pacyga February 17 Chicago Cultural Center

Chicago Children's Choir Concert February 20  Chicago Cultural Center	New Music Chicago Presents February 21 Chicago Cultural Center	Jazz Institute of Chicago 50th Anniversary Listening Session February 21 Chicago Cultural Center

Live Music Now! Young People's Concert February 28 Chicago Cultural Center	African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce and the Politics of Race  Through March 3    Chicago Cultural Center	Keep Moving: Designing Chicago's Bicycle Culture  Through March 3 Expo 72, 72 E. Randolph

McCormick Tribune Ice Rink Through March 10 Millennium Park	Bronzeville Echoes: Faces and Places of Chicago's African American Music Ongoing Chicago Cultural Center	Flying Creatures Ongoing Hanging from the street poles along Wabash Ave. between Washington and Randolph Streets

Stand Up for Landmarks! Protests, Posters & Pictures Ongoing City Gallery on the Historic Water Tower

Taste of Chicago is Taking Reservations for this Summer's Festival!

Is your favorite Chicago food establishment represented at the world's largest free-admission food festival? If not, now is the time to encourage them to apply to participate in this year's Taste of Chicago. The summertime tradition, Taste of Chicago is now inviting members of Chicago's culinary scene to apply as 5-day participants, 1 or 2-day pop-up participants or as food trucks at the 2019 festival in Grant Park this July 10-14. All Chicago-based restaurants, shared kitchens and food trucks that offer traditional, unique and ethnically diverse menu items are encouraged to apply online now at TasteofChicago.us. The deadline is February 20.

Application are open for the 2019 CityArts Program Grants for Nonprofit Organizations

This year's CityArts program will include opportunities to apply for general operating grants across all artistic disciplines, as well as project grants in alignment with the City of Chicago's Year of Chicago Theatre. Project grants will support initiatives that have the potential to impact the Chicago theatre sector at large. All applicants are encouraged to attend an application assistance workshop. To RSVP for a workshops, view guidelines and apply, please visit chicagoculturalgrants.org. The deadline is February 28.

Stories Come Alive With Lifeline Theatre

Saturday, February 23, 10-11am

 

Stories come alive at the library when actors from Rogers Park's own neighborhood theatre company, Lifeline Theatre, read stories and play drama games with children of all ages. This month Lifeline is previewing Time Warp Trio based on the series by Jon Scieszka. Come BE the story! The Time Warp Trio series of books includes: Knights of the Kitchen Table; Tut, Tut; It's All Greek to Me.